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Millennial Learners and Faculty Credibility: Exploring the Mediating Role of Out-of-Class Communication
No full textEvery generation experiences distinct events and develops unique values. As Millennial learners enter classrooms, they bring with them new views about education, learning and faculty/student communication. This study explores the mediating role of out-of-class communication (OCC) in relation to the historical dimensions known to compose faculty credibility. Findings indicate that OCC has a positive, mediating influence that enhances two of the three key dimensions of credibility for faculty members: trustworthiness and perceived caring. In addition, this study suggests that there is a fourth potential dimension that composes the construct of faculty credibility in the perspectives of Millennial learners: sociability, which should be included alongside the three historical dimensions scholars have used in previous studies
School of Missionary Medicine
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.biola.edu/nurse-photo/1016/thumbnail.jp
How to Read Theology: Engaging Doctrine Critically and Charitably
No full textThis handy, accessible introduction to reading theology helps readers engage doctrine critically and charitably. It serves as a primer to theological texts, offering practical guidelines for assessing theology and equipping the next generation of pastors and theologians to read theological literature wisely--even when they might disagree with it. An ideal theology textbook, it is especially well suited for students reading theological literature and discussing doctrine for the first time.https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/faculty-books/1628/thumbnail.jp
Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory
No full textHumility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory proposes an account of humility that relies on the most radical Christian sayings about humility, especially those found in Augustine and the early monastic tradition. It argues that this was the view of humility that put Christian moral thought into decisive conflict with the best Greco-Roman moral thought. This radical Christian account of humility has been forgotten amidst contemporary efforts to clarify and retrieve the virtue of humility for secular life. Kent Dunnington shows how humility was repurposed during the early-modern era-particularly in the thought of Hobbes, Hume, and Kant-to better serve the economic and social needs of the emerging modern state. This repurposed humility insisted on a role for proper pride alongside humility, as a necessary constituent of self-esteem and a necessary motive of consistent moral action over time. Contemporary philosophical accounts of humility continue this emphasis on proper pride as a counterbalance to humility. By contrast, radical Christian humility proscribes pride altogether. Dunnington demonstrates how such a radical view need not give rise to vices of humility such as servility and pusillanimity, nor need such a view fall prey to feminist critiques of humility. But the view of humility set forth makes little sense abstracted from a specific set of doctrinal commitments peculiar to Christianity. This study argues that this is a strength rather than a weakness of the account since it displays how Christianity matters for the shape of the moral life.https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/faculty-books/1635/thumbnail.jp
Speech Facilitates the Categorization of Motions in 9-Month-Old Infants
No full textTwo experiments were used to investigate the influence of both native and non-native speech on the categorization of a set of an object’s motions by 9-month-olds. In Experiment 1, infants were habituated to a set of three object motions and tested with familiar and novel motions. Results of Experiment 1 show that infants were more likely to categorize the motion stimuli if they listened to either the native or non-native speech during the categorization process than if they listened to music or heard nothing at all. Results of Experiment 2 show that discrimination of the motions was not impaired by the presence of the labeling phrases. These results are consistent with a number of findings that report a unique influence of labels on categorization of static objects in infancy and extend those findings to categorization of motions
Role of attachment to God and spiritual self-awareness in predicting evangelical Christians’ appraisals of suffering
No full textThe present study examined how attachment to God and spiritual self-awareness are related to evangelical Christians’ appraisals of suffering. Specifically, we were interested in whether attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance with God were related to the appraised meaning of stressful life experiences as transformational and whether spiritual self-awareness mediated this relationship. A national sample (N = 988) of students from Christian institutions completed an online survey. The results indicated that individuals with high levels of attachment anxiety or attachment avoidance with God were less likely to view suffering as a means of spiritual growth and connection with God. Mediation analyses also showed that higher levels of avoidant attachment to God were related to lower levels of spiritual self-awareness, which in turn were related to reduced ability to appraise suffering as transformational. Clinical implications and directions for future research are discussed
Worldview-based Storying: The Integration of Symbol, Story, and Ritual in the Orality Movement
No full textThis book is dedicated to the present global generation of Bible storytellers. It will challenge you to learn from the rich history of the Orality Movement, do your cultural homework related to the integration of symbol, story and ritual, and tell the greatest story ever told with cultural and pedagogical clarity so that individual, communal, and national transformation can result, creating generations of like-minded Bible storytellers.
Dr. Steffen is emeritus professor, Biola Universityhttps://digitalcommons.biola.edu/faculty-books/1614/thumbnail.jp
Honoring Four Late-Twentieth-Century Christian Education Leaders: Christian Educators of the 20th Century Project www.christianeducators20.com
No full textCE20 Project Introduction Where would you go to learn about the men and women who have impacted the field of Christian education over the last century, particularly in North America? The “Christian Educators of the 20th Century” project (CE20), funded by the Lilly Endowment Religion Division, was developed to provide entries on influential Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian/religious education leaders of the twentieth century. It is a web-based database providing biographical and bibliographical information on these leaders to assist others in understanding the development of Christian education in North America over this past century. The project covers 216 people (with just over 200 entries completed so far) who have helped shape Christian/religious education since the founding of the Religious Education Association near the beginning of the twentieth century
Poisoner Of Wells
No full text24 x 21.5 cm., Pen and Ink on Art Board. Illustration of a short man pouring a bucket of (atheism) poison down a well. A tall angel is grabbing him from behind.
What do you mean layin\u27 hands on me? Ain\u27t this a free country? ; The Nation\u27s Christian Sentiment ; The Arch-Fiend ; Public Moralshttps://digitalcommons.biola.edu/ejpace-cartoons/1084/thumbnail.jp
His Head In The Clouds; His Feet In The Mire
No full text32.5 x 28.5 cm., Pen, Ink, Charcoal(?) on Cardstock. Illustration of a man standing holding a book. His head in the clouds and feet stuck in the mud.
The Course Of This World -Eph : 2:2 ; Unsavory Practice ; Doctrinehttps://digitalcommons.biola.edu/ejpace-cartoons/1072/thumbnail.jp