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David E Eagle

David E Eagle

Associate Research Professor of Global Health
Duke Global Health Institute
Box 90392, Durham, NC 27708
PO Box 90392, Durham, NC 27710
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Scholarly Works - Preprints

Anthony Bartlett’s Concept of Abyssal Compassion and the Possibility of a Truly Nonviolent Atonement

Preprint · May 28, 2023 Many theologians have recently argued that atonement theories related to theAnselmian tradition introduce violent conflict into the very nature of God, whicheffectively destroys God’s unity—a unity that is self-giving love. I contend thattheologians se ... Full text Cite

Are women elders paid less than men? A brief report from the North Carolina Statewide Longitudinal Survey of United Methodist Clergy

Preprint · May 27, 2023 In this report, we explore systematic salary differences between men and women elders in the North Carolina and Western North Carolina Annual Conferences of the United Methodist Church. We find that, while the starting salaries and salary growth of men ... Full text Cite

Pneumatological Ecclesiology and Same-sex Marriage: A Non-essentialist Approach Using the Work of Eugene Rogers and John Zizioulas

Preprint · May 18, 2023 The debate surrounding the morality of homosexual marriage is one of the most charged and fractious in the church today. As local congregations, national denominations, and international affiliations of Christians wrestle with this issue, significant co ... Full text Cite

The Selah trial: A preference-based partially randomized waitlist control study of three stress management interventions

Preprint · January 28, 2023 ABSTRACTObjectiveChronic stress can undermine psychological and physiological health. We sought to evaluate three stress management i ... Full text Cite

Reproducing Inequality in a Formally Antiracist Organization: The Case of Racialized Career Pathways in the United Methodist Church

Preprint · April 30, 2022 Victor Ray argues organizations are racial structures that legitimate the unequal distribution of resources and stratify the agency of racial groups through organizational processes that treat White identity as a credential and decouple formal rules mea ... Full text Cite

Clergy Who Leave Congregational Ministry: A Review of the Literature

Preprint · April 24, 2021 Since its inception in the 1960s, research on premature (pre-retirement) clergy attrition from congregational ministry has focused on identifying the factors that precipitate and mitigate ministry exits, while the rates at which clergy leave the ministr ... Full text Cite