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Theopathic Analogy: A Canonical-Theological Approach to God’s Emotions
No full textThe philosophical and theological problem of divine impassibility has received much attention in recent years. One way of articulating this problem in Christian theology is this: can one truthfully ascribe emotions to God? This paper responds in the affirmative. After explaining the problem of anthropomorphism leveled against religious language, I argue that analogy best accounts for human speech about God and effectively responds to this critique. Second, I outline a canonical-inductive approach to the Bible that takes seriously the unity of God’s self-disclosure. From these commitments, I argue that God’s emotions are not anthropopathic—“bottom-up” human projections. Instead, human emotions are imperfectly “theopathic”—a result of God’s “top-down” creation of and communication with humans bearing His image. Finally, I briefly defend my proposal against historical and theological critiques by exploring a theological model of God’s emotions that is consistent with the perfect, immutable, transcendent God worshiped by Christians throughout history
Ilium 2024
Full text linkThe 2024 yearbook of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.
Theme: Overflowhttps://pillars.taylor.edu/yearbooks/1117/thumbnail.jp
Resilient Faith: Building a Faith that Lasts in High School Students
Full text linkWith research showing that 40-50 percent of youth group kids walk away from the faith after high school, I wanted to research ways to build a resilient faith in students through a church youth ministry. Fuse is the high school ministry at Northpoint church that is represented throughout this paper. The Frankena Model will be used as the format for the paper as I develop a philosophy of ministry for Fuse that incorporates all the aspects of Frankena\u27s model and looks to find a better way to do youth ministry
Creatures of Folklore
Full text linkThis poster is an introduction to the English folkloric creatures that I found most common or most impactful to Medieval English culture and literature. It includes descriptions of the creatures, what they are, how they impacted culture, and any literary impacts they had as well.
Course: ENG 412, Medieval Literature (Dr. Aaron Housholder)https://pillars.taylor.edu/medieval-lit-spring2024/1002/thumbnail.jp