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Vincentiana Vol. 46, No. 2 [Full Issue]

Vincentiana

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A Point Of Contention: The Scriptural Basis For The Jehovah's Witnesses' Refusal Of Blood Transfusions., John R. Spencer

Theology & Religious Studies

Examines the scriptural basis for the refusal of the Jehovah's Witnesses to receive blood transfusions. Belief of the Jehovah's Witnesses about blood transfusion; Risks of the belief to the health of its members; Scriptural interpretation of the Jehovah's Witnesses' tradition.

Interreligious Dialogue In Global Perspective, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

The tensions between religions and political systems have been evident in intellectual and cultural contexts throughout human experience. In past ages, there has been a propensity for each culture or religion to assume that it embodied the best in every aspect of the human order. There is no longer any excuse for such narrowness spawned of ignorance to dominate the thinking of educated people. Yet mere tolerance of other approaches to the common challenges of humanity will not provide security for all, especially for minorities within a culture or for weaker societies in a given region striving to maintain their …

Menorah Review (No. 54, Winter, 2002)

Menorah Review

Halakha, Hermeneutics and History -- Go -- Dialogue in Pursuit of Social Action -- Dream Joggings -- Rabbis, Society and Historiography -- Was Herod a Jew? -- Noteworthy Books

The Ten Commandments According To Jesus, Elmer L. Towns

Books

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Afro-Caribbean Religion And Rituals: Dugu, Voodoo, Santeria, And Brazilian Religions/Cults, Eva Archangel Lopez

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis will explore and discuss the religion and rituals (ancestral cult) of Afro-Caribbean societies, people of African and indigenous heritage. This thesis will also seek to answer the question of extent to which Americans have become tolerant of other people's culture and what influence, if any, have transmitted from the Afro-Caribbean people to other North American societies. The religion and rituals of four Afro-Caribbean groups will be discussed in this study.

Menorah Review (No. 55, Spring/Summer, 2002)

Menorah Review

Two Judaisms, Rabbinic and Christian, Invent Their Martyrdom Discourses -- PothoIes in the Jewish Landscape -- God Wrestling -- Remembrance of Things Past -- The Endless Diversity of Interpretation -- The Response to Uniqueness -- The Reference Shelf -- Noteworthy Books

Menorah Review (No. 56, Fall, 2002)

Menorah Review

Recent Research on Women in Israel: Politics, Academic and Motherhood -- Interdisciplinary Images -- Biblical Scholarship of Grace and Insight -- Refueling in Anytolia -- Outsider As Insider As Outsider -- The Feminist Corner -- The Yearly Battlefield -- Noteworthy Books

Review Of The Dramatic Liturgy Of Anglo-Saxon England, By M. Bradford Bedingfield, Martin Connell

Theology Faculty Publications

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Explore, Spring 2002: Religious Imagination, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter from the Director; Hotly in the pursuit of the real: the Catholic writer; Really, really dark: inventing the Catholic novel; Polluted protagonists and the enduring appeal of a Catholic imagination; Faith and the theater: Colleagues enchanting the World; The rich boy project; The paradise within: Gardens, healing, and spiritual growth; A Dialog & Design Grant report: The forgiveness reading group

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 28, No. 2, 2002

Journal of Mormon History

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

• --What's New in Latter-day Saint Church History?
  Recent Developments in the Family and Church History
  Department Richard
  E. Turley jr.,1
  --In Pursuit of Answers to Difficult Questions
  Glen M. Leonard, 14
  --Part of Each One of Us
  Ronald W. Walker, 19

• --Inheriting the Great Apostasy: The Evolution of Mormon Views on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Eric Dursteler, 23

• --George Prince, Convert Out of Africa Stephen L. Prince, 60

• --The New Deal in Orem, Utah, 1933-40 Jeremy Bonner, 81

• --The Eagle and the Scattered Flock: LDS Church Beginnings in Occupied Japan, 1945-49 Shinji Takagi, 104

• --The Cultural …

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 28, No. 1, 2002

Journal of Mormon History

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

• --Brigham Young's Overland Trails Revolution: The Creation of the "Down-and-Back" Wagon-Train System, 1860-61 William G. Hartley, 1

TANNER LECTURE

• --Becoming Mormon Elliott West, 31

• --Copyright and Fair Use for Mormon Historians Gary James Bergera, 52

• --A Bundle of Rights Morris A. Thurston, 67

• --Eldridge Cleaver's Passage Through Mormonism Newell G. Bringhurst, 80

• --Writing from Within a Religious Tradition
  A Mormon Perspective Dean L. May, 111
  --A Jewish Perspective Robert A. Goldberg, 121

• --Apostolic Diplomacy: The 1923 European Mission of Senator Reed Smoot and Professor John A. Widtsoe John C. Thomas, 130

• --Valiant Mission: RLDS Beginnings in …

Faith, Femininity, And The Frontier: The Life Of Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, Amy Reynolds Billings

Theses and Dissertations

Through examining the life of Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, a nineteenth-century Mormon woman, this thesis establishes an analytical framework for studying the lives of Mormon women in territorial Utah. Their faith, femininity, and the frontier form the boundaries in which their lives are studied. Their faith was primarily defined by the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, such as a belief in a restored gospel and priesthood, temples, and polygamy. These unique beliefs also fostered an identity as a chosen people and contributed to hostile feelings from their neighbors. Persecution followed and the Latter-day Saint community …

The Memory And The Legacy: The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade-- The Young Company, 1974-2001, Ruthanne Lay Crow

Theses and Dissertations

“The Memory and The Legacy: The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade–The Young Company 1974-2001,” is a history of the children's theatre of Brigham Young University. The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade–The Young Company acts as a training ground for graduate students working in theatre for young audiences. When directing a production for the Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade–The Young Company, students are instructed to perform all functions required of a professional company. As the Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade–The Young Company (WWB–TYC) spends much of its performance time on tour, those responsibilities are relegated to the student.

Developed and headed by Dr. Harold R. Oaks of Brigham Young …

Dinomor: Evoking Memories Of Dino's Dreams And Death, Tonu R. Soidla

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

This is a transpersonal fantasy about the last days of the dinosaurs ca. sixty-five million years ago. I suppose that communication with the Timeless (or if one prefers to put it--with Another) in one's mind precedes intraspecies communication and that one of the first recognizable acts of mystical life is surrender. A more specific and of course more far-out and irreverent hypothesis underlying this fantasy is that--unlike the bulk of individual memory records--Timeless memory "seeds" of unspecified origin are transmittable by a [retro]enterovirus. This leads to the possibility of horizontal transmission of this type of memory. In the new host, …

A Priestly View Of Bible Arithmetic: Deity's Regulative Aesthetic Activity Within Davidic Musicology, Ernest G. Mcclain

Research Resources

Reading arithmetic proportion in the bible via musical hermeneutics, this essay emphasizes the important role of music in predominantly aural cultures. Applying Patrick Heelan's non-distributive lattice logic to examples extracted from the bible, McClain applies the notion of regulative aesthetic activity to the Davidic musicology embedded in Bible mathology.  Includes several illustrative diagrams.

The Sabbath In The First Creation Accounts, Jiri Moskala

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Between Law And Grace: Ritual And Ritual Studies In Recent Evangelical Thought, Gerald A. Klingbeil

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

Hermeneutics, Culture, And The Father Of The Faithful, Lael O. Caesar

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

Scriptural Foundations For The Pro-Life Position, William Kurz

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

A Strategy For Evangelism Among The Bengali Folk Hindus Of Calcutta, Eric Kujur

Doctor of Ministry Projects

The purpose of this study was to develop a strategy to reach the unreached Bengali Folk Hindus of Calcutta. First, general information on the target group was presented. This included information on their lifestyle and traditional religious beliefs and practices. This is a large group of people who do not belong to the castes and do not enjoy the benefits of financial, educational, and political status. A brief review of what Roman Catholic and Protestant churches have done for the Folk Hindus of Calcutta, with their medical, educational, spiritual, and social services, helped us to understand the strengths and weaknesses …

Estrategia Para Mejorar La Asistencia A Los Cultos Nocturnos De La Iglesia De Mérida 61, Miguel A. Presuel Euan

Doctor of Ministry Projects

La asistencia a los cultos es un elemento clave para mantener el compromiso con Dios, por medio del culto y la adoration. Es basica para consolidar la fe de los creyentes y concede la oportunidad de instruirlos y capacitarlos para que desarrollen sus talentos para la mision. La Biblia y la literatura revisada concuerdan, en que la asistencia a los cultos es necesaria y a la vez una serial de prioridad cristiana en el entomo de nuestra relation con Dios y el desarrollo de la mision. La asistencia a las reuniones noctumas de la iglesia Merida 61, en Merida, Yucatan, …

Two Gifts Are Better Than One: Mary As Mother Of Christ And Mother Of All Graces In Fifteenth-Century Popular Sermons, Donna Spivey Ellington

Marian Studies

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On The Way To Becoming An Authentic Reader, Richard H. Cracroft

BYU Studies

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“Give Me Any Situation Suitable”: The Consecrated Life Of The Multitalented Paul A. Schettler, Jacob W. Olmstead, Fred E. Woods

BYU Studies

In October 1860, this letter arrived in Brigham Young's office (fig. 1):

Great Salt Lake City

October 23rd 1860

President Brigham Young,

Dear Sir,

Having found no suitable occupation yet, and being desirous of making myself useful, I take this opportunity, to recommend myself to your memory for the case, that any vacancy might have to be filled, and also in order to give you an idea of my handwriting.

I am a native of Prussia, 33 years of age, and am perfectly acquainted with practical bookkeeping by double entry, and I am conversant with the english, low dutch and …

"Catholic" And "Intellectual": The Way I See It, Brian Stiltner

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Paper presented by Brian Stiltner at a conference entitled "Examining the Catholic Intellectual Tradition", held at Sacred Heart University from November 10-12, 2000. Professor Stiltner writes about what the Tradition means to him and how a Catholic education shaped his personal and professional life.

Strategies For Evangelizing The Upper-Class People In Ghana, Ampofo Benjamin Akyiano

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

The Seventh-day Adventist Church, which began its ministry in Ghana in 1888, is experiencing difficulty evangelizing upper-class people. The traditional method of soul-winning, public evangelism, has been successful to evangelize middle and lower social classes but not the wealthy and well-educated class. Currently, the church and the upper-class minority are far apart. The church must update its evangelistic methods to reach all classes to finish the gospel commission in Ghana.

Method

This study presents Ghana's upper-class, their social characteristics, lifestyles, world-views, population, and social and religious groups. Interviews and questionnaires were used to discover the factors that hinder the …

The Idiom Of Spirit: Discourse, Human Nature, And Otherness. A Response To Philip Clayton And Steven Smith, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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The New Eugenics: Cloning And Beyond, M. Therese Lysaught

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Dancing With The Trickster Notes For A Transpersonal Autobiography, Stanley Krippner

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

This autobiographical essay focuses on "transpersonal," "anomalous," and "exceptional"

experiences, those elements often ignored when individuals write the stories of their lives.

Nevertheless, these experiences have life-transformative potentials that may be more salient

than the activities usually serving as the basis for autobiographical accounts.