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Σπλαγχνιζομαι And The Characterization Of The Markan Jesus, Jonathan W. Bryant

Dissertations

Amid scholarly studies both of the miracle stories of the Markan Jesus and of the characterization of the Markan Jesus, little attention has been given to the role of Jesus’s emotions as portrayed in those accounts—though references to Jesus’ emotions appear quite frequently in the Gospel of Mark. This dissertation seeks to fill this lacuna through a detailed analysis of the portrayal of Jesus’s compassion (σπλαγχνίζομαι) in the Markan miracle stories. I first examine the accounts of other miracle workers from ancient Greco-Roman and Jewish literature to discover how emotions feature in the depictions of miracle workers likely known in …

2023-10-18 Queer And Spiritual: At The Intersection Of Spirituality, Sexuality And Identity, Genny Sheara, Chloe Platt

The Spectator Online

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Foundation And Prophecy, Scott Johnson '23

Furman Humanities Review

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Furman Humanities Review. Volume 33, May 2022, Gretchen Braun Editor

Furman Humanities Review

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Evocative And Provocative Image-Making In The Age Of Generative Ai, Julian Kilker

Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education

Editorial for inaugural AI-focused special issue of Tradition-Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education, published under the auspices of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru). Discusses three articles by five authors in this issue: (1) Choreographing Shadows: Interdisciplinary collaboration to orchestrate ethical image-making by Mark Burchick and Diana Pasulka; (2) Giving Up Control: Hybrid AI-augmented workflows for image-making by Joshua Vermillion; and (3) Hands are Hard: Unlearning how we talk about machine learning in the arts by Adam Hyland and Oscar Keyes.

Editing this special issue explored several key questions: What does “innovation” mean when …

"To This You Were Called": Discipleship, Suffering, And Social Identity In First Peter, Shane Patrick Gormley

Dissertations

At the center of First Peter’s rhetoric stands an exhortation to “follow” in Christ’s footsteps (2:21). Several scholars have suggested (sometimes off-handedly or in a singular footnote) that this specific exhortation utilizes the technical language of “discipleship,” but only to support a particular piece of the letter’s paraenesis (2:18–25). I contend that such a suggestion, while a helpful place to start, does not go far enough. With this study, I propose that we may read First Peter comprehensively as a summons to discipleship in accord with ancient understandings of education, exemplified in the multifaceted system of Hellenistic paideia. I argue …

Choreographing Shadows: Interdisciplinary Collaboration To Orchestrate Ethical Ai Image-Making, Mark Burchick, Diana Pasulka

Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education

Although popular media attention has suggested that recent advancements in AI image-making tools have threatened creative labor, this nascent medium is capable of research opportunities involving diverse academic fields which may not be readily apparent. Using a collaboration between an artist and scholar of religious studies as a case study, the ongoing “Noo Icons” media arts project, comprising images, video, animation, and installation, explores how AI image-making tools are well suited to reframe the visual history of the religious transcendent. Building on the scholarship of Hito Steyerl and Eryk Salvaggio, AI art’s usage as a diagnostic tool for deciphering internet …

Bruised By Their Transgressions: A Phenomenological Study Of Healing From Traumatic Religious Experiences, Sharron Y. Riley-Seymour

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This phenomenological study explored the impacts of religious/spiritual abuse (RSA) on women abused by Christian religious leaders in their adulthood, describing their treatment experiences and identifying effective elements of their healing processes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 women who had experienced RSA in adulthood. Four central research questions guided the interview protocol: 1) How do participants describe what led them to seek therapy? 2) How do participants describe their therapeutic/healing processes? 3) How do participants describe what they found helpful/not helpful or effective/ineffective in their treatment/healing processes? 4) How do participants describe factors influencing their treatment/healing processes? The interviews …

Subverting Campbell’S Materialist Conclusion, Noah Gordon

International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities

Keith Campbell and Jonathan Schaffer propose an ontology in which entities consist in collocated collections of tropes, and tropes are individuated by location. This would imply that immaterial entities are not possible. In this paper, I attempt to subvert this materialist conclusion by giving two arguments against the key individuation principle it requires. I show that the locational individuation principle can be formulated so as to survive the first, but not the second argument.

Divine Hiddenness And Affective Forecasting, Miles Andrews

International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities

In this paper I argue that J. L. Schellenberg’s Divine Hiddenness Argument is committed to a problematic implication that is weakened by research in cognitive psychology on affective forecasting. Schellenberg’s notion of a nonresistant nonbeliever logically implies that for any such person, it is true that she would form the proper belief in God if provided with what he calls “probabilifying” evidence for God’s existence. In light of Schellenberg’s commitment to the importance of both affective and propositional belief components for entering into the proper relationship with God, this implication of his argument becomes an affective prediction or forecast. However, …

Karen Park Presents St. Norbert College's Fall 2023 Pilgrim Forum Lecture, St. Norbert College

Press Releases 2023

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College Faculty In The News: Oct. 10, 2023, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

News agencies across the region, the nation and throughout the world often reach out to our faculty experts for their perspectives on today's issues.

S5, God And Numbers, Chad A. Mcintosh

International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities

It has become somewhat ontologically fashionable for theists to embrace anti-realist views of abstract objects.1 On pain of consistency, however, I will argue that any theist who accepts the S5 ontological argument for the existence of God should also accept a parallel S5 ontological argument for the existence of abstract objects. This is because the same ontological and modal inferences thought to demonstrate the existence of God can also be used to demonstrate the existence of numbers. I further argue that being ontologically consistent here might come at the price of being theologically unacceptable, as the argument for numbers would …

Hail Mary!, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

The Marian Library turns 80 this month, and this grande dame has never looked finer — or engaged more audiences with its sacred and eclectic treasures.

Ud In The News Sept. 29-Oct. 6, University Of Dayton

News Releases

America, News Nation, The Conversation, The National Desk, WalletHub, Glam and several Ohio news outlets sought UD expertise about the issues of the day.

Worldwide Consultations For The Global Synod Reflect Pope Francis’ Efforts Toward Building A More Inclusive Catholic Church, Daniel Speed Thompson

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Worldwide consultations for the global synod reflect Pope Francis’ efforts toward building a more inclusive Catholic Church

October 4, 2023 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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2023-10-04 The Mass Of The Holy Spirit Brings Blessings To The Academic Year, Madden Armstrong

The Spectator Online

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The Discrimination Of Hair-Based Drug Testing, Phillip S. Downes

International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities

Business ethicists usually debate workplace drug testing by appealing to safety (consequences of drug use for the public) and employees' contracts with the company. However, the means of catching these unsafe workers are rarely analyzed. I discuss the means of hair-based drug testing through the lens of discrimination. Drawing on Richard Lippke’s criticism of drug testing, my paper demonstrates that there is an unequal hindrance of autonomy of long-haired women, the unsheltered homeless, and darker haired individuals over others and, as a result, that hair-based drug testing is morally wrong.

Representing Religion In Film, Joseph P. Laycock

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King, eds., Representing Religion in Film (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).

Secularism And Silent Films, Elijah Siegler

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a review of two books: Phillip Maciak, The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era (Columbia University Press, 2019), and Terry Lindvall, Souls for Sale: Rupert Hughes and the Novel Hollywood Religion (Cascade Books, 2021)

Viewing Terrence Malick’S A Hidden Life As Political Theology: Toward Theocinematics, Joel Mayward

Journal of Religion & Film

In this article, I bring Terrence Malick’s 2019 film, A Hidden Life, into conversation with two of philosopher Paul Ricoeur’s concepts: (1) the “social imaginary” as the interplay of ideals, images, ideologies and utopias, and (2) Ricoeur’s description of the genre of “parable” as a narrative-metaphor which provokes a “re-orientation by disorientation” within an audience’s imagination. Drawing from Ricoeur’s thought, I apply a theological film criticism I call “theocinematics” to A Hidden Life in order to call attention to the ways in which the cinematic form itself engenders sociopolitical and theological thought. Through emphasizing film aesthetics in my analysis, …

Faculty Services 2023-2024, Copley Library

Copley Library Brochures

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Sociology 2023 Apr Self-Study Report & Documents, Unm Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Sociology APR self-study, review team report, and initial action plan for Fall 2023, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

Pharmacy Matters - October 2023, University Of Mississippi. School Of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Matters Newsletters

Featured stories: "Ashpole Wins University-wide Faculty Achievement Award," "Former UM Pharmacy Researcher Speaks at Inaugural Borne Lecture," "Rural Pharmacy Students Benefit from Polk Scholarship," "UM Develops 3D-Printed Film That Supports Cervical Cancer Research," "Groundbreaking Neuro-HIV Treatment in Development," "Pharmacy Students Benefit from Mayo Internship"

Office Of Research & Sponsored Programs, Cal Poly Humboldt

Newsletters

In this issue:

RCPEJ Awards Announced

Featured Funding Opportunities

Frequently Asked Reimbursement Questions Answered

Stalwarts Of Spiritan African Mission – Bishop Joseph Shanahan, C.S.Sp. (1871-1943), Charles A. Ebelebe Cssp

Spiritan Horizons

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François Libermann, The Savernois Melting Pot Of A Jew Founder Of A Religious Congregation, Mathieu Biala Balu Cssp

Spiritan Horizons

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Full Issue

Intersections

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Do One Thing : Academic Vocation In The Age Of Burnout, Jonathan Malesic

Intersections

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