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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Scott, Matthew R.
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Mutual Blessings : Towards a community centered on the sacredness of creation
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October 22, 202
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By Scott, Matthew R. (2020) -- "An opportunity for dialog between church members and unchurched local environmental activists offers an evangelistic opportunity for a rural Episcopal congregation. The paper argues that by sharing reflections in a small group setting about the experience of the sacredness of nature, churched and unchurched persons will build bridges toward mutual evangelistic community. Evidence in favor of the argument comes from an interpretive phenomenological study of participant’s experience. Important to this research is how an individual’s experiences in nature may offer a unique avenue for evangelism efforts. Themes addressed include ecological theology, post-Christendom evangelism, and the impact of interpersonal relationships on human development." -- Abstract, p. vii.
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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My Story, Our Story, God’s Story: Storytelling as a Means of Faith Formation and Community-Building in College Students
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College students -- Religious life.
Storytelling -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Spiritual formation.
Communities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Fellowship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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By Jenny Frazier Call, 2018 -- "A project thesis submitted to the faculty of The Virginia Theological Seminary in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Ministry, February 26, 2018." Advisor : Lisa Barrowclough. Readers : Elisabeth M. Kimball, Dori Grinenko Baker.
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Call, Jenny Frazier
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Virginia Theological Seminary.
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2018.
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Neoevangelism: An Ancient Practice Rediscovered.
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Evangelistic work -- Episcopal Church.
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By Robert D. Flanagan -- 2018. "A project thesis submitted to the faculty of The Virginia Theological Seminary in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Ministry, February 5, 2018." Advisor : David Gortner. Readers : David Bird, Elizabeth Ford Friend.
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Flanagan, Robert D.
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Virginia Theological Seminary.
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2018.
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©Copyright Robert D. Flanagan, 2018.
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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One thousand steps : the development of guiding principles of effective parochial mission work.
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Missions -- Theory.
Missions -- Biblical teaching.
City churches.
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McLeod, Harrison M.
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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12/2015
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives-4.0 International License, © Copyright Harrison M. McLeod 2015.
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By Harrison M. McLeod -- "The purpose of this thesis is to establish a set of “Guiding Principles” for the design and implementation of effective parochial mission work that is faithful to Jesus’ command in Matthew 25 and genuinely respects and values those serving and those being served.
As commanded by Jesus in Matthew 25, incumbent in our faith as Christians is the call to serve the needs of the poor and the oppressed. This service is manifest in specific works of compassion and aid to those in need. In response to Jesus’ call, parishes allocate resources of time, talent and treasure to relieve the needs of the poor. Unfortunately, these well meaning efforts can create dependency on the part of the recipient and foster “burnout” on the part of the parishioners. In order to develop a set of “Guiding Principles” for effective mission work an examination of the biblical and sacramental foundations of mission work was undertaken. Building on the biblical and sacramental insights, several parishes were selected as case studies and invited to participate in a survey and extended nterviews followed by a group forum to determine strengths and weaknesses related to mission work. Based on the qualitative data received, this project attempts to define a set of “Guiding Principles” by which parochial mission work can be pursued to the mutual benefit of those serving as well as those served. The insights gained from this project have altered the manner in which mission work is undertaken and offered at Christ Church, Greenville, SC and may impact the future mission offerings of other parishes." -- (Abstract)
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Paradox Unpacked : Jesus as God in the Gospel of John
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The Prologue of the Gospel of John previews the theological framework which guides readers through the book. This thesis identifies in the Prologue three paradoxes pertaining to Jesus’ identity, mission, and purpose and traces them through the remainder of GJohn, showing that each paradox is fundamental to Johannine theology. The paradox of identity shows the relationship between Jesus Christ the Word of God and God the Father. The paradox of mission shows how the Word made flesh brings grace and truth in conjunction with the Spirit of truth. The paradox of purpose shows how the Word offers life to the world through his death. In the Book of Signs and the Farewell Discourse, Jesus’ words and actions develop each paradox further, both heightening and lessening the inherent tensions. By the Passion Narrative, the characters in GJohn and the readers themselves are asked to respond with belief to the paradoxical reality of Jesus Christ, through which belief they gain eternal life in him. Through careful exegesis of each relevant passage, this thesis shows how the author of GJohn uses paradox as a tool to present difficult concepts which are not easily explained but are foundational to an understanding of Johannine theology. This lays a foundation for further examination of GJohn through the lens of paradox.
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Layton, Molly Jane
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May 2022
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Pastoring Evolving Faiths: Faith Deconstruction and Reconstruction in a Post-Evangelical Church
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Faith deconstruction and reconstruction have become a religious cultural phenomenon in 21st century America. It is an experience lamented by conservative evangelical and fundamentalist leaders as a step toward apostasy. But deconstruction is also a vital practice of those seeking to retain an authentic spirituality while challenging the authoritative and often regressive doctrines and practices of their traditional church. The
goal of faith reconstruction is a revitalized, more compassionate, progressive, and inclusive belief system; one that rejects ancient perspectives of an angry God and embraces a perspective of a more loving and gracious God.
The act of ministry at the heart of this doctoral thesis project was implementing the “Evolving Faiths Discussion Group” in an inter-denominational church in Norman, Oklahoma. The goal was to provide a “safe space” where Christians from fundamentalist and evangelical backgrounds could openly discuss their questions and doubts about the
faith they inherited, and explore more palatable alternative theologies. The intent was to provide a regular place and time, resources, and fellow deconstructors to explore those concerns. The desired outcome was that the participants would continue faith exploration as a life-long journey, become comfortable with questions as normative of spiritual health, and experience an enhanced connection with God and the world (3Cs).
The project engaged in action research, and employed adapted elements from heuristic phenomenology and ethnography. The thesis examines a recent social history of the “Fall of American evangelicalism,” and the “Rise of the Spiritual But Not Religious.” It constructs a biblical defense of deconstruction, describes the implementation of the Discussion Group, presents an analysis of five core evangelical themes as they affected
the participants with a composite summary of the group experience as a whole, and concludes with some pastoral reflections.
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Schmidt, Stephen
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2023
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Reimagining Women’s Ministry and Leadership in Light of the Eucharist : A Palestinian Anglican Perspective
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By Naoum, Hosam Elias (2019) -- This project’s purpose was to highlight gender inequality within Palestinian society in general and the local Anglican Church in particular. In the context of the project, women initiated conversations centering on women’s roles in the church with the potential to open the local Anglican Church to a fuller vision and experience of God. Through the women’s prophetic imagination and re-imagination of their own stories, they move their families and their church community toward gender justice and equality.<br />Women at St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, engaged in conversation to reflect on the ministry and leadership of women in their own patriarchal and male-dominated context. As an ethnographic study, the project focused on the lived experiences of Palestinian Anglican women within the church and the wider community. The conversation, referred to as “table talk,” was the foundational act of ministry for the theological discussion and reflection of this project thesis. Feminist approaches to anthropology, ecclesiology, spirituality guided my theological reflection on the women's table talk.<br />This unprecedented project at the Cathedral has the power to transform the whole community’s vision and experience of God. In short, this project thesis is a major pastoral step within my context where the church as the body of Christ moves into the fullness and wholeness of God's Kingdom, fully affirming both women and men as made in God’s image.
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Naoum, Hosam Elias
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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June 27, 2019
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Copyright © 2019 by Hosam E. Naoum
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Speaking our faith : Using sacred conversation to develop evangelical competency in Post-Boomers
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All Saints Episcopal Church (East Lansing, Mich.) -- Case studies.
Church work with the baby boom generation -- Case studies.
Witness bearing (Christianity) -- Episcopal Church -- Case studies.
Evangelistic work -- Episcopal Church -- Case studies.
Baby boom generation -- Religious life.
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By Katherine Carlson, 2015. "[E]quipping faithful post-boomers to learn to speak to their friends about faith seemed an intriguing approach for me to take as my little slice of the great challenge of adapting American Christianity to the rapidly changing cultural context surrounding it.
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Carlson, Katherine Ann (Kit)
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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3/2015
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161 pages.
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© Copyright Katherine Ann Carlson, 2015.
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Spirituality and Bereavement.
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Bereavement -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects.
Grief therapy.
Loss (Psychology)
Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Clergy -- Death.
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By Robert A. Becker, 2017 -- "A project thesis submitted to the faculty of The Virginia Theological Seminary in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Ministry. December 7, 2017."--T.p. Advisor : Kathleen Hope Brown. Readers: Kathleen Henderson Staudt, Edward M. Andrews.
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Becker, Robert A.
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See record for print version in <a href="http://librarycatalog.vts.edu/record=b1692266~S1">Library Catalog</a>
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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2017.
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©Copyright Robert A. Becker, 2017.
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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The Black Church and Economic Empowerment: An Ecumenical Collaboration in The Revitalization of West Dayton
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Speare-Hardy II, Benjamin E.K.
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Copyright Benjamin Speare-Hardy, 2021.
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By Speare-Hardy, Benjamin E.K. II (2021) -- "This thesis is about an Ecumenical Collaboration of the Black Church to address the disparities in the education of Black students in Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools. These disparities include unjust discipline practices, poor academic performance in reading and mathematics, and low graduation rates. Blacks in West Dayton, Ohio experienced significant gaps in education, economic opportunities, and healthcare services. Education, however, provides a foundation for our growth and is the bedrock upon which much of our economic and social wellbeing is developed. To build the case for collaboration, I conducted several interviews with a cross-section of community stakeholders. Three questions were asked of each interviewee:1) In your opinion, what do you consider to be the disparities in education?2) What should be done to close the education gap between Blacks and Caucasians?3) Which role should the Black Church play in closing the gap? ...<br />My insights gleaned from an analysis of the answers, using qualitative research methods, led to a commitment from three Black Church ministerial organizations. Members of those groups signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that invested in a summer education program for Pre-K through 3rd-grade students in West Dayton....The collaboration of the three Black Church ministerial organizations was a crucial first step in attempting to close the education gap for at-risk Black students in Dayton Public Schools" -- Introduction.
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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The JesusTalk program: developing student leaders for empowered campus evangelism
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Erskine College.
Church work with students.
College students -- Religious life.
Christian leadership -- Study and teaching -- Case studies.
Spiritual formation.
Evangelistic work.
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Elsner, Robert J. F.
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See record for print version in <a href="http://librarycatalog.vts.edu/record=b1472839~S1">Library Catalog</a>.
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Virginia Theological Seminary.
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4/2016
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142 pages
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© Copyright Robert J. F. Elsner, 2016.
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By Robert J.F. Elsner, 2016. "The overall purpose of the project was to develop leadership that could change the campus culture to be truer to the Christian mission of a small, rural, distressed Christian college. A total of 157 students participated in the progressive components of this study, including associate researchers (8), Focus group participants (38), Semi-structured interviewees (28), one-on-one (clinical) interviewees (25), role-play training and survey of campus leaders (34). A series of vignettes allowed for role-playing investigations of themes of evangelism. Participants completed a pre-program assessment, participated in the two weeks of training, and another two weeks later completed a post-training assessment that included views on the training itself. Members of student organizations (n=34) were then assessed changes in leadership two weeks after the final leader assessment. Results indicate that the program was effective in changing leaders' views of faith and fear, and was perceived as being efficacious by both leaders and organizational members. Similar evangelical leadership programs could be developed in other collegiate and youth environments to serve the Church and reverse the current trends of youth leaving the church."
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Unconventional prayer practices
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Spiritual retreats -- Anglican Communion - Case studies.
Christ Church Cathedral (Ottawa, Ont.) -- Case studies.
Divine office
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by Dawna D. Wall, 2013 - How do we as people of faith keep ourselves in tune with the rhythm and mystery of God while being inundated with increasing levels of information, noise, frantic motion, and jobs that are more connected to the flow of information than to the flow of body, mind, and spirit? How can communities of faith offer sanctuary to those yearning for it? Learning from monastic communities that help connect individual lives with the Divine by keeping the seven hours, and mingling work and prayer, this project explored the possibility that a modern, accessible retreat could help participants reconnect body, mind, and spirit. In a one-day retreat in an Anglican Cathedral setting, 42 participants, ranging in age from 7 to 86, loosely kept the seven hours and engaged in creative activities: self-directed art projects, needlework, labyrinth walking, illuminating letters, baking, gardening and making rosaries. Participants rated their levels of peacefulness upon arrival and departure, and explored the areas where they had experienced stress during the day, and what they felt led them to a deeper peace. Contained encounters with stress helped participants move to deeper levels of internal peacefulness, as did support and feedback provided through the structure and experience of the event. Seasonal one-day retreats which mingle prayer, creative activity and silence offered in the intrinsic beauty of our churches can help increase inner peace in ways that spill over into daily lives, and can strengthen the ministries of the churches themselves.
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Wall, Dawna D.
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Alexandria, VA: Virginia Theological Seminary.
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2013
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Copyright 2013, Dawna D. Wall.
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English
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Text
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Urban secondary education : poverty, power, class : A pathway to change
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VTS Thesis Collection
Education, urban -- United States
Education, secondary - - United States
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By Leonard Cambra, 2016. "There is an economic divide between educators and students. It is reflective of deeply rooted ideological principles that perpetuate educational inequities. Culture is rooted in socio-economic class. Schools mirror the societies that have created them. The culture of testing directly relates to these ideological principles and injustices. Only a process of co-subjecctivity rooted in a shared human, historic experience could provide a proper fulcrum for conscientization to occur. The poverty simulation was selected to provide faculty this window into a shared experience with the urban poor. Its purpose, to begin a process of 'conscientization' in order to begin a process of structural reform which will improve teaching and learning at the school and raise the percent of students who graduate. Without further professional development and in tandem with other attempted reforms tied to the dominant culture, the immediate results were encouraging, subsequent ones were not. These latter results highlight the need for ongoing professional development to provide a different language expressive of a different reality. To be human is to be relational and exist within a spontaneous dynamic of love fostered in deep respect and understanding but also rooted in challenge and promise. To the fostering of these ends the Poverty Simulation was undertaken as a necessary preamble to comprehensive reforms and adjustments in what we do as urban educators." -- (Abstract)
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Cambra, Leonard
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See record for print version in <a href="http://librarycatalog.vts.edu:2082/record=b1472846~S1">VTS Library Catalog</a>.
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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2016
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© Copyright Leonard Cambra, 2016.
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Vestry Members as Trustees of the Soul of the Parish
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by Divis, Mary Lou Hoover (2020) -- Vestry members need to understand their leadership role in the parish by attending worship and meetings, engaging in the life of the parish, establishing prayer and Bible reading habits. In a specific workshop, Vestry members will learn that their role and vision are needed by attendance at worship and meetings and engaged in the life of the parish. The project is a five (5) hour retreat based on the calling to leadership of Moses (Exod. 3:1-6) and Paul (Acts 9:1-6). This retreat also offers Kathryn Tyler Scott’s work on Trusteeship to encourage Vestry members at both parishes to realize that they need to be dedicated to growth, change, learning, and prayer support as a team in order to move into the future. Each vestry retreat will culminate with a written Covenant Agreement describing how Vestry members are called to lead by attending worship, being prepared to attend meetings, promising to pray and read the Bible. The future is in their hands to encourage growth in their relationship with God and Scripture, to attend worship and meetings with intentionality, to engage with the parish community and those not yet in the parish.
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Divis, Mary Lou Hoover.
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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5/2020
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Copyright © 2020
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PDF
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English
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Thesis.
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VTS Doctoral Theses
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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Vocational Understandings: An Exploration of the Nature of the Tensions in the Musician-Cleric Relationship
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By Alexander C. Graham IV, 2020 -- "Go up to a group of clergy and say, “let’s talk about Church musicians…” and the eyerolls will be ubiquitous and revelatory. Go up to a group of Church musicians and do the reverse, and expect to encounter the same dramatic response. As a priest who was first a musician, I understood both worldviews personally, but needed to explore them on a larger scale.
Through individual interviews, I sought to explore the nature of the unique and unusual relationship between musicians and clerics. What made it work? Where were there problems? How does one group tend to view the other? I then brought the participants together for a plenary session to test what I thought I learned and to discern together in a group what makes for a good relationship, and where the tensions might lie.
One of the significant learnings (for both myself and for those musicians and clerics participating) during this project was that the stories of epically tragic cleric-musician relationships, while perhaps entertaining, are far more widespread than encountered in real life, and do not match the overall experience of the participants or their colleagues. Problems – even daunting ones – do arise, and can be addressed, but they do not escalate to the level of popular expectation."
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Graham, Alexander Coulter IV
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Virginia Theological Seminary
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April 17, 2020
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Coyright 2020, the author.
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PDF
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Project thesis.