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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Prophecies"”.
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Isaiah's Burden Prophecies As Spirtual Formulas
The Book of Mormon makes it clear that Isaiah's message is of great importance to the modern reader. In order to facilitate modern and personal spiritual application of Isaiah's writings, spiritual "formulas" or principles may be discovered or formulated. These formulas are statements of truth …
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Nongqawuse's Prophecies Revisited: Centring the Religious Experience
… analysis of the Cattle-Killing Movement and the prophecies of Nongqawuse. The study is framed by the conception of the movement as inherently religious in character and form. As such, certain elements of African and Xhosa religious beliefs form an important part of this study. The role of …
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Layamon's Brut and the March of Wales: Merlin, his Prophecies, and the Lex Marchia
… manifestations of this theme: Merlin, his prophecies, and the Law of the March.
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The coming of 'kawa nyampa': Climate change, temporality and prophecies of decline in Himalayan Nepal
This thesis examines cultural constructions of climate and temporality in eastern Nepal, focusing on Walung, a village in Taplejung District. Although the residents of Walung have long noticed manifestations of global climatic change, such observations were primarily attributed to a change in time …
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Stereotype Threat: A Proposed Process Model on the Impact of Stereotype Threat on Self-Efficacy and Minority Performance
… imposter phenomenon, and self-fulfilling prophecies. All these factors have the propensity to place minority individuals at risk for low performance, leading to gaps in education. The population of focus for this review consisted of African Americans, Latinx individuals, and women. There …
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"I Will Write of Cornwall, Cornhell in the West": Prophecy, Itinerancy, and Anna Trapnel's Struggle with Cromwellian Authorities
… as early as 1646, over the next eight years her prophecies shifted from typical millenarian content with the political climate. By March 1654, Trapnel had become a noticeable threat to the Council of the State and both Trapnel and the authorities she sought to dismantle escalated their attacks …
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ΙΟΥΣΤΙΝΟΣ. Ο ΜΑΡΤΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ ΩΣ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΣ
… AND THAT OF ACYLAS) AND WITH A COLLECTION OF PROPHECIES; HOWEVER, HE IGNORES THE HEBREW. IN THE SECOND CHAPTER THE "CHRISTOLOGICAL" ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION IS ATTEMPTED AS CHOOSING THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF THE O.T. WAS THE MAJOR PROBLEM IN THE 2ND CENTURY A.D. JUSTIN HAD WELL STUDIED …
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Equilibria in overlapping generations models
… the existence and likelihood of self-fulfilling prophecies. It is shown that the implications of the economy's assumed Markovian structure are twofold: while facilitating the parametric treatment of the transition probabilities, it negates the question concerning the likelihood of sunspot …
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Translation and Réécriture in the Middle Ages: Rewriting Merlin in the French and Italian Vernacular Traditions
… to an examination of the translation of Merlin’s prophecies as recounted in the Prophecies de Merlin, the Storia and the Vita di Merlino. These instances of translation will be compared to and studied alongside the processes of intralingual réécriture. Rewriting within the French tradition will be …
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The Nearness and the Delay of the Parousia in the Writings of Ellen G. White
… Christ would return in 1844, rooted in the time prophecies of Daniel and summarized in the three angels' messages of Rev 14:5-12. She based her conviction of the soon coming of Christ on the past fulfillment of those prophecies. They took precedence in her mind over the familiar signs of the …
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A Proposal for a Typological Reading of Daniel 11
… between Daniel 11 and the so-called “Akkadian Prophecies.” While Daniel 11 bears stylistic similarities with the “Akkadian Prophecies,” it differs from these Akkadian texts in other ways. After the verse-by-verse study of Daniel 11, chapter 5 then compares Daniel 11 and the OT passages (2 Sam …
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Dinner For One
… travel. The fortunes from Chinese cookies give prophecies and horoscopes, reminding us of our fate, which is beyond our conrol. Dinner For One means to question, through poetry and interactive, hypertextual reading techniques, how much faith and trust we should hold in influences outside of our …
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Oracular prophecy and psychology in Ancient Greek warfare.
… for war as well as the effect of oracular prophecies on a commander's decision making and tactics on the battlefield and on the psychology and reactions for soldiers before and during battle. This thesis contends that oracular prophecy played a fundamental and integral part in ancient Greek …
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The perceived and observed role of teachers in students' performance : a year 5 group study in a primary state school
… teacher expectations and self-fulfilling . prophecies have been and still are very_ strong debatable .issues in educational research. This study has amalgamated these themes and analysed them in the . light of espoused and in-use theories as conceptualised by Arygris & Schon (1974). …
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William Shakespeare and Chinua Achebe: A Study of Character and the Supernatural
… and Achebe use supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, beliefs, divinations and others to create complex characters. Even though these features are indicative of the preponderance of the belief in the supernatural by some people of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and traditional Igbo …
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Propheteering : a cultural history of prediction in the Gilded Age
… fortune-tellers, and spirit mediums, whose prophecies circulated by the thousands through rural and urban America.
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“Church-preneurship”: Emerging Perspectives on Tensions Between Development and Prosperity Within Neo-Prophetic Churches in Southern Africa
… large followings through miracles, forensic prophecies, teachings on submission and loyalty, and strong social media presence. Their prominence centres on the figure of the “prophet”, whose wealth accumulation persists even under severe economic conditions. The study investigates how …
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Language Ecology and Shift at Baawating, 1600-1971
… on the paradigm of the Anishinaabe Seven Fires prophecies and a framework that emphasizes the interplay of language practices, beliefs and management in a social ecology, this work offers a case study of the specific experiences of Indigenous peoples in the communities surrounding Baawating (at …
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The Antichrist and the "trewe men": Lollard apocalypticism in late medieval and Early Modern England.
… standard of the 'law of Christ'. Biblical prophecies of the Antichrist's tactics were confirmed by their experiences before episcopal commissions--at times concluded by death at the stake. In homes and in secret gathering places, they communicated the revolutionary vision that the …
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