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"Deceitful Lips and High-Sounding Tongues: Sadoleto & Calvin on Piety and Philosophy in Catholic Reform"

"Deceitful Lips and High-Sounding Tongues: Sadoleto & Calvin on Piety and Philosophy in Catholic Reform"

Submitted February 8, 2013, to Sujin Pak in partial fulfillment of European Church History 750 (CH751). The debate between Jacopo Sadoleto and John Calvin is paradigmatic for the debate between Catholicism and elements of Reform in 16th century Europe. The Catholic church based in Rome was being fragmented by social

MTS-05: Hauerwas on McClendon

MTS-05: Hauerwas on McClendon

Discussed on January 24, 2013, with Stanley Hauerwas as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Source: James McClendon, Biography as Theology (Wipf and Stock, 2002) Discussion Prompt James McClendon's central claim throughout his Biography as Theology is that "The truth of faith is made good in the

"By the Excess of His Love: Francis of Assisi, Stigmata, and his Cruciform Life of Poverty"

"By the Excess of His Love: Francis of Assisi, Stigmata, and his Cruciform Life of Poverty"

Submitted December 4, 2012, to J. Warren Smith in partial fulfillment of Church History 750 (CH750). Bonaventure, a medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher commissioned by his order, the Order of Friars Minor, to write a biography of their founding father, Francis of Assisi, in about 1263. His became the official

"Going Deeper: The Politics of Pornography in Feminist Debate"

"Going Deeper: The Politics of Pornography in Feminist Debate"

Submitted as a final paper on December 3, 2012, to Kathi Weeks in partial fulfillment of Debates in Women's Studies (WS601). "What is it?" was the lingering question after our tenth week together in class, during which we focused on pornography. The question led to major

"Not According to Power:Divine Love & Human Will in Augustine of Hippo and John Cassian"

"Not According to Power:Divine Love & Human Will in Augustine of Hippo and John Cassian"

Submitted November 2, 2012, to J. Warren Smith in partial fulfillment of Church History 750 (CH750). Augustine of Hippo has demanded great esteem for his theology of grace, and for good reason. But the doctor of the church was not without his formidable opponents. His maxim of "grace alone&

MTS-04: Smith on Severus

MTS-04: Smith on Severus

Discussed on October 24, 2012, with Warren Smith as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Source: Sulpicius Severus, Vita Martini (trans. Robert Alexander) Discussion Prompt Sulpitius Severus by all accounts lived during the same time as that of the subject of his biography, Martin, the Bishop of Tours from 370

MTS-03: Hauerwas on York

MTS-03: Hauerwas on York

Discussed on October 17, 2012, with Stanley Hauerwas as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Source: Tripp York, The Purple Crown (Wipf & Stock, 2020) Discussion Prompt Tripp York suggests that martyrdom "is the political act because it represents the ultimate imitation of Christ."[1] It is easily

"Above, Below, Beyond, and Within: Gender, Virtue, and Transcendence in Gregory's Life of Macrina"

"Above, Below, Beyond, and Within: Gender, Virtue, and Transcendence in Gregory's Life of Macrina"

Submitted December 10, 2010, to Warren Smith in partial fulfillment of Early Church History 750 (CH750). In Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina, the author attempts to explain the journey of his sister along the path of human virtue. His hope is to articulate how the virtuous philosophical

MTS-02: Smith on Field

MTS-02: Smith on Field

Discussed on October 3, 2012, with Warren Smith as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Source: Lester Field, Liberty, Dominion, & the Two Swords (Notre Dame, 1998) Discussion Prompt The concept of constitutional boundaries spoken of in the Lester Fields reading this round stuck in my mind as I proceeded

"Feminisms: The (Un)Becoming of Man?"

"Feminisms: The (Un)Becoming of Man?"

Submitted as a midterm paper on October 2, 2012, to Kathy Weeks in partial fulfillment of Debates in Women's Studies (WS601). That our lives are performatively constituted and socially constructed should cause alarm, since patriarchal and aggression-laden linguistic markers both describe and construct men and masculinity. Taking

MTS-01: Hauerwas on Yoder

MTS-01: Hauerwas on Yoder

Discussed on September 25, 2012, with Stanley Hauerwas as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Sources: John Howard Yoder; * The Christian Witness to the State (Herald, 2007) * Body Politics (Herald, 1992) Prompt for Discussion John Howard Yoder's The Christian Witness to the State (1964) and Body Politics (1992)

MTS Thesis Proposal

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MTS Thesis Proposal

*Originally developed with Stanley Hauerwas and J. Warren Smith in September 2012, including seven recorded discussions. By Vow and Virtue Alike: A Narrative Challenge to Just War Propositions War in Western Christian traditions was thought to be understood as a moral quandary, answered by applying various criteria from what is

Isaiah 6 Exegetical Paper

Isaiah 6 Exegetical Paper

Submitted on April 22, 2011, to Anathea Portier Young in partial fulfillment of Intro to Old Testament Interpretation (OT12). The commissioning scene of Isaiah 6:1-8 has been disproportionately focused on at the expense of the prophet’s actual commission in vv.9-13, propagating a reckless Christian optimism

Isaiah 6 Artistic Intertexts

Isaiah 6 Artistic Intertexts

Submitted on March 22, 2011, to Anathea Portier Young in partial fulfillment of Intro to Old Testament Interpretation (OT12). Girard Picart & Isaiah 6 For this assignment, I have decided to stick with the same scripture I used for my Exegetical Brief and Prophetic Sermon, Isaiah 6. The prophetic office

Isaiah 6 Sermon

Isaiah 6 Sermon

Submitted on February 21, 2011, to Anathea Portier Young in partial fulfillment of Intro to Old Testament Interpretation (OT12). Introductory Comments 1. Audience – one or more partners in precept, Tuesday February 21, 2011. I am not moving toward ordination, so I have no reason to write for anything other than

Isaiah 6 Exegetical Brief

Isaiah 6 Exegetical Brief

Submitted on February 15, 2011, to Anathea Portier Young in partial fulfillment of Intro to the Old Testament (OT12). Boundaries Chapter 6 of the book of Isaiah is a coherent and self-sustaining whole. The commissioning of the prophet is a literary break from the surrounding chapters. Chapters 1-5

"Let the Stones Cry Out: IVAW and the Question of Secular Prophetic Action"

"Let the Stones Cry Out: IVAW and the Question of Secular Prophetic Action"

Submitted December 10, 2010, to Mary McClintock-Fulkerson ("MMF") in partial fulfillment of Parish 215 (Par215). Historically, Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) has had a relative minority of devout religious members, and conversations of a religious nature rarely occur between members within the context of the organization

"God at the Threshold: A close reading from Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love"

"God at the Threshold: A close reading from Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love"

Submitted on December 7, 2010, to Amy Laura Hall in partial fulfillment of Christian Ethics: Love in the Christian Tradition (CE144). When the couch of death is prepared for you, when you go to bed never to get up again, and they are only waiting for you to turn to

"Enemy Love: A Stepping Stone or A Stumbling Block?"

"Enemy Love: A Stepping Stone or A Stumbling Block?"

Toward an Echthragapic Theology Submitted November 17, 2010, to Geoffrey Wainwright in partial fulfillment of Intro to Christian Theology (CT32). "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for

"Steam Rising: Fire & Water in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead"

"Steam Rising: Fire & Water in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead"

Submitted on November 9, 2010, to Amy Laura Hall in partial fulfillment of Christian Ethics: Love in the Christian Tradition (CE144). The most powerful imagery in my reading of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead has been the communion experience in the midst of the ruins of a church struck by lightning.

"Who and whose are you? Naming and Claiming in Toni Morrison’s Beloved"

"Who and whose are you? Naming and Claiming in Toni Morrison’s Beloved"

Submitted on October 7, 2010, to Amy Laura Hall in partial fulfillment of Christian Ethics: Love in the Christian Tradition (CE144). In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, names are a crucial and central marking, stylistically and literally. It might seem contradictory at first glance, but the importance of naming runs