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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Reformed theology"”.
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Reformed theology, modernity and the environment crisis
… particularly as they have been understood in the Reformed tradition, require the church to commit itself to working for such a socio-cultural transformation. However, the Reformed tradition can only contribute to this transformation once it is recognised that it has been deeply intertwined with …
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Toward a Reformed-liberation biblical hermeneutic: with a particular focus on Karl Barth's view of scripture and its interpretation
This thesis arises out of the recognition that Reformed theology in South Africa needs to respond creatively to the challenges of Liberation theology. One of the more pressing areas in which this challenge and response is felt is the area of the Bible and its interpretation, and hence we take as …
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English Puritanism and the Transformation of Philosophy, c. 1640–1690
… the state of philosophy vis-à-vis English Reformed theology in c. 1640, before pursuing detailed studies of the puritan reception of the new philosophy in the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. Since many of the figures treated in these chapters—theologian and scientist …
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Rediscovering the music of the silence - what can Cesar Manrique's spirituality add to the renewal of the reformed spirituality of the United Reformed Church?
… within churches, particularly the United Reformed Church, appears to be in decline. The contrast between these activities, inside and outside the church, prompted this investigation. The starting point was the author’s personal experience of spiritual renewal through the work of César …
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In Terms of an Open Sky: Hans Rookmaaker's Reformed Approach to Art and Culture
… Rookmaaker approaches art and culture from a reformed perspective. The research question asks what theological, philosophical, and aesthetic commitments contributed to Rookmaaker’s distinctive approach to art; the thesis argues that Rookmaaker’s approach to art is a synthesis of Dutch …
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'There was never man handled as I am' : the legacy and significance of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, 1558-1660
… as it demonstrates a commitment to the Reformed theology of Cranmer's later years and a lack of continuity with Roman Catholic antecedents. Furthermore, mid-seventeenth century interpretations of Cranmer demonstrate the importance of religious factors in the English Civil Wars. Changing …
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Scotland’s Forgotten Theologian: The Life, Theology, and Legacy of Patrick Fairbairn (1805-74)
… Fairbairn exercised a significant influence on Reformed Old Testament interpretation, and his works on typology and prophecy continue to be extensively interacted with, as recently as last year (2024). Despite this influence and significance, however, Fairbairn has been neglected by scholarship, …
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The Covenant Theology of Zacharias Ursinus
This study is an examination of the covenant theology of Zacharias Ursinus, which in many ways broke new ground for the development of Federal Theology in the sixteenth century with his introduction of the foedus naturale. For the first time in its development he describes the prelapsarian economy …
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Saving the Church of England: John Edwards (1637-1716) as dissenting conformer
… Latitudinarians and others who did not share his Reformed theology. Leaders on all sides of the seventeenth-century dissension paid lip service to church unity, but failed to act on it. Edwards practiced genuine toleration within the traditional bounds of orthodoxy but he would not extend his …
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John Edwards of Cambridge (1637-1716): A reassessment of his location within the later Stuart Church of England
… Edwards of Cambridge (1637-1716) and the broader Reformed tradition within the later Stuart Church of England. Its central thesis is that, contrary to the claims of older scholarship, Edwards was not a marginalized figure in the Church of England on account of his ‘Calvinism’. Instead, this study …
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Arminianism and Anti-Remonstrant Polemic in the Later Stuart and Early Hanoverian Church of England
… and that such divines accentuated identifiably Reformed emphases in an unprecedented display of disambiguation from the Remonstrant tradition. In brief, the thesis contends that later Stuart and early Hanoverian conforming Arminianism cannot be seen as a monolithically antipodean reaction to …
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The Venetian Connection in early seventeenth-century England
… intellectual traditions – including Roman Law, Reformed theology and Gallican polemic – the Anglo-Venetian network it identifies developed a distinctive view of politics, rooted in the absolute rule of a secular sovereign and a deep-seated fear of universal papal monarchy. Its members made a …
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Some Sources of Puritan Sabbatarianism
… English contribution to the development of Reformed theology in the first century of its history, initiated this study; <em>Some Sources of Puritan Sabbatarianism</em>. Since sabbatarianism was not inherent in the teachings of the Continental Reformers it was necessary to look elsewhere for …
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Thomas Boston and the doctrine of God’s will
The focus of this thesis is the Reformed doctrine of the will of God and its pastoral application in the theology of Thomas Boston (1676-1732). The objective of this thesis is to establish Boston’s doctrine of the will of God and how he applies that doctrine pastorally. We shall argue that one …
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Worship as Interpretation: The Liturgical Reception of Isaiah 6
… often bears clear marks of especially Reformed theology. One shared tendency in both Jewish and Christian worship is to “spiritualise” Isaiah 6, and transpose it to a heavenly court. I argue that these ideas still make themselves felt in research on Isaiah 6.
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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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Towards a eucharistic theology and practice for the South African context : a re-appraisal of Reformed eucharistic theology from the perspective of the Eucharist in Catholic liberation theology
The theology and practice of the eucharist emerged as one of the major points of contention in the 16th Century Reformation. While the Reformers themselves differed in their respective eucharistic theologies, they were nevertheless unanimous in rejecting what they perceived as heresy and abuse in …
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Political thought and Protestant intellectual culture in the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1651
… determining the ceremonies and polity of the Reformed church to uphold Scotland’s status as a covenanted nation. To formulate their theories about the king’s civil and ecclesiastical sovereignty, royalist and Covenanter leaders engaged with Lutheran, Calvinist, and Catholic scholastic debates …
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