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RESPONSE TO SVETLANA KHOBNYA AND LUIS FELIPE NUNES BORDUAM
If this solution of unity in love is known, and the Holy Spirit is able to empower us to live in such love, why is there still division and unloving behavior in the church? The short response is “sin...
RESPONSE TO IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT: HOLY SPIRIT
A response paper for the Global Theology Conference to be held in Pilar, Argentina, in April 2024.
RESPONSE TO THE PRESENTATION: IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT: THE HOLY SPIRIT
How does the Holy Spirit act creatively in the church? It would be a fair question from a document that outlines a practical perspective of awareness of the Spirit's presence in a believer. For this...
TOGETHERNESS: THE TRANSFORMATIVE WORK OF THE SPIRIT
This response paper reflects primarily on issues elicited by Khobnya’s paper, namely, “What is this togetherness?” “How does the Spirit create togetherness?” and “What (or who) is the extent of...
Introduction to Didache: Faithful Teaching (Vol. 23, No. 2)
Welcome Didache: Faithful Teaching Volume 23, number 2. This special edition includes responses from around the world in preparation for our Global Theology Conference, “In the Power of the Spirit”...
Renewing our mission: the fortieth anniversary of Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary
This is the sermon of Dr. Floyd T. Cunningham during the 40th anniversary of Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary, as well as his retirement message.
RESPONSE: A BIBLICAL PLEA FOR GOD'S HOLY PEOPLE TO EMBRACE A LESS PERFECT PERFECTION
Personally, I think it is a text that one has to go through slowly, appreciating the notes and savor ing those ideas that at first impulse could seem intense. I consider it an unmissable text because...
RESPONSE TO THE PRESENTATION BY DR. IVELISSE VALENTIN-VERA, "HOPE OF A NEW CREATION" AND THAT OF DR. T. SCOTT DANIELS, “FINISH THEN THY NEW CREATION”
Faced with so many ideas about the end times, it is necessary to at least examine which of these ideas is influencing our life and mission as a Church. How are we waiting for the coming of our Lord...
HOPE OF A NEW CREATION: A THEOLOGY FROM A PARTICULARLY SOUTHERN AFRICAN CONTEXT
As a person steeped in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition, the above makes sense. The imperative to live out and proclaim this understanding is clear. However, I am an African challenged by precisely how...
HOPE OF A NEW CREATION (Giesken)
The Hope that God will renew all things in Christ is foundational Christian faith. In “Finish then Thy New Creation” T. Scott Daniels argues that this Hope-filled ending of our story shapes decisions...
A RESPONSE PAPER TO ‘HOPE OF NEW CREATION’ (Wi)
Our understanding of the end, or eschaton, is crucial in the Christian faith. It is the end that guides, shapes, and transforms how we live as Christians. Hence T. Scott Daniels’ engaging opening of...
RESPONSE TO ROB FRINGER AND STANLEY BHEBHE, “HOLY PEOPLE”
We have received substantial gifts in Dr. Rob Fringer’s paper, “Broken-Holy People” and Dr. Stanley Bhebhe’s paper, “God’s Eternal Project.” I offer this response as a means of amplification and...
TRANSCENDENCE, HOLINESS, AND THE INTERRUPTION OF THE SPIRIT: A RESPONSE TO BHEBHE AND FRINGER
Wesleyan theologies of holiness often focus on the immanent, the here and now of how God’s love is cultivated in God’s people by the Spirit. This focus on the concrete is the result of Wesley’s...
RESPONSE TO ROB A. FRINGER AND STANLEY MAKHOSI BHEBHE
The presentations I will discuss below are those of Dr. Rob A. Fringer, “A Broken Holy People: A Biblical Plea for God's Holy People to Embrace a Less Perfect Perfection,” and that of Dr. Stanley...