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Truth Is Stranger Than Folklore: Hugh Nibley, The Man And The Legend, Boyd J. Petersen

Boyd J Petersen

Separating the folklore from the fact proved difficult in creating a biography of Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley.

Adverse Juvenile Sex Ratio In Kerala By Vibhuti Patel, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

Census 2001 has revealed a deterioration in the juvenile malefemale sex ratio in Kerala. Hospital birth records can help establish sex ratios at birth and thus the prevalence of female foeticide. However, civil society and the state will need to pitch in to check the misuse of technology for female foeticide in Kerala

Conjoined Twins And Catholic Moral Analysis: Extraordinary Means And Casuistical Consistency, M. Cathleen Kaveny

M. Cathleen Kaveny

This article draws upon the Roman Catholic distinction between “ordinary” and “extraordinary” means of medical treatment to analyze the case of “Jodie” and “Mary,” the Maltese conjoined twins whose surgical separation was ordered by the English courts over the objection of their Roman Catholic parents and Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the Roman Catholic Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. It attempts to shed light on the use of that distinction by surrogate decision makers with respect to incompetent patients. In addition, it critically analyzes various components of the distinction by comparing the reasoning used by Catholic moralists in this case with the reasoning used …

“Landscapes Of Seduction: Terry Tempest Williams’S Desert Quartet And The Biblical Song Of Songs”, Boyd J. Petersen

Boyd J Petersen

Like the Song of Songs, Terry Tempest Williams's Desert Quartet submerges its reader in a highly erotic landscape. And both use that landscape—a garden in the Song and a desert in Desert Quartet—to create eros in the text. Yet while the Song of Songs uses metaphor to transform the body of the beloved into a garden of delights, Desert Quartet uses personification to transform the desert landscape into a passionate lover. In the Song of Songs, the body becomes the landscape where seduction takes place; in Desert Quartet, the landscape becomes the body which seduces. Both works also invite allegorical …

American Vincentian Evangelization: Some Historical Perspectives, John E. Rybolt

John E Rybolt

This presentation examines three myths about Vincentian life and work: seminaries, excellence, glorification of the past. Suggestions for the future are presented.

American Vincentian Evangelization: Some Historical Perspectives, John E. Rybolt

John E Rybolt

Examination of three common myths about Vincentian ministry: Seminaries are our real work; Vincentians do it better, because there is one distinctive Vincentian way; there were giants in those days. Examples from personal experiences of American Vincentians are presented, and a future scenario is laid out.

Every Night When The Sun Goes In - Mixed Choir, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

"The Body Of Christ: The Eucharist And Politics", William T. Cavanaugh

William T. Cavanaugh

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