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“I am going to do it": The Complex Question of Action in Theology and Science in the Life of America's First Woman Minister, Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921)
(2015-05-11)Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) became one of the most outspoken and remarkable women of her era: an ordained minister, a published author, a prominent public speaker, and a philosophical thinker whose writings ... -
ILLUMINATED / MANUSCRIPT: A Chronicle of Lightning Bolts
A CHRONICLE OF LIGHTNING BOLTS is a modern-day Illuminated Manuscript midwifed by the coronavirus. It weaves together journals, essays, sermons, songs and visions composed by a divinity school student during pandemic times. ... -
Implicate and Transgress: Marcella Althaus-Reid, Writing, and a Transformation of Theological Knowledge
(2015-05-11)Marcella Althaus-Reid sought wherever language or meaning might shift or exceed their possibilities. To do so, she pushed theology from the light into the dark. In the spaces of political, economic, and sexual struggle, ... -
In the Hands of God: Theology and the Benefits of American Football
This essay investigates the active role of theology in the practice of American football. In particular, it shows how the positive benefits of football are articulated using the language of mainline American theology. In ... -
Incarnate Words: Images of God and Reading Practices
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Inter-Religious Dialogue as a Christian Ecumenical Concern
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1985)Explores inter-religious dialogue in Christian ecumenical concerns. Discussion of mission and evangelism by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism; Theological, developmental and peace-making work of the Church and ... -
Invoking Eternity: Religion and Temporality in the National Socialist Narrative
(2021)This paper seeks to shine a light on the National Socialist approach to both religion and temporality as they intersect in the narrative of the Third Reich. Using the Nazi propaganda documentaries 'Triumph of the Will' and ... -
"Is the LORD in Our Midst or Not?" Conceptions of Divine Presence in Ancient Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the Calf Incident
This study examines various notions of divine presence as integral to the depiction of Israel's apostasy at Mount Sinai within the redacted Pentateuch as well as to interpretations of that composite text by ancient Jews ... -
Islam in the Mirror of Ritual
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Jesus
(Oxford University Press, 2019-11)This essay examines the diverse ways in which representations of Jesus/Christ served as paradigms for authorizing, exemplifying, and promoting early Christian beliefs and practices. It asks how ancients might have read the ... -
"Jesus said to them, 'My wife ...'": A New Coptic Papyrus Fragment
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Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon in Light of the Tibetan Treasure (gter ma) Tradition
(2021)This paper explores and extends theories on Joseph Smith’s production of the Book of Mormon by discovering and translating a set of ancient gold plates in light of similar events in the Treasure (gter ma) tradition of ... -
Language and Religion in Modern India: The Vernacular Literature of Hindi Christians
(2016-06-21)A persistent interest in a particular type of Christian witness is found in a substantial amount of Hindi-language Protestant (hereafter, ‘Hindi Christian’) literature in modern India. Across a range of texts like Hindi ... -
Las que te tienen temblando de noche y de día: A (social) media analysis of IRL #Brujas (not witches) of Instagram
Over the last several years there has been a growing interest in popular culture on the modern-day witch. The focus, however, has leaned towards whiteness, in almost complete erasure of Afro-Indigenous spiritual perspectives. ... -
Law, Equity, and Calvin's Moral Critique of Protestant Faith
This dissertation examines the themes of law and equity in John Calvin's moral and legal thought. Part One of the dissertation focuses on Calvin's immanent critique of Lutheran faith, particularly his nuanced recalibration ... -
The Lectio Principle and Its Relation To the Plausibility of a Kashmir Recension of the Bhagavad Gita
(2022)In this paper, I explore how Otto Schrader, Krishna Belvalkar, Franklin Edgerton, and Vishwa Adluri justify the plausibility of a Kashmir recension of the Gita by employing the lectio principle. Lectio difficilior means ... -
Leveraging the Social Determinants of Health: What Works?
(Public Library of Science, 2016)We summarized the recently published, peer-reviewed literature that examined the impact of investments in social services or investments in integrated models of health care and social services on health outcomes and health ...