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Feminist Ecclesiology: A Trinitarian Framework For Transforming The Church's Institutional And Spiritual Life, Stacy Geere Jul 2019

Feminist Ecclesiology: A Trinitarian Framework For Transforming The Church's Institutional And Spiritual Life, Stacy Geere

LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations

In light of women’s marginal status in church governance and ministry through most of recorded history, feminist trinitarian ecclesiology is needed to transform the church’s institutional and spiritual life. While Vatican II provided the paradigm shift and promising anthropology essential for an egalitarian church, feminist ecclesiology prompts a radical transformation of its hierarchical and patriarchal structures and practices so that it may truly embody the Trinity. Trinitarian life provides practical and radical consequences for Christian life, and provides a model of church marked by relationships of equality, mutuality, unity and reciprocity. It also provides a strong ecclesiological argument for reform …


More Schools, Larger Schools, Or Both? Patterns Of Enrollment Growth In K12 Catholic Schools Globally, Quentin Wodon May 2019

More Schools, Larger Schools, Or Both? Patterns Of Enrollment Growth In K12 Catholic Schools Globally, Quentin Wodon

Journal of Catholic Education

After the governments of China and India, the Catholic Church is probably the third largest provider of K12 education in the world. How has growth in enrollment in K12 Catholic schools varied across countries over the last two decades? Which countries have accounted for most of the growth at the regional and global level? What has been the role of the number of schools and the size of schools in enrollment growth, or in the decline observed in some countries? Given trends towards higher enrollment in the developing world due to population growth and higher educational attainment, has enrollment growth …


Tolkien’S Allegory: Using Peter Jackson’S Vision Of Fellowship To Illuminate Male Adolescent Catholic Education, Adam P. Zoeller, Thomas E. Malewitz Ph.D. May 2019

Tolkien’S Allegory: Using Peter Jackson’S Vision Of Fellowship To Illuminate Male Adolescent Catholic Education, Adam P. Zoeller, Thomas E. Malewitz Ph.D.

Journal of Catholic Education

With many of the Catholic student population disengaged from regular ritual experiences their working vocabulary of the prayers and knowledge of the Church is limited. A beneficial bridge for many of these disconnected students, specifically male adolescents has been the use of storytelling in connection to Catholic themes to lay the foundations of ritual and deeper concepts through a more familiar setting. Through media literary, multi-modal instruction and Scripture exegesis adolescents can begin to recognize, understand, and feel a connection with the severity of the sacrifice of the Apostles in following Jesus of Nazareth. This article will offer some insights …


Understanding The Devil: A Comparative Examination Of Dead Souls, The Master And Margarita, And Revelation 12-3, Thomas "Tj" Kennedy Apr 2019

Understanding The Devil: A Comparative Examination Of Dead Souls, The Master And Margarita, And Revelation 12-3, Thomas "Tj" Kennedy

LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines how the devil is depcicted and characterized in Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, and Revelation 12-13. By exploring their respective historical situations, I connect how all three depictions are linked to satire; however, I reflect upon the differences between the literary and religious, most notably the grotesque physical portrayals and allusory nature of Revelation. The three texts are given their own sections, each divided into three parts: historical situation, textual analysis, and literary commentary. From this analysis, it is shown that the devil carries with them a history of sins within great …


Isis Online: Analyzing Isis’S Use Of The Internet As A Method Of Legitimation, Griffin Baumberger Feb 2019

Isis Online: Analyzing Isis’S Use Of The Internet As A Method Of Legitimation, Griffin Baumberger

Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies

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Justice As Love, Facundo Gonzalez Icardi Feb 2019

Justice As Love, Facundo Gonzalez Icardi

Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies

No abstract provided.


Comparing Contemporary Islamophobia In The U.S. With Early American Anti-Catholicism Of The Modern Era, Kathy Merkl Feb 2019

Comparing Contemporary Islamophobia In The U.S. With Early American Anti-Catholicism Of The Modern Era, Kathy Merkl

Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies

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Say Something Theological Vol. 2 Iss. 1 Introduction, Josh Shrader-Perry, Kristin Kissell Feb 2019

Say Something Theological Vol. 2 Iss. 1 Introduction, Josh Shrader-Perry, Kristin Kissell

Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies

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Faith-Based Service In Los Angeles: An Ethnographic Approach To The Comparative Theology Of Sikhism And Catholicism, Harman Brah Feb 2019

Faith-Based Service In Los Angeles: An Ethnographic Approach To The Comparative Theology Of Sikhism And Catholicism, Harman Brah

Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies

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Practical Theology In The United States, Brett C. Hoover Jan 2019

Practical Theology In The United States, Brett C. Hoover

Theological Studies Faculty Works

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Covenant: An Exploration Of Restorative Justice In The Los Angeles Unified School District, Isaac Cardenas Jan 2019

Covenant: An Exploration Of Restorative Justice In The Los Angeles Unified School District, Isaac Cardenas

Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies

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Patristics And Sociolinguistics, Cyril Hovorun Jan 2019

Patristics And Sociolinguistics, Cyril Hovorun

Theological Studies Faculty Works

The paper suggests a new hermeneutical take on receptive patristics. Receptive patristics means here the ways in which patristic texts are perceived in the community of patristic scholars and in ecclesiastical communities. The perceptions of the patristic materials that these two kinds of communities demonstrate are not always convergent. Their divergence can be explained on the basis of the distinction between normative linguistics and sociolinguistics. Ecclesiastical communities tend to treat the language of the Fathers and Mothers of the church in coherence with the way in which the proponents of normative linguistics treat the phenomenon of language. Patristic scholars, in …


Sexuality, Spirituality, And The Love Of God, Amir Hussain Jan 2019

Sexuality, Spirituality, And The Love Of God, Amir Hussain

Theological Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


2019 Graduate Theological Studies Journal And Newsletter, Theological Studies Jan 2019

2019 Graduate Theological Studies Journal And Newsletter, Theological Studies

Graduate Theological Studies Journal and Newsletter

No abstract provided.