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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Religion and theology"”.
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Becoming Friends of God: Practicing Philosophy of Religion and Theology in and for a Radical Spirit of Individuality and Humanity
… to which we can make the transition from death and misery to life and blessedness will depend on the extent to which we learn to truly think the transition. We are not free to truly opt for life unless we can truly distinguish between death and life, and we are not free to truly opt for …
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Searching for transcendence: an exploration of spirituality in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Terrence Malick
… is explored in the films Mirror (1975, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky) and A Hidden Life (2019, dir. Terrence Malick) through the application of the concept of transcendence. This dissertation approaches transcendence from a spiritual framework (removed from religion and theology) as opposed to the …
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Gospel power for civilization: the CMS missionary perspective on Maori Culture 1830-1860.
… century Protestant Christian mission in New Zealand, with a particular focus on religion and theology, and their role in shaping the perceptions of Church Missionary Society missionaries as they observed and related to Maori people and their culture between 1830 and 1860. It showcases theology as …
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The role of English-speaking churches in South Africa : a critical historical analysis and theological evaluation with special reference to the Church of the Province and the Methodist Church, 1903-1930
… elucidates the theoretical basis of the study and its assumptions. After surveying South African church historiography and concluding that synchronic political economic history is seldom integrated into the Church story, it is argued that critical social theory should inform church …
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Legitimating a theodicy : Peter Berger and the search for meaning in post-Enlightenment society
This thesis seeks to provide an overview and examination of the thought of the significant contemporary sociologist, Peter L. Berger. Berger is concerned with the issue of how meaning is constructed in modern, secular, bureaucratic society. Furthermore, this thesis seeks to outline, and trace the …
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The epistemology of enculturation
… to beliefs about controversial matters like religion, morality, and politics. I begin by situating the problem of cultural influence within the broader discussion surrounding irrelevant influences on our beliefs. After clarifying the way in which our beliefs are influenced by our cultures, I …
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Liberalizmas ir socializmas Juano Donoso Corteso politinės filosofijos perspektyvoje /
… political philosophy there was a belief that religion is inseparable part of political reality and therefore to fully understand one or another political community one has to also understand its religion and theology. But this belief was changed during the Enlightenment era, when ideas such as …
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Healing, honoring, transforming: The power of spiritual activism in Marilou Awiakta's work
… work reveals the web that connects all life and demonstrates how important it is to protect and honor every living thing. I believe that poet/author Marilou Awiakta's work exposes the interconnections between all living things—her work is part of the heartbeat that initiates spiritual …
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Leibniz on intra-substantial causation and change
… a world of causally interacting substances and issues pertaining to Leibniz’s own positive metaphysics of immanent causation and change.</p> <p>Chapter 1 is devoted to stage setting for the remainder of the dissertation. I first offer a historically informed overview of efficient causation …
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The Metaphysics of Causation in the Creation Accounts of Avicenna and Aquinas
… of creation is in tension with their understanding of causation more generally. Each theory of causation available--Aristotelian efficient causation in which an agent acts upon a patient, and Neoplatonic emanation in which beings are produced through a series of emanations--have attractive …
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Transformation of provisional existence of unknown limit: A grounded theory
… (a) alteration in control of one's life, and (b) alteration in time as one has known it. The first purpose was to identify the elements and basic social process of PEUL. The second purpose was to develop a grounded substantive theory that would explain the elements and their relations in …
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Applying ecofeminist theory to Christian mission work in Honduras: Building theoretical bridges for real change
This thesis encourages the tens of thousands of Christian missionaries traveling yearly to Honduras to look to the ecofeminist theories of Rosemary Radford Ruether and Mary Judith Ress in order to more effectively confront the social, political, and economic hurdles preventing more Hondurans from …
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Psychosocial factors and mental health of Muslims living in the United States
… are at risk for experiencing systematic and interpersonal acts of discrimination (Rippy & Newman, 2006). Such experiences of discrimination can lead to the development of depressive symptoms. Thus, it is critical to understand factors that may influence the relationship between …
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A defense of the ambiguity theory of 'knows'
… the form ‘S knows that P’ where S is a subject and P a proposition) and knowledge denials (sentences of the form ‘S doesn’t know that P’) have been at the fore of a certain sector of analytic epistemology and philosophy of language. These questions include “How do we determine the truth …
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The Relationship between a Theological Understanding of Marital Commitment and a Juridical Articulation of Marital Consent in Sacramental Marriages in the United States
… is an essential social, public, ecclesial, and theological good, yet its influence in the United States is threatened by a divorce rate comparable to the U.S. population in general, an explosive increase in cohabitation, and a declining marriage rate. The underlying assumption of this …
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Kirschner's Modal Ontological Argument
… sound by demonstrating it to be logically valid and by successfully defending the argument's premises as true. Kirschner's version of the Ontological Argument states:</p> <p>P1 For every type of entity, instances of that type of entity either actually exist, merely possibly exist, or necessarily …
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The Time of Liberation: Angela Davis's Prison Abolition and Giorgio Agamben's Coming Community
<p>The project explores the ethical, social, and political subject of incarceration. I investigate Angela Davis’s multifaceted critique of the prison industrial complex – focusing primarily on the tenets of racism, classism, and capitalism – and take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing her …
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A phenomenological inquiry into sacred time in Hinduism
… Applying the methodology of phenomenology of religion, I inspect the ways in which human beings experience sacred time in Hinduism and present an argument against Mircea Eliade’s understanding of the nature of sacred time in Hinduism. Eliade asserted that all sacred time in Hinduism is …
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