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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Protestant Theology"”.
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The Theology of Intercessory Prayer: with Special Reference to Contemporary Protestant Theology
… in the writings of twentieth century Protestant theologians. An evaluation of both the strengths and weaknesses of each of the four views represented and the biblical presuppositions about prayer leads to a statement of the author's own interpretation of intercessory prayer. Part One …
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Tradition as a Viable Option for Protestant Theology : the Vincentian Method of Thomas C. Oden
… contemporary emphasis on postmodernism in Protestant theology. Given Oden's affirmation of the Christian tradition and his simultaneous commitment to postmodern sensitivities, the dissertation strives to examine how Oden is able to harmonize what essentially appears to be a dialectical …
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Toward a Protestant theology of celibacy : Protestant thought in dialogue with John Paul II's Theology of the Body.
This dissertation examines the theology of celibacy found both in John Paul II's writings and in current Protestant theology, with the aim of developing a framework and legitimation for a richer Protestant theology of celibacy. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis. Chapter 2 reviews the Protestant …
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Scripture in the Theologies of W. Pannenberg and D. G. Bloesch: an Investigation and Assessment of its Origin, Nature, and Use
… has played an authoritative role in Christian theology for centuries and has been at the heart of Protestant theology from its beginning. The rise of modern historical criticism, however, has led to a crisis at this very foundation of Protestant theology. In this context this dissertation seeks …
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The politics of the confessional imagination, from Calvin to Hobbes
… of the imagination by, especially English, Protestants, over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. I make four significant observations. First, I argue that English Protestant philosophical treatments of the imagination were largely continuous with the earlier mediaeval, scholastic …
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Parental concern and the baptism of children : representations of children from the late Medieval era to 1640.
… reveals that a tension existed between the theology of Original Sin, baptism, and salvation, and parental concerns for the spiritual wellbeing and salvation of their children. The introduction of Protestant theology into England addressed many of these concerns, but also caused other issues …
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An exploratory analysis of ideological and organizational secularization
… secularization was applied to major shifts in Protestant theology in the 20th century in an effort to test it's utility for contrasting the nature of these shifts. Both the ideological and organizational secularization definitions were applied to a particular church setting in order to test …
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Work in the Calling in Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis
… Methods. Comparative analysis of early Protestant Lutheran and Calvinist documents from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was used to flesh out a history of ideas to determine whether evidence exists to support Weber's claims related to religious doctrine. Results. Historical …
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Socio-political contradictions in Brown’s American Gothic: an important historical precursor to the conceptualization of ideology in modernity
… ideologies in question being radical German-Protestant theology and the political and socio-economic philosophies of the Enlightenment. Brown creates an obvious commonality between the two opposing concepts through the common thread of, “seeking illumination,” or in other words, the assertion …
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Soteriological Perspectives in the Seventh-day Adventist Church From 1930 to 2000
… throughout the debate over Last Generation Theology, each theologian defined and interpreted “righteousness by faith” according to their own theological background and historical context. The resulting tensions and conflicts continue to persist to this day.</p> <p>The Purpose</p> <p>This …
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Conversion & Community: Revisiting Modern Protestant Anxieties Over “Pietistic Conversion” in Light of Conversion Narratives From the First Great Awakening
This thesis addresses modern protestant theological concerns with the notion of conversion by examining the operative theologies of conversion implicit in 18th-century anglophone conversion narratives. A number of modern protestant theologians have expressed significant worries over what is …
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The Reconciliation of Science and Religion in Symbolo-Fideism
… utopian and unnecessary. The reaction of some Protestant and Catholic leaders to this threat from science was a retreat into fundamentalism. Others hastened to show that the recent discoveries were not really in conflict with religious truths at all. A third group, however, demanded that …
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Sin and Theory: Martin Luther's Hamartiology in Dialogue with Critical Theory
… of contemporary discourse, but outside of the theology guild the debate almost never references the category of sin. Within contemporary theology, by contrast, hamartiology is enjoying something of a renaissance, yet few theologians are enthusiastically embracing Martin Luther's insights into …