Elaine Padilla

Elaine Padilla
University of La Verne · Philosophy and Religion

PhD in Philosophical and Theological Studies

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Elaine Padilla currently teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of La Verne. Elaine does research in aesthetics, gender and sexuality, mysticism, and indigenous, Latin and Latin American thought. Among her most recent publication is '“‘Flower and Song’: A Comparative Study on Teotlizing in Nahua Theology and Karl Rahner’s View of the Divine Self-Disclosure”'.

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Creating an alternative to counseling compared to the standard method of evaluating an individual who has a co-occurring disorder requires change. Substance Use Disorder and mental illness are two variable dysfunctions which must treated on a separate basis. The manner in which you assess each disorder depends on the one which is creating the most...
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In our time, bodies have become alienated from one another on the basis of race and ethnicity, gender and sex, and religion. To envision theologically a political posture with which to disrupt these paradigmatic structures, this essay develops a model of a politics of love based on Galatians 3:26-28, where Paul argues for "putting on" Christ in who...
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Space spaces itself. It reshapes itself geometrically by continuously recreating itself. Spacing is the temporal dynamism that indwells place. Events, rhetorics, symbols, family ties, memories, and the like can encrust themselves in particular spaces. Holding things together and restricting itself geometrically, space takes on peculiar forms as pla...
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This article primarily engages the concept of being fully human found in the work of Ada María Isasi-Díaz in order to offer a response to classical constructs of the imago Dei. Even as the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures robustly affirm manifestations of divine corporeality, much of classical Christian theology rejects or neglects enfleshed views o...
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This comparative chapter offers a model of divine creativity by which the cosmos continuously emanates from within God. It draws from the Aztec concept of teotlizing or the process by which the primordial space begets itself and becomes tangibly as cosmos, and Karl Rahner’s understanding of the divine self-disclosure. Divine creativity is recapture...
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This chapter aims at steering the sights of the reader toward the divine trace of love that medieval mystics among the three Abrahamic faiths understood to be the starting point and the sustaining accompaniment in their migratory journeys, both spiritually and physically. Seeking to harmonize inner worlds with outer worlds, and to heal fragmentary...
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“Migration is a subject that cries out for an interdisciplinary approach.” So declare Caroline B. Brettell and James F. Hollifield in the preface to their edited volume on migration theory.1 In an effort to “reboot” migration theory through “interdisciplinarity, globality, and postdisciplinarity,” they have assembled a team of specialists in anthro...
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Space expands via movement. Like a cosmic ocean with its myriad ripples, it enfolds and explicates a manifest order.3 The universe, the largest living organism, knows the pain of such expansions, and sheds tears at every rupture that each of these migrations cause. It expands at the beckoning of the stars and planets, whose orbits leave a light tra...
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Breaking news! On May 17, 2012, the US Census Bureau reported that minority babies outnumbered white newborns in 2011 for the first time in US history. The percentage of nonwhite newborns rose to 50.4 percent of children younger than a year old from April 2010 to July 2011, while non-Hispanic whites fell to 49.6 percent. The figures highlight the r...

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