A major concern for the field of ministry in every age has always been to seek an effective approach that will enable ministers to reach out to the people of God in a manner that addresses the contemporary and changing spiritual needs of the world. Many current theologians and t…
Some current Bible scholars have proposed explanations of Isaiah 19 irrespective of its original historical setting. Some Egyptologists have proposed connections between Isaiah 19 and Egypt of the 8th century B.C. This growing divide is what has stimulated this study of Isaiah 1…
This study explores how the multicultural local churches of the Lutheran church, namely, the Basel Christian Church of Malaysia (BCCM), deals with the Malaysian multicultural environment. The BCCM was first started in Malaysia in 1882 with its local churches remaining purely Hak…
This dissertation undertakes a study on the five dream passages of Matt 1:18-2:23. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that Matthew employs dream narratives to defend allegations concerning Jesus' birth and to provide etiological reasons both for why Jesus went to Egypt …
This dissertation arises out of a need to understand the origins of Christian witness within Australian society and how such origins have influenced the effectualness of the gospel within Aboriginal life and white settlement. Such origins have laid foundations for mission and ev…
This study employs, as an integrated interpretive framework, the often academically-dismissed doctrine of holiness, in order to unravel the inner dynamics and manifestation of Christianity in Africa. It seeks to demonstrate the historiographical significance of the quest for san…
The Song of the Sea (Exod 15:1–21) functions as a discrete literary unit within the book of Exodus. Exodus 15:1–21 is comprised of two poems (vv. 1b–18 and v. 21b), which are introduced and linked by a narrative framework (v. 1a and vv. 19–21a). The thesis defended in this study…
Can Catholic theology recognize the Koran (Qur'an) as the "Word of God?" The Constitution on Divine Revelation of the Second Vatican Council, "Dei Verbum," says that "no new public revelation is to be expected" after that embodied in the person of Jesus Christ, but does not addr…