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Calling All Years Good: Christian Vocation Throughout Life\u27s Seasons
No full textA uniquely comprehensive discussion of vocation from infancy to old age
Do infants have a vocation? Do Alzheimer\u27s patients? In popular culture, vocation is often reduced to adult work or church ministry. Rarely do we consider childhood or old age as crucial times for commencing or culminating a life of faith in response to God\u27s calling. This book addresses that gap by showing how vocation emerges and evolves over the course of an entire lifetime. The authors cover six of life\u27s distinct seasons, weaving together personal narrative, developmental theory, case studies, and spiritual practices. Calling All Years Good grounds the discussion of vocation in concrete realities and builds a cohesive framework for understanding calling throughout all of life.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/sot_books/1107/thumbnail.jp
The Transcendence of the Apprehension of Beauty
No full textThe apprehension of God’s Beauty is universal because we are all made to know God. Through Beauty, which we perceive with our spiritual senses, God incites eros in us, drawing us to love God more, whether or not we know God by his name
From Colonization to Occupation: Israel and the Palestintians
No full textIsrael’s occupation of Palestinian Territories (the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip) began in 1967. This presentation will explore some key questions:
What is “occupation”? What are the international laws of occupation? Is Israel subject to these laws of occupation? How in practice is the occupation implemented? What are the effects of the occupation on the Palestinian people? What are the effects of the occupation on the soldiers implementing it? Do Palestinians have the right to resist the occupation? How did the occupation evolve into colonization? What are the effects of this colonization on Palestinians? The perspective adopted in this presentation is that Israel is subject to the international laws of occupation, and that their implementation of the occupation has resulted in massive and pervasive injustice to Palestinians.
Arland Jacobson is a Resident Scholar at the Collegeville Institute. He is former Executive Director of the CHARIS Ecumenical Center and Fargo/Moorhead Communiversity, located on the campus of Concordia College. Prior to his ecumenical work, he was Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Concordia College (Moorhead, MN). He traveled to Israel/Palestine in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010-2011, and 2013. He has also made several trips to Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey
Benedictine Leadership in Higher Education: Strengthening our Communities and Accomplishing our Goals
No full textThe Rule of Benedict as served as an organizational management guide for 1500 years, but how do administrators and faculty use it to make decisions, improve culture and achieve goals on campuses today? A variety of case studies, personal experiences and practical tips will be included
The Arts, Empathy & Racial Justice: Reimagining Together What Is Possible
No full textDr. Pramuk explores the fertile boundaries between the artistic and prophetic imagination bent towards racial justice
Domestic Violence Against Women in Peru: An Analysis of Individual, Cultural, and Structural Factors
Get PDFViolence against women, despite decades of activism on the subject, remains a problem for women around the world. By one measure, over 35% of women globally have experienced either physical or sexual violence. The vast majority of this abuse occurs within the home. Although development programs often focus on women’s empowerment as a way of freeing women from the cycle of domestic abuse, research on this issue has been more mixed, finding that in some cases, women’s work outside the home or higher status relative to their husband can catalyze abuse. Peru is a particularly relevant case study for this issue because of its high rates of domestic violence despite a well-established legal framework against domestic violence. In this study, I analyze individual and state-level factors that contribute to women’s likelihood of experiencing domestic violence through logistic regression using the Demographic and Health Survey as well as a case study of Peruvian laws and history. On the individual level, I find that women’s education and joint decision-making within a household act as protective factors against domestic violence, while women’s work outside the home, intergenerational exposure to violence, urban residence, and indigenous identity leaves them at an increased risk of abuse. On the state level, I find that despite Peru’s well-developed legal framework, women’s emergency centers and shelters are chronically underfunded, impeding the state’s mission to end domestic violence. Additionally, a long history of guerrilla conflict in Peru may be to blame for the country’s high levels of violence within the home. These findings suggest that the relationships between a country’s development, women’s overall levels of empowerment, and rates of domestic violence are not always as clear as many assume. This study ultimately provides a more nuanced understanding of what catalyzes domestic violence against women so that future interventions on this issue are able to address the individual, structural, and cultural dimensions of domestic violence
“I am the Mahar of your Mahars:” Cokhāmelā, the Modern Dalit Movement, and the Dalit Christian Theology
Get PDFOver the last century, Cokhāmelā’s place and prominence in the Modern Dalit Movement and Dalit Christian theology have waned significantly. As the liberating potential of his work failed to be actualized, and more recent Dalit figures like Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and movements like Dalit Sahitya began to examine his work and life more critically, Cokhāmelā and his abhangas were found inadequate. Cokhāmelā became identified as one whose conscientisation remained incomplete, primarily because he failed to convert from Hinduism and saw his caste through the lens of karma. This essay re-examines Cokhāmelā’s life, death, and legacy so as to reassess his potential contribution to revitalising Dalit movements, at a moment when the present generation of leaders acknowledge a stagnation. Because Cokhāmelā occupies a liminal space that maintains a tension between the Savarna and the Dalits, he is able to create a dissonance that disrupts any attempts to ignore the discontinuity between the spiritual and material, potential and actual dealings of caste. This article tries to find out if his liberating social vision be realised
Psalms and Prayer in Syriac Monasticism: Clues from Psalter Prefaces and their Greek Sources
No full textBook Description: Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries forges a new conversation about the diversity of Christianities in the medieval eastern Mediterranean, centered on the history of practice, looking at liturgy, performance, prayer, poetry, and the material culture of worship. It studies prayer and worship in the variety of Christian communities that thrived from late antiquity to the middle ages: Byzantine Orthodoxy, Syrian Orthodoxy, and the Church of the East. Rather than focusing on doctrinal differences and analyzing divergent patterns of thought, the essays address common patterns of worship, individual and collective prayer, hymnography and liturgy, as well as the indigenous theories that undergirded Christian practices. The volume intervenes in standard academic discourses about Christian difference with an exploration of common patterns of celebration, commemoration, and self-discipline