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Longing for God: Psalm 63 and Pentecostal Spirituality
Lee Roy Martin
This study approaches Psalm 63 from the perspective of Pentecostal spirituality, a spiritual-ity that is characterized by an integration of orthodoxy (right belief), orthopraxy (right practice), and orthopathy (right affections). The passionate tone of Psalm 63, along with its prominent theme of divine encounter, resonate deeply with the Pentecostal ethos, which values both passion and encounter. The author argues that a holistic interpretation of Scripture (especially the poetic literature) must include attention to the affective dimension of the text and to the affective concerns of the interpreter. The affections have a role in the interpretation of Scripture, and the affections of the interpreter should be formed/ transformed by the encounter with the biblical text. After arguing for the affective approach and outlining its components, an affective interpretation of Psalm 63 that intersects with Pentecostal spirituality is offered. The article concludes with implications of the study for Pentecostal discipleship and formation.
Suffering, Soul Care, and Community: The Place of Corporate Lament in Evangelical Worship
2018 •
Ann Ahrens
SUFFERING, SOUL CARE, AND COMMUNITY: THE PLACE OF CORPORATE LAMENT IN EVANGELICAL WORSHIP Ann Marie Ahrens, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 Chair: Dr. Esther R. Crookshank This dissertation examines the biblical foundations of corporate lament practices beginning with the worship of ancient Israel as found in the Psalms, and their continued use by Jesus in his prayers, the gospel writers, and in the epistles of Paul, Peter, and John in the Revelation. It concludes with case studies and recommendations for the inclusion of lament practices in modern corporate worship. Chapter 1 is a chronological literature review beginning ca. 1980, which demonstrates the increase in worship resources, particularly in the last decade, that focus on corporate lament practices. Resources are categorized as follows: (1) biblical and theological studies; (2) practical theology; (3) psychology and soul care; (4) liturgical resources for lament; and (5) corporate worship and the use ...
TheUnfolding of Your Words (PS 119: 130): The Pedagogy of the Psalms
2017 •
Francis Alvarez
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Frontier gossip: Christian identity in a renewing word
2017 •
Samuel Curkpatrick
American Theological Inquiry
Beyond Dominion and Stewardship: Humanity and Nature in Puritan Theology
2015 •
Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
This article undertakes an historical theology of the Anglo-American Puritan tradition in the 17th and 18th centuries in an attempt to rethink the Puritans’ oft-maligned attitude toward nature. I recovered a strand of the Puritan tradition in which, far from desiring to conquer and dominate nature, the Puritans conceived of humanity’s responsibility toward nature in terms of human sin and eschatology. In this tradition, it was man’s task to use nature for its appropriate ends, but this was not an act of exploitation. On the contrary, the Puritans cautioned about the sinful misuse of nature and instead sought out the fruits of nature such that they might be used to improve human life. In this way, the Puritans believed they were participating in Christ’s gradual perfection of the earth.
AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE ORIGINS OF THE AFTERLIFE BELIEFS IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Benjamin C Hendrickx, Agai Jock Matthew
The availability of variety of evidence concerning how the afterlife beliefs were practiced in ancient Egypt have succeeded in making many writers to think that the Egyptians originated and spread the afterlife beliefs around the world. However, evidence for the existence of the alleged founders or originators of the afterlife beliefs the Neanderthals have not been found in Egypt. This research investigates the origins of the afterlife beliefs in ancient Egypt and the researcher argues that the ancient Egyptians might not have been responsible for originating the afterlife beliefs.
Bible through African eyes : a comparative study of the epistemology in the hermeneutics of indigenous preachers in eastern Zambia with that in select intra-biblical appropriations and re-appropriations of the Exodus event and its ramifications for African biblical hermeneutical methods
2007 •
Misheck Nyirenda
Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law: Psalm 24, the Environment and Human Responsibility.
David J Cohen
Psalm 24 begins with a clear statement of Yahweh’s relationship to the world in which we live; “The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it”. The psalmist’s vista clearly incorporates not only humankind but also the whole of creation being in relationship with God. In addition the psalm must be viewed as a key component of confessional worship. That is, it is found in the Psalter, the hymnbook of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Consequently Psalm 24 has become a part of our liturgical confession concerning God’s nature, God’s world and the way in which people of faith relate to that world. The perspective espoused in Psalm 24 raises some significant issues for the Church today which I will endeavour to address in this paper. First, the psalm prompts us to explore how we understand the relationship between God and the earth together with potential implications of such a relationship. It also implicitly invites questions about the relationship between the people of God (the Church) and the world in which we live. I will argue that Psalm 24 presents a picture of divine ownership which, for the psalmist, connotes God’s concern for all of creation and divine engagement with the world. In an emphatic manner Psalm 24 concludes with a fresh vision for the faith community demonstrating that divine concern for and engagement with the world is fundamentally God’s prerogative. However, the outworking of this divine prerogative is invitational. It sounds a clarion call for the Church to reflect on what a truly divine-human partnership looks like in our world. Psalm 24 suggests both liturgical and missional actions as the Church embraces the spiritual, sociological and environmental challenges confronting us in the 21st century.
Old Testament Essays
The Use and Interpretation of the Psalms in early Pentecostalism as Reflected in The Apostolic Faith from 1906 through 1915
2017 •
Lee Roy Martin
This article examines the twenty-five references to the book of Psalms in the first ten years of The Apostolic Faith, the periodical that was published by William J. Seymour at the Azusa St. Revival. The article demonstrates that the early Pentecostal interpretation of the psalms was neither monolithic nor simple. The early writers utilized a variety of methods and approaches, depending upon their purpose for writing. Seymour and the other contributors to his periodical used the psalms in at least five different ways: 1. as affirmations of doctrine, 2. as allegories, 3. as analogous to Pentecostal experience, 4. as affective argument, and 5. as assurance and encouragement.
The Transformation of Reason in Genesis 2-3: Two Options for Theological Interpretation
2009 •
Robert Saler
concept (righteousness in God’s own self ) with the concrete term (an actual person righteous “by faith”). And I got clarity about what I was doing. I learned to distinguish between the law’s righteousness and the gospel’s righteousness. Previously I was off-base on one thing, namely, that I made no distinction between the law and the gospel. I held them both to be the same and said that Christ differed from Moses only in historical time and in degree of perfection. But when I discovered the “discrimen” (dividing line, interval, distinction, difference), that the law is one thing and the Gospel is something else, that was my breakthrough. [That
