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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Original sin"”.
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Perpetuum mobile : Amtrak, the original sin
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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A Cure for Original Sin? Southern Baptists and Race 1970-1999: A Study of a Race Relations Sunday Institutional Initiative
… I found that: 1) the SBC saw individual-level sin as the primary cause of racism and racial inequality throughout the 30 years, but there was also some expression of institutionally embedded causes earlier on—a focus that became almost non-existent by the 1990s; 2) the way the SBC tried to …
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Seventh-day Adventists and Original Sin: a Study of the Early Development of the Seventh-day Adventist Understanding of the Effect of Adam's Sin on His Posterity
… Seventh-day Adventist theology, the doctrine of original sin has received ambivalent treatment. Periodically voices within the church and outside of it have asserted that the doctrine has no part in SDA theology, yet other Christians have insisted that it is a Scriptural doctrine. It was the …
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The Relationship of the So-Called Semi-Pelagians and Eastern Greek Theology on the Doctrine of Original Sin: An Historical-Systematic Analysis and its Relevance for 21st Century Protestantism.
… and the Bishop of Hippo within the doctrine of Original Sin, not over free will and predestination as many scholars to date have done. Scholars who have studied the Gallic monks have noted that their view of grace and free will had strong eastern influence, and in this study it will be shown …
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Reevaluating the God-Human Relationship Through the Psychological Origin of Sin: A Comparative Theology of Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard on the Doctrine of Sin
… Schleiermacher’s contribution to the doctrine of sin continues to raise questions regarding Schleiermacher’s influence on Kierkegaard’s intellectual development. These questions also serve to underscore the general need to locate Kierkegaard properly within the larger context of religious and …
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Parental concern and the baptism of children : representations of children from the late Medieval era to 1640.
… that a tension existed between the theology of Original Sin, baptism, and salvation, and parental concerns for the spiritual wellbeing and salvation of their children. The introduction of Protestant theology into England addressed many of these concerns, but also caused other issues as the laity …
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Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Kenosis: The Pathway to Human Agency
… is placed in contrast to Balthasar's concept of original sin as an attempt by humanity to achieve agency on their own terms. The narrative of original sin results in two possible outcomes for Balthasar: a spiritual pathway toward the absorption of the self, which results in the annihilation of …
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A MARRIAGE SEWN TOGETHER
… of questions concerning birth, beginnings, “original sin,” land, and the tension of balancing personal relationships with political or community ideals. The works are rooted in realism, and sometimes tend toward the lyric. As indicated in the introduction, the three works in <em>A Marriage …
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Condemning rejection: the basis of God's condemnation of humanity
The purpose of this research was to look at what sin or sins was human condemnation based on primarily. This study takes a look at the words or concepts, passages, and interpretations of the text and doctrines associated with the terms of sin and condemnation. In concerns to sin, this paper argues …
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Between Two Worlds
<p>“Original Sin”—evocative and powerful words, but what if they were applied to one of the world’s most popular fairy tales? This thesis explores Snow White in the context of the Seven Deadly Sins and the grand fall of Adam and Eve. The forbidden fruit manifests itself in different ways, pulling …
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The sins of the sons: a comparative analysis of guilt, atonement and redemption in Kafka's Die Verwandlung and Thomas Mann's Der Erwahlte with reference to Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius
… within a familial context. Like Hartmann‟s „good sinner‟, Kafka and Mann‟s protagonists occupy a curious position between guilt and innocence, suffering for sins for which they are, at most, partially culpable. Examining the origins of guilt in each text, it becomes clear that their predicament is …
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The Changing Nature of Punishment: From Theology to Reform Ideology and Gallows to Penitentiaries, New England, 1674-1837
… changes included opposition to the doctrine of original sin, an expansion in the understanding of salvation, and growing religious pluralism and. Due to these theological and ideological shifts, the sermons also show the movement from near universal religious support for the longstanding public …
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Measured shadows of Thomas Jefferson: A transit from amateur landscape gardening to professional landscape architecture
… Because of his deplorable entanglement with the original sin of slavery and the foundational sin of settler colonialism, Jefferson haunts the disciplinary imagination of landscape architecture in the United States, yet his epistolary philosophy, which revolved around the idea that the “earth …
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Religious allegory in Herman Melville's Billy Budd
… story of Christ's redemption of man from Adam's original sin. To construct the allegory, Melville blended his plot with Biblical connotations and overtones of other religion-related sources, primarily Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Malville employed that characters to reaffirm …
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Bound to Shame: Sexual Addiction and Christian Ethics
… is viewed from an Augustinian perspective of sin. It is argued that human vulnerability to shaming is a result of original sin and that sexual addiction can be understood within this framework as one possible reaction to shame damage. It is suggested that at the heart of the Christian gospel …
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A Study of Ethics in Crowd Work-Based Research
… This dissertation research also uncovered the “original sin” of these ethical issues and discussed its impact in academia, as well as the limitations of the Belmont Report and AoIR Ethical Guidelines 3.0 for Internet Research. The findings and implications of this research can help researchers …
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The defiled self: towards a theological response to the experiential phenomenon of defilement amongst adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse
… of the Defiled Self which is developed using the sub-categories of human nature and the imago Dei, and personhood. It concludes that the impact of CSA as seen in the Defiled Self can cause a profoundly disordered personhood in terms of relationality, embodiment, sexuality and agency. The …
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ZHAO Zi-chen’s doctrine of salvation within the praxis model of contextual theology (1920-1950)
… of salvation by affirming divine revelation, original sin, justification by faith, sanctification through union with Christ, and reconciliation with God. Finally, this study concludes that ZHAO’s soteriology demonstrated the uniqueness of his theology. The distinctiveness primarily comes from …
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The decline in representations of the Virgin as mother in early post-reformation iconography.
… the ‘mother and child’, and particularly the nursing mother, had begun. Medieval religiosity had been characterized by a physical piety which incorporated all the senses, while at the same time using this physicality as a means of penance and suffering as in the traditions of imitatio Christi. …
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Christ our healer : a constructive dialogue between John Calvin and Gregory of Nazianzus.
Metaphors of disease and healing for sin and salvation have not received much attention in contemporary confessional Reformed circles. This dissertation takes a preliminary step towards a Reformed catholic understanding of these metaphors by evaluating their use by John Calvin and Gregory of …
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