Research will be conducted on 100 church leaders, and congregations who have started a building project, completed a project, or experienced difficulties in the building process. This project will review the theological, sociological, and philosophical views of Nehemiah, as well as the vision elements of a project, mobilization of workers, provision, and a structured guide for successfully completing the project. This thesis project will examine aspects of Nehemiah's leadership and its effects on the various facets of construction. Nehemiah's methodology provides a perfect model for completing church construction projects. His leadership was effective, essential, strategic, and successful.

Davidson Nehemiah was given a task to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Antoine Liberty University Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014 Mentor: Dr. In each case, these proposals were set forth as strategic ways to advance the witness of Ecclesia from the perspective of a missional soteriology of discipleship.ĪBSTRACT NEHEMIAH’S BRICKS AND MORTAR STORY: STRATEGY FOR A SUCCESSFUL BUILDING PROJECT Carla M. These proposals include ways for Ecclesia to raise the issue of soteriology, the possibility of published resources, launching communities of practice, developing a praxis-based curriculum, and the creation of an online platform for use across the network. Through the use of research methods that engaged the Ecclesia at organizational, pastoral, and local church levels, a theological ethnography was developed and used as a basis for the formulation of contextual proposals related to the missional soteriology of discipleship that emerged. The Ecclesia Church Network was chosen as a context for field research as a particular, networked expression of the Church that sees mission, the missio Dei, as central to its identity. More than simply wanting to develop a new missiological theory, however, the concern of this project was for the contextual implications of such a vision for the Church in North America.

The result of this dimension of the project was a missional soteriology of discipleship distinguished by its participational, communal, and (re)creational characteristics. The fields of missio Dei/theology of mission, missional ecclesiology, and Anabaptist theology were chosen because of their shared relevance to the issues in view and the Ecclesia Network. We do not enter the pulpit to talk for talk’s sake. Get ready to take a lot of notes A great sermon is not a talk. The interest of this project was therefore the exploration and articulation of a soteriological vision rooted in the missio Dei and its relevance for discipleship. A great sermon has content with great worth and value. At the same time, in the unraveling of Christendom in the West, the doctrine of the missio Dei has been influential in helping the Church to revisit a number of theological concepts, especially a theology of the Church - ecclesiology. Moreover, when it is discussed, its relationship to discipleship is ambiguous at best or completely unrelated at worst. This allows me to put the contexts in which research trajectories unfold back into the focus of research and discern that imaginations on what it means to become and be a successful and recognized researcher need to be conceived as multiple and entangled.Salvation is central to the Church’s identity, yet its nature is seldom discussed in local contexts. Through the analysis of interviews with six senior researchers from the faculty of Catholic Theology, I was able to discern different motivational backgrounds that underlie researchers’ research and publication strategies within the fields of Catholic Theology and Religious Studies. Second, I scrutinized the results from this bibliometric part of analysis using a qualitative approach. In a nutshell, I could observe gradually increasing publication frequencies, a shift towards more internationally orientated publications, more and more publications in English language and an increasing rate of publications in journals indexed in multidisciplinary citation databases in the period of observation. First, I use bibliometric methods to sketch the publication behavior of researchers at the faculty of Catholic Theology at University of Vienna. In order to find answers to this overarching research question, I used two different methodic approaches. In this study I address the question on how researchers’ imaginations regarding publishing research results and becoming or being a successful researcher are influenced by emerging quantitative methods in research assessment.

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