عنوان

A Bible College for Southern Namibia:

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TLpq2405189368

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

A Bible College for Southern Namibia:

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Stewart, Mark

Title Proper by Another Author

Stakeholders' Perceptions

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Starcher, Richard L

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Biola University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

209

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

Biola University

Text preceding or following the note

2020

Text of Note

This study was undertaken to understand stakeholder perceptions with regard to a Bible college in southern Namibia. The study engaged a total of 29 participants in individual interviews and a further 12 participants from 3 focus groups. Participants in the study were asked to list the reasons for the need for a Bible college in that region and responded with some answers that would be considered normative, such as the need to prepare men and women for the ministry; some answers that reflected the state of the church in Africa, such as the need to combat the heresy of the prosperity gospel movement; and some that were unique in terms of needing an accredited institution that would satisfy government requirements of credibility of ministers in order to recognize ordination. Once the reasons for the study were clarified, the participants were asked to engage in the issues of graduate outcomes following 3 broad categories of cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes; these findings are reported as well as the follow-up findings as to what the participants in turn felt that the overall Bible college program needed to be in order to accomplish those outcomes. Although many different areas of interest were discussed, the one that emerged as a potential driver for success in the Bible college and supported a substantive theory transferable to similar contexts was the nearly unanimous desire to use faculty from outside of the region and indeed outside of Namibia. After considering the barriers to this approach in terms of cost of remote faculty, a theory of cultural proximity (which in this instance coincided with geographic proximity) was put forward. While this is an academic enterprise, the outcome of the dissertation is intended as much to provide a framework for pulling together people with like mind that want to see a Bible college established in southern Namibia.

Bible college

Intercultural education

Namibia

Religious education

Starcher, Richard L

Stewart, Mark

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[Thesis]

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