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The Social Role Of Worship: A Reading Of Micah 6:1-8, Khin Win Kyi Jan 2020

The Social Role Of Worship: A Reading Of Micah 6:1-8, Khin Win Kyi

Master of Theology Theses

This thesis provides exegesis of Micah 6:1-8 with particular focus on the relationship between worship and social ethics, as well as a consideration of the implications of this passage for the Chin Christian community.


Remember My Chains: New Testament Perspectives On Incarceration, Matthew L. Skinner Jul 2018

Remember My Chains: New Testament Perspectives On Incarceration, Matthew L. Skinner

Faculty Publications

Understanding the physical realities and social attitudes concerning incarceration in the ancient world provides a fuller context to the New Testament’s unadorned and ambiguous references to people’s experience of being held in custody. The context is crucial for interpreting biblical passages that commend caring for prisoners, that reaffirm God’s strength and nullify the ignominy associated with incarceration, and that declare God’s power over the means and motives of imperial coercion. Such passages also compel the contemporary church to advocate on behalf of prisoners and to denounce the systems that regularly victimize them.


Confessional Biblical Preaching In The Face Of Whiteness: Challenging The Preacher’S Understanding Of White Supremacy, Laurie P. Feille May 2018

Confessional Biblical Preaching In The Face Of Whiteness: Challenging The Preacher’S Understanding Of White Supremacy, Laurie P. Feille

Doctor of Ministry Theses

This thesis addresses the need for preachers to hear the voices of people of color, to hear the “prophets in the streets,” specifically African-Americans, and to have their eyes opened to their own white privilege and role in white supremacy. This thesis argues that this is an important step in preachers finding their confessional voices for preaching before they can begin to help the individual members of those congregations become aware of their individual and collective white privilege and role in white supremacy. With the help of black clergy a “Twin Cities Pilgrimage” was created. This involved learning the stories …


Seeking Surrogacy: The Ethics Of Assisting Life’S Creation, Elisa Berndt Feb 2018

Seeking Surrogacy: The Ethics Of Assisting Life’S Creation, Elisa Berndt

Brindle Award in Medical Ethics Papers

No abstract provided.


Empathy As Sacred Ethic: A Chaplain's Perspective On Difficult End Of Life Cases, Peter L. Bauck Jan 2017

Empathy As Sacred Ethic: A Chaplain's Perspective On Difficult End Of Life Cases, Peter L. Bauck

Doctor of Philosophy Theses

Because of our increasingly intercultural world, it can be difficult for patients, families, and medical teams to decide on what they should do for patients who are, in the medical team’s opinion, near the end of life. The family and medical team can hold disparate beliefs and values around what they should do for the patient. Ethics committees often get involved in these difficult end of life cases.These cases are also emotionally charged, especially for the family as they wrestle with the intensity of their loved one’s situation and try to decide what to do. Because of the emotional intensity …


Who Is My Neighbor? The Church's Vocation In An Era Of Shifting Community, Dwight J. Zscheile Jan 2017

Who Is My Neighbor? The Church's Vocation In An Era Of Shifting Community, Dwight J. Zscheile

Faculty Publications

Dwight Zscheile is an astute scholar of the shifting patterns and contours of American congregational life, and how the changing aspects of American society are impacting them. He argues for local congregations paying renewed attention to the localized communities around them, as well as the new kinds of communities that have arisen in an age of new technological connections.


Money, Religion, And Tyranny: God And The Demonic In Luther's Antifragile Theology, Guillermo C. Hansen Jan 2014

Money, Religion, And Tyranny: God And The Demonic In Luther's Antifragile Theology, Guillermo C. Hansen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Fruit Of The Spirit, Gary M. Simpson Jan 2013

Fruit Of The Spirit, Gary M. Simpson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Things We Never Preach About, Part I: Gluttony, Dirk G. Lange Oct 2012

Things We Never Preach About, Part I: Gluttony, Dirk G. Lange

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Ten Commandments 2.0, Adam J. Copeland Jul 2012

The Ten Commandments 2.0, Adam J. Copeland

Faculty Publications

Since the Ten Commandments still enjoy a primary place in both church teaching and cultural debate, it will be both helpful and faithful to interpret them anew in the light of our new media and new technologies. Adam Copeland does just that in this article.


"Written On Their Hearts": Thinking With Luther About Scripture, Natural Law, And The Moral Life, Gary M. Simpson Oct 2010

"Written On Their Hearts": Thinking With Luther About Scripture, Natural Law, And The Moral Life, Gary M. Simpson

Faculty Publications

Those who ignore Luther’s critical agility in moral reasoning based on natural law in favor of a reactionary turn to a regime of biblical law create “misery and tribulation,” as Luther lamented, and seriously enfeeble the Christian faith for life today. Christians rightly use their God-given powers of reason to work out affairs in the present order.


Forgiveness As New Creation: Christ And The Moral Life Revisited, Lois E. Malcolm Jan 2010

Forgiveness As New Creation: Christ And The Moral Life Revisited, Lois E. Malcolm

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Overhearing Resonances: Jesus And Ethics In King And Bonhoeffer, Gary M. Simpson Jan 2010

Overhearing Resonances: Jesus And Ethics In King And Bonhoeffer, Gary M. Simpson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Tolerance, Democracy And Fundamentalism(S) : Challenges In Time Of Systemic Bifurcations, Guillermo C. Hansen Jan 2009

Tolerance, Democracy And Fundamentalism(S) : Challenges In Time Of Systemic Bifurcations, Guillermo C. Hansen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Ethics Of Driving, Amy E. Marga Jul 2008

The Ethics Of Driving, Amy E. Marga

Faculty Publications

The concept of “neighbor” takes on entirely new meanings in our mobile society. Who becomes my neighbor when I am behind the wheel? What is the consequence of my driving to my neighbors around the globe? What about the impact on our nonhuman “neighbors”? The ethics of driving has many dimensions for the Christian person of goodwill.


"And Also Many Animals": Biblical Resources For Preaching About Creation, Kathryn M. Schifferdecker Apr 2007

"And Also Many Animals": Biblical Resources For Preaching About Creation, Kathryn M. Schifferdecker

Faculty Publications

The Bible offers the preacher a multitude of texts for preaching about creation and the environment. Preachers can and should use these resources to call hearers to join in the creative and redemptive work of God, in the name of Christ and for the sake of the world.


Tolerance And Democracy Instead Of Fundamentalism And Empire, Guillermo C. Hansen Jan 2007

Tolerance And Democracy Instead Of Fundamentalism And Empire, Guillermo C. Hansen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Practical Theology As Social Ethical Action In Christian Ministry: Implications From Emmanuel Levinas And Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Andrew Root Jan 2006

Practical Theology As Social Ethical Action In Christian Ministry: Implications From Emmanuel Levinas And Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Andrew Root

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Unchained Ministry: Paul's Roman Custody (Acts 21-28) And The Sociopolitical Outlook Of The Book Of Acts, Matthew L. Skinner Jan 2005

Unchained Ministry: Paul's Roman Custody (Acts 21-28) And The Sociopolitical Outlook Of The Book Of Acts, Matthew L. Skinner

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Neoliberal Globalization: A Casus Confessionis, Guillermo C. Hansen Jan 2004

Neoliberal Globalization: A Casus Confessionis, Guillermo C. Hansen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


"Thou Shalt Not Kill"--The First Commandment Of The Just War Tradition, Gary M. Simpson Jan 2004

"Thou Shalt Not Kill"--The First Commandment Of The Just War Tradition, Gary M. Simpson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Stem Cell Research?: Yes--Out Of Love For The Neighbor, Alan G. Padgett Oct 2003

Stem Cell Research?: Yes--Out Of Love For The Neighbor, Alan G. Padgett

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Daunting, Indeed! A Critical Conversation With The Promise Of Lutheran Ethics, Gary M. Simpson Apr 1999

Daunting, Indeed! A Critical Conversation With The Promise Of Lutheran Ethics, Gary M. Simpson

Faculty Publications

The seven essayists in The Promise of Lutheran Ethics provide material for a fruitful conversation with the reviewer, which in turn provides food for thought for readers of the volume and the review.


The Christian Communio And The Question Of Identity, Guillermo C. Hansen Jan 1998

The Christian Communio And The Question Of Identity, Guillermo C. Hansen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Freedom And Truth In Veritatis Splendor And The Meaning Of Theonomy, Lois E. Malcolm Jan 1998

Freedom And Truth In Veritatis Splendor And The Meaning Of Theonomy, Lois E. Malcolm

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Neither Euphoria Nor Defeatism: Christian Ethical Considerations On The New Epochal Changes In Latin America, Guillermo C. Hansen Jan 1998

Neither Euphoria Nor Defeatism: Christian Ethical Considerations On The New Epochal Changes In Latin America, Guillermo C. Hansen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Pauline Ethics: Congregations As Communities Of Moral Deliberation, David E. Fredrickson Jan 1998

Pauline Ethics: Congregations As Communities Of Moral Deliberation, David E. Fredrickson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.