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Sterling, Dearld Blake. "Creating Christian community through small groups." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Phillips, Lonnie B. "Belonging a pastoral journey toward community /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Perks, Catherine Charlotte. "Towards a realist theology of Christian community." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401439.

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Astarita, Susan G. "The church as convener an Anglican model for Christian communion in community /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Wilson, John Robert. "Mission and community in 1 Peter." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Bartholomew, Richard Edward. "Community and consumerism : the case of Christian publishing." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409412.

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Kozler, Steven J. "The renewal of community in parish life towards an ecclesiology of communion /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Kacela, Xolani. "Seasoned faith relationality, practice, and community /." Fort Worth, TX : [Texas Christian University], 2008. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04212009-091411/unrestricted/Kacela.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, 2008.
Title from dissertation title page (viewed May 4, 2009). At head of title: Brite Divinity School. Includes abstract. "Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Brite Divinity School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Counseling." Includes bibliographical references.
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Allen, Bryan. "The Christian new religious movement : evolution or heresy?" Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683259.

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Heron, Sharon Jane Susanne. "Mentoring in Christian community :issues of definition and evaluation." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491952.

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In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the phenomenon of mentoring in diverse societal sectors with a resulting plethora of definitions. This thesis focuses on mentoring that is practiced in Christian community. The work postulates a theological classification of Christian community and explores the symbiotic relationship that exists between mentoring practice and context, with particular reference to theological reflection. In critical conversation with the theology of Christian community and through a synthesis of evidence gathered from a key text on discipleship - Mark's Gospel - and a corpus of contemporary writings on mentoring this study offers a definition of mentoring in Christian community that is holistic and integrative. This work also submits an analysis of the demands and complexities of evaluating holistic Christian mentoring programmes, particularly in the area of spiritual fonnation and subsequently proposes an evaluation framework, model and tools. Through the organisation and delivery of a pilot study (replicated on a smaller scale in two other settings), and through the use of rigorous methodology the viability of the model was investigated. The evaluation has revealed findings to infonn the practice of Christian mentoring and has given insights into its beneficial impact in the particular Christian community context of theological education. This work, thus, has produced a reliable template from which Christian communities can contextualise their mentoring programme evaluations. The study concludes with recommendations for further research, suggestions for implementation and conclusions regarding the influencing factors for successful mentoring programmes. It affinns the contention that a rediscovery of Christian mentoring could be the means by which the objectives of theological education may become more integrated and through which the church community may more adequately fulfil its commission to make lifelong disciples.
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Pollard, Wm F. Adrian. "Biblical images of community in a post Christian culture." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Taylor, Daniel Cornelius. "The dynamics of 'perfect love' in a Christian community." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683297.

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Bennett, Diana Curren. "Creating authentic Christian community intentional relationships for spiritual renewal /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.068-0612.

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Schnelle, Heath McKay. "Dietrich Bonhoeffer's view of Christian community yesterday and today /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Koch, Gerry Conrad. "Evaluating the effectiveness of a discipleship seminar program at Valley Community Baptist Church." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Shin, In-Cheol. "Matthew's inclusive community a narratological and social scientific reading /." Pretoria ; [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/availalbe/etd-05262005-154759.

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Lighari, Joyce Ann Johannesen. "The affects of Internet-Mediated Social Networking on Christian community." Thesis, Trevecca Nazarene University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3565665.

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This study examined the relationship of Internet-Mediated Social Network, the formation of adult Christian community, and its affect on adult Christian growth. The researcher compared and analyzed three types of adult Christian learning communities: traditional, hybrid, and virtual. Each week over the course of six weeks, the three types of learning communities met weekly. Participants were pretested and posttested, utilizing instruments that evaluated spiritual maturity. Analysis of interactions on Internet-Mediated Social Networking was conducted. Findings were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Results indicated the usage of Internet-Mediated Social Network offers potential for adult Christian education and should be further explored.

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Sookhdeo, Patrick. "The impact of Islamization on the Christian community of Pakistan." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313351.

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Roussel, Christopher M. "Multiple concepts of the Church : hermeneutics, identity, and Christian community." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3073/.

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This thesis aims to contribute to Western theology by exploring plurality as well as unity within Christianity. By looking at the history of orthodoxy as a narrative construction of identity, I argue that Christian identity is not based on doxa, dogma, or practises. Instead, I suggest that Christian identity should be rooted primarily as a practise in the experience of and participation with God through the living Christ. I propose that ecumenical unity is not ecclesial or doxalogical but rather practical because unity is achieved when groups act together and participate in each other without ceasing to be different. I explore in my first chapter the philosophical concepts (time and narrative) which form the basis of identity. I introduce the thoughts of G. Deleuze and P. Ricœur separately before bringing them together in a dialogue. The dialogue develops the concepts of time and narrative into a general theory for constructing identity. I analyse identity in the second chapter by reading historical reactions to I. Kant's conception of a permanent identity because Kant is a central focus in contemporary philosophical thought on identity. Inspired by the dialogue between Deleuze and Ricœur introduced previously, I construct a new approach to identity. My concept of identity can be applied equally to individuals and groups, however I primarily follow group identity in my thesis. My third chapter applies this theory of identity to the discussion of the concept of orthodoxy. I present a model for interpreting orthodoxy in terms of group identity, then I trace the history of orthodoxy in three general periods: the early Church, the Reformation era, and our contemporary period. I show that concerns with theological truth in questions of orthodoxy were often politicised and used to establish an authority to control Christian identity. During the Reformations, reforms were treated as questions of authority and at times resulted in exclusion rather than reform. Political moves subsequently created multiple authorities which I suggest reveal the contingency of authority. Since the nineteenth century, groups approached Christian unity without addressing the implications of authority's contingency. In my fourth chapter, I pursue the question of ecumenical unity by interpreting authorities as created and embedded in particular contexts which render impossible a single, universal authority. In contrast to a singular definition of the Church, I argue that Pauline images of the body of Christ shape Christian identity as polydox. My model of relating differences within unity reveals the extent to which many theological 'controversies' still are politicised. Finally, I argue that the ecumenical dialogue overlaps with inter-religious and 'secular' dialogues, both of which are necessary for the Church's work on identity as organic unity.
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Hayes, Mark K. "Using the Myers-Briggs type indicator to enhance Christian community." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Madden, Thomas F. "A program for personal spiritual formation in a Christian community." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Allbaugh, Jonathan C. "A model of spiritual formation for Northland Community Christian Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Paxton, Philip D. "Embracing pluralism and building community from Christian and U.S. perspectives." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Korovushkina, Irina. "Marriage, gender, family and the Old Believer community, 1760 - 1850." Thesis, University of Essex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388137.

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Rose, Corey. "A guide for helping churches and other ministries establish intentional community living situations for college-age believers." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p002-0809.

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Ascough, Richard S. "Voluntary associations and community formation, Paul's Macedonian Christian communities in context." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25204.pdf.

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Novak, Valerie. "A mustard seed community experiment in fostering Christian full critical consciousness /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Currah, Galen Jay. "A handbook for field communication specialists in Christian community development programs." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Wilson, Franklin Wade. "The Kingdom in context the Christian community in an Islamic culture /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Wesley, Bruce. "Equipping leaders of disciple-making small groups in Clear Creek Community Church of League City, Texas." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Grosser, David Eric. "Trinity, personhood, and community the ecclesiological vision of Miroslav Volf /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Shearer, Christian Raymond. "Eden and human community studies in original design /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Hamlin, Thomas E. "Coming to the table revitalizing community in a starving congregation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Scott, Julie F. "Unfinished sympathy : embodiment of faith in an American fundamentalist Christian intentional community." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26921.

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Much previous work on Intentional Communities (ICs) tends to 'fail' to fully 'understand' such social forms due to an over-emphasis on the division between theory and practice. One possible methodological route out of this impasse is to apply the paradigm of embodiment. Embodiment of faith is explored in relation to one such IC, God's Way Community, in southern Missouri (USA). The extent of this embodiment is located within a range of social spheres, including belief, everyday ritual, language, gender, work, and spatial constructs. It is argued that to achieve 'understanding' (in the sense of Weber's 'verstehen') of ICs, and similar types of 'extraordinary' forms of belief, it is necessary to dissolve the theory/practice (and by implication subject/object) divide inherent in much previous work on this subject. This is also made possible through the application not only of embodiment theory, but also through the use of a number of methodologies which could be loosely labelled 'post-structuralist'. This includes, for example, the application of historical analysis and cultural contextualisation. Such methodological approaches also affords an opportunity to challenge the prevailing stereotypes of such forms of beliefs, and so create new levels of 'sympathy' towards them.
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Orton, Andrew. "Faith, dialogue and difference in English Christian community work : learning “good practice”?" Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2921/.

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This thesis examines the impact of difference within English Christian community work practice, setting this work in the context of broader debates over the relationship between faith, politics, identity and practice. Several dimensions of difference are considered, including difference as diversity of practice, difference as contestation of practice, and difference as 'the other'. A multi-stage research design is employed to study these dimensions of difference further, based on analysing usage of the concept of 'good practice'. This concept is found to be continually defined, re-defined, applied into particular situations and contested through everyday interpretations, interactions and processes. The complexity of interests, relationships and structures at different levels are explored through consecutive case studies, highlighting both individual and organisational dynamics. An analysis of the data highlights several areas where current understandings and applications are creating counter-productive tendencies and dilemmas for all those involved. Questions of identity, purpose and learning are all found to be central to understanding and addressing these difficulties. Finally, a refined model of Christian community work is proposed that is based on informal education. This model begins to resolve these difficulties, thus helping to develop an improved understanding of this work to inform policy and practice.
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Roberts, Mikie. "Hymnody and identity : congregational singing as a construct of Christian community identity." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5257/.

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In many churches, congregational singing is a central component of corporate worship. The sung hymns encapsulate the congregation’s theological beliefs, reflect their historical heritage and underscore the musical biases of the congregation. This writer contends that because hymns are so essential to congregations, there is a correlation between a congregation’s hymnody and its identity, which is typically measured by factors such as its rituals, history, leadership and location. However, one variable that deserves greater attention is that of the role of congregational hymnody. Consequently, the aim of this study is to explore how congregational hymnody is a source of congregational identity. To achieve this, this writer applied a case study methodology to multiple sites. The first is historical and examines the 18th Century Fetter Lane Moravian congregation. The second is an ethnographic study of the St. Thomas Assemblies of God Pentecostal congregation. The third is a textual analysis of the sole Caribbean ecumenical hymnal ever published. Through this study, I advance the notion that as congregations sing hymns they are engaging in a unique activity (\(hymnic\) \(performativity\)) in which as they make music through hymn singing, the music is also at work shaping and forming the congregations’ communal identity.
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Smyth, Ashley A. "Community counselling: a contextual curriculum design for Christian higher education in Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1933.

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A uniquely African framework for training community counsellors is urgently required to address the range and impact of contemporary community counselling needs in Africa. Training methodologies utilised in Christian higher education throughout Africa shoulddynamically reflect on the socio-cultural context in order to gain a regional understanding of community counselling needs and apply distinctively regional interventions. This study has found that a limited number of Christian higher education institutions in Africa is actively engaged in undergraduate training of community counsellors - primarily in the sphere of Christian counselling. At the same time, the range and severity of community mental health needs is accelerating rapidly, requiring a new generation of community counsellors who have received relevant and effective regional training at an undergraduate level of study. Presently, amongst those institutions where such training is provided, the emphasis within the curriculum has revealed a marked bias towards western knowledge constructs and values - particularly in parts of Africa where European influences are so strong. The study reveals that psychosocial phenomena as experienced in the context of developed societies of Europe and North America have questionable relevance to the distinctive regional challenges facing Africans today. This study presents a case for Christian higher education in Africa to adopt a uniquely African framework for training community counsellors to address the range and impact of contemporary community mental health needs. The study has explored a curriculum development process that dynamically reflects on the socio-cultural context in order to gain a regional understanding of community mental health needs to ensure that community counsellors are provided with effective intervention skills. A unique strategy for integrating the outcomes of such a community assessment into a relevant curriculum design is presented. This strategy comprises a four-step community assessment model utilising focus groups to investigate the range and severity of counselling needs in communities throughout the Great Lakes region (Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi). The results of this community assessment provide guidelines intended to assist Christian higher education in this regional selling to re-curriculate existing undergraduate curricula in community counsellor training and to develop new curricula. The author demonstrates how lessons learned from conducting one such regional study can be meaningfully applied to other regions on the African sub-continent. The global relevance of this study is reflected in the interface between the 'bio ecological systems theory' of Uri Bronfenbrenner (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) and the pedagogic paradigm developed in this study. Both emphasise the vital importance of exploring and understanding socio-cultural frameworks if training methodologies are to be psychologically and culturally valid.
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Karianjahi, Muhia M. "Constructing Christian rites of passage that enhance community in East African churches." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Hayden, Paul E. "When the world comes to you Christian witness in a resort community /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Eldred, Janet Barbara. "Community, connection, caring : towards a Christian feminist practical theology of older women." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2002. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/642/.

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Christian feminist theologians state that community, connection, and caring are the means by which women live their lives and through which women understand and express their faith. These theologians also claim that their theologies are based on women's expeniences. In this thesis I ask, are the ideas of community, connection, and caring proposed by these theologians relevant to older women in Britain today? Are older women's experiences reflected in Christian feminist theologies? Should there be a separate theology of older women based on these concepts? I explore these questions first by considering ideas of community, connection, and caring put forward by feminists and Christian feminist theologians and then by comparing these ideas with the lived experiences of older women themselves. These experiences are gathered from the field of social gerontology as well as from new empirical research: semi-structured interviews with 40 churchgoing Methodist and Anglican women in York, aged 65 and over. Data analysis indicates that community, connection, and caring are important and desirable aspects of older women's lives, and that the family and the local church are significant sources of these entities and processes. In this respect, older women's experiences are reflected in Christian feminist theologies, although this appears to be more by default than by design. In addition, their experiences (for example, of being a newcomer to a church congregation or of working to maintain an identity as a carer in a society that views them as recipients of care only) are not universally positive, adding dissenting voices to the largely enthusiastic assertions of the theologians. Consequently, I propose a move towards a Christian feminist practical theology of older women-a theology based on older women's experiences of community, connection, and caring and calling for informed, committed praxis by the churches, suggestions for which are offered. Such a feminist theology would complement other developing theologies and spiritualities of older women. At the same time, it would be flexible and provisional, taking on board new developments and data as they arise-particularly as succeeding generations of women age-and intentionally incorporating them.
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Campbell, Lynn M. "Just community a model of congregational development founded in Catholic social teaching /." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2006. http://165.236.235.140/lib/LCampbell2007.pdf.

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Case, Cheryl L. "Strategic Neighboring and "Beloved Community" Development in West Atlanta Neighborhoods." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/55.

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This study investigates the phenomenon of faith-motivated actors in blighted inner-city neighborhoods on the west side of Atlanta, Georgia. In merging community development literature with a framework of place, this research explores the role of faith in neighborhood transformation efforts. In particular, it examines the motivations and values of these actors that shape how they conceptualize their neighborhoods and in turn how these values are then inscribed into place. Fewer than 40 strategic neighbors are known to be active in Atlanta’s west side; of these 32 participated in the research through in-depth interviews, surveys, diaries and other qualitative research methods. Through this extensive qualitative investigation, this thesis explores the middle-class identity struggles experienced by participants as they reconfigure the social and material spaces of their neighborhoods as they live out their faith.
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Brown, Daniel R. "A seminar on church leadership in a revolving community." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Gardiner, W. Craig T. "Melodies of community : towards a theology of Christian community through the metaphor of music, with particular reference to Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Iona Community." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2006. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55420/.

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The concluding chapters examine how the counterpoint of worship, ecumenism and healing is performed within the Church, and how the melodies of peace, justice and ecology are realised in and with the world. They confirm the importance of polyphony as a metaphor through which a new theology of Christian community may be articulated.
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Smith, David Andrew. "The preaching community a practical theological analysis of the role of preaching within the Christian Brethren Church /." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07242008-080947/.

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Cline, Benjamin J. "REACHING OTHERS: THE RHETORIC OF PROSELYTIZING AND COMMUNITY OF A CHRISTIAN CAMPUS ORGANIZATION." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1121871871.

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Wong, Francis K. K. "A strategic plan for community ministry of the Chinese Christian Church of Ottawa." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.

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Harley, Julie Ruth. "Developing Christian community through small groups at the Union Church of Hinsdale, Illinois." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.

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Nedilsky, Lida V. "The web of voluntary associations : Christian community and civil society in Hong Kong /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3055795.

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Joansson, Tordur. "Brethren in the Faeroes : an evangelical movement, its remarkable growth and lasting impact in a remote island community." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3647/.

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The thesis comprises results of broad research into the Brethren Movement in the Faeroes from 1865 to 2010, emphasising the disciplines Church History, Economic, Social and Cultural History, Cultural Studies and Missiology. The role of Brethren in the Nation Building Process is analysed as well as their pioneering work in the language struggle. Drawing on recent theories the Faeroese Brethren Movement is set in national and international perspective. Interviwes with many Brethren confirm the validity of the theories and give insight into (1) the developments until the 1960s, and (2) the period after. New aspects are brought to light, analysed and seen as part of the general development in the islands, and how Brethren have influenced the national, economic and cultural progresses. Nowhere has the Brethren Movement had such support as in the Faeroes where around 15 per cent of the polulation are members; elsewhere it is between a half and one per cent at most. Reasons for this are analysed as are Brethren theology and practices, attitudes and activism which have influences the broader community. The conclusion points out that the Faeroese Brethren movement has had much greater impact on the progress and developments that so far acknowledged. Self-government, self-financing and self-propagation of each assembly have influenced attitudes outside the movement, and Brethren attitudes, pioneering spirit and new ways of thinking have inspired others. The Brethren Movement was the first to break away from colonial power (the Danish State Church) and establish a Faeroese church. Tensions and changes within the movement in the early 21st century are discussed and the future of Brethren in the Faeroes is evaluated.
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