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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"BR Christianity"”.
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For the love of God: An analysis of the hermeneutical principles, and practices, and their development, in Augustine's On Christian Teaching, The Spirit and the Letter, The Literal Meaning of Genesis and The Enchiridion
In the history of western thought, few people are more influential than Augustine. His thought continues to impact theology, philosophy and politics, amongst other subjects, some sixteen hundred years after his death. It has been said that all western theology is a footnote to Augustine, and this …
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Challenges posed by the geography of the Scottish Highlands to ecclesiastical endeavour over the centuries
The claim of this thesis is that the landscape of the Scottish Highlands has ever posed a challenge to ecclesiastical endeavour over the centuries and has determined the patterns of religiosity that remain largely extant. The landmass under review conforms to a notional Highland line running …
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The religious orders and collegiate churches in Scotland, C. 1450-1560: popular perceptions and reactions
Abstract available p. 30-31
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The questing spirit: listening to the silent voice of gay clergy in the Church of Scotland
This research arises from personal experience. The thesis is divided into two parts in order to reflect and symbolize the dichotomy which the subject of homosexuality, in general, and gay clergy, in particular, creates within the Church of Scotland. This thesis seeks to explore this dichotomy The …
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A post-Christian perception of sin and forgiveness
… context of a post-traditional and post-Christian Britain. It seeks to show this by describing the shift in understanding of the concepts of sin and forgiveness from the period of the Hebrew Bible, through the Christian era until the present day, using examples from literature and art in the …
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Metaphor and divine paternity : the concept of God's fatherhood in the Divinae institutiones of Lactantius (250-325 CE)
… from his usage of this expression? I would briefly like to explain why Lactantius has been chosen as a test case for an ancient Latin writer, who thought of God as Father. While it seems that numerous early church writers conceived God as Father in a metaphorical sense, the Lactantian …
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Colliery women of Denaby Main and Mary
The thesis researches links between the lives of colliery women and the life of Mary of Nazareth. As participant observer I collected evidence about colliery women in Denaby Main. The lack of direct evidence about Mary required the use of the results of contemporary New Testament scholarship as …
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Faith embodied: A comparative analysis of the body’s connection to religion through ritual in the Hindu and Christian context
Academic discourse on comparative religion is compelled to explore the body. The body is the site of communication and experience. This paper seeks to examine the body in context of identity and religion. By challenging traditional assumptions of dualism and religious dismissal of embodied reality, …
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The Textual Tradition of the Gospel of John in Greek Gospel Lectionaries from the Middle Byzantine Period
It has been over 50 years since the last doctoral dissertation on the Gospel of John in the Greek lectionary tradition. The present dissertation on the pericopae of the Gospel of John in the Synaxarion section of the Greek Gospel lectionary hopes to ignite an interest in the lectionary tradition …
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The Church of England in the Forest of Arden, 1660-1740
… It is contended that Anglicanism was a vibrant and accepted part of the lives of a considerable proportion of the laity, providing the focus of the communal and social life of the parish. What is more, the church and its clergy successfully served the needs of the people. In addition, it …
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The God-man: an engagement with the theology of Athanasius of Alexandria, its genesis and impact
This dissertation sets the Christology of Athanasius of Alexandria in the context of its sources, and evaluates its reception up to the Council of Chalcedon. His well-known emphasis upon the Son’s divinity is shown to be underpinned and counterpointed by a theological integration of creatio ex …
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The geography of sinfulness: mapping Calvinist subjectiving between word and image
… assurance. True, Edwards can still be celebrated as the Father of American Evangelical thought and practice. This project, however, questions if Edwards’ interpreters have ignored the signposts of his language and created an icon(s) of himself, and, subsequently, of a type of Calvinist …
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The Popular party in the Church of Scotland, 1740-1800
The Popular party in the eighteenth century Church of Scotland has received little attention from historians and there has never been a comprehensive analysis of its nature and ideology. This dissertation is an attempt to remedy that defect. It commences by surveying the nineteenth and twentieth …
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Freedom and authority in Church and society: Maude Dominica Petre 1863-1942
Maude Petre is a somewhat neglected figure mentioned today chiefly in regard to her association with the Catholic Modernist, George Tyrrell. The aim of the thesis will be to strive to retrieve her from this neglect by showing that she was a significant figure in her own right with a substantial …
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Han and the Pentecostal experience: a study of the growth of the Yoido Full Gospel church in Korea
… shows how pentecostalism, a particular sect of Christianity, adapts concretely to the Korean context. It suggests some practical methods and strategies of mission for Korean Protestantism and beyond.
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The 1859 religious revival in Scotland: a review and critique of the movement with particular reference to the city of Glasgow
This thesis begins with a review of primary and secondary sources followed by an examination of theological and theoretical issues. The 1859 movement is then contextualized with an analysis of the politico-economic, social and ecclesiastical-spiritual situation/environment in which it occurred: in …
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