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Showing 1 to 20 of 430 for “"Salvation"”.
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Salvation Army : the next generation
The Salvation Army thrift stores are retail entities in the center of neighborhoods which collect and resell used objects. Although historically dear to many, it seems that the physical condition, market visibility, and social perception of these stores do not always match the importance of the …
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Adoption: exploring a neglected doctrine of salvation
… systematic function as an organising metaphor of salvation. Despite a historical neglect and misunderstanding of the subject, contemporary debates now arise regarding Paul’s cultural source behind his metaphor of adoption, or huiothesia; whether humanity is created with an original relationship of …
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Salvation of the Damned Within the 'Periphyseon'
This dissertation shall examine the claim of John Scottus Eriugena, the ninth century Irish philosopher, that all things must ultimately return to unity with their creator. This is the ancient Greek theme of apokatastasis, which essentially means reconstitution in full to that which was primordial. …
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Martin Luther's Doctrine of Justification and Salvation
Man is born of woman. It is she who watches over and cares for him during his tender years. It is she who first teaches him to commend himself to his Maker. In fact, it is she who is the dominating influence of his early years. Next to the mother's influence, during this period, comes that of the …
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Techno-Salvation: Developing a Christian Hermeneutic of Enhancement Technology
A cadre of scientists, philosophers, and ethicists labeled transhumanists and posthumanists argue that by strategic use of technology we can greatly enhance human beings into our next stage of evolution. Rather than leave the evolutionary process to natural results, transhumanists and posthumanists …
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Salvation in the Scholarship of Seventeenth-Century English Catholics
… the relationship between ‘new’ philosophy and salvation in the scholarship of three seventeenth-century English Catholics: Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), Thomas White (1593–1676), and Franciscus à Sancta Clara (c. 1598–1680). My first overarching argument is that salvation is an invaluable and …
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Some aspects of organisational life in a Salvation Army corps.
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The search for salvation: lay faith in Scotland, 1480-1560
… the path which laypeople chose to attain salvation, so chapters on the Day of Judgement, heaven, hell and purgatory should be seen as the context for understanding the chapters on God, Mary and Jesus. The first chapters discusses the Day of Judgement, an event which must be understood in …
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Salvation as Victory: A Study on Divine Grace and Human Responsibility in Salvation in the Book of Revelation Through the Lens of the Conquering Motif
… of divine grace and human responsibility for salvation in the book of Revelation. This dissertation argues that the conquering motif, conveyed by the verb νικάω and grounded in the theme of Old Testament holy war, serves as an effective soteriological framework through which to analyze the …
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Israel's salvation: The meaning of "all Israel" in Romans 11:26
… Israel, or the church? What is Paul's view of salvation of Israel in the epistle of Romans? Chapter 1 shows that previous studies have not paid enough attention to the meaning of the phrase "all Israel" in its New Testament usage. The handling of the context of Isaiah in the interpretations of …
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Experiments in Social Salvation: The Settlement Movement in Chicago, 1890-1910
… public welfare in their pursuit of social salvation. The settlement community advanced a methodology of experimentation and flexibility, which was instrumental to the transformation of nineteenth century ideas of charity into the new twentieth century science of social work. The processes …
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Evolution Esotericized: Conceptual Blending and the Emergence of Secular, Therapeutic Salvation
… from multiple domains, including religious salvation, spiritualist and esoteric forms of divinization, psychotherapy, nineteenth-century biology, and Asian religions filtered through a Western lens—all informed by reference to the great chain of being metaphor. Though esotericized evolution …
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The Representation of Salvation in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
… centuries and contrasts the representations of salvation within them. The Lives of Constantine and Antony, The Lausiac History and The Sayings o f the Desert Fathers discussed conceptions of salvation in some of the earliest forms of monastic literature. The contention of this thesis is that in …
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"Temporal Salvation": A Study of LDS Leadership Strategies From 1874-1917
… their doctrine to help them achieve “temporal salvation.” This study maps how LDS leaders shifted the meanings of two of their doctrines—plural marriage and the Word of Wisdom—from 1874 to 1917 to achieve their larger goals. Plural marriage originally served to unite the members of their …
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