Living in “exile,” Vietnamese Americans suffer a deep sense of loss, politically, socially and culturally. Learning to adapt, to adjust, and striving to achieve and to survive, in America, they are American citizens but not “Americans.” In Vietnam, they are Vietnamese but not Vi…
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The Sabbath controversy of Jesus in Q 14:5 can be placed between the Jewish Law and the Gentile mission, which can be understood in the Q context to help interpret the Sabbath saying. My argument is that God's love is posed by the Sabbath controversy between Jewish Law and the G…
Indonesia Missionary Fellowship is a mission organization following the vision of its founders. This dissertation seeks to understand the meaning of this vision, analyze its implementation, and give an assessment of the implementation. The dissertation is divided into three part…
This dissertation examines the politics of Christian conversion among youth in the context of missions in Kano emirate during British colonial rule. Studies of colonial-era Christian missions in Muslim Northern Nigeria have focused on governmental efforts to limit, segregate, se…
The purpose of this dissertation is to critique the eschatology of the Jesus Seminar and its portrait of a non-apocalyptic Jesus. The Seminar challenges Christianity as it shares its portraits of Jesus through a variety of avenues. The primary sources used for understanding the …
This study aims to stress the importance of using an evangelism training program for restoring the spirituality of believers. It also addresses how believers can evaluate their change after they have been trained in a special program for spiritual restoration. Since Old Testamen…
In light of the increasing presence of Muslims in the US and the numerous ways in which evangelical Christians view Muslims and Islam, this dissertation is concerned with how American evangelicals should live among and relate to their Muslim neighbors. The study does so by explo…
This dissertation pursues the imitating/following relationship between Jesus and Paul in their mission theology and practice. Jesus, the true God, took human flesh (true man), and came as a missionary. Paul understood the mind of Christ and he himself became a cross-cultural mis…
This dissertation deals with a sensitive area of late Imperial Russian history, that of the attempt to assimilate the indigenous populations of the Western regions of European Russia and Central Asia. In particular, it explores the role played by the Russian Orthodox Church in t…
The Catholic Students' Mission Crusade, a movement to bolster support for missionary work in America and throughout the world, was formed in 1918 by two seminarians of the Society of the Divine Word, Clifford J. King and Robert Clark. They proposed a program of "prayer, study, a…
Evangelical availability which remains attentive to the Holy Spirit manifesting itself in the concrete situation of life is how Henry Koren, a Spiritan, describes the driving force of the spirituality of Spiritan founders: Claude Francis Poullart des Places (1679–1709) and Franc…
This dissertation explores the American belief in a historic national mission and the uses of mission and religion within the context of conflict from 1898 to 1945. Tracing the origins of this thought back to colonial times, continuity is established from the earliest settlement…
This dissertation investigates the ways that religion overlapped with politics in the United States' diplomatic interactions with the Muslim world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It recovers the contributions of an underappreciated Protestant missionary named James L.…
In the present study I analyze the Catecheses mystagogicae pro aduenis ex secta Mahometana: Ad Parochos, & Potestates, written by doctor of theology and citizen of Granada Pedro Guerra de Lorca in 1586. In order to respond to the various themes of the Catechisms of Instruction, …
President Jimmy Carter once said, "I had a different way of governing." In attempting to explain what he meant by this, Carter has been variously described as a political amateur, a trustee, a non-political politician, an "active-positive" president, and a forerunner of the 1990…
India needs Christ and He will be welcomed best in a native garb. It is generally agreed that the Church in India must be indigenous. I realize this is an urgent task that should be done as early as possible. In this book I especially want to draw the attention of the readers to…
This dissertation is a history of an English mission, the Anglican Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), in what is now southeastern Tanzania, both before and after European colonization. It is a mission history, however, that focuses on the African leadership and thei…
Since the 1970s, a significant amount of scholarly work has been done on the Christian movement in China. Much of this work, however, has tended to focus exclusively on either mainline Protestant missions or Chinese Christians in larger urban settings. Likewise, little has been …
This dissertation is partially an intellectual biography of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. It focuses mainly on Khan's interpretation of Islam with considerable implications for Indian Muslims as a minority. It attempts to study Wahiduddin Khan's life and intellectual career, beginnin…