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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"BL Crefydd"”.
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Cum illi Graeci sint, nos Latini : Western Rite Orthodoxy and the Eastern Orthodox Church
… there have been attempts and successes in establishing a Western Rite in the Eastern Church. This thesis approaches Western Rite Orthodoxy as an established phenomenon in Eastern Christianity, especially as a facet of Orthodoxy in countries where Orthodoxy constitutes a minority. While previous …
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Canadian urban ministry : the nature and challenges of success
… mission purposes, with attention to a faithful public-and-prophetic witness (as the ground and aim for ministry). A literature survey to help discern and frame the research questions focuses on England and North America, especially Canada. The chapters consider the research questions of what …
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Archetypal narratives : toward a theological appreciation of early Celtic hagiography.
… theology of sanctity within the narrative. The biblical hermeneutic method proposed by Paul Ricoeur in the mid-twentieth century is applied to the earliest Lives of Samson, Cuthbert, and Brigit. These three date from the mid- to late-seventh century, a time of secular and ecclesiastical change, in …
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Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion on the (im)possibility of negative theology.
… welcomes all phenomena. Derrida finds this problematic. As their discussion on “the Gift” shows, Marion’s phenomenology makes room for revelation as an appearing of the divine itself. Derrida questions if this is still phenomenology that welcomes the other as tout autre, absence. Beginning with …
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Pilgrims and strangers : the theological motivation of Irish Peregrinatio
… on Irish monastic peregrinatio beginning with Biblical exemplars, particularly Abraham, Moses, and the peregrini in Hebrews 11 who undertake travel as they seek a land promised to them by God. Despite being a physical land, the land they seek is more importantly a spiritual one promised as an …
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Contra Imperium : Biblical foundations of an anti-imperial theology.
… and so provides the foundation for a more biblically faithful response.
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Towards A Theological Understanding of Muirchú’s Vita Patricii
… literary and historical context by looking at biblical allusions and hagiographical motifs, and finally, demonstrates how each section connects to the theological vision of the Life and how the implications therein could be received by the perceived audience. Through the implementation of the …
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Merton Priory as a Centre of Learning 1117-1538
This thesis examines aspects of Merton’s history connected to the learning of its canons, with two underlying themes: a) the nature of learning within the priory, and b) the contribution of the canons of the priory to wider scholarship and learning during the Middle Ages. Chapter 1 contextualises …
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Sacred Ground, Divided Histories: Conflicts Over Religious Sites and Their Impact on Cultural Memory
This study analyses the impact of the destruction of contested sacred spaces on the cultural memory and identity of the communities involved. Contested sacred spaces involve one or more religions claiming ownership of the site. Conflicts that arise from these disputes can affect the cultural memory …
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Rewriting Torah in the Fourth Gospel: with particular reference to scriptural interpretation in the Prologue
… Genesis Apocryphon and Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (LAB), it is proposed, provide valuable parallels to the Fourth Gospel in respect of its wide-ranging scriptural interpretation. The second half of the dissertation focuses on the various strategies and techniques of scriptural …
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Categories of Mystical Experience in The Voice of the Silence by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.
… the Silence (1889), compiled by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, is widely regarded as one of her most influential works, yet it has been relatively overlooked in academia. This dissertation seeks to fill this gap by identifying, classifying, and establishing the categories of mystical experience found …
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The Mormon mission to Wales 1840-49 : a reassessment
… Saints suffered persecution. With some notable exceptions, most of the scholarship on this subject has originated from the work of Mormon writers, in particular Ronald D. Dennis, formally of Brigham Young University, who has published a number of books on different aspects of the Mormon …
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The Convergence of Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Criticism in Luke 3-5
… analysis and rhetorical criticism may be possible. Finally, Chapter VI compares the results of this exegesis alongside three representative commentaries, elucidating potential and practical outcomes of this project for New Testament Gospel studies.
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Conversion and Ritualisation: an analysis of how westerners enter the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and assimilate its values and practices
… central values and worldviews. This is made possible through the entrant’s initial exposure to its rituals, his/her search for the meaning behind these rituals, gradual acceptance of ISKCON’s 5 schemes of ritualisation, and, over the long-term, acquisition of ritual mastery. From a sociological …
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The Problem of Pendar : a lost abbey in medieval Senghenydd and the transformation of the church in South Wales
This thesis began life as an investigation of monastic patronage on the Southern Welsh March between the coming of the Normans and around 1300. Investigation of this broad area of research identified a more focused area as the phenomenon of Pendar. Pendar is known to have had association with the …
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Shamanic gender liminality with specific reference to the NatKadaw of Myanmar and the Bissu of Sulawesi.
This piece of research sets out to discover why co-gendered shamans are flourishing in Myanmar but have all but disappeared on Sulawesi. A review of the literature, firstly, on shamanic liminality in general and, secondly, shamanic gender liminality in particular, reveals that there are three main …
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How Jung’s Theories of The Self May Be Classified as Gnostic and are Grounded in Gnostic Cosmology
… and elaborated on by more recently available material, which illustrates that Jung’s psychological theories of the self are deeply aligned with, if not, directly inspired by classical Gnosticism especially those with a Platonizing/Neoplatonic emphasis and where Jung’s perceptions differed …
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The Dignity of Difference: Christian Particularity and the Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue
… of the religions is often criticised as incompatible with a commitment to, and willingness to engage in, interreligious dialogue. This thesis argues against this apparent incompatibility by making a case for the possibility of interreligious dialogue that does not come at the expense of the …
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To what extent do ‘processes of the mind’, consistent with evolutionary psychology, account for religious experiences involving the Trinity?
… of evolution and Christianity may be compatible. This dissertation uses the so-called by-product approach, considering whether cognitive or attachment theories can explain the ways in which the human mind facilitates Trinitarian experiences. However, these theories may distort the Trinity’s …
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