Part 1 of this study1 sought to establish frames of reference for measuring success in pastoral ministry and to evaluate the relationship between leadership practices and those criteria. The purpose was twofold: to discover correlations between leadership practices and success in pastoral ministry, and to move toward evaluating effectiveness of leadership formation in graduate theological educa...

One of the bigg est challenges facing Theologica l/ Religious Education in Nigeria is access to quality learning materials. For instance at the Trinity (Union) Theological College, Umuahia, it was difficult for lecturers to access suitable and qualitative materials for instruction especially the ones that would suit the African context and stimulate a deep rooted intere st among the students. S...

nowadays, discussion about and analysis of ṣiḥḥa (truth) and fasād (falsehood) is a focus of attention in theological (uṣūlī) writings. this issue necessitates an explanation of the present structure of the discourse of ṣiḥḥa and fasād in an integrated and logical way. thereby, to achieve this important task, the present article undertakes a descriptive-analytical research based on a library-me...

Since the publication of the Third Edition of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services in 1995, the principle of cooperation has become the primary lens through which potential partnerships, mergers or joint ventures between Catholic health care organizations and secular health care organizations have been assessed. Directive 70 stipulates that “Catholic health car...

This essay provides a close reading of Karl Barth's doctrine of election, attending not only to his argument but also to the patterns of his rhetoric and to his idiosyncratic use of terminology in order to uncover the theological logic that drives his doctrine, and thus to assess its validity. Particular attention is given to the telos of election as Barth conceived it, his theological method, ...

Bultmanll's fallluus questiull about presupposition/css excgesis is here taken up afresh and answered by a young Scandinavian scholar who lecturcs in Old Testament at Uppsala and is director oj the new 'Biblicum' institute established there, The paper, which is hased o.n an address given at all 1FES COIlference jor theological students in 1970, first appeared in the IFES journal for theological...

Millard J. Erickson is the Distinguished Professor of Theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. In addition to teaching at a number of institutions during his career, Dr. Erickson also served as the Vice President and Dean at Bethel Theological Seminary. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including the recently published Making Sense of the Trinity (Bak...

T HE SEVENTH ASSEMBLY of the World Council of Churches which met in February 1991 in Canberra was an important ecclesial event. I was privileged to be present as an accredited visitor, a position which enabled me to participate in many of the Assembly's activities without the responsibilities of those who were delegates or official Catholic observers. My interest focused on the theological issu...

Dr. Allison served many years as a staff member of Campus Crusade, where he worked in campus ministry and as a missionary to Italy and Switzerland. He also serves as the book review editor for theological, historical, and philosophical studies for the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. Dr. Allison is the author of Getting Deep: Understand What You Believe about God and Why (B&H, 20...

I NVITED TO REFLECT ON THE RELATIONSHIP between theology and ecology, and to explore why that relationship might seem to have 'lost its appeal', I decided to look at the Christian theological tradition and the demands that a fruitful and appropriate relationship with ecology might make on it. Do theology's anthropological postulates encourage the kind of theological freedom needed to respond to...