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Shaw's "Christianity: The Biography, 2000 Years Of Global History" (Book Review), Joseph Baumstarck

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

Italy’S Jews From Emancipation To Fascism, Shira Klein

History Faculty Books and Book Chapters

How did Italy treat Jews during World War II? Historians have shown beyond doubt that many Italians were complicit in the Holocaust, yet Italy is still known as the Axis state that helped Jews. Shira Klein uncovers how Italian Jews, though victims of Italian persecution, promoted the view that Fascist Italy was categorically good to them. She shows how the Jews' experience in the decades before World War II - during which they became fervent Italian patriots while maintaining their distinctive Jewish culture - led them later to bolster the myth of Italy's wartime innocence in the Fascist racial campaign. …

Drama And Sermon In Late Medieval England: Performance, Authority, Devotion, Charlotte Steenbrugge

Early Drama, Art, and Music

This is the first full-length study of the interrelation between sermons and vernacular religious drama in late medieval England. It investigates how these genres worked as media for public learning, how they combined this didactic aim with literary exigencies, and how the plays in particular acquired and reflected a position of authority. The interrelation between sermons and vernacular drama, formerly assumed relatively uncritically to be a close one, is addressed from a variety of angles, including historical connections, performative aspects, and the portrayal of the sacrament of penance. The analysis challenges the common assumption that Middle English religious drama is …

A Historical Overview Of The Impact Of The Reformation On East Asia, Christina Han

Consensus

No abstract provided.

A Missiology Of Love: In Action, Wendy L. Fletcher

Consensus

No abstract provided.

From Object To Other: Models Of Sociality After Idealism In Gadamer, Levinas, Rosenzweig, And Bonhoeffer, Christopher J. King

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation offers an account of the different ways in which putatively idealist and transcendental models of sociality, which grounded the subject’s relation to other human beings in the subject’s own cognition, were rejected and replaced. Scrapping this account led to a variety of models of sociality which departed from the subject as the ground of sociality, positing grounds outside of the subject. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Emmanuel Levinas, Franz Rosenzweig, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer represent alternative positions along a spectrum of models of sociality which reject the idealist concept of sociality.

The central argument of this dissertation claims that the responses to …

Changing Changelessness: On The Genesis And Development Of The Doctrine Of Divine Immutability In The Ancient And Hellenic Period, Milton Wilcox

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This project will track and explain the development of the Doctrine of Divine Immutability from early mythological and scriptural source material that seems to indicate that divine entities are changeable into metaphysical systems that demand a perfectly consistent deity. The Doctrine of Divine Immutability is a philosophical and theological postulate that has long been a staple of systematic metaphysics and theology, but its function in robust and fully formed systems is different than its function when it is first generated in Ancient Greece and Judah. Methodologically mostly primary sources are studied and compared with interpretive help from relevant secondary sources. …

Reaching The Thai People Of Southeast Asia: A Model For Discipleship And Leadership Training, Duane D. Carmody

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This thesis addresses training the Thai national leadership in discipleship and leadership qualities to develop a church planting movement with the main goal of evangelizing the unreached people groups throughout the countries of China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. The Thai have become dependent on foreign funds and though they are an independent people, they are beginning to realize that there are strings attached—with money comes control. The model will be built around a sustainable farm, which will help in developing vocational skills in order to become indigenous and autonomous. In this thesis it is my purpose to present a …

Roman Catholicism On Trial In Victorian England: The Libel Case Of John Henry Newman And Dr. Achilli, Matthew C. Mirow

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Legal Status And Administrative Control Of Religious Organizations And Groups In France, Andrew D. West

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Stewardship And Ownership Of Material Goods: Discipline And Order In The Pre-Constantinian Church, Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Teaching Moral Values In Public Schools, David L. Gregory

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Mapping The Fourfold Gospel:Textual Geography In The Eusebian Apparatus, Jeremiah Coogan

Jesuit School of Theology

Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260–339 C.E.) invented a paratextual apparatus for reading Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as a fourfold unity. Yet despite Eusebius's creativity and the long afterlife of his invention, the apparatus remains underappreciated and widely misunderstood. This article argues that Michel de Certeau's distinction between itineraries and maps illuminates the innovative function of the Eusebian apparatus, which contrasts with earlier attempts at gospel harmony and synopsis. Instead of disrupting the narrative integrity of the four canonical gospels, Eusebius's map creates a canonical space that preserves gospel narrative and facilitates exegetical and liturgical appropriation.

Responding Creatively To The Needs Of Evangelization Of Our Time, John Fogarty C.S.Sp.

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

A Response To Rev. Anthony Gittins, C.S.Sp., Ronald Arnett

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

Friendship Community Church: An Intercultural Faith Community Of Creation, Gary Willingham-Mclain, Laurel Willingham-Mclain

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

Beyond International And Multicultural: Intercultural Community Living, Anthony Gittins C.S.Sp.

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

Gajung (House) Church Ministry As A Renewal Movement For Korean Protestant Church : Focusing On The Ministry Of Seoul Baptist Church Of Houston, Texas, Sinhyung Seo

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Honoring Christ, Subverting Caesar : Relevance-Historical Reconstruction Of The Context Of Ephesians As An Honorific Discourse Praising Jesus The Great Benefactor, Benson Goh

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Christus Exemplar: The Politics Of Virtue In Lactantius, Jason Matthew Gehrke

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation offers an historical and doctrinal account of Lactantius’s principal work, The Divine Institutes. Lactantius’s opening remarks shape the central question: Why does he respond to violent political suppression with an elite discourse on virtue (virtus); and how does that discourse address Lactantius’s persecutors from the perspective of his Christian predecessors? To answer the question, this dissertation tells the story of how “power theology,” received through the classical tradition, came to ground Latin moral, political, and religious discourses, first among traditional Roman “pagans,” and then in the pre-Nicene Latin Christianity Lactantius represented in the era of Diocletian and Constantine. …

The Ancient Waldenses: Did The Reformation Predate Luther?, P. Gerard Damsteegt

Faculty Publications

While significant attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church had taken place before Martin Luther, Luther with his 1517 work, the Ninety-Five Theses, is widely acknowledged to have started the Reformation. But there were others, before Luther, who preached similar reforms but did not succeed in changing the Roman Church of their time. To the names of Jan Hus, Peter Waldo, and John Wycliffe we may also add a nearly forgotten group of reformers—the ancient Waldenses.

Número 60: 4.º Domingo De Cuaresma-Pascua De Resurrección

Estudios Exégeticos Homiléticos

Domingo 6 de Marzo de 2005, Cuarto Domingo de Cuaresma

Sal 23; 1 Sa 16:1‑13; Ef 5:8‑14; Jn 9:1‑41

Domingo 13 de Marzo de 2005, Quinto Domingo de Cuaresma

Sal 130; Ez 37:1‑14; Ro 8:6‑11; Jn 11:1‑45

Domingo 20 de Marzo de 2005, Domingo de Ramos

Sal 31:9-16; Is 50:4‑9; Flp 2:5‑11; Mt 21:1‑11

Jueves 24 de Marzo de 2005, Jueves Santo, Cena del Señor

Sal 116:1.10‑17; Ex 12:1‑14; 1 Co 11:23-26; Jn 13:1‑17

Viernes 25 de Marzo de 2005, Viernes Santo

Sal 22:1‑23; Is 52:13‑53:12; Heb 4:14‑16 y 5:7‑9; Jn 18:1‑19,42

Sábado 26 de …

End Matter

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

“To Write Of Him And Pardon Crave”: Negotiating Biblical Authority In Lanyer’S Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Andrew Fleck

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Aemilia Lanyer refers extensively to the Gospels in writing her poem on the Passion, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Alluding to the events of Christ's final day, she incorporates details from each of the Gospel accounts of the Crucifixion. Focusing on specific echoes of the translations available to her, it is possible to trace which bible Lanyer preferred. Surprisingly, despite Lanyer's preference for the Geneva translation, she also made use of the Bishops' Bible, suggesting that the poet carefully sifted through different English translations as she sought to generate biblical authority for her account of the Passion.

Intimations Of A Spiritual New Age: I. The Spiritual Emergence And Personal Tragedy Of A Universalized Christian Mysticism In The Life And Work Of Simone Weil, Harry T. Hunt

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

This is the first in a projected series on the envisionings during the crisis years of the 1930s of a future spiritual New Age consequent on the coming globalization of an individualist, capitalist, technologically driven world economy. In very different ways Jung, the philosophers Bergson and Heidegger, the historian Toynbee, and Wilhelm Reich, foresaw an emergent New Age consistent with a post-modern secular culture. Others such as Teilhard de Chardin, Krishnamurti, and Gurdjieff anticipated their own potential universalizing of more mystical aspects of the world religions. Simone Weil’s version of an essentialized mystical Christianity is part of the latter attempts, …

Retrieving Realism: A Whiteheadian Wager, Matthew T. Segall

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

This essay argues that the organic realism of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) provides a viable alternative to anti-realist tendencies in modern and postmodern philosophy since Descartes. The metaphysical merits of Whitehead’s philosophy of organism are unpacked in conversation with Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor’s recent book Retrieving Realism (2015). Like Dreyfus and Taylor, Whitehead’s philosophical project was motivated by a desire to heal the modern epistemic wound separating soul from world in order to put human consciousness back into meaningful contact with reality. While Dreyfus and Taylor’s book succeeds in articulating the problem cogently, its still too phenomenological answer remains …

The Measurement Of Spirituality In Children: An Evaluation Of The Expressions Of Spirituality Inventory–Revised (Esi–R) With A Sample Of Peruvian School Children, Diana M. Mendez, Douglas A. Macdonald

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Using a sample of 263 male Peruvian school children of ages ranging from 11 to 16 years, a Spanish translation of the Expressions of Spirituality Inventory- Revised (ESI-R; MacDonald, 2000a, 2000b) was evaluated in terms of its reliability and factorial validity. Examination of the internal consistency of the five ESI-R dimensions revealed somewhat mediocre reliability with Cronbach’s alphas ranging from .56 to .73 across all dimensions. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) also provided somewhat mixed support for the ESI-R; while all but one of the items produced significant loadings on their intended factors, fit indices indicated problems with model fit for …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 125 - Advent / Christmas (September 2017), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Features

Worship Series: The Peaceable Kingdom by Carol Veldman Rudie....3

Sing 10: The World Is about to Turn by Joyce Borger....12

Longest Night by Kathryn Roelofs....25

Articles

Editorial: Surprise! by Joyce Borger....2

The Ecumenism of Beauty by Phil Schaafsma....18

Q&A: The Incarnation, Worship, and Our Daily Lives by Chelsey Harmon, Shannon Jammal-Hollemans, and Jeff Barker....32

For Pastors: The Challenges of Advent Preaching by Edward C. Visser....39

Luther's Musical Reformation by Jonathan Landry Cruse....43

Developing a Culture of Singing by Adan Fernandez....46

Resources

Jesus Is... by Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence....22

The Light of …

The New Testament And The Future Of The Cosmos, Ryan P. Juza

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Whoever Is Among You Of All His People, Let Him Go Up : A Literary-Rhetorical Analysis Of The Exile-Restoration Topos In 1-2 Chronicles, Jordan Patrick Guy

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.