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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...

If this solution of unity in love is known, and the Holy Spirit is able to empower us to live in such love, why is there still division and unloving behavior in the church? The short response is “sin...

A response paper for the Global Theology Conference to be held in Pilar, Argentina, in April 2024.

How does the Holy Spirit act creatively in the church? It would be a fair question from a document that outlines a practical perspective of awareness of the Spirit's presence in a believer. For this...

This response paper reflects primarily on issues elicited by Khobnya’s paper, namely, “What is this togetherness?” “How does the Spirit create togetherness?” and “What (or who) is the extent of...

Global Theology II Conference Edition. (January 2007) This is a special edition of conference papers developed in advance of the Global Theology Conference for the Church of the Nazarene held 31 March...

At the very beginning of discussions centred on the ideas of ‘One Lord, One faith, One Baptism: Unity and Diversity in our Wesleyan Theological Tradition’ it seems appropriate to grapple with the...

God is a missionary God2 who is unchangeably faithful in ‘sending’ God’s love. The mission of God unveils the character of God. God’s character is God’s mission and vice versa because God is love...

The argument of this paper is that Wesleyan theology cannot be separated from Wesleyan practice. It is my intention to demonstrate that truth by proposing a theological quintessence of the Wesleyan...

Theology becomes integral when it suggests a direct and specific relationship between theology and mission that transcends the dichotomy of theory and praxis. Maintaining a healthy balance between...

Perhaps John Wesley’s major contribution to the Church at large, and to the Wesleyan movement, remains his discipleship system, grounded in biblical principles, channeled through methods God helped...

The principles [of Wesleyan theology] mentioned above make up the seed bed of our theology making it relevant in our time, particularly in the education sector. We educators have to carefully and...

This position paper begins with describing the task of the theological educator in terms of an artisan. In a world inundated with information, the search for Wisdom becomes a worthy goal of...

A paper on future challenges in Wesleyan theological education makes two assumptions. First, we know what Wesleyan theological education is. Second, many of us are engaged in Wesleyan theological...

This paper explores the idea that understanding postmodernism and incorporating a theistic worldview with redeemable aspects of postmodernism can bring about an effective relevancy to theological...