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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Narrative Theology"”.
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Narrative theology in religious education
… great importance in the Christian life and with Narrative Theology people are able to understand these stories and their message. The Bible is one whole unit presenting God’s story in the form of a narrative, which teaches the human person about the relationship between God himself and his …
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Sin and the Story of Salvation: The Theology of Atonement in Light of Biblical Narrative Theology
Contemporary atonement theology offers three general conceptions of the cross: objective, subjective, and dramatic, which corresponds to Gustaf Aulén's classic tripartite typology. Although these different views are important since they contribute to a rich soteriology, when addressing the topic of …
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A theology of persecution and Christian endurance: Cain, Abel, and a ‘Black Book of Acts’ among the St. Thomas Moravians, 1732-1740
… of theological ethics. It examines the theology, priorities, and practices of the eighteenth-century St. Thomas Island Moravians, one of the first African-led, multicultural churches in the Americas. Enslaved African Christians have been overlooked among the historical narratives of …
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Reading Daniel as a theological hermeneutics textbook
… that sets out to read the book of Daniel as a narrative textbook in the field of theological hermeneutics. Employing such disciplines as historical criticism, literary criticism, narrative theology and hermeneutics, this thesis seeks to maintain an interdisciplinary critical outlook on the book …
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The Participative Self: An Enquiry into the merits and limits of a Theological and Postmodern Anthropology
… constructivist-Lyotardian postmodernism and open-narrative theology. This suggests that postmodern and theological discourses, when carefully defined, are both suitable and important discourses to hold in dialogue. Furthermore, the method of bringing together practical and theoretical resources …
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Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship
… that the religious technologies of sacred narrative, theology, and ritual can help us to conceive and conduct restoration as a collaborative endeavor, and to foster mutually enlivening relationships between human beings and the beyond human world.
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Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship
… that the religious technologies of sacred narrative, theology, and ritual can help us to conceive and conduct restoration as a collaborative endeavor, and to foster mutually enlivening relationships between human beings and the beyond human world.
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Towards a theology of story : an experiment in contextual theology
… the role of story as a category in contemporary theology. First, the approach of narrative theology is cosidered as in the work of Stroup, McClendon, McFague and others. Then the role of story in Third World theological reflection on liberation struggles is described. Examples are drawn mainly …
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The Ethics of Knowing: Epistemic Virtue at an Ex-literalist Church in Nashville
… of literalism, HRC promotes what members call “narrative theology.” It is a conception of biblical truth substantiated not through the ascertainment of objective facts but through believers’ capacity to foster and to sustain certain intellectual and relational virtues in alignment with the …
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Narrative Theodicy with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Karl Barth
… Fiddes and the American postliberal stream of theology (e.g., Hans Frei and George Lindbeck), this thesis offers a unique, creative, and constructive interdisciplinary dialogue between Dostoevsky’s novel and Barth’s Christology that funds an alternative, distinctly Christian approach to …
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Dominion Shifts in Biblical Apocalyptic Literature: a Narrative Reading of Daniel 7 and Revelation 12-14 Vis-À-Vis Genesis 1-3
… (Gen 1–3; Dan 7; Rev 12–14) to the canonical metanarrative, especially insofar as they articulate the issues of dominion shifts (changes in rulership/administration) and divine legislation.</p> <p>Methodology</p> <p>This dissertation focuses on three crucial texts of the biblical metanarrative …
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Good queen mothers, bad queen mothers : the theological presentation of the queen mother in 1 and 2 Kings.
… the regnal formulas in order to demonstrate the narrative's view of the queen mother's place in the monarchy. As the gĕbîrâ, the queen mother held a sanctioned position within the Judean court and had such great influence upon her son that she too receives blame as part of the monarchy for the …
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Dubito ergo sum - onderzoek naar de invloed van postmodernisme op het pastoraat(Dutch)
… of Social-constructionism and his Practical Theology is based on a Narrative approach. He emphasises: a) a personal influence in shaping the way of believing, b) contextual determination of faith, and c) autonomy of the human being. The inference made from the choices found in the work of …
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John Calvin’s Theology of Hope in the 1559 Institutes
… the nature and function of hope in Calvin’s theology across a range of doctrinal loci, with a primary focus on the Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559). In doing so, it foregrounds several important themes that have been overlooked or underrecognized in Calvin scholarship, including …