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Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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An examination of women's ministry programs in select evangelical churches that focus on renewing of the mind in adverse circumstances, Cindy S. Weiss

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The Servant Leader: Leading From The Inside Out, Jewel D. Williams

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The role of resistance to change in church sustainability in Harlem, New York, Joan M. Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Creating a framework of vocational practices to empower missional leadership, Patricia Lee Agnew

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Adverse childhood experiences and transformational leadership at the Bowery Mission, Martin K. Aschner

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Impacting The Practice Of Church Unity As An Essential Part Of Christ's Mission Among A Select Group Of Pastors In Ghana, Joshua Baah-Binney

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The Catechumenate for the next generation: focused on the baptism process at the recruit training camps, Yun Joo Bae

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Communication for leaders: equipping leaders through mentoring and communication, Philip Baptiste

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Fostering resilience: a continuum of training resources and care for National Guard religious support teams to strengthen emotional, spiritual, physical, and social wellness in disaster response, Jonathan Reed Bell

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Jesus, the new temple: Mark 11:20-25 in its narrative context, Daniel Jeffrey Berge

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Improving Resilience in United States Army Soldiers by Enhancing Soldier-Leader Communication, Robert Drew Billingsley

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Factors contributing to the establishment of a sustainable theological higher education branch campus, Joshua James Bleeker

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Clergy awareness of the spiritual needs of survivors of childhood emotional abuse, Susan Bourquard

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Holistic spiritual formation: moving beyond corporate worship through engagement with the least of these, Brady Braatz

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Spiritual Formation: A Resource For Incarcerated Men And Women, Jeffrey A. Burger

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A methodology of preaching to fear using the disc model of behavior in order to promote spiritual maturity, David L. Busby

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Designing a leadership development strategy for Crossroads Church, Fort Worth, Texas, Daniel E. Caceres Jr

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The Word Became Flesh: Theanthropic Communion Media in the Liturgy, Andrew Patrick Cannon

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Spiritual formation: implementing a holistic, Wesleyan, missional strategy for discipleship in the United Methodist Church, William R. Carey III

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Spiritual formation as more than cognitive belief : an ethnographic study of adult Sunday school in baptistic churches in Massachusetts, Laura Cassidy-Moffatt

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Intentional discipleship strategy for an increasingly diverse generation in Victory Outreach International, David R. Castro

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Mentoring leaders for kingdom ministry at Davis Chinese Christian Church, Howard H. Chang

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Jonathan Edwards and his legacy on the atonement, Brandon James Crawford

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Faith Embodiment of Chicago Clergy During the Civil Rights Movement, Karin DeHaven

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Theodramatic discipleship: Rediscovering the drama of Christ-centered witness, Charles J. Dillender

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Telling our God stories: empowering congregations to claim and share their God stories through the practice of relational evangelism, Sarah Babylon Dorrance

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An exploratory study of campus ministries affiliated with Churches of Christ in Ghana, Frank Obeng Essien

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“His last command, our first concern”TM – An evaluation on Haggai Institute’s Training at the national level in fostering evangelistic engagement, Francisco Famadas

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Developing inspiring leaders through peer learning groups, Aaron Winslow Fitch

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Discipleship in Deuteronomy, Richard C. Floyd

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The Wounded Pastor's Wife: A Case Study on the Experiences of Five Wives, David Friese

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Deepening our friendship with God: spiritual exercises as a means of grace, Thomas Eugene Frost

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The Oneness Theology of the United Pentecostal Church International as Articulated By David K. Bernard, Richard W. Gimpel

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Lasting Implications of Urban Ministry During College, Rebecca D. Gist

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Being shaped by the neighborhood: stimulating missional commitment through dwelling in the Word, reflection, and shared hospitality, Kendra Nacole Green Carson

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Rereading St. Gregory of Nyssa's Catechetical Oration, Ignatius Harry Green

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Preaching the absolute claims of Scripture in a postmodern context for spiritual transformation, Howard Griffin

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Equipping the next generation: factors that enable leaders of Chinese churches In New York City to effectively equip their young adults, Ijia (Rosie) Hao

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Keeping faith in humanitarianism, Joe Harbison

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Being, Becoming, And Divine Names: Augustine In Conversation With Plotinus, Hilary, And Basil, Amy J. Heck

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Rapologetics: How the Gospel of Christ Takes on the Street, Robert Charles Hepburn

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Moral injury: caring for wounded souls with invisible wounds, James Highhouse

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A social justice ministry: the local church on faith and politics as two sides of the same coin, Helen Lara Holton

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Christ, church, and world: a christological ecclesiology for post-Christendom, Theodore J. Hopkins

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A corrective to adolescent drift: how five churches are using a rites of passage structure to develop and stabilize faith through adolescence, William David Hughes

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Theodotus of Ancyra's Exposition of the Nicene Symbol: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Examination, Edward Damien Hunter

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Restoring the Spirit's Role: Producing Spirit-Annointed and Empowered People for Airdrie Alliance Church, Alexander (Sandy) Isfeld

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A Study of the Effect of Divorce on Faith Formation of Emerging Adults, Lindsay L. Jackson

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Developing an intercultural pastoral leadership model for the multicultural context of East Kerala diocese in church of South India, Benoy Peraparampil Jacob

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The doxological imperative: an assessment of the Eucharist after radical orthodoxy, Scott Edward Johnson

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Building a transformational Christian education ministry in a small rural church, Sharon K. Jones

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Faith development in early adolescent girls: what parents can do to encourage their daughter's faith, Martha Jordan

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A study about change of understanding of the Lord's Supper through education, Deuk Hwan Kang

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That It May Give Grace to Those Who Hear: Changing Men Given to Verbal Abuse, Kraig L. Keck

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The indwelling of the Holy Spirit and human intentionality: a constructive proposal, John R. Kern

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Encouraging Singaporean seminary students to use reflexivity in their ministry practice, Lau Ying Kheng

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A Socio-Rhetorical Function of Danielic Resurrection, Hyun Woo Kim

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Encounter and Transformation: Contemporary Narrative in the Sayings of Fathers from the Fourth Century Desert and Modern Day Monasteries in Light of the New Homiletic, Olga Kirilchenko

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Sarah Coakley's kenoticism and it's feminist implications : toward a new feminine subjectivity, Hyongsang Ko

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How the church can identify, proclaim and engage abandonment of young adolescents in South Africa, Alwyn Landman

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Equipping and catalyzing disciple makers at Front Range Christian Church, Justin Laughlin

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An examination of the influence of selected modern innovations on evangelical ecclesiology and soteriology, Christopher E. Lawson

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The value of Christian understanding of vicarious suffering : directions for a pastoral care plan in HongDong Diocese, DongPing Francis Li

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Creating more effective clergy teams: a process for senior pastors and associates to grow deeper in their call and their understanding of each other, Trisha Miller Manarin

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Moral injury and the eucharist : constructing a Christian response to experiences of moral injury in combat veterans, Lucas Frederick McConnell

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Blessed be the tie that binds: a model for United Methodist Church mergers that honors the heritage of existing churches and captures the vision of new church starts, Raymond Carter McInnis

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The inside out church: the principles of moving an internally focused church to become an externally focused church, Dale Melenberg

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Improving relationships within congregations that receive cross-racial and cross-cultural itinerate pastoral appointments, D. Renee Mikell

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A strategy for introducing spiritual formation at Cedar Hills Church, M. Colin Moody

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A listening discernment in the midst of divisive issues e.g. homosexuality in the United Methodist Church, M. Mochel H Morris

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The Procession of the Holy Spirit in the Lutheran Dogmatic Tradition, Christopher J. Neuendorf

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Retelling the story--remembering differently : a memorial ritual towards the healing of memories of the victims of the Igbo pogrom of southeastern Nigeria, Martin-Edward Ohajunwa

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An evaluation of the journey within: soul care in the African American context, Sakinah O’ Kane- Smith

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A Theological Study On Lay Ministry In Korean Society: Focusing On The Concept Of 'Shared Mission', Michael Jaihyung Park

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A relevant theological field education program for theological institutions in Liberia, Hilary Gedeporjay Paul

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Military ministry through the local church: ministering to the spiritual needs of military members, veterans, and their families, Stephen Ray Peters

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A study of change in leadership among murmuring people: in the context of a bi-cultural church, Jaiseon Pi

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Developing teams of leaders who establish and sustain missions communities for gospel-needy contexts, Guy Pilkinton

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A study of the doctrine of sanctification held by Samuel Rutherford, Song-En Poon

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God on the ground, Philip J. Reed

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Exploring a Biblical, systematic, historical, and practical theology for understanding and experiencing union with Christ, Keith Scherer

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The use of client feedback in faith-based counselling services, Paul K. Scully

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Enneagram and the Way of Jesus: integrating personality with Biblical narratives, spiritual practices and the church calendar, A. J. Sherrill

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Engaging leaders in spirtual [sic] formation at Beaverton Foursquare Church in Portland, Oregon, Janet Shim

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'Ecclesia Enim Per Universum Orben' : Unity In Ephesus As Claimed By Irenaeus, Jonatan C. Simons

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Developing spiritual resilience in airmen: a new approach to suicide prevention in the Air Force, William Roe Spencer III

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Comparing interracial couples’ experience of belonging at multiethnic churches and at mono-ethnic churches, Richard A. Spenst

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Examining the cross-cultural dynamic between the American church and the International Student Diaspora in the U.S., using mentoring as a discipleship tool, John Stanley

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Spiritual Formation: A Resource For Incarcerated Men And Women, Larry Sterling

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The Twentieth Century Eastern/Oriental Orthodox Dialogue and Its Athonite Critique, Shawn Poothicote Thomas

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An analysis of the needs and challenges of young African American women in selected churches, Yvonne B. Tyler

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Strengthening missional community: a strategy for creating a new small group expression, D. Toney Upton

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Equipping selected leaders of Impact Community Church, Duncan, South Carolina, with interpersonal relationship skills to promote healthy team dynamics, David J. Walker

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Increasing resilence through ethical training: a program for the Marines of the First Marine Division, Benjamin Warner

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A welcoming God: immigrant children, God, and narrative, Audrey B. Warren

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The application of Biblical principles for spiritual health to the mental health needs of post abortion incarcerated women, Lettie Annette Watkins

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Miriam as exemplar for the Army chaplain: theological and organizational models for a ministry in the military, Ernst P. West

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Learning from neighbors: reimagining mission and pastoral vocation, Lloyd Wicker

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Researching and designing a mentoring handbook for professional chaplains at Baptist Community Ministries in New Orleans, Louisiana, T. June Wilder

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Father, so who do you say I am : an investigation of the father's influence on the daughter's spiritual identity, Stephanie Williams