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Abolition as Obedience to the Higher Law
… government failed in the end, the allegiance and obedience that citizens ordinarily owed to it were abrogated. Government never had the right to legislate contrary to God's law. If a conflict did arise in the minds of men over whether or not a law of man stood in contradiction to a law of God, the …
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Experimental Essays on Incentive Contracts and Obedience
First and foremost, I want to thank my main supervisor Prof. Daniel Zizzo, for his invaluable advice, and continuous support throughout my PhD. I would also like to thank my second supervisor Dr. Anders Poulsen for his insightful comments and advice. I am grateful to my friend and fellow PhD …
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A Study of the Vow and Virtue of Obedience
… freedom, all of which is implied by the vow of obedience. (December 8, 1950)</p> <p>Despite the dearth of religious vocations and the great needs of the apostolate, His Holiness nevertheless looked with grave concern on a new rule proposed in some quarters: "Restrict freedom only so far as it …
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Faith, obedience, and justification: Current evangelical departures from sola fide
… adopted views regarding the relation of faith, obedience, and justification (or, in other words, justification sola fide ) that are in conflict with the historic, Reformation doctrine of justification sola fide . Having departed from the historic, Reformation doctrine, their professions of …
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The biblical background of Paul's understanding of faith as obedience
This study considers the role and nature of obedience in Hebraic religion as prerequisite to an understanding of Paul's conversion experience, hie Christ-mystician, and his rejection of the Law in favor of the submissive act of obedience which is faith. The contention of this at~ is that …
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Some Factors Affecting the Virtue of Obedience in Elementary School Children
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Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Creation of Early Monastic Subjectivity
<p>John Cassian (360-435 CE) started his monastic career in Bethlehem. He later traveled to the Egyptian desert, living there as a monk, meeting the venerated Desert Fathers, and learning from them for about fifteen years. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul to help establish a monastery …
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Jonathan Edwards and Sanctification: The Pursuit of Happiness Found in Union and Obedience
… of God’s work and man’s responsibility in obedience where Scripture places it. Edwards is a needed voice amid the questions that are raised concerning this essential doctrine today. Edwards shows that the affections and happiness do matter. This happiness comes through union, which not only …
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'A Manly training to Obedience' Protestant reformatories for boys in Lancahsire: Circa 1854 - 1908
The treatment of juvenile offenders was the subject of much discussion and controversy in the first half of the nineteenth century and, from 1840 onwards, there was a vociferous campaign to ban imprisonment for children and to establish schools for delinquents where the emphasis was on moral …
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The Nature of Jesus’ Obedience: A Narrative-Critical Reading of Matthew’s Gethsemane (26:36-46)
… Matthew’s portrayal of the textual Jesus’ obedience amidst various claims implicitly clamouring for supremacy. There are the conflicts with the religious authorities of Israel who label him as an impostor, his disciples who find his standard unattainable, and even God whose seeming …
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Walking in the Spirit in Galatians: Comparing Obedience and Agency in Galatians, 1QS, and 4 Maccabees
… is on divine and human agency and walking in obedience. This dissertation examines what Paul says about divine and human agency with regard to walking by the Spirit in Galatians, focusing on 5:16–25, with an eye toward what 5:17 specifically adds to the conversation. Divine and human agency in …
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“The Steady Obedience of His Church”: The Ecclesial Spirituality of Joseph Kinghorn and the Communion Controversy, 1814–1827
Despite being recognised as one of the most learned English Particular Baptists, Joseph Kinghorn’s (1766–1832) legacy was damaged due to his defence of the close communion position during the more than a decade-long debate with Robert Hall Jr. (1764–1831). While recognising the preliminary works of …
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Grace, Obedience, and the Hermeneutics of Agency: Paul and his Jewish Contemporaries on the Transformation of the Heart
… grace integrate with conceptions of agency and obedience for Paul and for his Jewish contemporaries. While post-Sanders scholarship has rightly noted the coexistence of grace and works in the Pauline and Jewish literature, it has failed to account for the diverse and sophisticated ways in which …
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"By one man's firm obedience fully tried" : Christ the man and messianic misconception in Paradise Regained.
My study of Paradise Regained began with a detailed consideration of the puzzling banquet scene Milton places between the first and second biblical temptations. I soon determined, however, that the banquet is not a temptation concerned with food as an end but as a means. I believe that Milton …
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The Spirit of the Lord and Obedience to God's Law : an Exegetical, Intertextual, and Theological Study of Ezekiel 36:27
… When is the bestowal of the Spirit of God and obedience to the laws of God realized by Israel? The purpose of this research was to conduct an exegetical, intratextual, intertextual, and theological study in order to investigate further the Spirit of God in relationship to Israel in keeping the …
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An investigation into the effects of the Victorian notions of duty and obedience on the domestic novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge.
… the reader in the importance of duty and obedience. These notions were given particular religious emphasis by Evangelicals and Tractarians respectively and were widely accepted as part of the moral code in Victorian society. The early novels take up problems which can befall adolescents; …
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So That Love May Be Safeguarded: The Nature, Form, and Function of Obedience as a Heuristic Device for the Theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar
… dissertation offers the singular category of obedience as a heuristic device to help render the entire von Balthasarian corpus more understandable. For von Balthasar, the word "obedience" is multivalent and rich in meaning. It cuts across all aspects of human relationships, of human …
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DIVINE AND HUMAN AGENCY IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM AND PAUL: A COMPARISON OF SIRACH, HODAYOT, AND ROMANS 7–8
… “salvation” to be through God’s grace not human obedience. This study challenges this claim. Based on Josephus’ portrayal of the Jewish schools, the Second Temple period appears more diverse than recent scholarship has claimed. One of the key distinguishing factors, according to Josephus, is the …
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