Patient Response to Find New Meaning in Familiar Language
This piece is a reflection of the ongoing controversy of feminism in a patriarchal society. The reflections in this essay are limited to the conversation of male versus female body but it should be...
View ArticleChrist in You Is Your Hope of Glory: Exploring Colossians in the Sunday...
This paper was submitted in the Fall of 2022 as an assignment for LTGY 421: The Liturgical Year and the Word of God, exploring the use of Paul's letter to the Colossians in the lectionary cycle.
View Article"Get Me the Girl for a Wife": Feminist Readings of Genesis 34-35
This essay, originally written for “The Hebrew Scriptures: History, Theology, and Controversy,” considers the story of the rape of Dinah, exploring the text’s history and its traditional...
View ArticleThe True "New Eve": Ben Wildflower's Magnificat and the Second Creation Story
Images of the Virgin Mary have provided comfort to Christians for almost two thousand years. Many of these images have depicted the Mother of God as gentle, demure, pure, and obedient. Ben...
View ArticleIncarnate Spirits: The Embodied Roots of Worship
Spirituality is “how the Spirit of Jesus enables Christians to grow into fullness with God in this life and in particular historical circumstances.” The role of the community is definitive in shaping...
View ArticleTeresa of Avila's Inward Journey to Spiritual Growth
This essay describes the basic structure of Teresa's understanding of spiritual growth as depicted in her seven "dwelling places" in the Interior Castle. It places emphasis upon where God invites our...
View ArticleThe Role of Darkness and Trial in Spiritual Growth as Described in The Cloud...
This essay was written in Professor Michael Rubbelke's class titled "Growing into God: Spiritual Development in the Christian Tradition." The piece looks at darkness and trial and three resulting...
View ArticleOn the Resurrection of Microbes: An Eco-Christological Approach to the...
This article attempts to bring ecology and Christology into conversation through a transdisciplinary approach. It looks at the pastoral implications of eco-anxiety, resurrection ecology in the field...
View ArticleThe Nature and Importance of Christian Spirituality
This short work is a meditation on Exodus 3:11, where Moses asks God who he is to do what God has commanded. Spiritual Theology has to do with the persons' interior life and its importance to theology...
View ArticleTwo Churches, One Vision: Sacred Architecture as a Reflection of Benedictine...
This piece compares the architecture of the worshipping spaces of Saint Benedict's Monastery's Sacred Heart Chapel and Saint John's Abbey Church; presenting how the worshiping spaces uplift their...
View ArticleBlessed, Broken, and Shared
This paper seeks to boldly confront the evils of racism while simultaneously pointing to a renewed baptismal ecclesiology and a praxis of radical communion as a way forward. Venturing into the...
View ArticleThe Fall and Natural Suffering
Evolutionary theory poses several questions for Christian notions of origins: 1) common ancestry of all creatures rather than monogenesis; 2) the violent history of evolution as a challenge to the...
View ArticleA Central Task of Theology: Authenticity in Relationship with God
This work is a reflection on the beautiful mystery of Theology and what it means to be in authentic relationship with God. It is a cumulative piece of noteworthy ideas taught by Dr. Kristin Colberg in...
View ArticleHow to Talk about God: Origen and Gregory of Nazianzus on Divine...
This article discusses the doctrine of God of the early Church Fathers Origen and Gregory of Nazianzus. According to these two theologians, the tension between God's transcendence and God's immanence...
View ArticleOne Subject, Two Natures, Three Modes of Predication
This article is on the development of language about Jesus' humanity and divinity while describing the historical progression of the church through the first four ecumenical councils.
View ArticleNonviolent Communication: A Foundational Skill for Ministry
A need for more formation has been identified during the continental phase of the Synod on Synodality. Furthermore, a conference of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative has observed a lack of time...
View ArticleWidening the Lens from Genesis 19:5 to Genesis 18 and 19: A Remedy for...
This article is the product of an exercise in scriptural interpretation. The text of Genesis 18 and 19 were chosen due to an awareness of a common theme propagated by culture and the desire to better...
View ArticleJesus' Identity as "the Son of God" Revealed in the Narrative "The...
This article is an exegesis of the narrative “The Transfiguration of Jesus” in Mark 9: 2-8, the powerful evidence of Jesus’ full identity as the “Son of God” and the manifestation of His glorious...
View ArticleThis is the Way: Christian Asceticism Alive in the Star Wars Universe
This article is a creative reflection on how the Desert Fathers, especially St. Antony, could be compared in a pastoral way to the Jedi Masters found in the Star Wars Film and Television Canon.
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