An expository experiment on the virtue of courtship rather than traditional American dating

John W Hardison

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An expository experiment on the virtue of courtship rather than traditional American dating

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John W Hardison. An Expository Experiment On the Virtue of Courtship Rather Than Traditional American Dating. Gordon-Connwell Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/6cae21e4-89a7-46ca-9aa6-a44d260cc0f9.

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J. W. Hardison. An expository experiment on the virtue of courtship rather than traditional American dating. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/6cae21e4-89a7-46ca-9aa6-a44d260cc0f9

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John W Hardison. An Expository Experiment On the Virtue of Courtship Rather Than Traditional American Dating. Gordon-Connwell Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/6cae21e4-89a7-46ca-9aa6-a44d260cc0f9.

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This dissertation was birthed out of a need to find a solution to the breakup dilemma in the dating process which contributes to the ever rising rate in separation and divorced marriages. This project is designed, through an expository sermon, to reintroduce the listener to a premarital process (courtship) that in the past produced more solid and committed marriages in the history of America, but unfortunately has been long forgotten. In this study a pre-sermon survey was taken to cull the respondents' preconceived ideas about the subject of courtship followed by the preaching of a message on the subject of virtue of courtship rather than traditional American dating. Following the preaching of the sermon, a post-sermon survey was taken to see if the respondents' opinions had changed based on the information they received from the sermon. Did this sermon persuade the respondents to change their opinion and consider the premarital process of courtship as a more virtuous process than traditional dating? That is the answer this project seeks to find out. Following the preaching of the sermon, the respondents' answers showed a positive increase of influence in support of courtship over American dating.

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