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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Good works"”.
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Good Works: The Topoi of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Travel and Tourism Industry
<p>This dissertation focuses on the identification and analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) topoi in the travel and tourism industry. A sample set of six companies was selected for the study due to their size and prominence in the industry -- namely Disney, Hilton, Intercontinental, …
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Justification and Good Works: A Study of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
The doctrine of justification tells how the saving grace of God in Christ can be actualized in the believers. Because of the very importance of this doctrine, disputes broke out between Augustine and Pelagius, later in the medieval period, and most importantly during the Reformation period - which …
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Non-profit organizations' use of the internet to tell human interest stories : a content analysis of non-profit web sites.
… through personal stories that illustrate the good works and acts of charity performed by the organization. A sample of 26 non-profit health charities' Web sites produced 344 "good works" stories that were coded. The study looked particularly at the prominence and prevalence of good works …
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The righteousness of works in the theology of John Calvin
… explores John Calvin’s positive teaching on works-righteousness, demonstrating that his understanding of the matter is more complex than is often recognized. Most studies that relay Calvin’s notion of works-righteousness tend to rehearse his negative statements on the subject in order to …
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The theology of William Tyndale
… his commandments, love their neighbour and do good works, pray and worship God.Two regiments form society: -The temporal, a creation ordinance to which everyone belongs. The spiritual is the church and post Fall. The elect were a 'little flock' whilst the majority were not born again nor part …
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A Matter of Faith and Works: Byzantine Leaders and Christian Leadership in the Historia Langobardorum
… leadership based upon orthodox faith and good works, in which the careers of Byzantine leaders, especially emperors, played a critical role. Among Byzantine authority figures, correct belief and righteousness are rewarded and heresy and wickedness are punished. These themes are tied to …
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God’s Imposition: The Centrality of Vocation in the Spirituality of William Perkins
… Chain. He also authored numerous practical works meant to guide Christian life. Scholarship concerning his practical works is less available, thus this dissertation contributes to that lacuna specifically concerning his A Treatise of the Vocations, or Callings of Men, with the Sorts and …
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Work in the Calling in Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis
… related "anti-mammon" injunction and concept of "good works" and substantiate with historical evidence the religious doctrine Weber describes. Methods. Comparative analysis of early Protestant Lutheran and Calvinist documents from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was used to flesh out a …
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Protection and Reward: the Significance of Ancient Midrashic Expositions on Genesis 15:1-6
… reward of Abraham as a fruit of his good works.</p> <p>Chapter 2 exegetes the unit by means of structural analysis, as well as historical and lexicographical research. The results confirm ancient insights on the covenantal character of the passage and on Abraham's faith as a reaction …
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Go Into All the World: Moral-Subject Formation through Evangelical Short-Term Missions from the United States to the Dominican Republic
… believe to be their moral intentions and good works, STMs work in various ways to perpetuate inequalities between sending and receiving countries.
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A Distinguished Blessing of Grace: Abraham Booth’s Doctrine of Sanctification in Confessional Context
… and (4) his emphasis on the necessity of good works as the external fruit or evidence of sanctification. In each of these areas, Booth’s arguments were characterized by intentional unoriginality. Nevertheless, his writings on sanctification were characterized by careful biblical exegesis …
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Justification and Merit: the Interpretation and Evaluation of the Concept of Merit in Modern Catholic Theology in Relation to Luther's Doctrine of Justification
… of God and of the consecutive character of good works. Since he could concede neither the co-operation of man nor the "final character of works" (meaning works achieved with an ultimate end in view), his struggle was mainly against the Church's traditional doctrine of merit.</p> <p>Catholic …
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Revitalizing a Dying School-Business Partnership
… of the partnership; continuous recognition of good works by the stakeholders; and the use of the National Association for Partners in Education 12-step process as both a diagnostic and prescriptive resource for partnering. School-business partnerships, like all other human endeavors, require …
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Maintenance improvement in the petrochemical industry
… the tool. The dissertation did not overlook the good works the industry has been doing in the area of creating awareness about repetitive stress injuries among its workforce but only complement its efforts in areas they might not look into. That is in a bid to improve the effectiveness of its …