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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Love of God"”.
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The Revealing Love of God: A Systematic, Hermeneutic, and Phenomenological Approach to Thinking Well About the Love of God
… theological reflections on the idea that God is love. I am proposing that the idea of the self-revelational nature of God’s being functions, among other ways, rhetorically, such that the content of revelation (God’s love) determines the rhetorical mode of its communication (giving orders, …
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Spinoza's Neoplatonism: The Metaphysics of the Unitive Knowledge and Love of God
Spinoza’s philosophy engages a vast array of topics and influences, which has resulted in a great diversity of interpretations. Among historically informed readings, there is a great amount of scholarship today on how the different sources of Spinoza shaped various aspects of his philosophy. …
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For the Love of God?! Is there a place for Gay Christians between Faith and Fundamentalism?
… media between the Religious Right and members of the LGBT community often results in the isolation and rejection of those who would define themselves as gay Christians. This thesis explores the role of the Bible as it informs and catalyzes this war and other foundational beliefs used as weapons …
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The ends of love : vice and charity in The End of the Affair.
The End of the Affair offers a compelling portrait of the two possible ends of natural love. Sarah Miles and Maurice Bendrix are confronted with the choice to let their natural love be subsumed into the love of God, transformed by its inherent capacity to conduit divine love, or else to degrade …
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For the love of God: An analysis of the hermeneutical principles, and practices, and their development, in Augustine's On Christian Teaching, The Spirit and the Letter, The Literal Meaning of Genesis and The Enchiridion
In the history of western thought, few people are more influential than Augustine. His thought continues to impact theology, philosophy and politics, amongst other subjects, some sixteen hundred years after his death. It has been said that all western theology is a footnote to Augustine, and this …
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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 Creative Void
<p>Yeats wrote in his Ideas of Good and Evil.</p> <p>“I have often had the fancy that there is some one myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.”</p> <p>Unfortunately, Yeats never pointed to a myth that might unlock the mysteries of his own …
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Storytelling: As a Method of Teaching Religion in the First Grade
… but to all there is interest.|The author of this thesis has chosen this topic after having been confronted with the problem of finding a proper medium whioh would "be at once adequate, adaptable, and pleasant in transmitting the love of God to little souls." Having discovered the magic of …
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Augustine's Method of Teaching Religion
De Catechizandis Rudibua, one of Augustine’s minor works but one which subsequently exerted great and lasting influence, unfolds before the reader a masterful .plan for teaching religion. The unique feature of his method is that the instruction should range from 9 In the beginning God created …
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A violent origin : a Girardian analysis of the scapegoating of Ali ibn Abu Talib in Shi'ite tradition
This dissertation applies Rene Girard's theory of the scapegoat mechanism to prove that Ali ibn Abu Talib appears in Shi'ite traditions as an innocent victim. The aim is to investigate Girard's substantial body of work to determine whether Ali was a scapegoat and a victim of a conspiracy within his …
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Hosea's contribution to Israel's covenant thought
… to Israel’s Covenant Thought is an exploration of the unique contribution that Hosea made to the development of Israel’s covenant understanding. The study begins by surveying the meaning and development of covenant thought in the Old Testament with particular reference to the “gracious” and …
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The calling of the Reformed Churches in South Africa in the moral renewal of the urban community in South Africa
The main aim of this study was to investigate the prophetic calling of the Reformed Churches in South Africa (RCSA) in the moral regeneration of the South African urban community. The method of research followed in this study was to study primary and secondary sources, as well as appropriate …
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Theoria versus Praxis : a view based on the final end of humanity according to Aquinas.
Which of praxis or theoria should be primary? Traditionally, theoria, the contemplative gaining of knowledge and love of God, came first. Liberation theologians have insisted instead that theology must be rooted in praxis in order to achieve social change that is an irruption of the Kingdom of God …
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Spiritual Struggle and Gregory of Nyssa’s Theory of Perpetual Ascent: An Orthodox Christian Virtue Ethic
… that are in turn mitigated by the particulars of this Orthodox model—spiritual struggle and perpetual progress, or <em>epektasis</em>. Spiritual struggle in this project, which ultimately shifts the emphasis from virtue’s <em>acquisition</em> to its <em>pursuit</em>, is defined as the exertion …
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The Doctrine of Christian Perfection for Today: Reading Wesley's Theology Through the Lens of Process Thought
<p>My thesis is: A process-theological reading of Wesley's doctrine of perfection, by constructing an adequate concept of God in process, gives renewed importance and vitality to Wesley's doctrine of perfection, a doctrine that has been confused and virtually ignored even by Methodists themselves, …
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From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge
… and 115 hymns rubricated for use in the Divine Office. Interrupting this Latin material is a lengthy illustrated narrative presenting the Passion of Christ and the final years of the Virgin Mary via 101 Anglo-Norman text passages and 103 painted miniatures. The ninety-six extant folios of K.21 …
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Conscience : a historical, biblico-theological and psychological perspective
… a term that like the spectrum has various shades of meaning. For some people it is simply the 'Voice of God' in man, for others it is a 'moral' faculty. For Bishop Butler, it is a combination of the cognitive faculty and the emotive faculty. Every human being feels conscience inside himself but …
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A Remedy for Death For Mixed Ensemble
… for mixed ensemble, which is inspired by the love of God in the bible. The first movement, “The Fall of Man”, is based on the book of Genesis chapter three, when Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, sin entered into this world and human are separated from …
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Dante's Ministry of Felicity: The Interplay of Beatitude, Metaphysics, and Intercessory Prayer in the Theological Imagination of the 'Commedia'
… intercessory prayer conduce to the realization of beatitude? How does Dante help us think, in other words, about the ways in which prayer for another person’s good actually serves to help make them blessed or happy?” The question stems from conversations that have been taking place especially …
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Galatians 2:20 as a Corrective to Selected Contemporary Views of Christian Spirituality
… examines various contemporary Protestant views of Christian Spirituality in light of Galatians 2:20 in order to correct some common errors caused by the elevation of personal subjectivism and the misinterpretation of Scripture. The purpose is to demonstrate the continual necessity of the …
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