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The Development of Multicultural Teams in the Book of Acts: A Model with Application to Urban North America
[Thesis]
Stallard, Stephen Christian
Dodson, Michael
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
2020
254 p.
Ph.D.
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
2020
This dissertation seeks to answer the following question: does the book of Acts contain patterns of multicultural teams that could serve as a model for those who minister in urban North America? Chapter one responds to this query by proposing a testable thesis: the patterns established in the Book of Acts provide a model for multicultural leadership teams in churches and ministries in urban North America. In this introductory chapter, the working methodology for the dissertation is discussed, along with the purpose and limits of the study. Chapter two examines the Book of Acts to determine an appropriate methodology for application of this narrative. Descriptive and prescriptive approaches to Acts are contrasted, various genre classifications for this book are examined, and a Representative Patterns approach is proposed. This proposed approach focuses upon discovering repeatable patterns throughout the Book of Acts. These patterns, when discovered, can provide a guide for missionary methods. Chapter three engages the important question of culture. It seeks to define terms such as culture, multicultural, and multiculturalism by engaging the social sciences. After comparing various approaches to culture, a model is constructed, and then tested against the way that culture actually "worked" in Antiquity. In chapter four, the heart of the study commences. This is the first of two chapters devoted to producing a "cultural map" of the first Christian ministry teams. The churches and ministry teams in Jerusalem and Antioch are examined for traces of multiculturalism. At Jerusalem, this will involve examining the Hebraic Apostles, the Hellenistic Six Proto-Deacons, and Nicolaus the Proselyte. At Antioch, this will involve examining Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, and Saul of Tarsus. Chapter five continues the cultural map by examining the noteworthy team members on the Pauline Teams during Paul's first, second, and third missionary journeys. This effort focuses primarily on the Book of Acts but will necessarily involve some correlation from the Pauline epistles. This correlation will help to produce further data that will foster a cultural map of various individuals on the Pauline Teams. Chapter six transitions to 21st century urban North America and argues the major cities of North America are, in many ways, contextually similar to the settings of the Book of Acts. Consequently, patterns of multicultural ministry teams discovered in the Book of Acts can be used as a model that can legitimately be applied to urban settings in North America. Contemporary application is discussed as it relates to the challenges and opportunities of cultural equity, cultural intelligence, and cultural tension.
Cultural anthropology
Religion
Theology
Stallard, Stephen Christian
Dodson, Michael
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
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