Thesis (D. Miss.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1995. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-266).

Thesis (M. Min.)--Cincinnati Bible College & Seminary, 2003. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-115).

Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-49).

Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-49).

Thesis (M. Div.)--Emmanuel School of Religion, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-62).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / The purpose of this research has been to examine recent expressions about the Church, especially literature prepared for and issuing from the first assembly of the World Council of Churches, in order to discover a doctrine of the Church which may be offered to all Christians for the furtherance of unity. A growing sense of the importance of the doctrine of the Church has resulted from emphasis on the social nature of religious knowledge, the modern missionary movement, and the twentieth-century ecumenical movement. [TRUNCATED]

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University / In this dissertation the nature and extent of the contribution of Samuel Dwight Chown to Church Union in Canada is examined. There are three parts to the study, a survey of the life and work of Samuel Dwight Chown, a discussion of his activities in the fields of social reform and evangelism within the context of Methodism, and an examination of his interdenominational Church Union activities. He was born in Kingston, Ontario, in 1853 and was educated in Kingston Public School and the Military College. He later became convinced that he was called to the ministry and, in 1874, became a probationer in the Wesleyan Methodist Church. During his probation he studied for two years at Victoria College and was ordained in 1879. [TRUNCATED}

Rhythm is an important dimension of Christian liturgical practice as well as life in the world more generally. Given its significance, this study asks how theology ought to think about the nature and role of rhythm. It puts forward the argument that rhythm is a category of significance for Christian doctrine, particularly the doctrine of salvation, rather than one that pertains only to Christian religious expression (in liturgy for example) or aesthetics. This argument is made on the basis of three factors: (1) the pervasiveness of rhythm in dimensions of human experience that are salient to Christian soteriology, such as relationship and communication, make rhythm a dimension of experience worth theological consideration, (2) the fact that different conceptions of rhythm in various metaphysical accounts have different theological consequences requires theological discussion regarding the nature of rhythm, and (3) the capacity of rhythm to illuminate certain dimensions of the Christian doctrine of salvation such as the nature of participation, the relation between immanent and transcendent, and the relationship between interruption and continuity in Christian soteriology, make it a category that adds to theological understanding. The thesis proposes a definition of rhythm as an oscillation between synchronic form and diachronic experience based in theories of poetic rhythm and supported by theological analysis. The project finds that particular philosophical or theological approaches to metaphysics incorporate either a synchronic or diachronic perspective on rhythm but that both of these perspectives are theologically problematic on their own, the former tending to an illusory perspective on the whole from a God's-eye-view and the latter tending towards a strict division between creature and creator such that the relationship between them is one of rupture and confrontation only and not salvific. The thesis therefore proposes an oscillation on the part of the theologian between these two perspectives after the metaphysics of Erich Przywara and demonstrates this approach to be appropriate to the Christian doctrine of salvation.

From Preface: In this age of ecumenical discussion it has becone necessary for all Christian communions to examine afresh their traditional beliefs. This has frequently led to restatement and reformulation of such traditional beliefs. It has also driven us back to seek new light from the Biblical sources. It seemed that such a re-examination of the traditional doctrine of the priesthood of all believers was necessary so that those who claim to hold it know what they hold, and so that those who do not may know what it is that their fellow-Christians believe, and why. This was the first reason for this study.

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