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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Christian God"”.
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The Southern Sotho's ultimate object of worship : sky-divinity or water-divinity?
… authors are in identifying Molimo with their Christian God (Sky-Divinity). A critical analysis of various Basotho cultural elements and what the early Basotho told the missionaries reveal that Molimo as an ultimate object of worship in the traditional religion of the Southern Sotho, is …
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Semidioses unamunianos ; las figuras con funciones de dios en la obra ensayística, novelística y poética de Miguel de Unamuno.
… Generation of 1898, explored various versions of God throughout his essays, novels, and poetry. These demigods appear in the form of the Christian God, as well as characters that serve as godlike figures for other characters. An analysis of the essays "La fe" (1900) and "Mi religión" (1910) …
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Tour of my bedside cabinet
… the inconsistencies in the conception of the Christian god as all knowing, all powerful, and loving. Other poems in the collection are more personal, discussing the speaker’s experiences with Catholicism, as well as discoveries of bisexual and nonbinary identities, and sexual exploration. The …
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The Modern Ontological Argument: in Which the Position of Alvin Plantinga Is Refuted
… one may rationally accept the existence of the Christian God.
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Exploring mortality through Pascalian intuition
… concept of death, and finally the role of the Christian God as the proper counter to the concept of death.
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Christian apologetics in transition : from C. S. Lewis to Frederick Buechner and Susan Howatch.
Christian apologetics—the justification of Christian truth-claims—constitute a fundamental dimension in the writings of C. S. Lewis, Frederick Buechner, and Susan Howatch. Radical changes in epistemology during the latter half of the twentieth century serve as a point of contrast dividing Lewis' …
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Lucretius's moral philosophy as it appears in the formal similarities between Milton and Lucretius.
… subjection of earthly pursuits to service of the Christian God.
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A Baptist student center for Charlottesville, Virginia
… the belief of a supreme being, in our case the Christian God. Organizations are extensive throughout the world for the advocation of a belief in God. These groups deal with different beliefs and different types of people within sects or denominations. The type of person with whom this thesis is …
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Mining God’s way: towards mineral resource justice with artisanal gold miners in East Africa
… ordinary theologies, ethics, and practices of Christian miners, as well as the academic research community who are directly involved in this sector or are development and justice theorists. In the third stage, theologians addressing justice, and certain Scriptural characteristics and purposes …
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Some Principles of Christian Mission to Muslims
… what principles should be formulated in Christian mission to Muslims to lead them to the saving power of Jesus Christ. The subject matter has been divided into two parts: 1) information relevant to theological doctrines and 2) the recommendations or findings.</p> <p>In the first part in …
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Nietzsche, Sin and Redemption
… of self-understanding is deeply embedded in the Christian theological tradition, and that Nietzsche’s account of existential sin should be understood as part of this same tradition. In my reading of On the Genealogy of Morality I show that we need to place sin in close relation to bad conscience, …
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Collective Woundedness: Exploring intergenerational trauma and healing in Barbara Boswell’s Grace, Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning and Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain
… entries, and the protagonist wrestles with the Christian God to find life’s meaning within an unhealed post democratic South Africa. These fictional texts are examined within a theoretical framework that draws on trauma theory, narrative theory and literary criticism. I consider the traditional …
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Divine simplicity and the triune identity: a critical dialogue with the theological metaphysics of Robert W. Jenson
… intense reflection on the tri-personhood of the Christian God. New studies on divine simplicity have been written from the perspective of historical theology, philosophy of religion, and systematic theology. While these discussions have produced a greater appreciation of convictions shared …
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Whole-Earth consciousness in Maximus the Confessor, Nicholas of Cusa, and Teilhard de Chardin: seeds for a 21st century sacramental creation spirituality and ecological ethics
Over the last fifty years Western Christianity has been criticized as a cause and enabler of Earth's ecological crisis. This criticism is based on the conclusion that Christianity promotes a spiritual-material dualism and that the material side of life has little sacred value. It is also based on …
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The ambiguity of God : a post-colonial inquiry into the politics of theistic formulation in South Africa
… discusses the politics of the advent of the Christian God in Southern Africa. In the three chapters that comprise this section, I situate colonial beliefs about God within colonialism as a discursive genre; in particular, evidence is provided of the deployment of religious (and in particular …
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"Nobody with a Good Car Needs to be Justified": Materialism and Commercialism in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction
… and moving farther and farther away from the Christian ideal. This was not simply a cultural phenomenon to her – it was a danger, and more to the point, as a Christian writer, it was a call to arms. O’Connor’s work can be seen as a series of warnings, complete with usually dire consequences. …
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A Gendered Faust : the portrayal of gender in the opera Faust (1859) by Gounod (1818-1893)
… artistic performances, and gender constructs in Christianity are investigated. These general, performance-based and theological theories and ideas are then compared to the gendered characters in Faust. The secular and Catholic gender norms that governed men and women in nineteenth-century France …
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O le Soga'imiti: An embodiment of God in the Samoan male body
… of bodily and material life, as opposed to the godliness/holiness of spiritual life as reflected in church theological messages on one hand, against a culture that celebrate the body and everything material about it as good and divine, on the other. If, according to Christian theology, humans …
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“An Unquiet Soul”: Despair and Doubt of God’s Benevolence in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë
… Miller in his seminal work The Disappearance of God discusses what he sees as a gradual removal of a Christian God from nineteenth-century writers’ consciousness; Charlotte Brontë’s novels, published in the early Victorian period, seem to reflect the early stages of this void, for they are …
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