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Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture
Dwamena-Aboagye, Angela PhD, 2018
“Ministering to Hurting Women: An Analysis of the Cultural and Theological Understanding and Responses of Evangelical Ghanaian Pastors regarding Women’s Mental Health.”
Myeong-Seok Lee, Bright PhD, 2019
“The Development of Ecotheological Thought in Korea: An Analysis of Primal and Christian Perspectives.”
Ofori, Samuel PhD, 2018
“Building Bridges between the Asante Chieftaincy Institution and Christianity: The Religious Rituals of the Asante Chieftaincy Institution and the Traditional Religious Functions of the Asante Christian Chief vis-à-vis the Christian Faith.”
Settles, Joshua D. PhD, 2018
“Manifesting the Primal Imagination: An Assessment of the ‘Primal’ in the New Testament and Aspects of Black-American Christianity, with Special Reference to the Holiness–Pentecostal/Spiritual Church Traditions.”
Asbury Theological Seminary
Cho, Ban Seok PhD, 2019
“Being Missional, Becoming Missional: A Biblical-Theological Study of the Missional Conversion of the Church.”
Jakada, Yakubu PhD, 2020
“Early Christian Responses to Persecution and Their Implications for Christians in Northern Nigeria.”
Kabete, Irene Maonei PhD, 2019
“Reframing and (Re-)Presenting Evangelism in Oral Cultures: A Case Study of the Harare West (MUMC) VABVUWI Choir in Zimbabwe.”
Marks-Williams, Sheryl Ann PhD, 2020
“Ascertaining Factors Affecting Church Congregational Affiliation among Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in South Florida.”
McFarland, Andrew David PhD, 2020
“William Carey’s Expectation for Missionary Cooperation: An Inquiry into the Significance of Interdependence in the Missionary Partnerships and Collaborative Efforts of the First Baptist Mission in India.”
Mitchell, Zonia LuAnn PhD, 2020
“Giftive Mission Lives: Verbeck, Judson, Ricci, and Timothy I.”
Patrick, Susangeline Yalili PhD, 2020
“Art as a Pathway to God: A Historical-Theological Study of the Jesuit Mission to China in the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties (1552–1773).”
Ausbury, D. Bradley PhD-ICS, 2020
“Toward an Ethical, Culturally Sensitive Definition and Response to Plagiarism for Transnational Education: The Case of Global University Faculty.”
Chali, Kalaba DAIS, 2020
“A Case Study of Cross-cultural Pastoral Appointments of African Diaspora Pastors in the Great Plains Conference (Kansas and Nebraska) of the United Methodist Church.”
Krstulovich, Donna Hardee PhD-ICS, 2020
“A Case Study of the Practice of Hospitality to Extend Christ’s Welcome to Arab Muslim Women.”
Krstulovich, Stephen F. PhD-ICS, 2020
“A History of Chi Alpha’s Outreach to International Students in America.”
Matheny, Murphy DAIS, 2020
“The Pastor and Missions: Discovering the Worldview of Mississippi Assemblies of God Pastors and the Prioritization of Frontier Missions.”
Robinson, Mimsie DAIS, 2020
“Describing the Conversion Experiences of Francophone West African Muslim-Background Believers Living in Metro New York.”
Ruger, Eileen DAIS, 2020
“The Nazarene Overseas Filipino Worker: Equipping God’s Missionary People in the Church of the Nazarene.”
Schaefer, Jennifer Christine DAIS, 2020
“Biblically Faithful, Relevant, Communicationally Effective: Applying Semantic and Communication Theories to the Selection of Key Biblical Terms in the Safaliba Language.”
Skipper, Steven Marcus PhD-ICS, 2020
“The Vocational Evangelist in the Argentine Assemblies of God.”
Alexander, Anne Laura DIS, 2019
“Indigenized Storytelling Performance in Taiwan.”
Armstrong, Cameron PhD, 2020
“The Perceptions of Romanian Theology Students Using Oral Preference Teaching Methodologies: A Grounded Theory.”
Cai, Weihong PhD, 2020
“Chinese Missionary Experiences: A Step towards a Contextualized Member Care Model for Chinese Missionaries.”
Calley, Stephanie PhD, 2020
“Cultivating Confidence and Capacity in Global Students: Transformative Learning in an Intercultural Leadership Program.”
Daniel, Jacob PhD, 2019
“Dignity as Respect within the Sphere of Relationality.”
Dorman, Lloyd Douglas PhD, 2019
“The Formation and Function of Mobile Apostolic Training Teams in Multiplying Churches.”
Gong, Wenhui PhD, 2020
“Missions beyond the Diaspora Chinese Christians in Africa.”
Kirui, Samuel PhD, 2020
“Transformative Faith Theory: Factors Contributing to the Faith Journeys of International Students in the U.S.”
Lehmann, Elizabeth PhD, 2020
“How Latino Parents Perceive the Invitation of Parental Involvement.”
Lewis, Jason Edward PhD, 2019
“What Kazakhstanis in Business Describe as Ethical Leadership.”
Phillips, Valerie PhD, 2020
“Genuine Health Literacy and Oral Methods of Teaching: A Model for Rural Moroccan Women.”
Rupp, Daniel Eugene PhD, 2019
“Sherpas and Shepherds: A Qualitative Exploration of Ministry Models Held by American Millennial Missionaries and the Chinese House Church Pastors They Serve.”
Shakwelele, George PhD, 2019
“Becoming a Venerated Ancestor among Bisa People in Zambia.”
Sianturi, Julia DIS, 2020
“Understanding the Journeys of Five Indonesian Muslim-Background Believers Who Return to Islam.”
Stark, Joseph Bane DIS, 2019
“Afghanistan Is a Partnership: Afghan Uzbek Identity Formation in Northern Afghanistan.”
Stewart, Mark PhD, 2020
“A Bible College for Southern Namibia: Stakeholders’ Perceptions.”
Umer, Habtamu Kedir PhD, 2019
“The Relational Theory of the Leadership-Followership Process: Perceptions of Leaders and Followers in the Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church.”
Wang, Danbo PhD, 2020
“The Impact of a Christian Spiritual Formation Program on Chinese Students at a North American Seminary.”
Calleja, Carlo STD, 2020
“Kinship as a Political Act: Responding to Political Exclusion through Communities of Solidaristic Kinship.”
Fernandes, Flynn M. STD, 2019
“The Cosmic Mystery of Mary: A Study of Marian Apparitions and Manifestations as the Action of the Holy Spirit and Its Implications for the Pilgrim People of God.”
Joseph, Jaisy A. PhD, 2020
“Reimagining Catholicity: An Interstitial Perspective.”
Lushombo, Léocadie PhD, 2020
“Imagining an Ethics of Political Participation for Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sophialogical Hermeneutic.”
Uwineza, Marcel, SJ PhD, 2020
“Reconciling Memories: A Theology from a Place of Wounds; No Authentic Theology with My Back Turned to Nyamata.”
Chevalier, Laura PhD, 2020
“‘Children of God’: The Child in Holiness and Pentecostal Mission Discourse and the Making of Global Evangelical Movements, 1897–1929.”
Fast, Anicka PhD, 2020
“Becoming Global Mennonites: The Politics of Catholicity and Memory in a Missionary Encounter in Belgian Congo, 1905–1939.”
Hegi, Jeremy PhD, 2019
“‘Stand for the New Testament Order and Trust God for the Consequences’: Sarah Andrews and the Emergence of Churches of Christ as a Global Christian Tradition, 1916–1961.”
Hurlbut, David Dmitri PhD, 2020
“The Expansion of Mormonism in Southeastern Nigeria, 1960–1988.”
Pascal, Eva PhD, 2019
“Marcelo de Ribadeneira’s Historia de las Islas del Archipielago y Reynos de la Gran China: Franciscan Missions and Representations of Buddhism, 1577–1601.”
Ayoola, Bernard T. PhD, 2017
“Spirit Determinism in the Christian Anthropology of Yoruba Indigenous Churches.”
Djung, Philip PhD, 2018
“Revelation and Grace: A Critical Appraisal of Hendrik Kraemer’s Theology of Religions.”
Eguiluz, Daniel PhD, 2020
“Una Ecclesia et Cathedra Una: A Retrieval of Cyprian’s Model of Church Unity for Global Evangelicalism.”
Anzenberger, Raphael PhD, 2020
“Whole-Nation Saturation Church Planting: Towards a New Dawn?”
Gue, Patrick PhD, 2020
“Toward a Haitian Wesleyan Contextual Theology of Power.”
Holcomb, Timothy PhD, 2020
“Maasai on Mission: Understanding the Developing Missiology of Rural Maasai Believers in Narok Region, Kenya.”
Saunders, Linda PhD, 2020
“Laying a Historical Foundation to Examine the African-American Church’s Relationship to Twenty-First-Century Global Missions.”
Tran, Nhiem PhD, 2020
“An Examination of Vietnamese Church Planting and Leadership Development Strategies among Indigenous People during the Communist Regime from 1975 to the Present.”
Yuckman, Colin ThD, 2019
“Acts and the Lukan Christology of Universal Witness.”
LaBreche, Pamela June PhD, 2019
“Locals as Stakeholders: An Investigation of the Contribution of Romanian Evangelicals to North American Missionary Ministry Evaluation.”
Lim, Ji-Ung PhD, 2019
“Korean Migrant Churches in Germany: An Analysis of Cultural Religious Differences between the First- and Second-Generation Korean Christians, with Focus on Bicultural Identity.”
Lin, Peirong PhD, 2018
“Countering Mission Drift in a Faith-Based Organization: An Interdisciplinary Theological Interpretation Focused on the Identity Formation of World Vision.”
Anyanwu, Uchenna D. PhD-ICS, 2020
“Staurocentric Pathways to Peacebuilding: Peacebuilding-Contextual Theology in Nigeria’s Context of Acute Violence.”
Brock, James Timothy DMiss, 2020
“Bridges: Becoming Good Neighbors and Building Missional Bridges.”
Cha, David Ih DIS, 2019
“Building a Local Congregation That Crosses Cultural Barriers in China.”
Devarapalli, John Samuel DMiss 2020
“Toward Native Tentmaking: The Impact of Social, Economic, Business, and Ministry Factors on Indigenous Tentmakers.”
Funk-Pihl, Marjorie A. DIS, 2020
“Living the Resurrection and Loving Our Neighbors.”
Handley, Joseph W. PhD-ICS, 2020
“Polycentric Mission Leadership.”
Johanson, Anne Mie Skak DIS, 2020
“When What We Know Is Not Enough: Exploring Danish Contemporary Faith Development in the Local Congregation.”
Joudry, Peter Andrew DIS, 2020
“The Peaceful Church Initiative: Redemptive Behaviors That Foster and Rebuild Relational Wholeness for Mission.”
Krabill, Matthew J. PhD-ICS, 2019
“‘Menno Simons Was an Immigrant with No Headquarters’: The Polycentric Ecclesial Existence of African Immigrant Mennonite Congregations in Los Angeles, California.”
Lee, Jae Suk PhD-ICS, 2020
“Mission as Integrated Witness: A Missional Reading of the Foot-Washing Narrative (John 13:1–38).”
Lomotey, Vandyck Ishmael DIS, 2020
“Developing Pastoral Missiology within the Ghanaian Pentecostal/Charismatic Context.”
Lynch, Bobby L., Jr. PhD-ICS, 2020
“The Good Testimony: Affective Engagement, Enhanced Identity, and Increased Agency among Ecuadorian Quichua Pentecostals.”
Marcus, Anthony PhD-ICS, 2020
“Treatments of Islamic Law ‘Sharia’ in California State Courts.”
Massad, Alexander E. PhD-ICS, 2020
“Witnessing God: Missiology through Neo-Calvinsim, Islamic Reformism, and Comparative Theology.”
Norton, Allison PhD-ICS, 2020
“Passing on the Faith: A Mixed-Methods Study of Intergenerational Religious Transmission in Transnational African Immigrant Congregations in the United States.”
Poe, Ryan S. DIS, 2020
“Nurturing a Discipleship Culture: The Role That Transformative Learning and the Learning Context Play in Forming Disciples at Northview Church.”
Schaal, David John DIS, 2020
“Intentional Engagement: Toward an Evangelistic Initiative of Gospel Proclamation.”
Thomas, Lynndon L. DIS, 2020
“Realizing Global Intercultural Ecclesiology through the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.”
Watkins, Nathan PhD-ICS, 2019
“Harmonic Convergence: How and Why the Kam Minority of QP are Musical in Their Chun Jie Ritual.”
Arslan-Cinar, Ayse PhD, 2020
“A Contemporary Way of Practicing Islamic Spirituality: The Hizmet Movement; A Qualitative Research Project.”
Ayalew Tessema, Mengesha PhD, 2018
“The Relationship between Spirituality and Social Engagement among Ethiopian Evangelicals: A Qualitative Research Project.”
Bcheiry, Iskandar PhD, 2019
“An Early Christian Reaction to Islam: Išū‘yahb III and the Muslim Arabs.”
Betare Ndoe, Denis PhD, 2020
“A Historical Appraisal of the Du and Au Controversy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cameroon.”
Bilgin, Yasir PhD, 2020
“Islamic Spirituality, Cognitions, and Coping: A Case Study of the Risale-I Nur Collection.”
Ha, Nayoung PhD, 2019
“Ajumma: Women at the Threshold; Unheard Voices of Korean Women.”
Hernández-Marcial, Lydia PhD, 2020
“Life under the Sun: Contradictions and Resistance in Ecclesiastes from a Puerto Rican Perspective.”
Khaw, Si PhD, 2020
“Toward a Ludu Theological Proposal to End Armed Violence in Myanmar.”
Markose, Baiju PhD, 2019
“Aftering the Subaltern Numen: Theologizing Liminality, Hybridity, and Alterity in Dalit Religious Phenomena.”
Okoro, Damasus Chukwudum PhD, 2019
“Unveiling the Paradox of Igbo Indigenous Ethic of Onye Aghala Nwanne Ya in the Context of Infertility in Marriage.”
Opehtoo, Saw Solomon PhD, 2018
“Toward a Karen Liberation Theology Influenced by Womanist Theology.”
Barger, Donald PhD, 2020
“Towards the Development of a Bible Storying Evaluation Model, Utilizing a Synthesis of Bible Translation Consultation Methods.”
Palawng, Naw Taung PhD, 2019
“An Applied Missions Strategy for Evangelizing Kachin Animists.”
Bueno, Ronald PhD, 2019
“Community Engagement as a New and Contested Ritual: An Ethnographic Study of Five Pentecostal Congregations in El Salvador.”
Eum, Joo-Um PhD, 2020
“Learning Journey Abroad: A Critical Analysis of the Impact of Short-Term Mission by Korean Christians on Intercultural Sensitivity.”
Ghatas, Ishak PhD, 2019
“Everyday Practices and Shariʿah Interpretations: The Dynamics of Shariʿah Interpretations in the Life of Muslims in Belgium.”
Han, David PhD, 2020
“Rethinking Indigenous Christianity in Northwest Canada: Perspectives from the Nuu-chah-nulth.”
Jamir, Chonpongmeren PhD, 2019
“Segmentation, Unity, and a Church Divided: A Critical History of Churches in Nagaland, 1947–2017.”
Kamil, Maqsood Pervaiz PhD, 2019
“The Unfinished Agenda: The Great Munāz̤ara of 1854 and ‘Imād-ud-dīn’s Contribution to the Muslim-Christian Debates in Nineteenth-Century India.”
Peachy, John PhD, 2020
“Journeying Together towards Goodness: Participant Understanding of Practices and Narratives in a University of the Nations Discipleship Training School.”
Sarma, Jaisankar PhD, 2019
“Experience of World Vision India Fieldworkers: Role and Discretion at the Interface of Organisation and Communities.”
Wang, Jue PhD, 2019
“Zhang Yijing (1871–1931) and the Search for a Chinese Christian Identity.”
Wong, Briana L. PhD, 2020
“Relating Hope: An Ethnography of Transnational Cambodian Evangelicalism, 1970–Present.”
Asita, Wisdom O. PhD, 2020
“Connectional Ecclesiology in the Nigerian Baptist Convention: An Analysis of Polity Changes between 2001 and 2011.”
Musonda, Ezron PhD, 2020
“The Power Encounter between Christianity and the Bemba Ancestor Cult: A Case Analysis of Gospel Diffusion in Zambia.”
Oluminu, Timothy PhD, 2020
“Reverse Mission and African Indigenous Churches: A Case Study of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Nigeria (1980–2016).”
Zulu, Misheck PhD, 2020
“Confused Diffusion as Exhibited in a Selected Form of African Christianity: An Analysis of the Lumpa Churches in Zambia (1955–1965).”
Atsen, Isuwa Yohanna PhD, 2019
“A Tapestry of Global Christology: Weaving a Three-Stranded Theological Cord.”
Kim, Eunsung PhD, 2018
“The Ecology of Korean Christian Immigrant Parents’ Life and Its Influence on Their Parenting Patterns.”
Lee, Peter Taehoon PhD, 2020
“Hybridizing Mission: A Study of Intercultural Social Dynamics among Christian Workers in Multicultural Teams in North Africa.”
Lim, Hyo Seok PhD, 2020
“Reconciliation: A Theological Assessment for Missiology in the Korean Context.”
Xhemajli, Adhurim PhD, 2019
“The Significance of the Supernatural in the American Methodist Circuit-Rider Ministry (c. 1770s–1830s).”
Fields, Jennifer Ruth PhD, 2020
“Questioning the Promotion of Friendship in Interfaith Dialogue: Interfaith Friendship in Light of the Emphasis on Particularity in Scriptural Reasoning.”
Klair, James Alexander PhD, 2020
“Reverse Mission: African Christians in Cambridge, London, and Lagos.”
Pohran, Nadya Anastasia PhD, 2020
“Inviting the Other: An Ethnographically Informed Social History of Sat Tal Christian Ashram.”
Douglas, Alexandra Kate PhD, 2020
“SIM—Strengthened through Diversity? An Examination of the Origins and Effects of Cultural Diversity within a Multi-national Christian Mission Agency, 1975–2015.”
Ong, Andrew David PhD, 2020
“Toward a Chinese American Evangelical Theology: The Promise of Neo-Calvinism.”
Ángel, Christopher J. B. PhD, 2020
“Ritual and Identity at the California Missions.”
Eliaona, David Lyimo PhD, 2020
“The Quest for Christ in Africa: Reimagining and Reconstructing African Christology.”
