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Showing 1 to 20 of 923 for “"Divine"”.
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Divine Deliberation: Possible-Worlds Modality and the Divine Will-To-Create
Contemporary Christian theology regularly employs a key tool of contemporary philosophy’s turn towards modal metaphysics. Philosophy’s possible worlds modality has become the basis on which theologians regularly discuss both theology proper and such sub-disciplines as apologetics or the doctrine of …
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Real relationships without divine risk: The biblical portrait of divine-human relationality
… struggle to define and describe the nature of divine-human relationships exists in contemporary evangelicalism. This dissertation presents the biblical case for genuine relationships between God and humans given that God takes no risks. These relationships occur within the context of a world …
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Impassible and impassioned: Reevaluating the doctrines of divine impassibility and divine relationality
… of a number of hyper-passibilistic views of divine passibility in modern theology, this proposal turns, in chapter four, to develop the biblical and theological bases of this two-pronged model. The basic argument of this formative statement proceeds along the following lines. Biblically …
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Divine Sovereignty, Divine Providence, and Prayer in the Thought of Evagrius Ponticus
… belief, particularly between prayer and divine sovereignty and divine providence. We find that Evagrius's teachings on divine sovereignty and divine providence inform and govern his teachings on prayer, specifically the forms of prayer known as petition and pure prayer. And conversely …
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"Divine warnings" : Katherine Mansfield
On her death in January 1923, Katherine Mansfield bequeathed a body of work - both fictional and critical-sufficient to fill several volumes. Although she was not of English origin, she nevertheless counted many celebrated figures of the era as her consorts. Why then, does she remain peripheral to …
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Defender of divine revelation: Timothy Dwight's arguments for the Bible's authenticity and divine inspiration
This dissertation examines Timothy Dwight's (1752-1817) arguments for the Bible's authenticity with the purpose of determining if his arguments are theologically orthodox, logically sound, and factually accurate. Chapter 1 introduces this dissertation's thesis, research problem, methodology, and …
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The Countenance Divine & 'nothing more important than trifles': critical reflections on The Countenance Divine
… appendices (c. 10,000 words). The Countenance Divine is an original work of prose fiction composed of four parallel narratives, each grounded in extensive historical and literary research. The accompanying commentary takes the form of a series of critical reflections which investigate and …
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Divine love in Hosea 11
… investigates a theological understanding of divine love in Hosea 11. The first focal point of this research is to explore the theological understanding of divine love in Hosea 11, focusing on the interpretation of the parental metaphor. The second focal point of this research is to understand …
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Debt in the divine economy.
… language of debt is used in depictions of the divine economy by analyzing this usage in three seminal models of atonement theology: ransom, satisfaction, and penal substitution. In so doing, I draw out the diversity and complexity of ways in which "debt" in these models of the divine economy …
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Divergent Divine Memories: Divine National Power, Cultural Memory, and the Deuteronomistic History of 1&2 Kings
… this memory preserve a singular understanding of divine national power? Through an exegetical examination of 1 Kings 18, 2 Kings 5, and 2 Kings 3, the contention is argued that at the earliest iterations of these texts there are divergent understandings of divine national power (monotheistic, …
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Divine Order, Divine Myth: The Necessity Of Gender Paradigms In The Study Of Protestant Fundamentalist Thought
Protestant Fundamentalism is a religious movement that has enjoyed a particular American resurgence over the last few decades. Among the most noteworthy and, perhaps, controversial aspects of this movement is its espousal of traditional, hierarchical gender roles (i.e., female submission to male …
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The argument from divine hiddenness : an assessment.
The argument from divine hiddenness against God's existence has become one of the most important atheistic arguments in the contemporary philosophical literature. In this dissertation I offer an assessment of this argument. Specifically, I provide some needed conceptual clarity to the discussion of …
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Divine Grace in the Gospel of Matthew
Divine grace is a perennial topic in New Testament studies, but little work has been done on grace in the gospels. This work examines the theme of divine grace in the Gospel of Matthew by using John Barclay’s taxonomy of six perfections of grace as a heuristic tool by which to explain how this …
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Divine and the Everyday Devil (Short Stories)
Divine and the Everyday Devil contains a scholarly preface that discusses the experiences and literary works that influenced the author's writing with special attention in regards to spirituality and sexuality. The preface is followed by six original short stories. "Evil" is a work addressing a …
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Persistent Problems In Modified Divine Command Theory
… problems in contemporary modifications of divine command theory. Divine command theory states that God’s commands are moral obligations only because he commands them. Modified divine command theories attempt to add to or amend the justification for God’s commands being moral obligations. …
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Divine Judgment in the Book of Revelation
<p>Judgment themes in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament are described and classified. Special attention is given to recurring themes of remedial judgment and annihilation. John's Revelation is analyzed for consistency of judgment themes, and John's theology of judgment is compared and …
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Divine discrimination: gender harassment and Christian justification
<p>Gender harassment (i.e., derogatory comments or actions that express stereotypical attitudes regarding someone’s gender) is often times the most prominent form of sex-based harassment directed towards women in both workplace and academic settings. This study explored the moderating effect of …
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Francis Quarles' 'Divine Fancies': A Critical Edition
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6607767.pdf: 10839729 bytes, checksum: a890cb34e5133e59a19f424c8eb85da2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1966
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Divine Words: Scenic Design from Conception to Execution
This thesis is a study and description of the process of designing the scenic elements of Saying Grace by Robert Smythe, an adaptation and translation of the play Divinas Palabras by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán written for Temple University Theater. The body outlines the process the author took in …
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