This thesis traces the establishment and development of a functioning reformed church in the parishes of Fife after the official Reformation of 1560. Based principally on archival sources, especially the records of the kirk sessions which governed the church at parish level, it …
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This dissertation concerns how Jewish-Muslim and Israel-Palestine grassroots activism can persist in the face of threats to the safety, freedom, lives, or even simply the income and employment of those engaged in acts of sustained resistance. At the heart of the study are the ex…
The Church of the East entered along the Silk Roads from Persia through Central Asia to China during the prosperous and cosmopolitan Tang dynasty, and the church, naming itself Jingjiao, enjoyed an official status before the imperial court from 638 to 845 CE. This dissertation u…
The purpose of the dissertation is to analyze the key developments that became determining factors in the decisions by the Indonesian Baptist Mission which radically shifted the missions philosophy and practices of the mission. The key developments are viewed in their historical…
Tent crusades were transformed into sight-and-sound entertainment as evangelicals brought the religious revival experience to television. Oral Roberts was a renowned televangelist who filmed his crusades beginning in 1955, and his ministry’s impact has been attributed to the spr…
El objetivo general de esta investigación es poner en valor el Santo Cáliz de Valencia como objeto prioritario en el desarrollo territorial del Camino del Santo Grial (llamado por la Administración) Ruta del Grial. Por ello, el estudio imbrica el valor del objeto (Santo Cáliz) c…
Out of the heart flows life (Prov 4:23). If life is not flowing in a believer of Christ, then God is not at the center. Revival is the means God uses to renew life to His people. There are multiple reasons why peoples’ hearts are not prepared for revival, preventing them from po…
Through an exploration of the historical trajectory of Islamic saints and sainthood across the early modern Ottoman world by means of a wide selection of case studies this dissertation argues for the importance of sainthood in all its facets as both a subject of Ottoman history …
This study addressed the influence and role of the Southern Baptist (SB) expository preaching methodology by examining the role of expository preaching, its innate characteristics, and its espousal by SB pastors and theologians in the twentieth-century for influencing personal a…
This study examines the rationale for Israel's oblivation to observe the Divine Law. While the study begins with a selection of Second Temple books and concludes with the Bayli, its focus is the approach of tannaitic midrash to this question. Whereas earlier literature highlight…
The origins of Languedocian Catharism have proved as elusive as the movement itself. While a rich body of sources exist for the Inquisition against Catharism, the texts remain silent on the movement’s origins and transmission to the west. Historians have variously argued that Ca…
This study offers a critical assessment of Letty Mandeville Russell's contributions to feminist theology with a view to gleaning wisdom for Muslim women who also wrestle with the issue of justice for women. As a liberation theologian, Russell's definition and construction of fem…
A view of celebrations in early Judaism is comprised of two sections, the first based on the text of Tosefta Avodah Zarah while the second focuses on the subject of celebration in the realm of Jewish-Gentile relations. In the first unit, I investigate the problem of the chronolo…
The study demonstrates that historically Japanese American Christianity has been an important source in shaping Japanese American ethnic identity and consciousness. The methodology critically adapts Robert Schreiter's theoretical model of inculturation and Robert Blauner's theor…
Today the Samaritans are the smallest religio-ethnic group in existence. The Samaritans are the losers and have been forgotten. Moreover, the Samaritan materials even has not been focused for the background of the early Christianity. However, it is true that the Samaritans were …
Studies of the indigenization of Chinese Christian Church have been focused on the relationship between Chinese intellectuals and Christian faith. This approach to the problem is far from adequate. On the one hand, this approach emphasizes one-sidedly on the history of Chinese C…
In post exilic times in Israel we see a development of the ideal levitical priestly figure. As successive generations passed during the Maccabean and Hasmonean periods without a king in the Davidic line the notion of a priestly "messiah" became a dominant theme in Jewish messian…
The Christian encounter with non-Christian religions is inevitable. Two significant voices in the encounter are Raimundo Panikkar and Robert C. Zaehner. Both are writing in response to the Vatican II statement that the (Roman) Church rejects nothing holy and true in non-Christia…