July 2012 Some background on this document may be helpful to the reader. Revising it almost 25 years later, not much has changed in my thinking. I am a fool for tough questions. I love them, grappling with them at every chance, and it was the motivation behind this document. I wrote this dissertation as a part of my pursuit of my Doctor of Ministry degree from Dallas Seminary back in 1987. It was a project far more fitting of a PhD degree, but it was an exploration driven