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Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Introduction: Comparative Ethics And The Crucible Of War, G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Michael Howard takes the title of his recent essay, The Invention of Peace, from the nineteenth-century jurist and historian of comparative law Henry Maine, who wrote that "war appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modem invention."' We moderns tend to assume that the great wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were aberrant eruptions marring the peaceful status quo, but the opposite better describes the long view. Outside the Garden of Eden, human communities have always been involved in political conflict and that conflict has regularly escalated to the use of lethal force, both …

God's Bridle: John Calvin's Application Of Natural Law, C. Scott Pryor

Scholarly Works

Review of background and application of the notion of natural law by magisterial reformer John Calvin with applications to contemporary utility of that concept.

Causing Death For Compassionate Reasons In American Law, Richard Kay

Faculty Articles and Papers

This essay, a revised version of the United States report on Euthanasia to be presented at the XVII International Congress of Comparative Law, surveys the state of the law, both decisional and statutory, on the permissibility of compassionately motivated actions to terminate human life. It deals with a range of legal categories: suicide, attempted suicide, euthanasia, assisted suicide and the termination of life-sustaining treatment. It highlights the deeply ambivalent attitudes held toward these actions in contemporary America and how this ambivalence has resulted in obscure and artificial distinctions.

Cs 652 Ethics Of Hospitality And Contemporary Challenges, Christine Pohl

Syllabi

Texts: Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. NY: HarperCollins, 1979, 1994. Amy Oden, And You Welcomed Me. Nashville: Abingdon, 2001. Christine Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999 Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. Reading Packet Bernard Adeney, Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995. Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out, NY: Doubleday. 1 Brett Webb-Mitchell, Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities into the Church. NY: Crossroad, 1994. Other readings will be accessed on the internet.

The Democratic Virtues, Our Common Life And The Common School: Trust In Democracy: Anabaptists, Italian Americans, And Solidarity, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

Consider two phrases in Professor Marie Failinger's charge to those of us discussing Jeffrey Stout's Democracy and Tradition, October 28, 2005, at Hamline University: (i) "How would we construct a real democratic sociality holding each other responsible for ethical life that would warrant trust in democracy? . . . and, (ii) How do the religious traditions help us reflect on this issue?"

My reflection, probably sectarian, refers more to where we come from than to what we choose. The reference here is to three communities, none of which is primarily concerned with "real democratic sociality." But none of them is …

The Admiralty Lawyer In Popular Culture, Robert M. Jarvis

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

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Vincentiana Vol. 50, No. 5 [Full Issue]

Vincentiana

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Hitting The Sweet Spot: Finding The Center In Teaching Professional Responsibility, Steven H. Hobbs

Articles

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Cs 652 Ethics Of Hospitality And Contemporary Challenges, Christine Pohl

Syllabi

Texts: Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. NY: HarperCollins, 1979, 1994. Christine Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999 Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996. Reading Packet Bernard Adeney, Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1995. Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out, NY: Doubleday. Brett Webb-Mitchell, Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet: Welcoming People with Disabilities into the Church. NY: Crossroad, 1994.

Prophecy And Casuistry: Abortion, Torture And Moral Discourse, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Journal Articles

In turn of the 21st century United States there are serious moral disputes over issues such as abortion and torture among persons who see themselves as belonging to the same moral tradition. These disputes have not given rise to fruitful discussion about differences, but instead led to a breakdown of conversation and even of community. A part of these clashes and breakdowns are not the result of mutually inconsistent moral premises, but are driven by tensions between two styles of moral discourse, the prophetic and casuistical. The former invokes the absolute and fiery rhetorical style of biblical prophets while the …

Book Reviews, William J. Abraham, Elaine A. Heath, Nathan Crawford, Joerg Rieger, J.D. Payne, John N. Oswalt, Michael Rynkiwiech, Charles M. Wood

The Asbury Journal

Wesleyan Perspectives on the New Creation

M. Douglas Meeks, ed.

Nashville: Kingswood,

2004, 200 pp., paper, 2004, $30.00

Reviewed by William J Abraham

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

Eugene H. Peterson

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

2005, xii, 368pp. cloth, $25.00

Reviewed by Elaine A. Heath

The Evangelical Moment: The Promise of an American Religion

By Kenneth J. Collins

Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Press

2005, 288 pp., paper, $22.99

Reviewed by Nathan Crawford

Theology as History and Hermeneutics: A Post-Critical Evangelical Conversation with Contemporary Theology

Laurence W. Wood

Lexington: Emeth Publisher

2004, 261 pp.

Reviewed by …

A Faith-Based Program Evaluation: Moral Development Of Seminary Students At The Louisiana State Penitentiary, Bruce Sabin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation was to conduct an outcomes-based program evaluation for the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) campus of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. The study included one primary research question, with two subquestions. The primary research question asked to what extent students in the program developed moral judgment consistent with program goals of rehabilitating students and preparing them for effective ministry. The first subquestion asked whether statistically significant differences existed in the moral reasoning of students of different class years. The second subquestion asked whether statistically significant differences existed in the moral reasoning of students of different …

Arendtian Contributions To Liberal Political Theory, Sarah M. Mcgrath

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Why The Catholic Majority On The Supreme Court May Be Unconstitutional, Symposium On Catholicism And The Court, Michael J. Gerhardt

Faculty Publications

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Testing Stark's Thesis: Is Mormonism The First New World Religion Since Islam?, Gerald R. Mcdermott

BYU Studies

I n 1984, Rodney Stark startled the academic world with a claim that has kept sociologists and religion-watchers scratching their heads ever since. “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons,” he predicted, “will soon achieve a worldwide following comparable to that of Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and the other dominant world faiths.”¹ Stark claimed that Mormonism has grown faster than any other new religion in American history. Between 1840 and 1980, it had averaged a growth rate of 44 percent per decade; in the four decades 1940 through 1980, growth zoomed to an astonishing 53 percent. If …

Stem Cell Research, Cloning And Catholic Moral Theology, Ronald Fabbro

The Linacre Quarterly

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The Cowl - V. 70 - N. 8 - Oct 20, 2005

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 70 - Number 8 - October 20, 2005. 28 pages.

Holy Cross Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 3, Fall 2005, College Of The Holy Cross

Holy Cross Magazine

Business 101: Bringing the Boardroom into the Classroom
The College’s newly created “Arthur A. Ciocca Executive in Residence Program” gives Holy Cross students an intimate look into the world of business and industry and brings an impressive roster of alumni-executives to campus.
By Michael Reardon

Journeys for the Mind, Heart and Soul
Last April, 23 travelers departed for Italy on the inaugural trip of the College’s new Alumni Travel/Study Program. Their journey to explore the history, culture and spiritual dimensions of Tuscany set the stage for an exciting new chapter in alumni education.
By Maria Healey

Alumna finds that children …

Atticus Finch, Boris A. Max, And The Lawyer's Dilemma, Robert Batey

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

For as long as I have taught law and literature, I have held strong opinions about two fictional criminal defense attorneys, the world-famous Atticus Finch of the novel and film To Kill a Mockingbird' and the less celebrated Boris A. Max, Bigger Thomas's attorney in Richard Wright's Native Son.' Atticus and Max, both white, courageously defend black men charged with capital crimes by a racist legal system, both are vilified by the public, and both of them see their clients die at the hands of the state. But despite their courage, my opinion of each was that he failed his …

Redemptive Memory: The Christianization Of The Holocaust In America, Laura Bender Herron

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

There has been a considerable debate among historians concerning the role of the Holocaust in the American collective memory. Since the watershed year 1993, when the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened its doors on the Mall in Washington, DC, and the film Schindler’s List debuted, the level of awareness of the Holocaust in the public mind has been at an all-time high in the United States. The question at the heart of this academic discussion is how Americans have come to identify so strongly with an experience that occurred over sixty years ago, on foreign shores, to a group …

The Priest-Penitent Privilege: An Hibernocentric Essay In Postcolonial Jurisprudence, Walter J. Walsh

Indiana Law Journal

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The Lies Of War: Building An Ethics Of Peace, Daniel Maguire

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Publishing Dissent, Arthur J. Jacobson

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Moral Status Of The Human Embryo According To Peter Singer: Individuality, Humanity, And Personhood, Joseph Howard

The Linacre Quarterly

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Nutrition And Hydration: Should They Be Considered Medical Therapy?, Kevin T. Mcmahon

The Linacre Quarterly

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The Fetus As Our Patient: The Confluence Of Faith And Science In The Care Of The Unborn, Byron C. Calhoun

The Linacre Quarterly

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Why The Federal Marriage Amendment Is Not Only Not Necessary, But A Bad Idea: A Response To Christopher Wolfe, Michael Perry

San Diego Law Review

The Federal Marriage Amendment does more than prevent same-sex couples from having marital status. In response to Professor Wolfe, this article contends that the Federal Marriage Amendment prevents state courts and state legislatures from choosing to grant marital status to same-sex couples. Gender complimentarity, the heart of Professor Wolfe's argument and the Federal Marriage Amendment's basis, is too controversial and problematic to bind future generations from allowing same-sex marriage. Even if society is currently opposed to same-sex marriage, this author concludes that the U.S. Constitution should not be amended in a way that prevents future generations from deciding whether to …

Update - June 2005, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Universal Access to Health Care and Religious Basis of Human Rights

160th University Of Notre Dame Commencement And Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

160th University of Notre Dame Commencement and Mass Program including Law School awards

May 13-15, 2005