This dissertation is a homiletical-theological response to the current ecclesial identity crisis of the Korean Methodist Church (KMC) that stems from the ongoing influences of U.S. imperialism and neo-colonialism. The ecclesial identity of the KMC has been colonized in many aspects, and the decolonization of its self-understanding and ecclesial practices is a pivotal task for the renewal of the church. This dissertation attempts to construct a Korean Methodist ecclesiology in the postcolonial context of a divided Korea through and for the practice of preaching. The understanding of the church and the practice of preaching mutually shape one another. Thus, the renewal of preaching can be a way to renew the ecclesial identity of the KMC. By reconfiguring Edward Farley’s influential understanding of theologia and the emerging discourse of homiletical theology, this dissertation offers a contextual, homiletical-theological approach to attend to the intersection of ecclesiology and preaching, which is the theology of the gospel. The gospel of reconciliation as a contextual gospel in postcolonial Korea is the center of the ecclesial identity of the KMC. It also functions as a guiding principle for my ecclesiological discussions of John Wesley, the Korean Non-Church movement, Minjung Church, and Miroslav Volf into a contextual, gospel-driven Korean Methodist ecclesiology. After offering an understanding of a gospel-driven Korean Methodist ecclesiology, the dissertation provides a homiletical method for reconciling preaching in dialogue with conversational approaches and postcolonial approaches to preaching in North American homiletics. Reconciling preaching refers to both sermonic movements and the process of sermonic dialogue and ongoing ecclesial conversation in a church. Reconciling preaching has a three-fold movement: a dialogical movement, a prophetic movement, and a healing movement. These rhetorical movements intend to create an ecclesial version of Homi Bhabha’s Third Space in which people can renegotiate their identities in relation to God and others and can reimagine a new way of being God’s people and a church in light of the eschatological fulfillment of God’s final reconciliation. This dissertation offers a practical theological method of decolonizing and renewing the ecclesial identity of the KMC through a homiletical theological reflection and a concrete homiletic method.

<p> Was Jesus multilingual? Which languages did he speak? What does the linguistic composition and sociolinguistic situation of first-century Palestine look like? On what occasions were Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin spoken in that ancient community? These questions have biblical scholars searching for answers since the sixteenth century, proposing different opinions on the issues related to these questions. Answers to these questions significantly influence our understanding of the various sociolinguistic elements and facets of early Christianity, the early church, and the text of the New Testament. But those answers depend upon our depiction of the multifarious sociolinguistic dynamics that compose the speech community of ancient Palestine, which include its historical linguistic shifts under different military regimes, its geographical linguistic landscape, the social functions of the languages in its linguistic repertoire, and the specific types of social contexts where those languages were used. Using a sociolinguistic model, this study attempts to paint a portrait of the sociolinguistic situation of ancient Palestine, consequently providing answers to these questions.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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<p>This study will critically evaluate the dominant framework through which the Johannine <em>aposynagōgos</em> passages (John 9:22, 12:42, 16:2) are read. This dominant framework, which understands these passages as allegorically encoding the history of a putative Johannine community some forty to fifty years after Jesus’ lifetime, will be judged exegetically and historically implausible. An alternative reading of the passages will be developed, grounded in a philosophy of history derived from the critical realist epistemology developed by Bernard Lonergan and introduced into New Testament studies by Ben F. Meyer. It will be argued that these passages are historically plausible and that the Gospel author intended factuality and was plausibly knowledgeable on the matter. Consequently, it will be argued that a positive judgment of historicity can be assigned to these passages.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Historically, the study of NT Greek conditional statements has predominantly set its focus on the Mood and Tense of the protasis. More recently, semantic approaches based on the speaker's viewpoint, or attitude, have also been adopted, to classify conditionals either as statements of assertion or projection. As such approaches are based on a limited number of linguistic features and functions, they offer only a partial understanding of conditionals. Most grammarians also largely ignore the wider contexts of the biblical texts and conditionals' rhetorical function. The purpose of this study is twofold: to critically examine current methods of describing and classifying conditionals to propose a new method based on theory of language and the analytical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL); and to apply the proposed interpretive framework to analyze selected conditionals found in the Gospel of John, exploring how Jesus uses conditionals to persuade his audience and how conditionals serve the persuasive purpose of the Gospel. Instead of following the conventional lines of investigation, this thesis adopts Systemic Functional Linguistics' multi-stratal structure and multi-functional concept of language. Structurally, the interpretive framework expands from the units of words and clauses to those of clause complexes. All three major functions of language (ideational, interpersonal, and textual) are included as part of the total meaning. An analytical interpretive framework is then set up and applied to selected conditionals in John 3-11. Based on the evidence such as the choice of the Mood, thematic structure, logico-semantic relation, grammatical intricacy, clustered and consecutive conditionals, and conditionals as topic and summative statements, it is concluded that the conditionals Jesus uses present a strongly persuasive case for the author's purpose of writing. On one hand, the conditionals that Jesus uses rebut the Jews' charge of blasphemy and make a convincing case for his Christological claim. On the other hand, conditionals by Jesus also provide his audience and the reader of John with a different viewpoint (an alternate world) to understand the deeper meaning of faith and discipleship. Johannine conditionals perform the function of persuading the reader of John toward faith and spiritual growth in Jesus (20:31). / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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The purpose of this research is to analyze the musical practices, focusing the musical-pedagogic processes and construction of musical identities which occur in the praise group Somos Igreja , in the evangelical community Igreja em Cruz Alta RS , this research intends to comprehend how these practices are produced in the evangelical context and how they are experienced and (re)signified from a gospel musical culture. The increase of adepts in Brazil and the emergence of new evangelical denominations, mainly neopentecostals, has been inspiring several analysis of the gospel development, concerning the tension between traditional and contemporaneous, through a net of social relationships that moves around a complex trade, entertainment and media system. Music has always been present in evangelical cults, in many ways and contexts. Since the ending of the XX Century, however, it started to be remarkable modified in its manners of production, conception and distribution. Musical Education, as an area which articulates together with other fields of knowledge, as Sociology, Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, has as its purpose the study of pedagogical and musical processes to debate possibilities of a plural education. Therefore, pointing out the subjects socio-cultural context, their musical identity constructions and their everyday experiences. Thus, researches on musical education developed in different places and contexts of society have contributed to spread the speech of Musical Education, amplifying pedagogical conceptions and educational methods. This idea has made possible to reflect about contemporaneous musical educational practices, enlarging the understanding of musical experiences and the processes of meaning construction. From an interpretative perspective of the gospel musical scenery, methodologically developed through a case study, this work intends to discuss the theme and to announce some questions referring to musical education, everyday musical practices and religious meanings as well. / O objetivo central desta pesquisa é analisar as práticas musicais, focando os processos pedagógico-musicais e a construção de identidades musicais que ocorrem no grupo de louvor Somos Igreja da comunidade evangélica Igreja em Cruz Alta-RS. A pesquisa procura compreender como se produzem essas práticas no contexto evangélico, como elas são vivenciadas e (re)significadas dentro de uma cultura musical gospel. O crescimento de adeptos no Brasil e o surgimento de novas denominações evangélicas, principalmente neopentecostais, tem gerado uma série de análises do fenômeno gospel. Essas investigações apontam para a tensão entre tradicional e contemporâneo, numa rede de relações sociais que giram em torno de um complexo sistema de mercado, entretenimento e mídia. A música sempre esteve presente nos cultos evangélicos em múltiplas formas e contextos. Entretanto, a partir do final do século XX passaram a sofrer sensíveis modificações em suas maneiras de produção, concepção e distribuição. A Educação Musical, compreendida como uma área que se articula com outras áreas do conhecimento como Sociologia, Antropologia e Etnomusicologia, tem como objeto de estudo os processos pedagógico-musicais, que ensejam possibilidades de debate sobre uma educação plural que considere o contexto sociocultural dos sujeitos, suas construções de identidades musicais e suas experiências cotidianas. Nesse sentido, pesquisas sobre educação musical realizadas em diferentes espaços e contextos da sociedade contribuem para uma abertura discursiva do ensino musical, ampliando as concepções pedagógicas e as estratégias educativas. Esse pensamento possibilita refletir sobre as práticas musicais educativas contemporâneas, ampliando o entendimento sobre experiência musical e os processos de construção de significados. Através dum viés interpretativo do universo musical gospel, realizado metodologicamente por um estudo de caso, pretende-se problematizar e anunciar algumas questões referentes à educação musical, ao cotidiano e aos significados religiosos.

The study consists of a survey in which church musicians answered questions about which hymns are played during the various gatherings of Easter in the Church of Sweden. Based on the Swedish Hymn Book, the answers to the questionnaire are presented and a selection of hymns is made for the study. The psalms are analyzed on the basis of a hermeneutic method and in the light of reception theory regarding the origin of the psalms through the narrative of the biblical gospels. The study compares the Bible reading that occurs during Easter gatherings in the Church of Sweden and the hymns that are sung. It describes whether these different texts are common to the psalms and the reading or whether they are independent of each other. Finally, what happens to the Gospel texts when they are converted into a psalm is discussed. What happens is that the whole of the Gospels is included and not just specific pericopes. The psalm does not reflect the feeling of what is happening in the reading of the gospel, but contributes with a completely different feeling. This means that the experience of the gospel narrative through the psalm becomes different from the gospel narrative through reading.