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Donata Garsia

Regent University

1000 Regent University Drive

Virginia Beach, VA 23464

United States

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SCHOLARLY PAPERS

13

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“  Global Consultant · Cultural Development Zones (CDZ) Framework. Germany, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Netherlands, China, United States. Situated within the UNESCO 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the emerging recognition of culture as a global public good. UNESCO · UNHCR · UNICEF · GPE-IIEPSSRN: 6170606 · 6454018 · 6173182 · 6452399 · 6452498 · 6452600 · 6452658 · 6454898 · 6455498 · 6683358.  ”

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Scholarly Papers (13)

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1.

Theology, Governance, and the Stewardship of Cultural Institutions: A Christian Worldview Framework for Mission-Protective Governance

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 26 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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governance theology, institutional stewardship, sphere sovereignty, subsidiarity, Marian paradigm, creedal governance, Augustine, Niebuhr, creation-fall-redemption-vocation, Cultural Development Zones

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Institutional Theory, the Architecture of Capture, and the Governance Protection Gap: Toward Cultural Development Zones

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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institutional capture, governance architecture, cultural commons, constitutional-choice, Cultural Development Zones, community-based organizations, mission integrity, Polanyi, Ostrom, institutional theory

3.

Art as Imago Dei: Creative Communities as Participation in Shalom

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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imago Dei, shalom, kintsugi, Robert Barron, Makoto Fujimura, Joseph Beuys, community art, adaptive reuse, cultural placemaking, theology of art, ecological stewardship

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The Rawls Theological Paradox. Justice Imagined, Wisdom Received

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Apr 2026 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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Hamilton Policy, natural law, Real Presence, Wolterstorff

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Cultural Development Zones: A Governance Framework for Mission Integrity in Community-Based Cultural Organizations

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 03 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 19 May 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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Cultural Development Zones, governance architecture, institutional capture, mission integrity, adaptive reuse, cultural heritage governance, community land trust, Christian leadership, SDG 11, UNESCO cultural policy

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After the Natural Law a Review Essay on J. L. Hill's Account of the Classical Worldview

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 14 Jul 2026 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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Cultural Development Zones: A Governance Framework for Mission Integrity in Community-Based Cultural-Religious Organizations

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 26 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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Cultural Development Zones (CDZ), governance architecture, institutional capture, mission integrity, community-based cultural-religious organizations, rival hypothesis elimination, Dominican disputatio, critical realism, phronetic social science, UNESCO Culture|2030, Faro Convention, protective governance

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Heritage Communities, International Law, and the Governance Gap: From the Faro Convention to Cultural Development Zones

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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Faro Convention, heritage communities, UNESCO, cultural governance, Cultural Development Zones, heritage community rights, cultural heritage law, governance architecture, mission integrity, international cultural policy

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Budziszewski and the Cornerstone at the Institutional Scale: A Review of The Line Through the Heart

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Jul 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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Is the Christian Conception of Natural Law Indispensable to a Coherent Moral Theory of the State?

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Jul 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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Natural Law, Christian Natural Law, Moral Theory of the State, Imago Dei, Justice, Covenant, Statesmanship, Christian Kingship, Democracy, Positive Law, Rawls, Aquinas, Augustine, Calvin, Public Policy, Cy Pres

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The Dominican Disputatio As Governance Research Methodology: Rival Hypothesis Elimination in Multi-Case Studies of Institutional Capture

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 26 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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Dominican disputatio, rival hypothesis elimination, governance architecture, institutional capture, multi-case study, phronetic social science, Cultural Development Zones, qualitative methodology, critical realism, retroduction

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Cultural Development Zones: Governance Architecture for Heritage Community Protection

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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governance architecture, institutional capture, multi-case study, phronetic social science, Cultural Development Zones, qualitative methodology

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Governance Architecture and the Design of Mission Protection: The Protective Mode as a Fourth Governance Type.

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2026
Donata Garsia
Regent University
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governance architecture, protective mode, constitutional-choice, institutional capture, Chait, Ostrom, Cultural Development Zones, constitutional-choice