This research focuses on the current trend in isolated New Prophetic Pentecostal Churches (NPPCs) in South Africa to perform certain unusual ritual practices as an expression of their faith. The term “unusual” is not used here as a value judgment, but rather to indicate that the…
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Prayers from Christian leaders are requests for God’s intervention during times of opposition and for the establishment of their ministries. The Old Testament provides several examples of how leaders chose the spiritual discipline of prayer to overcome their enemies and to devel…
Since its popularization two decades ago, many missiologists have become convinced that a strategy known as the Insider Movement is a valuable missiological tool. For advocates, the Insider Movement’s methodology provides a viable means by which to evangelize resistant people gr…
Land is material, acquiring meaning and facilitating transcendence. In the technical terminology provided by Material Religion, land is ascribed agency and people animate land with meaning.
Bu tezin amacı 15 Temmuz Darbe girişiminde hayatını kaybeden şehitlerin sosyo-ekonomik ve dindarlık durumlarını ortaya koymaktır. Çalışmada şehitlik kavramı, diğer ilahi dinlerde ve İslam'da şehitlik açıklanmıştır. Akabinde Türkiye'de darbeler tarihi ve 15 Temmuz darbe girişimi …
This phenomenological ethnographic study aims to review different exorcism cases and the afflicted individual’s account, looking to disentangle the phenomenon from the labels it has attracted throughout history, such as psychiatric illnesses and religious fanaticism. These cases…
The debate on the meaning of pistis in 2 Peter 1:1 has alternated between subjective faith (belief) and objective faith (the Faith). However, agreeing with Fredrick W. Danker’s analysis, a secular Hellenistic meaning of pistis better explains the distinctive context of 2 Peter 1…
This dissertation argues that William Roscoe Estep, Jr., considered the sixteenth-century Anabaptists and the seventeenth-century English Baptists to be the best representations of a recovery of the New Testament’s Christianity during their respective periods to recognize their …
This dissertation focuses on the question of whether or not the New Testament writers cared about the Old Testament contexts. The answer is affirmative, but with the caveat that the New Testament writers might have been looking at a variant ordered text, which would alter the co…
This study examines the apocalyptic expectation of Jesus’ imminent return from heaven in the early Jesus movement, and how Matthew and Mark respond to its failure by recasting it as fulfilled. Jesus’ return from heaven, also known as the Parousia, was expected to be a literal ev…
In chapter 1, the project director identifies the purpose of this project and explains the challenges at Long Hollow Baptist Church (Long Hollow) which motivated the selection of this strategy and the project objectives. The purpose of the project was to develop a strategy to mu…
The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a model that can explain and thereby generally predict the most likely government responses to civil unrest in the Roman Empire and to apply that model to the study of selected NT texts. The guiding question of the research is, What…
The interpretation of Paul’s command to imitate him in the New Testament has been widely and variously understood. This work uses close attention to the Hellenistic Jewish context of imitation in Paul’s world and the Latin and Greek epigraphic evidence to demonstrate that imitat…
This project is a series of sermons through the book of 1 Peter, exploring both the contextual meaning and biblical theological connections of the book to the rest of Scripture. Chapter 1 sets the stage for the project by giving a brief history of biblical theology, defining its…
A central concern in the public square is the devaluation or subjugation of a people using the shield of religion. It has become an expedient and nonchalant tool to abuse a certain class of people in the name of a higher power. Islam is no exception. Throughout the holy books of…
One of the most lively and enduring debates in New Testament studies is the question of the significance of ‘apocalyptic' thought in Paul. This has recently given birth to a group of scholars, with a common theological genealogy, who share a concern to emphasise the ‘apocalyptic…
Conversations concerning the missional posture of 1 Peter have been dictated largely by the now (in)famous debate between David Balch’s assimilationist position over and against John Elliott’s more sectarian position. More recent work has sought to bridge the gap between Balch a…
This dissertation examines the meaning of γενεά in Matthew 24:34 and concludes it refers to Israel viewed collectively as unfaithful to God. Israel is addressed as disobedient children using γενεά in the Song of Moses (Dt 32). Like the Song of Moses, Matthew uses γενεά with this…