Degree awarded: M.A. School of International Service. American University
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LIKE WATER POURED OUT is an original work of narrative nonfiction by Patrick Marion Bradley. Presented in vignette chapters, the piece follows the daily lives and struggles of monks and nuns in the Missionaries of the Poor--a Catholic order of brothe...
Previous literature has indicated that both religiosity and locus of control are implicated in posttraumatic outcomes, with each showing some potency as a protective factor against the subsequent development of trauma-related pathology. Internal locu...
This dissertation examines the contributions of Gerald O’Collins S. J. to fundamental theology over the past fifty years, focusing on three interconnected areas of insight: the relationship of history to revelation, the centrality of Christ, and ecum...
Even though a number of major studies have addressed self-love as fundamental to Thomas’s accounts of friendship and human happiness, they do not address how “self,” as both the one who loves and the one who is loved, is perfected through self-love. ...
There has not yet been a book-length examination of the significant medieval developments in doctrines of natural final causality at the University of Paris. The current study finds that, during this time, natural final causes cease to be recognized ...
Thomas Aquinas on the Principle Omne Agens Agit Sibi SimileDaniel J. Pierson, Ph.D.Director: Kevin White, Ph.D.This dissertation is a comprehensive study of the principle omne agens agit sibi simile in Aquinas's writings. This axiom, which appears ov...
"A Stranger Here": Christian Spirituality and Community in "Post-Catholic" Irish LiteratureCeleste Barker Bright, Ph.D.Director: Joseph Sendry, Ph.D. Joyce's non serviam declaration, uttered by Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young M...
"Second edition, 1929 ... eighth impression, 1966."