Mid-America Nazarene University
Welcome to the digital repository of MidAmerica Nazarene University. Our repository contains scholarly work created by MNU faculty, staff, and students, as well as material from the University's Archives.
Christian Ministry and Formation Collection
Faculty and student scholarship related to the MidAmerica Nazarene University Christian Ministry and Formation Department (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences).
Aristotle’s Journey to Europe: A Synthetic History of the Role Played by the Islamic Empire in the Transmission of Western Educational Philosophy Sources from the Fall of Rome through the Medieval Period
After the fall of Rome, how did the work and words of the ancient Greek philosophers make their way, textually and intellectually, into later European thought? There were two primary and obvious paths that this Greek literature could have taken to reach medieval Europe after the splitof the Roman Empire into east and west sectors, but these two potential paths functionally became, instead, dual roadblocks to its transmission.
English
Type:
Dissertation
WHDL ID:
WHDL-00001911
Aristotle's Journey to Europe: A Synthetic History of the Role Played by the Islamic Empire in the Transmission of Western Educational Philosophy Sources from the Fall of Rome through the Medieval Period
From the Abstract: After the fall of Rome, how did the work and words of the ancient Greek philosophers make their way, textually and intellectually, into later European thought?
After the fall of Rome, how did the work and words of the ancient Greek philosophers make their way, textually and intellectually, into later European thought? There were two primary and obvious paths that this Greek literature could have taken to reach medieval Europe after the split of the Roman Empire into east and west sectors, but these two potential paths functionally became, instead, dual roadblocks to its transmission.
English
Type:
Dissertation
WHDL ID:
WHDL-00001832
Creating Space for God in the Lives of Millennials by Leveraging Technology to Practice a Spiritual Discipline Modeled by Christ
Poster, 2014.
English
Type:
Image
Daniel's Response to World Religions
In this paper, I will explore some of the theological responses of the Jewish community to competing religions in the years following exile. In particular I propose to focus upon those ideas found in the book of Daniel that respond to other religions. Following two preliminary comments, the first part of the paper will survey the religious environment of the ancient Middle East during and following the Israelite exile to Babylon.
English
Type:
Unpublished article
WHDL ID:
WHDL-00001989
An Expansion of Mildred Bangs Wynkoop's 1971 WTS Article: a Hermeneutical Approach to John Wesley
PowerPoint Slide Presentation. Presented at MNU Week of Scholarship, April 2015.
English
Type:
Image
Holding God Close through Technology: a Prayer Challenge
2015 Week of Scholarship 7x7 Challenge presentation, April 7, 2015.
English
Type:
Video
Holding God Close through Technology: the Silence & Solitude Challenge
PowerPoint Slide Presentation. Authorship noted on title slide as Kelvin St. John & MNU Millennials.
English
Type:
Image
Jurgen Moltmann's Theology of Divine Action: Toward a More Integrative Understanding of his Doctrine of Creation
Poster.
English
Type:
Image
Philoarcheology: Plato and Aristotle - Two Men Who Refuse to Die
Video, 2015 Week of Scholarship 7x7 Challenge presentation, April 7, 2015.
English
Type:
Video
Recovering the Full Mission of God: a Biblical Perspective on Being, Doing and Telling
Poster describing the author's recent scholarly papers, articles, books, and presentations.
English
Type:
Image
Religious Architecture in Video Games: a Curricular Proposal for Religious Education
The ubiquity and popularity of video games suggest a new medium for religious education. However, the capitalistic and militaristic architecture of many evangelical Christian video games undermines their potential for faithful religious education. Thus, these video games ironically propagate a curriculum of redemptive violence. Video games with religious educational aspirations call for a distinctively religious architecture that intertwines aspects of myth, identity, contemplation, discernment, revelation, transcendence, mutuality, and creativity.
English
Type:
Presentation
Saving the World One Game at a Time? Justice, Digital Play, and Games for Change
The "Games for Change" organization sponsors video game innovations that seek to teach justice and compassion through digital play. Play encompasses many dimensions: learning and growth, perspective taking, self-reflection, critical thinking, and adaptive thinking. However, the educational aims of these games may be diluted by the latent structural qualities within the chosen medium of digital play. In addition, religion appears to be an underutilized resource within these games, despite the great promise and potential of religious education.
English
Type:
Presentation
Transcendence and Epiphany in Passage: A Religious Educational Analysis
Jason Rohrer's independently produced video game - Passage (2007) - illustrates the potential of video games to mediate transcendence and epiphany through digital play.
English
Type:
Presentation
Video Games and Ideology
This poster was displayed at the MidAmerica Nazarene University Faculty Exhibition, 2013.
English
Type:
Poster
WHDL ID:
WHDL-00001966
Video Games as Religious Education Curriculum
Thesis: Video games hold promise for situating players within a religious education curriculum that sponsors playful engagement with the ethical and the transcendent.
* At its best, video game curriculum integrates both narrative (explicit) and procedural (implicit) educational strategies.
* However, some evidence suggests that religious video game designers fail to understand either the full curricular potential of the video game medium or the implicit curricular significance of conventional video game procedures.
English
Type:
Presentation
Writing Adult Sunday School Materials
Poster, presented at Week of Scholarship, 2015, MidAmerica Nazarene University.
English
Type:
Image
Creating Space for God in the Lives of Millennials by Leveraging Technology to Practice a Spiritual Discipline Modeled by Christ
Today’s Millennials, the first generation to reach their majority in this millennium, often compartmentalize their faith lives from their social and work lives. MidAmerica Nazarene University (MNU) offers a course in Spiritual Formation once each spring. The enrollment for this elective course ranges from twelve to eighteen students per class. Each undergraduate must take three general education courses that inform their faith: Old Testament Literature, New Testament Literature, and Christian Beliefs.
Today’s Millennials, the first generation to reach their majority in this millennium, often compartmentalize their faith lives from their social and work lives. MidAmerica Nazarene University (MNU) offers a course in Spiritual Formation once each spring. The enrollment for this elective course ranges from twelve to eighteen students per class. Each undergraduate must take three general education courses that inform their faith: Old Testament Literature, New Testament Literature, and Christian Beliefs.
English
Type:
Dissertation
WHDL ID:
WHDL-00003262
Book Review: The Way of the Wesleys
Review of: The Way of the Wesleys: a Short Introduction, by John R. Tyson, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014. 202 pp. $16.00; ISBN 978-0-8028-6954-8.
Reviewed by Bruce Flanders, Director, Mabee Library, MidAmerica Nazarene University, Olathe, KS.
English
Type:
Book review
Book Review: Christ-Shaped Character
Christ-Shaped Character: Choosing Love, Faith and Hope, by Helen Cepero, Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Books, 2014. 181 pp. $14.50; ISBN 978-0-8308-3582-9.
Reviewed by Bruce Flanders, Director, Mabee Library, MidAmerica Nazarene University, Olathe, KS.
English
Type:
Book review
Book Review: The God We Worship
The God We Worship: an Exploration of Liturgical Theology, by Nicholas Wolterstorff, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015. 180 pp. $11.11; ISBN 978-0-8028-7249-4.
Reviewed by Bruce Flanders, Director, Mabee Library, MidAmerica Nazarene University, Olathe, KS.
English
Type:
Book review
Tabs
WHDL ID:
WHDL-00003235
Thwarting Aristocratic Tendencies
Abby Felter, MNU Student
Aristocracy and Monarchy in the First United States Senate and First Federal Congress explores the attitudes and actions of the first Federal Congress.
Empowering Nurses to Use Research
Tish Conejo, PhD, RN
Research and evidence-based practice can help nurses define their scope of practice and provide the safest and best care possible to their patients.
Theology of Divine Action
Jacob Lett, PhD (candidate)
Research to form an integrative understanding of Jurgen Moltmann’s doctrine of creation from the lens of eschatology, the incarnation, and the Trinity.