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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"doctrine of the church"”.
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John Donne's doctrine of the Church
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The Development of the Doctrine of the Church and Religious Toleration among English Presbyterians, 1643-1705
Over sixty years, the English presbyterians went from the party of religious intolerance, exemplified by the polemicist Thomas Edwards in the mid-1640s, to a denomination that was among the most doctrinally diverse, known in the early 1700s for exponents of religious toleration such as Edmund …
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Is the conservation of classical liberal thought inherent in the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
The thesis of this paper is that the conservation of classical liberal thought is inherent within the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; I initially define the political concepts of classical liberalism and conservatism to determine a standard by which to measure the …
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La "responsabilità sociale" dell'imprenditore negli ambienti cattolici lombardi dagli anni Trenta alla Ricostruzione
My research focuses on the mentality of catholic entrepreneurs and managers in Italy between the 1930's and the 1950's. The main source of my study is the archive of an organization called Unione Cristiana Imprenditori Dirigenti [Christian Entrepreneurs and Managers Association], which was founded …
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Family in the Church Latter-day Saint doctrine regarding family and gender
<p>To discover the compatibility of traditional Christianity and mainstream feminism, a content analysis was performed on confirmed sources of doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Through systematic reading and identifying themes of God and the Bible, gender role separation, …
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Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498): Fashioning of a prophet and a new Jerusalem in late fifteenth-century Florence
… Savonarola (1452-1498) was a Dominican mendicant of the fifteenth century who fashioned himself as a prophet. Although there were many prophets in Italy, this study argued that Savonarola primarily emulated the biblical prophets of the Old Testament. Analysis of Savonarola’s discourse was based on …
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Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar: a critical engagement
This thesis examines the relationship between two major twentieth century theologians, Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar. It seeks to show how their meeting, resulting in von Balthasar’s seminal study The Theology of Karl Barth, goes on to influence von Balthasar’s theological development …
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The Church as an Agent of Reconciliation in the Thought of Desmond Tutu
<p>South Africa was both the first and last bastion of extended European colonial rule in Sub-Saharan Africa. Due to the extensive interaction between the Black and White races over time, who were distinguished by divergent philosophies of life, friction developed between these two major ethnic …
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The Missiology of T. G. John Sullivan with Implications on Contemporary Southern Baptist State Convention Work
ABSTRACT THE MISSIOLOGY OF T. G. JOHN SULLIVAN WITH IMPLICATIONS ON CONTEMPORARY SOUTHERN BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION WORK Michael Allen Tatem, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014 Chair: Dr. Adam W. Greenway This dissertation analyzes the missiology of T. G. John Sullivan, executive …
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Evangelical Ecclesiology and Liturgical Reform in the Edwardian Reformation, c. 1545-1555
This thesis offers an assessment of the Edwardian Reformation and its significance for the wider development of English Protestantism by examining the liturgical reforms of the period. The central question that this thesis grapples with is, how did Edwardian reformers apply their theological …
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Apostolic Succession in the Writings of Yves Congar and Oscar Cullmann
<p>Since its first explicit enunciation by the end of the second century, apostolic succession has been considered as one of the basic components of the church's apostolicity. As history shows, however, there have been different views on the nature and function of apostolic succession. Moreover, …
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The Magisterium and Theologians in the Writings of Avery Robert Dulles
… explores Avery Robert Dulles's views regarding the nature of doctrinal authority in the Roman Catholic Church, and particularly the relationship between the hierarchical magisterium and theologians, with special focus on the apparent disparity between his early post-Vatican II views and his …
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Baptists and religious liberty: 1700-1900
This dissertation examines the theological and historical understanding of religious liberty and separation of church and state among seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth-century American Baptists. Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the historiography of Baptist advocacy of religious liberty and …
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The Theology of Evangelism in the Ministry of Lewis Addison Drummond
This dissertation examines the theology and practice of evangelism of Lewis A. Drummond to show that effective evangelism does not happen apart from a commitment to biblical inerrancy. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis by examining the utility of a theology of evangelism. The principal argument of …
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Eucharist and Anthropology: Seeking Convergence on Eucharistic Sacrifice Between Catholics and Methodists
<p>Eucharistic sacrifice is both a doctrine of the church and a sacramental practice. Doctrinally, it explains in what manner the sacrament is a sacrifice, or at least its sacrificial dimension; liturgically, it refers to the offering that is made in the church's celebration of the eucharist, that …