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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"The Trinity"”.
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The Trinity : myth, vision, and form in Dallas's River
The thesis explores the planning history of the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas. It examines the dramatic physical changes that have occurred in a particular area of the river adjacent to downtown, referred to as the Trinity Banks District (TBD), between the years 1840 and 2015. The thesis explores …
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Geochronological constraints on the Trinity diamictite in Newfoundland : Implications for Ediacaran glaciation
The Avalon terrane in Newfoundland includes the Ediacaran Gaskiers Formation, which has been associated with a Snowball glaciation event. The complicated regional stratigraphy and lack of precise geochronological constraints has made it difficult to determine the spatial and temporal extent of the …
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Personhood, Particularity, and Perichoresis: The Doctrine of the Trinity in Identity and Faith Formation
This thesis argues for the importance of doctrine in faith formation and retention among emerging adults in contemporary Canadian Christianity. Advocating a holistic approach to faith which blends mindful doctrinal engagement with the practical and emotional aspects of faith, the thesis maintains …
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The feminist use of inclusive language for the Trinity: A case study in hermeneutical method
This thesis explores the relationship between feminists' use of inclusive language for the Trinity and their hermeneutical method in order to determine the viability of their method for theological construction. Chapter 1 describes the theological tradition out of which the feminist critique …
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Descent and Ascent in Augustine's De Trinitate: Prayer as a Way of Being in the Trinity
This thesis uses an Augustinian model of participation, derived from Augustine’s *De Trinitate*, to examine how human prayer participates in something of God’s own self and action. I argue that intercession is an especially helpful category for understanding the participatory shape of human prayer. …
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Proto-Trinity: the development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the first and second Christian centuries
The search for the ‘historical Jesus’ has resulted in the view that Jesus never was, nor claimed to be, any more than a mere man. A conservative theologian still hold that the doctrine of the Trinity, later made explicit in the creeds, is implicit within the New Testament texts and was Jesus’ most …
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"We are in the Congo now" : Sweden and the trinity of peacekeeping during the Congo crisis 1960-1964
his work examines the contemporaneous Swedish experience from participation in the United Nations operation in the Congo, ONUC, from 1960 to 1964. Inspired by Carl von Clausewitz’s understanding of war as a trinity consisting of three ‘nodes’: the political authority, the people and the military, …
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The discovery of Merlin’s spirit within the trinity of Robert de Boron’s Le Roman de L’estorie dou Graal
… text, a purpose of this paper was to examine the literary background of Merlin’s character to search for his connection with any mystical powers, which would validate his commanding role as a facilitator in Robert’s Merlin section of his romance, a role in which I claim he has been given the …
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Explaining the Conceptualisation of Reputation in the Trinity of Torts: Defamation, Misuse of Private Information and Data Protection
… overlapping causes of action in response to the same event provided each action protects a distinct value. Despite this, concern has been expressed about claimants’ ability to pursue misuse of private information and data protection claims in response to reputational harm, when historically …
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To what extent do ‘processes of the mind’, consistent with evolutionary psychology, account for religious experiences involving the Trinity?
From a theistic perspective, this dissertation considers the hypothesis that ‘processes of the mind’, consistent with evolutionary psychology, facilitate subjective experiences of God as Trinity. Christians have for nearly two millennia reported experiences believed to involve the Father, the Son …
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Classical Trinitarian Theology and the Idolatry of Nationalism: The Doctrine of the Trinity as a Critique of Political Theology
<p>This dissertation proposes that the doctrine of the Trinity, in the field of political theology today, should be taken as a critique of the idolatry of nationalism and should point us toward a new theological politics that is informed by the proper worship of the triune God, especially in the …
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Communion with God and Comfortable Dependence on Him: Anne Dutton's Trinitarian Spirituality
… seeks to retrieve a crucial aspect of the spiritual heritage of Anne Dutton, her Trinitarian spirituality as it was developed in the historical context of eighteenth-century Trinitarian controversies in England and especially the Particular Baptists’ defense of the Trinity. It argues …
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Will-Independent Mereological Trinity Monotheism: A Defense of the Logical Coherence of, A Priori Motivation for, and a Particular Model Concerning the Doctrine of the Trinity
<p>The doctrine posits that God is one being, but three persons. The orthodox parameters for affirming the Trinity are found in the early Ecumenical Creeds of Christendom, especially the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds. Four primary affirmations emerge as a summary of the essential content of the …
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The Trinitarian Theology of John Gill (1697-1771): Context, Sources, and Controversy
ABSTRACT THE TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY OF JOHN GILL (1697–1771): CONTEXT, SOURCES, AND CONTROVERSY Steven Tshombe Godet, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015 Chair: Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin In the eighteenth century in Britain, a major controversy arose over the doctrine of the Trinity. …
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Submerged wood inhabiting macoinvertebrates of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, Texas: Assemblage analyses, comparisons to the benthic fauna, and a study of Cyrnellus fraternus (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae)
… snags were examined from an 8-km segment of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River. Seventy-seven macroinvertebrate taxa were collected from submerged wood during the study. Assemblages were highly variable spatially and temporally, especially among seasons. An ordination of species and …
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Toward Creaturely Value: God's Inner Processive Life and the Intrinsic Value of Creatures in Thomas Aquinas
The intrinsic value of creatures is defensible on many accounts, though more rarely from a speculative, metaphysical, and theological perspective. In this thesis, I seek to establish and elaborate the connection between creaturely value and scholastic theology through the work of Thomas Aquinas. In …
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Gregory of Nazianzus's Use of Creation in the Trinitarian Controversy: Theological Hermeneutics as Polemic
… of biblical creation texts in order to uphold the divinity of the persons of the Trinity against his later fourth-century Trinitarian opponents. 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 …
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Trinitarian Grammars: A Comparison of Gregory of Nazianzus and Some Contemporary Models
There is a growing trend among contemporary models to claim that their model is based upon the Eastern tradition in opposition to the Western model represented by Augustine. The purpose of the dissertation is to describe the doctrines of the knowledge of God and the Trinity as articulated by …
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