Doctoral diss.--Faculty of theology--Uppsala--University, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 283-300. Index.

The religious freedom introduced to Russia in 1989, due to perestroika, gave new opportunities for Christianity to expand. People accepted Christ and new churches were founded. Nevertheless after 16 years of transformation the evangelical churches in Russia are diminishing in growth. There are probably several reasons for this. One major reason which is suggested here, is that only a minority of Russian Christian men are willing to take up regular voluntary church ministry: like being a home group leader, taking care of the church building, having a part in Sunday school teaching, helping with the youth group or any other kind of service. As a result, not only are pastors often overloaded with administration work and can not find time for people but also ministry opportunities are not started, developed or expanded. Therefore this research aims to find out which factors are important to Russian Christian men in order for them to engage a regular voluntary church ministry. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-07T14:49:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2582588 bytes, checksum: 8700b26a5fb274a5ab8edede78cd6c27 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The Eco(Teo)logy intended to be presented as an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to converge the scientific and religious discourses integrating ecology and theology in his reflection on the environment and his problematic, besides proposing a shift of paradigms by re(link) man with creation and the Creator himself. The understanding of theologians whose approach focuses on Eco(Teo)logy is that spirituality can be a tool for environmental awareness and thus contribute to the formation of a new ecological awareness and engagement on the part of the Evangelical Church. The contribution of discursive tradition in building a biblical theological discourse environment has been updated with the readings of the traditions of creation, destruction and restoration, respectively found in the books of Genesis and Revelation in the Judeo-Christian Scriptures. The expectation that revolved around this research was to determine whether the theological discourse may or may not contribute to environmental awareness and, therefore, were surveyed institutional and ecclesiastical practices of environmental evangelical theological discourse, observing, recording and analyzing the participation of some Evangelical Christian ONGs, Brazilian Baptist Convention, the Baptist Church in Brazil and especially in Cabedelo, PB, in relation to their performance in relation to environmental issues in order to improve the quality of life in the local community. The methodology for the research included the development of literature and documentary observation, the photographic record and analyze speech, experienced from the social perspective of Foucault. The purpose of this work is to understand the relationships between ecological and theological discourses and its practice at Baptist Church, in the city of Cabedelo, PB. / A Eco(Teo)logia pretende ser apresentada como uma proposta interdisciplinar que procura convergir os discursos científico e religioso integrando a Ecologia e a Teologia em sua reflexão sobre o meio ambiente e sua problematização, além de propor uma transição de paradigmas pela re(ligação) do homem com a criação e com o próprio Criador. A compreensão dos teólogos cuja abordagem está focada na Eco(Teo)logia é de que a espiritualidade pode ser um instrumento para a conscientização ambiental e assim contribuir para a formação de uma nova consciência e engajamento ecológicos por parte da Igreja Evangélica. A contribuição da tradição discursiva bíblica na construção de um discurso teológico ambiental foi atualizada com as leituras das tradições da criação, da destruição e da restauração, respectivamente encontradas nos livros de Gênesis e Apocalipse das Escrituras Sagradas judaico-cristãs. A expectativa que girou em torno desta pesquisa foi verificar se o discurso teológico pode ou não contribuir para uma conscientização ambiental e, para isso, foram pesquisadas as práticas institucional e eclesiástica do discurso teológico ambiental evangélico, observando, registrando e analisando a participação de algumas ONGs Cristãs Evangélicas, da Convenção Batista Brasileira, da Igreja Batista no Brasil e especialmente, em Cabedelo, PB, em relação à sua atuação com relação às questões ambientais com vistas a melhorar a qualidade de vida da comunidade local. A proposta metodológica para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa incluiu a pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, a observação, o registro fotográfico e a análise de discurso, vivenciada sob a perspectiva social de Foucault. O propósito deste trabalho é compreender as relações entre os discursos teológicos e ecológicos bem como sua prática na Igreja Batista da cidade de Cabedelo, PB.

The existence of the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa (LECSA) or Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS) in the Western Areas of Johannesburg, South Western Township (Soweto) and more poignantly, Meadowlands and their forced removals experience is succinctly captured. The struggle of the LECSA/PEMS Meadowlands Parish in becoming a missional ecclesia in a sea of missional challenges in her context are vividly spelt out. They, inter alia, include constitutional matters, language policy, finances, ministerial preparation, lay-ministry development, institutionalisation of ministry, unity issues, prophetic ministry, mission and evangelism. The researcher, then, proposes an intervention – of course not a perfect one – that perhaps will galvanise the LECSA/PEMS Meadowlands Parish members to improve on what they have been doing and become a missional ecclesia in her context, Meadowlands. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016. / tm2016 / Science of Religion and Missiology / MA / Unrestricted

The diploma thesis named Wedding ceremonies in the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren aims to reflect the importance and development of wedding ceremonies in this church dating from its foundation in 1918 to the present. This thesis is based on the officially accepted liturgical forms and materials of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, namely on official agendas published in 1939, 1953 and 1983 and other published texts of this church. The thesis also explores the development of attitudes to mixed marriages from the perspective of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren and offers a comparison with the attitudes of the Catholic Church. Keywords Wedding, marriage, Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, mixed marriage

Evangelical churches hold evangelism as a hallmark of their movement, but evangelism and conversion rates are in decline. Might this decline be the result of absent or inadequate evangelistic equipping on the part of the church? This project presents a phenomenographic analysis and critique on how congregations are being equipped for evangelism. It employs both surveys of congregational members as well as pastoral leaders. Follow-up interviews with pastoral leaders have also been used to clarify findings from the initial surveys. These interviews have been analyzed to discover the qualitatively different understandings that are evident in the data regarding the phenomenon of evangelistic equipping. These understandings are categorized, and a description of each category type is provided. The results of these findings provide a more expansive understanding of the equipping task and offer specific ways in which the task of evangelistic equipping can be expanded to serve the Evangelical church better.

<p>This thesis investigates the perception of 'difference' which results in the stratification of people within the North American evangelical church. In order to develop this understanding, the experiences of excluded persons are explored carefully by attending to narratives of the elderly, those living with disability, the divorced, widows, the homeless, and others who have endured the pain of rejection. Such persons are made to feel as if they have no voice. By articulating the felt experience of the excluded this thesis gives voice to the hidden dimensions of alienation which occur even in the church. Alienation is explored as a core theological motif with the aim of developing a pastoral theology of community which enables a reorientation of ministry to the excluded. In the course of argument the thesis explores a theology of alienation. This provides the theological context for the narratives of exclusion which illuminate the reality of loneliness-a core dimension of exclusion. Employing the revised critical correlation method the thesis concludes by offering a pastoral theology of community which calls for effective approaches to the ministry of inclusion.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

This study examines archival materials, pertinent literary sources, and fifteen interviews (listed in the PREFACE) in order to understand the impact on the Africa Evangelical Church (AEC) by its founding body, the South Africa General Mission/ Africa Evangelical Fellowship (AEF). It also explores the possible contributions that both the Mission and the Church could make to their continued growth as they move together into the 21st century. CHAPTER 1 places the AEF within the historical context of the past two hundred years and clearly identifies it as an interdenominational faith mission. AEF's history is developed in CHAPTER 2 and the Mission is measured against Klaus Fiedler's "historical typology" of the Protestant missionary movement. While primarily typical when compared to other missions of the same type in the same period, the Mission falls below average in other areas. Since the years being discussed fall within the apartheid era, CHAPTER 3 portrays the political positioning of AEF missionaries. The biblical bases and pragmatic stances for such positioning are considered before the chapter ends with a general biblical evaluation of AEF' s position. Having discussed the Mission at length, CHAPTER 4 moves into the circumstances surrounding the beginnings and eventual autonomy of the Africa Evangelical Church (AEC). Its ministry relationships with the Mission, as well as its established constitution, are studied before the chapter concludes with a comparison of the AEF and AEC. Since they are more similar than dissimilar, the AEF's influence on the AEC is umnistakably clear. The political events which heavily impacted the context in which both the AEF and AEC ministered are briefly presented in CHAPTER 5. Four different documents, which record the theological reflections of evangelicals in terms of the apartheid's injustices, are mentioned along with the lack of both AEF and AEC response to them. Following the outlining of changes in political stance, CHAPTER 6 delves into possible contributions which both the Mission and the Church could make, separately and jointly, to move more proactively toward relevant change in South Africa. Neither wish to dwell on the past. Both intend to keep "God First" and always to "Go Forward." / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D.Th. (Missiology)

This thesis looks at the general character of the synod of the Evangelical church of Czech Brethern (ČCE), based on archival documents since 1990. (The) first chapter describes how the Synod functions within the church and briefly mentions the issue of coping with communism, especially how some pastors got involved politically. I also touch on the events of the Velvet Revolution. The next chapter focuses on an analysis of the Synod's work based on classifying the synod's resolutions into different catogories. The results are given in three diagrams. The goal of this analysis is to show which types of resolutions dominate and which types are more unusual. The third more extensive chapter deals with the most important topics being resolved in the synod. It describes the origin of …, its progress and consequences for the church. To show the character of the ČCE Synod, I highlight its internal discussions regarding church law, the practical and theological discussions on …(church education, ordination and baptism…). Then I discuss the ČCE Social Welfare organisation, a free standing topic, as well as subjects that have revealed the Synod's views. This third group address the church's outside concerns. The synod talked about these topic both inside and outside the church as well as with the ecumenical...