Building off of Dean Kelley’s and Laurence Iannaccone’s earlier work, we develop a path model of the strictness thesis that investigates and compares how congregational strictness, evangelical theology, demographic characteristics, and denominational identity variously contribute to congregational growth and decline. Using the U.S. Congregational Life Survey (2001), we test this model at the co...

meister eckhart is one of the christian mystics that christian orthodoxy and catholic church accused his thoughts in medieval ages and named him heretic. most important themes that disparate the theism of eckhart from his christian predecessors are belief to godhead beyond god, denial of possibility of knowing god, innovations about trinity, belief to apophatic theology and etc. he defended of ...

“Liberationism”, a term derived from Liberation theology (LT), is an analytical concept used by religious historians and sociologists as generic designation for Latin American post-conciliar Catholicism. “Theology of the People” (TP) designates theological school created in Argentina during late 1960s Episcopal Pastoral Commission (COEPAL), although its members was not TP but “Popular theology”...

dionysius is one of the most important personages in christian mystic that some of his ideas were up to now popular ideas in christian theosophy, theology and philosophy. christian doctrine and neo-platonic ideas are viewed as two main sources for his opinions; although he sometimes leans to one and the rest to another. for example, in discussion about creation, angelology and trinity he tended...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the reflection on how one can integrate the late modern practice of life coaching with practical theology by employing Biblical perspectives on this practice. I present the so-called coaching revolution, and try to frame questions that may be followed up in later papers and discussions. I begin by describing coaching as a concrete practice, before I...