Dissertations / Theses: 'Church discipline'

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McDonald, Larry S. "New Testament church discipline." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Lutz, Ronald E. "The redemptive power of church discipline." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Kim, Sung Soo. "Guidelines for the discipline of sinning church elders for the Presbyterian Church derived from 1 Timothy 5:19-20." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Brooke, A. F. "A New Testament theology of church discipline." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Tham, Po Wing. "New Testament teachings on church discipline and its application to the Singapore church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Mein, Chong Eng. "The teaching of John Calvin on church discipline." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Hall, Robert G. "Church discipline in Puritan New England an expression of covenantal order /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Ochsenmeier, Erwin L. "Matthew 18:15-20 a manual of church discipline? /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Showalter, Jonathan. "Anabaptist church discipline and the search for normative Anabaptism." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Pinter, Joel S. "Biblical separation and church discipline in the Pastoral epistles." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Burford, Sherman L. "A model teaching the Biblical perspective on church discipline in the context of the Christian & Missionary Alliance Church, Fairmont, West Virginia." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Wisland, Jim. "Preparing the post-embezzlement church for forgiveness." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Soderberg, Gregory. "Ancient discipline and pristine doctrine appeals to antiquity in the developing reformation /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07192007-090407/.

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Gordon, Frederick Bruce. "Clerical discipline and the church synods in Zürich, 1532-1580." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13635.

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This thesis is an examination of the Synod and its administration of clerical discipline in Zürich between 1532 and 1580. It is an investigation to determine how an early reformed institution implemented the teachings on discipline amongst the rural clergy. The basis of the work are the surviving manuscript records of the Synod found in the Zürich Staatsarchiv together with other ecclesiastical records and the writings of the reformers. The beginning point of the thesis is the historical and theological background to the Synod. The diocesan synods of Constance served as a useful model for Zwingli, as, on the whole, the structure of the rural church was left intact by the Reformation. The Synod was formed in 1528 with a brief shaped by the theological revolution of the 1520s. The idea of discipline as integral to Zwingli's teachings on God, the Church and the Christian life is examined. Bullinger's further explication of clerical discipline is discussed as the basis for the restoration of the Synod in 1532 following Kappel. The next section examines the structure and composition of the Synod. From the surviving documents it is possible to reconstruct the membership and agenda. The work of the clerical and civil representatives is discussed along with the Synod's working relationships with the other ecclesiastical and civil bodies of the canton. The Synod was part of a hierarchy of discipline which began with the parish and culminated in the Council. The central part of the thesis is a systematic treatment of the disciplinary cases in the Synod. Using Bullinger's schematic outline for the life of the minister, the cases are divided thematically that they might be studied in light of pertinent theological, political and social factors. The work of Bullinger in guiding the Synod was crucial and considerable attention is given to his writings. Finally, the thesis offers a detailed prosopography of the ministers involved in disciplinary cases between 1532 and 1580. The information provided indicates the wide range of problems afflicting the Zürich church and the heterogeneous nature of the rural clergy. The position of the Zürich church in the sixteenth century debates over discipline is well known. It rejected the system of separate church courts employed in the mediaeval and later in the Calvinist churches. This thesis explores what happened when the Zürich reformers and magistrates actually attempted to enforce their concept of discipline upon the clergy.

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Lee, Luke C. "Church discipline as taught by Jesus in Matthew 18:15-20." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Quine, Jay A. "An examination of the status of court involvement in church discipline procedures." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Chandler, W. Allen. "How to treat the disorderly an exegetical view from Matthew 18:15-17, 1 Corinthians 5:1-13, and 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Landry, Mark. "The role of the public rebuke in contemporary practice of church discipline." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Bush, Becky J. "The corporate aspects of church discipline a comparison of First Corinthians 5:1-13 with Matthew 18:15-20 /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Emberley, William H. "An examination of the paradigmatic function of Matthew 18:15-17 & 1 Corinthians 5:1-5 in relation to church discipline." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p086-0049.

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Jaynes, Jeffrey P. ""Ordo et libertas" : church discipline and the makers of church order in sixteenth century North Germany /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487841975357066.

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Abawua, John Tsenzughul. "Church discipline a case of [ ̕ataktoi] : 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Rigsbee, Robert Perry. "The discipline dilemma towards a model of redemption /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Todd, T. "Church discipline and the link between 1 corinthians 5 and 6." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517522.

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Jo, Young Sung. "Reduction of depression through participation in selected spiritual discipline /." Free full text of English translation is available to ORU patrons only; click to view:, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/oru/fullcit?p3150437.

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Vasta, Ida <1983&gt. "Celestial Church of Christ in Italia. Percorsi, Spazi e Pratiche Rituali." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6001/1/PhD_Thesis__Ida_Vasta.pdf.

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Il lavoro che presento propone un’analisi di una chiesa africana indipendente in Italia, la Celestial Church Of Christ Worldwide (CCCW), cercando di mettere in luce il nesso tra religione, migrazione e il processo di ‘plunting churches’ (Kooning 2009) nel contesto italiano. Attraverso una ricerca sul campo, sono stati indagati i percorsi personali, familiari e comunitari dei membri di una ‘Celestial Parish’ presente nel comune di Brescia, ‘Ileri Oluwa Parish’, al fine di comprendere la natura dei processi identitari coinvolti nell’organizzazione della CCC in Italia. ‘Ileri Oluwa Parish’, in quanto luogo che denota una ‘chiesa individuale collegata ad una Diocesi’ (CCC Constitution (CCC Constitution, 107 (d) si rivela, nella materialità delle sue forme e dei ‘Devotional Services’ che in essa si svolgono, a ‘field of action’ (Lefebvre, 1991). La storia della chiesa, i fondamenti della sua dottrina e i significati comunicati attraverso le forme rituali e religiose che la stessa promuove, sono stati contestualizzati alla luce delle tensioni e delle strategie di potere che strutturano il campo. Le storie dei membri della parrocchia, percorsi di migrazione e mobilità in itinere, rappresentano la lente attraverso cui si è guardato alle relazioni vissute nel nome dello ‘Spirito’, e alla percezione stessa di ciò che gli stessi Celestians definiscono sacro, santo, puro e impuro. Lo sguardo fisso alla vita ordinaria di una Celestial parish in Italia, esteso nell’ultima parte dell’elaborato alla Celestial parish londinese, è stato fondamentale per capire l’intreccio di relazioni spirituali, reti familiari e mobilità degli individui sul territorio italiano ed europeo, processo che ribalta la condizione diasporica della CCC, trasformando una condizione di dispersione in un valore aggiunto, nella possibilità di nuove traiettorie territoriali e spazi di presenza religiosa e socioeconomica.
The present work proposes an analysis of an independent African church in Italy, the Celestial Church Of Christ Worldwide (CCCW), trying to focus on the connection between religion, migration and the process of 'plunting churches' (Kooning 2009) in Italian context. Through field research, were investigated paths to personal, family and community members of a 'Celestial Parish' in the town of Brescia, 'Ileri Oluwa Parish', in order to understand the nature of identity processes involved in the organization of CCC in Italy. 'Ileri Oluwa Parish', since the place which reflects a 'church individually connected to a diocese' (CCC Constitution (CCC Constitution, 107 (d) reveals, in the materiality of its forms and the 'Devotional Services' that take place in it , to 'field of action' (Lefebvre, 1991). The history of the church, the foundations of his doctrine and the meanings communicated through ritual and religious forms that it promotes, were contextualized in the light of the tensions and strategies of power that structure the field. The stories of the members of the parish, routes of migration and ongoing mobility, are the lens through which he looked at the relationships lived in the name of 'Spirit', and the perception of what Celestians define sacred, holy, pure, and impure. Fixe gaze to the ordinary life of a parish celestial in Italy, covering the last part of the research to the Celestial Parish London, it was crucial to understand the interweaving of spiritual relationships, family networks and mobility of individuals on the Italian and European territory, process that turns the diasporic condition of the CCC, transforming a state of dispersion in a value-added, the possibility of new trajectories and territorial spaces of religious and socio-economic presence.

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Vasta, Ida <1983&gt. "Celestial Church of Christ in Italia. Percorsi, Spazi e Pratiche Rituali." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6001/.

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Il lavoro che presento propone un’analisi di una chiesa africana indipendente in Italia, la Celestial Church Of Christ Worldwide (CCCW), cercando di mettere in luce il nesso tra religione, migrazione e il processo di ‘plunting churches’ (Kooning 2009) nel contesto italiano. Attraverso una ricerca sul campo, sono stati indagati i percorsi personali, familiari e comunitari dei membri di una ‘Celestial Parish’ presente nel comune di Brescia, ‘Ileri Oluwa Parish’, al fine di comprendere la natura dei processi identitari coinvolti nell’organizzazione della CCC in Italia. ‘Ileri Oluwa Parish’, in quanto luogo che denota una ‘chiesa individuale collegata ad una Diocesi’ (CCC Constitution (CCC Constitution, 107 (d) si rivela, nella materialità delle sue forme e dei ‘Devotional Services’ che in essa si svolgono, a ‘field of action’ (Lefebvre, 1991). La storia della chiesa, i fondamenti della sua dottrina e i significati comunicati attraverso le forme rituali e religiose che la stessa promuove, sono stati contestualizzati alla luce delle tensioni e delle strategie di potere che strutturano il campo. Le storie dei membri della parrocchia, percorsi di migrazione e mobilità in itinere, rappresentano la lente attraverso cui si è guardato alle relazioni vissute nel nome dello ‘Spirito’, e alla percezione stessa di ciò che gli stessi Celestians definiscono sacro, santo, puro e impuro. Lo sguardo fisso alla vita ordinaria di una Celestial parish in Italia, esteso nell’ultima parte dell’elaborato alla Celestial parish londinese, è stato fondamentale per capire l’intreccio di relazioni spirituali, reti familiari e mobilità degli individui sul territorio italiano ed europeo, processo che ribalta la condizione diasporica della CCC, trasformando una condizione di dispersione in un valore aggiunto, nella possibilità di nuove traiettorie territoriali e spazi di presenza religiosa e socioeconomica.
The present work proposes an analysis of an independent African church in Italy, the Celestial Church Of Christ Worldwide (CCCW), trying to focus on the connection between religion, migration and the process of 'plunting churches' (Kooning 2009) in Italian context. Through field research, were investigated paths to personal, family and community members of a 'Celestial Parish' in the town of Brescia, 'Ileri Oluwa Parish', in order to understand the nature of identity processes involved in the organization of CCC in Italy. 'Ileri Oluwa Parish', since the place which reflects a 'church individually connected to a diocese' (CCC Constitution (CCC Constitution, 107 (d) reveals, in the materiality of its forms and the 'Devotional Services' that take place in it , to 'field of action' (Lefebvre, 1991). The history of the church, the foundations of his doctrine and the meanings communicated through ritual and religious forms that it promotes, were contextualized in the light of the tensions and strategies of power that structure the field. The stories of the members of the parish, routes of migration and ongoing mobility, are the lens through which he looked at the relationships lived in the name of 'Spirit', and the perception of what Celestians define sacred, holy, pure, and impure. Fixe gaze to the ordinary life of a parish celestial in Italy, covering the last part of the research to the Celestial Parish London, it was crucial to understand the interweaving of spiritual relationships, family networks and mobility of individuals on the Italian and European territory, process that turns the diasporic condition of the CCC, transforming a state of dispersion in a value-added, the possibility of new trajectories and territorial spaces of religious and socio-economic presence.

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Sutton, Robert Edwin. "A care-fronting approach to mending broken relationships in the fellowship of First Baptist Church of Baird." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Mackey, Burl E. "Teaching men at First Baptist Church Stroud, Oklahoma inductive Bible study as a spiritual discipline." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Grant, Richard D. "Practicing biblical fasting and prayer as a spiritual discipline at First Baptist Church of Benton, Arkansas." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Abraham, Erin V. "Balancing the weights of sin penitential discipline and the convergence of temporal and spiritual authority in early medieval Ireland /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1313911881&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Henderson, Bradford N. "A study of character-driven leadership for the discipline of youth ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Harold, Steven E. "Disciplined for godliness." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Thesis (D. Min.)--Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, 1987.
Includes 1 pamphlet attached to leaf 197 and 1 folded tract attached to leaf 204. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-137).

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Poirier, Alfred J. "Pastor as peacemaker twelve lectures for an M.Div. course in Biblical conflict resolution /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Strum, Richard I. "The healing of a church impacted by moral failure in spiritual leadership." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Raychard, Wayne C. "Biblical discipline in a cross-cultural setting in the absence of an established local church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2007. http://www.tren.com.

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White, Edmund C. "The concept of discipline : poetry, rhetoric, and the Church in the works of John Milton." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:53045aa1-8ed3-4b24-b561-65fc03afaf13.

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Discipline was an enduring concept in the works of John Milton (1608-1674), yet its meaning shifted over the course of his career: initially he held that it denoted ecclesiastical order, but gradually he turned to representing it as self-willed pious action. My thesis examines this transformation by analysing Milton’s complex engagement in two distinct periods: the 1640s and the 1660s-70s. In Of Reformation (1641), Milton echoed popular contemporary demands for a reformation of church discipline, but also asserted through radical literary experimentation that poetry could discipline the nation too (Chapter 1). Reflecting his dislike for intolerant Presbyterians in Parliament and the Westminster Assembly, the two versions of The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643 and 1644) reconsider discipline as a moral imperative for all men, rooted in domestic liberty (Chapter 2). Although written long after this period, the long poetry that Milton composed after the Restoration reveals his continued interrogation of the concept. The invocations of the term ‘discipline’ by Milton’s angels in Paradise Lost (1667) sought to encourage dissenting readers to faithfulness and co-operation (Chapter 3). Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes (1671) advance the concept in the language of ‘piety,’ emphasising that ‘pious hearts’ are the precondition for godly action in opposition to contemporary Anglican ‘holy living’ (Chapter 4). In analysing Milton’s shifting concept of discipline, my thesis contributes to scholarship by showing his sensitivity to contemporary mainstream religious ideas, outlining the Christian—as opposed to republican or Stoic—notions of praxis that informed his ethics, and emphasising the disciplinary aspect of his doctrinal thought. Overall, it holds that in discipline, as word and concept, Milton expressed his faith in the capacity of writing to change its reader, morally and spiritually.

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Egging, Kent. "A pastoral response to embezzlement handling money and trust in the local church /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Kowalski, Waldemar. "The reward, discipline, and installation of Church leaders : an examination of 1 Timothy 5:17-22." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2005. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3139/.

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This dissertation investigates the practices of reward, discipline, and installation of leaders in the church as portrayed in 1 Timothy 5: 17-22. The text itself is examined, finding that well-governing congregational leaders were to be honoured for their labour and provided with tangible support, that leaders were to be protected from unsubstantiated accusations, that a leader whose misconduct was established was to be disciplined publicly, and that care was to be taken to put only worthy persons into positions of leadership. These practices are compared to those seen in the disputed and undisputed Pauline texts, the remainder of the New Testament, and the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, establishing significant similarities as well as differences, some of these reflecting the development from itinerant to resident leaders in the churches. The practices of cognate groups such as synagogues, the Essenes, and voluntary associations, seen in Jewish and Greco-Roman literature and inscriptions of the contemporary period (ending with the Apostolic Fathers), are investigated for similarities and differences. The study finds that, although there are some similarities to Jewish practices, these groups substantially differed from the instructions of 1 Timothy 5: 17-22 in their practices of reward, discipline and installation of leaders. In the Gracco- Roman context, in particular, leaders in these cognate groups were essentially immune from accusations made by group members and any resulting discipline. Similarly, the idea that leaders were to receive financial support from those below them was foreign to normal practice in these groups and was deemed not 'honourable'. The conclusion reached is that these congregational practices regarding leaders, while conceptually quite similar to principles given regarding itinerant Christian workers in the undisputed Paulines, are quite distinct from practices employed in the cultural milieu of the Pastoral Epistles. Some of these differences appear problematic, given the Pastoral Epistles' concerns about maintaining a good reputation among outsiders and not hindering the spread of the gospel.

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Wells, Samuel Spencer. "Heathen Men and Publicans': Excommunicates, Church Discipline and the Struggle for Freedom of Conscience, 1730-1840." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153808.

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"Heathen Men and Publicans" looks at the ways in which freedom of conscience and association intertwined in from the early colonial through the early national eras of American history, by examining the arguments which excommunicated Protestants leveled in an effort to protest the church discipline with which they were faced, as well as the reforms they endeavored to enact within the church bodies they joined and created following their excisions from religious societies. Likewise, the dissertation asks how conceptions of church discipline bled over into the civil sphere to influence politics and political culture in the years following the American Revolution. From 1730-1840, alternative conceptions of liberty of conscience and association dueled for preeminence in the chapels and meetinghouses of American Protestants. Where ecclesiastical leaders and many laymen described the liberties in question in corporate terms--as the property of religious bodies duly established--those faced with church discipline increasingly argued that individual conceptions of freedom of conscience and association deserved to be protected within associated societies. to this end, excommunicates following the Revolution embarked on a number of novel experiments in church government, minimizing the importance of church ordinances, disputing the existence of heresy, arguing for the liberty of excommunicates to employ the property of the religious meetings to which they had once belonged, and insisting that members, not church bodies, held the right to decide if and when they would exit a religious association. Even as many excommunicates sought to subject themselves to new religious communities following their excisions, they nonetheless contributed to the rise of an increasingly atomized sense of individual conscience in the early American Republic.

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Tse, Philip. "Effectual procedures for dealing with pastoral sexual misconduct in Chinese churches." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Hart, James R. "Enhancing a regular discipline of common prayer at Grace Episcopal Church in Orange Park, FL through the employment of shared musical leadership." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Peters, Edward N. "Preliminary procedural considerations in the application of ecclesiastical penalties." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1988. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0147.

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Beaudet, Christopher J. "The diocesan bishop's non-penal administrative discipline of pastors who harm ecclesiastical communion." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Håkansson, Mattias. "Disciplin och välstånd : En studie om social status och kyrkotukt i Gävle missionsförsamling år 1879–1897." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Religionsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-26058.

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Church discipline had an upswing in the 19th century in conjunction with the progression of the Free Church movement in Sweden. Harder and enhanced discipline was advocated, especially within the newly created Missionary joinder. This extended discipline also gives more space to explore and study, where demand has been made for a merger to see any differences in discipline, between the social layers of society. Few studies have been made that go into the depths of church discipline and social classification, not least within the Gävle Missionary Assembly. The purpose of this study is to give an overview of the church discipline in the Gävle Missionary Assembly and map out the frequency and design over an 18-year period between 1879 to 1897. As part of the survey, a categorization of the disciplined members social status, gender, age and form of punishment has been compiled. This is done to answer the question of possible correlation between the church discipline and the wealth of its members; this has been done by combining methods used by social and disciplinary classification studies. The sources used to answer these questions were original church texts, ledgers, and protocol minutes. To help explain the relationships studied between the assembly and its members, Michel Foucault's theory of disciplinary power is used. The result shows that younger women in the lower working class were the most represented in the discipline, followed by middle-aged men belonging to the working class. An extremely weak representation can be found in the higher social layers. There were only a few cases of discipline due to sin or the like. Most disciplined people in the higher layers left by their own choice. The study also shows that people belonging to the higher layers paid 17 times more in annual fees than the average payment of a working woman / man did. Women were also often indebted with residual contributions from previous years payments. Based on the responses found, the data show that a link does exist; although underlying corrections and internal conflicts cannot be addressed in this study. Disciplinary dissemination of social layers does not correspond to the social classification of the congregation as a whole.

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Stanley, Michael L. "What should the evangelical church do with clergy guilty of sexual misconduct?" Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Duggan, William E. "The institute of suspension a comparison between Canons 2278-2285 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law and Canons 1333-1335 of the 1983 revised Code of Canon Law /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Peters, Edward N. J. "Preliminary procedural considerations in the application of ecclesiastical penalties." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Morrell, Joseph J. "Penal discretion in the 1917 and 1983 codes an examination of selected canons /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Beya, Muamba Nicolas. "Discipline of office–bearers according to article 66 of the church order in the Reformed Confessing Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RCCC) / Muamba Nicolas Beya." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8231.

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This dissertation discusses the procedure used to discipline office–bearers according to article 66 of the Church Order of the Reformed Confessing Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Most of the members of the above–mentioned church belong to the Bantu–Luba people. According to their cultural faith, they do not –believe that they are born sinners, but that a sin is something that comes from outside, something that one may either get hold of if one wishes to, or avoid if one does not wish or like to have. We may therefore assume that, in addition to the Bantu–Luba people, many other Bantu people in Africa likewise have this conception of sin. Our study of the Bantu–Luba people’s false concept of sin show according to the Muntu–Luba, to sin means to harm one’s fellowman, or to transgress the ancestors’ law. However, we will show that God is not involved in all this. This is one of the many reasons why office–bearers become angry and cause trouble and when they are to be disciplined for transgression. This is what inspired me to try and shed some light on the matter by means of the Word of God which stress that man is a born sinner and that sin comes from his heart. To achieve this goal, we have to examine church history, especially that of the Reformation in the 16th century, a period known as “the theatre’’ of the greatest religious revolution. There we see the importance of “ecclesiastical discipline” which is the third mark of a true church. A disobedient church is a church on the way to its downfall. Two case–studies are used, one on adultery and one on simony, to show how the application of the prescribed procedure according to article 66 of the church order has openly caused trouble and problems in the church. We propose the amendment of one part of the article which contains a hierarchical element in order to give back authority to the Church Council as the appropriate body entitled to decide on the suspension or dismissal of office5 bearers (Pastor, Elder, and Deacon) with consultation of the deputies of the classis and of the Provincial Synod. Finally, my intention is to submit the above–mentioned amendment to the General Synod as a proposal to be approved and to be included as the procedure for the discipline of office–bearers, and to serve as the replacement of the current article.
Thesis (Ph.D. (Church Polity))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.

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