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The Sate Of Israel, Mythology, And The Valorized Bible, Gregory Jeffers Dec 2017

The Sate Of Israel, Mythology, And The Valorized Bible, Gregory Jeffers

Conversations: A Graduate Student Journal of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology

I argue that the Christian Neo-conservatives (like many before them, including the Medieval crusaders) read the bible mythologically, and thus uproot the the bible from its traditional moral, theological, historical, and grammatical anchors in service to a specific eschatological vision. This shift is rhetorical in nature in that those receiving the biblical text now are not the same as those who originally received it, nor are they the same as the scholars, theologians, and historians who have been careful to read the text with integrity. The shift in audience is a shift in interpretive communities and thus a shift in …


"Justice And Mercy": The Question Of Discordancy, The Development Of Doctrine And African Catholicism, John Segun Odeyemi Dec 2017

"Justice And Mercy": The Question Of Discordancy, The Development Of Doctrine And African Catholicism, John Segun Odeyemi

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

The call for Justice and Mercy in the teachings of Pope Francis raises critical questions across theological and secular contexts. In the light of the Pontiff’s call for a Jubilee year of Mercy, in Evangelii Gaudium, and references in his teachings to these themes, I intend to investigate the theological meaning of Justice and Mercy and to reconcile these with what Pope Francis means. Then proffer as a concrete example, discordancy in Africa as an opportunity for a doctrinal and magisterial definition on the use of condoms as prophylactics to show a Church that acts mercifully and does justice.


Black And Brown Pauls: A Pauline Case Of Racial Profiling; A Hermeneutical Reading Of Acts 21:27‐40a And 22:23‐29 And The Reality Of The African American And Hispanic Communities In The United States, Dempsey Rosales Acosta Dec 2017

Black And Brown Pauls: A Pauline Case Of Racial Profiling; A Hermeneutical Reading Of Acts 21:27‐40a And 22:23‐29 And The Reality Of The African American And Hispanic Communities In The United States, Dempsey Rosales Acosta

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

The present study analyzes the socio-historical context and setting narrated in the canonical episode of Paul’s arrest and his treatment in Jerusalem according to the narrative of Acts 21:27-40a and 22:23-29. The pericopes become the fundamental platform through which it is possible to present both a hermeneutical and theological interpretation of the liabilities and ultimate consequences of racial profiling, especially when it is exercised by the civil authorities, an institutionalized power, or a general culture. The diachronic and synchronic exegetical analysis of the pericopes are combined with the methodological approaches of cognitive semantics and the practical theology that lead to …


American Gun Culture Encounters Christian Ethics: A Clash Of Narratives, Mark Ryan Dec 2017

American Gun Culture Encounters Christian Ethics: A Clash Of Narratives, Mark Ryan

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

The ethical debate about guns in America pivots around the themes of harmful consequences and individual liberty. Gun control advocates argue for greater legal control of guns on the grounds that such a policy would save lives. They envision a society ruled by an enlightened policy that seeks to minimize harm and maximize benefit for all. On the other hand, proponents of gun control shift the focus in the debate from consequences to individual liberty, which they elevate to a position of overriding value. The government’s primary aim should be to protect individual liberty rather than promote the good of …


Introduction: Ethnography, Moral Theory, And Comparative Religious Ethics, Bharat Ranganathan Nov 2017

Introduction: Ethnography, Moral Theory, And Comparative Religious Ethics, Bharat Ranganathan

Religion Faculty Publications

Representing a spectrum of intellectual concerns and methodological commitments in religious ethics, the contributors to this focus issue consider and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the shift in recent comparative religious ethics away from a rootedness in moral theory toward a model that privileges the ethnography of moral worlds. In their own way, all of the contributors think through and emphasize the meaning, importance, and place of normativity in recent comparative religious ethics.


The Santa Clara, 2017-11-09, Santa Clara University Nov 2017

The Santa Clara, 2017-11-09, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.


There Are No Strangers Among Us: Catholic Social Teachings And U.S. Immigration Law, Terry Coonan Nov 2017

There Are No Strangers Among Us: Catholic Social Teachings And U.S. Immigration Law, Terry Coonan

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Tracking Perfectionism In Stanley Hauerwas's Theology: An Essay On Hauerwas's Application Of Aristotle's Ethics, Daniel Reffner Nov 2017

Tracking Perfectionism In Stanley Hauerwas's Theology: An Essay On Hauerwas's Application Of Aristotle's Ethics, Daniel Reffner

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

No abstract provided.


Evangelium Vitae: Crossing The Threshold Of Law With The Gospel Of Life, David A. Daigle Oct 2017

Evangelium Vitae: Crossing The Threshold Of Law With The Gospel Of Life, David A. Daigle

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


What Is Written In The Law? How Do You Read It? Homily At The Red Mass, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 8, 1996, Monsignor William Smith Oct 2017

What Is Written In The Law? How Do You Read It? Homily At The Red Mass, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 8, 1996, Monsignor William Smith

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Sex, Love And Marriage In The Light Of Following Jesus, John Mcnerney Oct 2017

Book Review: Sex, Love And Marriage In The Light Of Following Jesus, John Mcnerney

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

Paul Flaman, Sex, Love and Marriage in the Light of Following Jesus. Ottawa, ON: Justin Press, 2015. Pp. 390. $23.95 Canadian.


On Religious Legal Ethics, Thomas L. Shaffer Oct 2017

On Religious Legal Ethics, Thomas L. Shaffer

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Vatican Ii: The Impact On American Society - The Pas De Deux Between Rights And Responsibilities, Robert J. Araujo, S.J. Oct 2017

Vatican Ii: The Impact On American Society - The Pas De Deux Between Rights And Responsibilities, Robert J. Araujo, S.J.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Death Beyond A Reasonable Doubt, Janet C. Hoeffel Oct 2017

Death Beyond A Reasonable Doubt, Janet C. Hoeffel

Arkansas Law Review

In the forty-four years since the Court employed the Eighth Amendment to temporarily suspend the death penalty in the United States in Furman v. Georgia in 1972, the Court has spilled an enormous amount of ink attempting to instruct the states on how to properly guide jurors’ discretion in imposing the death penalty. Yet, in its voluminous Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, the Justices spilled not one drop suggesting the familiar and unifying standard of beyond a reasonable doubt as a guide.


The Teleology Of Law: Responsible Citizenship And Discpleship, Robert J. Araujo, S.J. Oct 2017

The Teleology Of Law: Responsible Citizenship And Discpleship, Robert J. Araujo, S.J.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


The Ethical Foundations Of Judicial Decision-Making, Philip J. Grib, S.J. Oct 2017

The Ethical Foundations Of Judicial Decision-Making, Philip J. Grib, S.J.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


The Church, The Law, And The Advancing Armies Of Death, Nat Hentoff Oct 2017

The Church, The Law, And The Advancing Armies Of Death, Nat Hentoff

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Where Morality And The Law Coincide: How Legal Obligations Of Bystanders May Be Informed By The Social Teachings Of Pope Francis, Amelia J. Uelmen Oct 2017

Where Morality And The Law Coincide: How Legal Obligations Of Bystanders May Be Informed By The Social Teachings Of Pope Francis, Amelia J. Uelmen

Seattle University Law Review

Since the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis has offered to the world powerful signs of how we should aspire to treat each other as human beings, as brothers and sisters in the one human family. He has communicated his message and his teachings in myriad ways: through symbolic gestures; his presence and words at gatherings in our world’s most troubled places; brief messages, homilies and meditations; and official documents that continue the application of the principles of Catholic social teaching to contemporary social questions. What might these prophetic signs and statements mean for the dialogue between Catholic social thought …


Withholding Or Withdrawing Artificial Nutrition And Hydration From Terminally Ill And Permanently Unconscious Patients: Some Recent Case Law And Contemporary Catholic Theology, Peter J. Ausili Oct 2017

Withholding Or Withdrawing Artificial Nutrition And Hydration From Terminally Ill And Permanently Unconscious Patients: Some Recent Case Law And Contemporary Catholic Theology, Peter J. Ausili

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Catholicism, Ethics And Health Care Policy, Lisa Sowle Cahill Oct 2017

Catholicism, Ethics And Health Care Policy, Lisa Sowle Cahill

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


A Historical Account Of The Curran Controversy, Michael Scott Feely Oct 2017

A Historical Account Of The Curran Controversy, Michael Scott Feely

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Calvin Theological Seminary Forum: October 2017, Karin Maag, Lee Hardy, Matthew Cooke, Bruce Buursma Oct 2017

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum: October 2017, Karin Maag, Lee Hardy, Matthew Cooke, Bruce Buursma

Calvin Theological Seminary Forum (2002- )

Articles
3 - From the President: What Can Catholics and Protestants Learn From One Another Today? by Jul Medenblik
4 - Reformed and Catholic Worship – Are There Any Points of Convergence? by Karin Maag
7 - Learning about the Lord’s Supper from Roman Catholics by Ronald Feenstra
10 - Christian Ethics, Protestant and Catholic: 500 Years After the Reformation by Matt Tuininga
13 - The Meaning of Martha: Catholics and Protestants on Work and Vocation by Lee Hardy
16 - 500 Years Later: A Conversation Between Catholics and Protestants by Matt Cooke
18 - John Bolt Retires by Bruce …


Still Banned After All These Years- Retracing The Journey Of Cavani’S ‘Revolutionary’ Galileo (1968)., Silvia Angeli Sep 2017

Still Banned After All These Years- Retracing The Journey Of Cavani’S ‘Revolutionary’ Galileo (1968)., Silvia Angeli

Journal of Religion & Film

“Revolutionary” and “scandalous” are adjectives the late Ettore Bernabei, General Director of Italian State Television (RAI) from 1961 to 1974, used to describe Liliana Cavani’s Galileo (1968) in a 2005 interview for Corriere della Sera. Such harsh judgment reflects the undiminished hostility of a significant branch of Italian Catholicism toward the film. The fact that almost 50 years after its release Galileo has yet to be broadcast on public television despite being commissioned by it unequivocally confirms this hostility. Based on primary sources such as press articles and archival sources, this article chronicles Galileo’s incredible journey through …


The Constitution And The Declaration Of Independence: Natural Law In American History, Edward J. Melvin, C.M. Sep 2017

The Constitution And The Declaration Of Independence: Natural Law In American History, Edward J. Melvin, C.M.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Obscenity: Its Moral Meaning And Scope, John S. Connor, C.M. Sep 2017

Obscenity: Its Moral Meaning And Scope, John S. Connor, C.M.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Influences Of An "Annulment Mentality", Cornelius J. Van Der Poel, C.S.Sp Sep 2017

Influences Of An "Annulment Mentality", Cornelius J. Van Der Poel, C.S.Sp

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Rediscovering Realism In Ethics, Rev. Ronald D. Lawler Sep 2017

Rediscovering Realism In Ethics, Rev. Ronald D. Lawler

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


Emergent Catholicity: Forming The Mind Of Vincent, Scott Kelley Ph.D. Sep 2017

Emergent Catholicity: Forming The Mind Of Vincent, Scott Kelley Ph.D.

Vincentian Studies

Vincent de Paul has been perceived as anti-intellectual for reasons that are discussed in this article, but his two degrees, especially the one from the University of Toulouse, profoundly influenced his thinking. His education developed his logic, making him “a formidable theologian,” an excellent organizer, and an effective advocate for poor persons. The article traces the medieval university’s influence on Vincent’s university experience. Logic’s importance in the theology curriculum and the way it was taught are described. Since Vincent’s degree allowed him to teach from the seminal Book II of Peter Lombard’s Sentences, Lombard’s writings are contextualized within those …


Intolerable Marriage Situations Revisited, James H. Provost Sep 2017

Intolerable Marriage Situations Revisited, James H. Provost

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.


On “And Vulnerable": Catholic Social Thought And The Social Challenges Of Cognitive Disability, Matthew J. Gaudet Sep 2017

On “And Vulnerable": Catholic Social Thought And The Social Challenges Of Cognitive Disability, Matthew J. Gaudet

General Engineering

In light of the ongoing social challenges facing individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in our time, I want to highlight some underappreciated aspects of Catholic Social Teaching that we would do well to recall. The discussion proceeds in four parts. First, I identify several key contemporary social challenges that continue to face individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Second, I trace the root of those particular challenges to the social forces of industrialization, urbanization, and social Darwinism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Third, on the basis of that historical framework, I argue that the contemporary Catholic …