These are the only names starting with "A" that I've not been able to find the denomination for the forum denomination tagging project. I'm showing a bit of information if I got somewhere but ...
David Abernathy was a member of First Baptist Church in Charlotte (SBC) when he joined Wycliffe.http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/01/17/4620036/love-stories-estelle-and-david.html
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Willard Dow Allbeck was probably in the Lutheran Church in America (Now ELCA).http://smile.amazon.com/History-Florida-Lutheran-Church-America/dp/B008K7DCNW
Paul S. Ash used to be on staff at Reinhardt College, which is United Methodist, as is Emory University.http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/1551_781.pdf
Karelynne Ayayo teaches Women's Bible Study at Parkside Church in Green, OH, which is non-denominational.http://green.parksidechurch.com/ministries/wednesday/womens-bible-study/
Rich Anderson was an active member of Richland Bible Church (non-denominational, now called Gracespring Bible Church).https://www.wordsearchbible.com/products/20424
Regarding Atsuhiro Asano, the School of Theology at Kwansei Gakuin University is Methodist.http://global.kwansei.ac.jp/academics/academics_203242.html
Joseph Abraham is ordained in the Indian Pentecostal Church of God.http://www.apts.edu/aeimages/File/AJPS_PDF/03-1-Contributors.pdf
John Adams of Inverkeillor was a clergyman in the Free Church of Scotland.http://books.google.com/books?id=OYA-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=john+adams+church+scotland&source=bl&ots=RqZ3E4qg6P&sig=zc0usqeDlZx9CvSUyOZeY7YRzno&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QmxlU6GOG833oATI4YFI&ved=0CCkQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=john%20adams%20church%20scotland&f=false
You two are insanely clever at this game. But wow; a one-time affiliation with a denomination and they're now forever slotted into that category? I'd hate to imagine what you think my denominational affiliation must be, if I were a published author. I was baptized in an Episcopal Church, I've been a member of a Congregational Church, a Presbyterian Church, and a Mennonite Church, and I graduated from a transdenominational seminary.
People do shift around a lot more often these days than they did in the past. I probably know fewer people who have remained with one denomination their entire lives than I know people who have switched from one to another at least once in their adulthood. They switch for all sorts of reasons, some fickle (it's closer; it has a better children's program; they like the music better; there's better preaching) and some requiring deep soul-searching and discernment (they no longer feel theologically aligned with how their parents brought them up; a friend who sensed a call to pastoral ministry was working as an associate pastor in a Baptist church and had to leave because they wouldn't hire her for the lead pastor position that opened up, because she's a woman; through a long process, she ended up ordained in the ELCA and is now pastoring a startup church).
So slotting people into denominational affiliation categories is an inherently fault-prone process. Good luck with it, though. You do seem to be good at digging up evidence of membership in a particular denomination for at least a period of time.
But wow; a one-time affiliation with a denomination and they're now forever slotted into that category?
But wow; a one-time affiliation with a denomination and they're now forever slotted into that category?Ah ! Miss Rosie ! Thanks for saying What I was thinking. I to have "Evolved". Possibly more to the point, I don't want folks to judge the "original" denomination because of my blunt statements. They are good folks. We just don't see eye to eye on some facets.
And the other thing is that denominations constitute a fairly narrowly defined set of beliefs, whereas sometimes we who find ourselves more "transdenominational" can see truth in many of them. I joined the Presbyterian church I went to in Seattle for years, because I'd heard good things about that particular church when I moved to Seattle. Then I started attending the Mennonite church when I moved to Vancouver (after a few months of dabbling at various different ones), because it was different from what I'd been exposed to before and I wanted a learning/growing experience. (At that point, I thought I was only going to be in Vancouver for a couple of years to do my degree; little did I know I'd still be here and at that church 17 years later!) It isn't that I didn't see eye to eye with the Presbyterians anymore (in fact I'm still very much theologically aligned with them), but when I visited the Presbyterian church in my neighborhood, I found it to be an older dying congregation (even though Eugene Peterson was attending there at the time, which would have been awesome), and I wanted something different.
So yeah, if you went online and googled me, you'd find that I've preached at this Mennonite church so you might slot me into "Mennonite" as my denominational affiliation. But it'd probably be more accurate to call me a PresbyMennoCongrePalian. And even that would be missing out on some aspects of my theology and spirituality.
So slotting people into denominational affiliation categories is an inherently fault-prone process.
This has been discussed at length in the main thread for denominational and theological tagging. Yours is the position I originally took. However, it seems to be a popular feature - one with which I am cooperating to avoid certain types of problems from creeping in. The rule that was decided upon (if I recall correctly) for people who switched affiliations is to use the affiliation at the time a particular book was written. This leaves Pelikan a Lutheran and Mahoney an Eastern-rite Catholic. Pew research gives the figure of 44% for the percentage of adults who have either changed or dropped their religious affiliation. However, the majority of Logos resources were written in an era where religious affiliation was a bit more stable - and many of the most frequent changes have now been resolved by denominational mergers.
The advantage of how Andrew has set things up is that the categories are granular enough that most people can combine them into the groups most meaningful to them. So if people want to use it, I'll gladly help out - and request assistance on those I can't tease out. I was hoping that your Google expertise might help on the problematic cases especially ones like John Adams who it seems we ought to be able to identify.
I was hoping that your Google expertise might help on the problematic cases especially ones like John Adams who it seems we ought to be able to identify.
John Adams is a pretty common name, so that one might be tricky. Though it appears elnwood found him for you.
Wish I could help with your project, but I really don't have time, and the idea still strikes me as reinforcing the kind of division that we are moving beyond, though I do think Andrew's spreadsheet could be useful if used with a grain of salt (and I've downloaded it myself). As long as people aren't saying "I want to restrict myself to reading authors who come from a <...> perspective" but rather "I don't know enough about the <...> perspective; who could I read that might help me broaden my understanding?" then it's fine.
So yeah, if you went online and googled me
Ok I did and there is a lot on you out there Rosie. I will say you do good work with photography.
So yeah, if you went online and googled me Ok I did and there is a lot on you out there Rosie. I will say you do good work with photography.
Thank you, Kent.
This used to be my forum avatar. People used to bug me about hiding behind my camera, or how creepy it made them feel that it looked like I was spying on them. I eventually changed it. Not because of that but because my hair is grayer now, and I wanted a more up-to-date photo.
You two are insanely clever at this game. But wow; a one-time affiliation with a denomination and they're now forever slotted into that category? I'd hate to imagine what you think my denominational affiliation must be, if I were a published author. I was baptized in an Episcopal Church, I've been a member of a Congregational Church, a Presbyterian Church, and a Mennonite Church, and I graduated from a transdenominational seminary. So slotting people into denominational affiliation categories is an inherently fault-prone process. Good luck with it, though. You do seem to be good at digging up evidence of membership in a particular denomination for at least a period of time.
It's useful for many authors, particularly those who have been ordained into a particular denomination. It's true that slotting people in a particular denomination may not be useful, or fully describe a person. However, even if the data is limited and imperfect, it gives us some information which some might find useful.
For example, a person could make a collection for current and past faculty, summer school sessional lecturers, and alumni authors of a particular transdenominational seminary. A person could teach one class there, or get one degree there, but go on to study and teach at other schools, and hold incompatible views with that original school, but they're now forever slotted into that category! But clearly some people find such data useful. Right, Rosie? [;)]
Right, Rosie?
Touché.
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