TKADLEČKOVÁ Alena: "Sunday school and its teachers at the beginning of the 21 century" SUMMARY The thesis, entitled "Sunday school and its teachers at the beginning of the 21 century", examines in particular the theoretical basics of Sunday school and its teachers in an interview with the current practise in the Czech Brethren Evangelical Church. The main theme of the first chapter is Sunday school in relation to worships, its content, puspose and form. The second chapter deals with the Sunday school teacher as authentic, reflecting and delegated witness. The third part examines the environment and the time that Sunday school and teachers are surrounded. Its themes are: postmodern world, Czech Brethren Evangelical Church, particular church. The subtext of the whole work is the question of identity Sunday school teacher.

This dissertation identified and analyzed the impact of learning environment factors on the retention and attrition of members of adult Sunday School classes in Kentucky Baptist Convention churches. The study was delimited to spiritual, physical, and social learning environment factors internal to adult classes meeting at church on Sunday led by the same teacher for the previous twelve months. The research questions focused on the strength and relationships of these factors and demographic data gathered. Precedent literature was investigated next. First, since adults in Sunday School study the Bible, an understanding of the impact of God and theological assumptions was presented. Then, adult learning assumptions, learning environment factors, and retention and attrition (assimilation) issues were applied to the context of adult Sunday School classes. Because limited literature was available addressing these issues in the church, resources from a diversity of fields were utilized, analyzed, and applied to this setting. The methodological design of the research involved creating and validating a research instrument, contacting and training church leaders, surveying classes on Sunday morning, and mailing instruments to no/low attenders. The random proportionally stratified sample included teachers and members of adult classes in nineteen KBC churches of the Long Run Baptist Association (Louisville area). The two instruments (teacher and member) contained seventy-two statements utilizing a Likert response scale along with twenty-two and sixteen demographic variables, respectively. Chronbach alpha reliability testing of the 762 instruments produced a score of .8801. In the analysis of findings, means, modes, medians, standard deviations, rankings, cross tabulations, percentages, and ANOVA data were provided to help answer the six research questions. The statements were combined into twenty-four triangulated learning environment factors in response to precedent literature. The strength of spiritual, physical, and social factors were examined along with the impact of retention (high/average attenders) and attrition (low/no attenders) and various demographic variables. Tables and figures helped to display findings in helpful ways. Conclusions drawn from the research findings were that spiritual and social learning environment factors did impact retention and attrition of the adult Sunday School classes in the sample. The impact of friends upon high/average attenders was evident, as was the impact of the teacher upon low/no attenders. Even though physical factors did not impact retention and attrition, several findings need application in the local church such as flexibility and physical arrangement. Several suggestions for further research were presented, including replication and utilization of the instrumentation and methodology in other locations and other denominations. Focusing on part of the learning environment factors could also produce helpful results. / This item is only available to students and faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. If you are not associated with SBTS, this dissertation may be purchased from <a href="http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb">http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb</a> or downloaded through ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses database if your institution subscribes to that service.

Os sermões de Dominga de Quaresma do Padre Antônio Vieira interessam segundo as suas práticas contemporâneas de produção e recepção. Historicamente, foram preparados para circular de forma escrita e publicados dispersos pelos tomos da editio princeps do Sermões, entre 1679 e 1699. Editados, destinaram-se a um leitor em momento distante da pregação, que se constrói, porém, circunstancialmente na página. Para discutir esses sermões de Quaresma, são importantes as noções de ductus e eschematisménos lógos. A primeira é lida em Fortunaciano e Marciano Capela, sistematizada por Heinrich Lausberg e tratada por leitores de Vieira. A segunda procura iluminar as lições desses retores dito menores e embasar as leituras dos sermões a partir de passagens de outros textos, de outras doutrinas, de retores latinos e gregos, como Quintiliano, Demétrio, Hermógenes e, no século XV, Jorge de Trebizonda. / Sunday of Lent sermons by Father Antônio Vieira are of interest in conformity to their contemporary practices of production and reception. Historically, they had been composed to circulate in written form and to be published dispersed in the volumes of the editio princeps of the Sermões between 1679 and 1699. Nevertheless, from the moment they were printed they were direct to a reader who was, in a way, distant from the preaching, which is framed, even though circimstantially, in the pages. So as to discuss these Lent sermons, notions of ductus and eschematisménos lógos are fundamental. The former is read in Fortunatianus and Marcianus Capella, systematized by Heinrich Lausberg and debated by Vieiras readers. The latter aims to cast light on the lessons of these so-called rhetores latini minoris and also to give foundation to the readings of the sermons from excerpts of other texts, other doctrines, and Greek and Latin rhetoricians, as Quintilian, Demetrius, Hermogenes and, in the fifteenth century, George of Trebizond.

This study seeks to analyze each of Sillitoe's proletarian novels as a separate artistic endeavor, to study each in terms of its critical reception, plot, theme, characterization, setting, and style.

Thesis (M.R.E.)--Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary, 1965. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [75]-76).

Thesis (PhD--History)--University of Auckland, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.R.E.)--Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary, 1965. / This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #090-0034. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [75]-76).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2003. / Advisor: Peter J. Kuhn. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via World Wide Web.

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2004. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sunday newspapering in Namibia is non-existent from a local perspective, save for the South African newspapers Rapport and Sunday Times, which have become like household products over the years. Sunday reporting in Namibia ceased in the mid 1990s when the tabloid Tempo closed down. A more recent attempt in the form of the Namibia Sunday Express lasted for little more than a year between May 2002 and August 2003. Changing its content to feature business news only (and subsequently changing its name to Business Express) proved less successful as the newspaper only appeared once in October 2003. This was also its final appearance. This study looks at the phenomenon of Sunday newspapering in general; why people read such newspapers; the pitfalls associated with Sunday publications; the possible reasons for failure of Namibian Sunday newspapering; the future of Sunday newspapers in a country such as Namibia; and more particularly looks at the Namibia Sunday Express as a ease study. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In Namibië bestaan daar nie iets soos die Sondagpers nie, behalwe vir die Suid-Afrikaanse koerante Rapport en Sunday Times, wat so te sê huishoudelike produkte geword het. Hierdie twee koerante vind elke Sondag hul onderskeie weë na duisende Namibiese huishoudings. Sondagverslaggewing in hierdie land is in die middel-negentigerjare gestaak toe Tempo laas verskyn het. Meer onlangs, in die vorm van die Namibia Sunday Express, is weer 'n poging aangewend om 'n Sondagblad uit te gee, helaas sonder sukses. Die Namibia Sunday Express het tussen Mei 2002 en Augustus 2003 verskyn. 'n Opvolgpoging in die vorm van 'n sake-koerant, Business Express, was ook onsuksesvol - net een uitgawe is in Oktober 2003 gepubliseer. Hierdie studie is 'n bespreking van die Sondagpers in die breë; hoekom mense dié koerante lees; die verskeie slaggate wat normaalweg met Sondagkoerante geassosieer word; die moontlike redes hoekom sodanige koerante nie die mas opkom nie; die toekoms van die Sondagpers in 'n land soos Namibië; en meer spesifiek die geval Namibia Sunday Express.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:20:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jorge Wagner de Campos Freitas.pdf: 585705 bytes, checksum: 6d9c6a2d10ac20894647285e9e74651f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-03-23 / The objective at this study is to identify some factors that have contributed for the evasion of adolescents of the Sunday School. Is study limits its scope to the Methodist Church in cities of the interior of the State of São Paulo. To understand the current condition of adolescence is a requisite to develop actions in order to make it able to the practice of faith. The first chapter focuses the adolescence development. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, researchers, medical doctors, psychologists, educators among others have done research or this phase of life. Chapter two an analysis of the Sunday School. The goal of this chapter to understand its origins, its relationship with the adolescence its structure and functioning; since, it is one of the best spaces for adolescent formation. A the adolescent needs an educative model that helps his her development, and the Sunday School could be the educative agency to provide an appropriate education to the current time. The third chapter deepens the general concept of education and specifically the Christian education distinguishing them from education. The necessary model of education for the development of the adolescent must be that one the one that helps his her to elaborate its own development in a continuous practice of elaboration and rework of its education, allowing experiences of life in a Christian perspective. Finally, chapter four analyzes the result of the field research, the adolescent opinion on the Sunday School and from this understanding to identify the factors that contribute for the evasion. / Este estudo tem como objetivo identificar alguns fatores que têm contribuído para a evasão de adolescentes da Escola Dominical. O trabalho limita-se ao âmbito da Igreja Metodista, em cidades do interior do Estado de São Paulo. Entender a atual condição da adolescência é requisito para desenvolver ações capazes de prepará-la para o exercício da fé. O primeiro capítulo enfoca o desenvolvimento da adolescência.. Desde o início da Revolução Industrial pesquisadores, médicos, psicólogos, educadores entre outros têm se voltado à pesquisa desta fase de vida. O segundo capítulo propõe uma análise da Escola Dominical. O objetivo deste capítulo é compreender suas origens, seu relacionamento com a adolescência, sua estrutura e funcionamento, pois, ela é um dos melhores espaços para a formação do adolescente. Este precisa de um modelo educativo que ajude seu desenvolvimento e a Escola Dominical pode ser a agência educativa para garantir uma educação apropriada à época atual. O terceiro capítulo aprofunda o conceito de educação de modo geral e educação cristã de modo específico distinguindo-as de ensino. O modelo de educação necessário para o desenvolvimento do adolescente deve ser aquele que o ajude a elaborar seu próprio desenvolvimento numa prática contínua de elaboração e re-elaboração de sua educação, propiciando experiências de vida numa perspectiva cristã. Por fim, o quarto capítulo analisa o resultado da pesquisa de campo, a opinião do adolescente sobre a Escola Dominical e a partir desta compreensão identificar os fatores que contribuem para a evasão.