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As Filhas De Oyá: Warriors In The Eye Of The Storm, Sheela Bringi

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This study follows the trail of Oyá, a black feminine Orixá, or goddess, within the Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition of Candomblé, through her elemental forces as the winds, storms, tornadoes, the river Niger, and buffalo. I unearth the influence of Oyá on the lives of three black female followers as she is manifested in the world as a black woman, a mother, a warrior and a lover.

I interviewed three black followers of Oyá and found that she is primarily a motherly force which provides protection, guidance and security for her followers. As a warrior, her energy inspires perseverance, determination, and …

Ephatha, Spring 2005

Ephatha

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Newark, NJ

Ephatha Finding Aid

Trinity, Time And Sacrament: Christ's Eucharistic Presence In The Theology Of Robert W. Jenson, Jason M. Curtis

Journal for Christian Theological Research

A critical analysis of some key elements in Jenson’s theology. Some of his most stimulating theological themes are those surrounding his trinitarian ontology, where he combines a thoroughgoing knowledge of the tradition with biblical exegesis and philosophical reasoning. What emerges is a trinitarian theology dominated by the concern to overcome any vestige of divine timelessness and replace it with a biblical doctrine of the God who is temporal, yet overcomes temporal contingencies. The manner in which he does this is to link the divine identities with the temporal “moments,” and by maintaining the priority of the future over the past. …

Lucian Blaga: An American Pragmatist In Europe?, Michael S. Jones

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Bill T. Arnold, Mattie Greathouse, Greg Carey, Howard A. Snyder, Joel H. Hunt, Greg Carey, Ruth Anne Reese, Michael Harstad, James Holsinger, Victor H. Matthews, Steven Tsoukalas

The Asbury Journal

The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity

Lang, Bernhard

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002

Reviewed By Bill T. Arnold

A Marginal Jew, vol. 3, Companions and Competitors

Meier, John P

New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, 2001

Reviewed By Mattie Greathouse

The Gospel of Mark: A Soda-Rhetorical Commentary

Witherington, Ill, Ben

Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2001

Reviewed By Greg Carey

After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity. Trans. Doug Scott

Voli, Miroslav

Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1998

Reviewed By Howard A. Snyder

The Literary Structure of the Old Testament: A Commentary …

Developmental Processes Critical To The Formation Of Servant Leaders In China, Thomas William Horn

Dissertations

Problem. This study concerns three matters: the leader formation process in general, servant leadership formation in particular, and the application to crossing cultures, with China as the primary context. The central problem of this study revolves around leader formation . What events, experiences, people and other formative processes contributed as critical to the formation of exemplary Christian leaders in China?

Method. The design of this research was a narrative, qualitative study that explored the central phenomenon of leader formation. The researcher was the instrument to collect data through in-depth interviews. This study purposefully selected three exemplary Christian Chinese leaders. The …

Living Waters: An Invitation To Contemplative Spirituality For The Quail Springs Church Of Christ, Wyatt E. Fenno

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This project addressed an acknowledged need for ministry action to promote and facilitate communal spiritual formation in the present and future life of the Quail Springs Church of Christ. The focus of the project was to present a model of contemplative spirituality determined to be accessible to the ministry context at Quail Springs. In addressing the problem of community fragmentation at Quail Springs, this model was offered as a means of grace to deepen faith and strengthen relationships in church life at Quail Springs. A pilot group of six women and six men served as the working group for this …

Theology: Also (Green) Religious Experience Seeking Understanding, Thomas Hughson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Religious experience in contemporary theological epistemology is a theme broad enough to allow for many approaches. This essay grants the concept of 'religious experience' tentative validity, subject to later qualification. The actual experience explored will be a 'green' experience of non-human nature that many Christians have in common with many non-Christians. The first section describes it in a general way, while the second probes its character as a possible 'religious experience'. Then, a third section begins to explore its theological significance. A conclusion emphasizes the essential, dynamic partnership between theological method and non-methodical elements, such as religious experiences in general …

Finding God In The Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature, Mark I. Wallace

Religion Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Using Ceremonies To Disciple Oral Learners Among The Tribal People In Bangladesh, Roy C. Mcintyre

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Fathers' Religious And Family Involvement At Home; And Work And Family Outcomes, Roxane O. Whyte

Theses and Dissertations

This study proposes and confirms two new predictors of work and family outcomes, thus far unexplored in existing work-family literature: fathers' religious involvement at home and fathers' family involvement at home. It is the first study to date to document that these produce a crossover effect to positively influence work-related outcomes including work-family conflict, work-family fit and job satisfaction.
Data come from employed married fathers and their spouses participating in the 2001 BYU Marriott School of Management Alumni Work and Family Survey (n = 210), all members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Findings are that …

Contextualized Training For Missionaries: A Brazilian Model, Donald K. Finley

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Who We Were Meant To Be : Communicating Core Values To All Saints Presbyterian Church In Singapore, Philip Jin Teck Huan

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Images Of God: The Effect Of Personal Theologies On Moral Attitudes, Political Affiliation, And Religious Behavior, Christoper Bader, Paul Froese

Sociology Faculty Articles and Research

Social scientists often explain religious effects in terms of religious group affiliations. Typically, researchers identify religious groups by denomination or some broader popular categorization, such as “fundamentalist” or “evangelical.” To capture religious differences more effectively, Steensland et al. (2000) propose an intricate classification of American denominations that takes into account the theology and historical development of various American religious traditions to predict individual attitudes and behaviors. We believe that equal care and attention should be devoted to the development of key measures of belief that may cross denominational lines. In this article, we propose one such measure: personal conceptions or …

Integration Through Narrative, Michael E. Cafferky

Faculty Works

The purpose of this paper is to test the proposition that narrative contains an inherent power for integration of faith, life, and learning of business principles. This is done by a process of reviewing assertions from selected disciplines with the revealed will of God in Scripture. To accomplish this, the paper explores narrative in the context of cultural anthropology, education, business, and religion. From these fields, several parallels can be seen, and several values of narrative for the university business school classroom emerge. The concluding thoughts suggest how instructors can use stories for faith, life, and learning integration.

Calling Back The Gods: Recovering Spiritual And Religious Experience Through Folklore And Ritual Studies, Michael J. Tori

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

Everyday Dharma And Perfect Enlightenment: Contemporary Buddhist Hermeneutics, Karma Lekshe Tsomo Phd

Theology and Religious Studies: Faculty Scholarship

Professor Karma Lekshe Tsomo examines the contradictions and innovations that characterize the adoption of Buddhism by Americans. Adapting Buddhism to fit Westerners has brought fruitful new directions to Buddhism, she argues, at the same time that it has resulted in some distortion of or discarding of traditional Buddhist practices and goals.

Review Of Religion And Rationality, By Jurgen Habermas, Nicholas Ruiz Iii

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.

Why Is The Only Good Orc A Dead Orc, Anderson Rearick

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

Dorothy L. Sayers And Russian Orthodoxy, Crystal Downing

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

No abstract provided.

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 …

Comparisons Compared: A Methodological Survey Of Comparisons Of Religion From ‘A Magic Dwells’ To A Magic Still Dwells, David M. Freidenreich

Faculty Scholarship

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.

Discovering A Contextualized Model For Training Japanese Cross-Cultural Ministry, Stephen Wesley Dupree

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Theology And Religious Studies In Post-Communist Ukraine: Historical Sources, Modern Status, And Perspectives Of Cooperation, Lyudmyla Filipovych, Anatoly M. Kolodny

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Resurrecting Decadent And Modernist Catholicism, Todd Avery

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

The Trial Of Don Pedro León Luján: The Attack Against Indian Slavery And Mexican Traders In Utah Sondra Jones, Jacqueline S. Thursby

BYU Studies

Sondra Jones. The Trial of Don Pedro León Luján: The Attack against Indian Slavery and Mexican Traders in Utah. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000.

Yiddish Fiction And The Crisis Of Modernity, 1905-1914, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

Review of Mikhail Krutikov's Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914.

Military Imagery In Preaching: An Effective Means Of Nurturing A Lutheran Identity In The Military, Mark Steiner

Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project

This major applied project consisted of two parts: a research component addressing the theoretical application of military imagery in preaching to a Lutheran military audience and an evaluative process, which tested the application of military imagery in preaching. The theoretical component, based upon the contributions of literature on cross cultural studies, leadership, strategic planning, rhetoric, and homiletics, recommended a homiletical strategy for preaching military imagery. The evaluative component validated the application of military imagery in preaching and recommended a strategy for promoting organic unity of military imagery with the other elements of the worship service.