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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Francis of Assisi"”.
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The works of art within the Church of St Francis of Assisi, Valletta
… study aims to provide an art historical analysis of the works of art present within the church of St Francis of Assisi in Valletta. Although the works have already been tackled by numerous scholars, so far, a holistic study of the works within the church has not yet been undertaken. The church …
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TRANSCENDING THE FEMININE: NEGOTIATING GENDER IN THE MYSTICISM OF IBN AL-‘ARABĪ AND FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Explorations of how "the feminine" functions in the systematic mystical theology of Ibn al-ʿArabī (1165-1240) begin, in English, with Reynold Nicholson's early 20th century analysis of Tarjumān al-Ashwāq and extend through the work of dozens of scholars since then, most notably Henry Corbin, …
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"Hermann Suter's oratorio ""Le Laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi"": A reflection of Swiss musical life in the early twentieth century"
… Suter's oratorio Le Laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi is a work of about seventy-minutes' duration for soloists, mixed chorus, children's chorus, orchestra, and organ. Its text, by St. Francis of Assisi, is the Canticle of the Creatures, in which each element of creation is personified. Suter …
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Inspired Invention: Cristóbal de Villalpando's Paintings of the Life of Saint Francis
<p>This project is an in-depth study of Cristóbal de Villalpando’s cycle of paintings depicting the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, commissioned in 1691 for the Franciscan Convent in Antigua, Guatemala. This seminal group has not been the subject of a focused study since 1986 and the sources of …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Sainthood entails performance — of holiness, of spiritual virtue, of connection to the divine. It also entails the performance of gender. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender performance, this thesis, focusing on the thirteenth century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Sainthood entails performance — of holiness, of spiritual virtue, of connection to the divine. It also entails the performance of gender. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender performance, this thesis, focusing on the thirteenth century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St …
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The Roots of Franciscan Theology and Metaphysics: An Integrated Approach Towards Encounter, Participation, and the De-Radicalisation of Difference
This thesis argues that the Franciscan theological tradition, rooted in the spiritual attributes of humility, poverty, and simplicity, and shaped by metaphysical motifs such as freedom, relationality, and moral goodness, offers a coherent and constructive framework for interfaith dialogue. By …
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In Principio Erat Signum: Dueling Dionysianisms & Sacramental Semiotics In Thomistic & Mystical Franciscan Poetry
… observing in post-1990 art the deployment of artistic and narratival techniques which seem to break from postmodern stagnancy, has posited the arrival of a new epoch—“performatism” or “post-postmodernity”—marked by a new metaphysical optimism and confidence in the sign. While Eshelman’s …
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Discontinuities in immanent worlds: the human/nonhuman animal split in Spinoza and the Zhuāngzi
… the rise together with contemporary philosophies of difference. It has often been argued that the dominant structures of representation, which appeal to absolute, finalizing, and transcendent measures to divide beings into different kinds has the human/animal distinction as its founding trope. …
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The Crusade of Ramon Llull
ABSTRACT THE CRUSADE OF RAMON LLULL: APOLOGETICS AND EVANGELISM TO MUSLIMS DURING THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY Numa Ulisses Gomez, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018 Chair: Dr. James A. Parker III Ramon Llull was a thirteenth-century Franciscan monk who lived during a tumultuous period …
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Dante Praedicator: Sermons and Preaching Culture in the Commedia
… influence from the sermons and preaching culture of his time in his construction of a voice of authority, this dissertation tracks the poet's use of sermonic material and rhetoric, as well as more explicit discussions on preaching through his entire corpus. Chapter One, "Dante Praedicator? …