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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"legalism"”.
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Justification and the Individual in the Wake of the New Perspective on Paul
… 2 examines the case for the presence of Jewish legalism at Paul's time of writing, to which he responds with his doctrine of justification by faith. Though E. P. Sanders successfully showed that legalism did not define second-temple Judaism, his work does not rule out the possibility of legalism …
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The Covenant Theology of Zacharias Ursinus
… doctrine of the covenant did not lead him to the legalism and speculative theology of which many scholars of the last several decades accuse him. The burden of this thesis is to prove that, at least as far as Ursinus is concerned, the twofold covenant of nature and grace is a theology of divine …
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A Quantitative Analysis of God Attachment and the Christian Faith and Life Among Evangelical Christians
… anxiety over abandonment by God, avoidance of legalism and religious defensiveness. Implications for Christian psychology and pastoral ministry were also discussed.
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Moral authority of juries: A forgotten aspect of citizenship
… the distinction between natural law and legalism. Hobbesian equity is contrasted with Aristotelian equity to further discussion of the ethical rationale for acknowledging a juror's duty to act according to his conscience for the sake of justice. The historical tradition of "trial by jury" …
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Tithes and offerings in the South African context: the bible and reality
… of grace giving, they would be freed from the legalism which is so clearly evident in many churches and their resulting giving, rather than being less than the tithe, as some church leaders fear, would actually increase. Pertinent recommendations are made to the churches in this regard.
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Self-deception and moral blindness in the modern corporation
… of tribalism, the self-deception of legalism, the self-deception of moral relativism and the self-deception of scientism. Each of these species is first identified and described theologically and then further developed using relevant literature in management, organizational theory and …
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A cultural interpretation of Shāfiʻī's legal doctrine
… b Idris al-Shāfiʻī in the process of Islamic legalism. With reference to Clifford Geertz's model of religion as a cultural system, Shāfiʻī's methodology is presented as a process which expresses a certain cultural reality. That reality expresses an interrelationship between a world view- the …
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Human hagiography : the saint figure in modernist British literature.
… and femininity as opposed to rationalism, legalism, absolutism, ideology, statism, and patriarchy. Although modernists often emphasized newness in all things and the breakdown of civilization, these works do not reject tradition, instead reinterpreting stories and beliefs with an emphasis …
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Constrained Partisanship: A Comparative Study of Policy Choices and Party Discourses in the British and Spanish Crisis Experiences (2008-2014)
… (technocracy), legality and legal obligations (legalism) and emergencies and exceptions (exceptionalism). The comparative analysis finds in both the British and Spanish cases a form of what the thesis calls constrained partisanship. All four governments adapted their crisis choices as a …
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Why Surrender Sovereignty? Empowering Non-State Actors to Protect the Status Quo
… on transnationalism, credible commitment, legalism, and rational design. This analysis, moreover, has broad implications for our understanding of the forces that can lead to profound political and legal change.
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Soteriological Perspectives in the Seventh-day Adventist Church From 1930 to 2000
… During the 1980s, efforts emerged to move beyond legalism and perfectionism. Theologians increasingly proposed more pastoral and grace-centered understandings of the gospel, placing greater emphasis on God’s love and trust rather than fear.</p> <p>In this historical context, this dissertation also …
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The idea of nature in the Daoist classic of Liezi
… synthesizes various theories of Confucianism, Legalism, and the Huang-Lao school, with the Daoist ideal of non-action as its most basic principle and ultimate goal. It is noteworthy, however, that “non-action” does not means doing nothing literally. In fact, the Daoist idea of non-action, or …
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Competing Populisms: Public Interest Litigation and Political Society in Post-Emergency India
… emergence of modern law was anything to go by, legalism's stock in India should have risen to its highest with the growth of capitalism in the post-liberalisation era. Instead 'legalism' has decisively acquired a negative connotation in India precisely in this same period. PIL is the most …
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Unbound by Law: Association and Autonomy in the Early American Republic
… members, and a reliance on adversarial legalism and procedural formalities to reconcile conflict, even in these ostensibly private, wholly voluntary groups. The conflict-driven process of defining voluntary membership had a second effect: Americans of this period came to accept the …
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Selected Variables Related to Alienation from Religion as Perceived by Students Attending Seventh-day Adventist Academies In the United States
… from religion. The concept of religion as legalism rather than relationship and the expressed unbelief in Adventist doctrines are both positively correlated with alienation from religion. Of the demographic items, only sex was significant with a correlation of -.14. The coefficient of …
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The state of the clear-sighted ruler as envisioned by Han Fei and his predecessors
Han Fei (d. 233 BCE), a prince from China’s tumultuous Warring States period, is thought to have influenced the governing philosophies of rulers from the First Emperor (d. 210 BCE) to Xi Jinping. This dissertation challenges our prevailing scholarly understanding of Han Fei as the “great …