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Aorists Of The Decrepit A Composition On Harmony, Henri Volohonsky

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

No abstract provided.

Psalmody In Prophecy: Habakkuk 3 In Context, James W. Watts

Religion - All Scholarship

The psalm in Habakkuk 3 resembles songs in Exodus 15, Deuteronomy 32 and 33, Judges 5 and 2 Samuel 22 in its archaic linguistic formations and vocabulary stock, victory hymn form, and appearance outside of the Psalter. Unlike these hymns set within prose narratives, however, Habakkuk 3 appears within a book of prophetic poetry structured in a liturgical and dramatic fashion. Habakkuk, therefore, offers an ideal case for the comparative study of prophetic and narrative composition through the use of the same literary device. The results of such a comparison reveal a sophisticated text which mixes inherited generic conventions to …

Women-Church And Egalitarianism: Revisioning "In Christ There Are No More Distinctions Between Male And Female", Susan A. Farrell

Publications and Research

This chapter from The Power of Gender in Religion (eds G.A. Weatherby and S.A. Farrell) illustrates how women in the Roman Catholic Church are expanding the roles of women and challenging the patriarchal and hierarchical Roman Catholic Church practices. They are accomplishing this through an umbrella organization of feminist groups which maintain their catholic identty while critiquing the church from within.

How Realistic Can A Catholic Writer Be? Richard Sullivan And American Catholic Literature, Una M. Cadegan

History Faculty Publications

Despite the fact that Sullivan never achieved the fame he sought, the record he left behind reveals much about the way one writer handled the complicated personal and professional questions of regional, literary, gender, and religious identity. He was a regional author with national ambitions, a serious author who did not disdain the notion of popular success, and a male author whose primary focus was domestic life and relationships. He was also a Catholic author-that is, he belonged to a tradition that believed in normative standards for artistic value in an era when such a belief was considered by some …

Fragments Of The Spirit: Nature, Violence, And The Renewal Of Creation, Mark I. Wallace

Religion Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The European Enlightenment, Mark I. Wallace

Religion Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Reflections On The Contents Of The Lawyer's Work - Three Models Of Spirituality - And Our Struggle With Them, Charles R. Disalvo, William L. Droel

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Real Utah War: The Mountaineer's Efforts To Combat The Valley Tan, Robert E. Fleming

Theses and Dissertations

The Utah War and its aftermath changed Utah and the Mormons forever. This change came because of the growing Gentile influence in the territory and was reflected most adequately in the current periodicals of the period. The Valley Tan and the Mountaineer are especially important because their opposition to one another brought many important issues to the forefront of discussion. These issues would be important to the Mormons learning to live and work with those not of their faith and to share in their Zion.

These newspapers were successful in giving to its reader, both past and present, a glimpse …

The Brigham Young University Folklore Of Hugh Winder Nibley: Gifted Scholar, Eccentric Professor And Latter-Day Saint Spiritual Guide, Jane D. Brady

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the stories which revolve around folk legend Hugh Winder Nibley and what those stories mean to the people of Brigham Young University. Folklore reveals who we are and what is important to us. But, interestingly, folklore tends to reveal more about the person telling the story than about the subject of the story itself. People can't remember every story they hear. The ones they do remember are important to them. The stories are important because they fulfill basic needs of the teller. Such needs are a desire to look up to a hero, a need to fit …

Journey: Connections To A Pioneer Past, Judy Shell Busk

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a record of a journey into the pioneer past both literally and metaphorically. The physical journey retracing the Oregon and Mormon trails was made in September of 1993, the year I was a National Endowment for the Humanities/Reader's Digest Teacher-Scholar; however, my intellectual and emotional journey into the lives of pioneer women covers several years of study. I compare my life experiences with those of pioneer women whom I studied, using geographical settings on the trail trip as memory triggers. My husband, as my traveling companion, plays an important role in this journey of discovery. Major themes …

The Language Of The Psalter And Sunday Worship, Gail Ramshaw

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

Which words shall we use on Sunday morning? Shall we speak Aramaic or Greek, Latin or German, seventeenth-century British English or twenty first- century American English? Shall our scriptural translation be as literal as possible or as accessible as possible? Shall we concur with the editors of our denominational news magazines and employ a sixth grade vocabulary, or can we hope to engage the brains of also our learned members? Who decides which words we speak or sing: the organist, the pastor, a congregational committee, a national staff of liturgical experts, or an international theological bureaucracy? We are alive …

The Word Becomes Flesh, Louise Williams

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

Mrs. Gahr, my teacher for several years in the one-roomed country school I attended, always said a word is really yours when you have used it correctly in a sentence three times. There is a sense in which we can say the "living Word" becomes "ours" when we use it Using the living word, however, is not just putting nouns and verbs and other parts of speech together. Using the living word correctly is not even just rightly dividing law and gospel. Using the living word must also involve actions and deeds. One of the ways the church uses …

Meeting Information

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Information about the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies and its annual meetings.

Introductory Information And Introduction, Harold Coward

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Information about the publication, including an editorial policy and editorial advisory board, and an introduction by the editor.

Texts Are Always With You: Christians And Their Bibles, R. S. Sugirtharajah

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

What Christians call the Bible is a cultural, ideological, ritual, and spiritual depository of a people who live din West Asia. Although Christians perceive it as the Book (in spite of the implied plural meaning in Greek), it is a composition of several books, embodying the collective and individual divine-human encounters of two communities - Jews and the early converts to the Jesus movement in the Mediterranean region. The Bible has two testaments, to which the adjectives "Old" and "New" are prefixed. These adjectival prefixes give the impression that the one is outdated, archaic, and no longer applicable, and the …

The Role Of Hindu Scripture In Salvation, William C. Allen, Bibhuti S. Yadav

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In this paper we reflect on the role of scripture in salvation in Hinduism and Christianity. We all know that differences among various Hindu scripturologies are severe and profound. Diversities of understandings of the nature and role of scripture in salvation abound no less within the various Christian traditions. There is no Hindu consensus regarding the scripture's role in salvation. Even within orthodox Hinduism the differences on this theme are fundamental. For instance. the Vedanta of Sankara reads the Vedas as descriptive of Brahman, the knowledge and realization of which constitutes moksa which Sankara equates with meta-material, meta-social, pure being. …

Saved By The Word: The Christian Understanding Of The Relationship Between Scripture And Salvation, Michael Deroche

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Scripture and salvation -- from a Christian point of view, both are gifts from God. yet they are not of equal import. For Christianity salvation is fundamental: it is the goal of life, indeed it is life eternal. Scripture, on the other hand, is instrumental: it leads one to salvation. As the Christian scriptures themselves put it: "... the sacred writings ... are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus" (2 Tim 3:15b).

Reginald Heber And Hindu-Christian Dialogue, Geoffrey Cook

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Hinduism and Christianity have lived closely together in parts of the Subcontinent since the Apostle Thomas's missionary visit in the first century of the Christian era. But in the last five centuries of direct European and South Asian contact that relationship has gained a Subcontinent-wide propinquity, and has often been quite competitive, for the meeting between India and Europe was between tradition and modernity.

Forest And Village: Popular Hindu-Christian Encounter, David C. Scott

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

The realization that what is commonly spoken of as Hinduism is in reality an elite Brahmanical religion is so ubiquitous that there is no need to argue the point here. Similarly, Christianity has generally been understood in terms of classical Western theological and philosophical thought. This being the case, it is hardly surprising that until relatively recently what has been understood as the encounter and interaction of Christianity and Hinduism has been, in fact, an encounter and interaction of what we might speak of as the elite great traditions in both religious systems. Yet the fact remains that in India …

Viewpoint: Hindu-Christian "Studies": Some Confessions From The Boundaries, Fred W. Clothey

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

There are times I think the term Hindu-Christian "studies" or even Hindu-Christian "dialogue" is a misnomer and a fantasy. This is so for several reasons. For one thing, there is a long history in which such "study" or conversation has been a monologue, a one-way street or an interpretation by imposition. There has been too much shouting at each other from caves and not enough honesty, negotiation, and mutual respect of personhood on the boundaries between where peoples live. For another, such engagements are not and never again can be merely one on one discourses between persons with single identities. …

Book Review: "The Indian Christiad", Bettina Bäumer

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of The Indian Christiad by Anand Amaladass and Richard Fox Young.

Book Review: "Practice And Theology Of Interreligious Dialogue. A Critical Study Of The Indian Christian Attempts Since Vatican Ii", Anand Amaladass

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Practice and Theology of Interreligious Dialogue. A Critical Study of the Indian Christian Attempts Since Vatican II by Jose Kuttianimattathil.

Book Review: "Die Symbolik Von Gift Und Nektar In Der Klassischen Indischen Literatur", Anand Nayak

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Die Symbolik von Gift und Nektar in der klassischen indischen Literatur by Ira Stubbe-Diarra.

Book Review: "Rammohun Roy In Hindu And Christian Tradition: The Teape Lectures 1990", Ronald Neufeldt

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of Dermot Killingley's Rammohun Roy in Hindu and Christian Tradition: The Teape Lectures 1990.

Briefly Noted

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Brief summaries of Inter-Faith Dialogue and World Community and Current Dialogue.

Book Review: "The Divine Matrix: Creativity As Link Between East And West", Francis X. Clooney

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of The Divine Matrix: Creativity as Link Between East and West by Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.

Reports & News

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A collection of current reports and news, including Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Annual Meeting 1995, Report on the Symposium on Evil, Interfaith Dialogue - the South Carolina Experience, and News in Brief.

The Diary Of Bishop Dan T. Muse, Dan T. Muse, Harold Paul

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

The diary of Bishop Dan T. Muse, a Pentecostal Holiness minister and Oklahoma District Overseer for the Pentecostal Holiness Church, chronicling his early ministry August 27 1919-May 11, 1919 These are the notes from his diary compiled by ORU professor and historian, Harold Paul. This pamphlet was published by the Holy Spirit Research Center in 1996. 16 pp.

The Prayers Of Daniel, Paul Birch Petersen

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

The Priest-King Role Of The Messiah, Alberto R. Treiyer

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.