Thesis (M. Div.)--Western Evangelical Seminary, 1949. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-65).

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work / Gerad D. Middendorf / For over two decades the people of northern Uganda endured horrific atrocities during Africa’s forgotten war in the form of attacks and child abductions by the Lord’s Resistance Army, animal rustling by neighboring ethnic groups, and internal displacement of an unimaginable 90 percent of the northern parts of the country. With the majority of internally displaced persons spending over a decade in IDP camps, an entire generation of Acholi was socialized and acculturated in a non-traditional environment. A decade after the last LRA attack, I ask, what are the cultural impacts of the conflict and how has the culture recovered from the trauma. Using ethnographic analysis, this dissertation is rooted in over 150 interviews. While it has been presented to the world at large that Joseph Kony’s LRA is the one of the biggest problems facing the region, I found it is not the case. Interviewees discussed serious inadequacies in education, land conflict, culture loss, climate change, drought, famine, a perceived generational divide, and a strong distrust of the Ugandan government. Additionally this research examines the case of Uganda through the lens of, and attempts to build upon, Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural trauma process. I argue the increasing reach and instantaneous nature of social media can interact with, alter, and prolong the trauma process. The externalization of defining a problem and solutions for that problem while the trauma process is occurring, or shortly after the trauma has subsided, can lead to retraumatization.

Christian disunity, as has been shown by Rouse and Neill, has been a major problem in the Church from the time of its inception. In Apostolic times Paul had to face serious dissension at Corinth and elsewhere. The great councils of the 4th and 5th centuries were convened to settle doctrinal disputes. The schism between Eastern and Western Christianity, which finally became permanent at about the end of the 12th century, was the result of thoroughgoing doctrinal as well as cultural differences. At the Reformation, Christianity was again drastically divided and between the 16th and 19th centuries,divisions were greatly multiplied. Chap. 1, p. 1.

Thesis advisor: John F. Baldovin / Thesis advisor: Catherine M. Mooney / An incorporation of a notion of "destruction" into our understanding and theologies of the Eucharist can help us to appreciate more robustly not only late medieval and early modern discussions of Eucharistic sacrifice, but also our late and post-modern experiences of God's absence. This thesis recovers theories of the Eucharist that propose an inherent aspect of destruction as part of the Sacrament. Such theories emerged in the writings of Robert Bellarmine, Juan de Lugo, Francisco Suárez, and others and continued to be influential on Eucharistic thought through the time of Pius XII. I trace these theories and their reception from the sixteenth century to a revival of them in nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly in the works of Maurice de la Taille (1872-1933) and Anscar Vonier (1875-1938) as well as in Pius XII's Mediator Dei (1947). I then consider them and their implications for contemporary discussions of Eucharist, notably by Louis-Marie Chauvet and followers of René Girard. A recovery of a notion of destruction might help contemporary Christians to reach both a greater understanding of the Eucharistic presence as well as a greater appreciation of God's apparent or perceived absence. / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

Thesis (S.T.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-141).

Thesis (S.T.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2008. / Description based on Microfiche version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-148).

Thesis (S.T.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-148).

Thesis (M.A.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 1989. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [175]-182).

Thesis (M. Div.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-61).

Thesis (S.T.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-141).