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Review Of Fruit Of The Orchard: Reading Catherine Of Siena In Late Medieval And Early Modern England, Lezlie Knox Oct 2020

Review Of Fruit Of The Orchard: Reading Catherine Of Siena In Late Medieval And Early Modern England, Lezlie Knox

History Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Cathedrals Of The Mind: Theological Method And Speculative Renewal In Trinitarian Theology, Ryan Hemmer Oct 2020

Cathedrals Of The Mind: Theological Method And Speculative Renewal In Trinitarian Theology, Ryan Hemmer

Dissertations (1934 -)

The aim of this work is twofold. First, it labors to retrieve from the past a normative account of speculative theological method, in protest of the anti-speculative fashions and attitudes that have prevailed among theologians since the Second Vatican Council. Second, and in tension with the first aim, this study outlines the respects in which conciliar and post-conciliar developments in history, anthropology, philosophy, and cultural analysis—the same developments that led to speculative theology’s fall from favor—are the means by which speculative theology might be renewed and made useful in theology today. The second chapter squares up to speculative theology’s critics …


A Crisis Of Mistaken Identity: The Ethical Insufficiency Of The Corporate University Model, Conor M. Kelly Oct 2020

A Crisis Of Mistaken Identity: The Ethical Insufficiency Of The Corporate University Model, Conor M. Kelly

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Divine Compassion And Divine Punishment, Aaron Pidel Oct 2020

Divine Compassion And Divine Punishment, Aaron Pidel

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Two of this Sunday’s liturgical readings advert to a topic seldom broached in contemporary homiletics: divine punishment in this life. The reading from Exodus, like Jesus’s own preaching, describes God as loving and “compassionate” (22.26). But it also presents God, precisely because of this compassion, as vindictive: “If you ever wrong [any widow or orphan] and they cry out to me . . . My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword” (22.21-22). In the First Letter to the Thessalonians, St. Paul profiles the good news of the Gospel against a rather ominous background, recalling …


Plutarch's Themistocles: The Serpent Of Hellas, Jennifer Finn Sep 2020

Plutarch's Themistocles: The Serpent Of Hellas, Jennifer Finn

History Faculty Research and Publications

In Plutarch’s Themistocles, the general and expatriate is thrice referenced using snake imagery. This article argues that Plutarch deliberately uses snake motifs at loaded points in the narrative to express the transformations of the general’s image in Athenian social memory, and to direct his reader towards a certain interpretation of the general’s legacy. In the centuries between the Persian Wars and the composition of Plutarch’s Lives, Themistocles had been variously represented in Athenian memory as both a patriot and a traitor, often with reference to serpentine imagery that may have been initially propagated by the general himself. An analysis of …


The Enslaved Community Of Silver Bluff: Family, Resistance, & Freedom In Early America, Bryan C. Rindfleisch Sep 2020

The Enslaved Community Of Silver Bluff: Family, Resistance, & Freedom In Early America, Bryan C. Rindfleisch

History Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Martyrs Of Hope, John Thiede Sep 2020

Review Of Martyrs Of Hope, John Thiede

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Universal Basic Income And Work In Catholic Social Thought, Kate Ward Sep 2020

Universal Basic Income And Work In Catholic Social Thought, Kate Ward

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Catholic social thought (CST) has obvious resonance with universal basic income proposals, due to the tradition’s insistence on basic needs as human rights, comfort with government redistribution, and preference for programs that promote the agency of individuals and local communities, among other similarities. However, some CST scholars believe basic income challenges dearly held values of the tradition. This essay examines both views, concluding that basic income can comport with CST’s view of work, correctly understood.


Al-Fārābī Metaphysics, And The Construction Of Social Knowledge: Is Deception Warranted If It Leads To Happiness?, Nicholas Andrew Oschman Jul 2020

Al-Fārābī Metaphysics, And The Construction Of Social Knowledge: Is Deception Warranted If It Leads To Happiness?, Nicholas Andrew Oschman

Dissertations (1934 -)

When questioning whether political deception can be ethically warranted, two competing intuitions jump to the fore. First, political deception is a fact of human life, used in the realpolitik of governance. Second, the ethical warrant of truth asserts itself as inexorably and indefatigably preferable to falsehood. Unfortunately, a cursory examination of the history of philosophy reveals a paucity of models to marry these basic intuitions. Some thinkers (e.g., Augustine, Aquinas, Grotius, Kant, Mill, and Rawls) privilege the truth by neglecting the realpolitik, i.e., the truth is inviolate. Others (e.g., Machiavelli, Bentham, and the often infamous caché of 20th century dictators) …


Reception Of The Economic Social Teaching Of Gaudium Et Spes In The United States From 1965-2005, David Daniel Archdibald Jul 2020

Reception Of The Economic Social Teaching Of Gaudium Et Spes In The United States From 1965-2005, David Daniel Archdibald

Master's Theses (2009 -)

The Vatican Council II constitution, Gaudium et Spes, has been widely regarded as a significant contribution to Catholic Social Teaching. This paper examines the process of formation and redaction that Gaudium et Spes underwent and provides a synopsis of the document, focusing especially on articles 67-72 which pertain to economic principles. A review of significant commentaries on these economic principles follows, as well as an examination of the emphases of Pope Paul VI in Populorum Progressio. American commentaries pertaining to the economic teaching of Gaudium et Spes are then addressed, including Economic Justice for All which was released from the …


Review Of On Self-Harm, Narcissism, Atonement And The Vulnerable Christ, By David Vincent Meconi, Aaron Pidel Jul 2020

Review Of On Self-Harm, Narcissism, Atonement And The Vulnerable Christ, By David Vincent Meconi, Aaron Pidel

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


An Engine Of Change? The Affordable Care Act And The Shifting Politics Of Demonstration Projects, Philip Rocco, Andrew S. Kelly Jul 2020

An Engine Of Change? The Affordable Care Act And The Shifting Politics Of Demonstration Projects, Philip Rocco, Andrew S. Kelly

History Faculty Research and Publications

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) made a number of institutional investments intended to expand the federal government’s ability to scale successful demonstration projects into national policy. This article considers how the ACA has reshaped the politics of programmatic innovation in Medicare and Medicaid. A qualitative synthesis of demonstration results suggests that, although the ACA has removed several important veto points to the expansion of successful demonstration projects, numerous barriers to the scaling of reforms remain. These barriers include procedures and techniques that make it difficult to certify the “success” of demonstrations yet make their limitations highly legible. …


Racial Ideology Between Fascist Italy And Nazi Germany: Julius Evola And The Aryan Myth, 1933–43, Peter Staudenmaier Jul 2020

Racial Ideology Between Fascist Italy And Nazi Germany: Julius Evola And The Aryan Myth, 1933–43, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

One of the troublesome factors in the Rome–Berlin Axis before and during the Second World War centered on disagreements over racial ideology and corresponding antisemitic policies. A common image sees Fascist Italy as a reluctant partner on racial matters, largely dominated by its more powerful Nazi ally. This article offers a contrasting assessment, tracing the efforts by Italian theorist Julius Evola to cultivate a closer rapport between Italian and German variants of racism as part of a campaign by committed antisemites to strengthen the bonds uniting the fascist and Nazi cause. Evola's spiritual form of racism, based on a distinctive …


¿Un Nuevo Fragmento De Quaestiones In Exodum De Filón En Las Recientemente Descubiertas Homiliae In Psalmos De Orígenes? Una Nota Preliminar, Michael B. Cover Jul 2020

¿Un Nuevo Fragmento De Quaestiones In Exodum De Filón En Las Recientemente Descubiertas Homiliae In Psalmos De Orígenes? Una Nota Preliminar, Michael B. Cover

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

The aim of this study is to analyze a potential new fragment of Quaestiones in Exodum in the recently discovered Homiliae in Psalmos of Origen. To make this case, I will first weigh the evidence for and against a Philonic provenance for the tradition cited by Origen (whether paraphrase or citation). I will then offer some lexical, thematic, and form-critical considerations, which suggest that Origen is citing a Philonic interpretation from the Quaestiones rather than paraphrasing the Allegorical Commentary.


Everyday Solidarity: A Framework For Integrating Theological Ethics And Ordinary Life, Conor M. Kelly Jul 2020

Everyday Solidarity: A Framework For Integrating Theological Ethics And Ordinary Life, Conor M. Kelly

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

As moral theology responds to the pastoral emphases of Pope Francis’s pontificate, more work must be done to facilitate the integration of theological ethics and ordinary life. In order to pursue this goal in a consistent fashion, this article proposes a new form of “everyday solidarity” as a framework for linking Catholic theological convictions with everyday moral choices. The article clarifies the often-ambiguous notion of solidarity found in Catholic social teaching and describes how the new species of everyday solidarity can function as both a principle and a virtue to transform discernment in ordinary life.


Some Notes On The Nonexistence Of Wakanda, Gerry Canavan May 2020

Some Notes On The Nonexistence Of Wakanda, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Advocates For The Landscape: Alwin Seifert And Nazi Environmentalism, Peter Staudenmaier May 2020

Advocates For The Landscape: Alwin Seifert And Nazi Environmentalism, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

Reexamining debates on ostensibly green facets of Nazism, this article offers a case study of the "landscape advocates" led by Alwin Seifert from 1934 to 1945. In contrast to previous accounts focused on the role of the landscape advocates in the construction of the Autobahn, the article assesses their work on a wide range of projects in Nazi Germany and across occupied Europe. It argues that existing scholarship has not fully recognized the extent of the landscape advocates' involvement in Nazi structures and has sometimes misunderstood the relationship between their environmental activities and blood and soil ideology.


Looks That Kill: White Power, Christianity, And The Occlusion Of Justice, Wesley Sutermeister Apr 2020

Looks That Kill: White Power, Christianity, And The Occlusion Of Justice, Wesley Sutermeister

Dissertations (1934 -)

One of the most prominent, destructive, and long-lasting forms of racism in the United States and elsewhere is that which stems from the eyes of white people’s personal and social bodies. Their looks have been mobilized and deployed to exclude, exploit, put down, police, manage, intimidate, mark, and kill people of color at both an interpersonal and organizational level for the purpose of securing their own substance and future. Such exercises of power are rooted in human embodiment and suggest that justice and injustice are also rooted in our flesh, in how we relate to each other both corporeally and …


A Productive Failure: Existentialism In Fin De Siècle England, Maxwell Patchet Apr 2020

A Productive Failure: Existentialism In Fin De Siècle England, Maxwell Patchet

Dissertations (1934 -)

In this dissertation, I argue that Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday belong to a broader, transnational tradition of existential novelists. I discuss how recognizing their novels as existential explains why these authors exist in a liminal space in literary criticism, caught between Victorianism and modernism. My dissertation historicizes their existential contribution by placing it within the context of late-Victorian optimism. While their contemporaries celebrated Britain’s technological, imperial, and philosophical strides, Hardy, Conrad, and Chesterton wrote novels that warned against too firm a faith in the …


Reforming Victorian Sense/Abilities: Disabilities In Elizabeth Gaskell’S Social Problem Novels, Hunter Nicole Duncan Apr 2020

Reforming Victorian Sense/Abilities: Disabilities In Elizabeth Gaskell’S Social Problem Novels, Hunter Nicole Duncan

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation rewrites the representations of disability, impairment, and illness throughout Elizabeth Gaskell’s fiction. The project’s four chapters examine blindness in Mary Barton, pregnancy, deformity, and typhus fever in Ruth, tuberculosis and hysteria in North and South, and hysteria and disfigurement in Sylvia’s Lovers, in order to intervene with disability in its literary, historical, medical, and social contexts by uniting methodologies ranging from Disability Studies, Medical Humanities, feminist theory, and Victorian studies. By looking at the novel and rethinking it through Disability Studies, this dissertation joins contemporary theory with historical context, refreshing scholarly attention toward under-represented bodies and minds. This …


The Epistemology Of Disagreement: Hume, Kant, And The Current Debate, Robert Kyle Whitaker Apr 2020

The Epistemology Of Disagreement: Hume, Kant, And The Current Debate, Robert Kyle Whitaker

Dissertations (1934 -)

The epistemological issue of disagreement comprises several related problems which arise in relation to disagreeing with another person. The central questions at issue are: (1) Can a body of evidence confer rationality on opposed propositions? (2) What is the relevance of unshareable evidence to disagreement? (3) What are one’s epistemic responsibilities in the context of disagreement? I consider several arguments from the recent disagreement literature which suggest that reasonable disagreements between people who have shared their evidence and are epistemic peers--i.e., they are equally informed about the disputed issue, and are roughly equal with respect to intelligence, thoughtfulness, carefulness, alertness, …


Genre And Loss: The Impossibility Of Restoration In 20th Century Detective Fiction, Kathryn Hendrickson Apr 2020

Genre And Loss: The Impossibility Of Restoration In 20th Century Detective Fiction, Kathryn Hendrickson

Dissertations (1934 -)

My project situates loss, rather than restoration, as the identifying trait of the detective fiction genre. I contend that instead of providing a problem-solution model that gives readers closure and reinforces simplified understandings of good and evil, detective fiction refuses to build comforting narratives that rehabilitate a corrupted world. Detective fiction, with its continual attempts to provide an unobtainable solution, ruminates on the impossibility of restoration.Genre and Loss: The Impossibility of Restoration in 20th Century Detective Fiction divides into four chapters, each addressing a perceived subdivision of the detective fiction genre in order to illuminate the unifying connections between …


When The Foreign Became Familiar: Modernism, Expatriation, And Spatial Identities In The Twentieth Century, Danielle Kristene Clapham Apr 2020

When The Foreign Became Familiar: Modernism, Expatriation, And Spatial Identities In The Twentieth Century, Danielle Kristene Clapham

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation uses the life writing and fiction of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce to challenge the mythic construction of the autonomous modernist subject through the lens of expatriation. I use the expatriate as a paradigmatic figure of modernism to scrutinize common perceptions of modernist expatriation as a dissociation with tradition and national politics. Instead, this project positions modernism as a movement deeply enmeshed in celebrity culture and the cooptation of foreign spaces. I employ a spatial mode of reading expatriate fiction through which the physical sites of expatriation become symbols of expatriate values and identity in conflict …


Fire In The Bread, Life In The Body: The Pneumatology Of Ephrem The Syrian, David Kiger Apr 2020

Fire In The Bread, Life In The Body: The Pneumatology Of Ephrem The Syrian, David Kiger

Dissertations (1934 -)

The fourth century debates about the status and personhood of the Son later expanded to reflections on the status and person of the Holy Spirit. In this dissertation I examine the pneumatology of Ephrem the Syrian, who is often over-looked in discussions about fourth century pneumatology. I argue that Ephrem displays a high pneumatology that fits within the broad contours of the pro-Nicene movement. I begin with a discussion of Ephrem’s Syriac heritage and focus on the themes and language surrounding the Holy Spirit in pre-Nicene Syriac texts. Pre-Nicene Syriac authors speak about the Spirit’s role in liturgical practices, often …


Filled With 'The Fullness Of The Gifts Of God': Towards A Pneumatic Theosis, Kirsten Guidero Apr 2020

Filled With 'The Fullness Of The Gifts Of God': Towards A Pneumatic Theosis, Kirsten Guidero

Dissertations (1934 -)

Across ecclesial lines, Christian language remains permeated by themes of imitative participatory union with God. However, ecclesial communions divergently retrieve these themes. Eastern Orthodox communities defend a particular doctrine of deification. Western traditions—Catholic or Protestant—continue to wrestle with the notion, at times negating or sublimating it into participation or likeness.How might these communities construct an ecumenical doctrine of deification? Each tradition’s model recedes into a dense thicket of competing metaphysical frameworks, spiritual priorities, and terminology. Mindful of the freight bound up in trying to discover parity between traditions that have developed their structures apart from each other, this project …


"The Colored Problem:" Milwaukee's White Protestant Churches Respond To The Second Great Migration, Peter Borg Apr 2020

"The Colored Problem:" Milwaukee's White Protestant Churches Respond To The Second Great Migration, Peter Borg

Dissertations (1934 -)

In 1963 Dr. King observed that America was most segregated on Sunday mornings when its churches were filled with worshippers. My dissertation investigates the response of Milwaukee’s white urban Protestant churches to the Second Great Migration, which led to tremendous growth in the city’s African American population. The difficulty caused by many white members living in the suburbs while still attending church in racially transitioning city neighborhoods was compounded in some cases by the negative influence exerted by denominational history and polity. While those realities were often far more significant than theology in determining how individual congregations reacted to the …


During This Primary Election, Vote For Family Justice, Kate Ward Mar 2020

During This Primary Election, Vote For Family Justice, Kate Ward

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Care For The World: Laudato Si’ And Catholic Social Thought In An Era Of Climate Crisis By Frank Pasquale, Jame Schaefer Mar 2020

Review Of Care For The World: Laudato Si’ And Catholic Social Thought In An Era Of Climate Crisis By Frank Pasquale, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Syrian Orthodox Christians In The Late Ottoman Period And Beyond: Crisis Then Revival, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent Mar 2020

Review Of The Syrian Orthodox Christians In The Late Ottoman Period And Beyond: Crisis Then Revival, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Virtue And Human Fragility, Kate Ward Mar 2020

Virtue And Human Fragility, Kate Ward

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

New perspectives from virtue ethicists engaged with human fragility make concrete moral theology’s long understanding that humans are both free and constrained in our virtue pursuit. Theologians examine the possibilities of virtue under conditions of oppression as well as the virtue and vice of oppressors. Some adapt the term “moral luck” from philosophy to describe how persistent life circumstances shape the pursuit of virtue. Others focus on determinative individual acts through the lens of moral injury, a concept developed by psychologists caring for veterans. Finally, theologians engaged with disability describe flourishing, virtuous lives lived amid human mental and physical fragility.