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Mass Of Mercy: A Chant Mass For Contemporary Worship, Joel S. Kumro
Mass Of Mercy: A Chant Mass For Contemporary Worship, Joel S. Kumro
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Revisiting The Roman Church's Table Practice, Mark Anthony Rodriguez
Revisiting The Roman Church's Table Practice, Mark Anthony Rodriguez
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The Roman church teaches that reception of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ is reserved only for those who have membership in the Roman faith. By examining the actions and parables of Jesus, this essay questions whether or not Jesus seems to have demonstrated an alternative purpose for his eucharistic meals.
Discovery And Recovery, Abu Ali Abdur Rahman
If I Still Live Upon This Day, Richard Lloyd Odom
A Comparison Of The Christological Praxis Of Søren Kierkegaard And Pope Francis, Alex Juguilon O.S.C.
A Comparison Of The Christological Praxis Of Søren Kierkegaard And Pope Francis, Alex Juguilon O.S.C.
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Although faced with different needs and warrants from different eras, both Søren Kierkegaard and Pope Francis challenged the Christian populous of their times to live authentically. For the two, Christianity is a way of existence that transcends doctrine and speculation. Authenticity is predicated upon an internal transformation that is manifested externally by the way one relates to others. This paper outlines the unique approach each man takes to this challenge.
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Assessing The Christian's Response To The Annihilating Self-Communication Of A Suicide Bomber, C. A. Chase
Assessing The Christian's Response To The Annihilating Self-Communication Of A Suicide Bomber, C. A. Chase
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In a world, where cartoonists and grocery shoppers are gunned down in Paris, and journalists are beheaded on Youtube, the annihilating self-communication of a suicide bomber serves as a ready-made opportunity for a radical claim at sovereignty, if only for a moment. To bomb is to communicate an absolute immanence. Such bombing is a demand for a response.
This paper assesses the Christian’s response to the use of such bombing-as-communication. It does so by first considering the agent of the response, and her self-identity as Christian, and then bombing as a form of self-communication, from: the perspective of its nature, …
Competitive Asceticism: The Gendered Other As A Source Of Self-Revelation In Palladius' Lausiac History, Rachel Wheeler
Competitive Asceticism: The Gendered Other As A Source Of Self-Revelation In Palladius' Lausiac History, Rachel Wheeler
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Early Christian ascetic literature often featured competition and comparison as ways by which ascetics register self-awareness, increase self-knowledge, and finally, stimulate change. This paper examines three stories in Palladius’ Lausiac History to show how the author regarded competition and comparison as useful strategies to catalyze transformation. These stories highlight and subvert differences between solitude and community, men and women, and quantity and quality of ascetic practice. In focusing on exchanges which result in altered consciousness of self, the Lausiac History also implicitly – and sometimes explicitly – invites its reader to likewise examine its contents so as to be challenged …
All For Jesus, Jesus For All: A Refocused Theology On The Mission Of Jesus Christ, Alex Wald
All For Jesus, Jesus For All: A Refocused Theology On The Mission Of Jesus Christ, Alex Wald
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Both Benedict XVI and John Paul II were forming their faith when they witnessed the great atrocities committed by the communist Soviet Union, and both held strong aversions to liberation theology which shares several essential ideas with Marxism. In Pope Francis’ side of the world, liberation theology came to be viewed in a completely opposite light. There, it was popularized as a God-blessed revolution against oppressive dictatorships. Pope Francis has an opportunity to enrich the Church’s mission with the gains made by Latin American liberation theologians.
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On The Symbolic Nature Of Evangelization, Steven Drapalik
On The Symbolic Nature Of Evangelization, Steven Drapalik
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Still often viewed as an action belonging solely to missionary societies, Catholic understanding of evangelization is lacking. Refusal to evangelize is refusal to act as a symbolic reality of Christ in the world, i.e. the Mystical body of Christ - the Church. This paper will demonstrate how evangelization is the primary way in which the Holy Spirit actualizes the Church as symbolic reality of the Mystical body of Christ in the world. When Catholics evangelize, their actions of witness and proclamation constitute participation in a process Louise-Marie Chauvet terms symbolic exchange whereby subjects kenotically give of themselves in order to …
Eucharist: A Sign And Means Of Unity?, Isaiah Frederick O.S.B.
Eucharist: A Sign And Means Of Unity?, Isaiah Frederick O.S.B.
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Per the Second Vatican Council, the Eucharist is to be a sign of unity and a means of grace. However, it often serves as a sign of disunity among Christian churches. This paper provides an understanding of the current unity that already exists among churches, and also an understanding of the final unity we seek. This final unity values and requires diversity among churches. This unity provides for a full extending of eucharistic hospitality.
Massingale's Prescriptive For Racism In The U.S. Catholic Church, Jessie Bazan
Massingale's Prescriptive For Racism In The U.S. Catholic Church, Jessie Bazan
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Nearly every social issue plaguing the United States is impacted by racial bias, most often, against black Americans. Rev. Bryan Massingale, an internationally-recognized black Catholic theologian, has committed much of his ministerial work to advocating for racial justice and educating others about the urgent need for racial reconciliation within the Church. This paper uses Massingale’s holistic approach to explain how the USCCB could strengthen its understanding of racism, its support of black leadership, and its passion for opposing racisim both inside and outside the Church.
Thoughts Upon Waking, Ron Cauthern
For Hope, Of Hope: Prayers Of The Community, Stephanie Falkowski
For Hope, Of Hope: Prayers Of The Community, Stephanie Falkowski
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Ms. Falkowski has prayed continuously with the community of Hope Community Presbyterian Church in Virginia, MN, since her baptism as an infant. This prayer was featured in a Lenten worship service this year. Ms. Falkowski was asked by her pastor to not only write these prayers, but to also provide a homily and to officiate on this occasion.
Orthodoxy, Orthopraxis, And Orthokardia: A Reflection On The Letter Of James, Alex Juguilon O.S.C.
Orthodoxy, Orthopraxis, And Orthokardia: A Reflection On The Letter Of James, Alex Juguilon O.S.C.
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Spiritual Reflections From Death Row, Obsculta Editors
Come Now And Behold: Catholic Social Witness And Economic Inequality In The United States, Eric S. Fought
Come Now And Behold: Catholic Social Witness And Economic Inequality In The United States, Eric S. Fought
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'Big Papa' And I, Derrick Quintero
James Baldwin And James Cone: God, Man, And The Redeeming Relationship, Rea Mcdonnell S.S.N.D.
James Baldwin And James Cone: God, Man, And The Redeeming Relationship, Rea Mcdonnell S.S.N.D.
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Originally written as a graduate paper in 1972 as part of a Master of Arts in Theology. See http://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_papers/439/
Come Take My Hand, Ruth Lindstedt