Pastoral

Experiences of charity, 1250-1650

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For a number of years scholars who are concerned with issues of poverty and the poor have turned away from the study of charity and poor relief, in order to search for a view of the life of the poor from the point of view of the poor themselves. Great studies have been conducted…

Flowers of time: on postapocalyptic fiction

by Payne, Mark

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"For all of its current popularity, contemporary apocalyptic fiction-novels set during or after events that devastate the world as we know it-is part of a long tradition that includes the Biblical story of Noah, the epic of Gilgamesh, and the Works and Days of the ancient Greek …

The purpose of this project was to enhance and sharpen the pastoral ministry effectiveness of the elders of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Overland Park, Kansas by developing and implementing a contextualized member visitation program strategy. The project featured twenty home …

This project addressed the problem of pastoral burnout. Pastors (n = 21) experienced a burnout training in the form of an intensive two-day conference including seven sessions, eleven resources pertaining to stress and burnout, and four follow-up sessions. Participants completed…

The purpose of this project was to develop and implement a pastoral leadership course at Seven Oaks Church of Christ in Mayfield, Kentucky for present and future elders. Chapter 1 explains the ministerial context of Seven Oaks Church of Christ and demonstrates the need for a pas…

Leadership succession planning is often overlooked in many church organizations. Failure to create succession strategies causes organizations to face uncertain futures during leadership transitions. An absence of succession planning can repress an organization’s financial growth…

It is currently believed that the only remaining foci of rinderpest (RP) circulation in the world are situated in the Somali eco-system which encompasses the Somali inhabited areas of Kenya and Ethiopia and the central and southern regions of Somalia. In order to delineate the e…

My study focuses on poetic descriptions of love in a pastoral setting. Many of the works that I discuss have at one time or another been considered part of the bucolic genre. Categorizing poetry as bucolic or pastoral has been problematic for some time because scholars disagree …

This dissertation is a case study of the potential economic benefits that could accrue to a traditional pastoral society if attempts were made to diversify assets to include nonpastoral investment such as simple savings accounts in banks or community credit unions. Broad socioec…

This study seeks to firmly situate the imagination in preaching. Because the function of the sermon is to help guide the listener to a higher (and deeper) state of Christian living, the sermon is directed to the listener’s imagination, suggesting a reality that does not yet exis…

This dissertation takes a cultural ecology approach to provide a descriptive analysis of the status and processes of adoption of cultivation among pastoral Maasai in northern Ngorongoro District, Tanzania. The research was undertaken as a two year field study, during which a sig…

This dissertation analyzes the mission work of five Protestant churches among Muslim pastoral Fulbe (Fulani in English and Peuls in French) in seven Middle Belt states in Northern Nigeria. The study begins with a presentation of the theoretical framework for the research. The pr…

This dissertation examines the recent emergence of pastoral NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) in East Africa as a response to the changing structures of international aid. It is based on twenty-five months of fieldwork conducted between 1992 and 1997 in Arusha Region, Tanzania…