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Kyrie Eleison, Aidan Moon

Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal

Poetry composed by Adian Moon.

Constancy Amid Change, Michael Goodman, Daniel Frost

BYU Studies Quarterly

Few issues are more sensitive and in need of serious study than gender and sexuality. Taylor Petrey’s book, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Sexual Difference in Modern Mormonism, contributes much to that study. The book provides a nuanced view of Church leaders’ attempts to understand and teach the nature of gender and sexuality. Petrey shows that Latter-day Saint discourse on these issues has changed substantially, especially since World War II. Petrey has gathered a trove of material for scholars and others who seek to better understand how culture, tradition, and theology have shaped teachings about gender and sexuality. Though …

The Artist's Diary, Anamae Gilroy

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Songs Of Eden, Emma Atkinson

Student Research Submissions

Songs of Eden is a collection of short poems that were written during the Spring of 2021 semester as an individual study under the direction of Dr. Teresa Kennedy. The course itself was titled “Songs of the Fall” and fell under the category of ENGL 491. The name of the individual study is a nod to both the fall of man, and the tradition of epic poetry. As such, the project itself centers around the opening chapters of Genesis, focalizing on the persons of Adam and Eve. The work is divided into two main sections, each written from the perspective …

Sacrality In Modern Ukrainian Poetics: Metamorphoses Of Values, Iryna Lazorevych

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

This is a study of the influence of religious sacrality on modern Ukrainian literature, particularly poetry, analyzing those sacred meanings that the current Ukrainian mentality actively uses. So far, it eclectically synthesizes the ideological impulses of traditional Christian religiosity (which even in the times of Communism retained its natural strength, especially in the Western regions of Ukraine), and elements of Soviet ideologemes and pragmatism of the modern transitional period. At the same time, it uses certain inclinations to new communication with sacred, which is felt by some of the important creators of modern Ukrainian culture. In this article, the author …

I Show You A Mystery, David Schelhaas

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Death's mystery is still frightening."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­I Corinthians 15 from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/i-show-you-a-mystery/

A Christ Poem, Hayden Brown

Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal

Poetry composed by Hayden Brown.

Behind The Mask Of God, Cody Macmillin

Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal

Poetry composed by Cody MacMillan.

Expense For Just Their Kind, Cody Macmillin

Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal

Poetry composed by Cody MacMillan.

Cd Poem, Christian Dollar

Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal

Poetry composed by Christian Dollar.

Mercy, Elizabeth Smith

BYU Studies Quarterly

I merge into surging highway wind, my backseat baby babbles to the Tim-Tams macaroni yogurt burger cookies and bananas, and a crackling alto announces the world this hour: buildings burst in a distant port, scoundrel stabs doctor in a clinic past the mountains, furious inferno feasts on trees, towns just south of here.

Moon To Moon Nights, Dixie Partridge

BYU Studies Quarterly

like time-lapse film, signify now a moment, now a lifetime. A bonedrift of stone shapes pale and rise like years along garden’s edge. . . .

What Her Missionary Son’S Letter Didn’T Say, Darlene Young

BYU Studies Quarterly

Rain hangs in the air. Even my underwear feels wet.

I listen to the tapping fingertips of the bodies of bugs hitting netting at night. Gray water. Bare floors.

Desert Harvest, Ben De Hoyos

BYU Studies Quarterly

At last, it came, The cleansing rain at the fading Of this long, parched day.

تلقي "أبي بكر الباقلاني:" للإعجاز القرآني, علي بختي

Dirassat

Title : Abu Bakr al-BAQILLANI reception of the miracles of the Qur'an

During the second and the fourth Hijri centuries, the prime preoccupation of scholars was to rekindle the Arab intellectual heritage and create diversity of thought and knowledge. The first predominant current tried to prove the Qur’anic miracle. The Ash'ariyya and Mu'tazila tried reasoning and logic to confront disbelievers. However, there raised issues with readership and receptivity. The second current shifted focus onto the aesthetic impact of the Qur’anic miracle. The stage is characterized by innate and pure aesthetic taste that is not spoiled as poetics and rhetoric of …

Richard Wilbur's Book Of Nature, William Tate

Pro Rege

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His Body Breaks, James Goldberg

BYU Studies Quarterly

His body breaks long before he hangs on the cross.

A Short Tribute To My Genealogical Butcher Chart, Linda Hoffman Kimball

BYU Studies Quarterly

If you were to parse me Like meat on a banner You’d find all my ancestors In parts or in manner.

All Things Sing Praise, Susan Elizabeth Howe

BYU Studies Quarterly

The anteater’s tongue licking praise in the tunnels of the termite mound.

The alpaca spitting praise, olé!

Serrano peppers’ praise in perspiration.

Plastic praise: the Taj Mahal, a million interlocking Lego blocks.

Bayou, Pamela J. Hamblin

BYU Studies Quarterly

Slowly the rain plays thin strings, plucking.

Turning The Tempest For God’S Forgotten: Psalm 42 As Synecdochic Lead Of The Elohistic Psalter, David P. Pettit

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation’s thesis states Ps 42 is the synecdochic lead of the Elohistic Psalter, arguing for a particular type of literary relationship between Ps 42 and this collection (Pss 42-83). As synecdoche, Ps 42 introduces and represents, in microcosm, the themes, imagery, language, and actuational potential of the collection. The lead psalm becomes a lens that affects what aspects and commonalities come to light in the following psalms. This is not merely an intertextual study, however. This study is situated within psalms studies and the long reach of Gerald Wilson’s work and the Shape and Shaping approach to the Psalter. …

John Donne And The Paradox: An Analysis Of “Batter My Heart, Three-Person’D God”, Lily Daniels

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

A paradox is a statement that appears contradictory but ultimately makes sense. “Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart, three person’d God” (1632) by John Donne reflects the many paradoxes within the Bible and Christian faith. Read within the context of his religious beliefs and the rest of the Holy Sonnets, “Batter my heart, three-person’d God” is a poem that exhibits Donne’s theology of God and the process of salvation. The speaker affirms that the power of the triune God is required to break the bonds of sin. He finds freedom from sin in submitting to God’s will, and he finds innocence …

An Artistic Expression Of The Connection Between “Man And The Universe” In The Works By Suhrаb Sipehri, Nargiza Shoaliyeva, Safar Abdulloh

The Light of Islam

The poet and writer Sohrab Sipehri (1928-1980) played a particular role in the formation and development of Iranian poetry at the beginning of the twentieth century. This poet created his style of expression and was an enlightened person who provided a holistic connection of modern philosophical views with orthodox ideas. He was a philosopher-poet, an artistic thinker who was able to give the contemporary content of the interpretation of theories of «Unity» - («wahdat al-wujud») and «Perfect man» - («komil inson») in the traditional system of mystical views. As a great writer he created a new set of poetic emblems …

Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan [Toc], Marc Redfield

Philosophy & Theory

In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronunce the initial shin phoneme. In modern European languages, shibboleth has come to mean a hard-to-falsify sign that winnows identities, and establishes and confirms borders; it has also acquired the ancillary meanings of slogan or cliché. The semantic field of shibboleth thus seems keyed to the waning of the logos in an era of technical reproducibility—to the proliferation of technologies and practices of encryption, decryption, exclusion and inclusion that saturate modern life. In the context …

Study Of Amir Husrow Dehlaviy’S Rubais, Feruza Nizamova

The Light of Islam

The article provides data on the manuscripts and studies of the legacy of Amir Khusrow Dehlavi, stored in the Institute of Oriental Studies named after Abu Rayhan Biruni of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In the manuscripts we examined, there is information about the origin of ghazals, but there is no mention of the origin of the ruba’is. In many manuscripts, the order of fling the ruba’is is not based on any principle. Only a few of them are arranged alphabetically, either by the frst letter of the verse or by the last letter of the …

Breeze, Daniel Teichert

BYU Studies Quarterly

What if our prayers were the wind to God, and carried our thoughts like the smell of cut grass and barbecued meat and skunk musk and cow dung and tire-kicked dust?

Middle English "Tarantulas": A New Edition Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem, Kara Mcshane

Faculty Baden Presentations

In this Baden presentation, Kara McShane gives an overview of her forthcoming edition of the understudied Middle English Destruction of Jerusalem, a late medieval siege narrative, and explores how the poem expands contemporary understandings of religious and cultural contact, conflict, and exchange in medieval English literature. The talk includes an interactive introduction to editing medieval texts.

Rock Of Promise, K. D. Taylor

BYU Studies Quarterly

When storms from thine opposer Entice our hearts to fear, O God, thou great disposer Of blessings, bid us hear

Even Psalm, Darlene Young

BYU Studies Quarterly

Smog today, but I saw your wink in the pink light of the peaks above it, heard your chuckle in the plumes of trumpets and under-the-skin drums of the high school marching band practicing four blocks away.

Learning To Touch, Marilyn Bushman-Carlton

BYU Studies Quarterly

I was relieved when my daughter arrived at the dying, when she got to work saturating a hospital sponge, pressing it inside her grandmother’s cheek, allowing her to drink. I marveled