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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Religion & theology"”.
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Mirroring God's world: a critique of John Hick's speculative theology
… possibility of reading Rick's work as Christian theology. To this end it examines Rick's reflections on six themes: religion, theology, theodicy, eschatology, Christology and theology of religions. It seeks to expose the faults and fissures, disruptions and distortions in Rick's texts. This …
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Le martyre et le temps : Tieleman Jansz. van Braght, le martyrologe mennonite et l'histoire
In his martyrology (published in 1660), the conservative Dutch Mennonite Tieleman Jansz. van Braght propose an original interpretation of the Christian past. In order to put together a succession of witnesses, he examines one by one the ancient or medieval spiritual ancestors who, at the time, were …
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A study of the prose style of selected sermons of John Keble
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the prose style of two sermons of John Keble. The two sermons chosen for analysis are "The Duty of Hoping Against Hope," delivered by Keble in 1846 and Sermon L (Russian War), delivered in 1854. The method for analysis is taken from the essay, "A Method of …
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From Vico to Grassi: toward a rhetoric of openness
This research fuses humanist concepts of language with chaos theory to move toward a rhetoric of openness. Like other dynamic systems, metaphoric/poetic language generates concepts and discourse which interact with each other and change each other over time. Such a non-rigid, flexible view of …
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Les cultes isiaques dans la péninsule Ibérique. Contribution à l'étude du phénomène isiaque dans l'Occident méditerranéen
… dans son ouvrage plus largement consacré aux religions orientales dans l'Espagne romaine, Antonio García y Bellido offrait une synthèse des cultes isiaques dans la péninsule Ibérique. Après lui, quelques savants ont tenté d'actualiser son catalogue, d'autres ont posé à la documentation de …
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Ministry, Mission, and Mercy: A Practical Philosophy for Groups to Live Out God’s Holistic Vision for the Church
This thesis argues for the importance of employing a practical philosophy of ministry, mission, and mercy in the local church, specifically in the context of small groups. The first chapter introduces the idea of the ministry, mission, and mercy paradigm, makes an argument for its necessity in the …
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John Adams and Unitarian Theology
… suggests possible applications for Adams's religion, particularly when considering his emphasis on the ethical Jesus in relation to his desire for a moral society brought about by religion. Adams's theology can be applied to political actions he took during his life, including the drafting …
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The Place of Theology in a World Come of Age: A Comparative Analysis of the Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Paul Ramsey.
… of the Christian Church that began to question religion's central place in man's daily life. Had humanity finally progressed to the point where religion was no longer necessary? Had we at long last developed the characteristics and perspectives that religion had attempted to engrain within us? …
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The Entanglement of Anzaldúan Materiality as Bodily Knowing: Matter, Meaning, and Interrelatedness
<p>This project weaves together the theoretically rich and diverse work of ancient materialist philosophers, modern philosophy which advanced a theory of monism, and contemporary philosophies that further extends monism into new terrain, including 'new materialism.' While monism is a strand of this …
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Searching for transcendence: an exploration of spirituality in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Terrence Malick
… from a spiritual framework (removed from religion and theology) as opposed to the philosophical treatment it tends to receive in other literature. Recent discussions surrounding transcendence in film have been concerned with a films philosophical content, narrative content and aesthetic …
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Gregory of Nazianzus's Use of Creation in the Trinitarian Controversy: Theological Hermeneutics as Polemic
… Gregory’s polemic is motivated by his own theology and is anchored both in Scripture and in the Alexandrian tradition which he received. My approach of discussing Gregory’s thoughts on creation and the Trinity within his own context is new to the field of patristic studies. Many have …
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Servant Leadership and African American Pastors
Robert Greenleaf (1977) took a follower’s, rather than a leader-centric, point of view of leadership by describing a leader as one who leads by serving. He identified a leader as one who sets other people’s needs above his or her own. He argued that motivation of leaders must begin with the …
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Wayward Christians, Worldly Scriptures: Disarticulating Christianities in the Black Atlantic Public Sphere
… Atlantic world, and the ways in which black theology as a disciplinary formation has only partly included these competing constructions of Christianity in their account of marginalized and marooned peoples. This project will do three things. First it will explore theoretically the …
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Becoming God, Becoming the Buddha: The Relation of Identity and Praxis in the Thought of Maximus the Confessor and Kūkai
My dissertation investigates the concept of ‘divinization’, or becoming like (or identical to) God or the Buddha in the thought of two early medieval monk-philosophers from radically different religious-philosophical traditions, Maximus the Confessor (580-662 CE) and Kukai (774-835 CE). I use this …