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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Apostasy"”.
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Apostasy -- A Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Approach
<p>This thesis concerns apostasy, which responds to a major religious crisis in the life of a believer by a deliberate alienation and abandonment of faith. This crisis involves a conflict on an intellectual, social, or emotional dimension. The problem of the thesis may be stated as follows: How can …
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Conversion and Apostasy: Egypt in Premodern and Modern Times
… analysis of the concepts of conversion and apostasy in Egypt throughout history, including their historical, communal, social, and judicial aspects. The study begins by examining pre-Islamic conversions, followed by an analysis of the irregular conversion rates after the Islamic conquest of …
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The development of apostasy and punishment law in Islam 11 AH/632 AD-157 AH/774 AD|
As in Judaism and Christianity, the sin of apostasy is strongly condemned as one of the gravest enormities (Ar. ahadu al-kabai'r). In common with them, Islam is clear that the eternal punishment of apostates is sure and certain in the hereafter. But unlike Judaism and Christianity today, Islam is …
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Shifting landscapes: Christian apologetics and the gradual restriction of dhimmi social religious liberties from the Arab-Muslim conquests to the Abbasid era
… and disputation generated a serious concern of apostasy in the Islamic Empire in which later Islamic legal scholars particularly emphasized and restricted Christian apologetics and evangelical actions in universal Islamic law codes, altering Christian social-religious living. This thesis …
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Androgynous Coping Behaviors: a Test of Bem's Sex-Role Theory
… two ways: first by slowing the present rates of apostasy in the Inca Union Mission through nurture and second by increasing the effectiveness of outreach with the community.</p>
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A Model for Ministry of Church Elders in the Inca Union of Seventh-Day Adventists
… two ways: first by slowing the present rates of apostasy in the Inca Union Mission through nurture and second by increasing the effectiveness of outreach with the community.</p>
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Personalism in John Donne's Art
… inter-chapter follows, examining the effect of apostasy on Donne's work. The second chapter treats Donne's memories of the past that appear frequently in his poems and prose. The third chapter shows how Donne's formal invention is itself a product of his irrepressible personality, and the fourth …
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A study of the Apostle Paul's approach to the law in Galatians chapters 2 and 3.
… law in an attempt to correct universal Jewish apostasy. This assists in helping to relieve Paul of the persona of him rejecting every element of his national heritage visible in his „alleged‟ polemic against the law.
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The roots of Jehu’s bloody coup : a violent story of religious Zealots, retributive justice or international politics?
… became intertwined with the coup narrative. The apostasy of the Northern Kingdom also brought an element of idolatry into the scheme. The prophets Elijah and Elisha are introduced into the narrative through the anti- Jezebel redaction to invoke a Yahwism theme. Jehu was then a Yahwistic …
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Status anak dari salah satu pasangan yang murtad: Perspektif UU No. 1 Tahun 1974 dan Kompilasi Hukum Islam
… of a couple who converts into another religion. Apostasy is an unfaithful manner to his religiousity by discarding the faith. The case in this study is that a marriage is performed by which one of the couple is originally a Christian then converted to Islam to undertake an Islamic marriage. …
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Theology and the Narrative Form of the Victorian Realist Novel
… to think about religious certainty, Froude’s apostasy narrative instead applies a rigid formal logic back to the realm of the literary. My second chapter moves from Newman’s and Froude’s novels to Charlotte Brontë’s fictional autobiographies, Jane Eyre (1848) and Villette (1853). I situate …
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The fellowship of St.Diogo : new Christian judaisers in Coimbra in the early 17th century
… taken into custody, charged with heresy and apostasy, as well as sodomy (he was a known paederast), and finally handed over to the secular arm for execution. His dream of building up a judaiser community in Coimbra was shattered. The Fellowship members who survived either left the country and …
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Perceptions of Marital Satisfaction among Coptic Orthodox Christian Egyptian-American Husbands and Wives
… only in the case of evidenced adultery or apostasy. This qualitative study is the first of its kind to consider marital satisfaction among Coptic Orthodox Christian Egyptian-Americans. </p><p> The study analyzed the relevant constructed meanings that emerged from all interviews and …
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Reforming Hudud ordinances to reconcile Islamic criminal law with international human rights law
… including stoning for adultery, beheading for apostasy, and amputation for theft. Pakistan, Sudan, Brunei Darussalam and Saudi Arabia, for example, follow the doctrines of the four main Sunni schools of jurisprudence and enforce hudud ordinances, thereby violating some of the core international …
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"Confident of Better Things": Assurance of Salvation in the Letter to the Hebrews
… of salvation with the warnings against Christian apostasy in the letter.
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Impeccability in 1 John: an Evaluation
… of anom(')ia which epitomizes rejection of and apostasy from Christ. (2) The concept of "abiding." (3) The idea of "being born of God." (4) The "sin-unto-death" terminology. A multiple approach which combines these concepts is a reasonable solution to the problem of why, at the same time, a …
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Contemplate the Lord and live justly': Establishing the authorial intent behind The Letter of Aristeas
… whose insufficient religiosity, if not apostasy, served as Pseudo-Aristeas’ main impetus in writing the Letter. Moreover, this text’s overarching purpose, as I shall demonstrate, was to restore the Jewish identities of these wavering Jews by persuading them to re-embrace the traditions …
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Contemplate the Lord and live justly': Establishing the authorial intent behind The Letter of Aristeas
… whose insufficient religiosity, if not apostasy, served as Pseudo-Aristeas’ main impetus in writing the Letter. Moreover, this text’s overarching purpose, as I shall demonstrate, was to restore the Jewish identities of these wavering Jews by persuading them to re-embrace the traditions …
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