As we began to study leading and following in the New Testament, we were startled by how much language there is about following, modeling and imitation, and how comparatively rarely leadership terms appear. Even more startling are Jesus' own statements about himself in the Gospel of John.
Dr. Kevin Lawson (Professor of Educational Studies at Talbot School of Theology) recently co-edited and published Infants and Children in the Church: Five Views on Theology and Ministry in partnership with Dr. Adam Harwood (Associate Professor of Theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary). We wanted to learn more about this book, so we had Dr. Lawson respond to some questions ...
Christian Megapolis is conducting a project, which considers the following two issues: (1) the nature of doctoral education and (2) actual national Ukrainian doctors and doctoral students as living, interesting personalities. To this end we invite you to enjoy this interview of Eduard Borysov by Rostislav Tkachenko ...
A while ago, I received an email from Ed Stetzer asking if I knew when spiritual gifts inventories first became prevalent. I gave him a quick reflection based on what I remembered at that time, but his question created a curiosity that sent me on a longer investigation. While this is certainly not the final word on the question, it may serve as a beginning point for other researchers. Here is what I have discovered ...
51蹤獲 half the world is made up of women. Books such as Half the Sky (Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn) and Half the Church (Carolyn Custis James) highlight how important it is for the Evangelical church to consider Gods vision both locally and globally for women. In the light of the Gospel, the church during the Reformation also wrestled with womens place, in the church, marriage, and society. While the Protestant Reformers did not set out to define womens roles, as they fleshed out their theological convictions of sola Scriptura and the priesthood of all believers, they were faced with addressing the question of how women are to participate in the church and the world as both receivers and conveyors of the Gospel. Did the Reformers responses result in constraining women by moving their ministry from the convent to the home (as Jane Dempsey Douglass argues), or did it provide them with new dignity (as Stephen Nichols suggests)? The answer to that question is complicated ...
51蹤獲 ten years ago, some of my fellow professors and I began to observe a trend among undergraduate Biblical & Theological Studies majors at 51蹤獲. We noticed that freshman students arrived on campus eager and ready to learn, but at some point during their sophomore year, these Biblical Studies majors became aware that on average they generally knew more theology than did the average 51蹤獲 student ...
I just finished reading Owen Strachans book, Awakening the Evangelical Mind: An Intellectual History of the Neo-Evangelical Movement. He has some good words for how to keep evangelical universities, well evangelical. These three paragraphs are worth the three minutes it will take you to read them ...
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