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Contestant Theology: Toward A Play Theology Of Religions, Greg Jones May 2023

Contestant Theology: Toward A Play Theology Of Religions, Greg Jones

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

How can a Christian theology of religions navigate the interreligious dialogical problems of 1) the inability to fully articulate faith, 2) the lack of persuasive religious language, 3) the reality of violence among religions, and 4) the liquescent “truth” of modern times? This dissertation answers this question with a theology of religions considered through the lens of play theology. Contestant theology navigates these problems as 1) a space of cooperation and contest which 2) incorporates assertiveness (exclusivism), compassion (inclusivism), openness (pluralism) and free participation (Trinitarianism) to 3) hold together enriching and diminishing relationalities among diverse religious peoples with a view …

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The Nature And Importance Of Christian Spirituality, Gilbert Perez May 2023

The Nature And Importance Of Christian Spirituality, Gilbert Perez

Obsculta

This short work is a meditation on Exodus 3:11, where Moses asks God who he is to do what God has commanded. Spiritual Theology has to do with the persons' interior life and its importance to theology and Christian life as a whole. Many Christians cannot explain in detail about their spirituality and it poses many problems as much as many opportunities what it can mean for Christian life if it is better understood.

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Blessed, Broken, And Shared, Joseph Penny May 2023

Blessed, Broken, And Shared, Joseph Penny

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This paper seeks to boldly confront the evils of racism while simultaneously pointing to a renewed baptismal ecclesiology and a praxis of radical communion as a way forward. Venturing into the unknown, we will persevere onward to the road less traveled by briefly charting the Catholic Church's historical cooperation with White Supremacy. We will also celebrate the wisdom gleaned from Black and Latin American communities and their seemingly mundane yet deeply sacred rituals.

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The Fall And Natural Suffering, Andrew Banacos May 2023

The Fall And Natural Suffering, Andrew Banacos

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Evolutionary theory poses several questions for Christian notions of origins: 1) common ancestry of all creatures rather than monogenesis; 2) the violent history of evolution as a challenge to the notion of a fall from paradise into sin, death, and suffering; and 3) the relationship between suffering and evil in light of evolutionary process. This paper seeks to address the concept of the fall in the context of dialogue between evolution and the Christian faith.

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Teresa Of Avila's Inward Journey To Spiritual Growth, Anne Cahill May 2023

Teresa Of Avila's Inward Journey To Spiritual Growth, Anne Cahill

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This essay describes the basic structure of Teresa's understanding of spiritual growth as depicted in her seven "dwelling places" in the Interior Castle. It places emphasis upon where God invites our cooperation (cooperative grace) and where God acts alone(operative grace). It includes how this spiritual growth affects our prayer, and our relationships with other people.

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The Role Of Darkness And Trial In Spiritual Growth As Described In The Cloud Of Unknowing, Carrie O'Neil-Smith May 2023

The Role Of Darkness And Trial In Spiritual Growth As Described In The Cloud Of Unknowing, Carrie O'Neil-Smith

Obsculta

This essay was written in Professor Michael Rubbelke's class titled "Growing into God: Spiritual Development in the Christian Tradition." The piece looks at darkness and trial and three resulting fruits of spiritual growth: humility, knowledge of one's true nature, and an experience of God's pure love as described in the fourteenth century work The Cloud of Unknowing.

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How To Talk About God: Origen And Gregory Of Nazianzus On Divine Transcendence And Theological Language, Coleman S. Kimbrough May 2023

How To Talk About God: Origen And Gregory Of Nazianzus On Divine Transcendence And Theological Language, Coleman S. Kimbrough

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This article discusses the doctrine of God of the early Church Fathers Origen and Gregory of Nazianzus. According to these two theologians, the tension between God's transcendence and God's immanence conditions the language we use to name and describe God. Such "God-talk" is necessarily limited by the ontological divide between the human and the divine. Using Origen and Gregory as reference points, I examine how the precise and careful use of apophatic, cataphatic, and analogical language is necessary to properly account for both God's eternal nature and God's work in the material world.

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Keeping Covenant: The Story And Scholarly Scrutiny Of David And Goliath, Peter Tran May 2023

Keeping Covenant: The Story And Scholarly Scrutiny Of David And Goliath, Peter Tran

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The story of David and Goliath is a tale of courage, duty, and faith in God. What is taken for granted, however, is whether or not David was actually the one who killed Goliath. Some critical scholars have begun to question the long-standing claim that David defeated Goliath. So, who really killed him and what are the theological implications? A thorough examination will shed light on this question.

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Self-Revelation Of God In Jesus Christ As Love And The Kingdom Of God In Walter Kasper's Jesus The Christ, Hang T.H. Nguyen Op May 2023

Self-Revelation Of God In Jesus Christ As Love And The Kingdom Of God In Walter Kasper's Jesus The Christ, Hang T.H. Nguyen Op

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This article is an examination of the Christology of Walter Kasper, a German Catholic cardinal and theologian. Through his work of Jesus the Christ, Kasper shows God’s self-revelation as love in the person Jesus Christ – the earthly and the exalted Jesus, who brings to human beings the message of his Kingdom, in which they can attain salvation, joy, peace, and justice.

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A Brief Analysis Of Contemporary Confucianism's Research On Feminine Topics, Jingzhi Pan May 2023

A Brief Analysis Of Contemporary Confucianism's Research On Feminine Topics, Jingzhi Pan

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

Although Confucianism has been recognized as a world religion for more than a hundred years today, recent research, which studies it as a religion, still seems numbed to or ignores day-to-day feminine topics like sexual crimes, domestic violence, male patronize, and even gendered religious value itself. More often, even if they announce they are studying the religion, people study Confucianism as a philosophy, an ethic, a phenomenon, a political strategy…everything else but a religion with transcendent values like other world religions. This essay will overview the research of contemporary Confucian feminine topics and analyze and argue their utilities in helping …

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A More Medieval Vision Of God, Louis Markos May 2023

A More Medieval Vision Of God, Louis Markos

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A review of Chris R. Armstrong, Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians: Finding Authentic Faith in a Forgotten Age with C. S. Lewis (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos, 2016). 272 pages. $19.99. ISBN 9781587433788.

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A Plea For Reasonable Discourse About Lewis’S Views On Evolution, Charles A. Huttar May 2023

A Plea For Reasonable Discourse About Lewis’S Views On Evolution, Charles A. Huttar

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A review of Jerry Bergman, C. S. Lewis: Anti-Darwinist: A Careful Examination of the Develop- ment of His Views on Darwinism (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2016). xxiii + 136 pages. $21.00. ISBN 9781532607738.

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C. S. Lewis On Atheism, Joel D. Heck May 2023

C. S. Lewis On Atheism, Joel D. Heck

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Lewis had a lot to say about atheists and atheism, mentioning the topic at least seventy-eight times in at least thirty books and essays. Having been an atheist himself, he understood Christianity from—as he put it—the outside. He held many of the same positions that atheists did in the 1910s and 1920s and for many of the same reasons that still influence people today. Although he did not compose any sort of systematic description, definition, or formal reaction to atheism, we can glean a great deal from his writings. Perhaps most important of all, Lewis knew quite a few atheists …

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Mere Christianity And The Moral Argument For The Existence Of God, Christopher A. Shrock May 2023

Mere Christianity And The Moral Argument For The Existence Of God, Christopher A. Shrock

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

C. S. Lewis’s moral argument for the existence of God from Mere Christianity has been called the “most widely-convincing apologetic argument of the twentieth century.” It is concise and commonsensical. But Lewis’s argument has come under heavy fire in past decades, most notably from John Beversluis and Erik Wielenberg. This article offers an alternative reading on which the moral argument from the opening chapters of Mere Christianity is not only valid but also original and defensible. Unlike other moral arguments, Lewis deals in neither metaethics nor moral pragmatics. So he avoids prickly objections related to Divine Command Theory and accusations …

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Review Of C. S. Lewis’S Mere Christianity: A Biography, Bruce R. Johnson May 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis’S Mere Christianity: A Biography, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A review of George M. Marsden, C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography, Lives of Great Religious Books Series (Princeton, 2016). 262 pages. $24.95. ISBN: 9780691153735.

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Review Of Discussing Mere Christianity: Exploring The History, Meaning, & Relevance Of C. S. Lewis’S Greatest Book (Dvd), Jeff Gissing May 2023

Review Of Discussing Mere Christianity: Exploring The History, Meaning, & Relevance Of C. S. Lewis’S Greatest Book (Dvd), Jeff Gissing

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A review of a DVD and discussion guide: Devin Brown, Discussing Mere Christianity: Exploring the History, Meaning, & Relevance of C. S. Lewis’s Greatest Book (Grand Rapids, 2015). 120 pages. $12.99. ISBN: 9780310699842. Eric Metaxas (host), Discussing Mere Christianity: Exploring the History, Meaning, & Relevance of C. S. Lewis’s Greatest Book, DVD (Grand Rapids, 2015). 170 minutes. $49.99. ISBN: 9780310699859.

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Transcendence: Exploring The Connections Between Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming Identities And Experiences Of Nature Through Art, Mc Jackson May 2023

Transcendence: Exploring The Connections Between Transgender/Gender Non-Conforming Identities And Experiences Of Nature Through Art, Mc Jackson

Undergraduate Theses

“Transcendence: Exploring the connections between transgender/gender non-conforming identities and experiences of nature through art” is the written portion of a creative thesis revolving around an immersive art installation and short film. Transcendence, the installation, was created to promote connection by exploring the overlap between transgender and gender non-conforming (GNC) experiences and experiences of nature. Part of this installation is a short film of interviews conducted with transgender and GNC individuals about nature, their gender experiences, and the transcendent nature of the two. The written thesis analyzes existing literature on nature as a restorative, therapeutic, spiritual setting, offers insight into …

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Review Of C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity: The Crisis That Created A Classic, Bruce R. Johnson May 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity: The Crisis That Created A Classic, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Paul McCusker, C. S. Lewis & Mere Christianity: The Crisis That Created a Classic (Carol Stream, Illinois, 2014). x + 230 pages + 8 pages of photographs. $14.99. ISBN 9781624053221.

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Review Of The Pilgrim’S Regress, Wade Annotated Edition, Arend Smilde May 2023

Review Of The Pilgrim’S Regress, Wade Annotated Edition, Arend Smilde

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress, Wade Annotated Edition, ed. and introduced by David C. Downing; illustrated by Michael Hague (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2014). xxiv + 239 pages. $25.00. ISBN 9780802872081.

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Review Of The Lost Letters Of Cornelius Van Til To C. S. Lewis, Lyle W. Dorsett May 2023

Review Of The Lost Letters Of Cornelius Van Til To C. S. Lewis, Lyle W. Dorsett

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Jomo K. Johnson, The Lost Letters of Cornelius Van Til to C. S. Lewis (Philadelphia, 2012). Kindle Edition, 30 pages. $2.99. ASIN: B007WZAYNE.

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Review Of C. S. Lewis And The Crisis Of A Christian, Stephen Beard May 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis And The Crisis Of A Christian, Stephen Beard

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Gregory S. Cootsona, C. S. Lewis and the Crisis of a Christian (Louisville, 2014). 169 pages. $16.00. ISBN 9780664239404.

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Review Of C. S. Lewis: Revelation And The Christ, Austin Freeman May 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis: Revelation And The Christ, Austin Freeman

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of P. H. Brazier. C. S. Lewis: Revelation and the Christ (Eugene, OR, 2012). Book 1: C. S. Lewis: Revelation, Conversion, and Apologetics. 316 pages. $25.20. ISBN 978- 1610977180. Book 2: C. S. Lewis—The Work of Christ Revealed. 320 pages. $31.50. ISBN 9781610977197. Book 3.1: C. S. Lewis—On the Christ of a Religious Economy: I. Creation and Sub-Creation. 318 pages. $32.13. ISBN 9781610977203. Book 3.2: C. S. Lewis—On the Christ of a Religious Economy: II. Knowing Salvation. 344 pages. $38.00. ISBN 9781620329825. Book 4: C. S. Lewis—An Annotated Bibliography and Resource. 208 pages. $16.20. ISBN 9781610979061.

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“The Weight Of Glory”: C. S. Lewis’ Most Pathetic Sermon 89 Toby F. Coley, Toby F. Coley May 2023

“The Weight Of Glory”: C. S. Lewis’ Most Pathetic Sermon 89 Toby F. Coley, Toby F. Coley

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

A rhetorical analysis of C. S. Lewis's acclaimed sermon, "The Weight of Glory."

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Traces Of Transcendence: C. S. Lewis And The Ciphers Of Being, A. N. Hunt May 2023

Traces Of Transcendence: C. S. Lewis And The Ciphers Of Being, A. N. Hunt

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

C. S. Lewis experienced several moments of Sehnsucht in his life. In one incident, he reported “such a sudden intense feeling of delight that it sort of stopped me in my walk and spun me round. Indeed the sweetness was so great, & seemed so to affect the whole body as well as the mind.” This essay contends that new and significant light can be thrown on these fascinating episodes in Lewis’ life. In fact, the general philosophical features of the phenomenon causing Sehnsucht can be discerned, and described within the framework established by German existentialist Karl Jaspers (1883-1969). Like …

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Review Of The Celian Moment And Other Essays, Sørina Higgins May 2023

Review Of The Celian Moment And Other Essays, Sørina Higgins

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Charles Williams, The Celian Moment and Other Essays, ed. by Stephen Barber (Carterton, West Oxfordshire: The Greystones Press, 2017). xxvii + 127 pages. $17.43. ISBN 9781911122111.

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Review Of Pursuing An Earthy Spirituality: C. S. Lewis And Incarnational Faith, Joel D. Heck May 2023

Review Of Pursuing An Earthy Spirituality: C. S. Lewis And Incarnational Faith, Joel D. Heck

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Gary S. Selby, Pursuing an Earthy Spirituality: C. S. Lewis and Incarnational Faith (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2019). 216 pages. $22.00. ISBN 9780830852369.

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Review Of How To Be A Christian: Reflections And Essays, Kevin Belmonte May 2023

Review Of How To Be A Christian: Reflections And Essays, Kevin Belmonte

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of C. S. Lewis, How to Be a Christian: Reflections and Essays (New York: HarperOne, 2018). xvi + 186 pages. $22.99. ISBN 9780062849939.

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Review Of C. S. Lewis’ Little Book Of Wisdom: Meditations On Faith, Life, Love, And Literature, Torri Frye May 2023

Review Of C. S. Lewis’ Little Book Of Wisdom: Meditations On Faith, Life, Love, And Literature, Torri Frye

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of C. S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis’ Little Book of Wisdom: Meditations on Faith, Life, Love, and Literature, compiled by Andrea Kirk Assaf and Kelly Anne Leathy (Charlottesville, Virginia: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2018). 383 pages. $15.95. ISBN 9781571748454.

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Review Of Symbol Or Substance? A Dialogue On The Eucharist With C. S. Lewis, Billy Graham, And J. R. R. Tolkien, Jennifer Neyhart May 2023

Review Of Symbol Or Substance? A Dialogue On The Eucharist With C. S. Lewis, Billy Graham, And J. R. R. Tolkien, Jennifer Neyhart

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Peter Kreeft, Symbol or Substance? A Dialogue on the Eucharist with C. S. Lewis, Billy Graham, and J. R. R. Tolkien (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2019). 232 pages. $16.95. ISBN 9781621642756.

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Review Of “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back At C. S. Lewis, Gale Watkins May 2023

Review Of “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back At C. S. Lewis, Gale Watkins

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of C. J. S. Hayward, “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back at C. S. Lewis (Wheaton, Illinois: C. J. S. Hayward Publications, 2000-19). 381 pages. $49.99. ISBN 9781794669956.

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