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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"PREDESTINATION"”.
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The ideas of "predestination" and "election" in Pauline thought
… letters the ideas, and also the terminology of "predestination" and "election". This study tries to answer the question of how Paul used the terms which belong to this semantic-field, and where he incorporated them in his thought. Therefore, our study is mainly an exegetical one. It interprets …
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Trianon And The Predestination Of Hungarian Politics: A Historiography Of Hungarian Revisionism, 1918-1944
This thesis proposes to link certain consistent themes in the historiography of interwar and wartime Hungary. Hungary's inability to successfully resolve its minority problems led to the nation's dismemberment at Trianon in 1920 after World War I. This fostered a national Hungarian reaction against …
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Primary and Secondary Causality in the Thought of St. Anselm: A Speculation on Divine Omniscience, Predestination and Grace in the Context of Human Freedom and Spirituality
… and rational understanding of how foreknowledge, predestination and grace are compatible with human freedom. Drawing from Anselm's thought on this topic and considering its treatment by others, especially Augustine and Boethius, this study proposes three theories which articulate the logical …
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The Importance of St. Joseph
… St. Joseph holds a unique position because his predestination was singularly associated with Christ’s predestination to divine Sonship and Mary’s predestination to divine maternity. This divine predestination is the source of his great dignity, holiness and glory.</p>
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The Protestant ethic and the spirit of modern public education : an analysis of the influence of Calvin and Ignatius in the sixteenth century
… in which Calvin's theology, specifically that of predestination, and his presbyterian system influenced the development of modern public education. Some of the issues to be addressed are: the contrast between the approaches of the humanists and Jesuits to educational reform, an analysis of …
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God’s Imposition: The Centrality of Vocation in the Spirituality of William Perkins
… his important contribution to the doctrine of predestination, A Golden Chain. He also authored numerous practical works meant to guide Christian life. Scholarship concerning his practical works is less available, thus this dissertation contributes to that lacuna specifically concerning his A …
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“Beaten on Both Sides”: A Reevaluation of the Anti-Calvinism of Andrewes, Neile, and Laud
… become defined by five points of theology about predestination, but Calvin and his successors in Geneva were iconoclasts, fanatically opposed to the Roman church, devoted to simplicity in worship, and politically revolutionary. In the context of this period and subject, the term iconoclasts has a …
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An investigation into the pedestrianisation of city streets : a move towards pedestrain friendly spaces and their economic effects in the City of Cape Town
… economic benefits, as well as the perception of predestination by the traders. A SATURN dynamic assignment model was used to simulate the effect of certain road closures to traffic as part of an extension to the pedestrian network. These road are vital to start forming a formalise pedestrian …
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Divine and Human Agency by Means of the Covenant: The Anti-Pelagian Theology of John Owen
… Owen’s positional anti-Arminian stance regarding predestination. Though Arminius was anti-Catholic, Reformed theologians considered Arminius a threat. For Owen, Arminianism was ultimately Pelagianism. In his response, Owen regarded predestination as a theological basis for anti-Pelagianism against …
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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.
… specifically with regard to free will and predestination. This study builds upon the pre-existing work by scholars who have written on the Gallic monks, arguing that they were not building a middle ground between Pelagius and Augustine but instead part of a larger tradition from Eastern …
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The Messenger: a One Hour Television Drama
… technology, eugenics, neurological trauma, and predestination. Various classical literature is weaved into the series including: Shakespeare, Norwegian mythology, Grimm's Fairy Tales, and the Bible. The intention of the series is to delve deeper into the psyche and to explore scientific and …
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The Freedom of Flexibility: Lessons from the Child Characters in Flannery O'Connor
… written. They do not suffer from O'Connor's predestination; they can accept or reject the future offered to them in a way the adults cannot. While some of these children seem to serve only as pawns in the adults' confrontations with grace, others are the focus of their own stories. All, …
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Arminianism and Anti-Remonstrant Polemic in the Later Stuart and Early Hanoverian Church of England
… by showing how debates over grace and predestination intersected with other debates over reason and revelation, faith and obedience. In applying this method of analysis to the appropriation of Remonstrant ideas by Arminian conformists, the study provides a fresh perspective on the …
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Vessels of Wrath: A Biblical-Theological Study of Divine Reprobating Activity
… on subjects such as divine hardening, predestination, election, divine and human agency, and interpretations of Romans 9. In chapters 3–6, I explore the theme of DRA within the OT. Beginning with the Torah and concluding with the Writings, I examine cases of DRA section by section …
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The politics of the confessional imagination, from Calvin to Hobbes
… I argue that despite a robust commitment to predestination, English Protestants by no means repudiated the possibility for specifically human methods of ameliorating the fallen imagination. Finally, I contend that this theological reflection on the fallen imagination was widespread, colouring …
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Crowned with Immortal Glory: Eschatalogical Hope in the Spirituality of William Perkins
… the theology of Perkins, from his doctrine of predestination to creation, his covenant theology, union with Christ, and his soteriology, he continually points his audience to their ultimate end in eschatological glory. At the conclusion of this study, I have not only shown, systematically, …
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“An Unquiet Soul”: Despair and Doubt of God’s Benevolence in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë
… unbelief or uncertainty and a fear of Calvinist predestination to eternal damnation), moving through Shirley (with its increased doubt of the efficacy of the Church), to Villette (with its almost fatalistic view of events). As God seemingly disappears from Brontë’s protagonists’ worlds, they are …
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The Trinitarian Doctrine of Grace in Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will
… the problems of the free will, determinism, and predestination. The basic weakness of those analyses is that the details of The Bondage of the Will can be correctly understood only on the basis of a comprehension of the basic systematic theological idea of his work. The very kernel of Luther’s …
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Η ΑΝΥΠΑΚΟΗ ΤΟΥ ΣΤΡΑΤΙΩΤΙΚΟΥ ΩΣ ΑΞΙΟΠΟΙΝΗ ΠΡΑΞΗ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΑΡΘΡΟ 70 Σ.Π.Κ.
Η ΑΝΥΠΑΚΟΗ (ΑΡΘΡΟ 70 Σ.Π.Κ) ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΙ ΠΡΑΞΗ ΜΕ ΕΝΤΟΝΗ ΟΥΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΗ ΑΠΑΞΙΑ. Η ΑΠΟΨΗΠΟΥ ΥΙΟΘΕΤΕΙΤΑΙ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΟΤΙ ΤΟ ΕΓΚΛΗΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΥΠΑΚΟΗΣ ΠΡΟΣΒΑΛΛΕΙ ΤΟ ΕΝΝΟΜΟ ΑΓΑΘΟ ΤΗΝ ΣΤΡΑΤΙΩΤΙΚΗ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΑ. ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΑΛΕΙΨΗ ΤΟΥ Ο ΣΤΡΑΤΙΩΤΙΚΟΣ ΝΑ ΕΚΤΕΛΕΣΕΙ ΕΝΑ ΕΡΓΟ ΠΟΥ ΑΝΑΓΕΤΑΙ ΣΤΟΝ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΚΟ ΤΟΥ ΠΡΟΟΡΙΣΜΟ ΩΣ ΥΠΕΡΑΣΠΙΣΤΗ …
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