Editorial
In late 2017, Bishopdale College hosted our bi-annual School of Theology, a two-day conference where robust theological reflection is presented within a framework of equipping believers for service and leadership.
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Contents
Guidelines for Contributors
Stimulus welcomes the submission of material for Publication.
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How Church Can Appeal to Young People: A Critical Comparison
Many churches and church leaders are interested in how they can best format their services and overall environment so that they might appeal more to young people.
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Discipleship as a “Who” Question: Bonhoeffer on Reading Scripture as the Call of the Present Christ
“Christianity without the living Jesus Christ remains necessarily a Christianity without discipleship; and a Christianity without discipleship is always a Christianity without Jesus Christ.”[1]
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Humility as a Hermeneutical Virtue: Karl Barth on Faith and Miracles
“For Christian faith,” Francis Watson observes, “truth is textually mediated.”[1]
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Set Your Hope On Heaven: Living Inside The Mission Of Jesus Ascended
This article is designed to connect Christological insights with some contemporary matters of Christian life and the realities of church practice.
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“All you need is Love” - Jesus: Living the Moral Teaching of Jesus in our Context.
Most people have a view of Jesus as one of, if not the greatest, moral teachers.
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Holistic Discipleship: Embracing the Mission of God to All of Creation Through a ‘Green’ Reading of Revelation
This article is an amended version of a paper given originally at the 2017 School of Theology held at Bishopdale College in Nelson. It also draws on my Master's Thesis: Alas for the Earth: An Ecocritical Reading of Revelation (2016) which contains a more detailed account of some of the issues raised here, particularly in the exegesis of selected texts in Revelation.
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Making Disciples by Performing Miracles: A Study in Mark
The two principle themes of Mark’s gospel are Christology – the person and identity of Jesus Christ – and discipleship, what it means to be a follower of Jesus.
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Hearts and Minds: Leaders Reproduce Leaders
It seems that most conversations I have in church and ministry settings all converge on the same topic: leadership development.
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Ministry Corner
For this edition of Stimulus, we sat down and had a conversation with Richard Ellena, who retired at the end of 2018 after serving as the Anglican Bishop of Nelson for twelve years.
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St Imulus: Confessions of a Bible Editor
You get to be a Saint because of all the stuff you’d done back in the days of temporal life – sometimes paid, often unpaid, honorary, voluntary things.
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Do I Choose Joy?
By the time For King and Country’s (K&C) song Joy burst onto my screen it had already been on top of LIFE FM’s You Chart for several weeks.
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Vision: Avengers: Endgame
Dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. Los Angeles: Marvel Studios. April 2019.
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Book Review: The Significance of the Temple Incident in the Narratives of the Four Gospels
Deolito V. Vistar, JR.
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Book Review: "Without Ceasing to Be Christian": A Catholic and Protestant Assess the Christological Contribution of Raimon Panikkar
Erik Ranstrom & Bob Robinson
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Book Review: Stories of Therapy, Stories of Faith
Edited by Lex McMillan, Sarah Penwarden and Siobhan Hunt
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Book Review: Collision, Compromise and Conversion During the Wesleyan Hokianga Mission, 1827-1855
Gary A. M. Clover
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