Missions and World Christianity
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Enhancing Integration of Psychological and Theological Reflection on Caregiving Practice: Implications for CPE Curricula
A curriculum design problem exists within our current Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program, which has a significant implication for student learning. The design problem involves…
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Reclaiming Responsibility For The Great Commission An Evaluation of Traditional Missions with Focus on How the Local Church Can Reclaim its Responsibility for the Missions Process
This paper presents an evaluation of “traditional missions” within the purview of patterns and principles gleaned from a study of Scripture. In addition to the…
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Fifty Years of Theological Education in the Gutnius Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea: 1948-1998
The Gutnius Lutheran Church (GLC) is one of two Lutheran churches in the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea, the other Lutheran church being…
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A Cup of Cold Water: A Look at Biblical Charity
This volume of essays, edited by Robert Rosin and Charles Arand, evaluates old and develops new models toward the concept of “biblical charity” and how…
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Theology of the Pain of God: An Analysis and Evaluation of Kazoh Kitamori’s (1916- ) Work in Japanese Protestantism
The overall negative appraisal of Kitamori must be considered as a critical reaction to various aspects of his own theology. Perhaps not one or two…
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The Home Mission Work of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference: A Description and Evaluation
The scope of this dissertation is to describe, analyze, and evaluate the home mission work5of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference, which was a mission toAfro-Americans.6…
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Uemura Masahisa (1857-1925) First Generation Pastor, Christian Leader and Instinctive Proponent of Indigenized Christianity in Japan
Uemura was an extremely able leader and organizer of men, sophisticated thinker, broad reader, and committed to the Christian faith ashes understood it. Part of…
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The Three-Self Principle as a Model for the Indigenous Church
With all of these definitions, the one that is recognized the most is still the one with which it was associated from the beginning. “In…
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Missouri Synod–Going into all the world
<p>Lay lecture given at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, April 23, 1979.</p>