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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Intercession"”.
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A Correlational Study of Jungian Psychological Types and Nineteen Spiritual Gifts
… gifts of evangelism, faith, giving, hospitality, intercession, knowledge, prophecy and teaching.</p> <p>2. The extraverted-sensing-feeling-judgment (ESFJ) type is more common among those with the gifts of prophecy, pastoring, hospitality, and exhortation.</p> <p>3. Specifically for males: a. The …
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Descent and Ascent in Augustine's De Trinitate: Prayer as a Way of Being in the Trinity
… of God’s own self and action. I argue that intercession is an especially helpful category for understanding the participatory shape of human prayer. A number of recent scholars have commented on the roots of human prayer in the triune life. This study contributes an analysis of this idea …
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A Church in New England
… element and as a spacial generator, and how the intercession of other disparate, different material elements can work to create disparate, different material conditions that manifest specific physical phenomena that hold direct implications for the metaphysical (here, spiritual) experience of the …
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Healing leaves
… spirit, miraculous unguents, cures through the intercession of the saints and the Virgin Mary and surgical procedures. Texts examined here include Le Roman de la Rose, Erec et Enide, Aucassin et Nicolette, Les Lais of Marie de France, Le conte du Graal, Le chevalier de la charrette, La …
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The Theology of Intercessory Prayer: with Special Reference to Contemporary Protestant Theology
… away from a materialistic, manipulative view of intercession is carefully noted. Part Two is a study of the four major ways in which the relationship of prayer, God and the world order are interpreted by twentieth century Protestant writers. The representatives of the first view, that prayer …
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"Strategies and structures of mediation: The go-between from Roman comedy to ""Celestina"""
… of sexual desires by means of an agent of intercession, the go-between who intervenes in situations where sexual access is desired, but not readily permitted, to lovers. As such, the intermediary effects a transfer of the erotic into the realm of the cultural, the sexual into the arena of …
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Wayward Women, Virtuous Violence: Feminine Violence in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Women
… the Pity of the People" and "the Intercession of the Ladies," who believe that although the "unexampled Cruelty [Violenta] committed afterwards on the dead Body" was excessive, the murder itself is not inexcusable given her husband's bigamy. My research draws upon diverse archival …
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The search for salvation: lay faith in Scotland, 1480-1560
… as the Eucharist, as well as saintly and human intercession after death. Part of the thesis discusses heaven, hell and purgatory, those states of being which were the laity's future after death.
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Toward A Priestly Christology: A Hermeneutical Study Of Christ's Priesthood
… of functions (earthly cross and heavenly intercession), but it is soteriologically concrete in spatio-temporal instruments that convey/actualize the timeless-spaceless reality of the new creation in human beings. In the ontological model, the priesthood of Christ portrays a Christology …
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Cyber-Islamic Environments and Salafī-Ṣūfī Contestations Appropriating Digital Media and Challenges to Religious Authority
… grave visitation, and tawassul (seeking intercession through the Prophet and past saints or spiritual masters). Second, the study unpacks and analyses recurring themes and vocabulary that occur in Salafī polemics against Sufism. The arguments against Sufism rely on the strategic usage of …
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The Laughter Behind: Curriculum of Place, the Hypermasculine Imperative, and the Critical Education of a Southern Cop
… and informal training venues and through the intercession of police managers who have themselves adopted a philosophy of seeing police work as a serious commitment to social justice.</p>
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Case of Year Round Education in Two Georgia Elementary Schools
… student achievement/motivation, school climate, intercession, stakeholder perceptions/communications, and facility maintenance/cleanliness. Lemonds County Elementary School (pseudonym) also identified discipline as an area positively impacted by the current school calendar. West City Elementary …
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Making Miracles in Central Medieval England
… on the actions taken by people which resulted in intercession from the saints. Behind these actions was a basic structure, a person with knowledge of a saint experienced a problem and asked a saint for help. Those who engaged a saint properly could expect aid and those who behaved inappropriately …
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The Ritualisation of Political Power in Early Rus (10th-12th centuries)
… entry along with ritualised invocations for intercession in war are acts examined—both in textual sources and iconographic artefacts—as rituals of triumphal rulership reflecting both Byzantine and wider medieval culture. This study concludes with a discussion of the themes explored in its …
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Promises to and limitations upon petitionary prayer in the New Testament: A study of their relationship
… the comforting, empowering, and advocating intercession of the Spirit; and, the conditions of open-hearted and dependent faith and a community marked by forgiveness of others. The main findings of the study are that: (1) the prayer promises and limitations in the New Testament are not …
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Festivals, Function and Context: An Ethnographic Study of Three Festivals at Holden Village
… and refreshment of people through worship, intercession, study, humor, work, recreation, and conversation in a climate of mutual acceptance under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The purpose of this community is to participate in the renewal for the church and the world by proclaiming the …
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'Atrocity Suppression': an alternative to 'Humanitarian Intervention'
… of armed rescue itself. If previously, forcible intercession had been considered a laudable notion constrained by inertia, self-interest, and concerns about legality, in the twenty-first century it has increasingly come to be seen as flawed in its own right. Such has been the disillusionment with …
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Governance, marketplaces and social capital: the role of Batkhela bazaar in the evolving governance of the Malakand region of Pakistan
… weakness by facilitating corruption and intercession. Neither individual nor associational social capital has a normatively “dark” or “bright” side: the major determinants of the outcomes of its use are rooted in the motives for which it is employed by differentially powerful actors, and …
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A Guide to Intercessory Art
This glossary is intended for those who believe they have a mandate over their life to create intercessory art, a life dedicated to healing. Additionally, this glossary serves as a rumination on the intercessory art practice of David Capra. From water births to sausage dogs, from the Land of Oz to …
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The Design, Development and Characterisation of a new Biosensor for In-vivo Neurochemical Monitoring of ᴅ-Serine
… of disease etiology, determination of key intercession points in these pathologies, preclinical and clinical testing of proposed new treatments, and earlier diagnosis of medical conditions. With this in mind this thesis focused on the development and characterisation of a ᴅ-serine biosensor …
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