Browsing by Author "M. Douglas Meeks"
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Ka, Yohan (2008-10-01)Department: ReligionThis project provides a concrete theory and effective theological model of spiritual and psychological development for contemporary Korean Christians. Three interconnected major challenges of Korean spiritual and psychological ...
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Charlton, Matthew Way (2008-12-06)Department: ReligionA United Methodist theology of service is developed in the general context of United Methodist sacramental theology. Baptism, as a sign of covenant with God, marks the entry into a Christian life of service in the world. ...
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Davis, Carolyn Jane (2014-04-09)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores the influence of theological, political, medical, and market discourses upon contemporary American Protestant adolescent sexuality education curricula. The project offers a genealogy of Christian ...
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Belcher, Joseph David (2007-02-15)Department: ReligionThis thesis investigates the problem of the disappearance of the Church, which is a result of the fracture of Christian praxis. First, the problem is introduced and outlined according to the maxim that the Church can only ...
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Dark, James David (2011-04-18)Department: ReligionThis study considers the category of religion, the phenomena ostensibly contained therein, and the cultural forces that often manage to evade or insulate themselves against critique by positioning themselves (or by being ...
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Turner, Michael Kenneth (2009-04-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is a thematic exploration of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the early national period of American history. Between the years 1784 and 1835, the denomination achieved unprecedented numeric growth, ...
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Eberhart, Timothy Reinhold (2012-03-25)Department: ReligionGod invites us to share in holy communion in the whole of life. Holy communion is the feast of wholly charitable life together through which we participate in the holy nature and work of God’s perfect love. The problem ...
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Dunn, David James (2011-05-19)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that the “postliberal” ecclesiologies of John Milbank and Stanley Hauerwas fail to account for Christian implication in the secular in part because they collapse the kingdom of God into the visible ...
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Dault, David (2009-04-02)Department: ReligionThis project utilizes cultural materialist methodologies to examine the doctrine of Scripture as it pertains to post-20th Century North American theologians. The dissertation puts forth the thesis that such theologians ...