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As we contemplate the question, what is an evangelical? We need to realize that we would like to refer to instead of individual evangelicals to the evangelical church in its corporate dimension. We...

Let me suggest three areas where Fundamentalist paradigms (among several that I could posit) threaten to derail or erode our ministry to the city. These are: 1. Variant histories and allegiances in...

The disunity that had framed the earlier narratives of the people of God had been resolved with an agreement to become one again: God is, for this moment, at peace with His people of faith. From this...

Greetings and welcome to the third year of Didache: Faithful Teaching. This edition includes several new contributors from the Wesleyan family and a new section dedicated to student contributions. The...

For effective proclamation we need to engage in a double exegesis. We need to study Scripture and theology as it grows out of our biblical studies, as well as the people to which we minister and the...

Global Theology II Conference Edition. (January 2007) This is a special edition of conference papers developed in advance of the Global Theology Conference for the Church of the Nazarene held 31 March...

At the very beginning of discussions centred on the ideas of ‘One Lord, One faith, One Baptism: Unity and Diversity in our Wesleyan Theological Tradition’ it seems appropriate to grapple with the...

God is a missionary God2 who is unchangeably faithful in ‘sending’ God’s love. The mission of God unveils the character of God. God’s character is God’s mission and vice versa because God is love...

The argument of this paper is that Wesleyan theology cannot be separated from Wesleyan practice. It is my intention to demonstrate that truth by proposing a theological quintessence of the Wesleyan...

Theology becomes integral when it suggests a direct and specific relationship between theology and mission that transcends the dichotomy of theory and praxis. Maintaining a healthy balance between...

Perhaps John Wesley’s major contribution to the Church at large, and to the Wesleyan movement, remains his discipleship system, grounded in biblical principles, channeled through methods God helped...

The principles [of Wesleyan theology] mentioned above make up the seed bed of our theology making it relevant in our time, particularly in the education sector. We educators have to carefully and...

This position paper begins with describing the task of the theological educator in terms of an artisan. In a world inundated with information, the search for Wisdom becomes a worthy goal of...

A paper on future challenges in Wesleyan theological education makes two assumptions. First, we know what Wesleyan theological education is. Second, many of us are engaged in Wesleyan theological...

This paper explores the idea that understanding postmodernism and incorporating a theistic worldview with redeemable aspects of postmodernism can bring about an effective relevancy to theological...

Initial call for papers for the Global Theology Conference to be held April 2024 in Pilar, Argentina from the April 2022 issue of Didache: Faithful Teaching.

In the earliest beginnings of the Wesleyan-holiness movement from the 1890’s to 1908, founders of the Church of the Nazarene launched 14 schools of different levels to prepare leaders. Their passion...

Welcome Didache: Faithful Teaching Volume 23, number 2. This special edition includes responses from around the world in preparation for our Global Theology Conference, “In the Power of the Spirit”...

Audio recording of the opening evening (31 March, 2007) of the Global Theology II Conference held in the Netherlands.

Anyone who has read much of Milbank will immediately recognize that my task is a difficult one. Understanding his work will require patience on the part of the reader. In order to grasp his...

This paper explores the universal and global church’s mission to promote love, peace, justice, and compassion into the often harsh realities of the twenty-first century world. While there are many...

This article examines the African worldview of Ubuntu or Botho, and its psych or social and cultural super structure. Further, it shall explicate the collective tools employed by the oppressed...

The Church of the Nazarene no longer belongs to the rich countries that once sent their missionaries to the third world, now she spreads the Gospel in the world of the poor of Africa, Asia and Latin...

Condensed from chapter 9 of a soon-to-be-published Introduction to Missions textbook, Discovering Mission, by Chuck Gailey and Howard Culbertson. Roger Peterson, long-time head of the Fellowship of...

As we look carefully at Christ’s strategy, we might consider that short-term opportunities such as Mission Corps serve the purposes of: 1) Acting as a prerequisite and apprenticeship for long-term...