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The Student Augustinian Values Institute: Assessing its Impact of Enhancing the Understanding and Experience of the Augustinian Core Values of Veritas, Unitas, and Caritas Upon Students in Augustinian Secondary Schools
… in which they are called to serve through an Augustinian lens. Sharing with other religious communities of men and women in the Post Vatican II reality of declining vocations to religious life and ordained ministry, the Order of St. Augustine has made conscious efforts to assure the future of …
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Modified Libertarianism: An Analysis of Eleonore Stump's Interpretation of Augustinian Freedom
… analysis of Eleonore Stump’s interpretation of Augustinian freedom, which she characterizes as a modified form of libertarianism. Stump’s desire is to identify modified libertarianism as an original contribution to the free will debate which she claims is evident in Augustine’s writings …
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Augustinian Interiority: The Teleological Deification of the Soul through Divine Grace
Augustinian interiority is a way of deifying ourselves in order to attain true happiness(i.e., teleology). Augustine approaches deification chiefly in terms of the ‘image of God’, from the perspectives of ontology and teleology. Ontologically, we are created inthe image of God and this image is …
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The Return of Participatory Scriptural Hermeneutics in Evangelicalism: An Augustinian Philosophy of Communication
… rhetorical theory, I propose the recovery of Augustinian scriptural hermeneutics to meet the hermeneutical crisis in current Evangelicalism. Evangelical identity is centered on scripturally mediated belief and mission that ties together its ecumenical coalition, but its hermeneutic principles …
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The Artistic Patronage of the Augustinian Friars in Central Italy (1256-c. 1370)
… the Dominicans. My major re-evaluation of the Augustinians’ artistic legacy reveals them to be innovative patrons who used art discerningly to promote a distinctive identity, with much wider implications for our prevailing understanding of Franciscan patronage as a normative model for artistic …
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The Augustinian theme of harmony: A contribution of a spiritual tradition to a better understanding of the self and others
… to the university with the question: how does an Augustinian community live its spirituality in a situation of violence? I realized too that violence was somehow connected with the inner person, at the level of the heart. As an Augustinian, I wanted to see how harmony appears in the bishop's …
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The Augustinian canons in the Diocese of Worcester and their relation to secular and ecclesiastical powers in the Later Middle Ages
In the later medieval period the Augustinian canons flourished in England, yet they have received relatively little scholarly attention. This thesis attempts to integrate the evidence for the eight houses in the diocese of Worcester and contribute to the knowledge of the Augustinian canons by …
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and ‘le hobbisme le plus parfait’: An historical and philosophical study of Rousseau’s engagement with Thomas Hobbes and Hobbism
… This picture closely resembled the neo-Augustinian account of man’s postlapsarian state, and by rejecting this Augustinian-Hobbesian depiction of man Rousseau was able to offer a vision of a well-ordered republic for men who were yet to be corrupted by the onset of luxury and entrenched …
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A comparative study of the religious epistemology of Carl F. H. Henry and Alvin Plantiga
… of his religious epistemology within the Augustinian tradition and his conception of the Logos doctrine as an essential component of religious epistemology. Chapter 3 examines the important critiques of Henry's religious epistemology. Chapter 4 examines the religious epistemology of Alvin …
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A Scriptural Appraisal of the Necessary Connection between Progressive Sanctification and Compatibilist Freedom
… Wesleyan perfectionism, Keswick, and Augustinian or progressive sanctification. Here it is argued that Wesleyan perfectionism and Keswick require a concomitant libertarian freedom, whereas an Augustinian model of sanctification requires compatibilism. Chapter 4 offers scriptural …
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The emergence of the independent prologue and chorus in Jesuit school theatre c.1550 - c.1700, derived from a comparative analysis of Benedictine, Augustinian and Jesuit school theatre, lay youth confraternity theatre and the oratorio vespertina of the Congregation of the Oratory
… examination of the developments in Benedictine, Augustinian and Jesuit school theatre during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries reveals the Jesuits as leaders in both dramatic and musical innovations. The emergence of seventeenth-century Jesuit theatre innovations in eighteenth-century …
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Merton Priory as a Centre of Learning 1117-1538
… 1 contextualises Merton within the more general Augustinian movement, discussing the historiography of the Augustinians and of mediæval learning and scholarship, and gives an overview of the sources used in the thesis. Chapter 2 sets out the spiritual context of Augustinian priories in general …
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Beyond Public and Private: A Theological Transfiguration
… The second part of the dissertation provides one Augustinian conceptual "grammar" that makes sense of the revolution Christianity effected possible, and it responds to problems raised by the genealogy in the first half by providing a close reading of Augustine's texts relating to God and creation, …
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Descent and Ascent in Augustine's De Trinitate: Prayer as a Way of Being in the Trinity
This thesis uses an Augustinian model of participation, derived from Augustine’s *De Trinitate*, to examine how human prayer participates in something of God’s own self and action. I argue that intercession is an especially helpful category for understanding the participatory shape of human prayer. …
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