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Changed, Set Apart, and Equal: A Study of Ordination in the Baptist Context
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Malone, Jonathan A.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1300133343
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Year and Degree
2011, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), University of Dayton, Theology.
Abstract
The American Baptist denomination is often characterized as an ecclesiological grass-roots organization. The theology of such a denomination is practiced organically by the people and is seldom articulated by the academy. Thus one cannot find a well articulated theological understanding of what ordination means for the individual and the community in the Baptist context. A synthesis of Geertz's thick description, Lindbeck's approach to doctrine, and McClendon's understandings of speech-acts and conviction will offer a methodology through which one can articulate a theology of ordination. In doing so, we will find that the "call" and a relationship with a congregation are essential for ordination to occur. Such a theology will suggest that one is changed through ordination, and this change is relational in nature. The Catholic concept of Sacramental Consciousness offers a way to articulate the community's awareness of the pastor's relational change while at the same time maintaining the egalitarian nature of a Baptist community.
Committee
Dennis M Doyle, PhD (Committee Chair)
Brad J. Kallenberg, PhD (Committee Member)
William L. Portier, PhD (Committee Member)
Anthony B. Smith, PhD (Committee Member)
William V. Trollinger, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
251 p.
Subject Headings
Theology
Keywords
Baptist ecclesiology
;
baptist ordination
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baptist Sacramental consciousness
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Malone, J. A. (2011).
Changed, Set Apart, and Equal: A Study of Ordination in the Baptist Context
[Doctoral dissertation, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1300133343
APA Style (7th edition)
Malone, Jonathan.
Changed, Set Apart, and Equal: A Study of Ordination in the Baptist Context.
2011. University of Dayton, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1300133343.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Malone, Jonathan. "Changed, Set Apart, and Equal: A Study of Ordination in the Baptist Context." Doctoral dissertation, University of Dayton, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1300133343
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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