This study explores the healing praxis of Bill Johnson as it is outworked in the context of Bethel Church, California. Engaging in practical theology, this study uses the pastoral research cycle to examine and analyse this healing praxis. Drawing on primary source material and empirical research findings, it identifies the central tenets of Johnson’s healing praxis by teasing out the espoused and operant theology. The research findings are brought into dialogue with Randall Collins’ interaction ritual chains theory, as well as with others who have developed Collins’ theory. This thesis critiques Johnson’s theology and recommends that he engage more intentionally with academic theology particularly in relation to Christology, soteriology and eschatology. This thesis seeks to modify Johnson’s Christological position through a dialogue with academic kenotic theology. It proposes that Johnson account for the elements of mystery, suffering and disappointment often neglected in his theology. Additionally, this study offers a means of conceptualizing the local and global significance of Bill Johnson and Bethel Church in relation to the healing praxis. It is the first academic study focusing on these subjects and as such provides insight into the local and global phenomenon stemming from Johnson and the Bethel Church community.

This thesis is an investigation into the scribal habits of Papyrus 46, attempting to enrich further the information database about the sociology of ancient book production and to explore how these habits might have affected the transmission of the texts of the New Testament in general and the corpus Paulinum in particular. Given this end, this thesis challenges the traditional methods of locating the “scribal habits” of a particular manuscript, specifically methods that are text-focused. Crucial to developing a viable methodology is articulating how the conceptual category of “scribal habits” is to be understood before we can sufficiently isolate them. Using an integrative approach (i.e., the composite employment of papyrology, codicology, palaeography, and textual criticism), this thesis proposes that “scribal habits” are to be found in everything that a particular scribe recurrently did and did not do in the manuscript, encompassing all the stages of its production and its eventual use. In regard to papyrus 46, this thesis finds the scribe in the same league with other ancient scribes as well as idiosyncratic in the ways he used his codex, copied the text of his exemplar, and employed existing systems and devices practised within the scribal profession. These scribal characteristics emphasise the “human” face of textual transmission of a “divine” book.

This study is the most extensive treatment of Danish Pentecostal history to date. It is also the first case study of early European Pentecostalism focused on describing the hindrances to Pentecostal growth in this part of the world and the ways the movement responded to these. The otherwise successful Anglo-Norwegian preacher T.B. Barratt attempted but failed to make Copenhagen a hub of the fledgling Pentecostal movement from 1907, though the movement managed to penetrate a wide range of socio-economic strata there. The movement was hampered by a relative lack of existing minority denominations, along with rejection by Evangelical and Holiness leaders within the state church. Many Danish Pentecostals themselves undermined the movement's survival, by resisting any departure from its original, ecumenical, spontaneous state. They often pursued interdenominational, itinerant strategies- or travelled abroad as missionaries - rather than forming Pentecostal congregations as in contexts where the movement was more successful. When the inevitable institutionalisation happened, it was accompanied by a few years of dynamic growth, but ended in a debilitating schism. The difficulties imposed by the combination of aggressive secularisation and a monopolistic state church should not be underestimated. These may also help us understand contemporary religious minorities.

This thesis is the first scholarly attempt to examine the veneration that Mary’s parents – and her mother Anna in particular – enjoyed in Byzantium. The four pillars upon which this examination will be based are topography, texts, relics and iconography. The topography of Constantinople is examined in relation to that of Jerusalem in order to bring to the surface new ideas on the development of Constantinopolitan topography. I also look at the motives behind the construction of the first church dedicated to St Anna in Constantinople and its relation to the topography of the Holy Land. In terms of textual production, I show that until the eighth century Mary’s parents and their story recounted in the second-century apocryphal Protevangelion of James, were intentionally ‘ignored’ because of the non-canonical nature of the text. But from the eighth century onwards the situation dramatically changes with the emergence of Byzantine homilies and Ι will explore the reasons that triggered this change as well as the way Mary’s parents are presented in this genre. Finally, I discuss the problematic around Anna’s relics, her association with iconophilia, demonstration of Orthodoxy, healing and protection of childbirth. Last but not least, the examination of iconographical evidence will uncover the visual impact of Anna’s cult and will complete the study of her veneration in Byzantium.

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張大衛. / Thesis submitted in: May 2009. / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-39). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Zhang Dawei. / 文章摘要 --- p.II / Chapter 1. --- 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- 網上教會模式 --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- 「第二人生」（Second Life)虛擬世界教會 --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- 網誌空間新興教會（emerging church blogosphere) --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- 網上聖餐和洗禮 --- p.8 / Chapter 2.4 --- 現場錄像直播模式 --- p.8 / Chapter 2.5 --- "社交網絡服務(SNS, social networking service)教會網站" --- p.9 / Chapter 2.6 --- 小結 --- p.11 / Chapter 3. --- 網上教會研究 --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1 --- 互聯網與社會變遷 --- p.13 / Chapter 3.2 --- 網絡空間(cyberspace)的虛與實 --- p.14 / Chapter 3.3 --- 靈性空間（spiritual space ) --- p.15 / Chapter 3.4 --- 身份建構(identity construction) --- p.18 / Chapter 3.5 --- 虛擬社群(virtual community) --- p.20 / Chapter 3.6 --- 網上信徒群體（Christian community online) --- p.20 / Chapter 3.7 --- 禮儀(ritual) --- p.22 / Chapter 4. --- 虛擬與真實 --- p.24 / Chapter 4.1 --- 取代與補足 --- p.24 / Chapter 4.2 --- 教會事工與虛擬網絡 --- p.25 / Chapter 4.3 --- 由上而下的網絡空間 --- p.27 / Chapter 4.4 --- 網絡空間與神學 --- p.28 / Chapter 4.5 --- 文化神學（theology of culture) --- p.29 / Chapter 4.6 --- 文化性神學(cultural theology) --- p.31 / Chapter 4.7 --- 有形教會（visible church )與無形教會（invisible church ) --- p.32 / Chapter 4.8 --- 從身體與靈魂看虛擬真實（virtual reality) --- p.33 / Chapter 4.9 --- 聖靈與網上教會 --- p.33 / Chapter 5. --- 結論 --- p.34 / 參考書目 --- p.36

It aims at contributing to the formation of a proper theology of work for modern world, through critical reflection on the two dominant theological approaches to human work after the Reformation. Modern theology of work originated from Luther and Calvin' s interpretation towards ℓvocation', an idea which had a long history in Christian theological tradition. However, this theological understanding of human work became inadequate when facing the structural alienation of work in modern capitalist society. Against this background, a paradigm shift in the area of theology of work happened in the 20th century's Christian theology. The new approach that views human work as cooperatio Dei stresses one-sidely the theological significance of human work and at the same time fails to highlight the distinctively Christian virtues which are required in the human work. / This research is intended to emphasize another dimension of work, that is, work as "gift", a concept inherent to the Reformers' ethics of work. This approach affirms both accepting work as a gift from God and practicing it as the "gift giving" towards other people. It also emphasizes the virtues and the proper mode of work as such. This approach does not mean to totally negate the understanding of human work as cooperatio Dei, but it maintains that the approach of cooperatio Dei should be supplemented and balanced by the understanding of work as gift. / This thesis offers a theological inquiry into the meaning of human work, especially the one in the domain of economy. / 高喆. / Adviser: Pan-chin Lai. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-201). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Gao Zhe.

杜敏玲. / "2009年6月". / "2009 nian 6 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [78]-82). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Du Minling. / 摘要 --- p.i / 鳴謝 --- p.ii / 目錄 --- p.iii / 序言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 核心家庭的歷史發展 --- p.4 / Chapter 1. --- 家庭形態的發展 --- p.4 / Chapter 2. --- 核心家庭是理想家庭的唯一典範 --- p.9 / Chapter 3. --- 小結 --- p.14 / Chapter 第二章 --- 家庭論述與規訓 --- p.15 / Chapter 1. --- 家庭論述規範下的非核心家庭 ´ؤ 以《家庭暴力條例》修訂爲案例 --- p.15 / Chapter 2. --- 家庭論述的規範 --- p.19 / Chapter 3. --- 家庭作爲家庭價値 --- p.22 / Chapter 第三章 --- 唯一抑或多元 ´ؤ 基督教信仰下的家庭 --- p.25 / Chapter 1. --- 家庭制度與家庭關係 --- p.25 / Chapter 2. --- 父權支配與獨身社群 --- p.28 / Chapter 3. --- ´ؤ夫一妻的保障與一生一世的壓迫 --- p.29 / Chapter 4. --- 婚姻關係與獨身恩賜 --- p.30 / Chapter 5. --- 男女分工抑或彼此配搭 --- p.31 / Chapter 6. --- 父權中心與女性主義 --- p.32 / Chapter 7. --- 小結 --- p.33 / 結語 ´ؤ 由排他至共融 --- p.34 / 附錄一 婚外情論述 --- p.35 / 參考書目 --- p.78

This study explores the Anglican Church in a particular locality, namely the Forest of Arden region of Warwickshire, from the Restoration to 1740. This thesis is in sharp contrast to those histories that have depicted the Church of England as a moribund institution. It is contended that Anglicanism was a vibrant and accepted part of the lives of a considerable proportion of the laity, providing the focus of the communal and social life of the parish. What is more, the church and its clergy successfully served the needs of the people. In addition, it played a significant role in the spiritual, educational and moral discipline of the lower orders. This study shows that there was a high level of clerical commitment to the good of the people and that there was a considerable amount of lay participation in all aspects of church life. Evidence is also presented that there was a general Anglican commitment to harmony between those of differing religious views.