Discord From Within: Challenges Facing Catholicism In The United States And The Road Ahead,
2025
Loyola Marymount University
Discord From Within: Challenges Facing Catholicism In The United States And The Road Ahead, Amber Montgomery
Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies
As membership in the Catholic Church continues to decline in the United States, there are less parishioners or those interested in religious life. Two contributing reasons for this include the Church’s stance on the use of contraception and the role of women within ministry. Explored here is a brief survey of these issues based on Scripture, papal documents, feminist theology, and the perspective of clergy and lay persons. These two topics are of particular interest as the United States grapples with women’s rights over their bodies and wrestle with women’s place within the Church. While the Church has taken an …
Voices Of Protest: Women Who Sing The Blues,
2025
Loyola Marymount University
Voices Of Protest: Women Who Sing The Blues, Deborah Kaufman Giordano
Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies
This paper explores the biblical and historical continuity of women’s voices “singing the blues” in social protest across different contexts. The blues as a musical genre spans a myriad of themes, including social protest. Black female blues songs such as Bessie Smith’s “Poor Man’s Blues” and Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” were the blues songs of lament and social protest, protesting economic injustice and the brutality of lynching respectively. This paper explores how two biblical women — Hannah in “Hannah’s Song” (1 Samuel 2:1-10) and Mary in the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55) — sang the blues of social protest. These biblical women, …
Augustine’S Ethics And Authentic Happiness,
2025
Loyola Marymount University
Augustine’S Ethics And Authentic Happiness, Ignatius C. Williams
Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies
Finding happiness is a fundamental human goal, despite the fact that it varies between cultures, philosophical systems, and religious beliefs. But how mankind pursues happiness as the greatest good and how it is reached in that process are considered because not all endeavors ultimately lead to true or authentic happiness. In light of this, Augustine’s notion of ethics and authentic happiness are examined, along with some essential principles for living an ethical life that is congruent with true happiness. Three topics are explored. First, I examined Augustine’s theory of happiness as well as moral requirements centered on grace, love, and …
Table Of Contents,
2025
Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School
Table Of Contents
Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies
No abstract provided.
The End Of Faith, The Beginning Of Glory,
2025
Loyola Marymount University
The End Of Faith, The Beginning Of Glory, Maria Lai C.S.J.
Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies
On April 21, 2025, Pope Francis passed away after twelve years of remarkable service to the Catholic Church and to the world. This reflection centers on Francis’ papacy and legacy, asking important questions related to the meaning and purpose of life and inviting us to contemplate his discipleship as a follower of Jesus Christ.
Unearthing Evidence For St. Augustine’S Racial Blackness And Paralleling Augustine’S Christian Mystical Religion To Traditional African Religion’S Mysticism,
2025
Loyola Marymount University
Unearthing Evidence For St. Augustine’S Racial Blackness And Paralleling Augustine’S Christian Mystical Religion To Traditional African Religion’S Mysticism, Dillon Cook
Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies
This article undertakes two projects rendering significant ramifications for philosophy/theology, if my assertions are correct. First, the philosopher/theologian known as St. Augustine of Hippo is most saliently recognized as a “white man”; if not a white man, “a European”; if not European, “a man of Rome”; or “Mediterranean”; etc. Outside the intellectual sphere, this is how he is often depicted in art, Penguin Classic books, and so on. Yet ironically, images of Augustine rarely circulate, if at all, as a Black-African-Indigenous person. Was Augustine nonwhite? Evidence is rendered that this is indubitably the case. Could Augustine have been modernly categorized …
Reaching The Young And Hopeless: Rooting For Redemption At A Residential Treatment Center,
2025
Loyola Marymount University
Reaching The Young And Hopeless: Rooting For Redemption At A Residential Treatment Center, Christian P. Newton
Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies
This article reflects on my experiences as an educator at a Residential Treatment Center, observing the spiritual battles being fought by some residents as they attempt to rectify their lives after their involvement in sexual abuse. It will review literature that has been successful in my classroom with helping young people change their mind concerning their irredeemableness and that can also improve how evangelical attempts across Christian dominations pastor to those who feel scorned by God. Due to the mentality of some residents who have deeply struggled with the concepts of forgiveness and regret, literature is offered as starting point …
Toward A Biblical And Missiological Framework For Transformational Advocacy In The Seventh-Day-Adventist Church,
2025
Andrews University
Toward A Biblical And Missiological Framework For Transformational Advocacy In The Seventh-Day-Adventist Church, Michelet William
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This is a dissertation abstract.
איהה תעה The Hebrew Bible And Its Role In Daniel 12:1 A Diachronic And Synchronic Study On The Semantics Of Narrative And Prophetic Temporality,
2025
Andrews University
איהה תעה The Hebrew Bible And Its Role In Daniel 12:1 A Diachronic And Synchronic Study On The Semantics Of Narrative And Prophetic Temporality, Araica Roger David Ruiz.
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This is a dissertation abstract.
Dominion Shifts In Biblical Apocalyptic Literature: A Narrative Reading Of Daniel 7 And Revelation 12–14 Vis-À-Vis Genesis 1–3,
2025
Andrews University
Dominion Shifts In Biblical Apocalyptic Literature: A Narrative Reading Of Daniel 7 And Revelation 12–14 Vis-À-Vis Genesis 1–3, Flavio Prestes Iii
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This is a dissertation abstract.
An Analysis Of Herbert Douglass And Woodrow Whidden’S Use Of Ellen G. White's Writings On The Human Nature Of Christ,
2025
Andrews University
An Analysis Of Herbert Douglass And Woodrow Whidden’S Use Of Ellen G. White's Writings On The Human Nature Of Christ, Cyril Marshall
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This is a dissertation abstract.
Prophetic Reuse And Chronotope: The Reuse Of Prophecies And The Representation Of Time And Space In Daniel 10–12,
2025
Andrews University
Prophetic Reuse And Chronotope: The Reuse Of Prophecies And The Representation Of Time And Space In Daniel 10–12, Felipe A. Masotti
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This is a dissertation abstract.
Indicators Of Typology In The Narrative Of Elijah: An Investigation Into The Predictive Nature Of The Typological Use Of The Old Testament In The New Testament,
2025
Andrews University
Indicators Of Typology In The Narrative Of Elijah: An Investigation Into The Predictive Nature Of The Typological Use Of The Old Testament In The New Testament, Jônatas De Mattos Leal
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This is a dissertation abstract.
Which Reader? Interpretative Virtue, Ecclesial Context, And Social Loaction In Ephraim Radner And Richard Hays’S Proposal For Theological Interpretation Of Scripture,
2025
Andrews University
Which Reader? Interpretative Virtue, Ecclesial Context, And Social Loaction In Ephraim Radner And Richard Hays’S Proposal For Theological Interpretation Of Scripture, Iriann Marie Irizarry
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This is a dissertation abstract.
“You Must Prophecy Again”: The Mission Of God’S People In Revelation 10–14,
2025
Andrews University
“You Must Prophecy Again”: The Mission Of God’S People In Revelation 10–14, Adenilton Tavares De Aguiar
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This is a dissertation abstract.
The Clarity And Obscurity Of Inspired Writings: A Historical Survey From Late Antiquity To Early Nineteenth- Century America,
2025
Andrews University
The Clarity And Obscurity Of Inspired Writings: A Historical Survey From Late Antiquity To Early Nineteenth- Century America, Denis Kaiser
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Throughout Christian history, pastors, scholars, and church leaders have discussed whether, or to what extent, Scripture is clear or obscure. This article surveys the views on the clarity and obscurity of Scripture as advocated by Christian writers in five eras from late antiquity to early nineteenth-century America. Writers in the Protestant tradition have generally objected to the common notions among Roman Catholics that Scripture is obscure, consists of a four-fold sense, and that normative teaching authority is in the hands of the magisterium. Lutheran, Reformed, and Pietist scholars have generally emphasized the importance of having an educated clergy that understands …
Editorial Vol 60 No. 2,
2025
Andrews University
Editorial Vol 60 No. 2, Martin F. Hanna, Oliver M. Glanz
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This is the Editorial
Table Of Contents Vol 60.2,
2025
Andrews University
Table Of Contents Vol 60.2
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This is the Table of Contents
Restoration Quarterly: Vol. 67, No. 3,
2025
Abilene Christian University
The Lived Experience Of Religious Trauma Among Transgender And Gender Diverse People: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis,
2025
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Lived Experience Of Religious Trauma Among Transgender And Gender Diverse People: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Patrick T. Meyer
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Religion has served as a framework to support the psychological well-being of people across cultures throughout human history, yet there is growing scholarly and public interest in how religious institutions and people inflict harm on members through spiritual means. Extant literature demonstrated that transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people experience gendered microaggressions in religious spaces, and their social position within the church likely holds unique insights into the subjective experience of religious trauma. Even though research with people who have had adverse religious experiences has increased over time, little is known about TGD people who experience lasting psychological damage due …
