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COLLECTION 0098: Records of the Southern California Ecumenical Council, 1956-2012
Get PDFThe Southern California Ecumenical Council is a regional body representing churches, denominations, related ministries and other ecclesiastical communities who cooperate to promote responsible and creative expressions of Christian unity and witness. These records of the Southern California Ecumenical Council from 1956-2012 include minutes of council meetings (including board meetings), correspondence, documents pertaining to a variety of ecumenical initiatives and material related to the ministries of partner organizations and denominational relations, financial papers, documents and publications of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity program of the World Council of Churches (WCC), and various historical notes on the Southern California Ecumenical Council
COLLECTION 0065: Papers of Charles Edwin Jones, 1873-2011
Get PDFThe Charles Edwin Jones Collection at Fuller Theological Seminary includes both printed and archival materials. The printed collection is an extensive corpus of materials documenting the Holiness, Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, as well as the contexts in which these traditions have developed. The Jones archives include his research notes, correspondence, rare ephemera related to the subjects of his research. His collection contains significant runs of Holiness periodicals both on paper and on film
Fuller Magazine, Issue 012, 2018 - Disruption
Get PDFSince 2014, Fuller Magazine has been published for the global community of Fuller Theological Seminary. The sections of Story, Theology, Voice, and Departments are to reflect the life of Fuller in all her permutations: this is who we are, what we are talking about, and who we are becoming together. The editorial content of FULLER magazine reflects the opinions of the various authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the views of Fuller Theological Seminary.
Table of Contents
STORY
10 This section provides the full public communication from Fuller’s president concerning the future of Fuller amidst disruptions in higher education and a historic campus move. The letters, originally posted online (see fuller.edu/future) and distributed widely, are accompanied by other notable historical disruptions that show Fuller’s resilience and theological stability in the face of shifting financial and educational landscapes.
THEOLOGY
27 Introduction
30 “Your Dead Shall Live”: Disruption and Resurrection in the Life of God’s People by Christopher B. Hays
32 Shaken to Remain: Fuller Moves by Tommy Givens
38 After 70 Years—Exile or Exodus? A Theological Reflection on Fuller’s Move to Pomona by Hak Joon Lee
42 Disruptions Meet Practical Theology by Mark Lau Branson
50 Healing Where There Is No Cure:The Disruption of Illness by Miyoung Yoon Hammer
54 Spirituality: A Facet of Resilience by Anne A. Turk Nolty, Jared K. Rensberger, Donald S. Bosch, Natalie Hennig, and J. Galen Buckwalter
58 The Blessed Disruption of Hospitality by Alexia Salvatierra
VOICE
64 Members of the Fuller community—trustees, administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends—reflect from sometimes conflicting points of view on aspects of disruption, accompanied by a “tickertape” sampling of social media responses to the announcement of our move.
DEPARTMENTS
6 From Mark Labberton, President
94 New Faculty
Recent Faculty Books and Publications
95 About Fuller
97 From the Editorhttps://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/fuller-magazine/1011/thumbnail.jp
Internet Pornography Users Versus Abstainers: Demographic, Affective, and Religious Distinctives
No full textReligiousness may be a protective factor against Internet pornography (IP) use. However, given that many religious people report using IP in spite of the inconsistency with their beliefs, this study proposes to use archival data collected in 2012 to assess demographic, religious, and emotional factors that differentiate religious non-users and users. This study built upon Cser and Bjorck (2016) by reexamining their variables with a new and larger sample to test for replication of those findings. Furthermore, this study compared non-users and users on religious support, shame-proneness, guilt-proneness, and loneliness. After establishing exclusion criteria, participants were drawn from 623 female and 335 male Protestant undergraduate students (N = 958) who voluntarily completed anonymous online surveys. Bivariate correlations and both multivariate (MANOVA) and univariate (ANOVA) analyses of variance were employed to analyze differences between IP abstainers and users on gender, age, spirituality, sexual activity, Internet use, religious support, shame, guilt, and emotional functioning. Findings are discussed in terms of theoretical development and directions for future research
A Fivefold Leadership Practice at Zion Community Church of the Nazarene
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to explore how a fivefold leadership practice may be launched in an organized church to foment a Kingdom-centric, missional mindset that is contextual for postmodern generations.[1] The project draws from lessons learned in an initial attempt made in 2012 to establish a fivefold structure at a Hispanic Nazarene church.
The desire at the time was to help the local church become mission oriented, both locally and globally, through a collegial, fivefold ministry. These efforts demonstrated the importance of ecclesial leadership, and the impact that they have in fostering a corporal ethos where change can happen. The culture of a church, its beliefs, values, and practices, will either promote or hinder change efforts.
As the demographics of North America continue to alter, and particularly those of the Hispanic community, ecclesial expressions and leadership models will need to adjust so the church can remain relevant to its context. Second and third generation Hispanic millennials and Generation Z are inviting the Hispanic church to embrace a new way of being together before the Lord.
This project is proposing a new strategy to help congregations establish a fivefold practice, using organizational change theories. This new approach follows a process-model methodology, giving time for strategies to be evaluated for their effectiveness. It also focuses on fostering a growth-mindset culture within the organization where missional, Kingdom ideas, values, and practices can be embraced, primarily by those who have the power to influence change. Further research and implementation of this strategy will be needed to test its effectiveness.
[1] A fivefold leadership is composed of an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher; commonly known by the acronym APEST
The Politics of Liturgical “Musicking”
No full textA key premise of the Western “art” music tradition is music’s purported universal, transcendental, and autonomous essence. Opposition to this view is now axiomatic in the methodological assumptions of ethnomusicology and cultural musicology, but the implications of these emerging, critical, practice oriented paradigms do not sufficiently shape the study of liturgical “musicking”—to appropriate Christopher Small’s neologism.
This investigation considers congregational musicking as a socially embodied practice in three diverse, urban congregations. Focus lies not only on public ritualization but also on liturgical music planning and preparation and the various ways that worshippers can contribute to the shaping of collective practice. A composite methodological lens juxtaposes practice oriented approaches within the disciplines of ritual studies, music sociology, and critical musicology to ask a liturgical theology question: How is a congregation’s liturgical musicking congruent with its liturgical leaders’ stated commitments to cultivating diverse, inclusive community? Within each church’s particular liturgical ecology, how does musicking afford accessible participation, facilitate a holistic presence to God and fellow worshippers, and empower the development of aptitudes for embodying inclusive community?
Ultimately, this study asks not merely what music practices mean but what they do. Specifically, how do the collective ritualized appropriations of particular musical forms and other liturgical music practices afford a more holistic liturgical encounter with God and cultivate a community that embodies—in the twenty-first century—the Apostle Paul’s first-century call for unity in diversity and equality among “Jew” and “Greek,” “slave” and “free,” “male and female” (Gal. 3:28 NRSV)
2018 Payton Lectures: Theology and Human Rights: Tension or Convergence?
Get PDFFuller Seminary instituted the Payton Lectures in 1948, providing for a series of divinity lectures by a notable scholar outside the regular faculty. This lectureship, hosted by the School of Theology, is named for Dr. John E. and Mrs. Eliza Payton, parents of the late Mrs. Grace Fuller, wife of seminary founder Charles E. Fuller
