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The Russel B. Swensen Lecture

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

After graduating from Brigham Young University in 1926, Russel B. Swensen (1902-1987) taught seminary in Mesa, Arizona, and later in Kamas and Hurricane, Utah. In 1930, Joseph F Merrill. then LDS Church commissioner of education, invited Swensen, along with two others, co attend the University of Chicago Divinity School. There, he received an MA and Ph.D. in New Testament Studies.

Preface, Christopher Oscarson

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

Every year, the reading staff of The Thetean has the formidable task of selecting just four or five interesting, well-written, insightful essays that appropriately illustrate the finest work done by history students at Brigham Young University. This year, perhaps because of the statewide Centennial statehood celebration, we received what seemed to be an unusually large number of papers dealing with Utah history in addition to the regularly large number of Mormon history papers. Our first impulse was to shy away from some of these essays simply co force diversity into the pages of The Thetean, but we ultimately felt char …

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Women's Reproductive Health: A Critical Appraisal Of Reproductive Justice And Magisterial Contributions To Responsible Family Planning, Kelly Olson

School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

History reveals the degrading and traumatizing experiences of marginalized women harmed by unethical reproductive healthcare practices. Progress has been made; however divisive barriers still prohibit dialogue from resulting in a dignified approach to legislation that serves the diverse population of women in diverse situations of lived reality. Enhancing the theological dialogue with updated awareness of women’s reproductive healthcare needs and a renewed conversation of the benefit of expressed human sexuality in heterosexual marriage allows opportunity for the Magisterium to enhance teaching that aligns with Catholic tradition and grows with human understanding, in the spirit of aggiornamento. Improved clarity and wider …

Lsd To Galilee: Incarnation In The Psychedelic Subculture, Rob Zahn

Doctor of Ministry

This project is the result of a curiosity that there might be an opportunity (NPO) for the church, for everyone, to “learn how God is incarnate and works outside of the parameters of the church as evidenced by the birth of Contemporary Christian Music from the psychedelic hippie subculture of the late ’60s and early ’70s.” From a theological perspective, the answer might be obvious. Of course God is incarnate and works outside of any and all parameters humanity attempts to impose on the divine! However, what rises to the surface when such questions are engaged, is the extent to …

Program: 2024 Featured Lecture, "Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, And Ministered In The Early Church", Nijay Gupta

Frank Pack Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecture Program

Program for the Nineteenth Annual Frank Pack Distinguished Christian Lecture Program with featured lecturer Nijay Gupta, Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary.

Renewing The Fatwa On Contemporary Financial Transactions In Light Of The Objectives Of Sharia, حسن شموط, حمزة مسلم

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research came to talk about renewing the fatwa in contemporary financial transactions. In it, the two researchers discussed the concept of renewal in contemporary financial transactions, and how it keeps pace with the changing conditions of people’s financial transactions with changes in time, place, conditions, custom, and interest, within the framework of moving with time, with the aim of deriving its rulings within the limits of the principles and the principles of Sharia. They also discussed in the second requirement the motivations for renewal in contemporary financial transactions, and then in the next requirement the controls for renewal.

The …

The Educational Thought Of Imam Al-Ghazali (450-505 Hijri / 1058-1111 Ad) In The Light Of His Book 'Revival Of The Sciences Of Religion, ربيع الفرجات, آلاء خريسات, هبة عازم

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The intellectual and jurisprudent is the argument of Islam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali in the forefront of the Islamic innovators who were founded to defend Islam in the face of the deviant intellectual currents that hit it in the fifth century AH. Al-Ghazali tried to present a new image of Islam, bringing closer and closer to his good education for all time and place.

This study is intended to show some aspects of the educational thought of al-Ghazali, by taking his comprehensive religious subject, "Reviving the Sciences of Religion," as a model. This study attempted to capture all aspects of educational …

A Study In The Narratives Of The Prophet’S Biography, أمين محمد

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The narration of Ali bin Abi Talib – may God be pleased with him - sleeping in the bed of the Prophet – may the blessings and peace of God be upon him - during migration hadithia analytical study

This study took over with the narration of Ali bin Abi Talib – may God be pleased with him – sleeping in the bed of the Prophet – may the blessings and peace of God be upon him – during the migration incident; I worked on extracting and authentication it from the books of hadith, books of the Prophet’s biography, history …

Determinants Of Jurisprudential Controls Regulating Rulings On The Impurity Emanating From The Human Body And Its Effect Of Tahara (Purity), أنـس الجابر

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study sheds light on the determinants of the jurisprudential controls governing the provisions of impurity emitted from the human body and their impact on ( Tahara ) purity, Where it deals with a general matter aimed at achieving the requirements of ( Tahara ) purity, aiming to clarify the determinants of these controls.

Where the study concluded that the determinants of jurisprudential controls differed in view of the same control, according to the difference in the legal estimates considered in that.

Indicators Of Bothness And Deviation And Their Factors In The Human Personality: An Islamic Fundamentalist Study, محمد السميري

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study aimed at explaining the concept of equality and deviation in the human personality, and indicating the factors affecting it, and indicators that show the extent of equality and deviation in the human personality in the light of the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah, and the researcher followed the inductive analytical method in the study to reach the answer to its questions, and the researcher reached a set of: And that there are indicators that indicate the state of both and the state of deviation in the human personality, namely: First: the doctrinal indicator: which is: faith is offset …

انزياحات لغوية في القرآن الكريم, منصور عياصرة

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

Many scholars believe that the eloquent text is that text that surprises the reader, with amazing linguistic aesthetics, as it departs from the usual expected, and reaches the surprising, eye-catching and heartfelt, since its first hearing.

The scholars acknowledge that the Holy Qur’an is the most informative text, in terms of its language, syntax, morphology, and rhetoric, and in terms of the word’s harmony with what precedes it and what comes after it, and this gives it a special impact that is remarkable for the sensitive listener in terms of its grammatical and morphological compatibility, and its gentle rhythm on …

Interfering With The Case: A Jurisprudential Study Compared To The Jordanian Shari'a Procedures Law, راكان ابو حمور

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research dealt with the issue of interference and insertion in the case and what is related to it, where the researcher proceeded to define the term interference and insertion in the case, and to indicate the extent of its legality, then to indicate the types of interference in the case and its terms and provisions.

He dealt with the practical procedures for intervention and insertion in the case, and between the extent of the court's authority to accept it and the effects resulting from the intervention and insertion in the case, and then between the application aspect through the …

Methods Of Teaching Islamic Jurisprudence Issues With Imam Abu Hanifa Al-Numan, شادي أبو عفيفة

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

When Imam Abu Hanifa al-Numan who died in the year 150 AH; One of the most prominent scholars who enriched the sciences of Sharia with jurisprudential rulings and legal concepts, which people received with acceptance in the East and West; This is what researchers and scholars have come to know. However, Imam Abu Hanifa - may God have mercy on him - had another aspect that many researchers overlook. It is the face of education and education. That is because he taught students of knowledge for many years, so he wrote for himself methods and methods of teaching that are …

تعليلات الحاكم الجشمي في إبطاله روايات سقوط أكثر سورة الأحزاب: دراسة نقدية مقارنة, محمد السواعدة

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research deals with the opinion of Al-Hakim Al-Jashmi in his interpretation (Al-Tahdheeb) in the narrations related to the length of Surat Al-Ahzab, and that it was like Surat Al-Baqarah or longer,

The importance of this topic comes from the point of view of the value of Al-Jashmi's opinions and their position among the commentators, and from the point of view of the need to clarify the correctness of deleting parts of Surat Al-Ahzab.

The research aimed to show Al-Jashmi’s reasoning that made him invalidate these narrations and discuss them in comparing the sayings of the scholars. Where the idea …

الدين في العلاقات الدولية:النموذج الإيراني وأثره على كل من العراق وسورية ولبنان وفلسطين في ضوء نظريات العلاقات الدولية, محمد أنور العتوم

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study showed that the religious dimension plays a major role in international relations and in formulating foreign policy .The study also showed that Iran made great efforts after the revolution to create ideological tools for it to expand and extend its influence in Iraq , Syria , Lebanon and Palestine . The study concluded that this dimension was one of the constants and pillars of Iran's foreign policy and its international relations in a profound way .The study also concluded that the religious dimension is one of the most important priorities of the Iranian political system , and it's …

Practical Practices Of Family Reform In The Life Of The Prophet, May God Bless Him And Grant Him Peace, محمد الشرقاوي, أمين النهاري, رشدي رملي

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aims to reach family reform by following the example of the practical practices of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and looking at his life inside and outside the house of prophecy.

This study concluded that the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, is the ideal and a good example in family reform, and there is no way to solve the problem of family disputes and marital disputes except by looking at the practical practices of family reform from the life of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and …

The Way Of Guidance By The Provisions Of The Imamate And Imitation, By Ahmad Ibn 'Abd Al-Moneim Al-Damanhouri Al-Hanafi (D. 1192 Ah) (Study And Investigation), مساعد العجيري

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aims to facilitate the use of the realized part of the manuscript in order to uncover confusion and remove the problem from many of its issues addressed by the author, in accordance with the methodological and scientific considerations adopted in the investigation, in terms of documenting the jurisprudential sayings, indicating what needs to be explained, commenting on the jurisprudential issues that need clarification, graduating the hadiths from their considered sources with judgment, indicating the strange words of their considered grievances, translating those who need to be translated from scholars, jurists and literature, etc. Investigation includes.

This study concluded …

مسلك التجربة وأثره في الكشف عن مآلات الأفعال تأصيلًا وتطبيقًا, هند الحديد, عبدالرحمن الكيلاني

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study deals with the experiment approach and its effect on the consequences of actions of the scholars in both applied and rotting aspects. In the first three demands, the researchers presented the fundamental aspect in terms of the concept of experience, and the evidence for its consideration from the Qur’an and Sunnah as a path to reveal the consequences of actions and the construction of judgments, according to what they considered experiments reveal.

Further, the researchers presented the in rooting aspects, the scholars of Usul al-Fiqh take into account the conduct of the experiment through a set of rules …

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The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

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The Religious Significance Of Bees And Beehives In Egyptian, Israelite, And Latter-Day Saint Traditions, Anita Cramer

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

The bee and beehive have been pervasive symbols in many ancient societies and religions. This iconography continues in the modern world, as Latter-day Saint beehives clearly testify. From Brigham Young University letterhead, to Utah highway signs, to the Salt Lake Temple doors, the state of Deseret continues to flaunt its mascot Yet few realize the profound symbolism, such as royalty and rebirth, associated with the bee. Examining the ancient Egyptian and Israelite usage of bees in a religious context, therefore, is intriguing, and provides insight into why Latter-day Saint pioneers chose to identify with the beehive and its inhabitants. Pharaonic …

Blackfeet And Long Knives: Hostilities Between Blackfeet And Americans, 1806-1840, Jay H. Buckley

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

More than twenty trappers had died within three months. The men had begun to cower in the fort, afraid to leave for fear of a Blackfoot attack. George Drouillard ventured out alone twice and brought back nearly twenty beaver pelts. He contended that he was too much Indian himself to be captured or killed. On the third day, he convinced two others to leave the fort as well-all three failed to return. Thomas James recorded that their search party found the first two bodies "pierced with lances, arrows, and bullets and lying near each other." One hundred and fifty yards …

'And Your Name Will Be Remembered... ": The History Of John Alexander Clark's Turkish Mission, Daniel J. Pingree

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

Thousands of miles from the arid deserts of rural Utah in the coastal city of Haifa, Israel, stands a small German cemetery known only to few. Surrounded by a weathered wrought-iron fence and situated near the shipping docks, the cemetery borders the Mediterranean Sea and is overshadowed by ML Carmel. A marble and sandstone monument inside the fence honors the final resting place of a valiant missionary who died while laboring among a people he loved. This gravestone marks the burial plot of John Alexander Clark, a young elder who died while serving in the Turkish Mission for The Church …

Creation Of The Evil Empire: How American Newspapers Molded Perceptions Of The Soviet Union, Mary Dickson

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

Feelings of apprehension and mistrust toward the Soviet Union were very familiar to those born during the cold war era. However, many baby-boomers were probably unaware that as recently as 1945, the Soviets were considered comrades-in-arms American allies. This drastic change in perception had several causes by a number of ingredients. Predominant among these were media voices that tended to encourage fear of Soviet aggression, promote certain policy positions, reinforce negative stereotypes, and influence consumers' purchases; a review of relevant events covered by the American newspaper media in different areas of the United States revealed the changing attitudes toward the …

Germany's War For World Conquest And The Extermination Of Jews, Gerhard L. Weinberg

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

Fifty years ago the war between Germany and the Allies was coming to its final stage. In the East, the Red Army had broken through the German central front in Poland, had driven deeply into Germany itself, had taken much of the Silesian industrial area, had established a bridgehead over the Oder River, and was eliminating pockets of German resistance isolated by the winter offensive, even while preparations were beginning for the final assault on Berlin. In the South, all Soviet territory once occupied by the Germans had been freed almost a year earlier, and the Red Army occupied Romania, …

The Russel B. Swensen Lecture

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

After graduating from Brigham Young University in 1926, Russel B. Swensen taught seminary in Mesa, Arizona, and later in Kamas and Hurricane, Utah. In 1930,Joseph F. Merrill, then LDS Church commissioner of education, invited Swensen, along with two others, to attend the University of Chicago Divinity School. There, he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in New Testament Studies.

Acknowledgments

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

The Thetean received generous donations from the following affiliates of Brigham Young University:

• History Department
• College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences
• Office of Graduate Studies
• Multicultural Education
• General and Honors Education
• Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
• Women's Research Institute
• David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies

Preface, Heather M. Seferovich, Christopher Oscarson

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

The Thetean is an annual publication of the Beta Iota Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, an international honorary society of history. Students at Brigham Young University submit scholarly historical papers for publication. The annual Russel B. Swensen lecture is also published.

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“Reciprocal Illumination” Of Hinduism, Human Rights, And The Comparative Study Of Religion: Arvind Sharma’S Contributions, Nancy M. Martin

Religious Studies Faculty Articles and Research

Arvind Sharma has made immensely significant contributions in the fields of both comparative religion and the study of Hinduism through his methodology of “reciprocal illumination” and his prominent role in international conversations on women and religion, religion and human rights, freedom of religion, and religious tolerance and conflict. Aware of the power of religion and its negative valuation, especially post-September 11, he displays a deep commitment to fostering interreligious understanding, arguing for religion as an essential and positive partner in envisioning and actualizing human flourishing, upholding human dignity, and engaging in global ethical cooperation, and equally he demonstrates Hinduism’s potential …