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Showing 1 to 20 of 268 for “"Orthodoxy"”.
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Readjusting Orthodoxy
The thesis in question is titled “Readjusting Orthodoxy”. It constitutes a discourse in UK constitutional law although legal theoretic, historical, politicial, philosophical, and EU-related complementary themes are also present. It is founded upon, and driven by, two fundamental, inter-related …
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The Philosophy of Heretics and Orthodoxy
… philosophical books, especially in Heretics and Orthodoxy.
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Depicting Orthodoxy: The Novgorod Sophia icon reconsidered
… represents the Church of Hagia Sophia, that is Orthodoxy, as it was perceived in fifteenth-century Rus’: the icon together with its commentary was a visual-textual response to the Florentine Union between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, signed in 1439 but rejected by the Russians in 1441. …
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Challenging the French immersion orthodoxy : student stories and counterstories
Through this study I have provided an understanding of what French immersion was like for children who left the program. I have considered an important aspect of the French immersion program that has been neglected in the research literature. My main research question was: What were the experiences …
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Exclusion in the global political economy: a critique of orthodoxy
This work is a critique of orthodox conceptions of social exclusion in the global political economy. Following Foucault’s methodology, our argument is that orthodox political-economic discourses, from 18th and 19th century classical political economy to late 20th century neoliberalism, provide only …
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'Training' the Body Politic: Essays on the School Reform Orthodoxy
<p>These essays represent my attempt to grapple with fundamental questions about what I see as the upside-down nature of educational reforms in American society. Why is there a never-ending crisis in America’s public schools? What does it mean when the educational specter from different periods of …
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Irony, innocence, and myth: Douglas C. Macintosh's untraditional orthodoxy
… liberal theology, and the development of neo-orthodoxy by his students H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr. This Yale strand of neo-orthodoxy is relevant to the "new historicism" as described by William Dean. The author explores the relevance of Macintosh's work to the developing new historicism …
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Roots and wings: orthodoxy, tradition, and creativity in Irish folk Catholicism
… individuals and groups utilise the resources of orthodoxy, popular tradition, and personal creativity, to better interpret, articulate, and create religious experiences. Ethnographic fieldwork was the principal method of data collection. Four areas of folk religion are given special attention: …
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Future development challenges to the anchor tenant orthodoxy in retail centers
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Beyond rationalist orthodoxy: towards a complex concept of the self in IPE
In this thesis I investigate the intellectual foundations of International Political Economy (IPE) in order to develop a more complex account of agency than that currently provided to the subject field by neoclassical economics. In particular, I focus on the thought of Adam Smith, whose ideas are …
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Faithful Reformation : the Importance of Apostolicity and Consensual Orthodoxy for Emerging Christian Expressions
… continuity and congruence with apostolicity and orthodoxy. We also wished to see if, how, or to what extent EC voices considered accountability to apostolicity and orthodoxy and, if not, to what they were accountable and also to what extent they remain authentically Christian. We have done so by …
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"Sed rudibus et indoctis" : women, orthodoxy, and the Rosebery Rolle Manuscript.
This thesis discusses one manuscript of Richard Rolle, the Hermit of Hampole. It asserts that Rolle's Prose Psalter was compiled specifically for a woman's private devotion and thus sheds light on both the authors and the readers of the growing devotional movement in late medieval England. …
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Moving from Orthodoxy to Orthopraxy: Sermon Application in the Doctrinal Preaching of John Piper
This dissertation examines sermon application in the doctrinal preaching of John Piper. The work argues that Piper’s use of application is characterized by multifaceted purpose and the qualities of consistency, creativity, clarity, recurrence, cumulative and/or climactic effect, and …
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Cum illi Graeci sint, nos Latini : Western Rite Orthodoxy and the Eastern Orthodox Church
… Church. This thesis approaches Western Rite Orthodoxy as an established phenomenon in Eastern Christianity, especially as a facet of Orthodoxy in countries where Orthodoxy constitutes a minority. While previous short studies have attempted to substantiate or discredit the legitimacy of …
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Lutheran homiletics and Francophone African contexts : how to connect Lutheran orthodoxy with African culture
… Why is this the case? What does Lutheran orthodoxy have to offer in the way of a remedy to this problem? The methodology used to examine these questions is Osmer's four questions regarding practical theology. Sermons and source materials from the current field as well as from historical …
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The individual and society in the GDR under Honecker : orthodoxy, dissidence and internal debate.
The thesis offers a comparative interdisciplinary approach to the examination of the intellectual debates about the relationship between individual and society in the GDR under Honecker. It shows that there was not only a continuum of debate between the academic disciplines, but also from the …
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Maypoles and Misfits : A Study of Puritan Orthodoxy and Anglican Heterodoxy in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts
<p>The particular ideas and history of Puritanism in America has been the focus of historians of many different persuasions for diverse purposes. The relationship between Puritanism in England and the evolution of Puritanism in America, as it relates to the history of Anglicanism and American …
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The struggle for orthodoxy: Religion, revivals, and Anglo-American relations in the British northern colonies
"This work traces the theological origins and developments of dissenters from the Church of England who settled in the British northern colonies. The views of New England dissenters are examined as well as those of dissenters in the proprietary colonies which included groups such as the Quakers and …
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