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This dissertation presents a close study of the Didache, Church Order Literature, and early church worship liturgies. This research suggests these early documents preserved a means for spiritual formation within Christian community that can be emulated in any Christian worship context through intentional embedding of the core teaching of the Christian faith (orthodoxy) or right belief in tandem with (praxis) or embodied practice in the liturgy by used to order and guide (ordo) corporate worship services, small groups, Christian fellowship, Christian conferencing, and Christian service.
Further, this study proposes that the earliest worship elements, forms, and spiritual practices in Cyril’s Jerusalem ushered in a universally accessible Christocentric imaginative worship form that became a means for the formation of Christian identity through immersive experience in Christian community. The culmination of this dissertation is an invitation for Wesleyan-Arminian leaders and congregations of the Georgia District and USA Canada Region to critically examine and honestly evaluate what the order, worship, fellowship, church administration, and service of their local church family is proclaiming and producing.
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Degree AwardedDoctor of Ministry Spiritual Formation
Awarding InstitutionNazarene Theological Seminary
Committee MembersBrent Peterson, Levi Jones
Supervisor or ChairJacob Lett
Peer Reviewed?No
Pages239
Original LanguageEnglish
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