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Showing 1 to 20 of 418 for “"hermeneutics"”.
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Hermeneutics of the Crossroads
… and uninhabited modes of understanding. The hermeneutics of the crossroads is an imaginative approach that keeps us open to the transformative power of literature transpiring when we bring to the text our working scholarly knowledge, but also allow ourselves to receive what it has to offer …
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Augustine's incarnational hermeneutics and postmodernity
… a systematic treatment of Augustine’s theory of hermeneutics in favor of theological/doctrinal issues. This thesis begins with a contextualization of the hermeneutic of late antiquity, then follows Augustine’s analysis of the three-fold schema of language: res, verbum, and dicibile. Primary texts …
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The hermeneutics of airphoto interpretation
… utilizes a methodology defined as hermeneutical. Hermeneutics is the study of communication, or the exchange of knowledge accomplished through a text. The treatment of aerial photography as a text provides insight into the multiplicity of roles it played in national policy. Normative logic has …
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THE HERMENEUTICS OF THE ARABIAN SŪQ
The research intends to offer a philosophical hermeneutic reading of the Arabian Sūq, considered a principal urban constituent of almost all Arab cities. The relevance of such a study is hinged on two observations relating to the bulk of reviewed literature. The first is concerned with some current …
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The hermeneutics of the modern subject.
Martin Heidegger was the first modern European philosopher to alert mankind to the dangers of modern technology. He argued that technology is an enframing or a limiting perspective of the possibilities for human existence. The philosopher Michel Foucault investigated the geneology of the way that …
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Listening to Language in Gadamer's Hermeneutics
Subscribing to Hans-Georg Gadamer's belief that human beings are called to be insightful and discerning, this dissertation explores Gadamer's idea and practice of listening to language in order to understand the relationship between a constitutive theory of language and a life of wisdom. As …
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Reading Daniel as a theological hermeneutics textbook
Reading Daniel as a Theological Hermeneutics Textbook is a thesis that sets out to read the book of Daniel as a narrative textbook in the field of theological hermeneutics. Employing such disciplines as historical criticism, literary criticism, narrative theology and hermeneutics, this thesis seeks …
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The hermeneutics of social identity in Luke-Acts
Social Identity Theory (SIT) is a promising tool in New Testament studies for helping readers understand the dynamics and formation of group identity in the First Century. The specific contention of this dissertation is that the author of Luke-Acts seeks to create and shape identity among …
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JOHN CHRYSOSTOM AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF EXEMPLAR PORTRAITS
… of exemplar discourse in both traditions, a hermeneutics of exemplar portraits may be developed. Such a hermeneutical approach will not only elucidate Chrysostom’s pedagogical and ideological objectives for these portraits, but, more importantly, deepen our understanding of his ethics and …
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Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy
<p><em>Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy</em> spans the fields of composition and rhetoric, literacy studies, archival studies, and queer theory. Deploying unconventional archival texts such as public graffiti, self-published zines, and underground manuals, this project …
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Biblical hermeneutics and black theology in South Africa
… thesis with a critical appraisal of the biblical hermeneutics of especialiy two of the most outstanding and outspoken black theological activists in South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dr Allan Boesak. The fundamental weakness of the biblical hermeneutics of black theology is attributed to …
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Contextualized biblical hermeneutics in Korea and South Africa and decontextualized biblical hermeneutics in Jehovah's witnesses : in search of voices from the margin
… in search of voices from the margin in biblical hermeneutics. Firstly, biblical hermeneutics in the third world (Korea and South Africa) is marginalized by European biblical hermeneutics. However, their biblical hermeneutics plays significant roles in a political and cultural context in the name …
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The Use of Imagination for Expository Hermeneutics and Homiletics
ABSTRACT THE USE OF IMAGINATION FOR EXPOSITORY HERMENEUTICS AND HOMILETICS Barnabas Youn Soo Kim, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014 Chair: Dr. Robert A. Vogel The purpose of this dissertation is to discover the value of imagination for expository preaching. The thesis of this …
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Spirit, discipleship, community : the contemporary significance of Anabaptist hermeneutics
… to undertake a comprehensive survey of the hermeneutics of early Anabaptism (1525-1560) in order to clarify the principles operating within this movement and to distinguish Anabaptist hermeneutics from other sixteenth century systems of biblical interpretation; and, on the basis of this …
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A hermeneutics of the ontology of time and technology
… thesis. This duality emerges from how the term ‘hermeneutics’ can be applied. In one sense the hermeneutics of this thesis is a textual interpretation of the philosophical history of ontology. This is an interpretation of ontological theory from its genesis with the Pre-Socratic concern with the …
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MetaFormances : the hermeneutics of play in language/art/life
MetaFormances is a correspondence-based project that took place between 2005 and 2007. Miming the protocol of business form letters, the letters request their recipient to perform absurd, erotic, and illicit behavior in order to transform the letter into something else. As I see it, the recipients' …
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The normative structure of science, hermeneutics, and leisure experience
… of an interpretive paradigm (productive hermeneutics) and to outline a hermeneutic research program for exploring leisure experience and relationship to resource. The core of the model of the macrostructure of science is Laudan's (1984) Reticulated Model of Scientific Rationality. This …
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