Thesis (D. Min.)--Nazarene Theological Seminary, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Nazarene Theological Seminary, 1985. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 332-333).

This thesis is an inquiry into how a 'consulting approach' can be used by a church helping organisation in the Seventh-day Adventist Church system to assist local church congregations. This inquiry will focus specially on the service providers known as Conference Departments and how a consulting approach can improve the service they provide. The exploration of the methodology and relationship between department personnel and churches will inform this inquiry. Consultancy within the Australian Seventh-day Adventist church is in its infancy. For the majority of churches the concept of using an external consultant to assist them on an ongoing basis would be a radical thought. The Seventh-day Adventist church system has traditionally provided resources and training to church parishes via their Conference departments youths, Bible school, outreach, health, welfare etc. However, few of these departments have offered a true constructive service where diagnostic assessment and long term problem-solving occurs. This thesis aims to develop a methodology by which consultants can gain entrance into churches and offer ongoing assistance to them. The study attempts to establish a model and identifies the issues that relate to using such an approach. / Master of Science (Hon) (Social Ecology)

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo compreender as motivações para a formação de uma parceria entre o líder pentecostal brasileiro Isaías Figueiró, presidente e fundador da Igreja Encontros de Fé, situada em Porto Alegre, no Brasil, e sueco, o pastor Ulf Ekman, presidente e fundador da igreja Word of Life, situada em Uppsala, na Suécia. A parceria teve como escopo a implantação da escola bíblica Word of Life, fundada pelo pastor Ulf Ekman, em Porto Alegre. Embora tivesse sido pensada para durar dois anos, a escola foi finalizada ao término do primeiro ano. Em Porto Alegre, a escola contou com a presença permanente de um casal sueco e de outros onze professores volantes da Escandinávia. Esta experiência carregava consigo motivações e expectativas de ambas igrejas. O objeto deste trabalho consiste em compreender, a posteriori, os elementos presentes na formação da parceria transnacional de ambas as igrejas e, especialmente, entender o término da ação em torno da escola bíblica, cuja experiência consistiu num êxito relativo. Para desenvolver esta pesquisa foi utilizado o método etnográfico, que implicou em um sem número de participações em cultos celebrados na igreja Encontros de Fé e em várias entrevistas semi-dirigidas realizadas com os líderes da igreja Encontros de Fé, Isaías Figueiró e Christian Lo Iacono, com os alunos da escola e com o diretor da escola no Brasil, Calle Lilja e com o professor Roar Sørensen. / This research aims to understand the motivations that led to the formation of a partnership between the Brazilian Neopentecostal leader Isaías Figueiró of Encontros de Fé Church, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the Swedish Pentecostal charismatic leader Ulf Ekman of Word of Life Church, in Uppsala, Sweden. This partnership scope took place to implant the Swedish Bible School Word of Life, founded by Ulf Ekman, in the city of Porto Alegre. Though, It was thought to stay for two years, it finished in one year. In Porto Alegre, the school had a permanent Swedish couple living in, and other eleven Swedish teachers coming and going. This experience carried motivations and expectations from both side of the agreement. The objetc of this work consists in to understand a posteriori the existing elements in forming the transnational partnership, and specially in understanding the end of this partnership, which consisted in a relative success. In order to develop this research, it was used the ethnographic method, that meant a countless number of participant observation in the Encontros de Fé church worships and events, and semi-structured interviews conducted with the pastor leaders of Encontros de Fé church, Isaías Figueiró, Christian Lo Iacono, some students, the principal of the bible School Word of Life in Brazil, Calle Lilja and the teacher Roar Sørensen.

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo compreender as motivações para a formação de uma parceria entre o líder pentecostal brasileiro Isaías Figueiró, presidente e fundador da Igreja Encontros de Fé, situada em Porto Alegre, no Brasil, e sueco, o pastor Ulf Ekman, presidente e fundador da igreja Word of Life, situada em Uppsala, na Suécia. A parceria teve como escopo a implantação da escola bíblica Word of Life, fundada pelo pastor Ulf Ekman, em Porto Alegre. Embora tivesse sido pensada para durar dois anos, a escola foi finalizada ao término do primeiro ano. Em Porto Alegre, a escola contou com a presença permanente de um casal sueco e de outros onze professores volantes da Escandinávia. Esta experiência carregava consigo motivações e expectativas de ambas igrejas. O objeto deste trabalho consiste em compreender, a posteriori, os elementos presentes na formação da parceria transnacional de ambas as igrejas e, especialmente, entender o término da ação em torno da escola bíblica, cuja experiência consistiu num êxito relativo. Para desenvolver esta pesquisa foi utilizado o método etnográfico, que implicou em um sem número de participações em cultos celebrados na igreja Encontros de Fé e em várias entrevistas semi-dirigidas realizadas com os líderes da igreja Encontros de Fé, Isaías Figueiró e Christian Lo Iacono, com os alunos da escola e com o diretor da escola no Brasil, Calle Lilja e com o professor Roar Sørensen. / This research aims to understand the motivations that led to the formation of a partnership between the Brazilian Neopentecostal leader Isaías Figueiró of Encontros de Fé Church, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the Swedish Pentecostal charismatic leader Ulf Ekman of Word of Life Church, in Uppsala, Sweden. This partnership scope took place to implant the Swedish Bible School Word of Life, founded by Ulf Ekman, in the city of Porto Alegre. Though, It was thought to stay for two years, it finished in one year. In Porto Alegre, the school had a permanent Swedish couple living in, and other eleven Swedish teachers coming and going. This experience carried motivations and expectations from both side of the agreement. The objetc of this work consists in to understand a posteriori the existing elements in forming the transnational partnership, and specially in understanding the end of this partnership, which consisted in a relative success. In order to develop this research, it was used the ethnographic method, that meant a countless number of participant observation in the Encontros de Fé church worships and events, and semi-structured interviews conducted with the pastor leaders of Encontros de Fé church, Isaías Figueiró, Christian Lo Iacono, some students, the principal of the bible School Word of Life in Brazil, Calle Lilja and the teacher Roar Sørensen.

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo compreender as motivações para a formação de uma parceria entre o líder pentecostal brasileiro Isaías Figueiró, presidente e fundador da Igreja Encontros de Fé, situada em Porto Alegre, no Brasil, e sueco, o pastor Ulf Ekman, presidente e fundador da igreja Word of Life, situada em Uppsala, na Suécia. A parceria teve como escopo a implantação da escola bíblica Word of Life, fundada pelo pastor Ulf Ekman, em Porto Alegre. Embora tivesse sido pensada para durar dois anos, a escola foi finalizada ao término do primeiro ano. Em Porto Alegre, a escola contou com a presença permanente de um casal sueco e de outros onze professores volantes da Escandinávia. Esta experiência carregava consigo motivações e expectativas de ambas igrejas. O objeto deste trabalho consiste em compreender, a posteriori, os elementos presentes na formação da parceria transnacional de ambas as igrejas e, especialmente, entender o término da ação em torno da escola bíblica, cuja experiência consistiu num êxito relativo. Para desenvolver esta pesquisa foi utilizado o método etnográfico, que implicou em um sem número de participações em cultos celebrados na igreja Encontros de Fé e em várias entrevistas semi-dirigidas realizadas com os líderes da igreja Encontros de Fé, Isaías Figueiró e Christian Lo Iacono, com os alunos da escola e com o diretor da escola no Brasil, Calle Lilja e com o professor Roar Sørensen. / This research aims to understand the motivations that led to the formation of a partnership between the Brazilian Neopentecostal leader Isaías Figueiró of Encontros de Fé Church, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the Swedish Pentecostal charismatic leader Ulf Ekman of Word of Life Church, in Uppsala, Sweden. This partnership scope took place to implant the Swedish Bible School Word of Life, founded by Ulf Ekman, in the city of Porto Alegre. Though, It was thought to stay for two years, it finished in one year. In Porto Alegre, the school had a permanent Swedish couple living in, and other eleven Swedish teachers coming and going. This experience carried motivations and expectations from both side of the agreement. The objetc of this work consists in to understand a posteriori the existing elements in forming the transnational partnership, and specially in understanding the end of this partnership, which consisted in a relative success. In order to develop this research, it was used the ethnographic method, that meant a countless number of participant observation in the Encontros de Fé church worships and events, and semi-structured interviews conducted with the pastor leaders of Encontros de Fé church, Isaías Figueiró, Christian Lo Iacono, some students, the principal of the bible School Word of Life in Brazil, Calle Lilja and the teacher Roar Sørensen.

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo a análise da concepção de ensino da Igreja em Células, à luz do modelo de Ralph W. Neighbour Jr., adotado pelo Ministério de Igrejas em Células no Brasil, sob a perspectiva da formação cristã continuada na fé da Igreja Reformada. A visão da Igreja em Células é de que a estrutura e os valores da igreja tradicional não observam o modelo de igreja do Novo Testamento. Em novo odre, a educação perdeu a importância, e o ensino, em sua concepção pedagógica, voltou-se a ciclos de estudo e treinamento chamados de trilhos e finais de semanas, para formação de discipuladores e líderes, com foco na multiplicação das células e crescimento da Igreja. A escola bíblica, nesse ambiente, perdeu a importância, e a formação continuada na fé foi descaracterizada. O membro tornou-se apenas reprodutor de si mesmo. Neste estudo, adotou-se o método de pesquisa bibliográfica a partir da revisão das principais obras sobre o assunto, com ênfase na exploração das fontes existentes sobre o conteúdo em exame. O trabalho está estruturado em quatro partes. A primeira parte aborda panoramicamente a educação cristã a partir da reforma protestante, destacando os aspectos históricos gerais da formação cristã da Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil. A segunda parte incursiona pelo conceito de educação cristã e pelos aspectos teóricos dos Quatro Pilares da Educação. Tais concepções teóricas alinham-se à proposta pedagógica de ensino cristão da Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil, como identidade de escola calvinista a partir de seu fundamento evangélico. Na sequência, aborda a escola bíblica como práxis pedagógica de formação cristã na igreja tradicional, destacando a Presbiteriana, com ênfase na educação como ministério da Igreja. A Terceira parte analisa a concepção pedagógica adotada pela igreja em células à luz da práxis de ensino cristão concebido por Neighbour Jr. e adotado pelo Ministério Igreja em Células no Brasil. O exame parte do estudo da formação da igreja em células e dos pressupostos eclesiológicos e teológicos. A quarta e última parte examina o estudo da práxis instrucional dos trilhos de treinamentos de discipuladores e líderes na Igreja em Células. Em seguida, apresenta as características e as considerações críticas do exame realizado e sugestão de proposta de modelo pedagógico de formação cristã continuada na fé para igrejas tradicionais que migrem para o modelo de igreja em células, cuja concepção privilegia a formação de discipuladores e líderes. Conclui-se no sentido de que a prática pedagógica da igreja em células não é um instrumento de educação cristã continuada e integral na fé. Não visa tratar o indivíduo e formá-lo como um todo para a vida e atua na desconstrução da escola bíblica. / The present research aim to analyze the conception of teaching of the Cell Church, according to Ralph W. Neighbour Jr.s model, used by the Cell Church Ministry in Brazil, under the perspective of the continuous Christian education in conformity to the faith of the Reformed Church. The understanding of the Cell Church is that the structure and values of the traditional church do not observe the church model of the New Testament. In a new leather bottle the education lost its significance and the teaching, in its pedagogic conception, returned to the study cycles and training, named trails and weekends, to the formation of leaders and disciple makers, concentrating the forces on the multiplication of the cell and in the growth of the church. In this environment, the biblical school lost its significance and the continuous education on faith was uncharacterized. The member became just a self reproducer. In this study the method of bibliographical research has been chosen starting from the reading of the main works on the subject, emphasizing the exploration of existent sources on the content. The present study is structured in four parts. The first part approaches widely the Christian education starting from the Protestant Reform, highlighting the general historical aspects of the Christian formation of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil. The second part walks through the concept of Christian education and the theoretical aspects of the Four Pillars of Education. Such theoretical conceptions join to the pedagogic proposal of Christian education of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil as identity of Calvinist school starting from its evangelical foundation. As too approaches the biblical school as pedagogic praxis of Christian formation in the traditional church, featuring the Presbyterian Church and the education as Church Ministry. The third part analyzes the pedagogic conception adopted by the cell church according the Christian education ideated by Neighbour Jr. and used by the Cell Church Ministry in Brazil. The research starts from the Cell Church formation and ecclesiological and theological presuppositions. The fourth and last part the study analyzes the formation praxis of training and disciple makers trails by the Cell Church. The last part also presents the characteristics and critics of this research and the proposal of pedagogic model of continuous Christian education on faith for traditional churches which decide to migrate to the cell church model whose conception privileges the disciple makers and leaders formation. The present study concludes that the pedagogic praxis of the cell church is not an instrument of continuous and integral Christian education on faith. It does not seek to treat the individual and prepare him or her for living and it acts in the deconstruction of the biblical school.

This dissertation makes an attempt to scientifically investigate Erich Sauer's theology of salvation history for the first time. Sauer grew up in a vital missionary context in the setting of the Open Brethren fellowship and the Alliance Bible School in Berlin. He studied history, philology and theology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, with the goal of promoting missions. Because of an acute eye ailment he was forced to discontinue his studies. He was invited to Wiedenest, where he found his life's work in the Bible School, which had moved in 1919. Here he worked for almost forty years as a teacher and a writer and travelling unceasingly to preach, lecture and hold biblical seminars on the topic of salvation history and missions. His theology, which is indebted to the theory of revelation history, was influenced by federal theology, theology of salvation history and the scientific, exegetic theology of German theological positivism. Sauer derives the authority of Scripture from history and develops a complex, salvation historical model, which is characterised by the classic structure of protology, soteriology and eschatology. His pre-millennial character is not dispensationally restricted, but has, rather, its own independent formation, that allows for the universal dimensions of God's completion act, without supporting a universal redemption theory. Through the high rating that he gives the position of the ecclesia in salvation history, Sauer has achieved a programmatic missions concept, which sees a missions-oriented church within every local church. With this paradigmatic theory, Sauer contributed to a revival of missions in German Brethren congregations, in conjunction with his professional colleague Schrupp. / Christian Spirituality, Church Hist and Missiology / D.Th.

This dissertation makes an attempt to scientifically investigate Erich Sauer's theology of salvation history for the first time. Sauer grew up in a vital missionary context in the setting of the Open Brethren fellowship and the Alliance Bible School in Berlin. He studied history, philology and theology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, with the goal of promoting missions. Because of an acute eye ailment he was forced to discontinue his studies. He was invited to Wiedenest, where he found his life's work in the Bible School, which had moved in 1919. Here he worked for almost forty years as a teacher and a writer and travelling unceasingly to preach, lecture and hold biblical seminars on the topic of salvation history and missions. His theology, which is indebted to the theory of revelation history, was influenced by federal theology, theology of salvation history and the scientific, exegetic theology of German theological positivism. Sauer derives the authority of Scripture from history and develops a complex, salvation historical model, which is characterised by the classic structure of protology, soteriology and eschatology. His pre-millennial character is not dispensationally restricted, but has, rather, its own independent formation, that allows for the universal dimensions of God's completion act, without supporting a universal redemption theory. Through the high rating that he gives the position of the ecclesia in salvation history, Sauer has achieved a programmatic missions concept, which sees a missions-oriented church within every local church. With this paradigmatic theory, Sauer contributed to a revival of missions in German Brethren congregations, in conjunction with his professional colleague Schrupp. / Christian Spirituality, Church Hist and Missiology / D.Th.