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Evidence for the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ Examined through the Islamic Law
This dissertation argues that evidence for the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ passes examination under the Islamic law of evidence. This is significant because Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and the only great world religion whose sacred book expressly denies …
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The Crucifiable Jesus
In recent decades, scholars have both used Jesus’ crucifixion as a criterion of historicity and employed the rhetoric of a “crucifiable Jesus”– suggesting that some historical reconstructions of Jesus more plausibly explain his crucifixion than others. This dissertation tests the grounds of these …
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An investigation of the theological questions raised by twentieth-century works of art which make use of the iconography of the crucifixion
… from an observation that the iconography of the crucifixion was being used by artists in the twentieth century for purposes beyond its usage in earlier centuries. As an active member of a Christian Community this appeared to have implications for a Christian understanding of the theological …
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Jesus' parousia in the context of the crucifixion: An exegetical analysis of Matthew 24:1-26:2 using the semiotic method.
… guided our investigation: one, the Son of Man's crucifixion on the day of Passover implies that it is necessary for the Son to go to his Father in order to come back empowered to judge all the nations, and two, the $\pi\alpha\rho o\upsilon\sigma\acute\iota\alpha$ of the Son of Man is above all a …
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The Devotional Significance of the Cross in Medieval Literature
… The necessary instrument of Christ's crucifixion, the cornerstone of Christian belief, the cross's basic form and shape has been easily adapted to various uses, media, and symbolism. It exists throughout the medieval period as a symbol of Christ, his crucifixion, and his sacrifice …
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The politics of the crucified: a study of the political theology of John Howard Yoder, Leonardo Boff and Jon Sobrino with special reference to the crucifixion
… doctrine of political power is affected by the crucifixion, and how the contemporary church, particularly in Britain, might adopt a ‘cruciform’ political praxis. The conclusion is drawn that the chief Christian criterion for analysing political power is victimological – i.e. from the perspective …
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Women in Mark's gospel
… disciples is described for the first time at his crucifixion (15:41). In Mark's apocalyptic world-view the death of Jesus is a time of revelation. The service of the women disciples is mentioned at the crucifixion of Jesus because the true nature of discipleship can only be understood in the …
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Tracing the passion of a black Christ: critical reflections on the iconographic revision and symbolic redeployment of the Stations of the Cross and Passion cycle by South African artists Sydney Kumalo, Sokhaya Charles Nkosi and Azaria Mbatha
… secular reimaginings of Sokhaya Charles Nkosi's Crucifixion (1976) and Azaria Mbatha's Stations of the Cross for Africa (1995) - as series wherein the episodes of Christ's Passion are consciously and symbolically redeployed. In the case of Nkosi's Crucifixion, I show as covertly documented in a …
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'n Ondersoek na die bronne wat Matthias Grünewald gebruik het vir die skilder van die Isenheim-altaarstuk : die Kruisigingstoneel
… Matthias Grünewald,used for the painting of the crucifixion scene of the Isenheim altar. It will also look at the life and works of Matthias Grünewald. Matthias Grünewald's life is as much a mystery as William Shakespeare's life. There are few records of his life available and he used his wife's …
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Who Says That God Loves the World? A Historical Argument to Identify the Ambiguous Speakers in John 3
… Evangelist is speaking when the focus is on the crucifixion. Chapter 3 covers the medieval era and demonstrates a continuation of the findings from the previous period. Although slightly more authors identify the Evangelist as speaking, the correlation between speaker and christological focus …
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From isolation to incorporation : medical-theological imagery in the work of T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, and Gwyneth Lewis.
… allusion and the language of Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection—including a direct reference to the Crucifixion as a surgical procedure—to present a holistic and narratively-centered vision of health. By assessing the intersection of medical and theological concepts in these works, …
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Vengeance and the crusades 1095-1216
… Muslims in a number of ways centring around the crucifixion of Christ, and in so doing contributed to the ideology of crusading as vengeance. In sources from the early thirteenth century, particularly papal correspondence, the idea of crusading as an act of vengeance was applied to a variety of …
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Apocalyptic opening, eschatological `inclusio': a study of the rending of the heaven and the temple curtain in the Gospel of Mark with special references to the motif of `seeing'
… moments of Jesus’ ministry, his baptism and crucifixion, and of Mark’s narrative, the beginning and end, they are seen and argued as the monumental events that epitomize Mark’s apocalyptic and eschatological understanding of Jesus’ life and death. In line with the apocalyptic and …
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Mother of God, Cease Sorrow!: The Significance of Movement in a Late Byzantine Icon
… with the Virgin Pausolype, Feast Scenes, the Crucifixion and Prophets, suggests others. While the catalog entry by Annemarie Weyl Carr in Byzantium: Faith and Power remains the only published discussion of this particular icon, or even specifically of the Pausolype ("cease sorrow!") …
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Prince of Life: An Anthem Cycle for Christian Year
… Ascensiontide, and Trinity. They tell the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, who gave His life to the world, so that the world might gain life. The music is written in functional harmony; however, there are cluster chords, dissonant harmonic intervals, and unconventional vocal leaps. There are …
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The theology of The Dream of The Rood
… of the cross as a religious symbol of crucifixion and resurrection.
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Création théâtrale, inhumain et postmodernité.
… a des paroles blessantes. Il s'ensuit une crucifixion verbale de l'absente. C'est le drame d'un discours banal qui s'avere porteur de mort. Cette creation est inseree dans la conception de l'inhumain elaboree par Jean-Francois Lyotard dans sa reflexion sur la postmodernite. Les ecrits de …
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Some major Christian beliefs and Muslim objections and responses to the person and work of Jesus Christ
… and birth, his Incarnation as God’s Word, his crucifixion as atoning death, as well as His resurrection, ascension and return.We will also examine Muslim objections and responses to these beliefs and set out a Christian case for continuing to hold them with integrity and to commend them to …
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Suffering and the Search for Wholeness: Beauty and the Cross in Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Contemporary Feminist Theologies
… the beauty of the cross and the violence of the crucifixion creates a dissonance within Christian theology. In terms of atonement theologies, this dissonance has been interpreted through the development of a converted sense of beauty in which the cross, as perceived and interpreted by the …
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Representations of Jews in Late Medieval German Literature
… attribute to Jews sole guilt for Jesus's Crucifixion and exclusively venal motives. In hagiography (legends of St. Silvester, ""Der Judenknabe,"" Theophilus, St. Basil) Jews are variously depicted as philosophers, sorcerers, filicides, loving fathers, and righteous physicians. These …
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