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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Post-christian"”.
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Sarah Kane's Post-Christian Spirituality in Cleansed
… Singer can trace it back to the rejection of her Christian beliefs during her adolescence. This thesis explores how Kane used violence and images of impalement, dismemberment, and cross-dressing in her third play, <em>Cleansed </em>as a vehicle to examine and validate her notions of gender and …
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A post-Christian perception of sin and forgiveness
… democratic and egalitarian context of a post-traditional and post-Christian Britain. It seeks to show this by describing the shift in understanding of the concepts of sin and forgiveness from the period of the Hebrew Bible, through the Christian era until the present day, using examples …
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Preaching a Christian worldview in a post-Christian culture
abstract Preaching a christian worldview in a post-christian culture Robert Craig Thompson, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016 Chair: Dr. Timothy K. Beougher This dissertation examines worldview preaching in a post-Christian culture. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of worldview …
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Biblical Meditation and the Visual Arts: A Method of Biblical Meditation for a Post- Christian, Visually-Saturated Age
In this post-Christian, visually-saturated age, Scripture-guided meditation on the visual arts can serve as a helpful method of biblical meditation. This dissertation argues that a method of biblical meditation—as outlined and practiced in Scripture—can make use of the visual arts as a biblically …
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Christian belief in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): a response to the claim that British Friends are post-Christian
… Society of Friends in Britain had become post-Christian. In response to Dandelion’s claim that Quakers are post-Christian, in 2005 and 2006 I conducted a short survey of the same population: the approximately 25,600 Members and Attenders of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) who …
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Developing an Apologetics Teaching Series at Hinsdale Filipino-American Seventh-Day Adventist Church, to Educate Church Members and Attendees in Post-Christian Evangelism
… to educate church members and attendees in post-Christian evangelism at Hinsdale Filipino-American Seventh-day Adventist Church. The project entails the assessment of defeater beliefs about Christianity, the creation and implementation of an apologetics teaching series to address the …
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Nietzsche, Sin and Redemption
… of self-understanding is deeply embedded in the Christian theological tradition, and that Nietzsche’s account of existential sin should be understood as part of this same tradition. In my reading of On the Genealogy of Morality I show that we need to place sin in close relation to bad conscience, …
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The Mind of the Maker vs. the mind of the maker : Dorothy L. Sayers' trinitarian theory of creation applied to her plays Zeal of Thy House and The Devil to Pay.
… The Mind of the Maker and elaborated in other Christian essays in The Whimsical Christian: Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World. The nature of her theory is that every act of creation mirrors the three-fold structure of the master Creator, and thus can be found in ourselves because we …
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The Priesthood of All Believers in the Work of John Livingston Nevius
… in faithful witness in light of an increasingly post-Christian culture. The purpose of this study is to show the dire need for the priesthood of all believers in mission, both overseas and at home. As leaders seek answers for the future of missions, we may be helped by looking to our past. One …
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Die skrifbeskouing van die vroeë kerkvaders uit Afrika (veral Tertullianus en Augustinus) en hulle relevansie vir Suidelike-Afrika (Afrikaans)
… to a variety of religious “isms.” The pluralism, post-modernism and post-Christian society of the 21st century, brings its own challenges. Words mean nothing and truth is relative. There are, however, unique resemblances with the pluralism, pre-modern and pre-Christian society of the patristic. …
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The Validity of the Growing Disciples in Community Model Among Adolescents in Seventh-day Adventist Schools in North America
… and adolescents. An understanding of Christian discipleship might, however, be an antidote for a growing trend toward consumer mentality in the church, the effect of post-Christian culture on the home, and the departure of the younger generations from active church life, which are all …
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Understanding the stages of conversion to Islam : the voices of British converts
… is placed in the context of the predominantly post-Christian British society in which they had spent the greater part of their lives and the existence of a sizeable community of British Muslims. Influential studies of the psychology and sociology of religious conversion are reviewed and applied …
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Nietzsche's Theory of Cognition: An Interpretation and Defense of Perspectivism
… directly from his analysis of the nihilism of post-Christian Europe and that his project of overcoming that nihilism requires a complete revaluation of human knowing. Chapter Two asks what Nietzsche's</p> <p>relationship is with skepticism and to what extent can Nietzsche be labeled a skeptic. …
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Natural Strange Beatitudes: Geoffrey Hill's The Orchards of Syon, Poetic Oxymoron and Post-Secular Poetics AND An Atheist's Prayer-Book
… poetry in being a major religious work in a post-religious age. Contemporary secular and atheistic insistence on the fundamentally crafted and flawed nature of religious faith has led Hill not to the abandoning of religious vision, but to a theologically disciplined approach to syntax, …