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Law and gospel as hermeneutic: Martin Luther and the Lutheran tradition [PDF]

, 1983
It is difficult or impossible to use the Lutheran idea of \u27Law and Gospel\u27 as a guide to the theological content of the Bible. The idea has poor biblical support and accounts for a number of ambiguities in Lutheran theology relating to ...
Hordern, Richard P.
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“We Have Come to Offer Something Which (They) Were Not Even Looking for”: U.S. Christian Conservative Evangelical Faith Missions in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
wiley   +1 more source

Associations of Childhood Experiences With Adulthood Religious and Relational Outcomes Among Protestants and Catholics in the United States

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a United States sample of 32 Protestant and Catholic congregations (N = 16,548), we evaluated associations between seven childhood religious and family experiences (e.g., conversations with parents about faith, childhood religious service attendance [RSA]) and five religious and relational outcomes in adulthood (e.g., RSA, conversations ...
Julia S. Nakamura, J. P. De Gance, Isaiah Contu, Katheryn C. H. Yang, Rachel S. Leong, Richard G. Cowden, Katelyn N. G. Long, Tyler J. VanderWeele   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Couple's Religious Affiliation Status and Charitable Giving: A Closer Look

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how religious dynamics in a household are connected to its giving patterns. Specifically, we test how a married or cohabitating heterosexual couple's religious affiliation status relates to the likelihood of donation by tracking the shifts using a three‐tiered classification: (1) general giving, (2) giving to religious and ...
Young‐Joo Lee, David P. King
wiley   +1 more source

The Power of Spousal Support in Ministry: A Longitudinal Study of Social Support Profiles, Marital Quality, and Ministry Satisfaction Among United Methodist Clergy

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For many occupations, the toll of work‐related stressors on job satisfaction may be mitigated by social and emotional support. However, social support may be different for clergy, considering their unique work environment. Using data from the Clergy Health Initiative Longitudinal Survey, this study examines the relationship between different ...
Malik Muhammad Sohail, Bo‐Hyeong Jane Lee, Glaucia Nascimento Salgado, Rae Jean Proeschold‐Bell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

It's Not Just Fashion, It's Sin: The Impacts of Modesty Messaging on Female Adolescents Within the White Evangelical Church

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The following study examines the impacts of internalized modesty messaging (IMM) on female adolescents raised within white evangelical churches. On the basis of a large‐scale dataset (n = 5525), the article investigates associations between IMM, self‐esteem, and experiences of sexual harassment as a minor in religious institutions using a case‐
Nicole Marie Gallego, Joanna Sawatsky, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
Kati Tervo‐Niemelä, Pietari Hannikainen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Graduate Catalog, 1969-1970 [PDF]

, 1969
https://scholar.valpo.edu/gradcatalogs/1005/thumbnail ...
Valparaiso University
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“Me and God, We're Good”: Abortion Morality and Protestant Women Having Abortions in the South

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how 84 Protestant women in the South understand the morality of their abortion decisions, offering a nuanced perspective on the complex relationship between religion and abortion and revealing that many women navigate abortion decisions with theological depth, moral reasoning, and a profound sense of responsibility.
Rebecca Todd Peters
wiley   +1 more source

The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
wiley   +1 more source