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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Concept of God"”.
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The Concept of God and Sacred Music Style : an Intercultural Exploration of Divine Transcendence/Immanence as a Stylistic Determinant for Worship Music with Paradigmatic Implications for the Contemporary Christian Context
<p><em>Problems</em>. The conscious conservation of religious music style in most cultures contrasts with the stylistic pluralism of Western Christian worship music. This study addressed the problem of decision making within the diversity of music available for Christian worship.</p> <p><em>Purpose …
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A view of God to consider : critique of Richard Kearney’s anatheism
The preface gives the background of the postmodern religious context within which a "view of God to consider" has become problematic. The preface also gives the methodology as well as the rationale for the study. The article examines the anatheistic concept of God of the well-known philosopher of …
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Maternal and paternal dimensions in the image of god: a comparative study
… between parental images and the image of God. In doing so, it seeks to find out to what extent professional orientation and sex influence the structure of the maternal, paternal and divine images, as well as the symbolic function of parental images. The hypotheses tested were: l) There …
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The Doctrine of Christian Perfection for Today: Reading Wesley's Theology Through the Lens of Process Thought
<p>My thesis is: A process-theological reading of Wesley's doctrine of perfection, by constructing an adequate concept of God in process, gives renewed importance and vitality to Wesley's doctrine of perfection, a doctrine that has been confused and virtually ignored even by Methodists themselves, …
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The meaning of the goodness of God in the major writings of three early church fathers
The problem of the dissertation, the discovery in the major writings of three Early Church Fathers of expressions giving clear meaning to the term "goodness of God," arises from the general ambiguity of the word good, whose amorphous nature greatly complicates thought concerning the concept of God. …
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Eschatological Thought and Religiosity Among Christians: Patterns And Relationships
… between eschatology, religiosity, locus of control, death anxiety, and an individual's concept of God. Respondents were 226 college students who completed a questionnaire designed to assess how religious, psychological, and demographic variables predict eschatological beliefs and …
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Kirschner's Modal Ontological Argument
<p>Ontological Arguments for the existence of God, first discovered by St. Anselm (1033-1109), attempt to deduce the existence of God from the concept of God. It is the aim of this thesis to champion a modal version of the Ontological Argument as philosophically sound by demonstrating it to be …
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The Mystery of God in Situations of Suffering: Toward the Universality of Christ and a Reconstruction of African Identity
… patristic era, theology dealt with the problem of how to explain the union of the two natures in Christ without losing the impassible nature of God. Today, the understanding of God as impassible is no longer absolute in light of present human suffering. To gain a better understanding of God as …
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Freedom and Plenitude in Medieval Arguments for the Existence of God
This dissertation traces the story of the reception, adaptation and ultimately rejection of Aristotelian science in the Abrahamic societies of the middle ages. It traces this story by analysing medieval arguments for the existence of God in Hebrew, Latin and Arabic. Each of these arguments is …
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The idolization of Kim Il-Sung and its missiological implications
… (2) comparing between Kim Il-Sung-ism to concept of God; and (3) drawing some missiological implications from the findings of this research. The second chapter through the fourth chapter accomplished the first objective. The second chapter presents Kim's biographical description and …
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Civilizational Jihad: The Implications of Terrorist Strategy
… in Military Affairs triggered by the events of 9-11, there have been broad efforts to "transform" the institutional culture and focus of the national security community. Nonetheless, one skill-set that has not adapted to current requirements is that of broad strategic analysis, especially the …
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The impact of Zoroastrianism upon Judaism and Christianity
The primary purpose of this thesis is to utilize the major scholarly works available in French and English to establish that Judaism and Christianity have been influenced by the ethical religion of Zoroaster. In the first section the early date of Zoroaster (660 B.C.), is initially suggested as a …
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The metaphysics of Wilbur M. Urban
… metaphysical system contained in the writings of Wilbur M. Urban by an examination of his theory of knowledge, of value, and of reality. 2. SUMMARY OF THE INVESTIGATION For Urban the metaphysical task is the interpretation of the totality of experience and its co-implicates. All knowledge must …
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Reshaping The Theology and Praxis of Inculturation through Interreligious Dialogue Between The Catholic Church and African Traditional Religion in Igboland, Nigeria
<p>Prior to the advent of Christianity in Igboland, the people practiced Igbo Traditional Religion. They believed in a Supreme Being (<em>Chukwu/Chineke</em>) who has other smaller deities as messengers including <em>Ala/Ani</em> the most powerful deity on earth. They revered their ancestors, who, …
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This is the Word of the Lord: Nicholas Wolterstorff’s account of scripture, appropriated discourse, and divine authorship
… has traditionally been held to be the Word of God, authored by God. This understanding is commonly linked with, and seen as undergirded by, the doctrine of the inspiration of Scripture. Yet it has proved difficult for theologians to arrive at a theory of inspiration which adequately grounds …
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Creation in Isaiah
<p>This study investigates the role of creation thought in Isaiah in order to determine its relationship to Isaiah's concept of God as creator, especially as it pertains to his salvific work for and through Israel. This investigation is carried out in three steps. First, Isaiah's use of creation …
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The Fatherhood of God: an Exegetical Study From the Hebrew Scriptures
<p>The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a theology of the fatherhood of God from the Hebrew Scriptures. Although many studies have explored the topic from the perspective of other disciplines, the actual theology of God's fatherhood, as revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures, has been …
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Bohme and Hegel; A study of their Intellectual Development and Shared Readings of Two Christian Theologoumena
This thesis, Böhme and Hegel: A Study of their Intellectual Development and Shared Readings of Two Christian Theologoumena, explores the connections which exist between both the intellectual development of Jakob Böhme and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and in their readings of two Christian …
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God's chosen people: Protestant narratives of Korean Americans and American national identity
This dissertation examines Protestant narratives of post-1965 Korean American Christians, with regard to the formation of what it means to be Korean Americans. The focus of this dissertation is to find out how Korean Americans have reinterpreted their ethnic backgrounds and immigrant experiences in …
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