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Pentecost 11 Series A 2017 (Proper 15), Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF comments on Proper 15 of the Three Year Lectionary and offers ideas for sermons.

Trinity X One Year Series, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

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Interpretations Of Jesus And The Virgin Mary In The Quran And The Bible: A Possible Contribution To Muslim-Christian Cooperation?, Jon Armajani

The Journal of Social Encounters

This essay explores Muslim and Christian understandings of Jesus and his mother Mary, which may provide a basis for possible cooperation between the two religious communities. The similarities and differences in views are discussed, with an understanding that there are differences in views not only between but also within the two religious communities. The essay concludes with a discussion of seven types of interreligious dialogue as articulated by Sallie B. King, and how they apply to Muslim-Christian dialogue related to Jesus and Mary.

Fostering Cultures Of Encounter: Framing Papal Teaching On Dialogue As Multi-Track Peacebuilding, Maria Power, Christopher Hrynkow

The Journal of Social Encounters

This article demonstrates that there is a rough parallel between (1) Diamond and McDonald’s (1996) notion of multi-track diplomacy and (2) the four levels of inter-religious dialogue identified by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, along with two other levels discerned within papal teaching by the authors. Diamond and McDonald expanded the political science concept of dual-track diplomacy and, in the process, helped to buttress the legitimacy of peace studies discourse in that discipline. Comparably, this article seeks to introduce papal teaching on dialogue framed in terms of multi-track peacebuilding. As a result, it solidifies a latent resonance between ...

Pentecost 10 Series A (Proper 14), Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF comments on Proper Fourteen of Series A and offers ideas for preaching.

Trinity Ix One Year Series, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

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Tragedy Of Spirit-Empowered Heroes: A Close Look At Samson And Saul, Wonsuk Ma

Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology

This study is motivated by the ongoing dilemma of the ethical failures among well-known leaders of the modern Pentecostal/Charismatic movements. Through a close look at Saul and Samson, the two charismatic leaders of the Old Testament who have the most frequent references to the Spirit of God, the study probes the internal and private layers of their experience with the Spirit of God. The intention of the Spirit’s presence includes both an internal transformation as well as external tasks. The scriptural evidence demonstrates that there is no less work of the Spirit for the internal working of the ...

Pentecost 09 Series A (Proper 13), Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF comments on Proper 13 of Series A and offers ideas for preaching

Trinity Viii One Year Series, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity in the One Year Series and offers up ideas for preaching.

Pentecost 08 Series A 2017, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF comments on Proper 12 of Series A and offers ideas for preaching

Trinity Vii One Year Series, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF comments on the Propers for the Seventh Sunday of Trinity in the One Year Series and offers ideas for preaching.

Embracing Immigrants Is A Religious Imperative, Christopher R. Fee

English Faculty Publications

I’m an English professor, and in leftist intellectual circles it’s often considered somewhat unsophisticated and definitely uncool to argue in favor of traditional religious beliefs. However, as the clerk of a tiny Quaker Meeting in a farming community in rural Pennsylvania, I feel led to do so in the context of the debate about immigration. I would submit that Scripture is explicit in its requirement that we accept and embrace the immigrants in our midst, and note that Leviticus (19:34) makes no mention of legal status. (excerpt)

Pentecost 07 Series A 2017, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF comments on proper 11 of Series A in the Three Year Lectionary and offers ideas for preaching

Trinity Vi One Year Series, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF comments on the propers for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity in the One Year Series and offers ideas for preaching.

Trinity V One Year Series, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF contains commentary on the readings for the fifth Sunday after Trinity in the One Year Lectionary and suggests ideas for sermons.

Pentecost 06 (Proper 10) Series A, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF contains commentary on the Proper 10 in Series A of the three year lectionary.

Restoring גלה Ii From Exile: Discovering The Homonyms Spelled ג-ל-ה By Examining Their Usage In The Hebrew Bible, Josiah D. Peeler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the evidence in the Hebrew Bible of the ancient Hebrew lexeme גלה. The aim is to determine how many roots are represented by the spelling ג-ל-ה in the Hebrew Bible. With the help of verbal valency theory, I examine the complementation patterns of גלה.

Previous attempts to understand the ancient Hebrew גלה focus on semantics. I challenge this approach and suggest that semantics alone is insufficient for understanding גלה (Chapter 1). Thus, I incorporate the clausal syntax of גלה with attention to גלה’s appearance in the different binyanim and the different complement patterns that accompany גלה ...

Trinity Iv One Year Series, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF contains commentary on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity in the One Year Lectionary and offers ideas for Preaching and Sermons.

Pentecost 05 Series A (Proper 09), Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF contains commentary on the 9th Propers of series A in the three year lectionary cycle and offers up ideas for preaching and proclamation.

Trinity Iii One Year Series, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday’s Sermon

This PDF comments on the readings for the third Sunday after Trinity in the historic one year series and offers up ideas for preaching and proclamation