<p> My thesis investigates and evaluates Hermann Cohen's interest in and critiques of Protestant biblical criticism. In this thesis, I argue that Cohen's interest in Protestant biblical criticism stems from his quest to rejuvenate Jewish learning, foster relations between Jewish and Christian scholars and develop a philosophically sophisticated method for the study of the Hebrew Bible. To argue this point, I look at Cohen's philosophical construction of concepts such as monotheism, messianism and social justice, his methodology for the study of texts, his philosophical conception of "Jewish sources", and how this conception reflects contemporary interactions and tensions in Germany between scholarly biblical criticism, Jewish intellectual culture, and antisemitism. In doing so, I also examine how Cohen's complicated relationship with Protestant biblical criticism can be seen as part of Cohen's attempts to balance the assumptions he shared with Protestant biblical scholars, such as Julius Wellhausen, with his polemical response to Protestant biases in the work of other biblical scholars, such as Rudolf Kittel. This thesis, then, looks at both Cohen's implicit and explicit critiques of Protestant biblical scholarship in several of his "Jewish Writings" and in his Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism, and investigates how Cohen's interactions with Protestant biblical criticism influenced his own methodology for the study of Judaism and the Hebrew Bible. </p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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This study was designed to understand how ACSI certified Christian School leaders in Arizona lead their schools. There are a variety of leadership models available. Servant leadership, being a fairly recent phenomenon has been studied and implemented by numerous organizations and leaders with great organizational success and buy in. One area of servant leadership research which still needs development is whether or not ACSI certified Christian School leaders are employing servant leadership principles. By using qualitative metrics and using narrative-based interviews of Christian School leaders coupled with already established research parameters of servant leadership as outlined by Page and Wong (2003), this study analyzed whether or not servant leadership is guiding and directing the acting administrators in Arizona ACSI certified schools. Each interview was recorded and transcribed to look for key words and concepts understood in servant leadership models. This study focused on current administrators serving in K-12 schools across the state of Arizona. With analyzing interview transcripts and discovering patterns that emerge a better understanding emerged as to how ACSI Christian School leaders lead their respective school environments. / Educational Administration

This ethnographic study examines the organizational structure, formation of community and ritual performance of a Catholic charismatic prayer group in the United States. Heavily influenced by the Protestant Pentecostal movement, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) began as a grassroots movement among the Catholic laity in the late 1960s and proposed a personal connection with God through "baptism in the Holy Spirit" and reception of "charisms," spiritual gifts, such as glossolalia (speaking in tongues), healing and prophesying. Earlier studies suggested that such groups would fade out due to the inherent tension with Catholic institutions. Nevertheless, this dissertation presents the case study of a rapidly growing Catholic charismatic group at the suburbs of Boston, with a charismatic leader who is also a priest. The research methods include participant observation of all the meetings, retreats, and rituals, formal and informal interviews of the leader, his clerical associates and members, and review of the groups' publications and the leader's own radio program, during a period of twenty months from December 2001 to August 2003. I have also visited and interviewed priests and lay people of non-charismatic Catholic churches and two Protestant Pentecostal churches in the greater Boston area. Building upon Max Weber's theory of charisma, this dissertation examines how the charismatic leader maximizes his authority by integrating both personal and institutional charisma. The vertical ties the community members cultivate with the leader and the horizontal ties they establish among themselves through narratives of conversion and healing experience reinforce group cohesion and resilience. By analyzing ritual language and bodily movement, this study argues that ritual is a communication system in which the charisma of the leader and the religious experience of the followers are embodied. This study of the actual workings of a charismatic group within the hierarchical structure of the church not only advances the relationship between charisma and institution beyond the Weberian paradigm but also situates the case study of charismatic leadership within the social and historical context of American culture at large.

This dissertation examines the attitudes of people regarding the worship music that is being used in South African Protestant churches during the last decade of the twentieth century. The research is aimed at the man-in-the-pew to identify general trends across a variety of denominations. 4920 questionnaires were sent to 980 churches countrywide and completed anonymously. Questions are divided into three categories: personal information, church related, personal opinions. Every question has space for comments. Chapter one is a general discussion on people's opinions and attitudes and the aim and method used. Chapter two is an historical synopsis. Chapter three is an analysis of the questionnaire including hypotheses, graphs, results and comments. Chapter four, the conclusion, identifies general trends regarding formality and informality, choirs and music groups, background music, traditional versus contemporary, education and influence of leaders, the need for policies, use of media and instruments. Proposals are suggested. / Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology / M. Mus.

The purpose of this study is to make the Protestant church workers more efficient in their use of music in religious work by giving them a clear conception of the kind of music to be used and by suggesting detailed plans and methods by which desirable results may be secured in the use of church music. Ideal standards have their place, but here it is proposed to be matter-of-fact, practical and concrete, and to secure immediate results with the average church member and choir singer as the final criterion in every phase of the work. The purpose is not to emphasize high ideals but to instruct and inspire all those who have leadership in the service of church music, that they may be able here to provide the greatest religious helpfulness that the use of music can bring the souls to whom they minister.

葉菁華. / 論文(神學碩士) -- 香港中文大學院宗敎及神學學部, 1995. / 參考文獻: leaves 121-138. / Ye Jinghua. / Chapter 一、 --- 導論 --- p.1 / Chapter A. --- 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter B. --- 旨趣與取向 --- p.3 / Chapter C. --- 探討對象的界定 --- p.7 / Chapter 1. --- 「建制更正敎會」 --- p.7 / Chapter 2. --- 「當代中國」 --- p.14 / Chapter D. --- 資料取材 --- p.16 / Chapter 1. --- 資料來源 --- p.16 / Chapter 2. --- 取捨標準 --- p.18 / Chapter E. --- 理論與方法 --- p.19 / Chapter 1. --- 理論視野 --- p.19 / Chapter 2. --- 探討方法與全文流程 --- p.26 / Chapter F. --- 一些澄清 --- p.28 / Chapter 1. --- 代表性問題 --- p.28 / Chapter 2. --- 語文問題 --- p.29 / Chapter 二、 --- 中國建制更正敎會神學的形成處境 --- p.31 / Chapter A. --- 政治處境 --- p.33 / Chapter 1. --- 從國家-社會關係看政敎關係 --- p.33 / Chapter 2. --- 建制敎會在統一戰線中 --- p.36 / Chapter 3. --- 微妙的政敎關係 --- p.42 / Chapter B. --- 教會脈絡 --- p.45 / Chapter C. --- 神學話語與兩大處境 --- p.50 / Chapter 三、 --- 當代中國建制更正敎會的主導神學話語 --- p.55 / Chapter A. --- 引論 --- p.55 / Chapter 1. --- 主導神學的前提與方法 --- p.56 / Chapter 2. --- 主導神學的議題與重點 --- p.63 / Chapter B. --- 上帝與人世的關係 --- p.66 / Chapter 1. --- 宇宙的基督 --- p.67 / Chapter 2. --- 全愛的上帝 --- p.73 / Chapter C. --- 上帝在人世的作爲 --- p.77 / Chapter 1. --- 遍在的聖靈 --- p.77 / Chapter 2. --- 中國的基督事件 --- p.79 / Chapter 3. --- 上帝在歷史進程中 --- p.82 / Chapter a) --- 由創造至終末 --- p.82 / Chapter b) --- 對國家、 敎會的顧 佑 --- p.84 / Chapter 四、 --- 當代中國建制更正敎會的另類神學話語 --- p.87 / Chapter A. --- 引論 --- p.87 / Chapter B. --- 國外神學的引介 --- p.89 / Chapter C. --- 「文革後」神學反省 --- p.91 / Chapter D. --- 先知傳統與社會政治批判 --- p.96 / Chapter 1. --- 先知傳統的冒現 --- p.96 / Chapter 2. --- 社會責任與先知作用 --- p.97 / Chapter 3. --- 社會政治批判 --- p.101 / Chapter E. --- 對主導話語的挑戰 --- p.106 / Chapter 五、 --- 結論 --- p.109 / Chapter A. --- 當代中國建制更正敎會神學的特色及趨勢 --- p.109 / Chapter B. --- 討論 --- p.113 / Chapter 六、 --- 資料及書目 --- p.121 / Chapter A. --- 主要資料 --- p.121 / Chapter B. --- 中文書目 --- p.131 / Chapter C. --- 英文書目 --- p.134

by Wai-leung, Chan. / Publication date from spine. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 238-245). / Abstract / Acknowledgements / Chapter Chapter I --- Introduction --- p.1 / Context --- p.1 / Methodological Foundation --- p.8 / The Significance of Culture --- p.15 / Religion as Cultural Discourse --- p.29 / Chinese Protestantism in a Cultural Perspective --- p.38 / Sources and Organization of This Study --- p.41 / Chapter Chapter II --- The Social Historical Contexts of Chinese Protestantism --- p.47 / Nationalism in Republican China --- p.47 / The Church-State Relationshipin Republican China --- p.61 / The Institution of the Chinese Protestant Church --- p.73 / Chapter Chapter III --- Discourse on the Ideal of indigenous Church --- p.81 / Introduction --- p.81 / Indigenous Church as Self- Supporting Church Organization --- p.84 / Indigenization as Transformation of Organizational Practice --- p.94 / Indigenization as an Adaption in the Chinese Culture --- p.100 / Remarks on the Discourse on the Ideal of Indigenous Church --- p.115 / Chapter Chapter IV --- Discourse on Church Institution --- p.121 / Introduction --- p.121 / Church as a Community Centre --- p.122 / Church as a United Organization --- p.131 / Church as an Apolitical Institution --- p.147 / Remarks on the Discourse on Church Institution --- p.161 / Chapter Chapter V --- Discourse on Social Morality --- p.163 / Introduction --- p.163 / The Historical Circumstances and the Problematics of Crisis --- p.168 / Protestantism as the Moral Foundation of Republican Society --- p.172 / Implication --- p.194 / Chapter Chapter VI --- Conclusion: Religion as a Cultural Discourse --- p.198 / The Understandings on the Failure of Chinese Protestantism --- p.198 / Chinese Protestantism in a Cultural Perspective --- p.202 / Epilogue --- p.216 / Appendix --- p.223 / Bibliography --- p.238