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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Constructive Theology"”.
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A Constructive Theology of Truth as a Divine Name with Reference to the Bible and Augustine
This study is a work of constructive theology that retrieves the ancient Christian understanding of God as truth for contemporary theological discourse and points to its relevance to biblical studies and philosophy of religion. The contribution is threefold: first, the thesis introduces a novel …
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"Another Way": The Pneumatology of Deleuzean Minoritarian Communal Interpretation in Scripture, the 16th Century Radical Reformation, and Alternative 21st Century Anabaptist Community
<p>This dissertation proposes a constructive theology of the Holy Spirit called the "pneumatology of minoritarian communal interpretation," the alternative creation of meaning within an oppressive majority context. It illustrates the convergence of Deleuzean philosophy with Anabaptist pneumatology …
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Sense-Making Bodies: Feminist Materiality and Phenomenology in Constructive Body Theologies
<p>Constructive body theology provides an ethical commitment to and a set of analytical principles for understanding bodily experience. If we insist upon the theological value of embodied experience, how can we give an adequate account of it? Are feminist appeals to the senses useful in developing …
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The God-World Relationship Between Joseph Bracken, Philip Clayton, and the Open Theism
… than untenable differences among Bracken’s theology, Clayton’s panentheism, and the open theism. On the one hand, even though theological perspectives of Bracken and Clayton are obviously different from each other, they are both influenced in specific ways by Whitehead. On the other hand, …
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Christ our healer : a constructive dialogue between John Calvin and Gregory of Nazianzus.
… using such imagery for salvation in contemporary constructive theology.
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Images of God, Imago Dei and God's Relationship with Humanity Through the Image of Mary's Breast Milk: A Focus Upon Sor María Anna Águeda De San Ignacio (1695-1756)
… original contribution to the academic field of Theology, specifically Constructive Theology, because it begins the retrieval work of a woman's voice from seventeenth and eighteenth century Mexico, an entire area of historical and theological thought which has been globally under-explored. …
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Constructing a Theology of Relational Life Through the Themes of Creation, Incarnation, and Re-Creation as an Alternative to Current Categories of Religions
… by deconstructing the categories of religions a constructive theology of relational life rooted in the biblical themes of creation, Incarnation, and re-creation is developed. Relational life is terminology meant to be used in place of the terms culture and religion and signifies relationships …
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Said the River: The Confluence of Ecotheology and Water
… environmental issue from the perspective of ecotheology, and also develops alternative approaches to water-focused advocacy from an ecotheological stance. It examines two categories of environmental water problems that are intertwined: shortages and water pollution. I identify, analyze, and …
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Gregory of Nyssa’s Soteriological Imaginary as a Resource for Nonviolent Soteriology
… to them by presenting several patterns of constructive, nonviolent atonement language resourced from Gregory of Nyssa’s theology. Chapter One introduces the topic of theological language that is fundamental to feminist critiques of the doctrine of atonement. It also contextualizes the …