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Hui, Yuk-lun, and 許玉麟. "Chen Duxiu's (1879-1942) view of christianity in the May Fourth Period." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31949915.

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Lee, Chi-shing, and 李志誠. "A study of the thought of Wu Leichuan (1870-1944)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950875.

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Hui, Yuk-lun. "Chen Duxiu's (1879-1942) view of christianity in the May Fourth Period Wu si qi jian Chen Duxiu (yi ba qi jiu zhi yi jiu si er) dui Jidu jiao de kan fa/." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31949915.

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Cai, Deborah Annette Horness. "Analysis of writings in English regarding the church of the Three Self Patriotic Movement and the house church in the People's Republic of China." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Mak, Beng-Kuan. "A study of Wu Yao-Tsung's change of attitude towards communism." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Lee, Chi-shing. "A study of the thought of Wu Leichuan (1870-1944) Wu Leichuan si xiang yan jiu /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31950875.

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Yu, Kwok-hung. "To save the nation a study of Wu Yao-tsung's (1983-1979) ideas of reform = Shi dai de hui ying : Wu Yaozong de jiu guo guan /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31951594.

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Yu, Kwok-hung, and 庾國雄. "To save the nation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951594.

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Warner, Trevor Robert Hugh. "An assessment of the impact of foreign missions on the Russian Federation and the existing Russian church since the fall of communism." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Simitopol, Anca Eliza. "Ideas of Community in the Thought of Pierre Leroux and of Feodor Dostoevsky: Agape, Philia and Eros." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23280.

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In this thesis I compare Pierre Leroux, a French utopian socialist (1797 – 1871), with Feodor Dostoevsky, the well-known Orthodox Russian novelist (1821 – 1881). I argue that both authors reacted against what they considered to be the dissolution of the social order, brought about by the increasing nineteenth-century bourgeois individualism. On the other hand, they reacted as well against the opposite phenomenon, the idea of a universal socialist state, which was, in fact, according to them, the outcome of bourgeois individualism. My purpose is to bring close and to compare Leroux’s republican socialism with Dostoevsky’s Christian socialism, and to explore to what extent the two authors give similar answers to a common problem. In order to better explain their thought, I divide my thesis into three chapters. The first analyzes and compares Leroux’s and Dostoevsky’s critiques of individualism. If Leroux reaches the conclusion that the ultimate expression of individualism is Malthusianism, Dostoevsky argues that individualism ends in nihilism. The second chapter analyzes the type of socialism against which Leroux and Dostoevsky reacted, as well as the critiques of the two authors. I argue here that Saint-Simonian socialism – the main object of Leroux’s critique – and the socialism of the Grand Inquisitor – a Dostoevskyan character – are the expression of a certain utopian thought which considers the requirement for freedom incompatible with the requirement for unity. In the last chapter, I analyze the ideas of community of Leroux and of Dostoevsky, which are centered on philia, in the case of the former, and on agape, in the case of the latter. Philia and respectively agape are the expression of organic social relations, through which the two requirements, of freedom and unity, are made compatible, and which create unity in multiplicity. Their ideas of community appear as active utopias, grounded on the life of relation in a spontaneous, organic community.
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Cheng, Yung-Hsin. "Discussion about the spiritual growth of the oversea mainland Chinese church believers under the influence of Communism." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Lincoln, Daniel Ross. "They gave a voice how the East German church helped bring about reunification of Germany /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Manetti, Christina. "Sign of the times : the Znak circle and Catholic intellectual engagement in Communist Poland, 1945-1976 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10330.

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Chien, Joseph Yao-Cheng. "Missionary enigma the return of Hong Kong to China and the prospect for Christian mission /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Tapley, Lauren L. Hankins Barry. "Soviet religion policy through religious dissidents from Leonid Brezhnev to Mikhail Gorbachev a comparative study of Aida Skripnikova and Valeri Barinov /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5312.

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Heilbron, Hirschel Lothar. "Christians and religious diversity? : a theological evaluation of the meaning of an ethic of embrace in a context of religious diversity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/19920.

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Thesis (DTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Due to the consciousness of religious pluralism and the need for peace amongst the religious communities of the world, the researcher considered, and herewith presents, the arguments for and against each of three traditional theological models for evaluating the relation between Christianity and other religions. Although this theological debate about the truth and salvific value of non- Christian views of life is important, and although the three approaches discussed each brings out important aspects that have to be considered in this debate, they were found to be limited in an important respect, namely, that they do not suggest practical strategic solutions for how Christians should relate to people who hold beliefs that differ from their own. With reference to the notion of an “ethic of embrace,” drawing on a number of New Testament texts as interpreted by theologians like Hans Küng, Miroslav Volf, Harold Nethland, Sam Storms, and Robert H. Stein, to name but a few, a strong case could be made for the necessity of such an ethic as a guideline for how the churches should interact with those who do not share their faith. It could be concluded that each of the three theoretical models, Particularism, Inclusivism and Pluralism, needs to be reconsidered from the perspective of an ethic of embrace. The researcher therefore inquired into the extent to which each of the theoretical models can be reconciled, and can indeed support and undergird, an ethic of embrace. Since, at least at face value, Particularism seems to raise most questions in this regard, it received particular attention. It was concluded that, also when applied in the context of the Particularist model, the ethics of embrace is the missing link that can help influence religiously motivated conflicts in a positive way. This allows for a more peaceable praxis as it not only addresses religious conflict in the world, but can also enable the Particularistic model to foster peace among religions and therefore, indirectly, peace among the nations of the world. The themes of reconciliation, tolerance, forgiveness and hospitality, which are interconnected with an ethic of embrace form an important part of chapter 5, with its focus on the truth and salvific significance of Jesus Christ reflected in his life as portrayed by Biblical witnesses. It is argued that He is not only the truth, or the one who spoke about the truth and his salvific significance, which is of central importance to the Particularistic model, but was able to demonstrate its practical application through the life He lived among humans. He demonstrated practically how the neighbour can be embraced in accordance with a particular understanding of the will of God.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die potensiaal van ’n etiek van omhelsing (“embrace”) aangesien drie tradisionele modelle in die teologie van die godsdienste, naamlik Partikularisme, Inklusivisme en Pluralisme, nie voldoende is om vrede tussen die verskillende gelowe van die wêreld te bevorder nie. Argumente ten gunste van en teen elke model, sowel as hulle sterk en swak punte, word behandel om duidelik aan te toon dat nie een van die drie modelle genoegsame praktiese strategiese metodes oplewer nie. Nadenke oor die waarheidsgehalte en moontlike verlossingskrag van nie-Christelike godsdienste, en oor Christene se wyse van interaksie met mense van ander gelowe, verskaf opsigself nie die nodige vrugbare praktiese riglyne nie. Met betrekking tot die idee van ’n etiek van omhelsing, het verskeie teoloë, waaronder Hans Küng, Miroslav Volf, Harold Nethland, Sam Storms, en Robert H. Stein, om net ’n paar te noem, sterk konstruktiewe argumente ontwikkel wat die idee van ’n etiek van omhelsing ondersteun en bevorder in verband met Christene se verhouding met mense van ander gelowe. Hierdie studie argumenteer ten slotte dat die drie teologiese modelle wat ondersoek is ’n etiek moet heroorweeg van ’n verhouding van omhelsing teenoor mense van ander gelowe, indien hulle tot vrede tussen mense van verskillende gelowe wil bydra. Die navorser ondersoek ook tot watter mate die drie modelle met ’n etiek van omhelsing versoen kan word. Aangesien Partikularisme skynbaar meer vrae in hierdie verband oproep, word dit veral deurdink. Die navorser kom dan tot die gevolgtrekking dat die etiek van omhelsing, in die konteks van Partikularisme, dalk die verlore skakel is wat, ook vir die Partikulariste, geweld onder die verskillende gelowe kan teenwerk. Dit kan moontlik nie slegs vreedsame verhoudings tussen die verskillende gelowe teweegbring nie, maar ook daartoe bydra dat Partikularisme in die teologiese debat tot geloofsvrede kan bydrae. Versoening, vergifnis, gasvryheid en toleransie is temas wat in verband met ’n etiek van omhelsing ter sprake kom, en vorm belangrike aspekte van hoofstuk 5, aangesien dit nie net in abstrakte sin die waarheidsgehalte en verlossingskrag van Christus sterk beklemtoon nie, maar ook die wyse waarop dit in sy lewe, soos die Bybelse getuies dit narratief skets, in ’n praktyk van omhelsing van die medemens gestalte gevind het.
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Hill, Barbara Ann, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "The identity and autonomy of the indigenous community within Christianity." Deakin University. School of History, Heritage and Society, 2004. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060817.094156.

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Stănculescu, Adrian. "Romanian evangelical Christianity historical origins and development prior to the Communist period /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Sakošová, Edita. "Spirituality among young Christians in post-communist Slovakia." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Geros, Panagiotis. "When christianity matters : The production and manipulation of communalism in damascus, syria." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498103.

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O'Donnell, Rosemary Susan. "The value of autonomy : Christianity, organisation and performance in an Aboriginal community." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6025.

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This study traces a particular instance in the evolution of Indigenous organisation at Ngukurr, as it developed from mission to town. It is framed in terms of a contrast between centralised and laterally extended forms of organisation, as characteristic modes associated with Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. It is also framed in terms of a contrast between orders of value indicative of centralised hierarchies and laterally extended forms of organisation. Central to this account is the way in which evolving social orders provide different foci for the realisation of authority and autonomy in people’s lives at Ngukurr. I trace the ways in which missionaries and government agents have repeatedly presented autonomy to Aboriginal people at Ngukurr as a form of self-sufficiency, both in the course of colonial and post-colonial regimes in Australia. I also trace a failure in Aboriginal affairs policies to recognise forms of sociality and organisation that do not operate to locate the autonomous subject in a hierarchy of relations, premised on the capacity of individuals for economic independence. I also address Aboriginal responses to non-Indigenous interventions at Ngukurr, which have largely differed from missionary and policy aims. I show how Aboriginal evangelism emerged as a response to assimilation initiatives, which affirmed an evolving Indigenous system of differentiation and prestige. I also show how this system has been transformed through dynamics of factionalism associated with the control of resource niches, which has been playing out since the 1970s at Ngukurr. By illustrating how centralised and laterally extended forms of organisation engage each other over time, this study reveals the highly ambiguous values now attending varied realisations of autonomy and expressions of authority in the contemporary situation. There is then a pervasive tension in social relations at Ngukurr, as the dynamism of laterally extended and labile groups continually circumvents the linear pull of centralised hierarchies.
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O'Donnell, Rosemary Susan. "The value of autonomy : Christianity, organisation and performance in an Aboriginal community." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6025.

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This study traces a particular instance in the evolution of Indigenous organisation at Ngukurr, as it developed from mission to town. It is framed in terms of a contrast between centralised and laterally extended forms of organisation, as characteristic modes associated with Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. It is also framed in terms of a contrast between orders of value indicative of centralised hierarchies and laterally extended forms of organisation. Central to this account is the way in which evolving social orders provide different foci for the realisation of authority and autonomy in people’s lives at Ngukurr. I trace the ways in which missionaries and government agents have repeatedly presented autonomy to Aboriginal people at Ngukurr as a form of self-sufficiency, both in the course of colonial and post-colonial regimes in Australia. I also trace a failure in Aboriginal affairs policies to recognise forms of sociality and organisation that do not operate to locate the autonomous subject in a hierarchy of relations, premised on the capacity of individuals for economic independence. I also address Aboriginal responses to non-Indigenous interventions at Ngukurr, which have largely differed from missionary and policy aims. I show how Aboriginal evangelism emerged as a response to assimilation initiatives, which affirmed an evolving Indigenous system of differentiation and prestige. I also show how this system has been transformed through dynamics of factionalism associated with the control of resource niches, which has been playing out since the 1970s at Ngukurr. By illustrating how centralised and laterally extended forms of organisation engage each other over time, this study reveals the highly ambiguous values now attending varied realisations of autonomy and expressions of authority in the contemporary situation. There is then a pervasive tension in social relations at Ngukurr, as the dynamism of laterally extended and labile groups continually circumvents the linear pull of centralised hierarchies.
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Foye, Hilary. "Christianity, conflict and community : expressions of faith, identity and personhood in Northern Irish evangelicalism." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680155.

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This doctoral thesis provides a nuanced portrait of the conflicting worlds within Northern Irish evangelicalism. Based on 13 months of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a comparative investigation of the life of three evangelical churches in the Greater Belfast area: an inner-city Methodist Mission, a rural Pentecostal fellowship and a small-town independent Charismatic church. Parkview, Fields of Hope and City of God are contemporary expressions of the wider movement's generational, demographic and denominational diversity, yet at the same time are illustrative of evangelical concerns, across traditions, with 'authenticity', 'orthopathy' and 'difference' in the construction of their faith identities: they each define Christian person hood in relation to and as distinct from the 'world' and other 'Christian' groups. Such concerns surface in four key areas of evangelical discourse and practice, which are appropriated in varying ways according to contextual and congregational factors. First, I show how cognitive boundaries surrounding orthodoxy and conversional piety are shifting in light of denominational heritage, contact between traditions, and degrees of exposure to bounded and centred theological orientations. Secondly, I record conflicts between form and spontaneity and Charismatic or denominational values in a common quest for authentic worship. Thirdly, I analyse a mutual fixation on the Bible's authority and relevance as negotiated in intersections between personal and social sanctification. Finally, I expose the tensions between spiritual-evangelistic and socio-politico-economic priorities in evangelical activism. By accessing congregational conflicts arising from everyday applications of these four core aspects, then, this research project explores the world-making and world-breaking characteristics of Christianity as tangled in a web of tensions between denominational heritages, theological orientations, and internal and external community demographics.
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Nedilsky, Lida V. "The web of voluntary associations : Christian community and civil society in Hong Kong /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3055795.

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Torres, José William Lopes. ""Revolução... uma necessidade!: a Igreja Católica e a produção do anticomunismo em Caruaru-PE, no jornal a defesa (1958-1959)." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2016. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1206.

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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar aspectos da produção e divulgação nos últimos anos da década de 50, do século XX, do discurso anticomunista de matriz católica integrista na sociedade caruaruense. Veiculado através do jornal A Defesa, esse discurso, construído pelos próceres e intelectuais da Igreja local, do clero e do laicato, buscou a manutenção da hegemonia da Igreja e a da classe à qual seus líderes sentiam-se ligados. Para essa análise, partiu-se do entendimento, baseado em Foucault, de que as relações do cotidiano são constituídas com o uso de códigos e linguagens, nos quais o jogo da dominação e dos saberes impera, com a finalidade de manter, através do discurso, as formas de dominação na sociedade. Além de Foucault, para a elaboração do presente trabalho, também foram utilizados os conceitos de Certeau a fim de compreender o cotidiano. Práticas e relações cotidianas que colaboram para a manutenção, como também a produção dos sujeitos sociais por meio de discursos e relações nos interstícios da sociedade como uma arte de fazer e ser dos sujeitos cotidianos. Aplicando esse instrumental teórico buscou-se analisar o discurso desenvolvido pela Igreja Católica, que se utilizou da linguagem da fé e da doutrina social formulada pelo papa Leão XIII, no final do século XIX, com a encíclica Rerum Novarum, a fim de coibir o avanço do comunismo no mundo e consequentemente no Brasil, como também na cidade de Caruaru, Pernambuco local. Pesquisou-se a metodologia utilizada pela Igreja na difusão imagético-discursiva acerca do comunismo, que não se resumiu apenas em pregações durante as missas, mas buscou alcançar a grande maioria dos caruaruenses, lançando uma guerra santa contra o comunismo, por meio do jornal A Defesa.
The goal of this essay is to analize aspects of production and dissemination from the anticommunist speech of Catholic matrix in Caruaru society throuth the diocesan newspaper A Defesa, in the last years of the 50s of the twentieth century. This speech built by grandees and intellectual men from the local church both clergy and laity, it tried to maintain the churchs hegemony and mass which leaders are connected. The analyze was based on Foucault, everyday relations are established with the use of codes and languages in which there are domination and knowledge, in order to keep forms of domination in society by the talking. In addition to Foucault, it was also used the concepts of Certeau on the daily practices and relationships that contribute to the social networks, and the production of social subjects through speeches and relations of the society interstices, as an "art of doing and being. It is applying this theoretical tool, it analyzed the speech developed by the local Catholic Church which used the language of faith and the social doctrine formulated by Pope Leo XIII and developed by his successors, in order to stop the spread of communism in the city of Caruaru, Pernambuco. It was researched the methodology used by the Church in imagistic discursive dissemination about communism that was not reduced only in preaching at MISSA, but it wanted a big number of Caruaru people, it started a "holy war" against communism, through the newspaper A Defesa.
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Sebestyen, John S. "Culture, Crisis, and Community: Christianity in North American Drama at the Turn of the Millennium." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1242080581.

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Pali, Nathan D. "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Enters Albania, 1992-1999." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2660.pdf.

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Ng, Stuart Sze Hua. "Developing Markham Chinese Community Church into a disciple making church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Mims, Dennis Michael Moye J. Todd. "Cathedral of Hope a history of progressive Christianity, civil rights, and gay social activism in Dallas, Texas, 1965-1992 /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-11020.

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Peterson, Theresa. "First steps to becoming a welcoming parish community." Chicago, IL : Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.033-0856.

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Reed, Luke Terrence, and res cand@acu edu au. "The Effect of Participation in School-Facilitated Community Service Programmes on Students’ Self-Esteem, Sense of Community Engagement and Attitudes to Christianity." Australian Catholic University. School of Education, 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp142.17052007.

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Increasingly, student orientated service outreach programmes (community service) are being incorporated into the broad curriculum of Australian High Schools. The assumption made is that such programmes have tangible benefits for students, the community and the schools themselves. Schools that operate out of a Christian paradigm have the added incentive of seeking to assist students give personal expression to religious commitment through the service of others. This study tests the assumption that participation in community service or service outreach activities has positive benefits for the students involved. It explores the effect that student involvement in school-facilitated community service programmes has on three personal domains; self-esteem, sense of engagement with community, and attitude to Christianity. This is a quantitative study utilising a questionnaire instrument to collect data from participants. The questionnaire is a compilation of three pre-existing and previously validated instruments, each of which focus on one of the three research areas. Combined, they provide 74 items which are answered using a Likert scale with response choices ranging along a six point continuum from ‘strongly disagree’ to ‘strongly agree’. The sample consists of a total of 225 participants drawn from students across years 10 to 12 from five Catholic High Schools in the Brisbane metropolitan area. All of these schools have single sex enrolment. Male and female participants are equally represented in the sample. In total, 80% of the sample participated in their school’s community service/service outreach programme. Information related to students’ community service involvement, the type of service undertaken, the duration of such service, and prior community service experience, was also collected from participants. No treatment is being introduced or manipulated in this study; rather, the research examines ‘between-participant’ and ‘within-sample’ differences associated with students’ participation (or non-participation) in existing community service/service outreach programmes in their schools. As such, the research is ex post factor in nature. Initial confirmatory factor analysis is undertaken to validate the integrity of the combined instrument. This is followed by a Cronbach’s alpha reliability study of the 12 component scales of the combined instrument; the results of which prove to be consistent with those previously reported. In subsequent analysis of the data, significant correlations are identified between six pairs of dependent variables. With statistical significance set at the 95% level, MANOVA is then utilised to determine the effect of a number of factors on scale scores. In addition to the primary focus on the effect that participation/non-participation in school community service programmes has on student selfesteem, engagement with community and attitude to Christianity, other influencing conditions explored include; type of community service, duration of community service, prior community service involvement, and gender. The principal finding of this research is that a statistically significant relationship is evident only between students’ participation in school-facilitated community service programmes and their attitude to social justice. Attitude to social justice is a constitutive element of the larger construct, ‘sense of engagement with community’. Analysis of the data reveals no significant association between community service participation and either self-esteem nor attitude to Christianity. The paper concludes with a discussion of the findings in the light of the earlier review of relevant literature.
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Reed, Luke Terrence. "The effect of participation in school-facilitated community service programmes on students' self-esteem, sense of community engagement and attitudes to Christianity." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2006. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/ab1214425059728ea11a8130db6e1f25a406d3fa4a5f2c816b0629c125cf68a2/1093400/65060_downloaded_stream_285.pdf.

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Increasingly, student orientated service outreach programmes (community service) are being incorporated into the broad curriculum of Australian High Schools. The assumption made is that such programmes have tangible benefits for students, the community and the schools themselves. Schools that operate out of a Christian paradigm have the added incentive of seeking to assist students give personal expression to religious commitment through the service of others. This study tests the assumption that participation in community service or service outreach activities has positive benefits for the students involved. It explores the effect that student involvement in school-facilitated community service programmes has on three personal domains; self-esteem, sense of engagement with community, and attitude to Christianity...
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Sharper, Donna C. "Llamadas para la liberación en los salmos de Ernesto Cardenal." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1481326494397004.

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James, Jonathan D. "Anointing the airwaves : the influence of Charismatic televangelism on the Protestant church and Hindu community in contemporary, urban India." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/217.

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The Indian Government's open policy on satellite television is attracting a plethora of American-based Charismatic television ministries in India. This thesis based primarily on an ethnographic study of church and Hindu community leaders, together with a subsidiary historical-comparative analysis, shows that Charismatic pastors are more positive about Charismatic televangelism than non-Charismatic pastors. Both groups of pastors however, have strong reservations on issues like fundraising, dress code and western dancing. The high-caste Hindus are resistant to any form of Christian evangelism including televangelism. Besides caste, class, language and gender, televangelism faces cultural barriers in reaching Indians. The prosperity, success and healing doctrines of Charismatic teaching. appeal to Hindus from the middle to lower level economic classes for whom these TV messages may be a means of achieving their material goals through a new form of "sanskritisation". Concerns have also been expressed, that these Hindus who are attracted tu Charismatic teievangelism are espousing a form of 'popular Christianity', a faith that focuses on personal fulfilment rather than personal holiness and accountability within the life of the church. A case study of the 'global' televangelism program Solutions, showed that it was generally well-received although both Hindus and Christians found culturally disjunctive elements in both the message as well as in the underlying aspects of the message such as dress code and culture. While some Hindus welcomed their own understanding of the 'syncretistic Christ', in the program, other Hindus took exception to the portrayal of the 'exclusive Christ'.
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Pereira, Peter. "Building bridges with Christ's love to the Asian Indian Hindu community in Chicago." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Pollard, Wm F. Adrian. "Biblical images of community in a post Christian culture." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Schnelle, Heath McKay. "Dietrich Bonhoeffer's view of Christian community yesterday and today /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Koch, Gerry Conrad. "Evaluating the effectiveness of a discipleship seminar program at Valley Community Baptist Church." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Cheng, Ying Hsu. "In the world but not of the world a lifestyle discipleship in Charleston Chinese Community Church /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Roberts, Mikie. "Hymnody and identity : congregational singing as a construct of Christian community identity." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5257/.

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In many churches, congregational singing is a central component of corporate worship. The sung hymns encapsulate the congregation’s theological beliefs, reflect their historical heritage and underscore the musical biases of the congregation. This writer contends that because hymns are so essential to congregations, there is a correlation between a congregation’s hymnody and its identity, which is typically measured by factors such as its rituals, history, leadership and location. However, one variable that deserves greater attention is that of the role of congregational hymnody. Consequently, the aim of this study is to explore how congregational hymnody is a source of congregational identity. To achieve this, this writer applied a case study methodology to multiple sites. The first is historical and examines the 18th Century Fetter Lane Moravian congregation. The second is an ethnographic study of the St. Thomas Assemblies of God Pentecostal congregation. The third is a textual analysis of the sole Caribbean ecumenical hymnal ever published. Through this study, I advance the notion that as congregations sing hymns they are engaging in a unique activity (\(hymnic\) \(performativity\)) in which as they make music through hymn singing, the music is also at work shaping and forming the congregations’ communal identity.
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Sookhdeo, Patrick. "The impact of Islamization on the Christian community of Pakistan." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313351.

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Roussel, Christopher M. "Multiple concepts of the Church : hermeneutics, identity, and Christian community." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3073/.

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This thesis aims to contribute to Western theology by exploring plurality as well as unity within Christianity. By looking at the history of orthodoxy as a narrative construction of identity, I argue that Christian identity is not based on doxa, dogma, or practises. Instead, I suggest that Christian identity should be rooted primarily as a practise in the experience of and participation with God through the living Christ. I propose that ecumenical unity is not ecclesial or doxalogical but rather practical because unity is achieved when groups act together and participate in each other without ceasing to be different. I explore in my first chapter the philosophical concepts (time and narrative) which form the basis of identity. I introduce the thoughts of G. Deleuze and P. Ricœur separately before bringing them together in a dialogue. The dialogue develops the concepts of time and narrative into a general theory for constructing identity. I analyse identity in the second chapter by reading historical reactions to I. Kant's conception of a permanent identity because Kant is a central focus in contemporary philosophical thought on identity. Inspired by the dialogue between Deleuze and Ricœur introduced previously, I construct a new approach to identity. My concept of identity can be applied equally to individuals and groups, however I primarily follow group identity in my thesis. My third chapter applies this theory of identity to the discussion of the concept of orthodoxy. I present a model for interpreting orthodoxy in terms of group identity, then I trace the history of orthodoxy in three general periods: the early Church, the Reformation era, and our contemporary period. I show that concerns with theological truth in questions of orthodoxy were often politicised and used to establish an authority to control Christian identity. During the Reformations, reforms were treated as questions of authority and at times resulted in exclusion rather than reform. Political moves subsequently created multiple authorities which I suggest reveal the contingency of authority. Since the nineteenth century, groups approached Christian unity without addressing the implications of authority's contingency. In my fourth chapter, I pursue the question of ecumenical unity by interpreting authorities as created and embedded in particular contexts which render impossible a single, universal authority. In contrast to a singular definition of the Church, I argue that Pauline images of the body of Christ shape Christian identity as polydox. My model of relating differences within unity reveals the extent to which many theological 'controversies' still are politicised. Finally, I argue that the ecumenical dialogue overlaps with inter-religious and 'secular' dialogues, both of which are necessary for the Church's work on identity as organic unity.
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Mims, Dennis Michael. "Cathedral of Hope: A History of Progressive Christianity, Civil Rights, and Gay Social Activism in Dallas, Texas, 1965 - 1992." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11020/.

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This abstract is for the thesis on the Cathedral of Hope (CoH). The CoH is currently the largest church in the world with a predominantly gay and lesbian congregation. This work tells the history of the church which is located in Dallas, Texas. The thesis employs over 48 sources to help tell the church's rich history which includes a progressive Christian philosophy, an important contribution to the fight for gay civil rights, and fine examples of courage through social activism. This work makes a contribution to gay history as well as civil rights history. It also adds to the cultural and social history which concentrates on the South and Southwestern regions of the United States.
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Neilson, Kurt. "Voices in the wilderness how is a prophetic community a sustaining community /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Hughes, Kenneth Grant. "Holy communion in the Church of Scotland in the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1987. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1315/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to indicate the extent to which nineteenth century eucharistic thought and practice underwent a process of change within the Church of Scotland. It seeks also to identify those aspects of the Sacrament which were The thesis begins by showing that the older Scottish Reformed Communion did not remain intact, either in form or in theological emphasis. Within a century of the inauguration of Reformed discipline and teaching, such was the diversity of belief A review of the relevant literature of the first half of the nineteenth century reveals that much of the debate on the Lord's Supper in Scotland focussed upon the issue of the frequency of celebration. There is no doubt that the prevailing pract The early nineteenth century debate over the matter of frequency also draws attention to that epoch's preoccupation with the death of Christ as an aspect of sacramental thought which received undue consideration, overshadowing the old Reformed The thesis goes on to attribute such an understanding to the predominance of the federal or covenant theology within the Church of Scotland. An examination is made of the origin and nature of federalism and its effect upon nineteenth century e However, the thesis also shows that the liturgical awakening of the early nineteenth century helped to bring about the gradual and irreversible recession of federalism in the life of the Church. Moreover, it is argued that Romanticism provided aa With the assertion of the values of Romanticism and the erosion of federal theology, other influences made themselves felt in the nineteenth century Scottish Church. Anglican scholars affected by Tractarianism were known and admired by some, at In view of the burgeoning of German influence upon Scottish cultural and intellectual life - beginning tentatively in the last decades of the eighteenth century to become one of the established features of Scottish life by 1850 - due account is German influence manifested itself obliquely, however, during the decade 1850-1860 and prior to the founding of the Church Service Society in 1865. Moreover, this influence was specifically related to the Eucharist and was transmitted to the C The view is advanced at this stage that the liturgical development of the nineteenth century, particularly in relation to the Lord's Supper, cannot adequately be surveyed without taking into account the Communion psalmody, and latterly hymnody, If the appearance of The Scottish Mission Hymnbook (1912) marked one aspect of the Scoto-Catholic party's concern for eucharistic worship and praise, the earlier publication of William Milligan's Ascension and Heavenly Priesthood of The thesis concludes by indicating the manner in which some of the late nineteenth century eucharistic themes were developed or modified by circumstances and events as this present century progressed.
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Martin, John Timothy. "A re-evaluation of Protestant missionary work in China prior to the Communist era." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1214.

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Boyltston, Tom. "The shade of the divine : approaching the sacred in an Ethiopian orthodox christian community." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/339/.

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The dissertation is a study of the religious lives of Orthodox Christians in a semirural, coffee‐producing community on the shores of Lake Tana in northwest Ethiopia. Its thesis is that mediation in Ethiopian Orthodoxy – how things, substances, and people act as go‐betweens and enable connections between people and other people, the lived environment, saints, angels, and God – is characterised by an animating tension between commensality or shared substance, on the one hand, and hierarchical principles on the other. This tension pertains to long‐standing debates in the study of Christianity about the divide between the created world and the Kingdom of Heaven. Its archetype is the Eucharist, which entails full transubstantiation but is circumscribed by a series of purity regulations so rigorous as to make the Communion inaccessible to most people for most of their lives. These purity regulations, I argue, speak to an incommensurability between relations of human substance‐sharing, especially commensality and sexuality, and hierarchical relations between humans and divinity.
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Wright, Catherine. "The spatial ordering of community in English church seating, c.1550-1700." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3079/.

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The evidence for this thesis includes several hundred pew disputes heard before the church courts in the period c.1550-1700. The jurisdictions examined here include the dioceses of York, of Chester, of Coventry and Lichfield, and of London. These have been supplemented by churchwardens' accounts, parish registers and vestry minutes. These sources also often contained pew lists and plans that are analysed alongside rate assessments and other taxation records. This thesis investigates the relationship between church seating arrangements and the social hierarchy of local communities in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. It firstly, therefore, explores both legal and official views regarding church seating and status. Secondly, it examines the nature and chronology of conflict over pews, and the social profile of disputants. Thirdly, it explores popular perceptions of the social order through the analysis of the depositional evidence generated by pew disputes. Fourthly, the chronology of pew litigation is explored in the light of ecclesiastical policy and the reaction to these policies in the localities, particularly during the 1630s. Fifthly, the thesis considers the possibility that dispute was a function of the function implication of changing methods of pew allocation. Finally, through the consideration of the meaning of conflict over church seating as it erupted in the context of three parishes over a number of years, the role each of these themes played in helping to construct the local social order is analysed. The analysis of the records of pew disputes and of the politics of space in church here enables us to perceive more clearly how contemporaries attempted to negotiate their social roles across a complex web of intersecting and overlapping hierarchies and thereby become agents in the recreation of the local social order. Moreover, depositional evidence in particular suggests that status itself was a compound phenomenon that incorporated a number of factors including wealth, age, gender, reputation and officeholding.
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Shin, Jung Hak. "Diversity of prayer-forms and its value for a community embracing diversity." Chicago, IL : Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.033-0836.

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Lee, Hyosung. "Church growth through mission to the community a model of outreach for a Korean church /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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