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Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers (Journals)

ISSN 0739-7046

Faith and Philosophy is the journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers. It is provided open-access by the SCP so that the best of contemporary Christian philosophy and philosophy of religion is available to all.

Great Commission Research Journal (Journals)

ISSN 2638-9983

Great Commission Research Journal

The Great Commission Research Journal is a scholarly, peer-reviewed publication presenting research on ministry that aims to help people follow Jesus-Christ. This research draws from multiple disciplines, including theology, missiology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and history. The journal focuses on church-based research relevant to the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19-20), Jesus’ call to help others follow him.

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth (Journals)

ISSN 1091-2711

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

(Now published as the Great Commission Research Journal)

The Journal of the American Society for Church Growth is a scholarly, peer-reviewed publication presenting research on ministry that aims to help people follow Jesus-Christ. This research draws from multiple disciplines, including theology, missiology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and history. The journal focuses on church-based research relevant to the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19-20), Jesus’ call to help others follow him.

Leaves of Healing (Journals)

Leaves of Healing was a journal published by John Alexander Dowie, a well-known holiness faith-healer who lived from 1847-1907. He established the city of Zion, Illinois for his followers and was deposed by his followers in 1905 for financial irregularities. In 1901, Dowie claimed to be the spiritual return of the prophet Elijah. In 1903, Dowie officially named his religious organization the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. Dowie's work is considered a forerunner of Pentecostalism.

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Pentecostal Herald (Journals)

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The Apostolic Faith (Journals)

The Asbury Journal (Journals)

ISSN 2375-6330

The Asbury Journal publishes scholarly essays and book reviews written from a Wesleyan perspective. The Journal's authors and audience reflect the global reality of the Christian church, the holistic nature of Wesleyan thought, and the importance of both theory and practice in addressing the current issues of the day. Authors include Wesleyan scholars, scholars of Wesleyanism/Methodism, and scholars writing on issues of theological and theological education importance.

The Golden Rule (Journals)

On February 2, 1881 in Portland, Maine, Francis E. Clark and a group of young people at the Williston Congregational Church founded the first group devoted to youth ministry. It was known as the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor. The movement spread rapidly until by 1908 there were 3.5 million members in over 70,000 societies across the globe. In 1887, The Golden Rule was adopted as the organization's first official publication. From 1891, Amos Wells became the editor. In October of 1897 its name was changed to Christian Endeavor World. The journals republished here represent some of the earliest, most complete resources for people researching this important movement.

The Good Way (Journals)

In 1883, the Church of God (Holiness) was formed from former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church who had been active in the Southwestern Holiness Association. Committed to the doctrine of entire sanctification, the original group of 44 members has expanded to numerous congregations, primarily in Missouri and Kansas, with their headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas. The Good Way was one of their earliest publications until it merged with The Church Witness to become the Church Herald, and later the Church Herald and Holiness Banner. It provides a rare window into the Holiness Movement in the late 19^th century. It was published from 1880-1895

The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies (Journals)

ISSN 2372-0727

The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies intends to promote the hermeneutical approach to the study of the Scriptures generally known as Inductive Biblical Studies. By Inductive Biblical Study (IBS) we mean the hermeneutical movement initiated by William Rainey Harper and Wilbert Webster White that was embodied in the curriculum of The Biblical Seminary in New York founded in 1900. This approach had precursors in the history of interpretation and has since the beginning of the twentieth-century enjoyed widespread dissemination, being taught at such institutions as Princeton Theological Seminary, Columbia Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, Fuller Theological Seminary, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Azusa Pacific University, and Asbury Theological Seminary, as well as hundreds of other institutions and organizations around the world. For more detailed description of IBS, see Bauer and Traina, Inductive Bible Study: A Comprehensive Guide to the Practice of Hermeneutics (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011) and the IBS website at http://www.inductivebiblicalstudy.com/.

The Repository of Holiness (Journals)

The Vanguard (Journals)

The Vanguard was a holiness journal published by C.W. Sherman and the Vanguard Mission of St. Louis, Missouri. It began publishing about 1889 and ceased publication in 1925. Materials from this journal are rare since about 1918 the mission's headquarters at the Marvin Campgrounds was taken over by a group of Pentecostals and all back issues were destroyed. C.W. Sherman also published an Indian version of the paper from their holiness mission work in India, but no known copies of these remain. Sherman's work was tied to the Pentecost Bands and the work of the Free Methodist Church in their later years.

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The WATS Journal: An Online Journal from West Africa Theological Seminary (Journals)

The WATS Journal: An Online Journal from West Africa Theological Seminary is an academic journal which publishes cutting edge research in missiology, biblical theology, Christian arts, leadership and management, Church history, Pastoral theology and practice, ecclesiology, and Church-state relations. The goal of the journal is to empower church leaders and workers, theologians, scholars of religion and Christians everywhere, in their mission of extending the frontiers of the work of the Gospel.