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Skateboard Jesus
<p><em>Skateboard Jesus</em> is a collection of poetry written in mostly first and second person free verse, containing in addition some prose poems and other forms harder to categorize. The poetry in this collection is largely narrative in structure, and engages with themes of identity and …
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The Crucifiable Jesus
In recent decades, scholars have both used Jesus’ crucifixion as a criterion of historicity and employed the rhetoric of a “crucifiable Jesus”– suggesting that some historical reconstructions of Jesus more plausibly explain his crucifixion than others. This dissertation tests the grounds of these …
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The legitimacy of Jesus : an Afrocentric reading of the birth of Jesus
… approach, the texts dealing with the origin of Jesus, Matthew 1:1-25 and Luke 1:20-56 and 3:23-38 originally were about an illegitimate conception and not about a miraculous virginal conception. It challenges her claim that the intention of the evangelists was to transmit the tradition that …
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The fascist Jesus : Ernest Renan's Vie de Jesus and the theological origins of fascism.
… the question of how the “quest of the historical Jesus” contributed to the formation of Fascist political theology. It is a study of why and how the “Academic Jesus” of scientifically trained scholars became the “Fascist Jesus” of politicians like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Through a …
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The Social Ethics of Jesus
87 leaves
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Personal Jesus and Other True Stories
<p><em>My Personal Jesus and Other True Stories</em> is a collection of essays about my Catholic upbringing, family relationships, struggles with depression, and my spiritual journey as a search for emotional healing. These stories, written in loosely braided formats, take place in such settings as …
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M'bona The Black Jesus of Malawi
… that tell the story of M'bona, the Black Jesus of Malawi. M'bona is a religious icon amongst the Man'ganja clan of Southern Malawi. He is believed to be a rain maker, a god and a prophet. Both the document and the artworks consider colonial and missionary interpretation and representation …
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Jesus en die buitestaanders in Johannes 4
Summary This study deals with Jesus and the outsiders in John 4, with particular focus on John 4:1-42. Methodologically, the study focuses on social identity theory, and asks the question of how Jesus gets the Samaritan woman, who is a member of the outside group, into the insider group. The focus …
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Characterizing Jesus : a rhetorical analysis on the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture in its presenation of Jesus.
… Scripture contributes to its characterization of Jesus. Utilizing literary-rhetorical criticism, it approaches the Gospel in its final form, paying particular attention to how Greco-Roman rhetoric can assist in understanding the ways in which Scripture is employed to support the presentation of …
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Present-day uses of Jesus' methods of teaching
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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What Would Jesus Wear? Dress in the Synoptic Gospels
For early followers of Jesus, the body was not a "fixed" entity, yet bodily fixity was a constant concern. The primary way to "fix" the body, or to negotiate and locate identity, was through dress. Dress in the ancient Mediterranean context enabled a different kind of embodied knowledge than …
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Jesus, Socrates, and the State: Political Mythology and Power
… than the greater glory of God and man, namely, Jesus and Socrates. We will explore the creation of the myths surrounding Socrates and Jesus as heroes (in Campbell's sense of the <em>monomyth<em>) and the gifts which each gives to the world (i.e. their consonant messages of egalitarian rule, …
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The technique of Jesus in the cure of souls
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Jesus' teachings concerning the kingdom of God in parable ..
Typewritten sheets in cover. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Bibliography: 2 p. at end.
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The Banquet Type-Scene in the Parables of Jesus
… the banquet type-scene in the parables of Jesus in order to find out whether Jesus, and by extension, the Gospel writers were in dialogue with the fixed literary and oral banquet type-scene convention of their time.</p> <p>Narrative criticism provided the framework for the study. Though …
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