Practices of Ministerial Leadership of Korean-American United Methodist Clergywomen; Toward a Wesleyan Ecclesiology in a Global Context

This study documents, analyzes, and interprets Korean American United Methodist (KAUM) clergywomen‘s experiences in and understandings of the church. It examines contributions these (and potentially, other) clergywomen might make to Wesleyan ecclesiology generally, and particular ways United Methodists live out their faith in transitional, diverse, and global contexts. The project attempts to re-vision existing Wesleyan ecclesial discourse in the United Methodist Church (UMC) by recognizing and incorporating the contributions of racial-ethnic clergy as expressed through their leadership and practices of faith. A "practice-theory-practice" model of practical theology was used to pay systematic attention to the practical locus of the inquiries. Twenty Korean American United Methodist clergywomen were interviewed by telephone, using a voluntary sampling technique to ascertain how they both experienced the church and understood and lived out various practices of faith, including preaching, participation in and administration of the sacraments, preparation for ordained ministry, and other spiritual practices such as prayer, worship, retreats, and journaling. The dissertation summarizes those findings, provides contextual and historical interpretation, and then analyzes their responses in relation to Wesleyan theology, MinJung (mass of people) theology, and the theology of YeoSung (women who display dignity and honor as human beings). This study identifies the extraordinary call of the KAUM clergywomen interviewees to be bridge builders, strong nurturers, wounded healers, committed educators, breakers of old stereotypes, persistent seekers to fulfill God‘s call, and ecclesial leaders with ―tragic consciousness‖ who can disrupt marginality and facilitate the creative transformation of Han (a deep experience of suffering and oppression) into a constructive energy capable of shaping a new reality. According to this study, KAUM clergywomen‘s experiences and practices of faith as ecclesial leaders strengthen Wesleyan ecclesiology in terms of the UMC‘s efforts to be an inclusive church through connectionalism, and its commitment to social justice. MinJung theology and the theology of YeoSung, in their respective understandings of the church, broaden Wesleyan ecclesiology and enable the Church to be more relevant in a global context by embracing those who have not been normative theological subjects.

La incidencia de los valores culturales en el voluntariado: el caso de Europa

La realidad del voluntariado es sumamente compleja hasta el punto de que resulta complicado definir y caracterizar el trabajo voluntario, dada la gran variedad de interpretaciones, motivaciones, variables sociodemográficas y aspectos culturales que configuran el perfil de los voluntarios. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la influencia conjunta de algunas variables sociodemográficas, así como de los valores culturales de índole secular o tradicional, sobre el perfil de los voluntarios en Europa. Además, se investiga qué variables orientan a los voluntarios hacia un determinado tipo de voluntariado u otro. Para ello se ha aplicado principalmente una metodología de regresión logística a partir de la información disponible en la European Value Study. Los resultados obtenidos ayudan a establecer una caracterización del voluntariado en Europa, y confirman la influencia de los valores culturales, en primer lugar, en la realización o no de trabajos de voluntariado, y en segundo lugar, en la elección que hacen estas personas del tipo de actividad con la que están comprometidos. Al analizar dos tipos de voluntariado de motivación supuestamente muy diferente, se concluye que existe un grupo de valores que influyen en ambos, aunque el sentido y la intensidad en la que lo hacen sea diferente; por otra parte, algunos valores tienen influencia o no en la realización de trabajos de voluntariado, dependiendo del tipo específico al que nos refiramos.

The Itinerant, or Wesleyan Methodist Visiter - Accession 214 - M95 (121)

The Itinerant, or Wesleyan Methodist Visiter is a newspaper of the Methodist Church that was published every two weeks in Baltimore, MD. The bound issues in the collection extend from November 10, 1830 to October 12, 1831.

Methodism and the Republic : uncorrected proof sheets sent out in advance to pastors intending to take the collection for Home Missios and Church extension on Sunday, November 24.

Statements herin contained ar not supposed to need revision.

Historic structure report : Death Valley Scotty Historic District main house and annex.

"NPS D-134."

Sermons on several occasions : With a life of the author /

Mode of access: Internet.

Proposed changes to be considered at the National Plan Conference /

"APHIS 91-45."

Preliminary list of churches and religious organizations in Oklahoma.

Reproduced from typewritten copy.

The acts & proceedings of the ... regular session of the General Synod, Reformed Church in America.

Vol.1, a translation includes "the period from 1771-1812, preceded by the Minutes of the Cœtus (1738-1754) and the Proceedings of the Conferentie (1755-1767) and followed by the Minutes of the original particular synod (1794-1799)"

Neonatal respiratory adaptation : proceedings of the Interdisciplinary conference..., December 6-9, 1963, Princeton, New Jersey /

"This conference was sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human development."

Proceedings of the Western Forestry Conference.

Each Proceedings has a distinctive cover title.

Brother Mason, the circuit rider; or, Ten years a Methodist preacher.

Mode of access: Internet.

Early Methodist philanthropy,

Thesis (PH.D.)--Columbia university, 1914.

Proceedings of the Board of Managers of the Western Methodist Historical Society in the Mississippi Valley : containing an account of the origin of the Society, its organization, constitution, address, circular, &c.

Mode of access: Internet.