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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"City of God."”.
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Reclaiming happiness of the city and the soul : Augustine's engagement with Cicero and Porphyry in the City of God.
The present dissertation argues that Augustine's City of God demonstrates the superiority of the Christian faith to pagan philosophy in the attainment of happiness and, ultimately, seeks to turn the Roman intellectuals to the Christian faith. The study investigates Augustine's correspondence with …
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The imago Dei, Transhumanism, and the Future Glory of Humanity: A Critical Interaction With Ray Kurzweil's Technological Singularity
… human biology and technology, generated out of a technological “Singularity,” will have revolutionary implications for humanity. I employ Trentham’s Inverse Consistency Protocol as a methodological framework for this research. Kurzweil’s vision is a false gospel that teleologically inverts …
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Valois court politics in the time of Jean of Berry and the Collins Cité de Dieu: PMA Collins 1945-65-1
At the turn of the fifteenth-century, the Valois court was rife with contention and intrigue. A vocal pro-reform movement had publically exposed corruption and mismanagement at the highest levels of the court hierarchy and was actively attempting to persuade members of the court to implement …
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The Influence of Plato Upon St. Augustine Especially in the De Civitate Dei
… that Patristic philosophy attained the zenith of its course. He synthesized the best elements of pagan philosophy into his system of Christian thought with such sublimity of logic and language that he is forever distinguished among the philosophers of Christian times, as the Plato of …
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St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church, Lubbock, Texas
… the Catholic Church has allowed a certain level of freedom in the way its architecture has been designed. This freedom has allowed its church architecture to stray away from many of the traditions and values on which the Catholic Church was founded and developd. The tradition and inherent values …
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Valletta : the significance of its architectural evolution
Valletta is an incredible and complex city. Its story is vast, and the changes that have occurred since its inception are extensive. The war machine, the 'City of God', a city by the Order of St. John the well planned city fortress, the renaissance city, the baroque city, the mercantile city : …
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Irony in De Civitate Dei
… the "De Civitate Dei” is a vital force and power of expression by which right is defended and truth avenged. In the above work, this figure so forms the basis of its logical treatment, that each situation, freighted as it is with meaning, is readily apprehended in the light of its proper …
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Aztlán Potentialities: Queer Male Chicanx Affect and Temporalities
… in combatting the entrenched heteronormativity of Aztlán and of chicanidad more broadly. This thesis, born from my own identity as a queer Chicanx male, considers the potentialities of queer male Chicanx affect and temporalities, offering an affective turn as a resistance model to the …
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The semantic development of some Roman ethical concepts in the second century B.C. : based on contemporary literary epigraphical and numismatical evidence
In almost any general study of Roman history, references can be found to the character of the Roman people. Roman character forms the explanation of their conquests, the justification of their empire. Roman character and its resultant code of behaviour influenced early Christian writers; Roman …
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Lost and Found: The Rediscovery of Lithuania in American Fiction
… or Lithuanian-American legacy. Some of them are well known, such as Abraham Cahan's Yekl and The Rise of David Levinsky. Others are obscure, such as Ezra Brudno's The Fugitive, or completely unknown, such as Goldie Stone's My Caravan of Years and Margaret Seebach's That Man …
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The Second Sin: A Study of the Vice of Envy in the Thought of St. Augustine
<p>This dissertation examines the vice of envy in the thought of St. Augustine. Though much has been written on many aspects of Augustine’s moral theology, his theology of envy remains virtually unexplored in scholarship. This is surprising for several reasons: first because of the frequency with …
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The city as metaphor in three works by James Joyce
<p>To remark that images of Dublin are ubiquitous throughout the works of James Joyce is, of course, to state the obvious. In <em>Dubliners</em>, <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em>, and <em>Ulysses</em>, the location of the action is carefully described, and the reader is presented …