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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Parables"”.
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The Banquet Type-Scene in the Parables of Jesus
… study investigated the banquet type-scene in the parables of Jesus in order to find out whether Jesus, and by extension, the Gospel writers were in dialogue with the fixed literary and oral banquet type-scene convention of their time.</p> <p>Narrative criticism provided the framework for the …
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Parables of the Prodigal: Engaging the African Immigrant Nurse in Homeland Health
In this analytic autoethnography, I examine the potential agency of African immigrant nurses (AINs) in contributing to health development in their sub-Saharan African homelands. Scholarship and policy discourses on diaspora engagement often position AINs within broader health diaspora groups, and …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
This project argues that Octavia's Butler's construction of the black woman characters is unique within the pantheon of late eighties African-American writers primarily through Butler's celebration of black female physicality and the agency the black body provides. The project is divided into five …
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Allegory, mimesis and the text: theological moulding of Lukan parables in Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis
… readings in Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis. The parables of Jesus in Luke are the object of investigation. The witness of the Church Fathers in the form of their allegorical exegesis of the text of the New Testament is employed to explain variant readings of the Bezan text. The notion that the …
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Octavia Butler's Parables and Black African American Hyper-Empathic Neurodivergent Feminists : On Shame and Solidarity
As renowned scholar and researcher Sara Ahmed (2004; 2015) reminds us, emotions do things to us because they are relational. This dissertation takes aim at one emotion in particular: shame. By recognizing the similarities between us - that we all feel some degree of shame - we nonetheless …
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Jesus' parables, language and the common world: A response to Dominic Crossan's theology of story
… interpretation of reversals in Jesus' parables. Many reviewers of Crossan's work have expressed concern that in his theology of story the "common world" which is created in language is disqualified as a place where God may be encountered. This distortion results from Crossan's use of …
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The elder son's quandary and the rich man's fate : moral formation, characterization, and rhetoric in Luke 15:11-32 and 16:19-31.
… and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). I selected these parables as case studies for the ways in which characterization, rhetoric, and moral formation relate because these parables contain many semantic links and rhetorical similarities. Coming on the heels that Jesus "welcomes sinners and dines with …
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The parables of Jesus as symbols of social transformation in a critical view of food insecurity systems for vulnerable households in urban townships
… aim of this study is to determine the use of the parables of the historical Jesus as transformative interpretive instruments of food shortage in urban townships. We will give much attention on the 12 theses critical reading of the parables espoused by Van Eck. In order to reach stated objectives, …
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Woman is a Parable
… this perspective the social position of women in parables based on an androcentric world is explored. However, this position is challenged by a womanist perspective. Because it is challenged, the process of conscientization has begun and the struggle for the lack of self-worth follows. With …
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Luke and the marginalized : an African feminist's perspective on three Lukan parables (Luke 10: 25-37; 15: 8-10 ; 18: 1-8)
… selected parabolic paradigms. These are: The parables of The Good Samaritan (Luke 10: 25-37), The Lost Coin (Luke 15: 8-10) and The Unjust Judge (Luke 18: 1-8) . This presentation is exposed by a selection of three scholars who typify the approach and views of their generation in the …
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Inductive preaching with clarity: Qualifying a preacher's employment of Jesus' parable method
… no definite conclusions simply because Jesus' parables often possessed an inconclusive quality. Chapter 2 examines various descriptions of Jesus' preaching style and surmises that presuppositions play an important role in one's view of Jesus' methods. Specifically, this chapter advocates two …
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Narrative theology in religious education
The Biblical stories and parables are of a 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 …
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Secure the Shadow
… draws heavily on the conventions of fables, parables and fairy tales to consider modern themes, desires and cruelties. The collection is linked by a meta-fictional fascination with the act of storytelling -- the liminal psychological space between the real and unreal, fantasy and delusion, …
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Towards a theology of story : an experiment in contextual theology
… is stressed. Part Two examines Jesus parables and acted parables. The data comes from two sources: the dominant form-critical approach to parables as exemplified by Jeremias or Crossan, in which the situation behind the text is examined. Second is the recent sociological approach to …
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Doing justice to the Unjust Steward: An exegetical examination of Luke 16:1-13 and its context
… that it is perhaps the most difficult of Jesus' parables to understand, and offers a method for deciphering the meaning. Chapter 2 offers a detailed history-of-interpretation with special attention given to the work of Dennis J. Ireland ( Stewardship and the Kingdom , 1992) and the interpreters …
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Myth in the Early Collaborations of Benjamin Britten and William Plomer
… Plomer and Benjamin Britten are the three church parables (or church operas) - Curlew River, The Burning Fiery Furnace, and The Prodigal Son - by the time of the completion of Curlew River in 1964, the librettist and composer had been working together for well over a decade. During that time, they …
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Perpetual Movement: Brief Forms in Latin America
… Starting out from Aesop’s fables and biblical parables I look at the use of the form in a traditional sense and then I analyze how Augusto Monterroso and Juan José Arreola, revitalize and reappropriate old fables and parables in order to evaluate the causal construction of the form. For my last …
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Should You Judge a Book by its Cover? The Authentic Relationship Between Religion and the Stage in Fiddler on the Roof, Godspell, and the Book of Mormon
… the audience. <em>Godspell</em> is based on the parables, mostly from the Gospel of St. Matthew. Some people have an issue with the fact that the musical doesn't have a resurrection, but Tebelak and Schwartz meant the play to reflect joy and community. Experiencing <em>The Book of Mormon</em> is …
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