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Minutes of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the Georgia Baptist Convention [1842]
No full textMinutes of the Georgia Baptist Convention, 184
Minutes of the Forty-First Anniversary of the Baptist Convention of the State of Georgia [1863]
No full textMinutes of the Georgia Baptist Convention, 186
Minutes of the Forty-Third Anniversary of the Georgia Baptist State Convention [1866]
No full textMinutes of the Georgia Baptist Convention, 186
Minutes of the Fifty-Fifth Anniversary of the Baptist Convention of the State of Georgia [1877]
No full textMinutes of the Georgia Baptist Convention, 187
Minutes of the Fifty-Seventh Anniversary of the Baptist Convention of the State of Georgia [1879]
No full textMinutes of the Georgia Baptist Convention, 187
Minutes of the Sixty-Seventh Anniversary of the Baptist Convention of the State of Georgia [1889]
No full textMinutes of the Georgia Baptist Convention, 188
Minutes of the Forty-Sixth Anniversary of the Georgia Baptist State Convention [1868]
No full textMinutes of the Georgia Baptist Convention, 186
Minutes of the Forty-Eighth Anniversary of the Georgia Baptist State Convention [1870]
No full textMinutes of the Georgia Baptist Convention, 187
Worship in the Worlds: How Theological Worlds Can Inform Worship Music and Express the Deepest Spiritual Needs of Worshipers
No full text2023TRACIE ANNE JERNIGAN
WORSHIP IN THE WORLDS: HOW THEOLOGICAL WORLDS CAN INFORM WORSHIP MUSIC AND EXPRESS THE DEEPEST SPIRITUAL NEEDS OF WORSHIPERS
Under the direction of David G. Garber, Jr., Ph.D.
Worshipers form connections to God through their individual and communal theologies. These theologies form the embedded theologies of the church, giving insight to how they think through and act out their faith. The role of the worship planner includes paying attention to how worship music forms and expresses the congregants’ understanding of God. I implemented this project to better understand how worshipers at The Summit connect to God and how worship music can help them express their deepest spiritual needs. The embedded theology of worshipers was measured using the Five Theological Worlds of W. Paul Jones. Participants took the Theological Worlds Inventory by Jones, answered questionnaires following five worship gatherings representing a single World each week, and attended a focus group. I recognized the embedded theologies of the congregation through their answers on the Theological Worlds Inventory and experimented with deliberative theology through the worship experiences. Several themes surfaced during evaluation of my data. Participants’ ability to resonate with a worship song can be linked to theological, spiritual, nostalgic, and stylistic reasons. Participants were able to understand their primary World, resonate with their primary World through its definition and scripture, and resonate with other nonprimary Worlds. Participants interpreted worship songs through the lens of their primary World as well as current and past church experiences. Some participants have experienced theological formation through worship songs. The intention of the worship planner stands in balance to the reception of the material through the lens of these experiences and Worlds. I found reception to lead to three primary results: resonance, lack of resonance, and/or deliberative theology. Worshipers resonate with songs that meet a spiritual need represented by their theological home. Worshipers can also resonate with music that speaks to a non-primary theological home through the lens of their primary theological home. Additionally, worshipers can experience theological formation through songs from their primary theological home, a resonant theological home, and for some, a challenging, unfamiliar theological home. Worship planners can help a diverse theological community find a unifying expression of worship by identifying a core repertory of worship music and offering opportunities for theological reflection.Garber, Jr., David GJackson, BeckyWalker, Graham BD.Min
Q and the Passion - Challenging the Consensus View
No full text2023This thesis challenges the consensus viewpoint of biblical scholarship that Q, the sayings source common to Matthew and Luke, contains no Passion account. Based on the absence of a Passion in Q (the Argument from Silence), the consensus view concludes Q’s theology is divergent from the cross-centered theology of Matthew and Luke. The purpose of the present study is to refute the Argument from Silence, and show that Q did in fact contain Passion material. With a Passion, Q must have had a theology more congruent with Matthew and Luke. The research methodology is source utilization, the study of how ancient writers used sources based on the then available technology of document production. Based on deviations from Mark in content, but more importantly order, source utilization points to a second non-Markan written source in Luke’s Passion, which source provided the alternative content and order. Q could be the second source because (a) the non-Markan portion of Luke’s Passion contains numerous sayings of Jesus consistent with Q’s genre as a sayings source, and (b) these non-Markan sayings also have thematic resonance with Q. The Minor Agreements of Matthew and Luke against Mark in their respective Passion accounts further support these findings. The Minor Agreements demonstrate Matthew’ s awareness of: (1) non-Markan sayings thematically related to Q, and (2) non-Markan material precisely at the point where Luke deviates from Markan order, and is therefore following the order of the second written source. Based on all of these results, I conclude Q is in fact the second written source for much of the non-Markan Passion material in Luke, and the material is echoed to a lesser extent in Matthew. I will pull the analysis together and propose an addition to Q of about 300 words of Passion material drawn from Luke and Matthew. I will end with a brief discussion of the implications of a Q Passion. These include rebuttal of the Argument from Silence, consequences for the Synoptic Problem and ramifications for the theology of Q and the history of early Christianity.Parker, Angela N.DeLoach, C. GregoryM.T.S