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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Incarnational"”.
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Augustine's incarnational hermeneutics and postmodernity
This thesis focuses on the hermeneutic framework of St. Augustine of Hippo. Study of this topic has been suggested by patrologists such as Frances Young, and garnered occasional glances in contemporary scholarship. Little has been done as far as a systematic treatment of Augustine’s theory of …
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The body and the blood: Graham Greene’s incarnational imagination
<p>The Christian doctrine of the Incarnation is central to the “Catholic novels” of modern British author Graham Greene, as can be seen through a close reading of how he ties the physical nature of experience to a spiritual understanding of God. Indeed, Greene writes of a God who not only exists, …
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Incarnational Reality as an approach to missional theological education and training
… was to confirm if my own approach of Incarnational Reality to missional theological education and training results in transformative learning for my students. This approach has come out of my own experience which I define as ‘God in loving union with us, the embodiment of spiritual …
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The image of the Incarnation as motif for development practice in West Java, Indonesia
… are not. After first illustrating the value of incarnational involvement by presenting the results of field research undertaken amongst a particular community of the Sundanese people residing in a specific hamlet in the city of Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia, a template comprised of six …
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THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
… do this by harnessing prophetic imagination and incarnational space to shine a light on how patriarchy infects evangelical Christian theology and practice. Using prophetic imagination through photographic self-portraiture and text (my own and found texts using the Bible), I seek to make plain the …
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Public dialogue between Church and Others through a communicative mode of madanggŭk : A practical theological perspective
… i.e. three models of madang public dialogue—Incarnational Public Dialogue, Critical Public Dialogue, and Festival Public Dialogue. The first model, Incarnational Public Dialogue, explores how to accept the other and the difference under the principles of otherness, unfinalizability and …
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John Henry Newman and Georges Florovsky: An Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue on the Development of Doctrine
… that Newman's theory is a function of the incarnational character of his theology. Showing that the affirmation of doctrinal development follows from an incarnational, or Christocentric, theology represents the third and final goal of this dissertation.
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From parson to professional: the changing ministry of the Anglican clergy in Staffordshire, 1830-1960
… and less influential. If as a consequence the incarnational aspect of local ministry has been eroded then there are far reaching implications. This study shows how practical circumstances, such as those that relate to geography and economics, although not always recognised, have an important …
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Everyday aesthetic existence and discipleship: exploring the connections between aesthetics, faith and ethics in being human and becoming Christian
… life by conjoining praxis and poiesis through incarnational living. Aesthetics is not to be disconnected from action, as Nicholas Wolterstorff elucidates, but is best understood in light of social practice, playing a narratival role toward specific teloi, however implicit this may be. …
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Footnotes to Coleridge: A Genealogy of Theology and Literature
… what it means to say the imagination is ‘incarnational’, that it can create or ‘body forth’ contingent knowledge in poetry. I situate this debate with respect to the emergence of ‘theology and literature’ as a discrete field of inquiry in the 20th century in the work of figures like Nathan …
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From corruption to glory: the son's redemptive assumption of fallen humanity in dogmatic dialogue with T. F. Torrance
… and temptation; the temporal consistency of incarnational atonement being instantaneous and continuous; the consistency in application of the non-assumptus to human "person" as well as "nature"; the success of the non-assumptus in preventing the instrumentality of Christ's humanity; and the …
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Womb of the Spirit: the liturgical implications of the doctrine of the Spirit for the Syrian baptismal tradition
… to Pauline imagery. Against this background, the incarnational image of the font as womb is identified as the principal characteristic which runs througout the development of the tradition, functioning as the primary symbolic focus for the activity of the Holy Spirit and thereby interpreting the …
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A study of Kierkegaard as a missionary and the possible applications in Japan
… Kierkegaard’s strategy can be identified as an incarnational mission that attempts to proclaim Jesus Christ after the manner that Jesus has done on the earth. I define Kierkegaard’s mission and apply the Kierkegaardian mission to a Japanese context.
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Hybrid christian youth ministry: a study of closed-group social media
… people; ‘doing’ and ‘being’ together. It extends incarnational youth ministry, drawing attention to dynamics of absence and presence. Secondly, discipleship considers the strategic potential of social media and its ability to provide quick response to circumstances, as seen during the pandemic. …
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Visual theology in 14th and 15th century Florentine frescoes : a theological approach to historical images, sacred spaces, and the modern viewer
… and do not take account of the fundamentally incarnational nature of Christian images. There have been, however, relatively few attempts at theological interpretation of historical Christian images and minimal discussion of an appropriate methodology for doing so, despite increased interest in …
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The decline in representations of the Virgin as mother in early post-reformation iconography.
… associated with this world and its holy relics. Incarnational theology, which emphasized the reconciliation of the created world to God through Christ, was making way for a theology based on the eschaton. Representations of the Virgin as the ‘physical’ mother of Christ were now giving way to a …
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The Church and the Voice of the Other: The Growth of the Faith Community and Dialogue in the Church
… the dialogical philosophy of Martin Buber, the incarnational ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, and Bernard Lonergan's theologico-anthropological process of cognition, offers an approach to a new form of dialogue for the church. This new form of dialogue is embedded in the process of aggiornamento of …
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Absorbing the Worlds of Others: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Adapted Screenplays
… possible. I adapt Kamilla Elliott’s incarnational concept of adaptation to reincarnation in order to argue that adaptation and screenwriting are both continual, collaborative processes. Segments of Chapters 2 and 5 have been included in published articles and feature in the …
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Ecclesiological Docetism : in early and medieval dissent and heresy in eastern and western Christianity
… of the church, with the rejection of an incarnational theology, and the development of new criteria for Christian life. In this respect it questions how the immediacy of mystical and spiritual experience relates to ecclesiology. Taking into account the appeal to primitivism as a motive …
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Poetic Theology: Dante And The British Romantic Poets
… the vernacularization of poetic language as an incarnational process mirroring the descent of the divine vernacular, Christ as Word-made-flesh. Chapter Two asserts Byron's use of exile, particularly in his neglected poem, "The Prophecy of Dante," as a biographical trope characterizing the human …
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