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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Prodigal"”.
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Prodigal
… pattern of the classic Biblical story of “The Prodigal Son”, the play allows for a modernization of the characters and setting. Set in 1968, the playwright takes a look at what happened after the “Prodigal Son” returned home as well as the effect the return had upon the Son that stayed as well …
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The Prodigal Motif in Defoe and 'Robinson Crusoe.'
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Prodigal sons: Indigenous missionaries in the British Atlantic world, 1640--1780
… and theologically problematic. The last half of Prodigal Sons considers three distinct but interrelated events in the 1760s and 70s: Philip Quaque's mission to the Cape Coast, eastern Indians' mission to the Iroquois, and John Quamine's failed mission to Africa. These three chapters illuminate …
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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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Prodigal daughters: Imprisoned women, reform, and the femine ideal in the British Isles, 1800-1877
In Prodigal Daughters: Imprisoned Women, Reform, and the Feminine Ideal in the British Isles, 1800-1877, I examine the image(s) of imprisoned women, attempts to reform them, movements for prison reform, and the relationship between England and Ireland. After the 1853 Penal Servitude Acts, convict …
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The Model Prodigal: Jesuit School Plays and the Production of Devotion in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1611
… that reinterpret the Biblical Parable of the Prodigal Son to argue that the Society of Jesus utilized the stage to acquire religious authority over the domestic sphere and to promote paradigms of masculinity that would halt imperial decline. Chapter One sets forth a theoretical framework for …
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Protecting Systems of Nature and Gender: Ecofeminism in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer and Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation
… embedded in the fiction of Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer and Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation. In this thesis, I consider the authors’ use of scientific evidence to engage readers with their rhetorical goals of protecting the systems of nature and gender. In the first chapter, I define the …
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The Gospel of Cosmopolitanism: Conflict Resolution in Barbara Kingsolver's Fiction
… they demonstrate, The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer provide the best foundation for an examination of their broad applications of cosmopolitanism. Within The Poisonwood Bible, Orleanna, Leah, Rachel, and Adah Price are forced to deal with the international issues concerning the United …
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The Evolution of Feminine Loyalty Trends in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Appalachian Literature.
… <u>Storming Heaven</u> by Denise Giardina, <u>Prodigal Summer</u> by Barbara Kingsolver, and <u>The Midwife's Tale</u> by Gretchen Morgan Laskas.</p>
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Bound to Shame: Sexual Addiction and Christian Ethics
… of the two sons in the Lukan parable of the prodigal. This parable may be understood as shedding light on the equal dangers of patterns of control and release. Additionally, sex addiction is viewed from an Augustinian perspective of sin. It is argued that human vulnerability to shaming is a …
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Narrative theology in religious education
… as Christological. The parables of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan are prime examples in this dissertation. Narrative theology, also known as, ‘post-liberal’ theology, was developed in late twentieth century. The evangelists gathered all Jesus’ teachings and adapted them …
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Myth in the Early Collaborations of Benjamin Britten and William Plomer
… 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 had completed the opera Gloriana and had considered collaborating on three …
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Attitudes towards polygamy in select African fiction
… Es’kia Mphahlele’s Chirundu, Lazarus Miti’s The Prodigal Husband, Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes, Sue Nyathi’s The Polygamist,SembeneOusmane’s Xala, Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, Rebecca HourwichReyher’s Zulu Woman, Miriam KWere’s The Eighth Wife, T.M. Aluko’s One Man One Wife …
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Toward a theological response to prostitution: listening to the voices of women affected by prostitution and of selected church leaders in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… together in a discussion of the Story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32), however, revealed several theological deficiencies held by the evangelical church that currently impede the formation of a life-affirming theological response to prostitution. These deficiencies primarily involve an …
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Exodus industrious : a new American dream for the next industrial revolution
… is the story of the American Dream, a prodigal tale of the excess of Americanism, which was once rooted in a belief that if one possessed the characteristics of hard-work and self reliance, that they would ultimately reap the rewards of status, wealth, and power. Exodus Chronicles the …
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The Banquet Type-Scene in the Parables of Jesus
… the Wedding Garment (Matt 22:11-14), and the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32). The type- scene analyses of these parables revealed similar conclusions, especially in terms of their themes, to their diachronic critical analyses. This testified to the mutual relationship that exists between the …
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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.
… as a way to interpret the Parable of the Prodigals (Luke 15:11-32) and the Rich Man 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 …