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Youth And The Posthuman: Personhood, Transcendence, And Siri, Erik Leafblad, Andrew Root Apr 2015

Youth And The Posthuman: Personhood, Transcendence, And Siri, Erik Leafblad, Andrew Root

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When everything gets turned into a technology, and existence is about practical mastery, the mystery of being is buried and everything is made an object, blurring the lines between human personhood and other technological objects.


Gebed En Die Vorming Van Christelike Identiteit In Openbaring, Craig R. Koester Jan 2015

Gebed En Die Vorming Van Christelike Identiteit In Openbaring, Craig R. Koester

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No abstract provided.


A True Word?: Scripture, Authority, And The Question Of Truth, Alan G. Padgett Jan 2015

A True Word?: Scripture, Authority, And The Question Of Truth, Alan G. Padgett

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No abstract provided.


Learning With Digital Technologies: Privileging Persons Over Machines, Mary E. Hess Jan 2015

Learning With Digital Technologies: Privileging Persons Over Machines, Mary E. Hess

Faculty Publications

Learning with digital technologies, at least when framed by moral commitments, requires lifting up specific epistemological frames, beginning with a conviction that learning involves human persons in interdependent communities who are involved in a shared search for truth. Such a conviction necessitates moving from teaching-centered to learning-centered pedagogies, and from explicit content to shaping tacit forms of knowing. Digital technologies can prove highly beneficial when used within those constraints.


Stop Worrying About The Millennials*: *And Learn To Love Them Instead, Andrew Root Jan 2015

Stop Worrying About The Millennials*: *And Learn To Love Them Instead, Andrew Root

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No abstract provided.


Practical Advice On Prayer From Martin Luther, Mary Jane Haemig Jan 2015

Practical Advice On Prayer From Martin Luther, Mary Jane Haemig

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Martin Luther’s comments and instructions on prayer permeated his work. Luther sought to build an evangelical prayer practice that reflected the key insights of his theology: just as God redeems the unworthy human, so God promises to hear and respond to the one praying, despite his or her unworthiness.


Praying The Psalms, Kathryn M. Schifferdecker Jan 2015

Praying The Psalms, Kathryn M. Schifferdecker

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The Psalms teach us how to pray. When we pray the Psalms, we follow in the footsteps of a long line of Christians and Jews who have used the Psalter as a guide to prayer. We learn from those saints to bring all of ourselves to God in prayer: our sorrows, our laments, and our anger as well as our joys and praise.