The principal conflicts in Mark's Gospel, between Jesus and the religious authorities and between Jesus and his disciples, have most often been treated in previous Markan scholarship in isolation from one another, and have been read largely as means to historical or theological …
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Taalibe Baay, or Disciples of the Senegalese Shaykh `Ibrāhīm (Baay) Ñas, form a transnational network defined primarily by relations of religious apprenticeship and co-discipleship. Whereas several major Islamic adherences in Senegal arose as quasi-political intermediaries betwe…
This thesis seeks to determine how Luke treats the motif of women disciples in his gospel. The research hypothesis is as follows: Luke presented women of the Jesus movement as full disciples. In doing so, he was opening new avenues to women in his community. The main method used…
The characterization of the Markan disciples has been and continues to be the object of much scholarly reflection and speculation. For many, the Markan author's presentation of Jesus' disciples holds a key, if not the key, to unlocking the purpose and function of the gospel as a…
God intended to impact culture, and one way to impact culture is by building relationships. However, there is very little interaction between members of various churches in the Waverly area, which is not good for anyone, in that (a) it is a bad witness to Christian unity for all…
The goal of this dissertation is to demonstrate that the narrative structure of a historical account gives significance to particular historical events in the narrative, using the death of Paul as a case study. The first narrative analyzed in this study is the Martyrdom of Paul,…
The project director serves as the high school pastor at Ingleside Baptist Church (IBC) in Macon, Georgia. The project director identified the need for families at IBC to live missionally by making disciples both within the home and with the family of others far from God. Thus, …