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The God-Camera Of Theology And Memory In Terrence Malick’S The Tree Of Life, Sherry Coman Nov 2016

The God-Camera Of Theology And Memory In Terrence Malick’S The Tree Of Life, Sherry Coman

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Terrence Malick’s film The Tree of Life presents a personal and emotionally-laden memory play that is visually and symbolically “framed” by theological and biblical contexts that are both explicit and implicit. This paper explores how the film’s constantly moving camera and elliptical editing help to establish a trope for depicting how God moves in the lives of the characters. Through non-traditional film production and presentation techniques, Malick manifests a theme of “God as ultimate artist” who participates with us in the restoration of what is broken, and who makes “all things new”.


Interfaith-Cross-Cultural Improvisation: Music And Meaning Across Boundaries Of Faith And Culture, Gerard J. Yun Nov 2016

Interfaith-Cross-Cultural Improvisation: Music And Meaning Across Boundaries Of Faith And Culture, Gerard J. Yun

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This article explores the social value and meaning of interfaith-cross-cultural improvisation (musical improvisation between people from differing cultural and faith traditions) and its unique quality of engaging widely different cultural and faith-based groups. It draws concepts from evolutionary biology, ethnomusicology, religious experience, the emerging field of community music, and the insight of first-hand participants. Interfaith-cross-cultural improvisation can be seen as a form of “deep play” with the ability to signal and evoke empathy across participants who identify with divergent beliefs, cultures, and practices. The article attempts to illuminate the process of interfaith-cross-cultural improvisation as a meaningful undertaking of interfaith and …


Foreword: Faith And The Arts, Olena Darewych, Debbie Lou Ludolph Nov 2016

Foreword: Faith And The Arts, Olena Darewych, Debbie Lou Ludolph

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No abstract provided.


Engaging The Senses To Occasion Thin Space And Transformation, Kimberlynn Mcnabb Nov 2016

Engaging The Senses To Occasion Thin Space And Transformation, Kimberlynn Mcnabb

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No abstract provided.


Singing The Story Of Advent And Christmas: How Congregational Song Makes Diverse Theologies Incarnate, Hilary Seraph Donaldson Nov 2016

Singing The Story Of Advent And Christmas: How Congregational Song Makes Diverse Theologies Incarnate, Hilary Seraph Donaldson

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No abstract provided.


Share With Me Who You Are…, Anne Anderson Nov 2016

Share With Me Who You Are…, Anne Anderson

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No abstract provided.


Singing Impossible Possibilities, Debbie Lou Ludolph Nov 2016

Singing Impossible Possibilities, Debbie Lou Ludolph

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Singing Impossible Possibilities: Installation of Deacon Scott Knarr Mount Zion Lutheran Church, April 17, 2016


Visual Arts In The Worshiping Church, Greg Sennema Nov 2016

Visual Arts In The Worshiping Church, Greg Sennema

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Title: Visual arts in the worshiping church Author: Lisa Deboer Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016 ISBN: 9780802869517


Queerly Faithful: A Queer-Poet Community Autoethnography On Identity And Belonging In Christian Faith Communities, Eric Van Giessen Sep 2016

Queerly Faithful: A Queer-Poet Community Autoethnography On Identity And Belonging In Christian Faith Communities, Eric Van Giessen

Social Justice and Community Engagement

In a cultural climate characterized by increasing polarization and hostility towards difference, the lives and bodies of those standing at the intersection of religious and marginal sexual identities are actively shaped by and reshaping our social and cultural landscape. Cultural narratives that conflate religion with oppression and pit religion against ‘progressive’ political movements create artificial divisions that undermine the efforts of LGBTQI+ people of faith to effect change in their communities by pressuring them to compartmentalize—or closet— their spiritual or sexual selves. These constructions also reinforce discourses that claim there are no queer people in faith communities and no people …


Reconciliation: All Our Relations, Kelly Laurila May 2016

Reconciliation: All Our Relations, Kelly Laurila

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The author shares the national, community (local) and individual discourses taking place as they pertain to the reconciliation process that is happening with Indigenous and Settler peoples in Canada. Importantly, the author sheds light on a multitude of local efforts of reconciliation happening that have not yet made it to academic discourses and publications, but which could be instrumental in contributing to reconciliation. A key component emphasized in these reconciliation efforts and which could be the catalyst for change, is the importance of relationships. Stemming from an Indigenous epistemological perspective, the creation of positive relationships with others and ‘all our …


Exploring Pathways To Reconciliation, Kathleen E. Absolon, Akiesha E. Absolon-Winchester May 2016

Exploring Pathways To Reconciliation, Kathleen E. Absolon, Akiesha E. Absolon-Winchester

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No abstract provided.


Trauma And Memory: Challenges To Settler Solidarity, Elaine L. Enns May 2016

Trauma And Memory: Challenges To Settler Solidarity, Elaine L. Enns

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No abstract provided.


Truth And Reconciliation, And The Anglican Church Of Canada, Virginia "Ginny" Doctor May 2016

Truth And Reconciliation, And The Anglican Church Of Canada, Virginia "Ginny" Doctor

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No abstract provided.


Walking In Reconciled Relationships, Terry Leblanc May 2016

Walking In Reconciled Relationships, Terry Leblanc

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No abstract provided.


What The Trc Reveals About The Churches, Mark Mcdonald May 2016

What The Trc Reveals About The Churches, Mark Mcdonald

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No abstract provided.


Faithful Doubt, Kristine Lund May 2016

Faithful Doubt, Kristine Lund

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Sermon on John 20:19-29


Journeying Together Toward Truth And Reconciliation, Cameron Harder, Allen Jorgenson May 2016

Journeying Together Toward Truth And Reconciliation, Cameron Harder, Allen Jorgenson

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No abstract provided.


As If A Raven By Yvonne Blomer, Kelly Shepherd Feb 2016

As If A Raven By Yvonne Blomer, Kelly Shepherd

The Goose

A review of As if a Raven by Yvonne Blomer.


Faithful Doubt, Kristine Lund Jan 2016

Faithful Doubt, Kristine Lund

Luther Faculty Publications

Sermon on John 20:19-29.


Not Sinking With The Titanic: Personal Agency As A Key Factor In Transforming Trauma Into Posttraumatic Growth, Alida C. Vandijk Jan 2016

Not Sinking With The Titanic: Personal Agency As A Key Factor In Transforming Trauma Into Posttraumatic Growth, Alida C. Vandijk

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The discipline of spiritual care and psychotherapy integrates theology with social sciences. Theological reflection is the lens through which the social sciences are engaged. Using the theoretical framework of theological reflexivity and an understanding of people as living human documents, this doctoral dissertation examines the question, “What are some factors that enable an individual to transform a self-defined traumatic experience into posttraumatic growth?” The existential question of trauma and suffering is explored using the biblical narrative of the concubine in Judges 19 to examine her powerlessness and victimization, the narrative of Job to wrestle with the question of unjust suffering, …