Browsing Theology Undergraduate Theses by Title
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Called To Community: A Scriptural Model Of Religious Education For All Of God's People With Special Concern For The Mentally Retarded
(1981-04-01)Religious education for many conjures up the image of children receiving "religious instruction." This is an extremely limited horizon associating religious education with childhood and crippling the possibilities and ... -
Christ the Truth: Church, Revelation, and Sacrament
(2018-04-01)Supernatural or divine truth seems to be beyond the grasp of humans and fundamentally incompatible with creaturely finitude. If Christianity is to be true, it needs an account of how supernatural truth is revealed and ... -
Christian Mysticism: A Way Of Knowing And Living: The Teaching Of Saint Augustine, Marguerite Porete And Edward Hays On The Mystical Life
(1994-04-01)St. John's words have often been called the "mystic's charter," but it is surprising how the majority of Christians can read them without realizing the mystical implications contained in them. Jesus' words, recorded in the ... -
Christian Theology’s Contribution to the Modem Environmental Movement
(2008-04-01)Currently, the earth faces a global ecological crisis. Possible responses to major environmental issues have generated the modem environmental movement. The environmental movement has become one of the largest and most ... -
Consecrated by God... ...to be Revered by All - A thesis on Catholic Christian Morality and the Ethics of the Human Being
(1999-04-01)January 22, 1999 marked the 26th anniversary of what many Americans consider to be the darkest day in US constitutional history - the day that saw the abortion laws of all 50 states invalidated and the creation of a virtually ... -
Evolution In Dobzhansky And Nogar: A Study In Biology And Theology
(1982-04-01)The notion of the vast array of different animals and plants evolving as new forms through a slow, historical, natural course from simpler forms is a familiar one. Evolution is a theory that should not be confined to ... -
God of Genes: A Theology of Evolution
(2017-05-13)Science and faith are held up as opposition parties in public discourse, but this is a relatively new development in intellectual history. Francis Bacon described science and faith as companion volumes written by God to ... -
Hip-Hop: A Call and Response to God’s Self-Communication
(2010-04-01)“How is it that something that has no definitive theological intent”, underground hip-hop “being our prime example, provides such a spiritual encounter, and how then can we dare say that one might experience a connection ... -
Irish Travellers: Facing Discrimination In A Christian Society
(1999-04-01)Discrimination against the Irish Travelling Community in Ireland may not seem like a topic relevant to people in Montana, since most people have never even heard of them. Yet it is very important because discrimination is ... -
Jesus Christ: Perpetuator Of The Mosaic Covenant
(1986-04-01)Holy Scripture is rooted in covenant theology. The "berit" of the Old and New Testament are patterned after the ancient suzerainty treaty of the Hittite and Assyrian nations and constitute a binding agreement between God ... -
Justin Martyr And The Logos: A Study Of The Greek And Jewish Influences On The Church Father's Christology
(2005-04-01)Justin Martyr’s works serve as theological examples of what needs to be engaged and interpreted. Through exploration of his influences and his works, we can come to understand his worldview and how he developed his theological ... -
Martin Luther: Faith, Mysticism And The Human Person
(2003-04-01)Although Luther’s early concept of saving faith was heavily influenced by the German mystical tradition, Luther moved against the mystical tradition, particularly Johannes Tauler’s optimistic anthropology, in later life ... -
Meaning Of Social Justice In Quadragesimo Anno By Pope Pius XI
(1957-04-01)The purpose of this thesis is to inquire into the meaning of the term Social Justice, as used by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical, Quadragesimo Anno. In the course of the past six years, three interesting books have appeared ... -
No Longer Servants But Friends: A Contemplative Approach To Friendship
(1979-04-01)When I first began this paper on friendship, I really did not know where to begin. Besides having had thought about friendship, I had read some books and magazine articles. The result was a thousand diverse ideas with no ... -
Not for School, but for Eternal Life: Representing Christ and Reaching the Campus Through Cooperative Ministries
(2017-04-01)Carroll College has a history rooted in faith. Founded by the Catholic Diocese of Helena in 1909, the school professes a “special obligation to provide for the spiritual needs of the college community” (Carroll College ... -
The Philosopher’s Trinity: Philosophical Parallels to the Doctrine of the Trinity
(2020)One of the fundamental tenets of the Christian faith happens to be one of the most mysterious: the doctrine of the Trinity. The Trinity, despite its seeming contrariety to reason, has seen several philosophical parallels—divine ... -
Reconnecting Christian Faith With Public Life
(1999-04-01)This is a thesis about reconnecting faith lives with public lives. It is a vision of Christians who are seeking and living out their values at work, school, in entertainment selections, conversations on the phone, consumer ... -
Redeeming Augustine, Redeeming the Body: Critiquing Popular Readings of Augustine’s Theology of the Body and their Historical Consequences
(2018-04-01)Fourth-century bishop of Hippo, St. Augustine, formed a theology of the body that has a profound influence on Church history and modern Catholic thought. Much of his influence, however, is muddied by the receptive history ... -
Scriptural Influence and Creative Response: Robert Alter’s Theory of Reading Applied to Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible
(2006-04-01)For an author previously dedicated to depicting the modern-day southwestern United States in simple and inspiring stories ofpersonal identity, a political novel set in the 1960’s African Congo and employing an intricate ... -
Socially Responsible Investing and Catholic Social Thought
(2009-04-01)This thesis seeks to contribute to the emerging field of socially responsible investing. The first chapter provides an overview ofthe history of socially responsible investing, including explanations of four essential ...