The limited purpose of this study was to determine the pastors' understandings and perception of factors that currently threaten the unity of the Methodist Church in Indonesia (GMI). The literature reviews multifaceted principles of church unity and outlines some insights and pr…
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This dissertation attempts to reconstruct the history of Sarawak Chinese Methodist immigration community from the perspective of cultural accommodation and, through the studies of Christian immigrants, explores how modern Chinese Christians adopted their Christian beliefs to the…
Faced with disabilities brought by colonial rule, African women empowered themselves through religion. This research uses missionary records, colonial government files, traveller and newspaper accounts, and interviews to explore Zimbabwean women's religious organizations in the …
This thesis is a study of John Wesley and Georgia. While Wesley's biographers have all dealt with the Georgia sojourn, no one has yet produced a book-length investigation of his experience in the New World. The central argument of this study is that the Georgia mission, for Wesl…
This dissertation explores the early nineteenth century missions to the Cherokee nation, which lasted from 1801 until Cherokee Removal in 1838-39, and reveals that the almost forty-year-long encounter proved remarkably transformative for both evangelists and Indians. Missionary …
This dissertation examines the introduction of evangelical religion into the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia during the frontier era, the formation and characteristics of biracial churches during the antebellum period, and the post-bellum racial separation and organization of in…
The church, according to Paul in Ephesians 5:22–6:4, is a place for all; the young and the old; free and bond; Jew and Gentile (Galatians 3:26-28). Specifically, Paul mentions wives, husbands, children, and servants in the afore-quoted passage. All these groups or individuals ar…
John Wesley was a noted Anglican minister, leader of the Great Awakening, and founder of the Methodist movement. Prayer was an important means of grace to him, and he had a clear vision of the role it played in the Christian life. He saw that prayer preceded discipleship, that i…