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Beauty As Revelation And Doxology: A Theology Of Aesthetics, Adam Begnaud Osb

School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

This project was initiated as a term paper for the course "Trinity, Faith and Revelation" at Saint John's University, School of Theology, Collegeville, Minnesota. The paper presents the author's theology of beauty as a search for and praise of God in Benedictine monasticism and liturgical music.

The Colton Celebration Congregation: A Case Study In American Adventist Worship Renewal 1986-1991, Viviane Haenni

Dissertations

This study investigates the experience of Celebration Center (Colton, California), its milieu, and its impact on the North American Seventh-day Adventist Church through what has been perceived as the celebration movement and controversy, while addressing underlying historical, sociological, and philosophical/theological question.

The principal findings of the study reveal that Celebration Center has uniquely attempted to explore a more multilayered approach to church life and worship within White Anglo Adventism. The celebration experience has ventured into breaking up some old Adventist expectations through its congregational trend; its emphasis on love, acceptance, and forgiveness; its different church organization and more holistic worship; …