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"Two Perspectives on the Changing Social Structure: Walter Rauschenbusch and Dorothy Day"
by Austin Almaguer
At the dawn of Industrialism in the United States, Walter Rauschenbusch and Dorothy Day founded movements to combat social injustice and aid the poorest members of society. Ultimately Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel movement dissolved while Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker movement obtained longevity. This paper explores the life and thought of Rauschenbusch and Day to explain and contextualize the difference in outcomes of these two movements.
This paper was written for Dr. Rosalie Beck's Senior Seminar in Religion.
"The Scottish Church and the Enlightenment"
by Nathan Hays
The Scottish Enlightenment is often associated with the atheist David Hume; however, the Enlightenment in Scotland was actually much more varied and church-friendly than the skeptical writings of its most famous thinker. On the one hand,a number of Scottish church leaders adapted to the Enlightenment or adopted some of its values. On the other hand,some Christians used church discipline or reasoned arguments to combat writers whom they considered to be threats to the church. In the long term, the Scottish Enlightenment helped to contribute to the evangelical revival toward the end of the eighteenth century, an event with significant repercussions for Scottish church history.
This paper was written for History of Scottish Spirituality with Drs. Elliott and Bradley
(in St. Andrews)
"Dante, Aquinas, and Trajan: Reconciling Freedom and
Orthodoxy in The Divine Comedy"
by Josh Jeffrey
This paper reconciles Dante's remarkable view of the potency of the free will with his consignment to Limbo of those who had no freedom to choose baptism and avoid such a fate, with reference to the theology of Thomas Aquinas and the legend of the Emperor Trajan.
This paper was written for Dr. Ralph Wood's course in Christian Literary Classics.
"Scotism and Inscape in the Marian Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins"
by Brock Scheller
Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote a number of beautiful reflective poems which were deeply philosophical as well as religious. Particular themes of Hopkins's poetry reveal the extent to which his philosophy and his theology each reinforced and required the other. Hopkins's Marian poems show his debt not only to the Catholic Church which ordained him, but also to the work of the medieval scholastic Duns Scotus in particular.
This paper was written for Dr. Ralph Wood's course in Christian Literary Classics.
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