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Hospitality In The Benedictine Monastic Tradition, Aaron Raverty Osb

Saint John’s Abbey Publications

A reflection on the importance of Benedictine hospitality in Scripture, the Rule of Benedict, interreligious dialogue, and in our uprooted and immigrant world of today.

Michele, The Husband, Michael C. Vocino

Technical Services Faculty Publications

A short story from an unfinished mystery novel involving scenes from an Italian-American life.

A Look At Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders: Turn The Page And Celebrate The New Roles Of Women In Eighteenth-Century England, Ryan Kramer

English Senior Seminar Papers

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

Throughout Daniel Defoe’s novel Moll Flanders, the title character devotes her entire life to achieving wealth and social status. It is clear that Moll achieves her desires of being a gentlewoman, yet her identity is constantly changing throughout the novel. She is affected by every person and experience she comes across questioning whether or not her lifestyle and decisions were the right ones, and often debate Defoe’s ambiguous description of his title character that represents a woman different than any other woman in the traditional norms of eighteenth-century England. …

Class Structure In Great Expectations: Dictate Your Own Fate, Alicia Upham

English Senior Seminar Papers

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

The formation of class structure is often dependent upon a set of criteria that reveals divisions between individuals. The old model of class ranking within England during the nineteenth century favored a rigid structure reliant on occupational differences. A new model began to take shape during the end of the century that relied on the morality and character of individuals. The new model provided the opportunity for mobility and achievement of new roles through self-determination. Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations portrays both models of class structure within the nineteenth century …

Dismembering The Master Narrative: Michelle Cliff’S Attempt To Rewrite Jamaican History In Abeng, Marissa Petta

English Senior Seminar Papers

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

Abeng by Michelle Cliff is a coming- of-age novel set in colonial Jamaica. The heroine, Clare, struggles with defining herself across the lines of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Intertwined with Clare’s journey to find herself is a large discussion of Jamaica’s history as a colonial territory as well as the permanent effects of English colonization on the island. Cliff recognizes that the typical European history of Jamaica is told through the eyes of superior white male colonizers and it most commonly shows that all things native and/or black …

A Memoir Of Uncertainty:Tim O’Brien’S Vietnam Narratives, Mitchell Bailey

English Senior Seminar Papers

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

Uncertainty is human. It is part of our nature. As unique individuals, we see the world differently than those around us, sometimes subtly; in other cases fundamentally, different. Uncertainty deals with the way we understand and interpret information; experiences, education, emotions, and biases affect comprehension. Uncertainty displays itself in the decision-making process. (Cohen 40) Humans react to provocations much differently than others. Decisions are based on the nature of these internal and external impressions. All warfare is uncertain because it is human based. As humans, it is our very …

Ask An Indigenous Theologian (Response) - Rachel Held Evans Interview, Randy Woodley

Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary

No abstract provided.

10. My Name Is Myshkin: A Philosophical Novel For Children By David Kennedy, David Kennedy

Middle School Curriculum

My Name is Myshkin is a philosophical novel written with children ages approximately 10-14 in mind. The book offers a fantasy adventure plot line interweaving narrative themes of ecology, mythology, psychology, spirituality and social justice, which interplay with its more purely philosophical material. Myshkin, the ten-year old narrator of the story, engages in numerous conversations with three school friends. A few of the many questions they take up are: whether one “is” one’s body, how we can tell what is real, animals and humans, youth and age, what is alive, the origins of evil, superstition and belief, whether there is …

A Transformational Bond, Nettie L. Rogers

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

I create two- and three-dimensional narrative works that are inspired by memories, objects and animals that have a significant impact on my life. The work draws from a darkness that at times surrounded my childhood. Through drawing and sculpture I create an invented world that allows me to reflect, resolve and cope with real world events and memories. The main character in my work is the horse, an archetype that became my guide. He came to me when I was ten years old, my starting point of memory. My father wanted me to smile again so he found a place …

The Cultural Context Of Nephite Apostasy, Mark Alan Wright, Brant A. Gardner

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Nephite apostates turned away from true worship in consistent and predictable ways throughout the Book of Mormon. T heir beliefs and practices may have been the result of influence from the larger socioreligious context in which the Nephites lived. A Mesoamerican setting provides a plausible cultural background that explains why Nephite apostasy took the par ticular form it did and may help us gain a deeper understanding of some specific references that Nephite prophets used when com bating that apostasy. We propose that apostate Nephite religion resulted from the syncretization of certain beliefs and practices from normative Nephite religion with …

Full Issue

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Atheist Piety: A Religion Of Dogmatic Dubiety, Louis C. Midgley

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The “Special Feature” of this mass-market secular humanist magazine consists of an introduction to “America’s Peculiar Piety” followed by a miscellany of brief, nonscholarly essays critical of The Church of Jesus Christ. The questions posed in the introduction to this flagship atheist magazine go unad dressed in the essays. Some of the essays are personal exit stories by former Latter-day Saints. One is an effort by Robert M. Price to explain away the Book of Mormon without confronting its contents. This is done by ignoring the details of Joseph Smith’s career in order to picture him as the equivalent of …

Book Review, George L. Mitton

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

In an earlier work entitled In God’s Image and Likeness,1 Jeffrey Bradshaw provided a remarkable commentary on much of the Book of Moses from the Pearl of Great Price, re lating its details to many examples and parallels from ancient literature and summarizing recent scholarly work and com mentary on this important scripture received from the Prophet Joseph Smith.2 Temple Themes in the Book of Moses expands on that commentary in a special way, emphasizing those aspects of the Book of Moses that help explain and illuminate the cus toms, teachings, and ordinances of the temple.

Book Review, Louis C. Midgley

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Latter-day Scripture is a potpourri of nine essays, eight of which are, as the subtitle of the introduction indicates, “critical studies in the Book of Mormon” (p. 1, emphasis added).1 Price’s title for his e-book, his promotional blurb,2 and his introduction constitute what is sometimes called paratext, ancillary textual matter that an author or publisher can use to manage the way a book will be read by its intended audi ence. Price’s introduction, “The Golden Bible of Joseph Smith” (p. 1, emphasis added), seems to be an effort to coach his po tential readers on how to understand his endeavors. …

To Really Read The Book Of Mormon, Ralph C. Hancock

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Grant Hardy, chair of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, studied Chinese history at Yale and clearly has read a lot of ancient texts with the greatest care. Somewhere along the line, he learned to really read a text: to savor it, to interrogate it, to listen to every voice, to compare and contrast, to hear resonances of one voice in another, and, not least, to hear silences. We are all fortunate that he has not limited the employment of his finely honed tex tual skills to his academic specialty. We thought we were read …

The Stromata Vol. 53, No. 2, Calvin Theological Seminary

Stromata (1956-2020)

Inside This Issue

4- Editorial by John C. Medendorp

5- Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by John C. Medendorp

8- John Dickson, The Best Kept Secret of Christian Mission by Katherine Garvelink Hirschberg

12- Diarmaid MacCullouch, Christianity by Adrian de Lange

14- Richard J. Mouw, Abraham Kuyper by Mark VanderWerf

17- Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible by Joshua C. Smith

19- Walter Wangerin, Jr., The Book of the Dun Cow by Peter Rockhold

21- Seeing as God Sees by Kyle Dieleman

28- The Hidden Treasure and the Pearl by Darren M. Pollock

36- “The Inner Human Logic of …

The Stromata Vol. 53, No. 1, Calvin Theological Seminary

Stromata (1956-2020)

Inside This Issue

5- Here I Am by Scott De Young

7- A Brief Breviary of Sin by Dylan O’Brien Pahman

15- The Prohibition of Sorcery in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Law by Daniel J. Vos

43- Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in a ‘Sea of Gospels’: An Apologetic for the Four Canonical Gospels by Mark VanderWerf

57- John Calvin and the Authority of the Fathers: An Interaction with A. N. S. Lane’s Ancillary View by Joshua C. Smith

77- The Hardening of the Heart in the Conquest Narrative: Reconsidering the Identity of הצרעה in Joshua 24:12 by Samyung …

A Survey Of Styles In Otto Ege’S Fifty Original Leaves From Medieval Manuscripts, Stephen Mack

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Using Munitions And Unit Frontage: New Evidence About The Russian Main Battle Line At Poltava (1709), Adrian Mandzy

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

No abstract provided.

Pluralismo Metodológico, Incomensurabilidade E O Status Científico Do Conhecimento Tradicional, Hugh Lacey

Philosophy Faculty Works

Cultural values may constructively have impact on scientific practices, and lead to legitimate culture-based variations in approaches to them. It follows that traditional or indigenous knowledge need not stand opposed to scientific knowledge, and only investigation on a case-by-case basis can establish whether or not the cognitive credentials of particular traditional knowledge claims are adequate or deficient. Building on an analysis of how different methodological strategies may both compete and complement one another, I argue that what is defensible about Thomas Kuhn's notion of incommensurability, and the possibility of the sound scientific status of traditional knowledge, have the same source. …

Notes On Contributors

Short Story

No abstract provided.

Public Theology For Global Development: A Case Study Dealing With "Health" In Africa, Gregg A. Okesson

The Asbury Journal

This article makes a simple assertion. The problems faced by global societies require a multi-disciplinary approach, in which theology actively engages other disciplines, such as politics, health, economics, science, and cultural studies, for the purposes of helping the Church of Jesus Christ accurately represent "the fullness of him who fills everything in every way" (Eph 1:23). This reflects the writings of John Wesley and involves a process of reinterpreting the Asburian heritage of "the whole Bible for the whole World" for relating the Gospel to such issues as poverty, disease, famine, ecological disaster, and other facets of development crisis. In …

The Journey To God: Union, Purgation And Transformation Within The Ascent Of Mount Carmel And A Plain Account Of Christian Perfection, Stephen L. Martyn

The Asbury Journal

This article is both a call to Christian maturity and an appreciative recounting of how a Roman Catholic mystic, John of the Cross, helped me reclaim and love my own Wesleyan tradition of entire sanctification. In this article I hold up the theological doctrine of Union with God as the goal of the Christian life and review and contrast how Wesley and John of the Cross approached the issue. UThile these two spiritual masters outline differing views of the path to perfection in love, they both, nevertheless, continue to inspire and offer the light of Christ to Christians seeking full …

"Justification By Faith": Richard Baxter's Influence Upon John Wesley, Joseph W. Cunningham

The Asbury Journal

Correction In our Spring 2009 issue we published an essay, "'Justification by Faith": Richard Baxters Influence upon John Wesley." Due to an editing error, the essay was mistakenly attributed to Floyd T. Cunningham, president of Asia Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary. We apologize to Dr. Cunningham for the inconveniences this mistake has caused.

We also apologize to Dr. Joseph W Curmingham of Eureka College who is the correct author of the essay. In order to emphasize this correct attribution, we are republishing the essay in this issue with Dr. Joseph W Cunningham listed as the author.

-Terry …

2012-2013 Nova Southeastern University Undergraduate Student Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

A Companion To Global Environmental History, Erin Stewart Mauldin, John R. Mcneill

Faculty Books

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China

Reading Aloud With Children Twelve & Older, Children's Book Committee. Bank Street College Of Education

The Center for Children's Literature

The Children's Book Committee's list of great read alouds for older children. Includes selection considerations in choosing read-aloud titles and hints for reading aloud.

Fan Letter, Spring 2012, Illinois State University, College Of Fine Arts

FAN Letter

Newsletter of the College of Fine Arts

Reintegrating Human And Nature: Modern Sentimental Ecology In Rachel Carson And Barbara Kingsolver, Richard M. Magee

English Faculty Publications

Rachel Carson and Barbara Kingsolver were both trained as scientists and may be expected to embrace the rationalist, mechanical view of nature as something separate from, and perhaps even inferior to, the world of humans. Yet these two women both promoted a more complex approach to modernism's scientific paradigm in which nature is not merely a separate entity for dispassionate study but also an integral part of the human community. Both women display in their rhetorical choices a keen understanding of the language of community and interconnection, and their language and writing styles constantly promote the reintegration of humans and …

Imaginative Distortion In Robert Olen Butler's "Walter Raleigh" (Severance): The Fantasy Of Triangular Love, Alice Clark

Short Story

No abstract provided.