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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Christendom."”.
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Verhalen in veelvoud: Vrouwen in Kameroen over polygynie en christendom
Contains fulltext : 145533.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The Great Men of Christendom: The Failure of the Third Crusade
<p>This thesis is a study of the reasons for the failure of the Third Crusade to achieve its stated objectives, despite the many advantages with which the venture began. It is proposed herein that the Third Crusade—and by extension all of the previous and subsequent Crusades—were destined to fail …
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God’s grace in post-Christendom societies: Edward Schillebeeckx’s Christology for an unapologetic public theology
Contains fulltext : 169430.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Christendom at the Cape : a critical examination of the early formation of the Dutch Reformed Church
… is: What was the particular form that Christendom took on at the Cape during the formative period of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) rule and how did it shape the Dutch Reformed Church as established church in this locale? This question was prompted by my hunch that the Dutch …
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Priesthood in a ministering community: Towards an ecclesiology for the Third Millennium
… is ontologically the same as priesthood in a Christendom model of ministry, gathering, consecrating, breaking, blessing and absolving. There is, however, a difference of function between Ministering Community Priesthood and Christendom Priesthood. Functionally a priest in a Ministering …
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Sancti Episcopi : a study of the canonization of bishops in England, 1170-1320.
… sixty percent of bishops canonized within all of Christendom, a trend which calls out for consideration, since many scholars have noted it, yet never sought to explain it fully. This dissertation uses many of the primary sources available in order to examine three of the bishops who were canonized …
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Heroes, saints, and gods: Foundation legends and propaganda in ancient and Renaissance Rome
… to uphold the papacy’s power over Rome and Christendom, through art, architecture, literature, and art collecting.</p>
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De Opere Monachorum and the Influence of Saint Augustine on Monasticism
… Benedict, have already been acclaimed throughout Christendom for their zealous efforts and successful work in laying the foundation for the great religious orders as we know them today.
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The common law of nations : the ius gentium in the political thought of Francisco Suárez, S.J.
… tenable basis for international order in a post-Christendom world, becoming the foundation for international relations in the emerging epoch of nation states. Suárez presented the ius gentium as a means to international order without an international authority. He proposed that states, as …
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O, Beastly Jew!: Allegorical Anti-Judaism in Thirteenth Century English Bestiaries
… consensus regarding the presence of Jews in Christendom. As a result, this explicitly anti-Judaic trend was short lived among clerically produced texts. However, even a brief period of clerical approval at the local level, gave new and lasting strength to a common conception of Jews as …
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Whitby, Wilfrid, and church-state antagonism in Early Medieval Britain.
… between the Celtic Church and the balance of Christendom, the Synod of Whitby will be identified, in the person of its main protagonist Wilfrid, as the beginning of alienation between the Northumbrian state and the hierarchy of the Church.
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Tudor Conciliar Theorists
… propagandists insisted that the princes of Christendom, not the pope, should be instrumental in calling a council into session. The authority to call a council into being implied, of course, the power to control its proceedings, which was a crucial point in Henry's campaign to vindicate his …
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The paradoxical exemplar : the image of Saladin in Don Juan Manuel's El conde lucanor
… Saladin as both a Muslim adversary and friend of Christendom.
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The Missionary Spirit of Gregory the Great as Evidenced by His Interest in the Angles
… of the great Pontiff? Has not the whole of Christendom for fourteen centuries past credited him with the conversion of the English? Whenever the story, of this great undertaking is told, does not Gregory hold the place of honor? Rather than his personal envoys, Augustine and the forty monks, …
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Contextualized biblical hermeneutics in Korea and South Africa and decontextualized biblical hermeneutics in Jehovah's witnesses : in search of voices from the margin
… (JWs)' is marginalized in the name of heresy by Christendom, which includes mainline churches in Europe, South Africa and Korea. However, their biblical hermeneutics plays important roles in unifying people of different contexts on the basis of the same Bible. Therefore, this thesis reveals the …
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Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature
… of those who should not be included within Christendom. Whether including or excluding, the Eucharist serves as a discerning tool.</p>
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Latin Christians in the Literary Landscape of Early Rus, c. 988-1330
… in Early Rusian portrayals of Latins and Latin Christendom. Scholars have tended to interpret these patterns as primarily influenced by extra-textual factors (most often, a text’s time of composition). This study, however, establishes that textual factors—specifically genre and theme—are the …
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Everyday aesthetic existence and discipleship: exploring the connections between aesthetics, faith and ethics in being human and becoming Christian
… concern for the captivity of the church to Christendom. In addition to the contribution by Kierkegaard (discipleship as poetic living) and Bonhoeffer (Christian living as polyphonous this-worldly celebration of Christological reality), three further key intellectuals have been selected, each …
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Die erotiek as sosio-psigologiese projeksie in die literatuur en literatuurondersoek, met spesiale verwysing na betreklik hedendaagse Afrikaanse letterkunde
… die omvorming van die liefdesidee deur die Christendom tot Agape, en die uiteindelike kulminasie van die moderne erotiek soos dit verskyn in die Afrikaanse literêre teks. Die roman Mahala van Chris Barnard word vanuit 'n Freudiaanse perspektief benader en wys op die sado-masochistiese …
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