Santa María de Uncastillo (1135–55), built during a crucial period of repopulation following the Christian conquest of northern Iberia, reveals the impacts of migration and social change upon the visual arts. Long the site of an impregnable fortress on the frontier between Chris…
This final document presents a model on how to successfully conduct an evangelistic crusade with the active involvement of church volunteers. A manual was developed to guide church leaders in how to motivate, mobilize and manage church volunteers in the three phases of evangelis…
Therefore it is said, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and gave gifts to men.” And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, for the equipment of the saints, for the work of ministry, for building…
Problem. Public evangelism is the dominant method of bringing people to the church in the North and South Minahasa Missions. The pastor is considered the most capable and successful in doing evangelism. This opinion encourages concept that the pastor is the one who does evangeli…
The exercise of power in all its many aspects cannot be disassociated from social conflicts. This, of course, applies to the hierarchical management of the Church. The laity and some clergy have opposed ways that power is exercised in the Church; consequently, these two groups h…
The following document is a report focused on the Catholic elementary school principal and their awareness of the construct lay ecclesial ministry. The report is based on research and relevant knowledge of the construct of lay ecclesial ministry in the Catholic church, particula…
This dissertation addresses a project implemented to educate and train laity to practice divine healing prayer. The project explores the relationship between Christian identity and the practice of divine healing prayer. Divine healing prayer is defined as looking to God to provi…
This project’s purpose was to grow greater confidence in the Bible resulting in a more faithful reliance upon it in all areas of life and ministry among adult attenders at Hopewell Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. The desired result of growing confidence in Scripture was …
How can Paul tell a church he was correcting for uncharitable interrelationships that they were “able to admonish one another” (Rom 15:14)? This passage is one of sixteen within Paul’s letters which addresses ethical speech-acts that ought to occur among believers and result in …
Yves Congar was quite possibly the greatest Catholic ecclesiologist of the twentieth century. His lifelong passion for ecumenism and ecclesiology were contained in his prodigious work on the sources of revelation, Scripture and Tradition. Congar explained the frequently misinter…
Instilling and Revitalizing the Devotion of the Rosary in 21st American Catholics by JAMES RICHARD HICKEY