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Collation Model For Ms. Codex 103: Libellus Super Electionibus Faciendis Et Earum Processibus Ordinandis., Dot Porter

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Work dealing with a section of canon law. Also contains some details relating to the church at Toulouse, where the author was provost for a time. The author, Guillaume de Mandagot, was successively Archdeacon of Nimes, Archbishop of Embrun and of Aix and Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina. He was an authority on canon law and was chosen by Pope Boniface VIII to assist with the sixth volume of the Decretals.

Something Borrowed: The Origins Of Christian Wedding Rituals, Brooke Leany

Studia Antiqua

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Immersive Rituals In The Qumran Community And Early Christianity, Ally Huffmire

Studia Antiqua

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The Lactans And The Lachrymose: The Nursing Virgin As Intercessory Type In An Early Coptic Monastic Context, Katharine Davidson Bekker

Studia Antiqua

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What Is The Rosary? Why A Set Of Beads And Prayers Are Central To Catholic Faith, Kayla Harris

Marian Library Faculty Publications

It’s one of the most famous moments in modern Catholicism: the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. The Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to three Portuguese children in 1917, when much of the world was engulfed in World War I. Over a series of six appearances, Mary emphasized to these young shepherds that to bring peace, they should pray the rosary every day.

Devotion to the rosary already had a centuries-old history, and the Marian apparition at Fatima only deepened it. So what is a rosary, and why is it so important to many Catholics?

Review Of Robert Cornwall's Book, "Called To Bless: Finding Hope By Reclaiming Our Spiritual Roots", Keith Watkins

Journal of Discipliana

Called to Bless provides a theologically informed case study, based on the author’s experiences in churches, as lifelong member, ordained minister, church historian, and ecumenical advocate. It is intended to show individual Christians, pastors, church leaders, and congregations how to find a fruitful balance between their past traditions and their Christian witness for the future while living faithfully in the present.

Demons & Droids: Nonhuman Animals On Trial, Gerrit D. White

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

Nonhuman animal trials are ridiculous to the modern sensibilities of the West. The concept of them is in opposition to the idea of nonhuman animals—entities without agency, incapable of guilt by nature of irrationality. This way of viewing nonhuman animals is relatively new to the Western mind. Putting nonhuman animals on trial has only become unacceptable in the past few centuries. Before this shift, nonhuman animal trials existed as methods of communities policing themselves. More than that, these trials were part of legal systems ensuring they provided justice for all. This shift happened because the relationship between Christian authorities ...

Semitic Residue: Semitic Traits That Indicate Early Source Material Behind The Gospel Of Matthew, Brian Gray Chilton

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Skeptics have often argued that the Gospels were written too late to have contained any valuable information about Jesus. Furthermore, the likes of Rudolf Bultmann and the Jesus Seminar claim that very little can be known about the voice of the historical Jesus. However, this work argues that the oral traditions stemming from community-based transmission provides a basis to hold that the oral traditions that undergird the finished Gospels are much earlier than the written texts themselves. Using the Gospel of Matthew as a test case and seven criteria to gauge the strength of residue, this study argues that the ...

Collation Model For Ms. Codex 1572: Graduale, Dot Porter

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Complete portable gradual with chants for the Mass according to the Use of Brixen (now Bressanone), possibly from a Benedictine monastic foundation. The temporal and sanctoral cycles are combined (including references to Masses for the feasts of Saint Thomas à Becket, f. 19r; Saints Albuinus and Ingenuinus, both bishops of Brixen, f. 32v; Saint Benedict, f.36r; translation of Saint Albuinus, f. 99r, translation of Saint Benedict, f. 110r; and Saint Cassian, legendary founder of the diocese of Brixen under the name of Säben, f. 112v), followed by texts and music for the Common of Saints; various settings of the ...

“Longing For A Better Country: The Stone-Campbell Movement And The Search For Atlantis”, John M. Young

Journal of Discipliana

Two people with Stone-Campbell Movement ties, Edgar Cayce and Maxine Klein Asher are noted for their interest in Atlantis. Their stories serve as reminders that the Stone-Campbell Movement is neither as uniform nor as unchanging as is normally assumed.

Collation Model For Oversize Ms. Codex 1225: Ex Lib[Ris] Paris De Grassis Bonon[Iensis], Dot Porter

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An abridged summary of the continuation of Burchard's Diarium by Paris de Grassis, master of ceremonies under popes Julius II and Leo X, covering the pontificate of Leo X up to 1521, followed by a further continuation by Blasius Martinellus up to 1538 (and thus encompassing Adrian VI, Clement VII, and part of Paul III). By far the largest section is devoted to 1513, the year of Leo's accession, with the amount given to each year declining sharply thereafter until 1538 receives only half of a page. Written in Italy.

Collation Model For Ms. Codex 1229: [Processional [Manuscript] : Dominican Use]., Dot Porter

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A selection of texts and chants for use in a French Dominican convent, including the service for after the death and at the burial of a member of the order, and the processions for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, the Ascension, Corpus Christi, the Assumption, and the Purification. The procession for Maundy Thursday is the distinctively Dominican observance of Washing of the Altars, in this case dedicated to the Trinity, Saint Dominic, Saint Margaret, the Virgin Mary, the Holy Cross, the Eucharist, and all saints. Liturgical directions in French refer to the women of the order and the ...

Collation Model For Ms. Codex 1589: [Texts For The Commemorative Office Of The Virgin Mary And Notated Office Of The Dead], Dot Porter

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Benedictine manuscript containing texts for Matins and Lauds from the Commemorative Office of the Virgin. This version of the Office was said most often on Saturday in place of the usual Office of the day. Also contains the Office of the Dead accompanied by musical notation for the chants. The manuscript once had leather finding tabs flush to the edge of the leaves, all but one (f. 96) of which have been torn out (for example, f. 1, 7, 69).

Collation Model For Oversize Ms. Codex 96: [Opuscula Varia], Dot Porter

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Collection of works by Jean Gerson (works 1-11; 21-24), together with a few works not by him. The pastedown in the front of the volume lists its contents, but does not include works 21-24 and the subsequent notes (f. 157v-159v).

Contemplative Vision: Visual Language In The Sermons Of Johannes Tauler, Joshua P. Reifsteck

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

Reifsteck, Joshua P. “Contemplative Vision: Visual Language in the Sermons of Johannes Tauler.” STM Thesis, Concordia Seminary, 2022. 91 pp.

Johannes Tauler conceives of thought, contemplation, and mystical experience in visual ways, and this conception manifests in visual language and metaphor throughout Tauler’s preaching corpus. This visual language is influenced heavily by Neoplatonic conceptions of contemplation and the One, and by an interior-exterior tension within Tauler’s anthropology which is especially significant for his portrayal of the senses. This thesis focuses especially upon a group of Middle High German words related to the verb schoͮwen. These words are ...

Accepting The Cost: German Baptist Brethren, Faith, And The American Civil War, Sheilah Rana Elwardani

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The German Baptist Brethren, Dunkers, were a Pietist sect which organized in the Palatinate region of the German lands in central Europe in 1708. The sect was founded upon the structure of the Apostolic, or Primitive, Christian Church. The founder, Alexander Mack, was strongly engaged with the theology of the Pietist movement and taught that the structure of the Christian life must be firmly founded in scripture with Mathew 5 proscribing the elemental principles of the sect. The Brethren practiced adult, believers, baptism and firmly adhered to core peace principles as interpreted from Mathew 5. Increasing persecution forced the two ...

Then Sings The Church A New Song, Ian D. Bula

Masters Theses

The collective life of the Ancient Israelites was defined by a tumultuous journey through the desert as the primary setting where God continuously sought a relationship with them. Their liberation from Egyptian bondage was the central element that resulted from God’s self- revelation and action toward His people. Their response to Him in worship reflects the nature instilled in all humankind to respond in many ways to divine action. One of these ways is through the use of music. Music has accompanied the worship of God’s people since the time of the Patriarchs. The Exodus was the experience ...

Review Of: Our Amish Heritage—Publishing Committee Of The Geauga Amish Historical Library, Dan Raber

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

The booklet, Our Amish Heritage, succeeds admirably in its stated goal of being a general history suitable for parochial schools or home use. The overall flow of the narrative reads well, not going into great detail anywhere but pointing out highlights in a nearly 500 year attempt at the Anabaptist, then Amish, people literally living Christ’s commandments.

Review Of: Grounded Upon God’S Word: The Life And Labours Of Jakob Amman—Andrew V St. Marie And Mike Atnip, Osiah Horst

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

This book is an easy read for the average person, and has adequate footnotes, bibliography, and photos for the interested student. It relies heavily on John D. Roth’s “Letters of the Amish Division” for sources. While it is quite factual, it presents facts in story form. The book focuses on Amman’s life, not just on the Amish division. It is part of the “Cross Bearers Series” which is designed to bring to today’s youth, stories of role models from history. Other books in the series introduce Conrad Grebel and Michael Sattler in a similar easy reading format.

Review Of: Heaven Will Heal: Eternal Perspectives In The Life And Times Of Oregon Bishop, John P. Yoder. Iowa To The West Coast, 1885-1975—Mary (Gingerich) Kropf, Paul Smucker

Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

Heaven Will Heal is a history of the life and times of John P. Yoder written by John’s granddaughter. John wrote and received numerous letters in his lifetime and saved all his letters that he received. After John’s death his son Glenn also saved the letters. When John’s granddaughter Mary gained access to the letters and postcards, she read them carefully, and she decided to use these letters as a basis of telling the history of her grandpa, the Anabaptist community in the southern Willamette Valley, and the Harrisburg Mennonite Church from its beginnings to the 1970s ...