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Catholic Social Living: Teaching Students to \u27Live Wisely, Think Deeply, and Love Generously\u27
No full textBehavioural Health Outcomes in Veterans Compared to Nonveterans by Rural and Urban Areas in Alabama, 2015-2018
No full textDare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved” (1Tim 2:4): On von Balthasar’s Trinitarian Grounds for Christian Hope
No full text“I Thought the Church and I Wanted the Same Thing”: Opposition to Twentieth-Century Liturgical Change in the Thought of Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones
No full textA New Playbook to Win Without Compromise: Executive Strategies to Leverage Culture and Conflict, Unlock the Power of Unity, and Satisfy All
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ASEFA: A Musical Gathering
No full textASEFA (Hebrew for gathering) is led by ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Samuel Torjman Thomas. The ensemble traverses several Mediterranean musical traditions, drawing upon a rich intercultural mix of Hebraic and Islamic traditions from North Africa and the Middle East while delving into Andalusian and Maqam-based musical dialects. Songs are performed in Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, and Ladino. Dr. Torjman Thomas performs on oud, vocals, nay, and bendir, accompanied by violinist Jeremy Brown and hand percussionist Mick LaBriola.
Samuel R. Torjman Thomas, Ph.D. is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, oud, vocals, nay, clarinet, percussion), composer, bandleader, and a professor of ethnomusicology, Sephardic (Jewish) studies, and interdisciplinary studies. As an artist-scholar, his work centers on musics of the Middle East and North Africa, worldwide Jewish musical traditions, jazz traditions, improvisation, and composition. Dr. Torjman Thomas is bandleader of ASEFA, ASEFA-Jazz, and Traveling in Pairs, as well as artistic director of the New York Andalus Ensemble – a multiethnic large ensemble featuring a choir and instrumentalists performing traditional musics of North Africa and Spain, in Hebrew, Arabic, and Spanish. Dr. Samuel Torjman Thomas is also a faculty member in both the ALEPH and Academy of Jewish Religion Cantorial Programs, as well as Director of Musical Arts at Brooklyn’s Sephardic Community Center (JCC). He is a frequent guest speaker, ḥazzan, and facilitator in ecumenical spaces, cultural institutions, and music and spiritual retreats worldwide.
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Sponsors: Chapel Arts Series at the University of St. Thomas Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies at the University of St. Thomas Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities
Antitrust Implications of the NCAA\u27s Restrictions on the Use of Name, Image, and Likeness of Student-Athletes
Get PDFThe Child as a Theologian
Get PDFChrist spoke about children as those to whom that which was hidden had been revealed (Matthew 11:15-27) and rebuked those who kept the children from him, stating that they were the ones who would enter his Kingdom (Mark 10:13-16) and like whom the adult needed to become (Matthew 18:1-5). However, children have often been perceived, historically, as “less than human” or as “adults in the making.” There is much to teach children about God and yet they also offer a unique gift to the Church as theologians or those who study or speak about God. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, who received no higher education but looked primarily to the Scriptures for guidance and to Jesus as her spiritual director, was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church (defined as a theologian of “eminent learning”) in 1997. Her “Little Way” of receiving and enjoying the many gifts of God in her life and then responding in love is taken from the ways of the young child and has offered a spiritual pathway in line with the teaching of Christ himself regarding children. Catholic educators Maria Montessori, Gianna Gobbi, and Sofia Cavalletti have built on the foundation offered by Thérèse by preparing an environment for the child in which he can hear God’s voice though Scripture and his action in the liturgy. Observing the children’s responses of praise and thanks to God has helped provide the opportunity for adults to tune their ears to the children’s insights in a new way. The words of Jesus, along with St. Thérèse’s “Way of Spiritual Childhood,” provide a theological framework for the young child’s insights as they elucidate through their lives how to receive, enjoy, and respond to God
Miracles as a Motive of Credibility for Faith
Get PDFIn assessing the evidential merit of the Christian faith, it is not unusual to see appeals to various philosophical, theological, and historical arguments which all try to argue that Christianity is, in fact, reasonable. Yet many can get lost or feel unmoved by arguments which seem so abstract or remote from one’s own experience. It is for this reason that there is merit in examining one particular type of evidence which might seem to have more concreteness & immediacy, and therefore, convicting power. That type of evidence is what many call miracles. How miracles – or at least reports of apparent miracles – can play a role in moving somebody to genuine faith, and whether that movement to faith is rationally respectable, will be the primary discussion of this thesis. Given a proper understanding of what miracles are and a proper understanding of how the act of faith plays out in the life of a person, one can come to understand just in what ways miracles might go about helping in disposing a person to faith and in deepening the quality of their assent to that faith. St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John Henry Newman will provide the theological core for the understanding of faith laid out here, which will in turn provide a backdrop against which arguments against the possibility of miracles and the rationality of believing them can be critiqued. While not examining in any substantial depth particular miracle claims, the hope is that the theological and philosophical framework provided here would be useful as a preamble to the real work of examining the credibility of specific miracle claims and the implications for faith these claims might entail