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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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Syriac Studies Reference Library Now Completed, Carl Griffin

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

On June 20, 2001, representatives of BYU’s Maxwell Institute, The Catholic University of America (CUA), and Beth Mardutho, a Syriac studies institute, met together to discuss the digital imaging of key holdings in the Semitics/ICOR Library of CUA’s Mullen Library. CUA’s Semitics/ICOR Library houses one of the largest collections in the world of early and rare books on the Christian East. All parties shared a particular interest in early Syriac printed works, both for their continuing value to contemporary Syriac Christian communities as well as to Syriac scholars. Many early printed catalogs, text editions, grammars, lexica, and other instrumenta and …

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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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Center For Book Of Mormon Studies Created

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Accompanied by Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, President Cecil O. Samuelson recently announced the formation of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, a research center that promises to bring national and international distinction to the study of the Book of Mormon. President Samuelson made the announcement at a luncheon attended by Mark and Laura Willes and their family.

Digitalizing Religion In The Age Of Covid-19: A Uses And Gratifications Perspective, Abdulaziz Altawil

Dissertations - ALL

The current COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people’s religious behavior around the world. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, most in-person religious services have shifted to virtual platforms. The online religious transition amidst the outbreak has alleviated many issues for worshippers as it provided them with a sanctuary space to connect with their faith and community. According to a 2020 Pew Research analysis, the pandemic has made many Americans change their religious habits by watching religious content online instead of physically engaging with their local religious institution. This dissertation provides a preliminary examination of this phenomenon by exploring the role of digital …

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Work On Byu’S Messiah Documentary Continues

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The filming for the Messiah documentary has been completed, and the important work of editing has begun. Team members had traveled to Israel, Egypt, and Denmark to film the visual backdrop for the nine-part film as well as to capture the hosts’ comments that will introduce a wide array of topics in the documentary. Those hosts included Gaye Strathearn (assistant professor of ancient scripture), John Tanner (professor of English), Andrew Skinner (professor of ancient scripture), and Kent Brown (professor emeritus of ancient scripture).

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Willes Center Awards Research Grants

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies announces five faculty research grants for the 2008–2009 academic year: Susan Easton Black and Andrew C. Skinner, “The Phrase ‘This Land’: Doctrinal and Geographical Implications for Latter-day Saints” (a book-length study).

Supernatural Evil As Evidence For The Existence Of God, Shane Stone Geisler

Masters Theses

This study challenges widely held beliefs about the supernatural realm. Those who believe the supernatural realm exists tend to accept there is a personable higher power at work in our world. The naturalistic worldview denies the existence of anything or anyone beyond our physical universe. This paper will first inform the reader of a history of beliefs in the supernatural. Next, an innovative approach will be taken to provide evidence for the supernatural world. Finally, the evidence will be examined to determine its reliability and identify common themes found throughout the research. The information provided is not intended to be …

Changing The Effects Of A Reduced Gospel, John Douglas Herring

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Does your church preach the “whole gospel” or “reduced gospel?” The whole gospel is the story of God working to redeem mankind, from Eden to the New Jerusalem. The reduced gospel is a belief that the plan of salvation and the whole gospel of Scripture are synonymous, a belief that salvation is for personal forgiveness. This research aims to change the effects of a reduced gospel in a local congregation. Participants, members of First Baptist Church of Eupora, were given questionnaires and interviews to determine their views regarding the gospel. To many participants, the gospel is one of forgiveness; therefore, …

Experienced Pastoral Burnout And The Self-Reported Role Of Emotional Intelligence On Leadership Effectiveness During Burnout, Craig Wesley Folds

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Emotional intelligence (EI), employee burnout, and effective leadership traits are constructs that have been researched from a traditional, organizational perspective since the 1970s. Over the past 15 years, pastoral leaders and clergy have been identified as leaders working in the same capacity as public safety officials, medical professionals, mental health specialists, and other helping professions. Research suggests that leaders working in helping professions are often exposed to situations that may induce burnout, create emotional dissonance, and may have adverse implications on effective leadership behaviors during experienced burnout. The significance of this study lies in its identification of a gap in …

A Phenomenological Study Of Clergy Job-Related Stress And Stress-Coping During Covid-19, Peter Michael Foxwell

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experience of stress and stress-coping of five Michigan pastors who led their Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) congregations through the 2020-21 COVID-19 pandemic. Stress is generally defined as the psychophysiological response to a perceived threat or stressor, and stress-coping is generally defined as intentional behaviors designed to manage stress. The theoretical background of this study is the transactional theory of stress and coping (TTSC) (Lazarus, 1966; Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) as it relates to pastors’ lived experience of ministry-related stress and coping in crisis conditions. The rationales for …

Chaplaincy Upholds The West’S Value Of Tolerance Not Acceptance, Monique Decandido

Masters Theses

Throughout history, the differences between humanity led mankind to experience many hardships, even wars. These differences include religion or beliefs, tribal differences, racial differences, and geographical differences. Over time, and after much bloodshed and despondency of life, critical thinking men began to develop a strategy for humanity to get along together despite their differences. The question and the challenge of how mankind can get along together without engaging in conflicts about their differences became the chief thinking cap throughout the West. Humanity realized that the answer to their question and challenge was tolerance. Now forwarding into the 21st century, the …

Stewarding Nfts: Yes, No, Maybe So?, Jesse L. Veenstra

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Growing Our Own: Addressing The Teacher Shortage, Timothy Van Soelen

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Positioning Theory In Islamic Sermons: Online Messages To Parents, Cipto Wardoyo, Sheena Gardner, Benet Vincent

Sermon Studies

Positioning theory offers a theoretical and analytical framework to explore how individuals position themselves or are positioned by others through discourse. Positioning theory provides ways to interpret how the positioning is achieved through the mutual effects of storylines, speech acts, and positions (Van Langenhove & Harré 2003). We examine how male and female preachers position themselves when they advise parents about Islamic values in raising children. The sermon data is from a corpus of twenty online Islamic sermons on YouTube that engage with the theme of family. The sermons were delivered in different settings, such as in Friday services in …

العوامل التكوينية المؤثرة في أداء القائم بالاتصال في الإعلام الإسلامي Formative Factors Affecting The Performance Of The Communicator In Islamic Media, Mohammed Abu Ghazala, Mohamed Ahmed Rababah

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

ملخص

هدفت هذه الدراسة التعرف إلى العوامل التكوينية المؤثرة في أداء القائم بالاتصال ودورها في إقناع الجمهور بمضمون الرسالة الاتصالية، من خلال دراسة هذه العوامل في ضوء القرآن الكريم والدراسات الإعلامية الحديثة، واستخدم الباحثان المنهج الاستقرائي القائم على استقراء مفردات الموضوع من مصادرها العلميّة، الشرعية والاتصالية وغيرها، والمنهج الاستنباطي المقارن الذي يتجه إلى تحليل النصوص الشرعية المتضمنة دلالات اتصالية، واستنباط العوامل التكوينية الخاصة بالقائم بالاتصال منها، ومقارنة دلالات النصوص بما تؤكده الدراسات الاتصالية المستجدة.

وقد توصل البحث إلى جملة من النتائج، منها: أن هناك خمسة عوامل لها تأثير مباشر في أداء القائم بالاتصال هي: نية القائم بالاتصال، ومهاراته، والثقة به، …

العملات الرقمية غير الرسمية (تقدير اقتصادي إسلامي) The Informal Digital Currencies (An Islamic Economics Evaluation), Abdullah Khaled Al-Abed Al-Moneim, Ibrahim Obadeh

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

ملخص

هدفت الدراسة إلى بيان طبيعة وخصائص العملات الرقمية بمفهومها الواسع، كمدخل نظري للتعريف بحقيقة وأقسام العملات الرقمية، سواء أكانت العملات الافتراضية أو العملات المشفرة أو العملات المستقرة أو العملات القانونية، إلا أن الدراسة سلطت الضوء على العملات الرقمية غير الرسمية؛ وذلك لغاية إبراز التقدير الاقتصادي الإسلامي منها. وتضمنت الدراسة تكييف العملات الرقمية غير الرسمية بحسب ما توصل إليه خبراء الصناعة المالية الإسلامية، من خلال عدة تكييفات لماهية العملات الرقمية غير الرسمية، كما تضمنت الدراسة الإشارة لأبرز المخاطر الاقتصادية للعملات الرقمية غير الرسمية، منها المخاطر المتعلقة بالنقد والسياسة النقدية، بالإضافة إلى مخاطر الاستقرار المالي والمصرفي، وعرضت الدراسة تقدير الاقتصاد الإسلامي …

The Deaf Catholic, Fall 2022

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Hand In Hand, Autumn 2022

Hand in Hand

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Marian Library Newsletter: Issue No. 72, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Newsletter

• Year in review
• Ukrainian Marian Collection
• Exhibit: Juggling for Mary
• Marian Library Fellowships: Reports from scholars
• Report from A Vision of Faith exhibit
• Recent acquisitions
• Reorganization of reading room
• Statue conservation
• Profile on archivist Kayla Harris
• Marian Library usage the numbers

Lived Religion In A Digital Age: Technology, Affect And The Pervasive Space-Times Of “New” Religious Praxis, Quan Gao, Orlando Woods, Lily Kong, Siew Ying Shee

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

This paper explores how Christian practices of prayer are being reconfigured through digital media in Singapore. Although digital technologies are an area of burgeoning interest amongst social and cultural geographers, the ways in which these technologies reconfigure the space-times of religious praxis and engender new affective relations or subjectivities of religion have not yet been embraced. This paper fills the lacuna by bringing existing studies on religion, technology and affect into constructive conversation with each other. By elaborating on digital prayer as an affective assemblage of religious practice, we show how digital technologies blur institutional boundaries and create new affordances …

Reformed Worship (Rw) 145 - Advent / Christmas (September 2022), Reformed Worship Editors

Reformed Worship Magazine

Editorial: These Are Our Stories by Joyce Borger....2

Digital Bodies by W. David O. Taylor....3

Q&A: Celebrating the Prince of Peace by John D. Witvliet....7

Songs for the Season: A Psalm for Advent by Wendell Kimbrough....9

What Is God Like? by Matt Ackerman and Bailey Sarvar Attema....12

Candle Lighting Litanies for Advent and Christmas by Sally Powell....19

Advent with the Ancient Church by Anthony Bolkema and Jim Oord....23

God is Faithful! Let's Celebrate! by Rebecca Hoeksema Snippe....27

Worship that Disturbs by Chris Schoon....32

Slaughter of the Innocents by Noah Livingston and …

Vision, Fall 2022

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A Critical Analysis Of The Claim That Absolute Juristic Interpretation (Ijtihād) Has, Moath Alnaief, Kotb Rissouni

All Works

This article critically analyzes the dominant opinion prevailing regarding the foundation of Islamic jurisprudence (uṣūl al-fiqh) which states that absolute independent juristic interpretation (al-ijtihād al-muṭlaq al-mustaqill) is no longer possible. Therefore, based on the belief that this level of interpretation requires the creation of a unique method for deriving legal rules (istinbāṭ), a method that arguably ended with the founders of the primary schools of law. This research inspects a new interpretive method which was not developed by late scholars. Consequently, the article uses legal reasoning as an interpretive method to criticize the previous opinions regarding Islamic Jurisprudence by using …

Christian Rap In Latvia: A New Page In The History Of Contemporary Christian Music In Baltic Christianity, Ņikita Andrejevs

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

Excerpt: "In the context of the Soviet period and the huge effectiveness of Christian gospel rock as a vehicle of evangelization, however, these innovations’ proximity to “worldly” music, and the notion of protest and/or renewal that came along, provided the necessary attraction for Christians, converts, and people interested in contemporary Western music. Christian rap in Latvia, on the other hand, has developed in a context where popular culture including rap music was readily available to the audiences, and rap acquired the notion of protest that to most rappers and listeners, religious or not, is incompatible or even in conflict with …

Worldviews Transformed: How God And His People Can Change Worldview, S. Joseph Kidder, Katelyn Campbell Weakley

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The Orthodox Theology Of Modernity: Problem Statement And Prospective Tasks, Hennadii Khrystokin, Vasyl Lozovytskyi

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The article studies the problem of Orthodoxy's attitude to modernity. The concept of the theology of modernity–a new section of the social theology of the church, which considers the specifics, main trends, problems, and tendencies of modernity–is proposed. The theology of modernity raises questions about the possibilities, boundaries, and ways of renewal of the church. The concept of the theology of modernity is a set of methods, approaches, and discourses that allow us to comprehend modernity, carry out its assessment by means of Orthodox theology, and find its religious potential for the actualization of Christianity in our time. The analysis …

Five Steps To Successfully Make Social Engagement Happen In Your Church, Sung Kun Kwon, Bordes Henry Saturne

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