A Journal of Holiness Theology for Asia-Pacific Contexts

The Mediator is the official journal of APNTS. The name of this journal describes well the theme at APNTS of “Bridging Cultures for Christ,” based on 1 Timothy 2:5, the seminary’s theme verse. The Mediator is intended to be a useful tool for bringing together diverse cultures and concepts in dialogue under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The Mediator is a unique journal in that it focuses on issues of ministry and mission in the Asia-Pacific region from a Wesleyan-Holiness perspective.

The articles address both scholarly and practical issues relevant to ministry in this region. We have published our printed journal on this website so that the dialogue may extend around the world. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view some of the issues of our journal. You may download this program by clicking on the icon to the right.

Our journal is registered with the Philippine National Library with ISSN 1655-4175.

Mediator Issues:

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Volume 21 Issue 1 July 2026

• Pau Lian Mung, “From Shadows to Light: A Biblical Response to Zomi Beliefs about Death and the Spirit’s Journey”

• Sarwang Pong Latt, “Healing the Hidden Wounds: Pastoral Care for Families Broken by Myanmar’s Military Coup”

• Priscilla Par,”Mutual Growth in Mission: Insights from Cross-Cultural Ministry Engagement”

• Thang Hli Pai (Martha), “The Greco-Roman Diasporic Women in Acts 16″

• Yo Sub Lee,”From Repentance to Perfect Love: The Practical Structure of Chung Nam-soo’s Theology of Sanctification in the Korean Holiness Revival of the 1930s”

• Mamre Buelis-Bating, “The Reality of the Suicide Case Among Filipino Adolescents: Vital Actions for Handling Suicide as Christian Leaders and Faith Community”

• Neitze Sabado Rio, “Christian Flourishing as Social Holiness: A Wesleyan Framework for Integral Mission”

• 2025-26 APNTS Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts

Volume 20 Issue 1 November 2025

• Rebecca L. Davis, “The Experience of Transformation in Wesley’s Theology”

• Benita Florentia, “Longing to Belong: Exploring Adolescents’ Same-Sex-Attraction in Indonesia”

• Encheng Jin, Jenny Nepomuceno, Sara Gunderson, Shuney Tumolva, “Exploring Idolatry in the Contemporary Era: Addressing Issues in Parenting and Worship“

• Christian Anthony S. Manguera, “Hospitality in the Ministries of Preaching, Prayer, and Evangelism”

• 2024-25 APNTS Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts

Volume 19 Issue 1 November 2024

• Mitchel Modine, “Foes, Fools, and Fouls: Unsound Logic in the Speeches of Eliphaz the Temanite (Job 4–5; 15; 22)“

• David A. Ackerman, “The Promised Land and Its Care as a Means of Grace for God’s People“

• Jomer Anthony S. Clemente, “Patron-Client Kοινωνίᾳ: Exploring the Partnership Paradigm of Paul and the Philippians“

• Cing Sian Thawn, “A Comparative Analysis of Buddhism, Wesleyanism, and Process Theology Implications for Holistic Transformation in Myanmar“

• Julie Branstetter, “Implications of Self-Worth through Human Vocation for Persons with Disabilities“

• Encheng Jin, “An Assessment of Korean and Chinese Classrooms from the Perspective of Paulo Freire’s Banking Model of Education“

• Irene Yang, “A Theological Perspective of Incarcerated Inmates as Imago Dei“

• 2024 APNTS Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts

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Volume 18 Issue 1 November 2023

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary: Historical Statement“

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “Teach Your Children Well“

• Seri Damarwanti, “Wayang as a Bridge of Transformation and Conveying Good News to Javanese Society”

• Joseph Wood, “Scripture Way of Salvation: A Wesleyan Way of Equipping the Next Generation (Philippians 2:1-13)”

• Benita Florentia, “Bearing Witness as Christian Chinese Descendants in Grace Emmanuel Christian Church Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia“

• Christian Anthony S. Manguera, “The Understanding of the Sacraments of First Church of the Nazarene Angeles City Congregants and Its Influence on Their Practice of These“

• 2023 APNTS Thesis and Dissertation Abstract

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Volume 17 Issue 1 August 2022

• Julie Branstetter, “Rebuilding on the Ruins: Biblical Precedent in Jeremiah 30:18-31:14 for Christian Engagement in Social Redevelopment”

• Mototsugu Inaba, “The Way to Communicate the Message of Holiness to the Uchi-Soto Culture in the Japanese Context Using the Image of God in Genesis”

• Mark C. Peters, “Transformational Leadership Theory and Decision Making”

• Jonathan Edward Wilson, “The Child in Japanese Christian Context: Christian Influence during the Meiji Era”

• 2022 APNTS Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts

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Volume 16 Issue 1 November 2021

• Yun, Ae-Sun, “Spiritual Nurture in the Pandemic”

• Rheynil A. Sagud, “Awareness and Response of Wesleyan Ministers in Pangasinan to Climate Change: The Basis for a Mitigation and Adaptation Framework”

• Marlies Hartcamp, “Nurturing the Faith of Children at Home: What the Church can do to Support Parents”

• Biak Cung Lian, “Christian Holiness in the Chin Context”

• 2021 APNTS Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts

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Volume 15 Issue 1 November 2020

• Evelyn R Pajaron, “Reconciling Evidence-Based Parenting Programs with Biblical Perspectives on Child Rearing”

• Kengoro Goto, “The Meaning of Worshipping in “Spirit and Truth” (John 4:23)”

• Ernesto Sebastian Lozano Fernandez, “Hospitality in the Teacher-Learner Relationship”

• Sheryl Grunwald, “Do Children Have a Vocation? Exploring the Theology of Vocation with a “Child in the Midst”

• Simone Mulieri Twibell, “Strategic-Level Spiritual Warfare: A Theological Assessment of its Premises and Practices”

• 2020 APNTS Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts

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Volume 14 Issue 1 July 2019

• Rebecca Davis, “The Spirit in the Church”

• Marie Joy Pring, “Amidst the Gemeinschaft-ing and Gesellschaft-ing: The Atomization of Societies and the Communal Bonds Built by the Wesleyan-Holiness Women”

• Wobeni Lotha, “Children’s Spirituality: Biblical Foundations, the Importance of Laying a Solid Spiritual Foundation and the Nurturing Role of the Family and the Faith Community”

• Roseline Olumbe, “Let the Little Children Come to Me: Examining the Place of Children from a Theological, Historical, and Developmental Perspective: Implications for Missions with Children”

• Ning Ngaih Lian, “Transformational Teaching/Learning”

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Volume 13 Issue 2 May 2018

• Jason Valeriano Hallig, “Sola Scriptura—Reformation’s Ecclesial Legacy”

• Dick O. Eugenio, “Response to ‘Sola Scriptura’”

• Clark Armstrong, “To Present Everyone Perfect in Christ”

• Peggy Oldham, “Seeking Christian Community”

• APNTS Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts

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Volume 13 Issue 1 December 2017

• Dick O. Eugenio, “Theology as Evangelism”

• Grant Zweigle, “Seven Propositions for Evangelism”

• Phillip E. Davis, “In Hope of a Graceful Event”

• Dick O. Eugenio, “Response to ‘In Hope of a Graceful Event’”

• Daniel Behr, “Speaking the Same Language”

• Mitchel Modine, “Response to ‘Speaking the Same Language”

• Rebecca Davis, “Equipping the Saints for Worship’”

• Nativity A. Petallar, “Response to ‘Equipping the Saints for Worship’”

• Lynn D. Shmidt, “I’ll Have a Cheeseburger with No Cheese, Please”

• Darin H. Land, “Response to ‘I’ll Have a Cheeseburger with No Cheese, Please’”

• Bruce E. Oldham, “A God of Immeasurably More”

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “Response to ‘A God of Immeasurably More”

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Volume 12 Issue 1 April 2017

• Phillip E. Davis, “The Postmodern Condition and the Christian Open Narrative”

• Jason V. Hallig, “The Gospel of Caritas: The Church as an Open Society—Toward a More Inclusive Witness”

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “A Wesleyan Historian’s Response to Postmodernism”

• Darin H. Land, “Postmodernity: An Invitation to Quiet Confidence in Biblical Studies”

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Volume 11 Issue 1 April 2015

• Mitchel Modine, “Where Does the Bible Belong in Christian Faith?”

• Darin H. Land, “What’s New in the New Testament? Scriptural Resources for Orthoprax Innovation in the Church”

• Nativity A. Petallar, “The Quadrilateral of Holistic Child Development”

• Larnie Sam A. Tabuena, “Authentic Mode of Existence”

• Im, Seung-An, “The BEST and GREAT APNTS of the CROSS”

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Volume 10 Issue 1 December 2014

• Dong-Hwan Kwon and Rei Lemuel Crizaldo, “KAP Study on Dengue Fever among the Rowenas Community”

• Darin H. Land, “Synthesis Searching: The Continuing Influence of F. C. Baur”

• various, “Theological Poetry”

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Volume 9 Issue 2 December 2013

• Nativity A. Petallar, “Women’s Ways of Knowing and Doing”

• Kwon Dong-Hwan, “The Role of Protestant Mission and the Modernization among Mangyans in the Philippines”

• Mitchel Modine, “Book Reviews”

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Volume 9 Issue 1 April 2013

• Larnie Sam A. Tabuena, “An Intersubjective Movement of Presence in Creative Fidelity”

• Melvin A. Aquino, “Response to Tabuena”

• Dick Eugenio, “Christ-Likeness and the Renewal of the Imago Dei”

• Rodrigo D. Tano, “Response to Eugenio”

• Lee San Young, “Response to Eugenio”

• Michael Lodahl, “Living Holy Lives in God’s Good Creation”

• Elijah Kim, “Response to Lodahl, ‘Living Holy Lives'”

• Alberto D. Patacsil, “Response to Lodahl, ‘Living Holy Lives'”

• Michael Lodahl, “A Critical Retrieval of John Wesley’s ‘The General Spread of the Gospel'”

• Ferry Y. Mamahit, “Response to Lodahl, ‘Critical Retrieval'”

• Melba Padilla Maggay, “Response to Lodahl, ‘Critical Retrieval'”

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “How, Then, Shall We Live?”

• Linda Bondy, “An Educational Model for Improving English Proficiency Scores”

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Volume 8 Issue 1 April 2011

• Robert C. Donahue, “The Changing Role of the Missionary”

• Robert A. Bickert, ““Strength” – Being Filled with all the Fullness of God!”

• Alex Shipp, “Poverty and Morality: A Case Study”

• Robert A. Bickert, “Evangelizing African Traditional Religion Migrants in Urban Contexts in West Africa: A Case Study of Freetown, Sierra Leone”

• Jarrett Davis, “Identity and Development: A Case Study of the People of Looban Outreach Church”

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Volume 7 Issue 1 October 2009

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “Building New Bridges”

• Beverly Gruver, “Faith and Holiness”

• David A. Ackerman, “Room in the Inn: A Glimpse at Early Christian Hospitality through Lukan Redaction”

• Charles E. Seifert, “The Master Musician”

• Darin Land, “Incarnational Interpretation: Hearing the Word of God in the New Testament”

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Volume 6 Issue 2 April 2005

• Donald Dean Owens, “Missiological Education as Missionary Theology”

• Donald Dean Owens, “Some Reflections on Building Bridges”

• Donald Dean Owens, “Theological Foundations of Missions”

• Robert E. Coleman, “Theology in Mission 1”

• Robert E. Coleman, “Theology in Mission 2”

• Robert E. Coleman, “Theology in Mission 3”

• Robert C. Donahue, “Some New Directions in Missions”

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Volume 5 Issue 2 April 2004

• Donald Owens, “Some Reflections on Building Bridges”

• Lebron Fairbanks, “Theological Education for a God-Called Ministry”

• John M. Nielson, “People of the Paradox”

• Hitoshi Fukue, “With Roots and Branches”

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary: The First Twenty Years”

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “Tribute to the Manaoises”

• Dean Flemming, “T is for Transformation”

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “Education for the Preparation of Ministers in Asia”

• Robert C. Donahue, “Some Thoughts About Theological Education”

• Janice Nielson, “More Than A Theological Education”

• A. Brent Cobb, “Hitoshi-Planting and Reaping in the Land of the Rising Sun”

• Wes Eby, “From Sick Dog to Seminary”

• AnnaBelle Lauhghaum, “A Profile in Joy: The Life of Stephen Kim”

• Debbie S. Goodwin, “Tomoyuki Hirahara: From Gurus to God”

• A. Brent Cobb, “Timothy-Using Prayer Evangelism to Gather the Harvest”

• A. Brent Cobb, “Reclaiming the Throwaways-Manila’s Street Kids”

• Samuel Choi, “God Will Make a Way For You”

• Mitsuko Fukue, “Getting Up Again and Again”

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Volume 5 Issue 1 October 2003

• Hitoshi Fukue, “With Roots and Branches”

• Gilbert L. Montecastro, “A Filipino Perspective of Prevenient Grace in Relation to Biblical Studies”

• Robert C. Donahue, “Evangelism”

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “Diversities Within post-War Philippine Protestantism”

• Cynthia C. Datu, “Factors for the Decline of the Women’s Ministry in the Early Church A.D. 2-5

• Maria Tongia, “How Can Women of Papua New Guinea Be Effective in Communicating Holiness?”

• Greg B. Fernandez Jr., “Urgent Call for Holiness Preaching”

• Robert C. Donahue, “Essay on Theology of Leadership”

• Samuel S. Bustamante, “A Pleasing Response to God’s Mercy”

• Park Un Tae, “The Content of Prayer”

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Volume 4 Issue 2 April 2003

• Robert C. Donahue, “Theological Considerations of Racism and Reconciliation”

• John M. Nielson, “Reflections on Hope”

• Beverly Gruver, “To Right the Wrongs of the Ages”

• Jojit Uy, “Feeding the Soul with Material Things: The Parable of the Rich Fool Luke 12:13-2”

• Cynthia C. Datu, “Middle Class Redemption”

• Larnie Sam Tabuena, “An Age of Transition Matthew 28:20”

• Satish Robert Manmothe, “A Wesleyan Response to Religious Pluralism: Evaluation of John Wesley’s Theology”

• Oh Won Keun, “Paul’s Understanding of the Human Condition in Romans 1:18-32 and 5:12-21”

• Hitoshi Fukue, “A Bright Future Proverbs 24:13, 14”

• Jerry D. Forter, “Ministry to the Poor”

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Volume 4 Issue 1 October 2002

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “Telling the Story of the Church of the Nazarene: A Wesleyan Reflection on Church History”

• John M. Nielson, “Reflections on Hope”

• Stephen and Christi Bennet, “We Shall Remember Them: Memories of New Zealand Nazarene Saints”

• Robert C. Donahue, “A Response to Holiness in the Context of Presentations made at the Global Theology Conference”

• William Dryness, “Integral Mission and Development: Where are We?”

• Robert C. Donahue, “A Response to William Dryness, Integral Mission and Development: Where are We?”

• Dean Flemming, “The Gospel and Syncretism: Contextualizing the Gospel in Colossians”

• Daniel Behr, “Communicating Christ to the Postmodern World: Rhetorical Perspectivism and Christian Epistemology”

• Hitoshi Fukue, “Either Ignorance Or Sin? Luke 15:16-19”

• Stephen J. Bennet, “God Defend New Zealand: Contextualizing Old Testament Theology”

• Jason V. Hallig, “Paul’s Concept of Servanthood”

• Carolyn Bestre, “Motivations and Expectations of Students in Luzon Nazarene Bible College”

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Volume 3 Issue 2 April 2002

• Hitoshi Fukue, “Beyond Christ and Culture”

• Mitsuko Fukue, “Intercultural Communication and the Gospel: A Case Study of a Japanese Church”

• David A. Ackerman, “Paul and Wesley on Grace, Conscience, and the Law”

• Christi-An C. Bennett, “Theological Foundations of Wesleyan Missiology in Historical Perspective”

• Stephen J. Bennett, Din Thara, and Jubilee Thanga”

• Greg Fernandez, “Ten Convictions about Spiritual Leadership”

• Chun, Kwan Don, “A Spiritual Leadership”

• Robert C. Donahue, “The Story Goes On”

• John Bose, “Perfect Love is the Evidence of a Holy Love 1 John 4:7-21”

• Cynthia C. Datu, “Passing the Love Test”

• Robert C. Donahue, “International Symposium on Asian Mission”

• Robert C. Donahue, “Book Review of A Dictionary of Asian Christianity”

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Volume 3 Issue 1 October 2001

• John M. Nielson, “Responsibilities-Not Rights”

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “Faithful: The Church of the Nazarene in North China”

• Mark J. Hatcher, “Poetry, Singing, and Contextualization”

• Neville Bartle, “A Model for Contextualizing Theology for Melanesia”

• Emmanuel Jatayna, “Newsgathering”

• Robert C. Donahue, “The Great Commission for the 21st Century”

• Ki Young Hong, “Mission Field in Cebu, Philippines”

• Stephen J. Bennett, “A Very Loud Quiet Time: A Review of SONICFLOOD”

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Volume 2 Issue 2 April 2001

• Christi-An Clifford Bennett, “Mission History: A Case Study in Subversive Fidelity”

• Stephen J. Bennett, “Domesticating the Prophetic Voice in Asia and the Pacific”

• Stanley Clark, “In Search of Wisdom and Knowledge”

• Albert L. Truesdale Jr, “A Calling to Fulfill”

• David McEwan, “Quality Theological Education from a Wesleyan Perspective”

• Jim and Carol Rotz, “We Believe in Quality Education-Selah: Musing on the Subject of Quality Education”

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Volume 2 Issue 1 October 2000

• David A. Ackerman, “Proclaiming Biblical Holiness for the Twenty-First Century: The Central Task of Wesleyan Biblical Studies”

• Joven Laroya, “Church Leaders: Theologians and Teachers”

• Robert C. Donahue, “The Journey of One Missiologist”

• John M. Nielson, “Loving God, Loving Each Other: Chapel Theme 2000-2001”

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “A Word to the Wise”

• Christi-An Clifford Bennett, “Jesus and the Sinful Woman: A Sermon on Luke 7:36-50”

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Volume 1 Issue 1 January 1996

• John M. Nielson, “Reflections on ‘The Mediator'”

• Hitoshi Fukue, “The Role of Christianity in the Modernization of Japan”

• Floyd T. Cunningham, “Education for Preparation of Ministers in Asia”

• Roderick T. Leupp, “Smokey Mountain Ecstacy”

• John M. Nielson, “Preparation for Revival”

• Hong Ki Young, “Planting an Indigenous Nazarene Church in Korea as a Basis for Church Growth”