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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"blessing"”.
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Everybody Dreams, Everybody Lies: A Novel of Blessing
<p>I can’t make up my mind. It’s been unkempt for quite some time now. On one side (the analytic), there is the desire to write a tome about the father wound. Meaning The loss of wildness, instinct, what happens when men become distortions bent by what women want. About desire and looking for a man …
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Curse or blessing? : challenges of commodity-based economies
The idea that massive natural resource endowments would lead countries to weak economic growth and development is counterintuitive. Oil, gas, copper, gold or other resource riches should, at least in theory, spearhead countries with such natural wealth to growth that parallels non-commodity-based …
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The Oil Blessing: Reexamining Conflict in the Muslim World
<p>An influential conventional wisdom holds that oil causes intrastate conflict and that oil in particular explains the prevalence of domestic political violence in the Muslim world. I show that the relationship between oil and intrastate conflict in the empirical literature is more ambiguous than …
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A Distinguished Blessing of Grace: Abraham Booth’s Doctrine of Sanctification in Confessional Context
This dissertation focuses on the life and thought of the eighteenth-century Particular Baptist pastor-theologian Abraham Booth (1734–1806) and offers the first dedicated study of Booth’s doctrine of sanctification and its undergirding confessional context. It argues that Booth seems to have …
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Injury and blessing: a challenge to current readings of biblical discourse concerning impairment
In the ancient world, impairment was common knowledge: archaeological and written material demonstrate that people with impairments were included in society. Impairment was well understood and, in the rhetorical dynamic between author and reader, it was imaginatively used. The Early Church, for …
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Blessing or curse? : oil riches, economic policy, and the restructuringof Venzuela's plastics manufacturing
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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A blessing or a curse? An anatomy of the Republic of Cyprus energy program
… exploitation of hydrocarbons can be considered a blessing or a curse for the Republic of Cyprus, at least before the final settlement of the Cyprus issue. This thesis aims to contribute to the discussion related to the energy security of the Republic of Cyprus in the aftermath of the decision to …
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First language teaching initial reading: blessing or curse for the Zambian children under primary reading programme?
Unfamiliarity with the language of teaching is blamed for the high illiteracy rate among people who live in nations in which hundreds of languages are spoken. For a critical test of the importance of the language in which initial reading is taught we took the Zambian situation as a natural …
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The re-introduction of an opposition procedure in Maltese Trademark Law : a burden or a blessing?
This research seeks to analyse a significant procedural reform in Maltese Trademark Law which has been brought about by the harmonisation of Directive (EU) 2015/2436 and constitutes the re-introduction of an opposition procedure. The study will briefly trace the background of Maltese Trademark Law …
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Storying disillusionment : a decolonial reading of selected plays by Cheela Chilala, Blessing Hungwe, and Dunduzu Chisiza Jr
… I chose the playwrights Cheela Chilala (Zambia), Blessing Hungwe (Zimbabwe), and Dunduzu Chisiza Jr. (Malawi) for their significant contributions to contemporary playwriting due to critical acclaim and cultural relevance in their respective countries. A central thread that connects all these texts …
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The development stories of equatorial Guinea and Botswana : a game theory model of how public-private partnerships can turn resources from a curse into a blessing
The growth acceleration episodes characterizing Botswana and Equatorial Guinea were based on the respective discoveries of diamonds and oil. However, while Botswana, already characterized by inclusive and democratic institutions, succeeded in transferring much of the benefits deriving from the …
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Dialogue as the Labor of Care: Welcoming a Unity of Contraries
… In the end, caring is a unity of contraries; blessing and burden, joy and suffering, necessity and triumph. The invitation of dialogue into the communicative life of caring requires bravery and courage and thus creates strong and rare natures.</p><p> The impetus of this vision comes from the …
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The fellowship of the Holy Spirit : Second Corinthians 13:13 in the liturgy and for the church
This paper discusses the Pauline Blessing (Second Corinthians 13:13) now commonly referred to as "the Grace," with specific reference to the third component, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Part I explores the various interpretations of koinonia in New Testament writings; references to the …
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“Abiding”: A Biblical Critique of Andrew Murray’s Theology and Writings on Prayer
… of reasons—to bring God glory—the Second Blessing theology, which informs his writings, gives cause for concern. Chapter 1 introduces Murray’s teaching, surveys relevant literature, identifies the literature void, and presents the manuscript thesis. Chapter 2 reviews the various personal, …
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Lucidity
… and rooting systems. The thesis continues with Blessing, narrating love then loss, and finishes with a recipe for making a tomato sandwich. Blessing is followed by Materialize, a collective view of cyclical learning and meandering paths. Finally, the paper concludes with a quirky Women and …
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A Field Test of Three Approaches to Teacher Supervision in Secondary Schools in Guyana
This study received the blessing of the Ministry of Education in Guyana where teacher education is a priority and where teacher supervision and evaluation procedures need to be more effective. Two of the main assumptions of the study were that the pre-service training of teachers is inadequate
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Performative power and affective resonance: toward an understanding of Old Testament blessings as speech acts with affective impact
… theological, and affective dimensions of blessings in the Old Testament (OT), situating them as transformative speech acts with enduring significance for covenantal relationships and community identity. By integrating Speech Act Theory (SAT) and Affect Theory (AT), the study investigates …
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