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Church of the Nazarene Global Theology Conference Africa Nazarene University Nairobi, Kenya 26—29 March 2012 Critical Issues in Ecclesiology Call for Papers

The following work proposes to reimagine God’s salvific plan for creation in light of a hospitable self, a move which seeks to rehabilitate the post-Enlightenment notions of the self as autonomously...

Like Singer, many Western Christians appear to believe that an individual must possess and demonstrate certain abilities to be considered a whole person. This is problematic for persons with...

Greetings and welcome to Volume 10:1 (June 2010) of Didache: Faithful Teaching. Regular participants will note that our website has gone through a renovation. The new design comes courtesy our...

The Commission on the Doctrine of the Church was appointed to propose an article of faith by action of the 1985 General Assembly. It was my privilege to serve as chair of this commission along with...

Ecclesiology is, in today’s theological situation, one of the most vital of theological doctrines. It plays an enormous role in Christian ethics and constitutes one of the most important points of...

The challenge of re-expressing our tradition calls for the most careful theological consideration. As biblical scholars and historical theologians, we must strengthen our roots so that we remain...

The intent of this article is to develop a model of educating towards spiritual maturation. The article begins by establishing goals and objectives for educating towards spiritual maturation. These...

Several times in my career as a professor of Old Testament, I have taught a course on the theology of Lewis’s fiction, and once, a course on the theology of Tolkien’s fiction. In this essay, I will...

Welcome to the 22nd edition of Didache: Faithful Teaching. This special edition marks the beginning of a new journey toward our Global Theology Conference, “In the Power of the Spirit” (Luke 4:14), to...

Recent publications in pneumatology raise several issues often neglected in the past but now slowly making their way into Biblical scholarship. Previous writings focused upon the interpretation of the...

However, when discussing the term “power of the Spirit” within Pentecostalisms, there are very diverse perspectives that have outlined and shaped the current practices of Christian churches in South...

"What does it mean to be a Holy People who are empowered by the Holy Spirit? The seemingly contradictory title of this paper gives clues to my answer. Stated plainly, I will argue that a Holy People...

I would like to put forward four plausible axiomatic statements that seek to repair and reset a new “plausibility structure” to help make meaning and maintain focus on purpose and mission. These...

I would like to briefly articulate, in broad strokes, the view of a new creation eschatology and conclude with why it fits well within a Wesleyan theological perspective. In articulating the new...

To speak of the hope of a new creation is to be willing to break paradigms, to move to the future while moving back to the beginning-genesis without pretending to go back to fundamentalisms. To speak...

This edition includes an interesting array of essays, research articles and student submissions. The first half of this edition addresses a key theme that has shaped a number of recent conflicts...

The challenge of speaking the truth in love has been with humankind since the beginning. The earliest accounts of human interaction attest to the possibilities of interaction and communication going...

To participate in the ongoing history of how we communicate, perhaps we can look at this harshness and dishonesty as the grains of sand in our shells. We can respond by evolving the way the newspapers...

Why does conflict appear to be such a prevalent part of communication in our world today? Can we communicate without conflict? Why do many of us find it difficult to communicate about issues on which...

Why don’t we talk more about controversial issues in the church? Why are we quieter than talk radio hosts and news entertainment folk? They tell us who did it, why, and what they meant by it. The...

Before starting my first season of football, my mother and I went to a nearby sporting goods store to pick up some “essential” equipment. As we purchased forearm, elbow, rib, and neck pads, I wondered...

We have received substantial gifts in Dr. Rob Fringer’s paper, “Broken-Holy People” and Dr. Stanley Bhebhe’s paper, “God’s Eternal Project.” I offer this response as a means of amplification and...

Wesleyan theologies of holiness often focus on the immanent, the here and now of how God’s love is cultivated in God’s people by the Spirit. This focus on the concrete is the result of Wesley’s...

The presentations I will discuss below are those of Dr. Rob A. Fringer, “A Broken Holy People: A Biblical Plea for God's Holy People to Embrace a Less Perfect Perfection,” and that of Dr. Stanley...