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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Ex Nihilo"”.
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Ex Nihilo : emptiness and art
… conceptual mechanics of Buddhism. What is meant exactly by the term Buddhism will I hope, become clearer as the reader moves through it. Likewise, it is hoped that a perspective on art that sees it as sharing certain conceptual tendencies with Buddhism will emerge. What must be borne in mind for …
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A Case for the Traditional Translation and Interpretation of Genesis 1:1 Based upon a Multi-Leveled Linguistic Analysis
This dissertation examines the linguistic issues related to the translation and interpretation of Genesis 1: 1. Chapter 1 introduces the necessity for this study, explaining the theological implications that pertain to the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo. Chapter 2 offers a history of the translation …
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The Metaphysics of Causation in the Creation Accounts of Avicenna and Aquinas
… through a series of emanations--have attractive explanatory features, but neither theory aligns perfectly with divine creation. Since God acts to create, efficient causation seems to include creating; yet, efficient causation is not causation ex nihilo. Since emanation accounts for producing …
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Augustine’s Understanding of the Human Soul: Origin, Life, and End
… creation of the human soul by God. The creation ex nihilo takes center stage, setting Augustine’s perspective apart from Neoplatonism and other philosophical ideologies. This chapter shows Augustine’s articulation of the Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo, examining its presence in various …
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The God-man: an engagement with the theology of Athanasius of Alexandria, its genesis and impact
… sets the Christology of Athanasius of Alexandria in the context of its sources, and evaluates its reception up to the Council of Chalcedon. His well-known emphasis upon the Son’s divinity is shown to be underpinned and counterpointed by a theological integration of creatio ex nihilo into …
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A obra de Apríngio Pacense: subsídios para uma caracterização sócio religiosa da diocese de Beja nos primeiros séculos cristãos
… Santo Isidoro de Sevilha, não surgiram ex nihilo. Estamos convencidos que, tendo-as como referência, estaremos autorizados a iluminar os primeiros séculos cristãos desta diocese alentejana.
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The Problem of Substantial Generation in Aristotle's Physical Writings
This dissertation explores the relation between Aristotle's account of the generation of substances and his attempt to lay the foundations for his natural philosophy. The central question concerns the injunction posed by the Eleatic philosophers to the study of nature on the basis of the principle …
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Society and Superior Individuals: On the Social Concerns in Nietzschean Virtue Ethics
… ethical project is a creation of values ex nihilo, without respect to tradition or community, and is therefore relativistic. I argue that this is not the case, and show that Nietzsche’s ethics is perhaps more capable of responding to the problems MacIntyre sees in modernity than MacIntyre …
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Society and Superior Individuals: On the Social Concerns in Nietzschean Virtue Ethics
… ethical project is a creation of values ex nihilo, without respect to tradition or community, and is therefore relativistic. I argue that this is not the case, and show that Nietzsche’s ethics is perhaps more capable of responding to the problems MacIntyre sees in modernity than MacIntyre …
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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
… originates in God’s creation of all things ex nihilo and traces the movement of humanity toward its eschatological perfection in the incarnate, crucified, and risen Christ. Thus, the author argues that, for Irenaeus, the scriptures are as anthropological as they are theological. The biblical …
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Invention? Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Nature of De Gestis Britonum
… Regum Britonum. Because so little of the text can be corroborated by other sources, Geoffrey is, however affectionately, referred to as a fraud, and scholars of early Arthuriana tend to dismiss material that shares commonalities with his work as being unrepresentative of the legend as it …
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The Disagreement between Avicenna and al-Ghazali on the Issue of the Pre-eternity of the Universe, how their Arguments Originated from Greek Philosophers and their Effect on Muslim Philosophers
The aim of this thesis is to explore one of the three condemnations by al-Ghazali of Avicenna in his widely publicised book ‘Incoherence of the Philosophers’. The paper will focus on one of these three specific issues because it was these topics that were used by al-Ghazali to insinuate that …
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Creativity in and out of the Workplace.
… and enable people who are creative in one context to perform creatively in another. However these goals are arguably beyond existing creativity research. The existing conceptual framework for creativity studies, and the conventional definition of creativity advocated within it, serve to check …
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A história n' "A inaudita guerra" de Mário de Carvalho
… como, aliás, o presente. O passado só nos chega textualizado e a sua matéria é recontada e reescrita de diferentes formas e perspectivas, não querendo, porém, isto significar que se pode escrever um número infinito de histórias idiossincráticas. N‟ “A Inaudita Guerra”, estabelece-se um diálogo …
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A universal key : utopias and universals in JM Coetzee's The childhood of Jesus
… discuss the creation of a state and its citizens ex nihilo. In the same manner, although not as overtly stated, it will be shown that JM Coetzee in The Childhood of Jesus replicates to some extent the style and structure of Plato’s The Republic. In light of these similarities, a comparison between …
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The Golden Age And The Age Of Gold: Memory And The Alchemy Of History In California, 1877-1888
… with the real ways in which the U.S. annexation had robbed many of the testators of their property and wealth. In spite of their fall from the social status many of them had enjoyed in Alta California, a decline well-documented by historians, the testators collectively argued for an …
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Between Occitania and Al-Andalus: Reconsidering the Emergence of Troubadour Melody Through Algorithmic Analysis
… has attempted to account for their seemingly <em>ex nihilo</em> appearance in late twelfth-century Europe. Scholarly debate was particularly intense during the first half of the twentieth century and revolved around two competing theories: the Andalusi theory, which linked the troubadours to the …
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The Poetics of Resistance: Heidegger on the Line
… of scholarship that thoroughly traces out the extent to which the deconstructive problematic develops out of a dialogue with Heidegger, the thesis demonstrates the extent to which the thinkers supplement each other en route to creating an alternative to metaphysical approaches to ethical and …
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The French troubles thriller: genre, ideologies and representations (1971-1998)
… thesis aims to address this critical omission by examining examples of the most numerous and commercially successful of such responses while the conflict was ongoing: the Troubles thriller. Thrillers on Irish matters are part of the virtually inexhaustible output of thrillers and crime fiction …
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Action and determinism: a study of the problem of free will
… in an alien world. Despite the differences which exist between the portrayals which have been offered of our role, however, there is one point upon which there has generally been agreement: we are <em>agents</em>, that is to say, we <em>act</em>. In other words, it has traditionally been supposed …
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