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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Christian religion"”.
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The Development of Calvin's Understanding of the Imago Dei in the Institutes of the Christian Religion from 1536 to 1559
… term "imago dei" in Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. Part I presents a detailed chronological examination of all five editions of the Institutes � i.e. from 1536, 1539, 1543, 1550 and 1559 � focusing in particular on Calvin's understanding of the imago dei and its deformed state. …
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Church and society in Tuvalu
… analyzes consensus as exemplified in the Christian religion of Tuvalu (Central Pacific). It also examines that notion in Western social science, official descriptions, and missionary accounts and posits a strong ideological connection between these and indigenous communalism.
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Nxele and Ntsikana : a critical study of the religious outlooks of two nineteenth century Xhosa Prophets and their consequences for Xhosa Christian practice in the Eastern Cape
… of diverse religious reactions of amaXhosa to Christianity. It has been on that same basis that the missionary activity of that same era has been evaluated in this study. Part one deals with the social life of amaXhosa as well as their political systems. It is recognised that land was regarded …
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A Catholic parish church for Kingsport, Tennessee
… an expression of the ultimate objectives of the Christian religion with an expression of the liturgical formulae as they have evolved through the centuries. A pedantic adherence to the opinions of contemporary critics of church architecture can hinder the designer and can be avoided by comparing …
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UNTRANSLATABLE WORDS IN CLASSICAL LATIN: THE PROBLEM WITH PIUS
… and especially due to the influence of the Christian religion, many Roman concepts have been misunderstood and mistranslated. This thesis analyzes the Latin word pius along with its nominal and adverbial derivatives in ancient literature to try to understand how the concept actually worked …
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Jonathan Swift's response to the challenge of modernity : a reading of Gulliver's Travels.
… which was held together morally by a common Christian religion and led politically by men of property and liberal education, or by gentlemen. Swift defends this order not as perfect but as preferable, despite its imperfections, to the proposed and emerging modern alternatives. In the settled …
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"Washington in Golry": Clerical Reflections on the Death of George Washington and the Making of a New Nation
… delivered in honor of George Washington by Christian clerics between December of 1799 and February of 1800. These orations can be viewed as cultural performances that helped to strengthen the social and political order by fostering a sense of community that transcended local boundaries, …
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Paul's doctrine of Christian love
… this principle, and why is it so central in our Christian religion? Perhaps no adequate definition of love can be given, however, we will venture to give some. George B. Stevens says that, "Love Is the power that leads us out of ourselves. It is the forthputting, the outreaching impulse which …
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Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology
… 1865, how did African American slaves develop a Christian religion? My claim is that enslaved blacks began to fashion a new religion by reinterpreting the Christianity given to them by their Christian slave masters. With their reinterpreted religion they combined their own novel folk culture, …
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Toward Financial Inclusion and Female Empowerment through Microfinance Development Initiatives in Manila and Central Luzon, Philippines
… improvement. These are influenced by the Christian religion, which stems from religious teachings and devotions, often offered through the microfinance institutions. This research contributes new data on the influence of religion and religious capital through microfinancing on the …
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The righteousness of works in the theology of John Calvin
… divine acceptance, the role of good works in the Christian life, and the content of good works. All this is accomplished by analyzing not just Calvin’s magnum opus, the Institutes of the Christian Religion, but also his commentaries, theological treatises, catechisms, and sermons.
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The Second Roman Revolution: A Study in Religious Policy from 250-325 C.E.
… economics, the military, bureaucracy, and religion. While these episodes in political and social change are regarded among scholars a watershed moment in history, most historians refuse to acknowledge this era as a revolutionary period. This paper focuses on one aspect of change that …
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The place of religion in education from the stand-point of Roman Catholicism
… work has been written for two main reasons: (a) "Religion in education" is a real problem which all educational authorities and teachers have to face. Before the State took it upon itself to educate the children of the nation, the Church of Rome, and later the Protestant Churches also, gave both …
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A questão da subjetividade na virada antropológica de Ludwing Feuerbach: Um díálogo com Martinho Lutero
… thus, his criticism to the subjectivity of the Christian religion, as well as to the secularization of the philosophical Modernity. The criticism from Feuerbach to the Christianism, consequent to the speculative philosophy, concentrates itself in its illusory character and in the subjectivism …
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"Most Great Reconstruction": The Baha'i Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965
… century, the Baha'i Faith was the largest non-Christian religion in South Carolina, and it was well known for its longstanding commitment to promoting racial harmony, interfaith dialogue, and the moral education of children and youth. Its message was simple and powerful: in the Orient in the …
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Spousal rape : an integration approach to pastoral counselling
… service providers within South Africa. Both Christian women and women who are not affiliated with the Christian religion who have in some way sought assistance from the church and who have experienced spousal rape related posttraumatic stress are interviewed and the results are utilized to …
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Schleiermacher's Doctrine of Biblical Authority: An Alternative to Content-Based/Supernaturalist and Function-Based Rationalist Models
… the New Testament to speak authoritatively in Christian religion in an age of critical, historical awareness. After classifying Schleiermacher’s position in a typology of the doctrine of biblical authority, this dissertation explores his conception of divine revelation and inspiration vis-à-vis …
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Uses of Wodan : The development of his cult and of medieval literary responses to it
Scholars working on Germanic pre-christian religion have generally considered Wodan to have been a deity of considerable importance to most if not all Germanic tribes. This understanding is, however, based on a failure to approach the available evidence for Wodan within appropriate contemporary …
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Fifth-century CE Greek Christian verse paraphrase
… Greek Biblical epic, that is, the rewriting of Christian prose narratives in the form of hexameter verse. It examines how such a transformation of form raised profound questions about the relationship between Christian and classical culture, through three research questions: What sort of …
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'The truth is bitter' : Socrates Scholasticus and the writing of a history of the Christian Roman empire
… trajectory of human history or the progress of Christian religion. This thesis presents, then, a new reading of Socrates, not as an optimist, but as a sophisticated realist. Faced with the bitter intellectual, theological, and organisational disputes that afflicted Christian communities during …
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