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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"human person"”.
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Magda Arnold and the Human Person: A Mid-Century Case Study on the Relationship Between Psychology and Religion
… Arnold rejected reductionistic theories of the human person, instead articulating theories which emphasized human agency and telos, and which held up the human experience as the primary source of psychological knowledge. Arnold’s conversion significantly affected her career, as she made …
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We - For The Other: Solidarity as an Enactment of Ethical-Empathetic Subjectivity (An Analysis of the Philosophical Projects of Emmanuel Levinas and Edith Stein, and the Concept of Solidarity)
What does it mean to be a human person? How do we enact our humanity? These are the questions that run like a thread throughout this project. Eschewing Hamlet's famous question - To be or not to be? - this dissertation situates itself within the postmodern context, exploring the work of Emmanuel …
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The Organic Unity of Revelation: Towards a Biblical, Historical, and Theological Understanding of the External and Internal Nature of Revelation
… whether a revelation occurs objectively to the human person in the form of a disclosure of information (external) or subjectively to the human person in the form of an unveiling of perception (internal). The argument is developed by utilizing a biblical, historical, systematic, and practical …
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Beauty as transcendent in Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Rumer Godden.
… accomplished this by focusing on the role of the human person in beauty, especially the human person as it encapsulates both the physical and the spiritual. Greene treated beauty the same way he treated goodness, which gave it the status of a transcendental. Spark demonstrated her awareness of …
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Religion, Science, and the Conscious Self: Bio-Psychological Explanation and the Debate Between Dualism and Naturalism
… questions concerning the nature of the human person, the existence and nature of God, and the nature of moral judgment through contemporary neuroscience, cognitive science, scientific moral psychology, and analytic philosophy of mind. Contrary to proposals that seek a harmonious …
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The personalism of Denis de Rougemont: spirituality and politics in 1930s Europe
Neither communist, nor fascist, the personalist third way was an original attempt to remedy the malaise of liberal democracies in 1930s Europe. Personalism puts the emphasis on the human person – understood to be an individual $\textit{in relation}$ to others – as the foundation and aim of society. …
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Mary as Ecclesial Person: The Key to Modernity's Quest for Personhood
… propose to look at how Mary is the model of the human person defined as being-in-relation, made for communion. Modernity prioritises the values of freedom, independence and rationality, yet what it describes is less personhood than dualistic individuality. It has recognised relationality yet …
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The significance of the body in ethical discourse: Julia Kristeva's contribution to moral theology.
… the temptation to excessively identify the human person with his or her body when addressing imbalances which limit and oppress women and men. Within a survey of literature in Christian ethics, I identify three levels of progressively more nuanced responses. The levels are those who …
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Rebuilding the Catholic Brand in America: An Isocratean Perspective
… organization that promoted the dignity of the human person and acted as an ethically responsible corporate citizen in American society. However, such moral authority crumbled following the 2002 Boston Globe revelations that for decades the Church's hierarchy in the Archdiocese of Boston had …
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O problema da efetividade do direito fundamental de propriedade nas relações horizontais considerando a produtividade como critério de limitação eleito pelo legislador brasileiro
… to property protection. The dignity of the human person together with the rule of law because they represent principles that justify the existence of fundamental rights was demonstrated under the bias of the recognition that every human being, by virtue of being human, coalesces around him a …
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The Influence of Thomas Aquinas’ Concept of Createdness on Josef Pieper’s Moral Philosophy
… and specifically Aquinas’ concept of the created human person. Pieper uses Aquinas’ theological anthropology to argue for three actions which respond to the reality of being created: giving assent to having been brought into existence by God, perceiving God and created reality, and pursuing of the …
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Traces of Otherness in St. Thomas Aquinas' Theology of Grace
… a concern for the other and a structure to the human person that supports this concern. Using Clarkeian interpretation of St. Thomas along with unique analysis both a nature and a grace that is for the self and for the other is discovered. In the fourth chapter this structure is put in dialogue …
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The Implications of an Evangelical Theology of the Body for Christocentric Spiritual Formation
… failure to recognize the significance of human embodiment in this way neglects a fundamental aspect of the imago Dei. This thesis researches the biblical view of human embodiment and assesses how the physical body relates to spiritual formation. Often, the soul⎯or spiritual dimension of …
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Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture
… on relational healing and the dignity of the human person. Christian writers including St. Pope John Paul II, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Josef Pieper, Madeline L’Engle, Dr. Bob Schuchts, Makoto Fujimura, and Andrew Peterson inform an exploration of mercy, forgiveness, and love as self-gift in …
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Construção da economia solidária e sua política pública no município de João Pessoa
… that in synthesis, are used to dignify the human person as worker and citizen. From this, as the main focus, the research seeks to analyze from a case study, the framework that is being devised in the promotion / construction of Solidary Economy and its municipal politics in João Pessoa, …
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Who do I say that I am? : identity as a construct and its implications for Christian anthropology
… in its understanding of what it means to be human and how the human person can be said to constitute the Imago Dei.
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The Holy Spirit's Hope for the Traumatized
… topic. Chapter 2 presents relevant components of human personhood: the heart and mind, the body, and relationality. It presents all of these in the framework of the image of God. This chapter also surveys trauma, its violation of the image of God, and its effects on the components of human person …
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How Can the Use of Human Enhancement (HE) Technologies in the Military Be Ethically Assessed?
… mutual respect for the inherent dignity of the human person. The issue of the use of HE in the military is relevant today because the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and the rapid rise of emerging technologies have led to a never-before-seen type of asymmetrical warfare. The rise of these …
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An exploration of virtue ethics and its relational value: A comparative study in the Light of Romanus Cessario, James F. Keenan, and Joseph J. Kotva.
… ethical framework proposed by virtue ethics has personal and communal concerns? The task of this thesis is to defend that position that virtue ethics unifies both the good of the agent and the good of others. To this end, the thesis employs a number of complimentary methods: diachronic, …
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