Meaning, Mystery, Method, and Mystagogy According to Reinhold Niebuhr

by Harold P. Penner

This study is about Reinhold Niebuhr's notions of meaning, mystery, method, and mystagogy. Niebuhr's understanding of myth is the binding thread through these notions, and it is to be found in issues dealing not only with protology (the idea of creation and the biblical accounts of the 'beginnings'), but also with ...

The Khawaarij and the Creed of Takfeer

Declaring a Muslim to be an Apostate and its Effects upon Modern Day Islaamic ...

by Craig Anthony Green

Islaam as a world religion is, in the present age, sometimes associated with terrorism and numerous bombings and conflicts around the globe. While Islaam does not encourage these actions, there exist movements within the Muslim community which use violence as a means of political expression similar to the early ...

Margins of Desire

The Foundations of Derrida's Social Ethics

by Niva Arav

In this research, the author analyzes Derrida's understanding of the way society is created out of a collection of individuals, how the individuals preserve their singularity and freedom within a social system and the meaning of ethics, as it comes out in his early writings. In this work, the researcher used a ...

Raising the Question of Being

A Unification and Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger

by Rufus A. Duits

The thesis consists of two main divisions. The first presents an original interpretation of Martin Heidegger's philosophy. The second - premised on the first - presents a fundamental and internal critique of his philosophy.

The interpretative division demonstrates the way in which the history of being is ...

The Effects of Religious Preference and the Frequency of Spirituality ...

by Steven L. Jordan, Sr., Ph.D.

Using a quantitative causal-comparative approach, the researcher conducted a relational study that compared injured and rehabilitated soldiers with no religious foundation to similar soldiers possessing religious preferences and spirituality. The two primary research questions were (a) Does religious preference and ...

The Salvation of the Remnant in Isaiah 11: 11-12

An Exegesis of a Prophecy of Hope and Its Relevance Today

by Gerald Emem Umoren

Experience confirms that every believer has a daily challenge of how to appreciate and understand the disposition of his God in times of faith crises, great difficulty, trials and near hopelessness. Some would even ask: “Did God ever have a plan of salvation? If so, is it working at all?” Cognisant of the fact that a ...

Leadership Paradigms in Chaplaincy

by Joel Curtis Graves

This dissertation argues that business people, clergy, lay persons, and many chaplains do not understand the leadership and management dynamics of chaplaincy, and this lack of knowledge has a direct impact on how chaplaincy is done and not done in certain areas.

In chaplaincy and many churches, leadership, ...

The Perceived Leadership Crisis Within the Baptist Church

An Exploratory Empirical Investigation of Selected Churches in Memphis, Tennessee

by Brodie I. Johnson, Ph.D

The purpose of this study was to investigate church congregants’ ratings of church deacons’ leadership skills utilizing the MLQ instrument and compare those ratings among 4 selected churches in Memphis, Tennessee. Because the church has experienced a rapid rate of growth in its membership and has been ...