Sacred space is a prominent feature of Old Testament theology and is recognizable through structures such as the tabernacle, temple, and other places where God chooses to uniquely reveal Himself. New Testament scholarship, however, has a less uniform consensus in the way sacred …
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Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this project was to educate and empower church leaders to utilize their spiritual giftedness in concert with the Triune God’s purposes for their service in the church—the Body of Christ. This project evaluated biblical, theological, and …
This present study examines the lived experiences of African American (Black) single mothers. The study suggests that their lives and their ability to provide for their children are severely inhibited because of the lack of attention to society's needs and lack of financial and …
During the last decade, the discussion over whether Thomas Aquinas's theology is supersessionist—the idea that God abolishes Jewish observance of circumcision and Torah and replaces Israel with the Church—has elicited deep disagreement among scholars. With the exception of a few…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the unequal access to and accumulation of wealth from clove resources in Minahasa, Indonesia, in the 1990s. The dissertation asks: (1) how do specific people in a community gain access to and accumulate wealth from agricultural reso…
The Song of Moses of Deuteronomy 32:1–43 has had a distinguished history in both Jewish and Christian liturgy. The purpose of the dissertation is to highlight features of the Song which account for its liturgical prominence and then to study that prominence in depth. The dissert…
This dissertation reports on the results of the clearing and partial excavation of an early Christian church at Ras el Bassit, on the North Syrian coast. The church is built on a synagogue attested by two inscriptions and by the menorah of an early sixth-century floor mosaic; it…
This dissertation historicizes the formation the Syrian Orthodox Church in the first half of the sixth century. The council of Chalcedon in 451 CE divided eastern Christianity. Those who opposed the council separated from the church of the empire after Justin I in 518 CE tried t…
This ministry project studies middle-size church peculiarities, organizational theory, systems theory and theories of change in order to identify a process of change that is both faithful to Christian concepts of community and effective in helping a church move through significa…
The dissertation addresses the question of the social organization of early Christian communities, c. 50 C.E. to c. 260 C.E. I demonstrate that the primary conceptual and behavioral model for early Christian social organization was the surrogate family (Chapter One). The specifi…
Religion plays a major role that defines and preserves ethnic life and character in the United States. In the case of first-generation Korean immigrants, as an ethnic organization, the Korean immigrant church functions as a center of resistance to cultural assimilation. On the o…
This dissertation attempts to find out the relevance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology in a religiously pluralistic world. The postmodern society is open to many religions including Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Taoism, Confucianism, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness…
This thesis explores the depiction of ecclesiastical restorers in narrative sources in England between c.1070 and 1130. It examines the way in which contemporaries wrote about churchmen who were engaged in restoring the English Church, particularly the actions which were attribu…
This dissertation focuses on properties held by various Venetian churches in the colonies the Republic of St. Mark possessed in the Byzantine Empire. These properties played an important role both in serving Venetian merchants overseas as well as providing sources of external fu…
The centrality of II Corinthians 3:7–18 in the Christian imagination first emerged in 2nd century exegetical debates concerning the inspirational status of Hebrew Scriptures. Arguments marshaled by Irenaeus and Tertullian affirmed that the whole Old Testament was to be considere…
This study has identified conceptual issues for the development of receptor-oriented communication strategies among young, educated, urban Hui (YEU-Hui) Muslims in a China's northwestern cities in order to achieve culturally relevant churches in those areas. The study includes a…
This project seeks to help associate pastors of pastoral care in mega-churches mobilize others in caring ministry while recognizing the effects of consumer culture on pastoral care. This includes drawing all clergy staff into pastoral care ministry and challenging their resistan…
This dissertation examines the fourth-century church complex excavated, between 2006 and 2008, at Ain el-Gedida, in the Dakhla Oasis of Upper Egypt.1 The church and the set of interconnected rooms that form the complex are one of the earliest examples discovered in Egypt thus fa…