Comparative Theology & Ethics
Complete, accessioned work whose permanent placement within the museum’s architecture remains an open question. This page exists so the work can be found — not to assert where it ultimately belongs.
Each piece below is finished and stands on its own. None of them has a permanent home yet — and that absence is a deliberate, logged decision, not an oversight.
Faithful Response When Earthly Authority and Conscience Collide
Four historic Christian traditions — Nonresistance, Civil Disobedience, Lesser Magistrate, Just War — examined through the same texts. Begins with Scripture, distinguishes observation from interpretation, presents each tradition fairly.
→ MethodologyReading a Worldview: The Seven Questions
The analytical tool this collection uses, made explicit — Sire’s seven questions, a worked example, and a comparison against this collection’s compressed four-category shorthand.
→ Narrative ApplicationWitnesses Who Would Not Bow
Four Old Testament witnesses facing authority that had exceeded its mandate, plus a fifth, differently-shaped witness sustained across decades — each examined through the seven questions.
→Curatorial Note
These three pieces form a deliberate family: one comparative-traditions exhibit, one methodology piece explaining the analytical tool used throughout, and one application of that tool to narrative accounts rather than systematic doctrine. Each cross-references the others directly within its own text.
None has been assigned to a Hall. That absence traces to an open governance question this collection has held deliberately rather than resolved prematurely: whether Hall placement should follow an object’s cultivated visitor posture, its disciplinary domain, or a deeper distinction between the museum’s permanent collection and its current exhibition structure — a question still being tested against real accessions rather than settled in the abstract. This page exists to make the work accessible while that question remains open, consistent with this collection’s broader practice of naming what isn’t yet resolved rather than deciding it by default.