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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"Divinity"”.
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The Southern Sotho's ultimate object of worship : sky-divinity or water-divinity?
… identifying Molimo with their Christian God (Sky-Divinity). A critical analysis of various Basotho cultural elements and what the early Basotho told the missionaries reveal that Molimo as an ultimate object of worship in the traditional religion of the Southern Sotho, is Water-Divinity, namely, …
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Madness and divinity: Wycherley's reflexive drama
<p>The central and unifying metaphor of Wycherley’s drama is that of the stage. Through numerous references to theatricality, play-acting, dramatic gestures, and the theatre itself, the four plays ultimately offer a defining perspective upon man as player on a world stage. More specifically, the …
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Perceptions of divinity : the changing characters of Roman Venus.
This dissertation examines how at Rome the characters of the goddess Venus changed from the fourth century BC to the first century AD. It is argued that the different ways in which she was perceived, and the associations, powers and responsibilities she was assigned, were significant for the …
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Evaluation of a Master of Divinity Program in a Theological Seminary
The objective of this research project was to evaluate the effectiveness of the M.Div. program of Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong. The research was designed for evaluation based solely upon the perceptions of the participant (graduate). The research identified and described the graduates …
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A world religions center for Divinity School Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.
Thesis (B.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1960.
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The Pursuit of Divinity: Religious Faith and Fear in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
The relationship that the Victorians had with their God(s) was not an easy one. Despite the age's oft mocked attachment to religiosity, many individuals underwent profound re-evaluations of their faith, spurred by the combined forces of legislation that challenged the monolithic Anglican Church and …
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Pastoral Psychology Education: Historical Development and Current Status Based on a Survey of Divinity School Programs
The basic interest of the thesis is to trace the increasing role of secular psychology in pastoral care. One focus of the study is to review the history of pastoral psychology education in this country and more specifically, in the present century. A general review of the arrival of education in …
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Incorporating Christian Spirituality Into the Master of Divinity Program at Mid-America Reformed Seminary in Dyer, Indiana
This project sought to incorporate Christian spirituality into the educational program at Mid-America Reformed Seminary in Dyer, Indiana. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of Mid-America Reformed Seminary and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of four passages …
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Moral divinity with a tincture of Christ?: an interpretation of the theology of Benjamin Whichcote, founder of Cambridge Platonism
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_165587229.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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"Gods in human form?" : a study of the acclamations of divinity in the Acts of the Apostles.
… giving particular attention to the concept of divinity at work. By discerning what concepts of divinity are used, a clearer picture of the function of each acclamation emerges. With Simon (Acts 8) and Herod Agrippa I (Acts 12), the divine acclamations fit the pattern of self-deification. By …
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The Relationship Between Experiences of Master of Divinity Students at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary and Their Spirituality
… between the experiences of Master of Divinity students while enrolled in the seminary and their level of spirituality upon completion.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> A quantitative research design with a limited qualitative piece was used to survey MDiv students who graduated in 2004. Exactly …
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Between Humanity and Divinity: Christ Consciousness in Jacques Maritain's On the Grace and Humanity of Jesus and the Epistemology of Michael Polanyi
This work investigates the consciousness of Christ in Maritain's On the Grace and Humanity of Jesus in light of his theory of consciousness in Poetic Intuition in Art and Poetry. At issue is the epistemological question of non-thematic, non-explicit knowledge bearing upon the conscious awareness of …
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A research into the origin, meaning and application of the divine names in the Pentateuch
… by scholars to explain the various names for divinity in the Pentateuch, is adequate and he attempts to find and present a more satisfactory explanation for the variant divine names. With this purpose in mind he examines the Pentateuch as one unified whole. He assumes that the writer of the …
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A Needs Assessment of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary's Master of Divinity Program As Perceived by the Graduates, Faculty, Students, and Employers of Graduates
… Adventist Theological Seminary's Master of Divinity program prepares its graduates for the actual practice of ministry. The purpose of this study was to: (1) collect data from selected groups regarding how well in their perception graduates are prepared in specific areas and what they …
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Judaizing and Singularity in England, 1618-1667
… reference to other tropes of Puritan practical divinity. It has been claimed that Judaizing was a form of Biblicism or a form of millenarianism. In this thesis, I contend that Judaizing was an expression of another aspect of the Puritan experience: the need to be recognized as a ‘singular,’ …
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Minister of the Gospel at Haddington The Life and Work of the Reverend John Brown (1722-1787)
… Secession Church in Haddington and Professor of Divinity in the Associate (Burgher) Synod, who is best known as the author of The Self-Interpreting Bible (1778). Brown was born in humble circumstances in Perthshire; ‘attached’ himself to the 1733 Secession, and aspired to become one of its …
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Dasteh-Gül
… Wāḳwāḳ tree who stumbles through the gardens of divinity and misfortune. As a physical exhibition is not feasible at the time of writing, the thesis is left in a state of unforeseeable incompletion.
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On the Democritean concept of poetic inspiration
… poets and poetry in light of those pertaining to divinity, mind, and perception, concluding that later suppositions about the irrational inspiration of poets cannot be applied to Democritus, who seems instead to have looked to the inspired poet as a paradigm for his own conception of the optimally …
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