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Framing a Pope: Analyzing Media Frames in The New York Times Coverage of Pope Francis
… drawing from research analyzing the framing of Pope Francis within coverage from The New York Times. The mass media has, since the election of Pope Francis in 2013, provided him extensive coverage on a myriad of issues. Previous studies have noted Pope Francis' propensity to draw massive amounts …
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The Literary Theories of Alexander Pope
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Homiletics at the Threshold: Pope Benedict XVI's Invitation
… homiletics in dialogue with the writings of Pope Benedict XVI in light of his desire to 'reform the reforms' made after the Second Vatican Council. The works of Simone Weil, a Jewish philosopher and mystic, are introduced into the conversation conducted at the threshold between …
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Constructing History: The Visual Legacy of Pope Sixtus IV
Chapter I introduces the patron, Pope Sixtus IV, defines the meaning of his patronage in general, and critically analyzes his reputation by contemporaries and later historians. I consider the promotion of Pope Sixtus IV by others, and include the eulogizing panegyrics, poems, and historical …
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Pope John XXII and the Franciscan ideal of absolute poverty
My thesis offers an investigation into Pope John XXII's view of the Franciscan poverty ideal and his reasons for rejecting the doctrine of the absolute poverty of Christ in the bull Cum inter nonnullos (1323). After establishing the state of the question in the introduction, the first two chapters …
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The influence of Christianity in Pope's Moral Essays.
Alexander Pope's Moral Essays include the Epistle to Cobham, the Epistle to a Lady, the Epistle to Bathurst and the Epistle to Burlington. Simply put, this thesis focuses on Christianity as it appears in these poems. Christ does, of course, show Himself in different ways through the four poems. In …
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Pope Gregory the Great and a Prominent Woman of His Time
… such title has been assigned duly to the first Pope Gregory. In all cases favorable circumstances are, of course, required, that the result may be actual, not mere potential, greatness. There must be suitable environments for the development and display of an influential life. Gregory might have …
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Bramante and Raphael at the Vatican: A loggia for Pope Julius
… on three major commissions at the Vatican for Pope Julius II: a new St. Peter's church, a cortile to the papal villa and the modernization of the palace. A powerful pope needed a suitable backdrop to display his masterly leadership of the christian res publica. Basic to that aim was the need to …
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The road from pope to king : il Corso Vittorio Emanuele, II
… regard to the pre-Risorgimento initiatives of Pope Pius IX and Cardinal Merode, the municipal :Development Plan of 1873, and the later royal Development Plan of 1883 (the plan that generally defined the avenue's construction).
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A PRINCIPLED PRACTICE: DIRECTING THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK AT TEMPLE THEATERS
… led me to propose Naomi Wallace’s THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK as my thesis in order to both reflect and enact what I believe in and also to respond to the dearth of those principles within the Theater Department. I address how those same ethics subsequently informed every facet of my direction …
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The First Pontiff: Pope Damasus I and the Expansion of the Roman Primacy
… thesis is to examine the extent of the agency Pope Damasus I demonstrated in the expansion of papal primacy and exaltation of the Roman See. Damasus reigned as bishop of Rome from A.D. 366 until 384. To answer this question, the research for this thesis focuses on involvement, of Damasus in …
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The Relations of Pope Gregory the Great with Private Citizens of his Time
… regarded as one of the greatest of all the Popes. It is fortunate, therefore, that the fourteen volumes of his collected letters provide a golden opportunity to learn much about the inner workings of his mind. However, despite the fact that Gregory was often - extremely self-revealing in his …
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Pope's portraiture : a critical examination of portraiture in the poetry of Alexander Pope
… the author considers to be the chief concerns of Pope's verse portraits, and particularly attempts to trace the manifestations of these concerns in the formal, rather than argumentative or polemic, qualities of Pope's writing. The works selected have accordingly been primarily those in which the …
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The Influence of Saint Augustine Upon Pope Saint Gregory the Great in his Regula Pastoralis
… aspects of the times in which they lived. |Pope St. Gregory the Great was born 186 years after the Great Doctor of the North African Church. St. Gregory was religiously brought up and constantly yearned for a life of contemplation in the cloister. For a few years after his conversion St. …
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"Ourselves to know" : the problem of evil in the poetry of Alexander Pope.
… of evil. In chapter one, I examine in Alexander Pope's personal letters how his reliance upon religious resignation, sovereignty, heavenly compensation, prayer, and biblical imagery reveal a theodician search. In chapter two, I show how together Eloisa to Abelard, the 1717 Rape of the Lock, and …
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Alexander Pope and the Writing of Thought: Representations of Revision and Composition in Pope’s Works
This thesis examines Alexander Pope’s literary career through the lens of his own portrayals of revision and the composition process. I argue that Pope’s career-long interest in revision in its many forms — rewriting, rethinking, rewording, correcting, imitating, translating, editing, etc. — …
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