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" Equipping a Select Group of Deaf Believers in Dakar, Senegal with an Apologia for Their Faith Using a Mnemonic-Based Bible Story-Set "
Jungheim, Nickolaus Woods
Greenham, Ant
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1055594
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TL54711
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Jungheim, Nickolaus Woods
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Equipping a Select Group of Deaf Believers in Dakar, Senegal with an Apologia for Their Faith Using a Mnemonic-Based Bible Story-Set\ Jungheim, Nickolaus WoodsGreenham, Ant
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Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
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2020
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D.Min.
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2020
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173 p.
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The Deaf Christians of Senegal, like their Deaf peers around the world, communicate information primarily through non-print means. They also have the distinction of recently converting to evangelical Christianity. These Deaf have no native written language, possess little to no familiarity with biblical Christianity and cannot use print Bibles to grow as Christians. Biblically illiterate Deaf people in Muslim countries like Senegal run the risk of converting or relapsing to Islam. They, therefore, need to access the Bible through non-print means to learn how to obey God and to fortify their faith in Jesus. The project director worked with a group of Deaf Senegalese to create a module that would equip the Deaf Christians with a biblical defense against the beliefs and traditions of Muslims. They built a mnemonic-based set of twelve Bible stories designed to help the believer defend four biblical doctrines. The Deaf believer would not need to refer to a print Bible when defending these doctrines. They would, instead, use mnemonics to recall a Bible story matching the specific challenge and story that story to their Muslim challenger. The director and the Deaf Senegalese hoped that the Deaf believers would find their creation, the 3–1 story-set, useful as an apologia for their faith. The director developed the 3–1 story-set by inviting the Deaf believers to describe their Muslim backgrounds or experiences. He then had the Deaf help him pick Bible stories that they could use to show the identity of God, the hopelessness of man before God, the security they have as Christ-followers, and the hope of an eternal relationship with God through Jesus. The Deaf believers, however, also wanted to consider the occultism they saw in Senegalese society when selecting these stories. They settled on twelve Bible stories (i.e., the 3–1 story-set) and developed the mnemonics for the story-set. The project director also covered the research material underlying 3–1 story-set by discussing the beliefs and traditions of West African Muslims, Deaf education, orality, qualitative testing, communicating the gospel to oral people groups, and Deaf theology. He expounded on key worldview beliefs of Deaf Senegalese Muslims, learning techniques used by Deaf Senegalese, defining Bible stories, and the use of storying to contrast Muslim beliefs and practices. The director then combined each thread of his research to create a theoretical foundation defending the Deaf Senegalese need for a mnemonic-based Bible story-set tailored to their worldview. The director augmented his argument for a mnemonic-based Bible story-set by describing his experience with the Deaf Senegalese. He arrived in Dakar, Senegal as a church planter in 2015 and worked with Deaf believers to plant a vibrant church of twenty-five members. The Deaf leaders of that church, due to inexperience and status as non-print communicators, relied on the director as a source of Bible stories that they could use to defend their beliefs. The director, knowing that he could not indefinitely serve the Deaf in such a capacity, determined to develop a mnemonic-based Bible story-set that they could use as an evangelizing and discipling tool. The project director conducted qualitative interviews with a group of Deaf Senegalese believers to discover the efficacy of the 3–1 story-set as a tool for apologetics. He found that the believers had utilized the 3–1 story-set as evangelists and disciplers. They, additionally, empowered themselves by using the set among their Deaf Muslim peers. The director’s interviewees also told him stories of how believers used the 3–1 story-set to persuade contemporaries to reject occult practices and become Christ-followers. He concluded from these interviews that the believers had successfully employed the 3–1 story-set as a tool proclaiming and defending their belief in Jesus.
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African studies
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Biblical studies
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Communication
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Disability studies
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Language
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Linguistics
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Religion
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Religious education
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Theology
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Greenham, Ant
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Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
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