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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Divine Inspiration"”.
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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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Trust and Doubt: Perceptions of Divine Inspiration in Seventh-day Adventist History (1880-1930)
<p>The Topic</p> <p>The belief in the divine inspiration of Scripture has come under scrutiny in North America from the 1850s to the 1920s as critical scholars questioned traditional hermeneutical presuppositions and conservative Protestant theologians retreated into more strict theories of …
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ΙΟΥΣΤΙΝΟΣ. Ο ΜΑΡΤΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ ΩΣ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΣ
… JUSTIN ACCEPTS THE LXX TEXT IN WHICH HE FINDS DIVINE INSPIRATION BUT ONLY THESE BOOKS WERE ACCEPTED BY TRYPHO (A JEW). YET, JUSTIN IS FAMILIAR WITH OTHER O.T. TRANSLATIONS AS WELL (THAT OF THEODOTION AND THAT OF ACYLAS) AND WITH A COLLECTION OF PROPHECIES; HOWEVER, HE IGNORES THE HEBREW. IN THE …
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"Plato's ""Ion"": An Exegetical Commentary With Introduction"
… Second, in dealing with the poets' claim of ""divine inspiration"", Plato deliberately misconstrues it so as to mean, not that the poet is an active collaborator with the Muse, but that the poet is simply a passive transmitter, a medium, of a message emanating from the Muse. Furthermore, Plato …
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Shelley the Tragedian: Differing Modes of Catharsis in Prometheus Unbound and the Cenci
… It will also examine Shelley's concept of divine inspiration, as it relates to "Apollonian" and "Dionysian" catharsis.
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Joseph Smith, Mormonism and Enochic Tradition
… access and with parallels, Nibley concludes that divine inspiration is the only explanation for the substantial similarities between Smith's own account of Enoch in his Book of Moses and 1 Enoch. This thesis investigates that conclusion and reconsiders Nibley’s argument in light of new scholarship …
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Male Prophets in Early Modern England, 1559-1662
… prophecy as scriptural exegesis and direct divine inspiration over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This thesis builds upon and develops Pak’s work by exploring this split within an English context. On the one hand, it charts the efforts of Protestant churchmen to …
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Eski Ahid'de ve Kur'an'da VSY kökünün semantik açıdan incelenmesi
… language) root in holy texts which constitute divine inspiration tradition is made, it is seen that related root is used in the Old Testament and Qur'an but not used in the New Testament (Bibles). In the New Testament the root FeQaD is used in the meaning "to order". VSY/ (^-aj (TSaVa / Ti)^ in …
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Reflections on the History of Creativity
… the idea that creativity is a product of divine inspiration still persists today.</p>
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Renaissance econography of the graces : courtesy in book VI of The Faerie Queene
… iconography of the Graces and the natural and divine characteristics of Spenser's complex notion of Courtesy. While the Graces are traditionally related to the themes of liberality and poetic inspiration, an examination of Spenser's iconography reveals Courtesy, in Spenser's rich sense of it, …