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Showing 1 to 20 of 309 for “"Hermeneutical"”.
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The Ethical Imagination: A Hermeneutical Study
This research examines and describes the ways psychotherapists address ethical dilemmas through a hermeneutic analysis of how they responded to a portrayal of a therapy session represented in a television series. Interview transcripts were analyzed and assessed for both how therapists navigate …
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Towards formative interpretation: a theological hermeneutical proposal
… one taken in this paper is mainly concerned with hermeneutical questions of how we read the Bible and whether we can formulate a hermeneutical framework for formative interpretation. To that end we analyse interpretative approaches of the modern era and ask whether these are hospitable or hostile …
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Connection : a hermeneutical inquiry of an autobiographical fragment
The title of this thesis is: Connection: A Hermeneutical Inquiry of an Autobiographical Text. It is based on the following thesis question: What is the significance of connecting with another in teaching? The following quote set the stage for the writing: "All places have names and stories, and …
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The hermeneutical circle : an exploration of theological methodology
… within the methodological genre of the hermeneutical circle, is to see a method emerge that is fundamentally balanced; in other words, a theological method that is able to engage with immediate context, wider history, current theologies and classical theologies. Holland and Henriot's …
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Towards a Hermeneutical Understanding of the Listening Process
… of tradition and bias. This work presents a hermeneutical model of the listening process that highlights the choice to listen; it compares this model to behaviorist models which suggest the processes starts when one hears or perceives a message. This dissertation presents the hermeneutical …
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Mourning, Evil and Grace: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach
… understanding of mourniing and the hermeneutical interpretation of both fourth century theologians and twentieth century psychologists, I argue that evil and grace are different, equiprimordal ways of mourning-in-the-world.
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Rethinking Myth as a Hermeneutical Tool in Pauline Studies
This thesis undertakes a fundamental rethinking of ‘myth’ as a heuristic analytical tool in Pauline studies. It contends that the discipline’s longstanding resistance to, and insufficient engagement with, the concept of myth has deprived scholars of a rich and illuminating means of interpreting …
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A Hermeneutical Consideration of Islamic Jurisprudence on Same-Sex Acts
This thesis is a response to the increasing prevalence of violence against individuals in Muslim majority countries who do not succumb to normative definitions of gender and sexuality. Classical Islamic jurisprudence categorically condemns same-sex acts; however, the legal consensus does not …
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Debating the theoretical basis for judicial review: A hermeneutical study
… common law theory. This research consists of a hermeneutical analysis of these two theories; it examines their rationales and the main themes of the debate between their supporters. It also uses immanent critique to reveal a significant lack of 'fit' between judicial review in practice and each …
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Toward A Priestly Christology: A Hermeneutical Study Of Christ's Priesthood
… <p>Method</p> <p>The present study hermeneutically deconstructs these models of Christ’s priesthood to articulate a constructive proposal of an alternative model as a suggestion for the resolution of the conflict of interpretations regarding this doctrine. This deconstruction seeks …
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A Hermeneutical Critique of Pentecostalism for the Churches of South Africa
This project seeks to equip congregants in specific churches in South Africa with the knowledge of the doctrine of Spirit baptism and how to teach it. Chapter 1 presents the ministry context to which the congregants in those South African churches preside as well as the goals to which the project …
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The Hermeneutical Reality of Constitutional Law: Understanding the Legality of Constitutional Adjudication
… autonomy created by constitutional traditions as hermeneutical reality. What is legal can be distinguished from what is political in constitutional adjudication on the basis of hermeneutical reality. If there are indeed cases where prejudices sustain an autonomous domain of constitutionality, then …
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Being Touched by Music: A Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Approach to Understanding Tranformational Musical Experience
… in nature, based on a phenomenological-hermeneutical methodology. Throughout the research process, the researcher maintained a reflexive stance, attending to assumptions and preconceptions held about the phenomenon. This was done to ensure that the understandings generated would retain a …
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Cosmic Conflict as a Hermeneutical Framework for Mission Theology in the Old Testament
<p>This research aims to rediscover mission as taught by the Old Testament and to show how that mission is consistent with God's loving and just character as reflected in the whole Bible. Toward this end, the research surveys assumptions that influence Old Testament mission theology and evaluates …
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Projective and introjective identification in a couple therapy case study: a hermeneutical examination
A series of interpretive dialogues with one object relations, couple therapy, case study were performed to research the role of projective and introjective identification within an intersubjective context. The method, Gadatner's (1993) philosophical hermeneutics, involved a dialectical moving back …
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Encountering Questions of Religion in Psychotherapy: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Study of Religious Patients' Experiences
This dissertation presents a hermeneutical-phenomenological investigation of having one's religious or spiritual views called into question in psychotherapy. A review of the literature revealed very few studies exploring the experiences of religious or spiritually devoted psychotherapy patients and …
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The feminist use of inclusive language for the Trinity: A case study in hermeneutical method
… of inclusive language for the Trinity and their hermeneutical method in order to determine the viability of their method for theological construction. Chapter 1 describes the theological tradition out of which the feminist critique emerges, noting the intratextual approach that characterizes the …
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A Christocentric Interpretation of Hosea 1-3: An Application of Sidney Greidanus's Contemporary Hermeneutical Method
Many hermeneutical approaches have been utilized to interpret the Old Testament in light of Christ throughout church history. Sidney Greidanus, in his Preaching Christ from the Old Testament, has formulated a redemptive-historical Christocentric hermeneutic that provides set criteria, clearly …
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Christ-saturated preaching: a hermeneutical and homiletical analysis of Christ-centered preaching and its implications
… preaching while resolving some of the inherent hermeneutical and homiletical difficulties in prevailing models of Christ-centered preaching. Chapter 1 explores some confused and complicated definitions of Christ-centered approaches to preaching, examines the current hermeneutical and homiletical …
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Steel Riders : a novel for young adult readers and, An hermeneutical examination of Steel Riders
… for young adult readers, and Section Two: An Hermeneutical Examination q(Steel Riders. Section One: Steel Riders is a hybrid text based largely on the conventions of the detective novel. The protagonist of Steel Riders is a nineteen-year-old university student, Bella Buchanan, who returns to …
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