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Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject History - America, grade: 100, Arizona State University, course: Latin American History, language: English, abstract: Where this study about the Jesuit orders dynamics among the Inca wants to go is beyond race and the casta system, although these will be unavoidable and important aspects of the research. More prominently featured will be aspects such as trade, labor, production, consumption, dail...

A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics provides the reader with an introductory presentation of key themes in Thomistic metaphys-ics. There are many such books, of course, but this one is, to use a phrase Michael Gorman has adopted, "analytic-facing, " i.e., it presents things in dialogue with analytic philosophy. Sometimes that means disagreeing with analytic proposals (e.g., possible worlds), and sometimes it means agreeing wit...

This study explores the relationship between the individual person (the self), the divine, and other people in the writings of the apostle Paul and the Roman Stoic Epictetus. It does so by examining self-involving actions expressed with reflexive pronouns (myself, yourself, etc.) in various kinds of sentences: for example, "Examine yourself" and "You do not belong to yourself." After situating the topic within the fields of linguistics and anc...

Expositio in Vetus Testamentum: Genesis

Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, grade: A, Arizona State University, language: English, abstract: The changes in the practice of history, in regard to how historians approach and understand the past, have come from many directions, producing new theories and new perspectives of not only what has happened, but also what history is. Over time, these changes moved history out of the realm of antiquarianism ...

Essay from the year 2022 in the subject World History - General and Comparison, grade: A, Arizona State University, language: English, abstract: This final research paper explores the core research questions: what symbolic gestures and traditions do the Canadian sovereign use to build and maintain a relationship with the people of Canada? More importantly, what role does the monarchy create for itself in Canada to justify its existence and rel...

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This study explores the relationship between the individual person (the self), the divine, and other people in the writings of the apostle Paul and the Roman Stoic Epictetus. It does so by examining self-involving actions expressed with reflexive pronouns (myself, yourself, etc.) in various kinds of sentences: for example, "Examine yourself" and "You do not belong to yourself." After situating the topic within the fields of linguistics and anc...

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Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2021 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, grade: A, Arizona State University, language: English, abstract: A historiography (or history of historical research) on the relationship between the French colonial powers and Amerindian powers of the Great Lakes region, Upper Canada, and northeastern United States. Spanning several centuries of research, this historiography covers the evolution of how t...

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When it was first published in 2001, Cruciformity broke new ground with a vision of Pauline spirituality that illuminated what it meant to be a person or community in Christ. Beginning with Paul's express desire to "know nothing but Christ crucified, " Gorman showed how true spirituality is telling the story, in both life and words, of God's self-revelation in Jesus, so that we might practice "cruciformity"--the impossible possibility of confo...

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This book is a treasure-house of resources for teachers and students of the Bible, as well as for anyone who wants to become more deeply informed about the collection of texts that are Sacred Scripture for the Christian church. I am not aware of any other book that packs so much valuable information about the Bible into such a concise and readable form. Its essays demonstrate the distinctive, twofold character of fine teaching: they are access...

Four mainline Protestant denominations (the ECUSA, PCUSA, UCC, and UMC) are affiliated with RCRC. In this important new book, the authors carefully examine the literature and liturgical aids produced by RCRC, demonstrating how its theology radically contradicts the statements on abortion issued by its affiliated churches.

A world-renowned senior scholar presents the essential elements of sound exegetical method in a succinct and incisive way. Now updated and revised.

A provocative call for the transformation of science museums into "idea colliders" that spark creative collaborations and connections.Today's science museums descend from the Kunst-und Wunderkammern of the Renaissance--collectors' private cabinets of curiosities--through the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851 to today's "interactive" exhibits promising educational fun. In this book, Michael John Gorman issues a provocative call for the transfor...

It is 1957 as a man and his sons cast their fishing lines into the water. Twelve years ago while living in a dark post-war world, the man never would have guessed that he would be in Florida with money in his pockets, his two sons by his side, and a wife and daughter waiting for them in a rented cottage.After their Uncle Matthew spontaneously visits, their family history is slowly revealed as four characters confront war and plague as well as ...