Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

This qualitative study analyzes data from in-depth interviews to describe self-care strategies among chronic and injecting drug users. While the types of strategies varied from participant to participant, the theme of proactive self-care remained strong throughout the data. Researchers identified five self-care domains discussed by the study participants. The self-care domains include strategies to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, address medical concerns, regulate substance use, and reduce sexual risk. Overall, these data indicate that chronic drug users are actively involved in managing and improving their health and attempt to take self-protective actions, even while continuing to engage in active drug use. These findings are particularly relevant for primary care providers, walk-in clinics, drug treatment programs, outreach workers and those engaged in harm reduction efforts. Recognizing that drug users are actively involved in taking care of their health can be an important strategy to build into any intervention or risk reduction program.

ABSTRACT The debate concerning the approach of the early Christians to the military can be advanced by paying attention to a genre of literature that scholars have largely ignored: the church orders. These documents—the Apostolic Tradition , Canons of Hippolytus , Testament of Our Lord , and Apostolic Constitutions —are illuminating in that they deal with ethics within comprehensive treatments of worship, catechesis and pastoral life. They also are useful in that they, as variations upon a common original, are means of monitoring change across the third and fourth centuries. This article uses the church orders to assess four elements of a “new consensus” (David Hunter) on Christians in the military. By and large it confirms these, but at times it alters emphases and adds nuances. It argues that: (1) the church orders viewed killing as the big problem for Christians in the legions, not idolatry; (2) the church orders confirm that the pre‐Christendom church was divided on Christian participation in the legions; (3) the church orders provide evidence for both discontinuity and continuity on the issue across the centuries, although the deepest continuity, based on John the Baptist's “rule” of Luke 3.14, is between the pre‐Constantinian laity and later theologians; (4) the church orders confirm a regional variation in attitude and practice. The church orders' authority in practice is never clear.

This book is a basic introduction to the study of Old Testament law, and assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. First, it examines when and where the series and codes of law in the Old Testament came into being, the literary conventions to which the authors were adhering and the social settings which cultivated these conventions and preserved them in writing. Then it goes on to expound the laws themselves, deciding what range of action is governed by a rule of law and what sort of enforcement is envisaged. Thirdly, it penetrates beyond the moral and judicial laws to the concepts and principles that inform them, and beyond that to the world-view underlying them. Finally, it relates the presentation of divine law to judicial law on the one hand and constitutional theory on the other. A postscript discusses the relevance of biblical law to the modern reader. Each chapter lists articles and books on the subjects covered in the text. There is no other book available quite like this. It not only outlines problems and suggests solutions, where there are any, but brings new life to what can often seem one of the more barren areas of the Old Testament.

Liberation Revolution are no longer the dominant slogans in the with-it culture which they were two years ago. If our concern were to join - or to resist - a fad, we would need to test in which churches and cultures the theme is still lively, and to develop a theological critique of faddism. That would not be an unworthy activity, especially since Peace is also one of the words recently cheapened in the marketplace.

Abstract This essay provides an overview of the Neo-Assyrian imperial ideology (ca. 934–609 bce) including how religion and politics intertwine, and how the images of self and other are constructed in this imperial ideology. This overview is followed by a discussion of how the biblical traditions of Isaiah and Deuteronomy responded to the Assyrian empire. Isaiah of Jerusalem (1-39) and the book of Deuteronomy subvert the Assyrian empire by way of mimicking its imperial discourse in order to underline the sovereignty of YHWH and in order to call the people of Judah to trust in their God. The essay then moves on to discuss how the books of Nahum and Jonah offer different perspectives on the notions of decolonization by way of bringing the divine judgment as in the case of Nahum or by way of calling the Ninevites to repent as in the case of Jonah.

Ägypten als Ungeheuer im Buch Ezechiel.

This book was conceived with the aim of making available a resource for mental health professionals working with Muslims by guiding them to offer religio-culturally competent care. Renowned Forewor...

There is little doubt that biblical literalism was a characteristic of the main stream of sixteenth-century Anabaptism. By biblical literalism is not meant a wooden, proof-texting, legalistic understanding of every word of the Bible, but a conviction that the plain meaning of scripture could be understood by any sincere Christian, and ought to be obeyed. The Protestant reformers Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and Bucer also made the Bible central to their reforming efforts. In a sense this might even be said about the intentions of the Council of Trent. Yet differing hermeneutics and socio-political presuppositions led to vastly different ecclesiastical results. Recent Reformation historiography, particularly in eastern Europe, rightly reminds us of the importance of the social and economic factors involved, but hermeneutics remains a vital part of the dynamic of that period, as of all church history, and must be central to contemporary efforts to overcome the legacy of ecclesiastical fragmentation which that area left us.

Controlled digital lending is an intriguing model for libraries to make books available digitally. Building on fair use and the first sale doctrine, libraries digitize their print books, put the print books in dark storage, and lend one electronic copy for each print copy on a platform that prevents users from copying or redistributing electronic versions. The concept empowers libraries to digitize in-copyright books when there are no alternatives available in the e-book licensing market. AMBS Library experimented with a small pilot controlled digital lending collection using Internet Archive’s established digitization and controlled digital lending services. This session reported on the results of that experiment.

The scholarly analysis of accreditation among Bible schools and colleges remains a significant historiographical lacuna. This article examines the emerging impulse towards accreditation within the Bible school movement in western Canada during the turbulent 1960s, a critical decade in the development of evangelical theological education in Canada. The central focus is the origin, activities, and influence of a conference known as the Canadian Conference of Christian Educators (CCCE), an annual gathering of evangelical educators that began meeting in 1960. The prominent presence of personnel from the newly formed Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges (AABC), who were keenly interested in extending their organization into a region with the largest concentration of Bible schools in the world, raised expectations among Canadian evangelical educators about the possibility of a new level of respectability and recognition for their schools among public universities in Canada. Bible college educators in Canada soon discovered that AABC accreditation did not mean the same thing within the post-secondary educational landscape of Canada as it did in the United States. This resulted in an ambivalent relationship between AABC and the emerging Bible colleges in Canada, and prompted some Canadian leaders to investigate other avenues towards academic recognition. Illustrating the polarized response towards accreditation within the Bible school/college movement are two brief institutional studies of Mennonite Brethren Bible College in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta. The differences reflect the variegated character of an evolving evangelicalism in western Canada. By the end of the 1960s, the significant American influence within the CCCE had been displaced by Canadian initiative and leadership, thus signalling the beginning of a new chapter in evangelical higher education in Canada.

Issues of immunity from attack and the assignment of responsibility for civilian deaths are central to the modern war convention. Koontz addresses several difficulties with Walzer's treatment of noncombatant immunity in Just and Unjust Wars. Walzer's theory of noncombatant immunity states that immunity from attack is a fundamental human right that can only be lost once a person becomes a direct threat or consents to give up his or her right to immunity. Koontz cites inconsistencies in Walzer's method of determining the immunity of soldiers and civilians. He argues from a deontological perspective that there can be no grounds for consent to the loss of immunity other than a direct threat posed by a civilian. This strengthens the protection of noncombatants, a principle that had been weakened by Walzer.

By examining the narrative roles of four women in Mark's Gospel (5:24b-34; 7:24-30; 12:41-44; 14:3-9) in relation to the narrator's development of key themes, this study demonstrates that Mark's Gospel presents women in unusually positive roles among the various character groups depicted in the Gospel. Without the roles of these women the reader does not have an embodied model for reader identification. These four stories prepare for the positive depiction of women that emerges in the passion and resurrection narrative. But in Mark's narrative world, women are also fallible, as 16:8 and other portraits of women indicate. Nonetheless, the roles that the hemorrhaging woman, the Syro-Phoenician woman, the widow at the temple, and the woman of Bethany play are astonishing in relation to the main narrative themes. In reflecting upon these findings, I consider also the wider testimony of the four canonical Gospels regarding the role of women, and thus call for fresh assessment of the prevailing notion that during the last third of the first century, the Christian church experienced an increasing repression of women in public leadership roles.

Teachers should “talk” mathematics with their students more often. The key premises of this paper are (I) that teachers can more effectively help children learn arithmetic if they understand what a child knows, (2) that this understanding is best arrived at through dialogue with children, and (3) that the dialogues themselves are valuable instructional episodes.

Die Christologie des Lammes in der Johannesapokalypse. Eine Studie zu Hintergrund und rhetorischer Überzeugungskraft des Bildes.

Book Review| November 01 2013 LDS in the USA: Mormonism and the Making of American Culture LDS in the USA: Mormonism and the Making of American Culture. By Lee Trepanier and Lynita K. Newswander. Baylor University Press, 2012. 114 pages. $24.95 paper, $17.30 ebook. W. Michael Ashcraft, W. Michael Ashcraft Truman State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Ryan D. Harker Ryan D. Harker Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2013) 17 (2): 115–117. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2013.17.2.115 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation W. Michael Ashcraft, Ryan D. Harker; LDS in the USA: Mormonism and the Making of American Culture. Nova Religio 1 November 2013; 17 (2): 115–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2013.17.2.115 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2013 by The Regents of the University of California2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract. This article is a presentation and discussion of a seminary course on the Corinthian Correspondence. The pedagogical model for this course was structured to parallel the pattern of Paul's pastoral care from a distance as he relates to the Corinthian congregation by personal visits, delegations from and to the congregation, letters from and to the congregation, and unofficial grapevine types of communication. The course was designed for dispersed students to interact with the Corinthian letters, with each other, and with myself as instructor in ways that 1) simulate a first‐century exchange between congregation and apostle and 2) facilitate careful interpretive work on the message of these letters, including their contemporary relevance.

This chapter contains sections titled: Description Early Developments Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Illustration of Case Method in Scripture Another Illustration Research and Theory Building Theological Education and Ministry Formation An Appraisal References

During the last two decades there has been growing research on intercultural and, more recently, interreligious care in the face of increased, global pluralization. Representatives of various traditions are making substantial contributions beyond the pioneering work of Christian clinicians and theoreticians. This essay addresses one of the challenges and opportunities associated with multi-faith contexts: the methodological and clinical question of how spiritual caregivers can effectively engage significant difference in interreligious caregiving situations. Therefore, the twofold goal of the article is to understand and to foster competent practice by counselors, psychotherapists, chaplains, pastors and other spiritual caregivers. The body of the text describes and illustrates five strategies that caregivers can employ plus a review of seven categories of therapeutic interventions.

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsLeland HarderReligious education has been approached in terms of instruction, nurture, and experience. Each of these is limited and needs to be incorporated into a larger scheme of things. Some writers have suggested that we should speak of Gospel‐centered education. The following article works out a point of view against this background in terms of......

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