The purpose of this dissertation is to describe and evaluate religious experience in the theologies of Edgar Young Mullins and Henry Wheeler Robinson. The results are then analyzed to discover implications for ecclesiology. Primary sources inform the bulk of the paper. Mullins's…
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Pauline scholarship has been sensitive to the context and experience of the communities to which Paul writes, but less able to account for or incorporate Paul's own experience into analysis of his letters. This dissertation seeks to redress that lack in part by considering one a…
This dissertation explores the role of extraordinary religious experience in Pauline Christianity through a study of Paul's claim to have been snatched into the third heaven and Paradise only to suffer later from a "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:1-10). Many previous inte…
The apparent absence of secrecy in Israelite religion in early antiquity, in contrast with the Greek mystery schools and the pervasive, structural secrecy of Egypt, is the dissertation's opening problem. The study posits that the First Temple priests crafted a "disaster-proof" t…
Grace is a salient spiritual experience and one that lies at the heart of Christianity. The present study sought to address a gap in the psychological literature pertaining to the experience of divine grace as it relates to character development among Evangelical Christians. Spe…
African American religious dance is not a topic previously explored in detail beyond dance that has historically existed in the church within the confines of Christianity. However the African American religious experience is not limited to Christianity and is inclusive of variou…
This study was an attempt to determine the personality traits, including obsessive-compulsive (OC) tendencies, implicated in the formation of paranormal and religious belief systems and whether experience may mediate this relationship. Furthermore, the study examined the relatio…
An analysis was completed of the rhetorical and discursive patterns found in the narratives of altered states of consciousness on the website Erowid.org, a repository of information about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related topics, as well as the host of an “Experience R…