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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Human responsibility"”.
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Otherwise than human: responsibility in the wake of disaster, an eco-deconstructive response to climate catastrophe
… and language, and apply it to the concept of the human as a distinct and, most importantly, privileged being as this privilege has operated within language and culture, thereby demonstrating how climate catastrophe constitutes a fundamental rupture in traditional ontology. Secondly, I will turn …
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Salvation as Victory: A Study on Divine Grace and Human Responsibility in Salvation in the Book of Revelation Through the Lens of the Conquering Motif
… been written on the themes of divine grace and human responsibility for salvation in the book of Revelation. This dissertation argues that the conquering motif, conveyed by the verb νικάω and grounded in the theme of Old Testament holy war, serves as an effective soteriological framework through …
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R.B.C. Howell and the theological foundation for Baptist participation in the benevolent empire
… connection between divine sovereignty and human responsibility in God's mission to the world. The dissertation demonstrates that Howell responded to the challenges brought to the burgeoning missions and benevolent movement among Baptists, particularly from antimission Baptists, populist …
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Generative Response.
… and development have been affected by studies in humanity, social activism, human responsibility, and environmental consciousness.</p><p><em>Generative Response</em> communicated the artist's ideology of process as metaphor for living life, involving the viewer in an "unfinished dialogue" wherein …
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Between Wildness and Art: Ecology and Agency in Victorian Literature
… literary depictions of the relationship between humans and non-human nature in the context of the dramatic changes to physical and ideological landscapes that characterized the Victorian period. This study challenges the contemporary critical vocabulary of Ecocriticism and its focus on wilderness …
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Urban envelopes : an architecture of adjacency and difference
… without division. By delineating boundaries, human responsibility can establish and hold its place in the animated, complex and constantly changing nature of the city. The texture of this negotiation at the building envelope reinforces ideas of self while negotiating relationships with others. …
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A Historical, Biblical, and Theological Interpretation of Covenants: Unconditionality and Conditionality in Relation to Justification and Sanctification
… nature of the biblical covenants God makes with humans is both unconditional and conditional (or unilateral and bilateral), which undergirds the two basic covenantal benefits of justification and sanctification that believers receive in union with Christ. I substantiate my argument with teachings …
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“If no Divells, no God”: Devils, D(a)emons and Humankind on the Mediaeval and Early Modern English Stage.
This thesis looks at the relationship that humanity has with the devil, the demonic, and the daemonic as it is represented in plays from the mediaeval to the Early Modern period in England. While critics have contradictorily seen the devil as a secular figure on the one hand, and as a vestige of …
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Divine and Human Agency by Means of the Covenant: The Anti-Pelagian Theology of John Owen
… an anti-Pelagian soteriology through divine and human agencies in the covenant. Owen was anti-Pelagian despite his emphasis on human agency in the covenant because of the divine agency of the Spirit. Owen was anti-Pelagian not despite but because of divine sovereignty. Chapter 2 examined the …
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A study in Christianity, Marxist ideology and historical engagement with special reference to the liberation theology of José Miguez Bonino
… to emphasize the eschatological significance of human historical action is also outlined. The Marxist emphasis on human responsibility for historical initiative is taken as the point from which to expound an understanding of the Kingdom of God in which the account of the tension between the …
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The Double-Vision of Imagination : An Appraisal of Surface and Substance in the Fiction of Henry James
… the depth and breadth of the Jamesian purview of human nature and its potential for emotional and intellectual growth. The second chapter concentrates upon the aesthetic stem of the imagination and, with evidence gathered from five novels and one long story--The American, The Tragic Muse, Roderick …
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An Examination of the Worldviews and Practices of Contemporary Chinese Astrologers
… fate. While most participants are of advocacy in human responsibility for free will, there was also one determinist. This result was seen to be due to the influences of the diverse culture or a mix of views in tian ming 天命. All these factors of different worldviews contribute to the distinct …
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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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A Theological critique of the Christian pacifist perspective with special reference to the position of John Howard Yoder
… this purpose because of my own sense of shared responsibility for the healing of this land in which I was born. The problem of violence, together with the use of force and power, is an area of ethics where the definition and clarification of terms is of particular importance. Words like …
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Pentecost, process, and power: a critical comparison of Concursus in Operational Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology and Philosophical Process-Relational Theology
… the theme of concursus, the way in which God and humanity interact, in the Pentecostal-Charismatic and Process-Relational traditions. The comparison is literature-based; similarities and differences in the theological literature of each tradition are compared in order to determine the extent of …