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Léon Bloy: Martyr or Madman?
This thesis is a study of French writer and polemicist Léon Bloy’s (1846-1917) influence, focusing on the allure of his circle of devotees, and its dynamics of friendship and conversion. I wish to explore the question of what made Léon Bloy’s contradictory character — by turns furious and gracious, …
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Natural Law and Virtue Ethics in Justin Martyr
This study contends that due to the natural law’s universal knowability, Justin used it to construct an apologetic within an eudaimonistic account of Christian virtue that served his political, theological, and evangelistic ends. Chapter 1 summarizes recent research regarding Justin’s relationship …
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The Martyr as Model in John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
… Under its more colloquial name, “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs,” there is hardly a student of English literature or history who has not encountered this book or its influence. Scholars of early modern England widely acknowledge that it was so broadly read and embraced as to attain the status of a …
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The relationship of the son to the father in Justin Martyr
… on the manuscripts of the works of Justin Martyr and draws attention to inaccuracies in previous authors. The texts of recent editors have been considered and the works of even more recent scholars on Justin have been assessed. To set the entire book in perspective has needed a general …
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Plato's Influence Upon Justin Martyr as Shown in the Dialog with Trypho
Statement of the Thesis|1. Conversion of Justin marked a new era in gospel history because the intellectual enemies of the faith were met.|2. Justin's knowledge of Plato helped him to encounter the philosophers of the day.|3. His knowledge is revealed through a study of the most important work The …
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Saint, martyr, killer of Christ? The legend of Longinus in medieval Irish tradition
… water issuing from the wound, and who later was martyred for his belief. In my thesis I survey the knowledge and use of the legend of Longinus in Ireland over genres and over time. Sources used for the analyses include iconographic representations of the spear-bearer in manuscripts, metalwork and …
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Making the martyr: the liturgical persona of Saint Thomas Becket in visual imagery
… Becket and a their conceptions of what a saintly martyr should be, the promoters of Becket’s cult used biographies, visual imagery, and above all, the liturgy. This thesis explores the ways in which the liturgy shapes the public persona of Saint Thomas Becket, and the ways in which the stained …
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Metaphysics in the Reformation: A Case Study of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562)
… of the work of the Protestant reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562). It is premised on the assumption that all theological reasoning is metaphysical insofar as it simultaneously depends on and conveys a vision of how God and the world relate. This opens the possibility to analyse the …
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The Acts of the Martyr Pionius of Smyrna in the Time of the Persecution of Decius
… the most interesting and authentic acts of the martyrs, and one of the few dating from the persecution of Decius, is the Passio Sanctorum Pionii, et Sociorum Ejus Martyrum. It relates the trial and imprisonment of Pionius, a priest of Smyrna, and his companions, Asclepiades; Sabina, a slave; …
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Giordano Bruno and the history of science
… Inquisition in 1600. One school of thought, the “martyr to science” interpretation, insists that Bruno died as the direct result of his advocacy of Copernicanism. The opposing school rejects this assessment and names a variety of unorthodox religious beliefs as the motivation for Bruno’s …
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The Use of the Jewish Scriptures by Early Christian Greek Apologists 140-190 CE: Justin Martyr, Tatian and Theophilus of Antioch
… this thesis examines three such works: Justin Martyr’s Apologia Maior, Tatian’s Oratio ad Graecos and Theophilus of Antioch’s Ad Autolycum. The texts are read as they present themselves, as works addressed to Graeco-Roman audiences external to Christianity, without regard to whether they were …
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Santo Toribio: The Rise of a Saint
… by the Roman Catholic Church in 2000 as a martyr of Mexico's bloody<em> Cristero</em> Rebellion. He enjoyed a modest local following for decades after the Rebellion as many of the other <em>Cristero</em> martyr-saints did. However, around the time of his canonization, a new identity began …
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The rhetoric of martyrdom: A case study analyzing the rhetorical situations of Joan of Arc, John Brown and Jim Jones
… analysis of the rhetoric used to establish a martyr in history. An indepth definition of martyrdom, along with a criteria for martyrs, is utilized in support of the theories. The text claims that the rhetoric of a situation is the key to becoming a martyr. Utilizing the theory of criteria for …
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JOHN CHRYSOSTOM AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF EXEMPLAR PORTRAITS
… David, the apostle Paul, Christian ascetics and martyrs show us, Chrysostom’s ethical framework is greatly indebted to the Greco-Roman tradition of virtue ethics. Furthermore, the approaches that Chrysostom adopts to present his exemplars also rely heavily on the narrative strategies and …
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The Spatial Agency of the Catacombs: An Analysis of the Interventions of Damasus I (305-384)
… of physical renovation and enlargement of martyr sites and personally penned numerous epigrams both extolling the virtue of the honored dead and the patronage of the bishopric. Scholarship related to Damasus and his works is typically narrowly focused, considering motive(s) for his actions, …
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Reframing Femininity: Collecting Pictures of Early Christian Virgin Martyrs in Seicento Naples
… and consumption of early Christian female martyr imagery in seventeenth-century Naples. Although it was the second largest city in Europe at the time, scholars have only recently begun to study the flourishing art market and the prevalence of devotional culture in the lives of Neapolitan …
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Princess On The Margins: Toward A New Portrait Of Madame Élisabeth De France
… which make the princess out to be a “virgin martyr” and instead focuses on the princess’s political agency and place with the political culture of the French Revolution.</p>
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The Martyr’s Desire: Levinas, Girard, and Infinite Responsibility
… realities, my work highlights the role of the martyr in Levinas’s philosophy. As with other philosophical and religious concepts, I argue that Levinas inverts the dynamic of martyrdom by deposing the fundamentally agential subject. From this redefinition of the martyr as primary subjectivity …
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God's Chosen: The Cults of Virgin Martyrs in Anglo-Saxon England
… expressed in the cult of saints. The virgin martyr became one of the most popular forms of sanctity, yet with hundreds of possible martyrs who could have been venerated, the question becomes which ones ultimately thrived in Anglo-Saxon England and why? Moreover, the very need for these two …
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