Browsing Harvard Divinity School by Keyword "Christianity"
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A Comparative Study of Bishop Joseph Butler and Wang Yang-ming's Conception of Conscience
This dissertation is a comparative study of the Anglican Bishop Joseph Butler's (1692-1752 AD) and the Neo-Confucianist Wang Yang-ming's (1472-1529 AD) conception of conscience (or in Wang's terminology, liang-chih. ... -
A Passionate Pacification: Sacrifice and Suffering in the Jesuit Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1594 - 1767
This dissertation tracks Jesuit discourse about suffering in the missions of Northern New Spain from the arrival of the first missionaries in the 16th century until their expulsion in the 18th. The project asks why tales ... -
Blind Visions: Psychedelics, Thomas Merton, and Reformed Mysticism
The author shares his Christian faith journey and its impact on his psychedelic thought. The paper is a theological conversation with Thomas Merton’s books, essays, letters, journals, and monastic lectures and the Reformed ... -
Going Home to Our Mother: A New Reading of Baojuan as Sermons from the Perspective of Origin and Salvation
In the textual studies of Chinese popular religion, Baojuan (precious volumes) are often studied as sociological objects without enough voice from the believers. Hence, I intend to offer my reading of precious volumes, as ... -
The Spirit of Gentleness: The orientating virtue of Christian Ministry
(2021-05)This thesis argues that gentleness is the orientating virtue of Christian Ministry. It shapes and leads the other virtues into their proper application within a ministerial context. Gentleness is defined against trivializing ... -
Theologizing the Pill: Christianity, Women's Magazines, and Birth Control, 1960-1972
(2021)This paper examines Christian women’s responses to the legalization of the birth control pill in America through conversations within women’s magazines of the 1960s and ‘70s. During this time period, women were largely ...