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Healing Gifts Cultivate Joy, Lawrence Frizzell Dec 2009

Healing Gifts Cultivate Joy, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle C liturgical readings for the Third Sunday of Advent, December 13, 2009: Zep 3:14-18; Is 12:2-6; Phil 4:4-7; Lk 3:10-18.This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.


Service And Suffering In The Spiritual Life, Lawrence Frizzell Oct 2009

Service And Suffering In The Spiritual Life, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 18, 2009: Is 53:10-11; Ps 33; Heb 4:14-16; Mk 10:35-45. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.


"You Shall Bear Witness To Me": Thinking With Luther About Christ And The Scriptures, Gary M. Simpson Oct 2009

"You Shall Bear Witness To Me": Thinking With Luther About Christ And The Scriptures, Gary M. Simpson

Faculty Publications

To get Scripture right, we must start with the right questions, as Martin Luther did: What is Scripture for? What is the relation between Christ and Scripture? Between law and gospel? How does the gospel function as promise?


Noticing The Duck: The Art Of Asking Spiritual Questions, Marykate Morse Sep 2009

Noticing The Duck: The Art Of Asking Spiritual Questions, Marykate Morse

Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary

No abstract provided.


The Covenant And Christ’S Presence In Eucharist, Lawrence Frizzell May 2009

The Covenant And Christ’S Presence In Eucharist, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 10, 2009: Acts 9:26-31; Ps 22; 1 Jn 3:18-24; Jn 15:1-8. This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.


The Religious Other As Neighbor, Lawrence Frizzell May 2009

The Religious Other As Neighbor, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

Many stories are told about antagonism between Christians and Jews, especially in countries with a large Jewish minority. The history of persecution should be told along with the lessons learned for our time. A brief review of examples whose participants were neighbors, either in reality or in principle, may be instructive. This paper will move through the centuries in a rapid survey, recalling friendly contacts or benign exchanges between Christians and Jews.


Divine Physician Brings Humanity Back To Wholeness, Lawrence Frizzell Feb 2009

Divine Physician Brings Humanity Back To Wholeness, Lawrence Frizzell

Department of Religion Publications

Cycle B liturgical readings for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary, February 8, 2009: Job 7:1-4; 6-7; 1 Cor 9:16, 22-23; Mark 1:29-39.This article was previously published in The Catholic Advocate.


Reading The Bible After Darwin, Mark A. Throntveit, Alan G. Padgett Jan 2009

Reading The Bible After Darwin, Mark A. Throntveit, Alan G. Padgett

Faculty Publications

The historical and scientific accuracy of the biblical witness has become increasingly difficult to maintain in light of the Darwinian revolution. A positive result has been a return to a proper theological reading of Scripture, not as our primary source of technical information but of insight into God’s means of dealing with us and God’s creation.


The Dialectic Of Idolatry And Profanation: On Discerning The Spirit In Congregational Studies, Lois E. Malcolm Jan 2009

The Dialectic Of Idolatry And Profanation: On Discerning The Spirit In Congregational Studies, Lois E. Malcolm

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Retrieving Martin Luther's Critical Public Theology Of Political Authority For Global Civil Society Today, Gary M. Simpson Jan 2009

Retrieving Martin Luther's Critical Public Theology Of Political Authority For Global Civil Society Today, Gary M. Simpson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Trinity In Theology And Philosophy: Why Jerusalem Should Work With Athens, Alan G. Padgett Jan 2009

The Trinity In Theology And Philosophy: Why Jerusalem Should Work With Athens, Alan G. Padgett

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


2009 - 92nd Annual Summit, "On The Mountain With God: Exodus Expedition, Abilene Christian University Jan 2009

2009 - 92nd Annual Summit, "On The Mountain With God: Exodus Expedition, Abilene Christian University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

No abstract provided.


Carnal Excess: Flesh At The Limits Of Imagination, Virginia Burrus Jan 2009

Carnal Excess: Flesh At The Limits Of Imagination, Virginia Burrus

Religion - All Scholarship

This essay explores representations of fleshly excess in Christian and Jewish texts of the late fourth and fifth centuries, from the cosmically-scaled figures of Adam and the resurrected Christ in Genesis Rabbah and Augustine's City of God, on the one hand, to the hagiographical portraits of fat rabbis and monks in the tractate Baba Metsia of the Babylonian Talmud and the Lausiac History of Palladius, on the other. The Platonic figure of the khora is initially invoked to frame two main arguments: first, that these late ancient texts discover transcendence within, rather than outside of, the boundlessness of materiality; …


Strategies And Themes Of Luke, Center For Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University Jan 2009

Strategies And Themes Of Luke, Center For Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University

Center for Catholic Studies Faculty Seminars and Core Curriculum Seminars

No abstract provided.


Teaching Engineering Ethics By Conceptual Design: The Somatic Marker Hypothesis, Brad Kallenberg Jan 2009

Teaching Engineering Ethics By Conceptual Design: The Somatic Marker Hypothesis, Brad Kallenberg

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

In 1998, a lead researcher at a Midwestern university submitted as his own a document that had 64 instances of strings of 10 or more words that were identical to a consultant's masters thesis and replicated a data chart, all of whose 16 entries were identical to three and four significant figures. He was fired because his actions were wrong. Curiously, he was completely unable to see that his actions were wrong. This phenomenon is discussed in light of recent advances in neuroscience and used to argue for a change in the standard way engineering ethics is taught. I argue …


The Priestly Imagination: Thomas Merton And The Poetics Of Critique, Michael W. Higgins Jan 2009

The Priestly Imagination: Thomas Merton And The Poetics Of Critique, Michael W. Higgins

Mission Integration & Ministry Publications

The article looks at the representation of ideals of the poet-priest in the works of Thomas Merton. It provides an analysis of Merton's poetics of critique. For Merton, John the Baptist represents the model anchorite as well as the first Cisterician and the greatest Trappist. The indivisible and comprehensive dimensions of Merton as a whole man are represented by John the Baptist, John of the Cross and John the Beloved. The two types of Merton's poetics of critique are ecclesial/monastic and societal.


Aspects Of Historicity In John 5-12: A Response (From John, Jesus And History, Vol. 2), Paul N. Anderson Jan 2009

Aspects Of Historicity In John 5-12: A Response (From John, Jesus And History, Vol. 2), Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

In responding to the eight essays in Part 2 of this volume, I am impressed at the variety of approaches to aspects of historicity in the Gospel of John.


Introduction To Part 1: Aspects Of Historicity In John 1-4 (In John, Jesus, And History, Vol.2), Paul N. Anderson Jan 2009

Introduction To Part 1: Aspects Of Historicity In John 1-4 (In John, Jesus, And History, Vol.2), Paul N. Anderson

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

"Distinctive features of the Johannine presentation of the beginning of Jesus' ministry raise questions-- both for and against-- aspects of historicity in John 1-4."


Religious Justification For The Practice Of Ecclesiastical Sanctuary, David H. Michels, David Blaikie Jan 2009

Religious Justification For The Practice Of Ecclesiastical Sanctuary, David H. Michels, David Blaikie

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

Stories about Canadian Christian churches engaging in civil disobedience by offering sanctuary to refugee claimants have been much in the news the past several years. Typical is the case of Ms. Sanja Pecelji who fled to St. Mark’s Anglican Church in Halifax to avoid a deportation order back to Serbia-Montenegro. The church minister, Rev. Susan Moxley, stated that Ms. Pecelji and her supporters in the church community were determined that she would reside in the church until the government reviewed her application for refugee status. “The tradition of providing sanctuary to those in need is a long-standing one for the …