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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Sinners"”.
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All Saints and Sinners
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Mystics, Radicals, Sinners, and Saints: Freedom, Rebirth, and the American West
This dissertation explores the lives of John Muir, the Taos Society of Artists, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Everett Ruess, Edith Warner, and the Taos hippies who journeyed to the American West in search of freedom. In the Western setting, with its diverse yet distinctive and stunning terrain, these …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Sainthood entails performance — of holiness, of spiritual virtue, of connection to the divine. It also entails the performance of gender. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender performance, this thesis, focusing on the thirteenth century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
Sainthood entails performance — of holiness, of spiritual virtue, of connection to the divine. It also entails the performance of gender. Using Judith Butler’s theory of gender performance, this thesis, focusing on the thirteenth century, examines the hagiographies of six saints — St Margaret, St …
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Saints, Sinners, and Socialists on the Southside: Polish Catholic Immigrant Workers, Politics, and Culture in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1890-1930
In the years after the Civil War, Wheeling, West Virginia developed into a major manufacturing center in the Northern Panhandle. Until 1885, Wheeling was the state capital of West Virginia and was the center of cut nail production in America. The city already possessed a large population of Irish …
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Of saints and sinners. Native resistance to Ottoman expansion in Southeastern Europe, 1443-1481: George Castriota Scanderberg and Vlad III Dracula
This work is a parallel study of two different attempts to oppose Ottoman expansion in Southeastern Europe during the fifteenth century: George Castriota Scanderbeg in Albania and Prince Vlad III, the historic Dracula, in Wallachia. The careers of each of these men are presented individually, their …
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Tertullian’s conversion to Montanism as the root cause of the dispute between Cyprian and Novatian over the treatment and fate of the Lapsed
… and ecclesiology. As a catholic he admitted sinners to repentance who would eventually be reconciled to the church in this life. After his conversion he reversed this and barred all grave sinners from knowledge of their reconciliation, though still making them perform penance. Cyprian and …
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Dirge in Georgia Minor
… and nature behold with surprise we trembling sinners. As if we are just descended, and our entire bodies— somehow negotiable across this blackness—are and are not so. Every day blued steel blackens palms, ashen knuckles wrung numb—the crossing and relaxing of so many pairs of fingers begging …
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Dirge in Georgia Minor
… and nature behold with surprise we trembling sinners. As if we are just descended, and our entire bodies— somehow negotiable across this blackness—are and are not so. Every day blued steel blackens palms, ashen knuckles wrung numb—the crossing and relaxing of so many pairs of fingers begging …
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Who is Paying for God: A thematic analysis of Henry Arthur Jones's religious plays in relation to the modernist trend
… His Lost Angel, Judah, </em>and <em>Saints and Sinners, </em>this project examines Jones’s use of popular theatrical genres to provide commentary on the religious and fiscal tensions in the surrounding Victorian society. The critical commentary in Jones’s plays is then used to draw a connection …
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2 Peter 2:4-16: The Redaction of the Biblical and Intertestamental References Dependent on Jude 5-11 and Their Overall Significance for the Document
… and Pseudepigrapha to present six notorious sinners/ groups of sinners placing them in two clusters of three. In the first cluster (Jude 5-7// 2 Pet 2:4-8) Jude names the Exodus generation, the sinful angels, and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, 2 Peter substitutes the Flood for the Exodus …
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“The Grand Encouragement”: Andrew Fuller’s Pneumatology as a Reception of and Advancement on Orthodox, Puritan, and Evangelical Perspectives on the Holy Spirit
… work of the Spirit in the conversion of sinners with an evangelical emphasis on mission. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the Puritan movement, with a particular focus on pneumatological development within the three most influential Puritan theologians for Fuller: John Bunyan, John Owen, …
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Psalms of assurance: an analysis of the formation and function of Psalms of Solomon in Second Temple Judaism
… in the text and that categories such as sinners, righteous, purity, impurity, Jews, non-Jews are defined from the perspective that God is present in the Temple at Jerusalem. Inasmuch as the issues of sinners, righteous, purity, impurity, Jews, and non-Jews are of central importance to the …
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The Mormons: Their Trek Across Iowa and Their Settlement in Kanesville
… the righteous men they professed to be or the sinners many writers feel that they were. The historical value of the Mormons across and in Iowa has been the aim of this thesis.
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Applying the principles of Missio Dei: Ministering to the Mozambican migrants in the North West province of South Africa
… for Bible schools, obstacles in reaching sinners with the gospel and structural problems in their churches. This thesis reflects on the actual quality of life of the Mozambican migrants and scientifically analyses their encumbrances. It also provides an assessment of the adaptability and …
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The elder son's quandary and the rich man's fate : moral formation, characterization, and rhetoric in Luke 15:11-32 and 16:19-31.
… Coming on the heels that Jesus "welcomes sinners and dines with them" (Luke 15:2), these parables accept and extend the rhetorical engagement between Jesus, the Pharisees, and the scribes. Given the similarities between the parables, this project provides an answer to the question: "Why …
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The Catholic Calvin: A study on the satisfaction of Christ and the necessity of the cross in John Calvin’s theology
… nature required punishment of sin either in sinners or in a substitute. These findings demonstrate that Calvin stands in continuity with a Medieval Augustinian tradition and not with later Reformed figures such as John Owen. The significance of this retrieval is twofold: it corrects …
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The impact of revivalism upon Baptist faith and practice in the American South prior to the Civil War.
… invitations to their preaching, songs calling on sinners to convert were appended to their hymnbooks, and they shifted their corporate structures to emphasize missions and evangelism. As a result, the Southern Baptist Convention was, at its founding in 1845, among the largest religious groups in …
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