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Brief Sermons On Controversial Topics, Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

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Lecture Notes On The Gospel Parables, Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

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A Mini-Course On The Our Father/Lord's Prayer: Lecture Notes And Workshop And Discussion Topics [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

Lecture notes

The Life, Teaching, Death, And Resurrection Of Jesus Of Nazareth And Some Implications [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

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The Heart Of Paul's Spirituality And The Implications For The Church: Becoming Centered In God Through Christ Six Conferences For The New Camaldoli Hermitage [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

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One Year Introduction To The New Testament [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

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The Resurrection Of Jesus And Christian Faith: Five Conferences For The Monks Of New Camaldoli, Big Sur [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

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Jesus The Servant King: A Lecture Series On My Version Of The Historical Jesus [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

Lecture notes on a series of talks by Scott G. Sinclair's on his version of the Historical Jesus.

Unangan Orthodox Christianity: Conversion Through Similarity, Robert Daley

Master of Arts in Humanities | Master's Theses 1936 - 2022

Between 1741, when Russians first entered the Aleutian archipelago, to 1867, when Russia sold Alaska to the United States, virtually the entire Aleutian indigenous population, the Unangan peoples, having been minimally missionized and influenced only by traders, had subsumed their ancient religious beliefs and practices into a new framework and converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity. This, despite the fact that by 1800, murder, disease and forced labor at the hands of the Russian traders were major causes of a near-extinction-level Unangan population decline of eighty percent.

This thesis will argue that, despite the injustices suffered by the Unangax at Russian …

The Christian Bible And Tribalism (Or, How The God Of Israel Became The God Of The Gentiles And Some Implications For Today: Six Lectures) [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

Lecture notes from Scott G. Sinclair

Divorce And Celibacy In The New Testament And The Implications For The Church Today: One Interpretation: Five Conferences For New Camaldoli Hermitage [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair (Retired)

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

Traditional Church teaching on divorce and celibacy rests on an interpretation of key New Testament texts.

In five lectures to the monks of New Camaldoli Hermitage, Dr. Scott Sinclair argued that this established interpretation is basically incorrect. He offered a different interpretation which could justify a new Christian approach to divorce and celibacy.

The accompanying document consists of his detailed lecture notes which clearly present a concise summary of his position. These could be used as a resource for a study group, classroom teaching and discussion, or even a reconsideration of Church policy.

The Letters Of St. Paul [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

Course Description
A study of the major themes of Paul's thought through the letters he wrote as responses to problems in the early Christian church.

Student Learning Outcomes
For this course: A knowledge of 1) the literal contents of Paul’s Letters, 2) the cultural and historical situations to which the letters respond, and 3) the enduring theological perspectives that appear in these responses.

The Book Of Revelation [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

An examination of the context, message, and contemporary relevance of this extraordinary final book of the Christian New Testament.

Student Learning Outcomes: Student will demonstrate a knowledge of

1. the literal contents of the Book of Revelation
2. the cultural and/or historical situations to which they respond, and 3) the enduring theological perspectives that appear in these responses.

The Gospel And Epistles Of John [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

This course will study the major themes of John's Gospel and Epistles. It will pay special attention to the gospel's Christology and presentation of the stages in the Christian spiritual life.

Student learning outcomes: Students will:

1. demonstrate a knowledge of the social setting and major ideas of the Johannine Epistles
2. demonstrate a knowledge of the social setting of John's Gospel
3. demonstrate an understanding of the Gospel's major themes, especially, its Christology and its presentation of the stages in the Christian spiritual life
4. reflect on whether the course material is helpful in the students’ own quest for meaning and spiritual well-being.

The Gospels Of Matthew, Mark, And Luke And The Acts Of The Apostles [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

A detailed study of the New Testament gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke and of the historical Jesus. We will reconstruct the social setting of each gospel and examine the gospels' major theological themes. Then we will examine the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Some attention will also be paid to the contents and message of the Acts of the Apostles.

Student Learning Outcomes: Students will demonstrate:

1. A knowledge of the social settings of the New Testament gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke and the Acts of the Apostles
2. a knowledge of the basic theological ideas …

Daughters Of The Sun: "The Birth" (An Excerpt), Megan Lynn

Scholarly and Creative Works Conference (2015 - 2021)

“You have never heard of me before. You have never heard of me, but my name has come out of your mouth thousands of times.”

So begins my novel, Daughters of the Sun, the story of Jesus’s twin sister, Alleluia. Using the narrative framework seen in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Alleluia tells her story over one night—Saturday into Sunday morning—in an appropriated apartment facing a church. She weaves into her story another tale of women who have lived in shadows cast by the men around them, women whom history chose to vilify—Lilith, Adam’s first wife who was written out of …

John's Gospel And The Truth Of The Incarnation [Lecture Notes], Scott Gambrill Sinclair

The Scott Sinclair Lecture Notes Collection

Sections:

1. The Problem of the Classical Doctrine of the Incarnation and the Problem of John's Gospel

2. A Proposal for the Origin of the Doctrine of the Incarnation

3. A Proposal for the Origin of John's Gospel

4. John's Gospel as a Response to Orthodox Judaism and Docetism

5. How the Editing of John's Gospel Shows the Steps by which Readers Can Know that Jesus Is the Incarnation of God

6. John's Gospel as an Affirmation of World Religion (an attempt)

Jesus, Mark, Paul, And John Said What? The Evolution Of Deliberately Puzzling Material In The New Testament, Scott Gambrill Sinclair

Faculty Authored Books and Book Contributions

The deliberately puzzling sayings of Jesus pose both historical and theological problems. When Jesus said that we must hate our father and mother to be his disciple or that if we only had a tiny amount of faith we could move a mountain, there is the historical problem of what he could possibly have meant and why he chose to express himself so strangely. There is also the theological problem of how Christians are to apply this material today. Do such statements make sense in our own lives, and should Christians today imitate Jesus in speaking in enigmas?

In the …

A Study Guide To Mark's Gospel: Discovering Mark's Message For His Day And Ours, Scott Gambrill Sinclair

Faculty Authored Books and Book Contributions

A section-by-section guide to the study of Mark's Gospel, intended primarily for lay people who want a very brief introduction to the gospel that will highlight its essential message and can be used for individual or group reflection. It coincides with year B lectionary Gospel readings.

Sinclair's work concentrates on discovering what Mark was saying to the Christian readers of his own time. He also provides a new translation of the Gospel which will help readers experience the sometimes all too familiar material in a fresh way.

Search For Nothing: The Life Of St. John Of The Cross By Richard P. Hardy, Philip Novak

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

"A new biography of such a seminal figure could hardly be anything but welcome. Yet I can only recommend Hardy's book with reservations. Though written lovingly by a professor of spirituality who seems to share John of the Cross' contemplative sensibilities, and who, moreover, has done his homework, the book remains curiously one-dimensional. In a word it lacks, depth." ~ from the article

The Dynamics Of The Will In Buddhist And Christian Practice, Philip Novak

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

"The task of this paper is to suggest that the will-dynamics educed by Buddhist and Christian contemplative paths share fundamental structural similarities, a hypothesis which, if true, lends support to the notion of a psychologia perennis. The contemplative dimensions of Buddhism and Christianity, we will suggest, possess formally similar strategies for the attunement of the human will to its source in the Real, and attunement and dynamic balance in which both Buddhist and Christian contemplatives discover the salvation they seek." ~ from the article

Buddhism And Christianity By George Siegmund, Philip Novak

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

"Influenced by the sympathetic explorations of Thomas Merton, William Johnston and Hugo Enomiya-LaSalle (to name but a few) Christians have over the last decade or so shown an increasing willingness to learn from the Buddhist tradition. An environment in which interest is accompanied by a deep bow of respect is precious and worthy of preservation, and it is for this reason that Buddhism and Christianity deserves attention. It threatens that environment." ~from the review

Fullness Of Life: Historical Foundations For A New Mysticism By Margaret R. Miles, Philip Novak

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

"When in his poem 'Among School Children' W. B. Yeats spoke of that place where 'the body is not bruised to pleasure soul,' he unwittingly pointed to a task that has lately engaged the energies of a number of scholars of Christianity: how to revalorize the body in the Christian tradition and rescue it from its status as the spiritually detrimental half of human being. Margaret Miles, a professor of historical theology at Harvard Divinity School, has responded to this task with scholarship, style and insight." ~ from the article

Empty Willing: Contemplative Being-In-The-World In St. John Of The Cross And Dogen, Philip Novak

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

"If persons on different sides of the glove were independently to discover that bodies fall at the rate of sixteen feet per second squared, this would be taken as evidence that they had learned something about nature -- about the world and how it works. We see something like this at work in the sadhanas (spiritual paths) of St. John and Dogen. Though the Christian saint and the Zen master are leaves on quite different trees, similarities between then [sic], qua contemplatives, exist at a level profound enough to encourage the exploration of common ground. Ultimately this common ground invites …