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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Divine providence."”.
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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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An invisible main character : divine providence in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
… to explore how understanding the centrality of divine providence in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall deepens our understanding of the role of religion in these texts. I also want to build on feminist criticism that notices the ways in which the heroines' faith empowers them and argue …
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Divine providence and epidemic cholera : a contribution to the study of secularization of thought in nineteenth century England
The idea of providence was a prominent and pervasive theme in public discourse on subjects of national importance, and upon momentous occasions in nineteenthcentury England. Perceptions of divine involvement and purpose in human affairs embodied in the notion of providence seemed to be at the heart …
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"Joining the End to the Beginning" Divine Providence and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Teaching of Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
In this dissertation, the author argues that Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons in the second century, reads the scriptures as the living proclamation of the Creator by which he creates and forms human flesh and blood. The scriptural narrative originates in God’s creation of all things ex nihilo and traces …
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The world in His hands: a Christian account of scientific law and its antithetical competitors
… dissertation examines the Christian doctrine of divine providence and its implications for the laws of nature and problem of induction before contrasting secular and Islamic approaches to these same topics. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of a Christian account of scientific law by citing recent …
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Prudence and providence in Kant
… (or, equivalently, practical judgment) and providence (or, equivalently, the postulate of God’s existence) in Kant’s ethics, political philosophy, and moral theology. Kant famously breaks with the eudaimonistic tradition by rejecting the principle of happiness from his practical philosophy. …
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St. Catherine of Siena: Vocation as Engaged Scholarship
… four treatises including: (1) "A Treatise of Divine Providence;" (2) "A Treatise of Discretion;" (3)
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The Emotional Rhetoric of the Later Crusades: Romance in England after 1291
… the time: man's relation to God, the workings of divine providence, Christianity's ascendency over Islam, human agency, the connection between morality and fortune, the bearing of motives on actions, and the moral limitations of violence.
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Analysis of Literary Devices in Selected Novels of Severine Ndunguru
… For Father Mayer, The Lion of Yola, Spared and Divine Providence. Furthermore, it assessed the usefulness of the literary devices in the novels. The study adapted a qualitative research design. An intensive reading of the novels was done by the researcher. An interview was also with the author, …
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The Swedenborgian influence on William Blake
… of Swedenborg's works, namely Heaven and Hell, Divine Love and Wisdom, and Divine Providence. A survey is made of the important literature expressing the Blakean perspective and the Swedenborgian perspective on the relationship. Blake's ambivalence towards Swedenborg is noted in the various …
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The Evangelicalism of Alexander Carson
… It looks at his understanding of humanity's sin, divine justice and mercy, God's sovereignty, and the completed nature of the atonement. Chapter 4 is a study of Carson's understanding of how people are converted. The chapter discusses his views on the definition of saving faith, the relation …
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Understanding Music’s Theological Significance: A Kantian Approach
… a challenge to such a conclusion, since even if divine knowledge is possible it would appear irrelevant for our understanding of objects, such as music, that can be known directly through experience. Because Immanuel Kant presents a particularly stringent theory of human-mind-dependent knowledge, …
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To teach, move, meditate, and oppose : Lucy Hutchinson's rhetoric in Order and Disorder.
… persuade Dissenting readers to trust and praise divine Providence and to pursue virtue; its formal cause is a type of plain style that relies upon tropes and sparingly employs schemes; and its material cause is the biblical story that the poem paraphrases, while weaving other biblical texts, …
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Plague, print and providence in early seventeenth century London.
… of Thomas Dekker demonstrate understanding of divine providence, and, by comparison with other contemporary plague writing, what can be learned of religious attitudes in early seventeenth century London. Historians have come to characterise religion in England of this period as …
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A reformed Evangelical critique of Thomas Jay Oord’s Evangelical process theology
… is to evaluate and critique Oord’s model of divine providence, identifying the internal inconsistencies within Oord’s philosophical and theological framework, problems in his methodology, and clearing up misconceptions he and the process tradition have of classical theism, while …
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The Causes of Tyranny as a Guide to Political Reform: St. Thomas More's History of King Richard III of England
… Chapter Seven inquires into nonhuman causesâ Divine Providence, fate, and fortuneâ and concludes that despite the limits these place on human power, a significant arena for choice and action remains. Humans have free will, and should choose to work for the real, but limited possibility of …
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God and Gratuitous Evil
… of Peter van Inwagen's work on chance and divine providence and of Daniel Howard Snyder's revision of Rowe's thesis. I complete my defense by arguing against Peter van Inwagen and William Hasker, the most influential critics of the thesis. Van Inwagen has argued that certain arbitrary yet …
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Timelessly Present, Compassionately Impassible: A Defense of Two Classical Divine Attributes
… Attention falls upon two closely related divine attributes that have, especially in recent decades, come under philosophical and theological attack – God’s timelessness and impassibility (inability to suffer). Is the “classical” Lord truly Immanuel, i.e. with us? This general question …
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How Religious Narratives and Rituals Function in Constructing the Experience of Immigrants Within the Context of a Haitian Baptist Church in South Florida
… experience of immigration into an experience of divine providence, blessing, and mission. Within that frame, all sorts of morally charged practices are implicated. This highlights the importance of participation, or lack thereof, in religious social groups where theological discourse offers a way …
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God’s Chosen Candidate Pulpit Freedom Sunday and the Reshaping of Evangelical Political Mobilization, Pulpit Politicking, and Church-State Relations
… through appeals to biblical revelation and divine providence, while remaining skeptical of Enlightenment-based appeals to nature or reason as sufficient foundations for moral and political order. Their engagement reflects an underlying tension between American liberalism’s procedural …
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