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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Knowledge of God"”.
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Knowledge of Nature, Knowledge of God: Eriugena, Theophanies, and the Mediations of Place
… the relationship between nature, theophany, and knowledge in conversation with the works of John Scottus Eriugena, arguing that to know nature is, to some degree, to know God. It examines how Eriugena’s metaphysical framework characterizes nature as both the manifestation of the divine and the …
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À mes amis qui croient et à ceux qui croient ne pas croire: Natural Knowledge of God and the Propulsion of Reason in Henri de Lubac; A Re-assessment
This study is a reconsideration of the place and significance of the natural light of human reason in attaining knowledge of God according to the thought of Henri de Lubac. In the Anglophone theological literature of the later twentieth century, a notable consensus has emerged that de Lubac’s …
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Knowing the transcendent : analogous properties and speaking about God.
In this dissertation I defend an account of analogous predication that resolves a tension within classical theism between divine transcendence and knowledge of God. In chapter one I explain the tension and sketch a theory of meaning. On the one hand, if God is truly transcendent, then it seems that …
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"A Soul Prepared for Heaven": The Theological Foundation of Isaac Watts' Spirituality
… 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) the excellency of heaven; and (4) the tri-unity of God. …
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The doctrine of revelation in the theology of Thomas F. Torrance
This thesis is an exposition and close reading of Torrance's doctrine of revelation and of the theological epistemology that emerges from it. In Torrance's account personal knowledge of God is available only in his self revelation in Christ. However, it is shown that his understanding of the place …
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Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas on the Good Life: From the Fall to Human Perfectibility
This thesis is a comparative exploration of the good life from the perspectives of Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas.<br/>By sketching a broadly characterized Aristotelian view of the good life and noting the common structure that their accounts share with their ancient philosophical forebear, we …
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Understanding Music’s Theological Significance: A Kantian Approach
Jeremy Begbie speaks of music as ‘theologically loaded’: as conveying a sense of intrinsic theological significance. This thesis explores the possibility that music is theologically loaded in an epistemological sense: that music is dependent on knowledge of God. Modern epistemologies, in which …
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Meekly Kneeling Before Wisdom: Labouring for revelation in an Anglo-Catholic chaplaincy
This dissertation is a study of the effort required to know God as it takes shape in Anglo-Catholic theological practice. It presents divine revelation as a processual relationship between humans and God, which is developed through the individual’s engagement with social forms and practices …
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Penal Substitutionary Atonement as the Basis for New Covenant and New Creation
… study will argue that the new covenant promises of forgiveness, transformation by the Spirit, God’s abiding presence, and the believer’s knowledge of God require penal substitutionary atonement. Chapter 1 recounts the critique that penal substitution cannot account for transformation and the new …
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Trinitarian Grammars: A Comparison of Gregory of Nazianzus and Some Contemporary Models
… model represented by Augustine. The purpose of the dissertation is to describe the doctrines of the knowledge of God and the Trinity as articulated by Gregory of Nazianzus, the Eastern father who defined these doctrines for the Eastern tradition, for the purpose of critically evaluating the …
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Constructed Realities, Divine Incomprehensibility, and the Vocative Self: Towards an Epistemology for Christian Education
The doctrine of divine incomprehensibility presents significant challenges regarding human language about God, and for Christian education in particular. How can one teach that which is beyond human understanding? This thesis explores modernist philosophical and theological projects that sought to …
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The concept of revelation
… choosing an experiential approach to the concept of revelation and, in preferring this to either an informative or an instructional view, I have faced head-on a central concern for Christian theists. This appertains to the epistemological problem raised by the assumption at the heart of belief in …
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Creating a Biblical Counseling Ministry Manual for New Vision Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
… manual to guide the biblical counseling ministry of New Vision Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Chapter 1 explains the context, rationale, purpose, goals, and methodology of the project. Chapter 2 explores the biblical and theological basis for the practice of biblical counseling. It …
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Augustine and the Limits of Memory: Augustine’s Account of Memory and its Contemporary Theological and Ethical Significance
This study explores Augustine’s account of memory and argues for its significance as a constructive resource for contemporary theological and ethical reflection on memory and related loci. In doing so, my project contributes to and expands historical understandings of Augustine’s account of memory …
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The Salvation of the Unevangelized: A Comparative Analysis of the views of Clark H. Pinnock and Millard J. Erickson
… <p>This dissertation addresses the problem of the ongoing disagreement among evangelical theologians, as represented by Clark H. Pinnock and Millard J. Erickson, concerning the issue of the salvation of the unevangelized. This disagreement continued even though both scholars focused on …
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Kurt Vonnegut's Early Novels: Searching for Meaning in a Meaningless World
… three novels by Kurt Vonnegut: <em>The Sirens of Titan, Cat’s Cradle</em>, and <em>God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater</em>, and the philosophical stance which informs these works.<em> The Sirens of Titan</em> represents Vonnegut’s cosmology as well as his first attempts to propose one purpose for …
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Die skrifbeskouing van die vroeë kerkvaders uit Afrika (veral Tertullianus en Augustinus) en hulle relevansie vir Suidelike-Afrika (Afrikaans)
Scripture is God’s Word in human language – a truth reflected over 2000years of Church history. Without this truth, proper knowledge of God is impossible. All human efforts to come to a true and meaningful understanding of God, lead to a variety of religious “isms.” The pluralism, post-modernism …
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Finding God in the urban landscape : a temple for gnosis in upper Manhattan
… are problematic terms. With the discovery of a library of so called heretical Gnostic texts in 1945, theologians, historians, and believers the world over have been exposed to Christian texts that call into question the liturgical lineage of the "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" and …
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The Covenant Theology of Zacharias Ursinus
This study is an examination of the covenant theology of Zacharias Ursinus, which in many ways broke new ground for the development of Federal Theology in the sixteenth century with his introduction of the foedus naturale. For the first time in its development he describes the prelapsarian economy …
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Pneumatic interpretation in the renewal tradition: the first 50 years
This thesis is a consideration of the Spirit’s role in the interpretation of scripture (pneumatic interpretation) through a conversation surrounding this topic that has been taking place between scholars who are in, or who identify with, the renewal tradition (also known as the Pentecostal and …
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