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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Catholic Theology"”.
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Liberal education and Catholic theology
… that exists between liberal education and Catholic theology. This is done by analysing the changing patterns of interconnections in the historical and on-going relationship between both.The thesis comprises nine chapters. The first two chapters outline the general principles governing the …
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Towards A Black Catholic Theology of Reconciliation-Tucker
… proposes and examines the development of a Black Catholic theology of reconciliation based on the 1984 Catholic document, "What We Have Seen and Heard: A Pastoral Letter on Evangelization from the Black Bishops of the United States." The bishops cite that African American Catholics have gifts to …
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Deus in se et Deus pro nobis: The Transfiguration in the Theology of Gregory Palamas and Its Importance for Catholic Theology
… from the Eastern patristic tradition regarding theology of revelation, deification, and eschatology. Palamas' theology of the Transfiguration and theophany presupposes a theophanic and therefore Christocentric economy of salvation which sees the Son of God as the theophanic mediator between God …
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Justification and Merit: the Interpretation and Evaluation of the Concept of Merit in Modern Catholic Theology in Relation to Luther's Doctrine of Justification
… Church's traditional doctrine of merit.</p> <p>Catholic theology, however, refused to follow the Reformer in this radical break with tradition. When about a decade after theoutbreak of the Reformation it had become clear that the teaching of justification formed the main point of the dispute, …
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Religious Pluralism and the Catholic Church: Lonergan's Method and the Jacques Dupuis Controversy
… of the Faith over his book, Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism. The application of Lonergan's method reveals the potential for the resolution of the issues presented by Dupuis in the area of developing a Catholic theology of pluralism as well as the tension between the Catholic …
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Presence in Distance: the Lived Experience of Adult Faith Formation in an Online Learning Community
… understand the ways that adult learners studying Catholic theology become present to one another, strengthen bonds of community, and contemplate the face of Christ in computer-mediated, text-based distance education. Ten geographically dispersed learners seeking undergraduate or graduate degrees …
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God save this honorable court : religion as a source of judicial policy preferences
… areas plausibly connected to religious values. Catholic justices vote in ways that more closely adhere to the teachings of the Catholic Church than non-Catholic justices even after controlling for ideology. These results may indicate that Catholic theology is different from Protestant or Jewish …
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Neoplatonic identities : literary representation and the politics of Queen Henrietta Maria's court circle
… I am concerned not only with her position as a Catholic in a Protestant country, but with her status as a culturally and politically active woman. I discuss the significance of her importation of French cultural fashions on to the English stage (most notably the innovation of the female actor), …
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Jean-Luc Marion and Gianni Vattimo’s Contributions for the Postmodern Faith
<p>Catholic theology in the postmodern era has encountered various cultural or narrative shifts—both negative and positive—which have helped shape the Roman Catholic Church and Christianity at large. Negatively, the Church has been affected by external factors (e.g., globalization, …
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Giambattista Vico’s readers in mid-nineteenth-century France, c. 1820-1850
… the development of religious thought, especially Catholic theology and moral theory, as they were read in Vico and interpreted in nineteenth-century France. More than an object of antiquarian interest, the universal histories written and inspired by Vico's thought sought to answer the question of …
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The Reception of Cyprian of Carthage in Early Medieval Europe
… were often based on Cyprian’s contribution to Catholic theology, enabled influential bishops to affirm their place in a Christian society as major players in ecclesiastical and secular politics.
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Stellvertretung as Vicarious Suffering in Dietrich Bonhoeffer
… to Bonhoeffer’s critical affection towards Catholicism and highlights the theological importance of vicarious suffering during a period of renewal in Catholic theology, popular piety and fictional literature. Although Bonhoeffer references fictional literature in his writings, and indicates …
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Filiación-Fraternidad: The Hope of Human Existence in Light of Global Disparity. Exploring the Theological Anthropologies of Karl Rahner and José Ignacio González Faus.
… argues that there is a need for Christian theology to critically re-examine human existence through social and structural categories in response to the current direction of globalization which threatens the humanization of human existence. Specifically, there exists a need for a …
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Proclaiming Christ in a pluralistic context
… of religious pluralism from the perspective of Catholic theology starting from the positions taken at the Second Vatican Council and how they were received and developed in post-Conciliar theology. The dissertation seeks to understand the uniqueness and universality of Christ as the sacrament of …
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"""Lines of Spiritual Motion"": The Realization of American Catholic Fiction, 1845-1965"
This dissertation argues that Catholic literature, far from being an escape from the historical to the spiritual, revises major literary forms as negotiates American culture and doctrinal orthodoxy to create an American Catholic community. My research in Catholic print culture suggests, on the …
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The virgin's daughters: Catholic traditions and the post-colonial south in contemporary women's writing
… women writers who consciously engage dominant Catholic, American, and southern ideologies in their narratives and who posit Louisiana as a liminal, hybrid space. Building upon postcolonial concepts of hybridity and performance of cultural memory, I trace a “pathway” to feminist recovery and …
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A Contemporary Consideration of the Role of Metaphysics in Systematic Theology: The Contributions of Pope John Paul II and Claude Tresmontant
It has been traditionally held that Catholic theology has notable metaphysical threads deeply connected with the fabric of its faith and its systematic presentation. This dissertation focuses upon those "metaphysical threads" in order to explore their past, present and possible future status within …
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John Henry Newman and Georges Florovsky: An Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue on the Development of Doctrine
… thinkers in their respective Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. Newman's theory of doctrinal development proposes that divine revelation has been given once and for all, but that the Church is still growing in its understanding of this revelation. This growth sometimes …
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