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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Theological anthropology"”.
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Graceful Nothings: The Art of Beginning in Søren Kierkegaard’s Theological Anthropology
… is a constructive account of Søren Kierkegaard’s theological anthropology. In it I show that according to Kierkegaard: (1) human being consists in the continual task of becoming; (2) this becoming demands that we continually begin again; and (3) beginning is a kenotic art executed through the …
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Implications of Theological Anthropology for Online Pedagogy in Graduate-Level Ministerial Training
… dissertation is that by utilizing a biblical-theological framework, best practices of online graduate-level ministerial training can be presented in such a way that the role of the faculty, the objectives of the classroom, and the purpose of the institution are focused more effectively on the …
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Imago Dei and the earthly life : the theological anthropology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
This dissertation offers a theological anthropology in light of the doctrine of imago Dei and the importance of place for our understanding of human identity. Through reading the early writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in historical context, this dissertation shows how he provides resources we need …
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The Redemptive Function of Theological Anthropology for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Biblical Counseling
… framework, conveyed in explicitly theological terms or otherwise. These approaches either identify people who experience OCD principally in relation to the God of Christian Scripture or in relation to something or someone else. In this dissertation, I approach OCD through the prism …
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Breath of Life: A Biblical Understanding of the Human–Animal Distinction and a Critique of Contemporary Theological Anthropology
… path with the result that they come to different theological conclusions. A final chapter brings together the biblical data with its implications for theology.
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The Theological Anthropology Underlying Libermann's Understanding of the "Evangelization of the Blacks" in Dialogue with the Theological Anthropologies of the East African Context: Implications for the Contemporary East African Catholic Church
… dialogue by first, evaluating Libermann's theological anthropology of l'oeuvre des noirs in sitz im leben of the nineteenth century with its prejudices against Africans which can also be easily discerned in Libermann's writings and second, underlining important underpinnings of the East …
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Filiación-Fraternidad: The Hope of Human Existence in Light of Global Disparity. Exploring the Theological Anthropologies of Karl Rahner and José Ignacio González Faus.
… there exists a need for a contemporary Christian theological anthropology that is in dialogue with the social sciences and that attempts to develop an understanding of human sin, grace, and redemption in structural and social categories in order to offer an alternative vision of what it means to …
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Discerning Redeeming Communities: Rita Nakashima Brock and Elizabeth A. Johnson in Dialogue
… Friends of God and Prophets: A Feminist Theological Reading of the Communion of Saints offer resources for reflecting upon what redemptive community is, how it functions, and how women, in particular, experience redemption.</p><p> With deep roots in Trinitarian creation theology and a …
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Towards a Synthetic Account of Sin that Merges Magisterial Teaching and Theological Reflection on Sin with the Philosophical Insights of Bernard J.F. Lonergan
… of sin that examines and takes seriously the theological anthropology provided by the magisterium and contemporary theologians. I shall also attempt to make this account of sin accessible to the more sceptical reader by drawing on the work of the Canadian philosopher and theologian Bernard …
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A Comparative Analysis of Theological Anthropologies in Selected Christian Counseling Models
Chapter 1 introduces the significance of theological anthropology in counseling for theological coherency. Specifically, I discuss the anthropological issues of the spiritual nature and sin and their implications for what I call theo-anthropological holism. The epistemology of the three counseling …
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Liturgy and death : an examination of the pastoral and theological issues relating to funerals, with special reference to selected funerary rites
… funeral provision. This thesis offers a theological and ritual analysis of Christian funeral rites. It suggests that Christian funerals should be at least consistent with a theological anthropology, should relate the dead person to the death, descent and resurrection of Jesus, and should …
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Understanding the world better than it understands itself : the theological hermeneutics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
… is best understood as a consistent project of theological hermeneutics with an ecclesial focus. The project examines Bonhoeffer's life and writings with the intention of demonstrating how theological hermeneutics is at the center of his theological project and that each phase of development in …
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Visions of Origins and Ends: Personhood in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, John Heath-Stubbs, and Geoffrey Hill
… and eschatology that Eliot constructs a theological anthropology, challenged and developed by his poetic successors Geoffrey Hill and John Heath-Stubbs, that recovers the integral humanism undergirding Christian belief in the responsible will, action, and knowledge of human persons made …
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“My Heart is Steadfast”: A Theological Framework From Selected Psalms of David for Considering Trauma
… events recorded in 1 and 2 Samuel? Informed by theological anthropology, this dissertation will examine the Davidic psalms with superscriptions tied to narrative events in David’s life in order to reveal a variety of anthropological insights pertinent to understanding trauma responses in a …
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The Influence of Thomas Aquinas’ Concept of Createdness on Josef Pieper’s Moral Philosophy
… the created human person. Pieper uses Aquinas’ theological anthropology to argue for three actions which respond to the reality of being created: giving assent to having been brought into existence by God, perceiving God and created reality, and pursuing of the end of human life through the …
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Body, soul, and bible : a religious history of nineteenth-century physiological reform.
… arguing first that a holistic or sympathetic theological anthropology undergirded the sacralization of bodily regimen. Second, this thesis demonstrates that physiological reformers relied on the Bible to promote their movement and that the Bible's dietary teachings were a substantial point of …
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