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The God Prompt And Deus Ex Machina: Techno-Theological Tropes And Operational Metaphors In Generative Media, James Hutson Sep 2025

The God Prompt And Deus Ex Machina: Techno-Theological Tropes And Operational Metaphors In Generative Media, James Hutson

Faculty Scholarship

This study reframes two durable tropes—the ―God Prompt‖ and the deus ex machina—as analytic lenses for understanding how contemporary generative systems stage beginnings and endings of cultural production. The ―God Prompt‖ denotes command-driven synthesis in which minimal textual instructions instantiate content on demand, crystallizing a production loop of input, model execution, and post hoc evaluation that orients anticipation toward instantaneous yield and controllable variation. The deus ex machina names an externally imposed resolution that interrupts causal development—historically a crane-borne god, functionally an algorithmic override—thereby concentrating attention on closure mechanics rather than world-building continuity. Read together, the pair offers a compact …


Do We Serve A Dice-Throwing God? Reconciling The Indeterminacy Of Quantum Mechanics With The Sovereignty Of An Almighty God, Elias Obbink Sep 2025

Do We Serve A Dice-Throwing God? Reconciling The Indeterminacy Of Quantum Mechanics With The Sovereignty Of An Almighty God, Elias Obbink

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No abstract provided.


Inyoni And The Pale Man (Book Review), James C. Schaap Sep 2025

Inyoni And The Pale Man (Book Review), James C. Schaap

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Reviewed Title: Inyoni and the Pale Man by John Suk. Bloomington, IN: Archway Publishing, 2025. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781665770194.


Encuentro Con Alberto García-3 Vida En Comunidad, Alberto García Sep 2025

Encuentro Con Alberto García-3 Vida En Comunidad, Alberto García

Artículos educación teológica

Encuentro con Alberto García-3 Vida en Comunidad


Encuentro Con Alberto García-1 500 Años, Alberto García Sep 2025

Encuentro Con Alberto García-1 500 Años, Alberto García

Artículos educación teológica

Encuentro con Alberto García-1 500 años


Encuentro Con Alberto García-2 Lutero Escrituras, Alberto García Sep 2025

Encuentro Con Alberto García-2 Lutero Escrituras, Alberto García

Artículos educación teológica

Encuentro con Alberto García-2 Lutero Escrituras


La Verdad Sobre Iglesia Universal, Alberto Ávila Sep 2025

La Verdad Sobre Iglesia Universal, Alberto Ávila

Artículos educación teológica

La verdad sobre Iglesia Universal


Fascination Into New Creation, Joel E. Kok Sep 2025

Fascination Into New Creation, Joel E. Kok

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Priests Of History: Stewarding The Past In An Ahistoric Age (Book Review), Keith C. Sewell Sep 2025

Priests Of History: Stewarding The Past In An Ahistoric Age (Book Review), Keith C. Sewell

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Reviewed Title: Priests of History: Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric Age by Sarah Irving-Stonebraker. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Reflective, 2024. 225 pp. ISBN: 9780310161134.


Christian Higher Education (Book Review), Carl P. Fictorie Sep 2025

Christian Higher Education (Book Review), Carl P. Fictorie

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Reviewed Title: Christian Higher Education by Perry L. Glanzer, Theodore F. Cockle, and Jessica Martin. Abilene Christian University Press, 2023. 176 pp. ISBN: 9781684264124.


Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide To Practicing Faith In The Classroom (Book Review), Valorie L. Zonnefeld Sep 2025

Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide To Practicing Faith In The Classroom (Book Review), Valorie L. Zonnefeld

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Reviewed Title: Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide to Practicing Faith by David I. Smith. Eerdmans, 2025. 224 pp. ISBN: 9780802883001.


The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Great Binding Peace, Philip P. Arnold, Sandra L. Bigtree Sep 2025

The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Great Binding Peace, Philip P. Arnold, Sandra L. Bigtree

Religion - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Local Identity In The Lives Of The Fathers Of Mérida: When Ethnicity And Religion Aren’T The Point, Erica Buchberger Sep 2025

Local Identity In The Lives Of The Fathers Of Mérida: When Ethnicity And Religion Aren’T The Point, Erica Buchberger

History Faculty Publications

While scholarship on early medieval Europe often centers ethnicity or religion over other forms of identity, they were not always the most relevant form of identification for contemporaries. In the Lives of the Fathers of Mérida (late sixth-early seventh century), ethnic and religious identity were actually deployed to construct a local identity around the space and people of the city. This article explores how the text did so by closely analyzing terms used and their context, and by applying social scientific theories of boundary construction to illuminate the strategies of identification behind it. It argues that such an approach …


The Mercy Seat Of The Risen Christ: Atonement And The Glory Of God In Romans 3:21-26, David Westfall Sep 2025

The Mercy Seat Of The Risen Christ: Atonement And The Glory Of God In Romans 3:21-26, David Westfall

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Scholarship on Romans 3.21–26 typically isolates the death of Jesus on the cross as the moment when Paul says the righteousness of God was disclosed, leading to the justification of all who believe the gospel. In this paper I argue that, although the death of Christ relates in important ways to Paul’s claims in the paragraph, this reading does not fully account for his metaphorical description of Christ as a ‘mercy seat’ (ἱλαστήριον), nor his assertion that those who believe are ‘justified through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus’. I show that Paul uses this language and imagery to …


Week 6: The Witness Of Suffering, Calvin University Sep 2025

Week 6: The Witness Of Suffering, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 1: Can I Get A Witness?, Calvin University Sep 2025

Week 1: Can I Get A Witness?, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 2: Wind And Flame: Equipped For Witness, Calvin University Sep 2025

Week 2: Wind And Flame: Equipped For Witness, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 3: The Witness Of Shalom, Calvin University Sep 2025

Week 3: The Witness Of Shalom, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 7: The Witness Of Transformation, Calvin University Sep 2025

Week 7: The Witness Of Transformation, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 8: The Witness Of Changing Our Minds, Calvin University Sep 2025

Week 8: The Witness Of Changing Our Minds, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 5: The Witness Of Engaging Conflict, Calvin University Sep 2025

Week 5: The Witness Of Engaging Conflict, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Week 4: The Witness Of Proclamation, Calvin University Sep 2025

Week 4: The Witness Of Proclamation, Calvin University

Campus Ministries Resources

No abstract provided.


Eternality Of Jesus Of Nazareth And The Meaning Of Three Of His Key Christological Titles: “Word”, “Only Begotten”, And “First Born” From The Dead (John 1:1), Olufemi I. Adeyemi Sep 2025

Eternality Of Jesus Of Nazareth And The Meaning Of Three Of His Key Christological Titles: “Word”, “Only Begotten”, And “First Born” From The Dead (John 1:1), Olufemi I. Adeyemi

Faculty Publications and Presentations

TBD


Merit Transference And The Paradox Of Merit Inflation, Matthew Hammerton Sep 2025

Merit Transference And The Paradox Of Merit Inflation, Matthew Hammerton

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Many religious traditions and ethical systems hold that individuals accrue merit through their good intentions, acts, and character, and demerit through their bad intentions, acts, and character. This merit and demerit, accumulated by individuals throughout their lives, gives each person a kind of ethical “score” that can determine what they deserve, and influence whether good or bad things happen to them (e.g., divine punishments and rewards, a favourable or unfavourable rebirth, etc.). In some traditions (most notably Buddhism, but also to a limited extent in Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity), “merit transference” is a feature of these merit-based ethical systems. This …


Walking On Burning Ground: A Neo-Calvinist Cure To Climate Apathy, Beatrice Shackleford Sep 2025

Walking On Burning Ground: A Neo-Calvinist Cure To Climate Apathy, Beatrice Shackleford

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Life Is Like A Mist, Calvin Vandermeyden Sep 2025

Life Is Like A Mist, Calvin Vandermeyden

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Longing For Transcendence: Olympic Gold And Christian Virtue, Matthew Vos, John B. White Sep 2025

Longing For Transcendence: Olympic Gold And Christian Virtue, Matthew Vos, John B. White

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Shaping Youth Ministry: Exploring Influences On Youth Pastors’ Approaches To Programme Design, Timothy A. Mullen, Trudi Cooper Sep 2025

Shaping Youth Ministry: Exploring Influences On Youth Pastors’ Approaches To Programme Design, Timothy A. Mullen, Trudi Cooper

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The literature on youth ministry practices is mostly anecdotal, and empirical research into the practices, goals, and meanings of youth ministry to youth pastors is rare, especially in Australia. In this study, 20 youth pastors in Perth, Western Australia, were interviewed about their goals, priorities, practices, training, and what influenced them. This study forms part of a larger doctoral research project. The interview data were analysed utilising a phenomenological approach, drawing upon Goffman’s framing analysis to examine the link between ‘meaning making’ and explicit and tacit motivations for youth ministry practice. The research found that youth pastors were most often …


Christian Character Formation In A Culture Of Anger, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung Sep 2025

Christian Character Formation In A Culture Of Anger, Rebecca Konyndyk Deyoung

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Anger is a hot topic, perhaps especially for Christians. We might concede that it’s OK to be angry sometimes—for example, when human rights are violated. It’s not right to be complacent or indifferent in the face of that kind of intentional injury! At the same time, we might be wary of justifying anger, given how many times we’ve been harmed—or seen others harmed— by people who get too angry. No one who has encountered Christians ranting on social media thinks we need more of that kind of witness.


Contextualization: Old Tool, New Reach, Rogelio Paquini Sep 2025

Contextualization: Old Tool, New Reach, Rogelio Paquini

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.