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Genetic Testing's "Soft Underbelly": Christian Vision And Bio-Utopia, M. Therese Lysaught

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Appreciating The Beauty Of Earth, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Categories used by contemporary environmental philosophers to explore esthetic appreciation for the beauty of the physical world have parallels in reflections by patristic and medieval theologians on the beauty of God's creation, A sampling of the theologians' notions yields a promising foundation for ecological ethics from a theistic perspective, especially when understood from their world view at the time the text was written, reformulated to reflect broad scientific findings about the world today, and worked creatively to identify norms for human behavior.

Menorah Review (No. 53, Fall, 2001)

Menorah Review

Uriah Levy and Monticello -- Prejudice and the Military -- The Feminist's Corner -- Derrida Remembers Levinas -- Tu B'Shvat -- Jerusalem and Tel Aviv -- Noteworthy Books -- Understanding the Holocaust

Ad Experimentum: The Paradoxes Of Indian Catholic Inculturation, Mathew N. Schmalz

Religious Studies Faculty Scholarship

A discussion of the inculturation movement in Indian Catholicism that attempts to adapt Catholic liturgy and religious symbolism to Hindu culture. The article discusses the writings of Indian theologian D. S. Amalorpavadass, their reception, and reactions to them among Dalit (Untouchable) Catholics. The article focuses on the experimental Indian rite Mass as well as the overall relationship between theology and anthropology. The article was published as part of the annual volume of the College Theological Society.

Menorah Review (No. 51, Winter, 2001)

Menorah Review

Celebrating Nathan Glazer's American Judaism -- Is "Process Thought Progress? -- Biblical Claims: The Historical Basis -- Defining and Redefining Jewishness -- Engagement in Writing Jewish History -- Noteworthy Books

All Suffer The Affliction Of The One: Metaphysical Holism And The Presence Of The Spirit, Brad Kallenberg

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

When Copernicus and Galileo proposed that the earth circled the sun and not the 217 other way around, Christian believers faced the difficult prospect of surrendering a long-held belief that had seemingly undeniable support from the biblical text. After all, Joshua reported that the sun, not the earth, stood still; what could this mean if not that the sun orbited the earth? Today, centuries later, believers unanimously hold a heliocentric view of the solar system and are somewhat embarrassed by the ignorance of our pre-Enlightenment brothers and sisters. Ironically, however, such embarrassment masks the possibility that we ourselves may one …

The Evolving Face Of God As Creator: Early Ninteenth-Century Traditionalist And Accommodationist Theological Responses In British Religious Thought To Paleonatural Evil In The Fossil Record, Thane Hutcherson Ury

Dissertations

The Topic

From the early Reformation through the early 1800s, Gen 1-11 was consensually understood as providing a perspicacious, historical account of how God brought the world into being. Tenets of belief included six literal 24-hour days of creation and a catastrophic global Flood, and most often the conviction that Gen 1:31 implies that no evil of any type existed prior to the Fall. New geological interpretations in the early nineteenth century, however, pointed toward an earth history that seemed anything but very good, instead suggesting a harsh concatenation of deep-time prelapsarian pain, struggle, destruction of the weak, predation, diseases, …

Looking At The End From The Beginning: Studying Eschatological Concepts In The Pentateuch, Gerald Klingbeil

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Menorah Review (No. 49, Spring/Summer, 2000)

Menorah Review

From Trotskyism to the World of Our Fathers -- The Feminists Corner -- Israel Time 1430 Between 7 Hrs 38 Min Flying Time Left to Newark, Past Vienna, Turning NW To... -- Contemporary Interpretations of Ancient Israel -- Emancipation and Disintegration -- Noteworthy Books

The Cosmological Argument: A Current Bibliographical Appraisal, W. David Beck

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Consumed By Faith: The Development Of Christian Fundamentalism And Its Applications In Contemporary Society, Laura M. Gagne

Honors Theses

My research aims to understand how and why fundamentalists justify violence against people who do not fit their profile of "righteous" or "saved" persons, such as abortion doctors and clinic workers, gays and lesbians, and Jews. The first section of this paper travels through the history of fundamentalism since its origins in the British and American apocalipticism, or belief in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. However, my history of Protestant Fundamentalism in the United States will focus on the ways in which Fundamentalism developed in response to many changes in American social structure. I interpret Fundamentalism as an anti-modern …

Eucharist As Basic Training: Liturgy, Ethics, And The Body, M. Therese Lysaught

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Looking At The End From The Beginning: Studying Eschatological Concepts In The Pentateuch, Gerald Klingbeil

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

Becoming Mormon Men: Male Rites Of Passage And The Rise Of Mormonism In Nineteenth-Century America, Bruce R. Lott

Theses and Dissertations

The evidence presented in this thesis supports a view of the first Mormon men as coming from the agrarian majority of early nineteenth-century American farmers and artisans who embraced a set of manly ideals that differed significantly, in many ways, from those embraced by their middle-class contemporaries. These men's life writings attest to boyhood experiences of working alongside their fathers as soon as they were physically able, and subsequently of acting as substitute farmers and breadwinners as well as being put out to work outside the direct supervision of their fathers. Such experiences enabled them to frequently follow in the …

Córdoban Discourses: A Drama Of Interreligious Dialogue, James Mark Shields

Faculty Journal Articles

SETTING: Cordoba, Spain, 1135 CE, 29th year of the reign of ‘Ali “amir al-muslimin,” second king of the Berber Almoravid dynasty, rulers of Moorish Spain from 1071 to 1147. Cordoba, the capital of Andalus and the center of the Almoravid holdings in Spain, is a bustling cosmopolitan center, a crossroads for Europe and the Middle East, and the meeting-point of three religious traditions. Most significantly, Cordoba at this time is the hub of European intellectual activity. From the square—itself impressively large and surrounded by a massive collonade, the regularity and ordered beauty of which typifies the Moorish taste for symmetry …

Update - March 1999, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Mark Carr, Richard Rice and Siroj Sorajjakool join LLU Faculty of Religion
-- Scholars, Clinicians, and Patients Highlight February Palliative Care Conference
-- [ The Meaning of Pain and Suffering ]
-- MA in Clinical Ethics
-- MA in Clinical Ministry

Menorah Review (No. 46, Spring/Summer, 1999)

Menorah Review

The Quintessential Other -- Were Jews Ignored by All? -- Critical Perspectives on Israel the 1990s: Politics, Society, Scholarship -- Early Spring -- From Auschwitz to Meaning Therapy -- Jews and Muslims Together -- Noteworthy Books

Menorah Review (No. 47, Fall, 1999)

Menorah Review

Physician-Assisted Suicide -- What Price Prejudice? -- The American Synagogue: Now and Then -- Amelek -- Picks and Pans from the Feminist's Corner -- King David -- A Good Life Now and Then -- Noteworthy Books

Religious Attitudes Toward Cloning: A Tale Of Two Creatures, Dena S. Davis

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

This Essay offers one analytic structure with which to approach the study of religious responses to cloning and suggests that, whereas the negative reactions are tied to a Frankenstein approach--that is, one which uses all the horror of that myth to express our fears about humans getting into the creation business--the more positive reactions express what I will call the Golem approach, based on a lesser-known legend.

Historical Epistemology, Jesus’ Resurrection, And The Shroud Of Turin, Gary R. Habermas

Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary (1973-2015)

In contemporary studies on the Shroud of Turin, much attention, with good reason, has focused on the crucial roles contributed by sciences like physics, chemistry, and medical analyses. Doubtless, these and related inquiries have contributed more than any others in attempting to solve one of the greatest modern puzzles.

Here we will examine another avenue that is seldom pursued, but which offers some crucial insights for this subject: philosophy of history and its cognate, historical investigation. We will argue that well known principles in these disciplines can also assist us in arriving at some significant distinctions that are centrally relevant …

Gustavo Gutierrez's Understanding Of The Kingdom Of God In The Light Of The Second Vatican Council, Victor Figueroa-Villarreal

Dissertations

The proclamation of the Kingdom of God has been reformulated in every age and interpreted accordingly with regard to time and place. Traditionally within Roman Catholicism the Kingdom of God was identified with the church. This view produced a triumphalist attitude within the Roman Catholic Church. The Second Vatican Council brought a new attitude of openness toward the modern world, and with it the council opened the door for Roman Catholic liberation theologians to look for new ways to find what they regarded as the just solutions to the problems of Latin America.

The purpose of this research is to …

The Impact Of Religiosity On Coping Among Lds Adolescents, Matthew P. Roper

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the impact of religiosity on coping in a group of Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) youth. Longitudinal data were gathered from detailed questionnaires administered to 2852 male and female adolescents in 1990 and 1993. Coping was conceptualized as four general dimensions (self-concept, public activities and service, deviance and future plans). Religiosity was also conceptualized multi-dimensionally (religious belief, public religiosity, private religious behavior, and religious experiences). Multiple regression analysis was used to investigate the unique effects of each of the dimensions of religiosity on each dimension of coping. It was hypothesized that religiosity was positively …

Active Imagination And Christian Religious Experience: A Study In Relationship, George E. Trippe

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The focus of this study is the relationship between Carl Jung's practice of active imagination and Christian religious experience. The research is qualitative, using the heuristic research method as developed by Clark Moustakas. The experience of active imagination is defined and the practice is explained. Consideration is given to its values and benefits. In the heuristic style, the research focusses on the active imagination work of the researcher and four research participants. The active imagination case material of the five participants is summarised and depictions of their material are included which identify the nature, essence, and meaning of their experiences. …

Review Of Religion And The Enlightenment: From Descartes To Kant, By James M. Byrne, Denis Fortin

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Logic Of Theodicy: A Comparative Analysis, David Basinger, Randall Basinger

Journal for Christian Theological Research

The purpose of this essay is to compare how three theistic perspectives -- theological determinism, freewill theism and process theism -- do (in fact, must) approach the reality of evil in this world and then reflect on whether any of these approaches (theodicies) can be judged superior to the others. We conclude that, while a person can justifiably maintain for herself that one of these responses to evil is superior, there exists at present no objective basis for claiming justifiably that any one of the theodicies (and thus theisms) is in fact more plausible than the others. However, even if …

Menorah Review (No. 44, Fall, 1998)

Menorah Review

When Bad Things Happen to Anyone: Venturing East of Uz -- The Meandering Muse -- A New Jewry: Promise or Threat? -- Synagogue and State -- Theology, Justice and Memory After the Holocaust -- Book Listing -- Book Briefings

Review Of Physician-Assisted Suicide Edited By Robert F. Weir, M. Therese Lysaught

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Contextualization A Development Of A Theology And Examination Of Its Application, David Meggers

Master of Sacred Theology Seminar Papers

The purpose of this paper is to examine and critique "contextualization", a particular theological method which has seen development in what are often considered areas of World Mission. The aspect of this theological development with which we are most concerned has to do with the role of the Word of God as it relates to the development of theology and theological education. This particular examination consists of three parts; an introduction to the history and development of the term" contextualization", Contextualization and African Theology, and Contextualization and Latin American Liberation Theology. The portion devoted to African Theology will take a …

Volume 15, Number 1, Department Of Church Relations

Pacific Church News

Edited by Jerry Rushford

Fall 1997

Diehard Homoians And The Election Of Ambrose, Peter Iver Kaufman

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

It has been an excellent stretch in English for the Latin Arians of the fourth century. They have gotten heftier, more robust, more formidable. Daniel Williams' Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Nicene-Arian Conflicts challenges what he calls "the prevailing view" that they "posed little, if any, serious threat" to the Nicene faith of the western European churches from the 350s through the 380s. Neil McLynn's Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital insists that the Milanese Arians complicated Ambrose's career more than previous chroniclers of christological conflict and the biographers of the bishop ever …