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"The Worker As Co-Creator With God": The Theology Of Dorothy Day's Unionism, Joe Kruse
"The Worker As Co-Creator With God": The Theology Of Dorothy Day's Unionism, Joe Kruse
Masters of Arts in Theology Theses
When contemporary admirers of Dorothy Day reflect on her work and that of the Catholic Worker, what usually comes to mind are the Movement's charitable works for the poor and its pacifism. However, during the early years of the Movement many Catholic Workers, including Day, were heavily involved in the labor movement and in advocating for workers' rights. Day, a fierce anti-capitalist, saw the struggle for the liberation of workers as central to the Catholic Worker's mission and rooted her labor activism in a Catholic theology of unionism. In this paper I explore Dorothy Day’s unionism and how Day understood …
The Undercurrent Of Music In The Burgeoning Spirituality Of Etty Hillesum From 1941 To 1943, Nancy Jp Anderson
The Undercurrent Of Music In The Burgeoning Spirituality Of Etty Hillesum From 1941 To 1943, Nancy Jp Anderson
Masters of Arts in Theology Theses
How is music described in the burgeoning spirituality of Etty Hillesum in her journals and correspondence from 1941 through 1943? I discuss the influence of music in her life, the number of references to musical terminology in the literature, and the undercurrent of music in her spirituality. This area of Hillesum’s writings has not been critically studied as of this project date. Explored are: the role music played in Hillesum’s social sphere, music as metaphor for Hillesum’s spirituality in her journals and correspondence, and the connection between music and spirituality, in general, and more specifically as it appears in her …
The Thecla Narrative: Gender, Eschatology, And Divine Patronage In Second Century Social-Sexual Identity, Gina Lea Christ
The Thecla Narrative: Gender, Eschatology, And Divine Patronage In Second Century Social-Sexual Identity, Gina Lea Christ
Masters of Arts in Theology Theses
Graduate students at St. Catherine University are often introduced to the Acts of Paul and Thecla (APTh) in our New Testament class. As we approached the end of the section of the course dedicated to exploring Paul’s extant letters, we examined the Thecla story vis-à-vis the Pastoral Epistles as a glimpse into second-century appropriations of the Pauline legacy. Thus the Thecla narrative offers another second century perspective. As an example of extra-canonical writing in the early church we see how the cultural values of honor-shame provided part of the framework for early Christian views on gender and sexuality. In my …
20th Century American Conservative Evangelical Christianity And Its Understanding Of Faith, Timothy Grover
20th Century American Conservative Evangelical Christianity And Its Understanding Of Faith, Timothy Grover
Masters of Arts in Theology Theses
This thesis emerges from my experience with conservative evangelical Christianity. I come from a conservative evangelical Christian background, raised in a Baptist church that dropped the word Baptist from its name, preferring instead to be known as a non-denominational church. It was there that I observed that a church’s success is measured, in large part, by the number of new converts it brings to Christianity. I became disillusioned by the superficiality in the worship services. For example, I heard from a church employee that one music director was hired because, in addition to having a Master’s Degree in music, he …