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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"death of Jesus"”.
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Atonement in John: The Death of Jesus in Light of Exodus Typology
… critical scholarship have argued against viewing Jesus' death as a vicarious atonement (e.g., Bultmann), their arguments have failed to adequately deal with the text of the Fourth Gospel (FG). Morgan-Wynne has recently published a concerted effort to demonstrate that atonement in the FG is indeed …
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Jewish Jesus, Gentile church - Jewish meal? The origins and development of the Lord's Supper through a Jewish prism
… thesis I argue that the origins and development of the Lord’s Supper are best understood through a Jewish prism. In order to do this, I create a distinction between ethos and practice. The four critical research questions that govern the thesis are: Firstly, why did the Lord’s Supper come about …
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The atonement in Lukan theology
This dissertation examines the narrative of Luke-Acts in order to assess the widespread scholarly assertion that Luke either rejects or minimizes atonement theology in his presentation of the death of Jesus. Chapter 1 provides a history of modern research on the meaning of Jesus' death in Lukan …
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Godself
<p>This thesis paper supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition at the Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, from February 11th through February 15th, 2013. The exhibit is divided into two sections: Reflecting and Remembering. Reflecting is composed of eleven relief woodblock prints …
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Women in Mark's gospel
This thesis aims to examine the portrayal of women in Mark's gospel in the context of his apocalyptic world-view. Each account that features women characters is interpreted in relation to Mark's definition of discipleship and his understanding of new creation. One of the key characteristics of …
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Testament: Mastering and Transcending the Microbudget Model for a Feature Film
Testament is a feature film serving as part of Tim Ritter's thesis requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in the Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema program at the University of Central Florida. The film follows a bitter former follower of a marginally popular social-justice movement who must …
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Law and Love in Second Temple Judaism and in Galatians 5:14
… argues that Paul interprets the love command of Leviticus 19:18 in Galatians 5:14 primarily in the light of Jesus Christ. This does not mean that Paul considers Christ only when he states the relationship between the law and love in Galatians 5:14. Paul neither ignores the Old Testament law, …
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The formation of the prisoner-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer: a close reading of Letters and papers from prison, from April 5,1943 to July 20, 1944
… displacement. Using the anthropological theory of liminality as a lens for analysis, it offers a close reading of Bonhoeffer’s prison writings, examining the porous nature of the sociocultural and metaphorical boundaries of the prison space as expressed in notes, letters, essays, prayers, …
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Abraham and the exile in Galatians 3:1-14
… the Galatians in which he interprets the story of Israel from Abraham through the Exile to provide an historical example of the fact that entrance into the people of God is gained only through faith in the Messiah, whose death is described in terms of the restoration from the Exile, and that …
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An examination of the life and career of Rev William McGill (1732-1807): controversial Ayr theologian
… minister to William Dalrymple (1723-1814) of the Old Kirk in Ayr. McGill was principally accused of holding ‘Socinian’ views, particularly in his Practical Essay on the Death of Jesus Christ (1786) which were at odds with the accepted standards of his church, a church which still retained a …
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The Johannine Paroimia
<p>This investigation studied the use of the Greek term <strong>παροιμια</strong> in the Gospel of John. In chapter 1 modern and ancient writers who wrote about the <strong>παροιμια</strong> are reviewed as a background study. The discussions are mostly limited to the area of popular proverbs. The …
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Near Death Experiences and the Christian Gospel: Concord or Conflict?
<p>The near-death phenomenon has initiated a new debate over Jesus' and Paul's claim in the New Testament that the gospel message therein outlines the only way to salvation. Despite twenty-five years of writing and research by near-death (NDE) advocates the dispute continues not only over the …
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The centurion's confession as apocalyptic unveiling : Mark 15 : 39 as a Markan theology of revelation.
Mark 15:39 has often been identified as the narrative climax of Mark's Gospel. Here, for the first time, a human identifies the crucified Jesus as God's son. Most commentators have also noted that this statement immediately follows the narratival comment that the temple veil was torn in two …
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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 …