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The Forgiveness Of Sins, Steven D. Paulson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Bible And Popular Culture: Engaging Sacred Text In The World Of "Others", Mary E. Hess

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Practices, Core Practices And The Work Of The Holy Spirit, David L. Stubbs

Journal for Christian Theological Research

The recent interest in "practices" has created a multi-faceted discussion in theological circles that brings together insights from many disciplines such as ethics, philosophy, and cultural anthropology. However, there has been little extended analysis about how the many claims made about practices are related to quite similar claims traditionally made about the work of the Holy Spirit. In this paper, four distinctions are highlighted that can help us better conceptualize how the Holy Spirit might be related to different kinds of practices.

The Death Of Jesus And The Truth Of The Triune God In Wolfhart Pannenberg And Eberhard Juengel, Jonathan P. Case

Journal for Christian Theological Research

For Pannenberg and Juengel the death of Christ has an integral role to play in instantiating in the life of God the critical moment necessary to their respective conceptions of truth. For Pannenberg a claim's capacity for truth lies in its ability to be disputed. Confirmation must follow if a claim is to be judged true, but even this confirmation is open to subsequent challenge. Truth is hence a historical process, only the end of which will bring about a definitive conclusion. Given this understanding of truth, the death of Christ on the cross is to be understood as a …

Summary Report For The 2004 Season, Mark Schuler

Excavation Reports

In 2004, systematic excavation completed exposure of the final phase of the domus of the Northeast Church and began work on the northern rooms and the atrium. This report will address in turn work done in:

• A. The tombs in the chancel (L533 and L537)
• B. The nave
• C. The north aisle
• D. The North Lateral Chamber
• E. The atrium

Menorah Review (No. 60, Winter, 2004)

Menorah Review

America and the Holocaust, Revisited: Notes on the Writing of ... -- The Road to Jewish Nationalism -- From the Classics -- The Reference Shell -- The Fundamentals of Fundamentalism -- From the Classics -- Hasidic Parables, Hasidic Polemics -- From the Classics -- Noteworthy Books

Neoliberal Globalization: A Casus Confessionis, Guillermo C. Hansen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Journal In Entirety

The Asbury Journal

PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE ON: THE LEGACY OF JOHN WESLEY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

John Wesley and His Evangelical Past

W. Reginald Ward

The World its Parish: Wesleyan Theology in the Postmodern Global Village

Roger E. Olson

The Shape of Wesleyan Thought: The Question of John Wesley’s “Essential” Christian Doctrines

Ted A. Campbell

Theological Method for a Man of One Book

Chuck Gutenson

“How Wide Thy Healing Streams are Spread”: Constructing a Wesleyan-Pentecostal Model of Healing for the 21^st Century

Kimberly Ervin Alexander

Wesley as Contextual Theologian: A New Paradigm for Overcoming Tensions in the …

Animal Mind As Approached By The Transpersonal: Notion Of Collective Conscious Experience, Axel A. Randrup

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

The discussion of animal mind in this paper is based on an idealist philosophy contending that

only conscious experience is real, based on the transpersonal notion of collective conscious experience.

The latter has earlier been explained by the author as experience referred to a group of

humans as the subject, the We. Here it is contended that also a group of humans and animals

can be seen as the subject of collective conscious experiences. The author argues that the notion

of collective conscious experience provides a possibility for studying the problems of animal mind

and the related human problem of …

Taman Shamanism (Borneo), Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Reframing The Conflict In Fiji: Economic And Transpersonal Frameworks For Peace, Harris Friedman

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Reframing is presented as a psychological technique applicable to facilitating change leading to conflict resolution and the achievement of peace. The current conflict in Fiji is discussed as a case study of one such application. Fijian problems have been commonly attributed to racial and ethnic divides that are not easily amenable to change. An intervention providing an alternative understanding of these conflicts, namely that they are better seen as due to competing economic models, is described. The scientific transpersonal perspective is presented as another alternative framework, seen as especially applicable to religious conflicts, which potentially provides an inclusive way to …

Two Suitors: A Parable, Richard Tarnas

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Art And Spirit: The Artistic Brain, The Navajo Concept Of Hozho, And Kandinsky’S “Inner Necessity”, Charles D. Laughlin

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Most traditional art forms around the planet are an expression of the spiritual dimension of a culture’s

cosmology and the spiritual experiences of individuals. Religious art and iconography often

reveal the hidden aspects of spirit as glimpsed through the filter of cultural significance. Moreover,

traditional art, although often highly abstract, may actually describe sensory experiences derived

in alternative states of consciousness (ASC). This article analyzes the often fuzzy concepts of “art”

and “spirit” and then operationalizes them in a way that makes them useful for cross-cultural

transpersonal research. The fact of the universally abstract nature of traditional art is analyzed …

Theological Foundation For A Reformed Doctrine Of Natural Law, Stephen John Grabill

CTS PhD Doctoral Dissertations

Although the magisterial Reformers inherited the natural-law tradition as a noncontroversial legacy of late medieval scholasticism, their twentieth-century descendents have, more often than not, assumed a critical stance toward that tradition. This antipathy has been fueled in large part, but not exclusively by Karl Barth's vigorous repudiation of natural theology in the 1934 disputation with Emil Brunner. Like Herman Dooyeweerd, G.C. Berkouwer, and Cornelius Van Til, Barth identified the doctrines of natural theology/natural law as rationalistic vestiges of Thomism that Calvin and Luther had unwittingly assimilated and that, in the scholastic systems of Reformed orthodoxy, became the foundation for the …

Preface: The Immaculate Conception: Calling And Destiny, Thomas A. Thompson

Marian Studies

No abstract provided.

Folk Practices In Punjab, Daniel Michon, H.S. Bhatti

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

This essay serves as an introduction to the folk practices and beliefs of East Punjab. It argues that although there are clear religious identities established by the major organized religions, this does not preclude participation in other practices which cut across these boundaries. These "folk" practices and beliefs cluster around the anxieties and ambiguities of death, common understandings of societal structure and its relation to work, the relationship of animals and the spirit world, the causes of misfortune, and the causes of and cures for disease. These modes of understanding the world are characterized by persistence and adaptability, that is, …

Review: Biblical Ideas Of Nationality: Ancient And Modern, Donald L. Fowler

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

A Constructive Wesleyan Theological Proposal: Redemption And Sanctification Of Human Gender And Sexuality, Heather Ann Ackley

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

The Immaculate Conception In The Catholic-Protestant Ecumenical Dialogue, Thomas A. Thompson

Marian Studies

No abstract provided.

A Survey Of Recent Mariology (2004), Eamon R. Carroll

Marian Studies

No abstract provided.

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 30, No.1, 2004

Journal of Mormon History

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

• --A Personal Odyssey Revisited: My Continuing Encounter with Mormon History Lawrence Foster, 1

TANNER LECTURE

• --"Faith in the Religion of Their Fathers": Passing Mormonism from One Generation to the Next Randall Balmer, 37

• --A "Goodly Heritage" in a Time of Transformation: History and Identity in the Community of Christ W. Grant McMurray, 59

• --The Hymns of Kirtland: A Festival of Hymns and History Richard Clothier, 76

• --"Lest We Forget:" The Meaning of Kirtland's History in the Present D. Todd Christofferson, 105

• --The Restoration of Historic Kirtland: A Panel
  A History of Restoring Historic Kirtland
  Steven L. …

A Review Of Exploring Heaven, #1, Stephen K. Moroney

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.

Adventist Theology And Deep Time/Evolutionary Theory: Are They Compatible?, Fernando Canale

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

The Genesis Flood Narrative: Crucial Issues In The Current Debate, Richard M. Davidson

Faculty Publications

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The Immaculate Conception In The Ecumenical Dialogue With Orthodoxy: How The Term Theosis Can Inform Convergence, Virginia M. Kimball

Marian Studies

No abstract provided.

With And Without Boundaries: Christian Homemaking Amidst Postmodern Homelessness, Brian J. Walsh, Steven C. Bouma-Prediger

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Strange New World In The Church: A Review Essay Of 'With The Grain Of The Universe' By Stanley Hauerwas, Brad Kallenberg

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Hauerwas's refusal to translate the argument displayed in With the Grain of the Universe (his recent Gifford Lectures) into language that "anyone" can understand is itself part of the argument. Consequently, readers will not understand what Hauerwas is up to until they have attained fluency in the peculiar language that has epitomized three decades of Hauerwas's scholarship. Such fluency is not easily gained. Nevertheless, in this review essay, I situate Hauerwas's baffling language against the backdrop of his corpus to show at least this much: With the Grain of the Universe transforms natural theology into "witness." In the end, my …

The Diaries Of Mary Lois Walker Morris, Melissa Lambert Milewski

Theses and Dissertations

An edited transcription of the 1879 to 1887 diaries of Mary Lois Walker Morris (1835-1919). Mary Lois, a plural wife in 19th century Utah, went in and out of hiding between 1885 and 1887 to protect her husband Elias Morris from prosecution for illegal cohabitation. Her daily diaries culminate with the court trial of her husband for illegal cohabitation in September 1887. At the trial, she testified falsely, stating that she had been separated from her husband since the beginning of 1883, when in fact the couple did not separate until May of 1885. As a result, her husband was …

The Case Of The Missing Discipline: Finding Buddhist Legal Studies, Rebecca Redwood French

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Reading The Sign Of The Times: The Humanities, The Catholic Intellectual Tradition, And The Catholic Church, Michelle Loris Ph.D.

English Faculty Publications

This essay proposes that the humanities (and new directions in the humanities) as the centrepiece of the Catholic intellectual tradition can help the Catholic Church “read the signs of the times” in the contemporary world and in that way the Church can better serve the human family of God.