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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Prophesy"”.
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"You Must Prophesy Again": The Mission of God's People in Revelation 10-14
<p>The primary task of this study was to delineate the theology of mission in the book of Revelation, with a focus on chaps. 10–14 and special attention to the people of God as participants in the mission of God. The historical survey demonstrated that the theology of mission conveyed by the book …
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Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498): Fashioning of a prophet and a new Jerusalem in late fifteenth-century Florence
… followed Savonarola’s early preaching, call to prophesy, self-representation as a prophet, and the height of his acceptance as a prophet followed by his decline in power and execution. Savonarola maintained his lifelong commitment to Christian reform as emanating most essentially from the …
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Inventing the Sacred Nation: Saint Edmund of East Anglia and English Identity in Medieval Text and Image
… monastic kingship, the retrofitting of events to prophesy English history, the accommodation of a vernacular cult audience, or most significantly, the cultivation of royal identities.
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From Sodom to Gehenna: The Old Testament Typology of Sodom and Gomorrah as God’s Eschatological Judgment
… that fall on both Israel and the nations and to prophesy about what is coming upon the whole world in a final judgment. I conclude that the biblical authors understood that the end of the present world would come through a S&G-type judgment and that out of this judgment would emerge a new, Edenic …
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Uneasy reading : resistance and revelation in Willem Boshoff's "Verskanste Openbaring"
… Patmos produced this strange and deeply violent prophesy. Guided by the material conditions of Boshoff's piece, this paper seeks to respond to the provocations of both "Verskanste Openbaring" and its source text. Might the plagiarism be productively put into conversation with the original - and …
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The Loss of the Philosophic Tradition and the Rise of the Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
… in human history. As this study examines this prophesy, it takes into view the rise and popularity of the Positive Philosophy from ancient perspectives to modern and postmodern Western thought. It further illustrates the resistance to and eventual replacement of traditional theoretical …
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A Remedy for Death For Mixed Ensemble
… amazing life of Jesus Christ. Starting from the prophesy, His birth, crucifixion, burial and resurrection. The music portrays this dramatic life story with a chant-like opening, foretelling the humble birth of Jesus. Both heart warming and heart breaking melodies can be found in this movement, as …
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DISCLOSURE AS INTERACTION: QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF LESBIAN ATHLETES' SEXUAL IDENTITY DISCLOSURE IN INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORT
… positive experiences included a self-fulfilling prophesy, the liberal mentality of the universities they attended, the large number of lesbians on their teams, the implicit nature of disclosure, and greater tolerance for gays and lesbians in sport. Overall, approaching disclosure as an …
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Development and application of the mollusc Arctica islandica as a paleoceanographic tool for the North Atlantic ocean
… of shelf waters. This thesis fulfills the prophesy laid out nearly two decades ago by Thompson and Jones [1977] that Arctica islandica could someday be used to reconstruct past ocean history as "the tree of the North Atlantic".
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The Martyr as Model in John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
… identity, villainize foreign armies, and prophesy popish plots. Unsurprisingly then, much of the scholarship on the book has been interested in the effects of the book rather than its intent. A great deal of scholarship has focused on the reception history of the book. At the same time, …
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The Embodied Promise: How the Hebrew Covenants Correspond to the Corporal
… David, and various episodes of Jeremiah's prophesy. We will also consider the land-tenure system of ancient Israel whereby people returned to their ancestral land during the year of Jubilee. The Sinai Covenant addresses the abdomen (stomach and womb,) and the Davidic Covenant addresses the …
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The concept of holiness in the book of Ezekiel.
… an explanation ~of Israel's disaster and to prophesy the nation's restoration. Chapter 1 discusses the methodology of the thesis with reference to previous scholarly study of che book of Ezekiel. As in other areas of OT study, recent research has seen a polarization into diachronic and …
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The Ethics of Amos in Light of Its Ancient Near Eastern Context
<p>The book of Amos, in a fashion almost preternaturally relevant to contemporary conditions, discusses issues of war and welfare. Amos condemns several foreign nations for various war crimes and then turns to Israel, excoriating it for its mistreatment of the poor. Specifically he indicts the …