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The Cresset (Vol. Lxxvi, No. 2, Advent/Christmas), Valparaiso University
The Cresset (Vol. Lxxvi, No. 2, Advent/Christmas), Valparaiso University
The Cresset (archived issues)
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Fall 2012, Valparaiso University
The Cresset (Vol. Lxxvi, No. 1, Michaelmas), Valparaiso University
The Cresset (Vol. Lxxvi, No. 1, Michaelmas), Valparaiso University
The Cresset (archived issues)
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The Cresset (Vol. Lxxv, No. 5, Trinity), Valparaiso University
The Cresset (Vol. Lxxv, No. 5, Trinity), Valparaiso University
The Cresset (archived issues)
No abstract provided.
Spring 2012, Valparaiso University
Bach And Opera: Is It Possible?, Hilary Clark
Bach And Opera: Is It Possible?, Hilary Clark
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Devoted to the art and science of technique, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is a celebrated master of the musical genres of the time, except for opera. Based on his musical upbringing and his independent attitude, there exists a possibility that Bach had the propensity to be an operatic composer. An exploration into this perspective leads us to wonder: Why did Bach never become an opera composer? Are there operatic features present in non-operatic works? What factors might have affected his inclination toward operatic composition? An investigation into professional development and influences from his early days in Arnstadt to his mature …
Queer Neo-Mexicanism: Negotiating Mexican And Gay Identities In The Art Of Nahum B. Zenil And Julio Galán, Nicholas Derda
Queer Neo-Mexicanism: Negotiating Mexican And Gay Identities In The Art Of Nahum B. Zenil And Julio Galán, Nicholas Derda
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
The Mexican artists Nahum B. Zenil and Julio Galán have become the poster children for being gay and Mexican in contemporary art criticism. Critics have drawn comparisons between Zenil and Galán because of their thematic treatment of gay sexuality and Mexican nationalism. These comparisons, however, have often assumed that Zenil and Galán are representing a monolithic gay sexuality that is unaffected by their social class, their relationships to nationalism and Catholicism, and their views on the role of art in social activism. This paper aims to analyze specifically how Zenil and Galán represent two distinct gay identities, all the while …
Religious Individualization, American Catholicism, And Vatican Ii: Issues Of Influence And Interpretation, Laura Ehlen
Religious Individualization, American Catholicism, And Vatican Ii: Issues Of Influence And Interpretation, Laura Ehlen
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
It cannot be denied that, throughout the history of the Christian tradition, religious doctrine has changed over time, yet a debate exists over the degree to which these changes are the effects of historically specific socio-cultural forces, and the degree to which they are the effects of solely theological forces, such as divine revelation or ecumenical councils. While many Christian thinkers want to consider doctrine as existing in isolation from history and culture and thus only altered by divine revelation, Christian history reveals a number of incidents, from the reign of Constantine to the Reformation to the Enlightenment, where culture …
Mary Grace And The Warthog From Hell: Violent Redemption In Flannery O’Connor’S “Revelation”, Halina Hopkins
Mary Grace And The Warthog From Hell: Violent Redemption In Flannery O’Connor’S “Revelation”, Halina Hopkins
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Scholarship on the works of Flannery O’Connor is divided concerning her depiction of divine grace as a violent force. Some scholars worry that her insistence on the violence of grace makes God a violent God or excuses the pain and brokenness of the world. Despite the arguments of those who oppose O’Connor’s view of violent grace, this paper will argue that O’Connor is right to depict violence in her short stories because, although it might be counterintuitive to think of divine grace wounding before it heals, being torn from an old life of sin is painful. While not excusing violence …
Prayers From Underground: The Psalmic Voice In Dostoevsky’S Notes From Underground, Jacob Just
Prayers From Underground: The Psalmic Voice In Dostoevsky’S Notes From Underground, Jacob Just
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Criticism concerning Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground has primarily focused on the social and historical context in which the novel was situated. Scholars have traditionally resisted a religious reading and therefore have usually found their grounding in the political, psychological, and philosophical systems of thought in mid-19th century Russian society. Though many of these readings of Dostoevsky's short novel are valid, they have missed the deeply theological concerns of Notes from Underground, and have focused, if at all theologically, on the possibilities of the novel as a forerunner of 20th century existentialism. However, my research demonstrates that Notes from …
Art Museum Curators And Management, Tiffany Tyler
Art Museum Curators And Management, Tiffany Tyler
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Art museums house the greatest works from artists around the world from classics to modern pop art, without discrimination and open to interpretation. Art museums are debatably one of the most sacred places in society. Any history museum will give details about ancient artifacts or new discoveries; art, however, can change in meaning with each new visitor. Museum curators go beyond the “do not touch” signs with their large key rings opening vaults of worth and beauty. Curators work directly with artists and other museums to resurrect a dying cultural tradition. With the assistance of Valparaiso University’s own Gloria Ruff, …
The Cresset (Vol. Lxxv, No. 4, Easter), Valparaiso University
The Cresset (Vol. Lxxv, No. 4, Easter), Valparaiso University
The Cresset (archived issues)
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Idealism Realized: A Closer Examination Of Leo Tolstoy’S Influence On Jane Addams’ Theory Of Social Reform, Laurie Kenyon
Idealism Realized: A Closer Examination Of Leo Tolstoy’S Influence On Jane Addams’ Theory Of Social Reform, Laurie Kenyon
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Widely regarded as a champion for social reform, Jane Addams has deeply influenced the progression of American social policy since Chicago’s Hull House opened in 1889. Throughout her life, Addams struggled with how the privileged should interact with and aid those less fortunate. This struggle was fully realized as Addams compared her own response to that of Russian author and activist, Leo Tolstoy. Addams was deeply affected by Tolstoy’s conviction that only those who literally live with the impoverished can claim to have served them. In the time Addams spent at his farm in Russia, she came into disagreement with …
Beating Down The Lowly: The Criminalization Of The Homeless And Alternative Solutions, Amber Will
Beating Down The Lowly: The Criminalization Of The Homeless And Alternative Solutions, Amber Will
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
In the current economy, the issue of homelessness is increasingly pervading the normal constructs of society. Thousands of men, women, and children struggle to find a place to sleep and enough food to satisfy their hungry stomachs. While many people suffer under these conditions, local governments continue to create new anti-homeless legislation to further eject them out of society. Bans prevent the homeless from urinating, sleeping, camping, and panhandling in public through fines and prison sentences. The laws specifically target the homeless, discriminating against them for actions which are necessary for daily survival. The legal system only further hurts this …
Beauvoir For The Masses: Exploring Applications Of Her Philosophy In French Social Revolutions Of The 1960’S, Reille Acks
Beauvoir For The Masses: Exploring Applications Of Her Philosophy In French Social Revolutions Of The 1960’S, Reille Acks
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
My project examines the feminism and existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir as they intersect with the ideas of the French social movements of the1960’s, using the movement of May '68 as a primary example. Beauvoir's ideas were politically in tune with the leftist philosophy of the students and workers who organized widespread demonstrations throughout the spring of 1968 and brought the French economy to a standstill in May of that year. But I argue that her existentialist philosophy, foregrounding the necessity of each individual to create a self and to reject accepted social paradigms, reflects the demands made by the …
The Correlation Between The Independent Lines In Easter Motets, Shireen Korkzan
The Correlation Between The Independent Lines In Easter Motets, Shireen Korkzan
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
In the latter half of the thirteenth century, the motet – two to four Latin or French texts sung over a wordless tenor drawn from a pre-existing chant or some other melody – becomes the main polyphonic composition in France, replacing the organa, conductus, and clausulae. The word motet comes from the French mot meaning word. Each text was a tenor, motetus, triplum, or quadruplum. The texts were usually connected to the tenor chant through a similar theme. This relationship is especially evident in the Easter motets, located in the Bamberg Codex, where each line of the texts in the …
The Grace-Filled Form: The Repentant Transformation Of Character, Reader, And Text In Dante’S Inferno, Jeremy Reed
The Grace-Filled Form: The Repentant Transformation Of Character, Reader, And Text In Dante’S Inferno, Jeremy Reed
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Dante scholarship has provided many different glimpses into the relationship of form and content in the Inferno. However, few have addressed the theological, and in fact sacramental, understanding of this relationship in any great detail. Like many previous treatments, my analysis depends on Thomistic understandings of grace and nature, but unlike those prior studies it uses Thomistic theology to discuss the process of writing and reading poetry in the Commedia. Dante presents the reality of grace throughout his narrative; he documents its effects on himself as the protagonist and narrator of his own poem. However, Dante does something …
The Universal Human Right To Healthcare: Finite Resources And Conflicts Of Human Rights Must Limit The Human Right To Healthcare In Order For It To Be Sensible In The Real World, Trisha Wladecki
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Human rights activists claim that healthcare is a human right and as a human right, individuals everywhere ought to be afforded it. Failure to at least strive to provide healthcare to all, advocates maintain, is unethical and actually undermines the human rights system. However, many opponents argue that claiming a right to healthcare is nonsensical because equal healthcare for all cannot be achieved in today's society; at least not without placing intolerable burdens on the medical industry. In this paper, I attempt to stake out a middle position between these two extremes. On one hand, I argue that there is …
The Question Of Philanthropy: Social Reform In Hawthorne’S The Blithedale Romance, Ashley Gilbert
The Question Of Philanthropy: Social Reform In Hawthorne’S The Blithedale Romance, Ashley Gilbert
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Nathaniel Hawthorne presents three types of philanthropy in his novel The Blithedale Romance: the socialist community, feminism, and social reform. He does this so he can strike down each in turn and tell why they fail. Social problems do not have easy solutions, but Hawthorne advocates for the "circle of community." This is the idea that those in need should be taken care of by their extended family or by those in the church. These people have a moral or religious obligation to those around them, and, through this Christian brotherhood, problems can be solved. The larger-scale reforms do …
The Bloody Summer Of 1863: How Memory And Commemoration Have Shaped The History Of The Battle Of Gettysburg, Tim Hopps
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
The Battle of Gettysburg often exists in the minds of the general public as the most significant battle of the American Civil War. However, at the same time, the battle over control of the Mississippi River was reaching its climax at Vicksburg, which often receives less attention. Despite the apparent significance of controlling the southern stronghold of Vicksburg, a majority of memory of the Civil War rests within the confines of the Battle of Gettysburg. Through the research of primary and secondary sources, I will establish the military history of the Battle of Gettysburg and the Siege of Vicksburg. I …
Net Neutrality: Fight For The Survival Of The Free Internet, Andrew Jarratt
Net Neutrality: Fight For The Survival Of The Free Internet, Andrew Jarratt
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
The Internet is often thought of as a tool that allows for the free flow of information. Today, as a vessel of free speech, the Internet threatens to become a vestige of its original self. Increasingly, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) claim the power to regulate content and arbitrarily increase the price for customers to access certain information and have the ability to make customers financially support content that they disagree with. In these ways, ISPs have gained increased control over the flow of Internet information, while the citizen of cyberspace has increasingly lost his freedom to control his choices online. …
Not Afraid Of Lacking: Toward An Asexual Theology, Wendy Mallette
Not Afraid Of Lacking: Toward An Asexual Theology, Wendy Mallette
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
This paper details an asexual theological response to two problems that queer theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid challenges: dyadic thinking and the systematic desexualization of bodies within theological discourses as these uphold the omnipotency of God the Father. Drawing from Althaus-Reid's discussion of critical bisexuality to address the first problem, this paper discusses how asexuality challenges the oneness logic of heterosexual dyads and demonstrates how asexuality can destabilize the sexual/asexual dichotomy. Using Luce Irigaray's understanding of dyads, this paper responds to Althaus-Reid's critique of the asexualization of poor women in liberation theology. It problematizes the desexualization of certain bodies – the bodies …
The Cresset (Vol. Lxxv, No. 3, Lent), Valparaiso University
The Cresset (Vol. Lxxv, No. 3, Lent), Valparaiso University
The Cresset (archived issues)
No abstract provided.