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Surprised By Similarity: C.S. Lewis And Thomas Merton On The Self, John M. Gillespie

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Although they never corresponded, and they never met, the Anglican professor C.S. Lewis and the Trappist monk Thomas Merton nevertheless wrote in strikingly similar terms of the “true self,” or a person redeemed by Christ, and a “false self,” the rebellious person one believes themselves to be, but is not. There is very little academic work on the confluence of Lewis and Merton, and none thus far that specifically addresses their shared concept of the self. The aim of this paper is to address this gap in scholarship and, through an intertextual investigation of each man’s major works, fill it. …

“A Noise Of Great Good Coming”: C. S. Lewis’S Dymer As A Spiritual Autobiography, Norbert Feinendegen

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

C. S. Lewis is no doubt one of the most recognized Christian prose writers of the twentieth century. The same, however, cannot be said about his pre-Christian attempts to make a name for himself as a poet. His two volumes of poetry, Spirits in Bondage (1919) and Dymer (1926), received few positive reviews and found even fewer readers at the time of publication, and sadly they didn’t receive much attention after Lewis became famous as a Christian apologist and novelist.

I am going to argue that Dymer is a symbolic narrative in which every event on the level of the …

Frontmatter (Volume 17, Issue 1), Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

General Editor's Note:

This year’s Table of Contents requires some explanation. As a young man, C. S. Lewis aspired to make his mark as a poet. His first two books remain testaments to that unrealized dream: Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics (1919) and his narrative poem, Dymer (1926). Don King has done much to refocus scholarly attention on the poetry of Lewis through C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse (2001) and more recently in The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition (2015). Jerry Root first advanced his own theory regarding the …

Hand In Hand, Spring 2024

Hand in Hand

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Milwaukee, WI

Hand in Hand Finding Aid

Old Johnsonville Membership Roll, Old Johnsonville United Methodist Church, Johnsonville

Methodist Local Church Records

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Mount Horeb Church History 1991, Mount Horeb United Methodist Church, West Columbia

Methodist Local Church Records

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New Hope Chester Membership And Charge Conference Records, New Hope United Methodist Church, Chester

Methodist Local Church Records

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New Zion Clarendon County Cemetery Index 1860-2022, New Zion United Methodist Church, New Zion

Methodist Local Church Records

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New Zion Clarendon County Membership Records, New Zion United Methodist Church, New Zion

Methodist Local Church Records

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New Hope Chester Permanent Church Register, New Hope United Methodist Church, Chester

Methodist Local Church Records

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Pine Grove Mccoll Membership Register, Pine Grove United Methodist Church, Mccoll

Methodist Local Church Records

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Old Johnsonville Church History, Old Johnsonville United Methodist Church, Johnsonville

Methodist Local Church Records

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New Hope Chester Property Records, New Hope United Methodist Church, Chester

Methodist Local Church Records

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Mount Horeb Membership Records, Mount Horeb United Methodist Church, West Columbia

Methodist Local Church Records

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Pine Grove Mccoll Property Records, Pine Grove United Methodist Church, Mccoll

Methodist Local Church Records

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Old Johnsonville Church Council Minutes 1986-2022, Old Johnsonville United Methodist Church, Johnsonville

Methodist Local Church Records

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New Hope Chester Death Records, New Hope United Methodist Church, Chester

Methodist Local Church Records

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New Zion Clarendon County Church History Revised And Updated, New Zion United Methodist Church, New Zion

Methodist Local Church Records

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New Hope Chester History, New Hope United Methodist Church, Chester

Methodist Local Church Records

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Old Johnsonville Property Records, Old Johnsonville United Methodist Church, Johnsonville

Methodist Local Church Records

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Pine Gove Mccoll Church History, Pine Grove United Methodist Church, Mccoll

Methodist Local Church Records

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New Zion Clarendon County Property Records, New Zion United Methodist Church, New Zion

Methodist Local Church Records

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New Hope Chester Baptisms, New Hope United Methodist Church, Chester

Methodist Local Church Records

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New Zion Clarendon County Church Council Minutes, New Zion United Methodist Church, New Zion

Methodist Local Church Records

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The Modern-Day Widow: Wrongly Shamed And Shunned In Evangelical Communities, Nancy Beise

Masters Theses

Evangelical women suffering in destructive, abusive marriages suffer doubly when their faith communities do not understand the nature of intimate partner violence and the trauma of sexual betrayal. Too often these women are sent back into dangerous relationships without resource and with the additional burden of shame (Matthew 23:4). If they choose to divorce in order to escape abuse and find peace and healing, they are most often rejected and shunned as sinners. This work identifies who these women are according to scripture, defines abuse and betrayal trauma, and calls the evangelical community to an awareness of the suffering made …

Equipping Equippers: Training Alaska Bible College Students For Equipping Ministry Through Mentorship, Justin Glenn Archuletta

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The research project strived to improve the Christian Ministry Training program at Alaska Bible College, by adding a multi-generational equipping mentorship focus to the already existing program. The addition of the multi-generational mentorship is modeled after the exhortation found in 2 Timothy 2:2. Adding the primary goal of equipping to the mentorship program is founded in Ephesians 4:11-16. There were a total of 28 participants in the research project, which included recent graduates, faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students as of January 2023. The research project seeks to equip students of Alaska Bible College to begin equipping mentorship as student …

Some Aspects Of The Theology Of The City In Ane Literature And Biblical Protology And Eschatology: A Comparative Study, Vlatko Dir

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The city is an essential accomplishment that is embedded in the foundations of human civilization. From its mature appearance in Sumer and its developed forms throughout the ANE world, the city held a high place in cosmology, cosmogony, and anthropogony. The ideology and theology of the city created by the ANE peoples were built around and presented through the interplay of the triangle of influences and dependencies formed by the city, the temple, and kingship in conjunction with the gods. The question is whether the same construct is ingeminated in the Bible. This dissertation strives to provide an appropriate context …

Reconsidering The Apologetic Purpose Of Luke-Acts, James C. Williams

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles are two critical works in the Bible. Together, these two books make up approximately twenty seven percent of the New Testament. Their literary contribution to what is known about the origins of Christianity and its rapid spread in major cities of the Roman Empire is immeasurable. It is appropriate that so much has been written regarding these two key books’ origins, genre, and purpose. Yet, with all that has been written, there is still much debate about this subject. Should these two books be treated separately, as two different genres, or …

History Of Mauldin Methodist Church, Mauldin United Methodist Church

Methodist Local Church Records

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Ciis Dissertation Abstracts, 2022-2023, California Institute Of Integral Studies

CIIS Dissertation Abstracts

This compilation of dissertation abstracts reflects the exciting research completed by the 2022-2023 graduates from PhD programs in the School of Consciousness and Transformation and the Clinical Psychology Doctorate (PsyD) in the School of Professional Psychology and Health at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).

The original and impactful doctoral research presented here spans diverse areas of scholarship from anthropology and social change to human sexuality, philosophy and religion, and whole person approaches to psychology, demonstrating the breadth and depth of transformative and integral inquiry happening at CIIS. The transdisciplinary nature of these dissertations reflects the richness and complexity …