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Articles 1 - 19 of 19
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Setting A Good Example In Pride And Prejudice, Joanna L. Colmery
Setting A Good Example In Pride And Prejudice, Joanna L. Colmery
The Kabod
Although most readers of Pride and Prejudice think that the book centers on the romance between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, I argue that the central message is a warning about romantic fulfilment gone awry as illustrated through Lydia and Wickham. I compare the two suits and identify Austen’s cautionary tale that only through honorable and sincere means in courtship can two people be ensured a happy, satisfying marriage.
Uniqueness And The Image Of God: A Theological And Philosophical Justification Of The Value Of Diversity, Mark S. Mcleod-Harrison
Uniqueness And The Image Of God: A Theological And Philosophical Justification Of The Value Of Diversity, Mark S. Mcleod-Harrison
Christian Perspectives in Education
In Christian education, cultural diversity is valued. But what is the theological basis for that value? While our commonality as human persons is rooted in the image of God, what about the diversity of human beings and the cultural diversity flowing from it? This essays argues that although the image of God is common to us all, there is an account of the image of God that provides for uniqueness as well and that individual uniqueness is at the core of human being as we participate in our cultural forms of life.
A Mixed-Methods Study Of The Variables That Influence Southern Baptists’ Affirmation Of The Inerrancy Of The Bible, David A. Mcgee
A Mixed-Methods Study Of The Variables That Influence Southern Baptists’ Affirmation Of The Inerrancy Of The Bible, David A. Mcgee
Christian Perspectives in Education
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) had discovered by the late 1970s that belief in the inerrancy of the Bible was not consistently affirmed by their leadership. After a twenty year battle, the SBC attempted to clarify the doctrine of inerrancy through the Baptist Faith and Message 2000. A mixed-method analysis was conducted by surveying 502 Florida Southern Baptist (FSB) church members with a 68-question survey instrument to determine the degree to which they affirmed the doctrine of inerrancy. The study revealed that a large percentage of FSB church members affirmed the doctrine, but the underlining beliefs were not always consistently …
Saudade, Wesley D. Pena
Saudade, Wesley D. Pena
The Kabod
Pena begins her composition with a definintion of her title Saudade, which describes her experience of being a missionary child in Brasil: "From the Portuguese; saw•'dah•djee; an untranslatable word defined as “A vague, constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, a nostalgic longing for someone or something loved and then lost” (Sanders).
Streams In The Wilderness, Miranda Beale
Streams In The Wilderness, Miranda Beale
The Kabod
Miranda Beale analyzes two award-winning novels by Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004) and Home (2008), identifying their major themes as the necessity of balancing parental responsibility and God's loving guidance and redemptive power in raising children.
Gothic Sense And Sensibility, Stephanie Abigail Taylor
Gothic Sense And Sensibility, Stephanie Abigail Taylor
The Kabod
It is well known that Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is a parody of the Gothic genre, and this paper supports that reading. However, this paper analyzes the novel through the use of Austen’s identification of the terms “sense” and “sensibility” that she constructs in Sense and Sensibility to explain specifically how and why Austen parodies Gothic novels that were all the fashion in her day.
Looking For Shelter, Joseph C. Fowler
Looking For Shelter, Joseph C. Fowler
The Kabod
Narrative essay on a camping expedition to the top of Blood Mountain that was one to remember.
Codex Sinaiticus As A Window Into Early Christian Worship, Timothy N. Mitchell
Codex Sinaiticus As A Window Into Early Christian Worship, Timothy N. Mitchell
Eleutheria: John W. Rawlings School of Divinity Academic Journal
Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest and most complete New Testament in Greek known to exist. Its two colophons at the end of 2 Esdras and Esther indicate a possible connection with Pamphilus’ famous library at Caesarea in Palestine. Origen was head of a school for catechumens during his days in Alexandria in Egypt and later began a similar school in Caesarea. Pamphilus was Origen’s star pupil and later directed his school in Caesarea. These colophons may connect Sinaiticus with an ancient tradition of early Christian worship and instruction of new converts, possibly exhibited in particular scribal features. These scribal features …
Letter From The Editor
Eleutheria: John W. Rawlings School of Divinity Academic Journal
Letter from the Editor
The Eternal Progression Argument Against Mormonism, Jonathan R. Pruitt
The Eternal Progression Argument Against Mormonism, Jonathan R. Pruitt
Eleutheria: John W. Rawlings School of Divinity Academic Journal
This paper argues that Mormon cosmology plus the Mormon view of the origin of human persons results in an undercutting defeater for Mormonism. The approach is modeled after Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism. The first step is to show that Mormon cosmology is relevantly like naturalism. The second step is to show that the origin of human persons ins relevantly similar to naturalistic evolution so that it faces the same kind of defeaters as the conjunction of naturalism and naturalistic evolution.
Epistemological Realism And Onto-Relations, Max Lewis Edward Andrews
Epistemological Realism And Onto-Relations, Max Lewis Edward Andrews
Eleutheria: John W. Rawlings School of Divinity Academic Journal
The traditional concept of knowledge is a justified true belief. The bulk of contemporary epistemology has focused primarily on that task of justification. Truth seems to be a quite obvious criterion—does the belief in question correspond to reality? My contention is that the aspect of ontology is far too separated from epistemology. This onto-relationship of between reality and beliefs require the epistemic method of epistemological realism. This is not to diminish the task of justification. I will then discuss the role of inference from the onto-relationships of free invention and discovery and whether it is best suited for a foundationalist …
Book Review - Introducing Romans, Richard Longenecker, Mark Moore
Book Review - Introducing Romans, Richard Longenecker, Mark Moore
Eleutheria: John W. Rawlings School of Divinity Academic Journal
Review of Richard Longenecker's Introducing Romans.
Confidence In Christ And The Sin Unto Death - When Should A Believer Not Pray?, Leo Percer
Confidence In Christ And The Sin Unto Death - When Should A Believer Not Pray?, Leo Percer
Eruditio Ardescens
John’s instructions in 1 John 5:13-21 represent several well-known issues in New Testament studies. Writing on this passage could well feel like entering into an already raging battle. Opinions on this passage are almost as numerous as the authors who write about 1 John. About the only non-controversial aspect of these 9 verses involves the issue of confidence for Christians. The issue of assurance or confidence in knowing about eternal life (and other related issues) is a constant theme in 1 John. John consistently emphasizes the reality of salvation as coming through only one source—the incarnate Jesus, God in the …
Emotional Doubt And Divine Hiddenness, A. Chadwick Thornhill
Emotional Doubt And Divine Hiddenness, A. Chadwick Thornhill
Eruditio Ardescens
This essay will seek to develop a possible model for addressing the existential problem of divine hiddenness and the emotional doubt that it might cause in the life of a believer. In doing so, it will identify several potential "root causes" for the experience of the existential problem of divine hiddenness and attempt to guide a hurting individual through dealing with their doubt by applying misbelief therapy.
The Great Commission, Don Fanning
The Great Commission, Don Fanning
Eruditio Ardescens
This last promise in Matthew extends beyond the life span of the Apostles to every believer that commits to the task of raising up a group of Christ-followers among every ethno-linguistic people groups on earth “to the end of the age” (Matt 28:20b). This phrase is also found in Matt 13:39-40, 49; 24:3, which refer to the end of the present age when the Son of Man returns to establish His kingdom. Thus the promise not only applied to these 1st century disciples, but to every disciple since then and until the end of the Church Age. We can …
The Continuation Of Israel’S Land Promise In The New Testament: A Fresh Approach, A. Boyd Luter
The Continuation Of Israel’S Land Promise In The New Testament: A Fresh Approach, A. Boyd Luter
Eruditio Ardescens
This article responds to recent evangelical interpreters who have argued that the land promise given to Israel in the Old Testament is no longer in effect based on the scarcity of references to the promise in the New Testament. The paper asserts that the Land Promise is not only present in the New Testament, but even provides a sort of overall theological framework for the New Testament.
“Read, Hear/Heed” (Rev. 1:3): Obeying An Exegetical Clue To Understand The Overall Practical Messages Of The Apocalypse, A. Boyd Luter
“Read, Hear/Heed” (Rev. 1:3): Obeying An Exegetical Clue To Understand The Overall Practical Messages Of The Apocalypse, A. Boyd Luter
Eruditio Ardescens
This paper is about: how I came to the understanding of, to use Talbert’s words, “the pastoral application” of the Book of Revelation, and what that message—or, more accurately, messages—are. First, the meaning of Revelation 1:3 will be explored as an up-front clue to the book’s practical intent. Second, I will explain where my renewed brainstorming on the “heeding” front initially took me in regard to a “big picture” sense of Revelation. Third, I will demonstrate how a grand chiastic structuring of the Apocalypse actually has major practical implications. Fourth, I will lay out a “spread chiasm” of the …
Book Review: A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, And Parishioners In Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776 By J. Nelson, Laverne Smith
Book Review: A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, And Parishioners In Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776 By J. Nelson, Laverne Smith
Eruditio Ardescens
Reviews J. Nelson's work on Anglicans in Virginia during the colonial period.
Reading A Protoevangelium In The Context Of Genesis, David Pettus
Reading A Protoevangelium In The Context Of Genesis, David Pettus
Eruditio Ardescens
This article proposes that the case for a ‘messianic’ reading of Gen. 3:15 is cumulative. No single individual argument is decisive and it is virtually impossible to sustain a robust protevangelium interpretation of this text within the context of Gen. 3 alone. However, as already pointed out in the introduction, isolating Gen. 3 from its literary/historical context in the book of Genesis does not lead to a fruitful resolution of its meaning but at best creates a hypothetical reconstructed meaning behind the text which becomes difficult to sustain in light of the interpretation of the 'seed' in the entire book. …