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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
A manual to equip church leaders in the understanding and utilization of glocalizing urban youth culture in community ministry, Daniel S. Pyon
Combat veterans with diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder: the effect of pastoral counseling on the family, Ricky Benard Reaves
Cultural cues for expatriates in the Levant, including issues of honor and shame, Aru Reddy
Assimilation through mentoring new members at a small, urban church, Ryan Richardson
Global education for children in suburbia: discipleship for changing the world, Nanette E. Roberts
And grace will lead me home: a guide for pilgrim journals, Paul H.W. Rohde
Missional change in the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Australia, Rod Russell-Brown
Curriculum for a masters level introduction to youth ministry course in Papua New Guinea, Danijela Schubert
Let's Be Reasonable: An Integrative Discipleship Book Preparing Christians to Give a Reason for the Hope within through a Study of Biblical Theology, Worldviews, and Apologetics, Christopher Jay Shirley
Creating a pious scribe: the authorial prayers as scribal formation in the book of Sirach, David A. Skelton
Right of Defense of Clerics in Sexual Abuse of Minors Cases: Selected Issues, Jaroslaw Zenon Skrzypek
Cultivating missional commitment: sharing reciprocal hospitality with the Monrovia Youth Alliance, Joshua R. Smith
A project on recovering the image of God through the holistic wholeness, Kyoo Eui Song
"But not so with you": the pastor as a servant leader in the joint juture, Ingrid Svensson
Implications of knowing the infinite for knowing God: an interdisciplinary study between mathematics and theology, Cara A. Tacoma
No Need to Bleed! A Pastoral Project on Domestic Verbal and Emotional Abuse Awareness and Education, Deborah Tatum
Faith, Imagination, and Discipleship in Hebrews: the Role of Imagination in Faith for Discipleship, Paul Cau Uyen
Differentiation in the perspicuity of Scripture and its effect on the application of Scripture's authority, Brian Henry Wagner
Understanding a conflict-centered worldview: a critical evaluation of demonology in modern evangelicalism, Jonathan H. Walton
Paul's positive religious affections, Mark L. Ward
A historical and liturgical approach to A Service of Christian Marriage: John Wesley's service in the twenty-first century, Edwin Clifton Whitlock
Becoming an interpretive community: leading River Life Covenant Church through narrative, metaphor and parable, Bret M. Widman
The development of men from marginal existence to missional living, Troy Williams
Stages of faith : applying current faith development research to a local church context, David Zirilli
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Transforming grace : challenges and gifts of Nigerian women in diaspora to parishes in the archdiocese of Chicago, Anne Arabome
Romans 5:12-21 : an exegetical investigation, Jonathan Bennett
The primacy of the ministry of the Word in First and Second Timothy, Peter Berner
Equipped to engage: a study of how SBC churches have been equipped to engage unreached and unengaged unreached people groups, J. Brad Bessent
The house that God built: a blueprint for pastoral marriage ministry, Robert James Borger
Calling, kingdom, and cultural engagement: recovering Christian spirituality for the public square, Frank Boswell
Twelve steps in the way of Christ: a postmodern path for spiritual formation and leadership development, Steven H. Brant
Does safetalk equip airmen to intervene when a fellow military member is having suicidal thoughts?, William Jamie Braswell
The story of perfection: the narrative transmission of Christian perfection in eighteenth-century British Methodism, Amy Caswell Bratton
The church of the future: engaging theological entrepreneurship and the business of faith, Norman Bullock
How the Practice of Infant Baptism Questions the Paradigm of Genetic Screening, Michael James Buttrey
An exploration of the effectiveness of a men's teaching ministry within black evangelical churches, Gregory Allan Carthan
Degrees of church discipline in the Pauline Epistles, Yea-Huei Chen
The identification of TO PNEUMA in 1 Corinthians 5:5, Daniel Albert Chin
Equal discipleship in the Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK), Han Sang Cho
Preaching a sigh: Søren Kierkegaard's discourse on Martin Luther's sermons, David Lawrence Coe
Pitchin' tents: tent makers, farmer-preachers, teacher-preachers, and slave exhorters: a narrative pastoral model of nurture and care for the bivocational minister, Charles E. Collins
Art as a means of grace: encountering God, growing spiritually, and experiencing community through creativity, Anne Collins Conover
Piecing it together: quilting a life of reconciliation and redemption with women in prison, Rula Colvin
The motif of hearing and seeing in Mark 4-8 : contributions to a missional reading of the second gospel, Jonathan P. Coody
Justification, the Holy Spirit, and the Vocabulary of 'Life' in Paul's Letter to the Galatians, J Andrew Cowan
Race and the Socially Poor: A Response of Orthodox Christianity in America, John W. Culbreath-Frazier
Integrity of heart and skillful hands: guiding the spiritual formation of undergraduate student worship leaders at Messiah College, Douglas M. Curry
Theology drives methodology: a comparative study of the nature and means of conversion in the theology of Charles Grandison Finney and John Williamson Nevin, Karl Vincent Dahlfred
Paradigm shift in missions: a history of Jerry A. Rankin's leadership to embrace Southern Baptist churches in the great commission task, Deryl Ray Davis
Encountering God in the creative process: how to build an arts ministry in the local church, Kyle Maurice Dennis
A welcoming life: developing and testing an immersion series study designed to help people reach out to and welcome the stranger in their midst, Mary Elizabeth Emond Dennis
An Inquiry into the Integration of the Empowerment Construct with Missions Exit Strategy, Cirilo B. Doguiles
The beginnings of the Wenzhou Church: how the cross-cultural engagement of the first missionaries to Wenzhou gave birth to the 'Jews of China, ' 1866-1911, Rachel Erickson-Rui
Dialectic vs. Dogmatic: A Lonerganian Analysis of a Twelfth Century Debate, Joshua M. Ford
Doctrine after foundationalism, Robert Lewis Fossett
The identification of stressors and their meaning for MTW career missionaries to Mexico, David L. Foster
Gospel outreach to the Sikhs in the Internet age: biblical, theological, and practical approaches, Kuldip S. Gangar
A training program for lay ministers to work in the church of China today, Ying Gao
Honoring multiple covenants: managing the demands of family, calling and spouse's career within the United Methodist system of itinerant ministry, Charles Zacharias Gardner
Establishing an online course on the biblical and theological foundations of dance ministry through Zion Center for Worship and the Arts, Teresa Jo Gardner
The doctrine of creatio ex nihilo and natural theology in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, Yonghua Ge
Love, participation, and the trinitarian life: St. Augustine's theology of union in the Confessions, Henry Michael Glowasky
Meeting Christ at the table, carrying him to the streets : the eucharist as empowerment for community ministry, Nina George Hacker
Healing shame wounds : the impact of Healing care group curriculum on Breakthrough male alumni, Mark E. Hanson
Aspects of spirituality that promote healing and growth among OIF/OEF veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Lee Guilford Harms
Between Kuala Lumpur and Kathmandu : considering migration and Christian mission in the twenty first century, Peter J. Harrits
Spirituality/religiosity and emotional symptom change at a faith-based residential treatment facility for adolescent males, Steffany Homolka
Underdeveloped agents of the mission: empowering children to use their spiritual gifts, Elizabeth Horn
Integrating the charismatic experience into parish worship and ministry, C. Clark Hubbard
Finding one's unique place and purpose in the world, Mark Alan Hudson
Preaching to the next generation of Hispanic Americans in the southwest: applying Aristotle's three proofs to third-generation Mexican-Americans, José G. Izaguirre
A complicated peace: the problem of passivism in Canadian Anabaptist-Mennonite peacemaking, Jonathan Janzen
Information literacy curricula at a nontraditional seminary, Sis Mukbil Jesse
Luther on the priesthood of all believers and vocation: as a means for moving the laity toward more active ministry, John Foster Johnson
Preaching to shape a holy people, Mark R. Johnson
Helping five survivors of suicide to find God's healing, Anna W. Karanja
"We persuade ([peithomen] people" (2 Cor 5:11): Paul's ministry of persuasion at Corinth, Hayoung Kim
A study of healing for depressed Christians through mindfulness spirituality practice, Hwa Soon Kim
Nahum reconsidered : the rhetoric of violence and divine justice, Justin James King
The dynamics of time and location in salvation as developed by Jonathan Edwards in the History of the work of redemption, Willem Jacob Korving
"As good as it gets" : a review and consideration of "healing prayer", its theological and ministry implications, and the hope for change it evokes, Henry Kranenburg
John Wesley's liturgical revision: a pattern for reshaping worship for post-Christian America, Lawrence A. Lacher
Developing Great Commission strategies for Chinese Christian Church of Oxnard, California, Kan-Chor Lam
Training Filipinos for cross-cultural ministry : towards a Filipino perspective, James R. Latzko
Apostolic trauma : healing the body of Christ from post traumatic stress disorder, Mark Chong Lee
Caring for families changed by mental illness, Tina Leigh Lightner-Morris
Gregory Nazianzen's Pneumatology Completes the 4th Century Trinitarian Theology, C Frederick Lo
Radiant as the Sun: An Analysis of the Oration and Canon of the Transfiguration by St. John of Damascus, Dustin M. Lyon
Christ confronts us in Colossians : a preaching and teaching program on the person, titles and work of Christ for the Community Presbyterian Church (USA) of Edison, New Jersey, Kenneth Joseph Macari
Deconstruction, hermeneutics, and the Book of Job : a comparative analysis and critique of two deconstructive readings of the epilogue (42:7-17), Alexander Duncan Maclean
