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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"Holiness"”.
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holiness and other hauntings
holiness and other hauntings is a poetry collection that seeks to understand other people. Armstrong uses her poems to track herself back through time to her cousins, her parents, her grandparents, her teachers, and friends. Her work explores queerness and Catholicism, family fraught and family …
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Pragmatic Holiness in the Early Salvation Army: A Theology of Holiness as Action
The notion of holiness and sanctification are central to most Protestant understandings and expressions of religious life. This thesis explores whether a pragmatic understanding of holiness, particularly in the Wesleyan-Arminian stream, can have a meaningful place in the postmodern world. This …
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Love and Holiness in Reciprocal Entailment: Love as the Implementation of Holiness in Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount
The relationship between love and holiness has been an area of confusion. On one hand, when holiness is understood as separation, it is naturally in conflict with love. Yet others have understood them to be different expressions of the same reality. In this thesis, the relationship of love and …
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The concept of holiness in the Pauline epistles
… has attempted to define Paul's concept of holiness and how he develops and applies the concept in his letters. This task has focused on Pauline theology, conducting an in-depth exegetical study on various Pauline epistles. All texts on holiness which occur in all thirteen Pauline epistles …
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The Numinous and the ethical dimensions within holiness
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The concept of holiness in the book of Ezekiel.
The theme of holiness is prominent in the book of Ezekiel. This fact should not be surprising, given that Ezekiel is said to be a priest. However, a number of passages in the book express ideas about holiness chat relate specifically to Ezekiel's exilic setting. The present thesis examines how the …
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The American Wesleyan-Holiness Movement's doctrine of entire sanctification: A reformulation
… sanctification for the contemporary American Holiness Movement. A distinctive debate is going on between Wesleyan-Holiness scholars. Scholars are asking the following questions: What is Wesley's doctrine of entire sanctification? Has the Holiness Movement been faithful to Wesley's teaching on …
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Commanded to Holiness: Reflections on Leviticus 19:1-2 and Contemporary Judaism
… study forwards the philosophical stance that the holiness commanded of the ancient nation of Israel in Biblical times is as vital, applicable, and achievable in contemporary . Judaism as it was then. Examining the Judaic precept of <em>kadosh</em>, holy separation from the profane, the work takes …
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Journeys to holiness : lay sanctity in the Central Middle Ages, c.970-c.1120
This dissertation analyses a collection of Lives (vitae) of lay saints from western Europe who were neither martyrs nor from a royal family, to find that lay sanctity was a significant phenomenon throughout the eleventh century. Previously historians (notably André Vauchez) had assumed that the …
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Transitional holiness in the twelfth century: the social and spiritual identity of Domina Christina of Markyate
… 1140s to make sense of the new manifestations of holiness that Christina embodies. By using three distinct but overlapping discourses to structure the study – social networks in religious life, sanctity and spirituality – it reflects on how the stakeholders in Christina’s texts negotiated their …
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Seeking Holiness: The Contribution of Nine Vernacular Narrative Texts from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries
… to uncover several distinctive definitions of holiness, all of which blend the religious and the secular. Close reading of these texts reveals various paths to holiness, which undermine the Church’s attempts at sole control over spirituality. This study demonstrates that secular authors were …
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A Garden Locked, A Fountain Sealed: Female Virginity as a Model for Holiness in the Fourth Century
… the Church, women were promoted as exemplars of holiness and sanctity often in excess of their male counterparts and commonly as didactic tools used to lead their fellow Christians down a more righteous path. The following thesis serves as both examination and exculpation of these deeply …
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The Maintenance of Holiness and the Contours of Leadership: Form and Characterization in the Book of Numbers
… for additional roles necessary to maintain holiness in the camp. As the Torah is structured as a creation text (Gen 1-2; Exod 40:17), the dissertation finds that material in Numbers, which follows the completion of the creation narrative in Exod 40:17 by resetting the narrative …
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Rediscovering and Applying God's Holiness in Isaiah 6 and Revelation 4 Through the Lens of Abraham Kuruvilla's Hermeneutical and Homiletical Approach
… the rich theological concept of God’s holiness in Isaiah 6 and Revelation 4, utilizing Abraham Kuruvilla’s hermeneutical and homiletical method for preaching. This study focuses on elucidating a comprehensive understanding of God’s holiness, which includes both its transcendent majesty …
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"A Soul Prepared for Heaven": The Theological Foundation of Isaac Watts' Spirituality
This dissertation’s thesis is that happiness and holiness (eternal life begun) establish the primary contours of Isaac Watts’ spirituality. His understanding of holiness and happiness is grounded in his formulation of key theological truths: (1) the depravity of man; (2) the beauty of Christ; (3) …
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Holiness and humanism: a comparative-religions commentary on book 2 of Cicero’s laws, with special reference to Confucianism and Chinese thought
After a brief introduction, a new translation of De Legibus II, and prolegomenal remarks, the commentary discusses in Cicero's sequence: how place connects to ancient times and traditions (4), God's Law and his judgment on human laws (5-6), tension between Roman religion and Greek philosophy (7), …
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