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Why Wood? Restoring the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris
No full textThe Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in April of 2019 was a catalyst for architecture and restoration discussion around the world, with heated debate covering every aspect of the damage to the cathedral and how and when restoration should be undertaken. The French restoration team’s recent decision to use two-hundred-year-old oak trees for the rebuilding of the spire further reignited the discussion and is a reminder of how ever pertinent the preservation and restoration debate is that surrounds historic sacred architecture.
Is the Notre-Dame restoration a worthwhile one in the end? And is a historically traditional approach to its architectural restoration superior to a more modern redesigned approach?
This study will highlight the background and uniqueness of Notre-Dame as a sacred space of historic and national importance, the challenges, obstacles, and criticism the restoration team face, how they can draw from the nineteenth-century restoration of Notre-Dame done by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, and ultimately delve into the reasoning behind the decisions that have been announced so far. Notre-Dame continues to have an immense relevance as one of the definitive sacred spaces in western Europe, it is beloved by the French people as a monument to French history and pride, and the decision to place importance on medieval building methods and materials over modern-day equivalents may indeed have as much to do with practicality as it doessentimentality
Called to Lead: Women Leaders in Student Affairs
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The lack of women leaders in higher education and more specifically Christian higher education has been a concern for some time (Beeny et al., 2005; Haley & Jaeger, 2012; Kellerman & Rode, 2014; Longman & Anderson, 2016; Shepherd, 2017). While the number of women leaders in the field continues to grow, the specific experience of women leaders in student affairs has been largely unexplored. This case study examined the experience of 13 senior women student affairs leaders as they navigated and negotiated their career path within evangelical Christian colleges. The study explored how the shared culture of evangelical Christian colleges (their values and organizational dynamics) shaped how women leaders constructed their identities as student affairs professionals. Three themes emerged from the findings: calling, juxtaposition of gender norms and expectations, and stages of student affairs leadership. By applying feminist theory and Eagly and Carli’s (2007) labyrinth metaphor and women’s leadership framework to the findings, the benefits and challenges of leading as a woman in a Christian college setting were examined. Illuminating the story of this group of women leaders uncovered implications for graduate programs, executive leadership at Christian colleges, and women leaders in student affairs, along with recommendations for future research.
Keywords: gender, leadership, student affairs, Christian higher education, calling, sexis
Francis & Francis: Encountering Muslims, Past & Present
No full textThe 1965 Vatican II document Nostra Aetate encouraged Catholics and Muslims to “forget the past” and focus on a more positive future together, one based on dialogue and cooperation. Since then, Catholics at all levels, from popes to parishioners, have heeded this call. However, the complicated, centuries-long history of Christian-Muslim relations demands attention. Instead of “forgetting the past,” Catholics need to revisit this history, both on their own and with their Muslim partners. Join us this summer for a webinar series on the history of encounter between Catholics and Muslims. In this series, we will examine Nicholas of Cusa’s approach to the Qur’an; the history of Mary as a bridge or barrier in Christian relations with Muslims; and St. Francis and Pope Francis as models of fraternal encounter. No preparation is necessary, and participants can attend according to their availability. Click the links below for more information and to register for each session. Part I: July 21, 6pm CST: “Nicholas of Cusa & Qur’anic Exegesis” Dr. Wilhelmus (Pim) Valkenberg (Catholic University) Part II: August 18, 6 pm CST: “Mary & Muslims: Bridge or Barrier?” Dr. Rita George-Tvrtković (Benedictine University), with a response by Dr. Zeki Saritoprak (John Carroll University) Part III: September 8, 6 pm CST: “Francis & Francis: Encountering Muslims, Past & Present” Dr. Jason Welle, OFM (Pontifical Institute of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Rome)
This session will consider two Christian-Muslim encounters: the first between St. Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Malik in 1219 in Egypt during the Crusades, and the second between Pope Francis and Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayeb in Abu Dhabi eight centuries later, on Feb. 4, 2019, when they co-signed the historic “Document on Human Fraternity.” How have personal relationships between Christians and Muslims affected both the practice of interreligious dialogue and the Catholic theology of Islam?
Dr. Jason Welle, OFM, holds a PhD in Theological and Religious Studies from Georgetown University and master’s degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Catholic Theological Union. He is currently Director of Studies and Extraordinary Professor at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, where he teaches courses in Islamic Studies and Muslim-Christian relations. He is co-editor of several recent works including a two-volume collection of papers from the Georgetown University conference Vatican II: Remembering the Future – Ecumenical, Interfaith and Secular Explorations of the Council’s Legacy and Promise (2018). Dr. Welle is a Franciscan friar of the Assumption B.V.M. Province in the United States.
Sponsored and Organized by: Lumen Christi Institute (Chicago) American Cusanus Society
Promotional Cosponsors: Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute (New York) Nova Forum for Catholic Thought (University of Southern California) Saint Benedict Institute (Holland, MI) St. Paul\u27s Catholic Student Center (Madison, WI) The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University (Chicago) Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies and the Encountering Islam Initiative at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota
Modern Racial Categories, American Slave Societies, & the Integration of African Religious Practices into Christianity
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Religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. In this webinar, Katharine Gerbner will give a brief presentation on the origins of modern racial categories, the role of missionaries in creating American slave societies, and the integration of African religious practices into Christianity. Following this, she will be interviewed by Dominique Stewart about these and other issues addressed in her recently published book Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World, which explores the complex connections between Christianity, slavery, and race in early America.
Katharine Gerbner, Ph.D. is McKnight Land Grant Professor and Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches courses in early American history, the Atlantic world, religion, the history of race, and global Christianity. Her recent publications in include “Theorizing Conversion: Christianity, Colonization, and Consciousness in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” (2015), “‘They Call Me Obea’: German Moravian Missionaries and Afro-Caribbean Religion in Jamaica” (2015), and Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World (2019). Gerbner earned a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization and an A.M. in History from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Columbia University. Learn more about Dr. Gerbner’s work at www.katharinegerbner.com/
Dominique Stewart is completing his final year of undergraduate studies at the University of St. Thomas with majors in Actuarial Science and French, and a minor in Interreligious Studies and Comparative Theology. In 2019-2020, Stewart was awarded an Interreligious Research Fellowship from the Jay Phillips Center, in which he examined early encounters between Hindu communities in Jamaica with the early Rastafari movement and their resulting religious exchange. He presented his findings in a paper titled “A Religious Rendezvous: The Encounter of Jamaican Hindus and Early Rastafari” at the Regional American Academy of Religion in 2020, and published them in the article Early Encounters in Colonial Jamaica: Hindu and Rastafari Divine Metaphysics, Journal or Interreligious Studies, issue 32 (2021). Stewart was again awarded an Interreligious Research Fellowship for 2020-21, during which time he is investigating Caribbean identity through interreligious encounters in West Indian francophone literature.
Sponsored and organized by Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies at the University of St. Thomas and Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at Saint John\u27s University with generous support from Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota
Crack and Criminal Justice in Canton, Ohio: The Drug Problem Has Created a Monster
No full textThe rise of crack cocaine in the late 1980s propelled the war on drugs. The experience of Canton, Ohio, shows how the response to crack solidified mass incarceration. A declining industrial city of 84,000 people in northeast Ohio with deep-seated racial divides, it was overwhelmed by aggressive, enterprising crack dealers from outside the city. In response, politicians and residents united behind the strategy of incessant arrests and drastic prison sentences. The law-enforcement offensive worsened conditions while pursuing African Americans at blatantly disproportionate rates, but few people engaged in reframing the drug problem. Instead, a punitive citizenry positioned punishment as the principal remedy. The emergency foreclosed on more comprehensive assessments of the city’s tribulations, while the criminal justice system emerged as the paramount institution
The Urban Art, Landscapes, and Community Stories Project: Mapping Art, Narrative, and Community in St. Paul Minnesota
No full textChastity, Power Dynamics, and Enduring Spousal Love
No full textThis chapter takes the same approach and draws not only on their descriptions of human experiences but also on the findings of social science. It analyzes the power dynamics of Hume’s androcentric chastity and contrasts it with Wojtyla’s personalist chastity. The chapter evaluates both types of chastity by considering the findings of a recent study on teenage sex in Milwaukee gangs. It argues that the personalist secular chastity proposed by Wojtyla alleviates sexual power dynamics and provides a vector for developing an enduring spousal love. Androcentric chastity accordingly weakens marriage by separating the interests of husbands and wives, by excusing husbands from fully loving their wives, and by instilling into husbands the fear that their wives will sexually betray them. Alleviation of male guilt and hypocrisy by the widespread rejection of androcentric chastity may help explain the promiscuity unleashed by the pill and the sexual revolution of the 20th century
Law
Get PDFChristian understanding of law, as of many other social institutions, derives from both biblical and classical sources. In its broadest sense, the term law is applied to all regularities of behavior, including predictable sequences of events in the natural world, as in modern reference to more or less scientific laws such as universal gravitation or supply and demand.
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Muslim Diversity
Get PDFIslamic revelation given to and through Muhammad is known among world religions as the faith of radical monotheism. This revelation has affirmed and confirmed the Abrahamic religion of one God in a way that closed the door to all shades of idolatry. Qur\u27anic revelation has unified the divine truth ones for all times. It unified revelations and prophethood stating clearly that all the revelations and the prophets stem from the same source.
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