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Examining Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’S “Letter From Birmingham Jail” Through A Historical Lens Of Black Theology And Evangelical Theology: Forming A More Perfect Theology, Lisa P. Christian

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

A key theological justification for nonviolent resistance in the Civil Rights Movement is “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” This dissertation presents a historiographical and theological analysis of King’s letter, arguing that it serves as a framework for critiquing the validity of Black and Evangelical theologies’ responses to injustice. It engages in a critical dialogue between Black theology and evangelical theology, examining how theologians such as James H. Cone and Carl F. H. Henry interpret King’s claims about justice, morality, and nonviolent resistance within the context of segregation in the 1960s South.

Tracing key theological developments that shaped the doctrines, dogmas, and …

Fifty-Ninth Commencement (Undergraduate), Sacred Heart University

Commencement Programs

Program for undergraduate ceremonies, May 10, 2025.

Fifty-Ninth Commencement (Graduate), Sacred Heart University

Commencement Programs

Program for graduate ceremonies, May 6 & 7,  2025.

Using A Historical Approach To Teach Social Justice: A Classroom Model, Mary L. Troy, Timothy Powers, Emily Lee Chong

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Social Justice epitomizes the Ignatian ideal of “men and women for others”. Utilizing Ignatian pedagogy, faculty at Jesuit colleges and universities can help students explore and understand the link between historical events and current social justice issues. This article demonstrates and applies a six-step model of utilizing history as a tool for social justice. The model can be adapted for any field of study at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Fifty-Eighth Commencement (Undergraduate), Sacred Heart University

Commencement Programs

Program for undergraduate ceremonies, May 11, 2024.

Fifty-Eigth Commencement (Graduate), Sacred Heart University

Commencement Programs

Program for graduate ceremonies May 7 & 8 2024

The Fifty-Seventh Commencement, May 14, 2023, Sacred Heart University

Commencement Programs

Program for the Graduate and Undergraduate ceremonies held May 14, 2023.

An Interdisciplinary Theological Method From The Knowledge Of The Forgotten, Alexandre A. Martins

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Exercising Obedience: John Cassian And The Creation Of Early Monastic Subjectivity, Joshua Daniel Schachterle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

John Cassian (360-435 CE) started his monastic career in Bethlehem. He later traveled to the Egyptian desert, living there as a monk, meeting the venerated Desert Fathers, and learning from them for about fifteen years. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul to help establish a monastery there by writing monastic manuals, the Institutes and the Conferences. These seminal writings represent the first known attempt to bring the idealized monastic traditions from Egypt, long understood to be the cradle of monasticism, to the West.

In his Institutes, Cassian comments that "a monk ought by all …

Lights Hidden Under Bushel's Case, Thomas A. Green

Book Chapters

Some forty years ago, Charlie Donahue created a course which he titled "Law, Morals and Society." Designed for undergraduates, and situated among the offerings of the University of Michigan's interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance Collegium, the course reflected the approach to doing history that, as this volume recognizes, Charlie has followed throughout his long and enormously influential career as scholar, teacher, lecturer, and inepressible master of well-timed interventions during conference-panel discussion periods. "LMS" was composed of four units. Charlie, who taught two of them, led off with the legal basis for the deposition of Richard II; I followed with the law …

Past Sense History In The Realm Of The Senses, Andrew Hess

Theses & ETDs

This thesis assesses a growing trend in the writing of history, which attends to the various roles and conceptions of the senses throughout history. Proceeding from a discussion of the sometimes unique and sometimes standard methodologies of the habit of "sensory history," the various implications and problems of such an approach are suggested and explored using a once widely accepted historical framework known as the "great divide." Imbuing this once black and white binary with the lost textures and experiences of sensory detail and evidence, a similar treatment of the life and work of social theorist Karl Marx is attempted. …

Kings And Tyrants: Leonardo Bruni's Translation Of Xenophon's "Hiero", Brian Maxson

ETSU Faculty Works

Leonardo Bruni published one of his most widely copied translations, Xenophon's pro-monarchical Hiero, shortly before he penned his more famous original works, his Dialogues and Panegyric to the City of Florence. Scholars have traditionally focused on the political ideas present in these original treatises; yet, despite the centrality of political ideas to the Hiero, its temporal proximity to these works, and its enormous popularity (the work exists in 200 fifteenth-century manuscripts), scholars have neglected to offer a full assessment of Bruni's translation in the context of these works. Bruni's translation of Xenophon's Hiero fit into a debate …

Sex, Sports, And Ale Houses: Morality And Theology During The English Civil War, Josh Bearden

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 18-32

Vulcan Historical Review 9 (Complete Issue), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.

History Of The Department Of Theology (Under-Graduate), John G. Leies Sm

Documents

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History Of The Graduate Theology Program, St. Mary's University, 1959-1994, John G. Leies Sm

Documents

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 8, Number 6, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Among issues of concern in this month’s “President’s Rap,” held monthly by SHU President Cernera in Chubby’s Lounge to give students the chance to ask questions about any university concerns, were the cafe and its “grand opening day” and the library and its new policy and schedule --SHU community critical of library hours, library fee. According to Librarian Dorothy Kijanka, “We cut hours last spring due to vacancy of staff." The ten dollar fee is used to buy new books and resource materials --SHU's Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Studies offers certificate programs in Catechetical Ministry --Hispanic …

The Historical Context Of The Age Of Gold: France 1560–1660, James Hitchcock

Vincentian Studies

Religion and politics were inextricably linked in France during the century that spanned 1560–1660. The ultra-Catholic Guises and the Protestant Bourbons vied for the throne, while the monarchs and their regents used alternately used religious tension and tolerance to keep both sides at bay. Religious differences marked the combatants in frequent civil wars. The conflicts ended with the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which guaranteed religious freedom to the Huguenots, although tension continued. James Hitchcock discusses various other topics, including: the Ancien Regime’s structure, Cardinal Richelieu’s ascendancy, his efforts to consolidate royal power and defeat the Habsburgs, the rise of …

Public Virtue And The Roots Of American Government, Richard Vetterli, Gary Bryner

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Major Studies On Vincent De Paul, Carey J. Leonard C.M.

Vincentian Studies

The real Vincent de Paul, versus the legendary one, was not known for several centuries because his communities restricted his writings to themselves. This article categorizes and critiques the major works on him. It begins with the four institutional biographies from before the twentieth century by Louis Abelly, Pierre Collet, Michel-Ulysse Maynard, and Louis-Victor-Emile Bougaud. Twentieth century works are then evaluated, starting with those of Pierre Coste. Historical studies of the Church and spirituality during and after Vincent’s time place him in social, political, and ecclesial context. Other efforts examine how his works and spirituality may be applied to contemporary …

Obelisk, Volume 3, Number 9, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Donald H. McGannon, president and chairman of the board of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company and one of the founders, presently on the SHU board of trustees, will deliver the main commencement address at the University’s first graduation on June 10 --Valedictorian Maureen Dursi plans to become a college professor in Spanish and Latin American studies --Salutatorian Joan-Carol Carrafiello will attend graduate school in mathematics at the University of Massachusetts where she has received a $3,100 assistanship --The Most Rev. Walter W. Curtis, bishop of Bridgeport and founder of Sacred Heart University, will offer the Baccalaureate Mass for the …