Copyright (c) 2013 Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac Recent documents in Theological Studies Faculty Works en-us Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:25:59 PST 3600 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/24 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/24 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:32:25 PDT Without doubt, many women have experienced great difficulty when attempting to reclaim the stories of their spiritual mothers, the saints. However, Mayeski believes that the reclaiming of the stories of female ancestors is both possible and necessary, and she finds in the work of recent feminist scholars suggestions and methods that can prove helpful in the spiritual journey.

]]> Marie Anne Mayeski http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/23 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/23 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:07:44 PDT Christopher Key Chapple http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/22 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/22 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:54:05 PDT Primary titles in the area of Jaina philosophy are identified, focusing on English-language materials published in the twentieth century, Included is a brief survey of individual books and book series, with more extensive commentary on two important books published within the past five years: Nathmal Tatia's translation of Umasvati's Tattvarthasutra (That Which Is) and Nagin J. Shaha's translation of Nyayavijayaji's Jaina Darsana (Jaina philosophy and religion).

]]> Christopher Key Chapple http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/20 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/20 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:54:02 PDT Sacrifice in the Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian traditions involves a giving up, a surrendering of something for the sake of a greater good. Sacrifice in times past took the form of a bloody offering. In Christianity this has been replaced with the Eucharist, which promotes human conscience and adherence to a moral code. Sacrifice in the ancient Vedic traditions of India entailed the offering of an animal or the symbolic offering of a human being that correlated bodily parts to functions of society and the cosmos. Sacrifice in India in rare instances still includes the killing of animals. Ritual throughout India, known as Puja, celebrates the body, the senses, and their connection with the physical world through off erings of fruits, fl owers, incense, and other ritual objects. Th e contemporary challenge presented by the need to develop sustainable lifestyles can draw from both traditions of sacrifice. Th e Mediterranean model urges people to do with less for the sake of a greater good. The Indic model encourages people to recognize the web of relations among humans, nature, and animals and develop sensitivity to the need for the protection of the earth. Both models of sacrifice can serve as inspiration for the development of reasonable patterns for resource management.

]]> Christopher Key Chapple http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/19 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/19 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:54:01 PDT Our contemporary awareness of an environmental ethic is understood to be based on representing a cosmology of the interconnection of all beings. This construct is coincident with the emerging sense of our present view of the phenomenal world and resonant with the insights of Theravada Buddhism.

]]> Christopher Key Chapple http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/18 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/18 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:54:00 PDT The author argues that it is important for systematic theologians to join the conversation between exegetes and those who investigate the history of exegesis. To demonstrate what might be gained from such an intersection of disciplines, she explores the work of some ressourcement theologians such as de Lubac, Daniélou, Bouyer, and others, all of whom discussed the allegorical and typological exegesis of the Church Fathers and attempted to bring it into harmony with the historical-critical interpretation of the Bible.

]]> Marie Anne Mayeski http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/17 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/17 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:53:59 PDT A study argues that the surprising openness to ecclesiastical ministry for women of Rabanus Maurus, a medieval commentator on the Book of Judges, derived from the practice of lectio divina that he shared with pre-scholastic theologians. To achieve a fuller assimilation of Christian tradition, the legacy of theologians, such as Rabanus, must be reappropriated and understood by the modern Church.

]]> Marie Anne Mayeski http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/16 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/16 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:53:57 PDT This study of Aelred of Rievaulx's understanding of marriage as a Christian state of life first considers his work in the context of earlier written sources and the debates about marriage in the twelfth-century schools; it then exposes Aelred's thinking on the sacramentality of marriage, the position of woman in the marriage relationship, and the importance of marriage in relation to the common good, that is, the socioeconomic order. Much of Aelred's thought remains applicable to Christian marriage today.

]]> Marie Anne Mayeski http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/15 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/15 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:12 PST Douglas Burton-Christie http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/14 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/14 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:11 PST Christopher Key Chapple http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/13 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/13 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:10 PST Christopher Key Chapple http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/12 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/12 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:09 PST Christopher Key Chapple http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/11 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/11 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:08 PST Christopher Key Chapple http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/10 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/10 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:07 PST Christopher Key Chapple http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/9 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/9 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:06 PST James L. Fredericks http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/8 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/8 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:05 PST James L. Fredericks http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/7 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/7 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:04 PST James L. Fredericks http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/6 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/6 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:03 PST James L. Fredericks http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/5 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/5 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:02 PST James L. Fredericks http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/4 http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/4 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:00 PST Anna Harrison