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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Edenic"”.
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"Let Us Make 'adam": An Edenic Model of Personal Ontology
… a canonical theology, it then presents an Edenic model of personal ontology that can address the current conflict of interpretations. To achieve this end, the dissertation briefly analyzes substance dualism and physicalism according to the rubrics of constitution and nature, using a model …
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The Promise of Space in Mark Twain's Traveling Narratives
… his appropriation and manipulation of mythical Edenic and wilderness spaces, it finds that, rather than attempting to extirpate American geographical imaginaries, Twain sought the promise of progress within them. Even as his texts challenge and unsettle spatial meanings for wilderness and the …
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The Edutainer: Walt Disney, Nature Films, and American Understandings of Nature in the Twentieth Century
… strain of environmentalism, based on an Edenic appreciation for nature, the belief that to conserve land it must be developed, and practice of moralizing to humans through anthropomorphized depictions of animal behavior, stood out in contrast to other existing post-war environmental …
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The final man; the poetry of Theodore Roethke
… intuitive modes of knowing. He slowly adopts an Edenic imagery that operates both explicitly and implicitly. Although the conflicts in his poetry are never without their contradictions, although one finds few "solutions," one can see developing in various concrete speakers a dichotomy between man …
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The Dust Dwellers: The Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Jack London
… expansion and the dissolution of the American Edenic dream. Investigating the fractured relationship between civilization and the environment, they searched for a philosophy that could reconcile humanity to nature. Specifically, I argue that their environmental philosophy displays intellectual …
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The Priesthood of All Believers in Ecclesiological Development
… tracing the priestly trajectory from Adam's Edenic vocation to the Melchizedekian priesthood of Jesus Christ. Building on this canonical foundation, the dissertation constructs a systematic theology of the new covenant priesthood, arguing that believers participate derivatively in Christ's …
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Melville's Missionaries and the Loss of Culture
… living, the natives had been reduced from the Edenic state of the Typee Valley to the devastating, dehumanizing existence Melville witnessed in Tahiti and Hawaii. The contrasts Melville draws between the primitive Typee and the converted Tahitian cultures illustrate his belief that the …
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Food, Flesh, and Fervor: Perfecting the Ascetic Body in Tertullian's De Ieiunio
… sacred, to return to the perfect, prelapsarian edenic state, through the practice of fasting and ascetism. Since ascetism incorporates a refusal of what has been socially constructed as the "ordinary" life, and martyrdom leads to a total loss of life, perhaps asceticism leads one into the …
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'Forse in Parnaso esto loco sognaro'. Parnassian Imagery and Dante's Earthly Paradise
… a series of parallels between Parnassian and Edenic landscapes. Chapter 4 revolves around the last reference to Parnassus in Paradiso I and reflects on the interaction between classical and Christian poetry at the beginning of the third cantica. Finally, the conclusion summarises the most …
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The Year of Jubilee and Old Testament Ethics: A Test Case in Methodology
… into the land and to the Exodus highlights the Edenic motifs within the legislation and show it to be a cyclical re-creation of the original state, arrived at by the power of a redemptive covenant. These themes, and others, are traced through the OT and into the NT, predominantly focusing upon …
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The Topography of utopia : Revelation 21-22 in light of ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman utopianism.
… utopianism. For Jewish utopianism, I suggest Edenic utopianism, nationalistic utopianism, and eschatological utopianism. After distinguishing the forms of expression and locating texts within which utopian descriptions are found, I then move to elaborating the various motifs, or topoi, that …
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From Sodom to Gehenna: The Old Testament Typology of Sodom and Gomorrah as God’s Eschatological Judgment
… that out of this judgment would emerge a new, Edenic world for YHWH and his people.
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Visual Culture Of The Santals And Their Image: Myth, Morals And Materiality
… resistance, actually imprisoned them in an Edenic past and denied them the temporal technologies to act in the present. The visual story of the Santals, till today, remains captive to this very paradox.
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Through the garden fence
… by which to consider the possibility of more Edenic, sustainable futures rooted in concepts of care. An investigation into care, through my making, has been central to my research. Under the harsh structures of apartheid, the natural world carried on in spite of the social and environmental …
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The restoration theme in the Book of Revelation: From creation to new creation
… is both restored and transformed. It is an Edenic-temple where God's people regain intimate fellowship with God.
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The making of 'Modern' Assam, 1826-1935
… new utility as a primary commodity producing ‘Edenic’ periphery of the British Empire. Chapter 2 traces how this process interacted with changing characterisations of its inhabitants. It examines how the colonial requirement for a pliable labour force reshaped these, as did the interventions of …
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The Nature of David's Kingship at Hebron: An Exegetical and Theological Study of 2 Samuel 2:1-5:5
… kingship seems to be to enable a return to the Edenic model by finishing the conquest, saving Israel from its enemies and caring for YHWH’s people and inheritance.</p>
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Networks of paranoia: narratives of crime and detection in 21st century Latin America
… the consumption of these seemingly isolated, edenic spaces; a critique that can be ultimately extended to the global consumption of crime fiction.
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The face of empire: the cultural production of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and California, 1904–1916
… boosters packaged the annexed territory as an Edenic civilian enclave rather than a militarized zone. The cultural production of this publicity, particularly visual images of technology and white settler life in the PCZ, worked to neutralize popular resistance to U.S. imperial expansion in the …
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The Laws of Clean and Unclean Animals of Leviticus 11: their Nature, Theology, and Rationale (an Intertextual Study)
… included in the creation order of vegetarian Edenic food prescriptions); this principle of life lies behind the new creation order reflected in the prohibition of blood, and is included in the Mosaic dietary laws. On the other hand, the laws of unclean animals are connected to death: several …