Dissertations / Theses: 'Doctrinal theology'

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McKnight, Gary Lenox. "Teaching theology through case studies." Portland, Or. : Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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McGaha, Robert K. "Lessons in Christian essentials an introductory course on Bible doctrine /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Hector, Kevin W. "No other starting-point : Karl Barth's rejection of natural theology /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Elliott, Benjamin C. "Karl Popper and Christian theology." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2007. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=185763.

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The objective of this dissertation involves the application of the philosophy of Karl Popper to Christian systematic theology. Its intent is three-fold: first, to give reasons for considering the possibility of such an application in the face of potential objections; second, throughout its discussion, to demonstrate the form that a theological appropriation of Popper might take; and, third, to argue that several benefits arise from such a critical grafting of Popper into dogmatics (where appropriate). The possibility of applying Popper to theology is secured by taking realism as the proper parallel between science and theology and critical rationalism as a realist model amenable to metaphysical theorisation. The actuality and benefit of such an appropriation from within theology is demonstrated by the four-fold exposition of how a Popperian critical epistemology – in particular his solution to the ‘problem of induction’, his relating of good and better theories with the concept of approximation to the truth, his critical strategies for establishing preference, and his notion of ideas as objective – can assist the Christian systematic theologian as he works to resolve the problems of theology for the benefit of the Church and to the glory of God.

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Roy, Calvin W. "The evolution of American theology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Van, Wart T. Adam. "The place of inerrancy within a postfoundationalist theology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1091.

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Kohns, Jonathan Wesley. "An integrative theological framework in a post-Christian era." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Nothstine, Thomas David. "Contextualizing the teaching of doctrinal theology in Swaziland." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Mattson, Brian G. "Restored to our destiny eschatology & the image of God in Herman Bavinck's Reformed dogmatics /." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=24804.

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Joseph, Abraham Sampathkumar. "Distinctives of Dalit theology, liberation theology in India." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Lewis, Ronald J. "A survey of major biblical doctrines." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Chang, Esther A. "A curriculum for teaching major doctrines of Christianity to a college group Sunday school." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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McCall, W. Michael. "Teaching sound doctrine a study of and strategy for the local church /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Heath, Dan W. "The correlation of Petrine theology and Pauline theology with the primitive kerygma an examination of the gospel /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p004-0120.

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Lee, Hong Jei. "The comparative study of the Christology in Latin American liberation theology and Korean Minjung theology." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1990. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2397/.

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This dissertation is fundamentally concerned with the comparative study of Christology in latin American liberation theology and Korean minjung theology. To meet this task the Christology of the former is examined in relation to that of the latter. The study is divided into three parts. Part one contains chapter I through to III. Chapter I is a presentation of liberation theology's motive which takes the suffering people in the current socio-economic political situation as the starting point for a politics-oriented Christology. Chapter II shows the detailed analysis of liberation theology's methodology which is definitely grounded in the principles of the social sciences. Chapter III consists of seeking to interpret Jesus, his words and deeds in the light of the Latin American conditions. Part two, which constitutes chapter IV through to VI, will try to examine a way of thinking about minjung theology within the same categories which we concentrate on the development of liberation theology and its Christological implication in part one, because the clarification between them is necessary for the purpose of this thesis. It may help to solve some of the suspicion whether the label minjung theology is practically synonymous with the label liberation theology in creating a new and appropriate mode of an adequate Christology for answering to the vital needs of the poor and oppressed today. In this observation, have liberation theology and minjung theology anything to say to each other? It is natural for the Christian church to look to them for light on the question. In this desire, part three in chapter VII through to X begins a comparative and critical discussion of the motive, methodologies and Christological implications of the two theologies.

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Muli, Alfred. "The contribution of African theological reflection to the quest for emancipation." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Na, Yong-hwa. "A theological assessment of Minjung theology, systematically and biblically." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Roxas, Tomas M. "A biblical evaluation of soteriology in Filipino liberation theology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Yoon, Hyung-Chul. "The work of the spirit in redemption and creation : a theological evaluation of influential reformed views." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1958.

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Gahamya, Emmanuel. "A critique of Canaan Banana's theology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Lollar, Joshua. ""My eros has been crucified" reading Origen /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p015-0453.

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DeJong, Bert. "Certain comfort in an uncertain age preaching the Heidelberg Catechism in a new way /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.

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Chino, Taido J. "'With two hands' : a doctrinal analysis of Benjamin Warfield and Karl Barth on scripture." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=230870.

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Tierney, Peter George. "For teaching and for training in righteousness foundations for a doctrine of Scripture /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p051-0112.

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Wise, Terry S. "The Bible, God, and Christ for laypeople." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Rozumna, Yuliia. "The interrelatedness of doctrine and ascetic life : St Basil of Caesarea's proof of the divinity of the Holy Spirit." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51735/.

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This thesis comprises the comprehensive study of St Basil of Caesarea’s theology of the Holy Spirit. It is argued that St Basil believes in the divinity of the Spirit, even though he never calls him ‘God’ or ‘of the same nature’ (homoousion) with the Father and the Son. This silence can be explained by the fact that the nature of the Spirit is such that it cannot be revealed. The Spirit reveals the Son, but stays hidden himself. In the present age we can only judge about the nature of the Spirit from Scripture, his actions in the world, and in the lives of prominent ascetics. In this thesis we demonstrate that St Basil defends the divinity of the Spirit not only from traditional ideas of agency of the Spirit in inspiration of Scripture and in baptism, and not only in sanctification, but also from his role in creating the world, angels and humanity, his role in teaching true doctrines and guiding the Christians, in supporting humans in their ascetic struggles, and in providing knowledge of the Father and the Son. St Basil affirms the divine nature of the Spirit by describing his divine activities in all spheres of human life and in the history of humanity, by asserting his equal honour (homotimia) with the other two Persons and his sharing in communion (koinonia) of the Father and the Son. Moreover, it is argued that for St Basil the ascetic life is grounded in the right doctrines, especially doctrine on the Spirit, and that one can understand the true doctrines only by living an ascetic life, that is, the life in the Spirit. We show that St Basil’s teaching on the divinity of the Spirit is evident in his ascetic works, but also that his dogmatic letters and treatises speak of the ascetic life. Finally, it is demonstrated that the theologian addresses his ascetic ideals to the whole of the Church and not just to monastics. He explains the truth of the doctrine of the Spirit to lay people, clergy, and ascetics. The Spirit is divine and communicates divine life through and in himself.

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Duncan, Jennings Ligon. "Covenant idea in ante-Nicene theology." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10618.

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This thesis argues that the covenant idea was more significant in the writings of particular ante-Nicene theologians than has generally been admitted in patristic research or general surveys of the history of the covenant idea in the Christian tradition. Indeed, this survey of the covenant idea in the ante-Nicene period demonstrates a significant usage, development, and modification of the covenant concept as it is found in the OT and NT writings and in early Judaism. This investigation reveals that the covenant idea functions in several arenas of early Christian thought. It is employed (1) to stress moral obligations incumbent upon Christians; (2) to show God's grace in including the Gentiles in the Abrahamic blessings; (3) to deny the reception of these promises to the Israel of the flesh, that is, Israel considered merely as an ethnic entity; (4) to demonstrate continuity in the divine economy; and (5) to explain discontinuity in the divine economy. In reviewing the role of early Christian covenant thought in these areas, this thesis argues that (1) the pre-Nicene theologians usually take OT covenant passages (not NT passages) as the starting point in their applications of the covenant concept to Christian living; (2) the early Christian use of the covenant idea evidences that they understood the covenant to be both unilateral and bilateral, promissory and obligatory, to bring divine blessings and entail human obedience; (3) these writings also show that, from the very earliest times, Christian authors (following OT and NT examples) have employed the covenant concept as a key structural idea in their presentations of redemptive history; (4) contrary to the suggestions of previous studies, there is no evidence of a gap in the usage of the covenant idea after the era of the NT writings; (5) the covenant idea was closely linked to the early Christian self-understanding as the people of God; (6) the covenant idea is not monolithic in the thought of the authors surveyed. It is employed with differing emphases and takes on varying shades of meaning in their respective writings; (7) genetic connections in specific usages of the covenant idea can be found in different pre-Nicene authors (e.g., Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian). The argument of this thesis proceeds by first reviewing the role of the covenant idea in the writings of the NT, the Apostolic Fathers, and Justin. This provides background for comparison and contrast with subsequent theological reflection on the covenants in Christian theology. Then we consider, in turn, the covenant idea in Melito, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Cyprian, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, Hippolytus, and Novatian. In each, specific employments of the covenant idea are inventoried. In the epilogue, our findings are summarized and conclusions are drawn. This study is significant for at least these following reasons: (1) It confirms current research on the Jewish matrix of early Christianity, from a vantage-point not yet exploited. (2) It reviews in greater detail the early Christian covenant thought which is now being acknowledged to have been influential on the sixteenth-century Reformers (such as Bullinger and Calvin). (3) As the first extensive patristic survey of the covenant idea, it fills a significant lacuna in the history of ideas. (4) It lays the groundwork for more detailed considerations of the covenant concept in the pre-Ni cane and post-Nicene eras.

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Parker, Anthony B. "The doctrine of revelation in African Christian theology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Wilson, L. C. "Across the bridge of sighs : reading a Christian theology of melancholy." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41910/.

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In this thesis, I will proceed by the examination of exemplary texts in the western Christian understanding of, and engagement with, the concept of chronically melancholic and destructively sorrowful states. I will begin with influential texts from the ancient west and near east, such as The Book of Job, and the Pseudo-Aristotle, that have provided the touchstones and archetypes of the subject throughout – and beyond – the historical period covered, as well as contemporary narratives whose concerns and themes instructively throw salient features of the former icons into high relief. Thereafter, I shall trace these themes and their development through the work of those Christians who have most powerfully and significantly dealt with the concept of melancholy theologically. In doing so, I will argue, certain significant patterns of interpretation and thematic weighting become apparent. In the narratives surrounding melancholy heroes, we find a personal interlocution with the divine that characteristically takes place in a public context. This is because they contain both a revolutionary critique, and radical reintegration, of a fractured society along compassionate lines. This compassion is interpersonal empathy in the face of the ultimately incomprehensible contradictions and limitations of human life - both in terms of theodicy, and the particularities of every individual’s melancholy, which is grounded in the metaphysically-ambiguous nature of humanity, whose limitations reflect our melancholic distance from divine consummation - the very atmospheric dynamic of contemplation itself. From Evagrius to Kierkegaard, sorrow is the kernel and fulcrum of both sin and moral development. To paraphrase Camus, sorrow is the theological question.

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Samuel, Josh P. S. "The doctrine of Scripture in the theology of Jonathan Edwards." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p097-0004.

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Warneck, Richard Herman. "Avery Dulles's advocacy of reformulation of dogma and doctrinal development." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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MacLeod, Ian. "The sacramental theology and practice of the Reverend John Willison (1680-1750)." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1994. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1609/.

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John Willison (1680-1750) was a leading Evangelical in the Church of Scotland, whose prolific writing had a pronounced sacramental emphasis, at a time when the Lord's Supper was infrequently celebrated. The thesis aims to examine his sacramental theology and practice. Chapter one reconstructs his 'roots' and considers the influence of family, home church and university on his thinking. Ministries at Brechin and Dundee are outlined and his publications are placed in context. Chapter two examines his adherence to the federal scheme of theology. Willison is shown to identify three covenants, which he understands as having a contractual basis. Consideration is given to his stance on the Marrow Controversy, and to areas of agreement and disagreement with the Marrow men. Chapter three examines his sacramental theology which is based on that of the Westminster Confession. His adherence to federalism is shown to result in his assertion that the sacrament is not a 'converting ordinance', his emphasis that it is a seal of the believer's faith and a badge of Christian profession, and his rigorous 'fencing' of the table. Consideration is also given to his positive stress on the sacrament as a means of grace, and to his teaching on the 'real presence' of Christ. Chapter four analyses the form, style and content of Willison's preaching, and his aversion to that of the Moderates. His sacramental sermons, prayers, 'fencing' of the table and table addresses are examined and compared with those of contemporaries from both parties.

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Koltaj, Bojan. "Žižek, Bonhoeffer and the revolutionary body : the sociological potential of critical theology." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2016. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/15684/.

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This thesis explores the potential that lies in the engagement of critical theory and theology. Rather than a mere demonstration of how theology can be used in the service of critical theory, its original contribution is in the demonstration of theological selfreflective criticality that this engagement brings about. It therefore represents an attempt to further develop the potential of this engagement, by showing how critical theory can function as a resource for theological self-reflection. This is achieved through exploration of the method, function and effect of Slavoj Žižek's materialist appropriation of theology for political thought. The resulting struggling universality of abandonment and its ethic of indifference challenging any notion of identity is then applied in examination of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's own social theology of a transcendental personalist community of saints and its ethic of universal love in Sanctorum Communio. Žižek's community, grounded in the absence of God, draws attention to the theological character as never submitting to an identity but rather blurring the hypostasized boundaries between them irrevocably. It challenges Bonhoeffer's community, grounded in and by God, as abstracting and suspending identities only through the creation of a new one. The thesis thus draws attention to and clarifies the full dimensionality of the necessary critical character of theology.

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Anthony, Patrick. ""Adam's task" the poetry of Derek Walcott and Caribbean theology (A study in the relationship between literature and Christian theology) /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Akehurst, Douglas Damien. ""Formed of my dust" toward an Australian contextual theology /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Flannery, Wendy. "Contextual theology in Papua New Guinea a mythic paradigm /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Scheider, David M. "Integrating theology and psychology in pastoral counseling practice." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2009. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p075-0080.

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Puigbó, Juan A. "El concepto de teología de la historia en los escritos teológicos de Ignacio Ellacuría." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Faulk, William Clayton. "Always reforming: creating a Christian education event to encourage theological reflection within the congregation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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De, Bie Linden J. "German idealism in protestant orthodoxy : the Mercersburg Movement, 1840-1860." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74044.

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Lee, Dong-won D. "A critical analysis of Korean Minjung theology overview, critique and alternative /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Carlson, Gary A. "An analysis of revolutionary Latin American liberation theology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Thomson, John Bromilow. "The ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas as a distinctively Christian theology of liberation (1970-2000)." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11192/.

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Of all the concepts that informed what is often called the Enlightenment Project, liberation is arguably central. Nevertheless the experience of the past 200 years has raised serious questions about the character of this liberation and its pathology. In particular, the place of Christian theology in sustaining, concepts of freedom appears to have been marginalised in much post- Enlightenment thought, a challenge of particular significance to theologians and ethicists. Stanley Hauerwas represents one response to the manifestation of the Enlightenment Project in the United States, a response which, I believe, can be described as a distinctive theology of liberation chiefly from the Enlightenment legacy. This approach involves the integration of theology and ethics in the practices of a people whose identity is correlative to the particular narrative which they embody as that diachronic and synchronic, international community called Church. It also reflects an ambivalence about metaphysics and idealism and a preference for demonstrative, ecclesially mediated, truthful living. Yet the credibility of Hauerwas' ecclesiology as a genuinely Christian politics of liberation depends upon whether Hauerwas can not only identify the limitations of post-Enlightenment liberalism, but transcend them in a way that demonstrates the truthful character of the Christian narrative he believes to be embodied in this community called church. In order to determine whether Hauerwas' Project is a genuinely Christian theology of liberation from the Enlightenment legacy, we shall need to gauge the architecture of that project in chapter 1. Then, in chapter 2, we shall locate him in the wider post-Enlightenment debate, before doing the same in terms of the theological debate in chapter 3. This will bring us into conversation with his use of narrative and story as heuristic tools to resource the character of this ecclesiology in chapter 4, before our attempt, in chapter 5, to explore whether his ecclesial politics represent a distinctively Christian expression of liberty.

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Shin, Ho Sub. "The imputation of Christ's active obedience in Puritan theology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p036-0360.

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Way, Scott W. "The value of theology Philipp Jakob Spener's doctrine of sanctification /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1098.

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O'Neil, David Michael. "Forming moral community : Christian and ecclesial existence in the theology of Karl Barth 1915-1922 /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20080908.105728.

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Gaddis, Jason O'Neal. "Theological education in India balancing doctrinal soundness and cultural relevance /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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McKinley, David W. "The true word of God? Caspar Schwenckfeld and the doctrine of Scripture : a reformed analysis of his spiritualist understanding /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p036-0355.

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Stucky, Philip E. "Walk through doctrine a ten part survey of doctrine /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Holt, Charles Edward. "Equipping a small group with a theological foundation for discipleship." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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