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Religion Vs. Spirituality: A Contemporary Conundrum, Sandra Marie Schneiders

Jesuit School of Theology

The problem with which this essay is concerned is perhaps peculiar to contemporary first world western culture. It is, like many of our cultural problems such as inclusivity, addictions, and family breakdown, ironically a product, to a large extent, of our unprecedented abundance, leisure, and freedom. The problem is the relationship between religion and spirituality.

Preaching The David Story, Rolf A. Jacobson

Faculty Publications

The David story is the longest and most complete biblical treatment of any one human life. This allows the story to speak to many stages of the faith journey. The story is not fully present in the pericopes, but the preacher can choose to use this material in a sermon series to address the spiritual and moral contexts of our age.

Incommensurability And Moral Conflicts: A Critical Assessment Of The Response Of Alasdair C. Macintyre, Joseph Torchia, O. P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

What’S So Funny? Joking Around With Philosophers, John F. Millard

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

When The Church Was A Family: Revisioning Christian Community In Light Of Ancient Social Values, Joe Hellerman

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

Some might attribute the relational crises characterizing our churches solely to individual sin and selfishness. Sin and selfishness, however, have been around since Adam. Why the radical increase in relational breakdown in our society and in our churches today? Something bigger is in the works, and it has to do with the unique orientation of modern Western culture, especially contemporary American society. Ours is a culture which insists to its own destruction that the dreams, goals, and personal fulfillment of the individual deserve a higher priority than the well-being of any group (natural family or church body) or relationship (friendship …

Glanzer's "The Quest For Russia's Soul: Evangelicals And Moral Education In Post-Communist Russia" - Book Review, Dr. Donald Fairbairn

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

A Strategy For Social Reconciliation In The Ethnic Conflict In Transylvania, Cristian G. Romocea

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

What Is Wrong With The Homogeneous Unit Principle?: The Hup In The 21st Century Church, Skip Bell

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

If you find the homogeneous unit principle to be controversial, credit Donald McGavran, who launched the church growth movement with his important work, Understanding Church Growth, first published in 1970. McGavran describes this principle: “Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic, or class barriers.” What exactly did McGavran and other key church growth researchers mean by this principle?

The Enduring Black Church And Its Critics: A Book Review Of Omar Mcroberts's Streets Of Glory, Kenneth D. Johnson

Trotter Review

This review examines several theses and methodologies regarding Black Church activism and contribution to community economic development in an economically depressed inner city neighborhood as presented in Omar McRoberts's Streets of Glory (University of Chicago Press, 2003). It finds the questions of interest, but empirical support for many of the author's theses lacking when considered from a cross-comparative national perspective.

Our Lady Of The Miraculous Medal Shrine Parish, Raymundo Regua C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Legal Scholarship And Membership In The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints: Have They Buried Both An Honest Man And A Law Professor In The Same Grave?, Michael K. Young

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Old Testament Source Of Rev 21:3c, Helen Cadogan

Master of Art Theology Thesis

This paper intends an assessment of the textual form of Rev 21:3c as an OT reference; as such it may have something to contribute to the discussion commenced by Menken and continued by Schuchard on deciphering the form of the OT in the NT. Even though other aspects of Revelation study may be vital, the limitations of this research preclude more than the most cursory excursion, if any at all, into the ongoing dialogue on the use of the OT in the NT,language, style, authorship, unity, symbolism, the historical context of Revelation, or whether the author of the Gospel, the …

A Rhetorical Analysis Of Isaiah 56-66, Curtis W. Fitzgerald

Faculty Dissertations

This study examines the continuity and cohesiveness of the prophecies comprising Isaiah 56-66, or Third Isaiah (TI). The method used is rhetorical criticism, a discipline set forth by James Muilenburg in his address before the Society of Biblical Literature in 1968. Because of the doubts concerning the authenticity of some of the prophecies in TI, and skepticism from some scholars about an overall theme in TI, the need for studies of TI from a rhetorical perspective are warranted. Using the method initiated by Muilenburg and developed by many able scholars in recent years, this limited examination of TI from a …

Ministry With The Deaf, June-July-August 2003

Ministry with the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Springfield, MA

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Religion In Eastern Europe Journal As Forum For Conversation, Walter Sawatsky

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Ambiguity In Thomas Aquinas: Reflections After Aquinas, Fergus Kerr, O. P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Spring/Summer 2003, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

The Clash Of Christological Symbols: A Case For Meaphoric Realism, Robert Masson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

In musical composition, a clash of cymbals signifies a dramatic moment in a passage. But its significance can vary. The force of brass plates can simply call attention to a phrase, voice, anthem, or transition in the arrangement. It can emphasize a thematic development, a musical notation anticipating a later twist or crescendo-or indicate that climax itself. It can signal a harmonious resolution of previous chords, or a rhapsody of dissonant voices. There are the occasions when a clash of cymbals heralds an extraordinary expression of musical creativity and genius: an adventitious musical gesture that brings together quite different voices …

Deaf Community Center News, May 25, 2003

Deaf Community Center News

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Framingham, MA

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Worldview As A Key To Understanding Spiritual Warfare With The Emphasis On Sanctification And Evangelism, Albert Kwamena Essandoh

College of Theology and Ministry Dissertations, Projects, & Theses

An examination of current literary works on spiritual warfare within this decade shows that there has been a struggle in understanding the issues that evolve under this subject. Missiologists have presented reports that baffle western theologians; however. these phenomena are not new to the non-westem reader, and they persist. Most western theologians who have not encountered these phenomena discount these experiences, presenting arguments from a sanctification point of view.

Renowned contemporary scholars whose perspectives on worldviews, sanctification, and evangelism contribute to this research include Peter Wagner, Clinton Arnold, Derek Tidball, Howard Ervin, James Sire, John Stott, Andrew W. Hoffecker, Russell …

Remembering History, Worshipping God, Katie Marie Heffelfinger

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Divine Craftsman : A Comparative Study Of Bezalel's Divine Endowment And Craftsmanship In The Ancient World And Its Implications In Isaiah 11: 1-9, Nancy Lynn Erickson

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Hermeneutical Implications Of Certain Pre-Pauline Passages In The Pauline Corpus Of The New Testament, Inta Ivanovska

Master of Art Theology Thesis

Postmodern linguistics and philosophy have challenged the possibility that an author, a text, or a reader of a text possesses or can possess complete objectivity. It claims that an "independent, objective, reason-driven reader" is merely a "communally dependent, subjective, presupposition-bound agent." Similarly, an author is regarded as subject who through the text merely expresses the perspectives he has acquired through his own, contextually-shaped experiences. Moreover, once created, a text is not to be regarded as an entity which bears its own intrinsic meaning; nor is a text the expression of an "original," authorial intent. Rather, a text is merely a …

The Animal: Other Civility And Animality In And Beyond Heidegger, Levinas, And Derrida, Donald L. Turner

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

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.

Light-Mindedness Versus Lightheartedness: Conflicting Conceptions Of Laughter Among Latter-Day Saints, Diana L. Mahony, Marla D. Corson

BYU Studies

Therefore, cease form all your light speeches, from all laughter... and light-mindedness, and from all your wicked doings.

—D&C 88:121

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

—Prov. 17:22

Outreach, March 2003

Outreach

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Great Britain and Ireland

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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.

‘One Is Not Born A Latina, One Becomes One’: The Construction Of The Latina Feminist Theologian In Latino/A Theology, Michelle A. González

Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology

The author argues that feminism and feminist theory are not taken seriously enough as critical resources in Latina/o theology. She interrogates the politics of identity as practiced &mdash overtly and covertly by Latinx theologian &mdash and how that identity discourse refracts the production of theology in the academy. She calls for greater collaboration among feminist theologians, as well as women who do not consciously use a feminist hermeneutic. Finally, she urges Latino theology to train a hermeneutics of suspicion on every essentialism, particularly figurings of "the people," as they often appear in Latinx theologies.

Religion And Ethnic Identity Formation In The Former Yugoslavia, Alexander Mirescu

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.