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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"omnipotence"”.
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Shakespeare's Air: Sovereignty, Omnipotence, and the Problem of the Other
At once life-giving and potentially fatal, the air’s inscrutability and capacity to enter into the body elicits powerful fears and fantasies in Shakespeare’s poems and plays. Violent winds, spectral presences, and airy spirits suffuse the atmosphere of his works; troubling the boundaries of the …
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Impotence and omnipotence : problematising the articulation of anthropological perspectives within the land restitution process
This dissertation attempts to illustrate to what extent applied anthropologists operating within institutional contexts can effectively articulate their anthropological perspectives in order to contribute towards effecting positive social change. In order to explore the above thesis, I have …
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Development of the God Concept in Children: An Exploratory Study
… the age at which absolute attributes such as omnipotence and ubiquity are taken away from parents and assigned to God. Based on both the theories of Freud and Piaget it was predicted that the transition will occur between the ages of four and eight. Forty children were administered an …
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Evolving a Theatre of Truth
… a world dominated by global media and corporate omnipotence; the conflation of theatre and Realpolitick; the limitations of postmodern thought and critical theory, and the struggle not only of the marginalized, but of all of us to create an activist theatre in perilous times. After examining my …
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God’s Foreknowledge – A philosophical investigation
… considered to have four primary characteristics: Omnipotence (all-powerful), Omnipresence (everywhere at once), Omnibenevolence (all-loving) and Omniscience (all-knowing). God’s foreknowledge is a subset of God’s Omniscience and refers to his knowledge of the future. Many authors have discussed …
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'n Vergelykende ondersoek na die ooreenkomstige beeldgebruik in "Groot ode" van N.P. van Wyk Louw en Die Heengaanrefrein van Wilma Stockenström
… In both texts man is portrayed as searching for omnipotence through omniscience. A section of the analysis is devoted to extra-textual influences on the two works. Examples of these are: genre expectations, poetic influence and the fact DIE HEENGAANREFREIN was commissioned for a special …
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The problem of marital violence in Mitchells Plain and its implications for the future of society
… In both texts man is portrayed as searching for omnipotence through omniscience. A section of the analysis is devoted to extra-textual influences on the two works. Examples of these are: genre expectations, poetic influence and the fact DIE HEENGAANREFREIN was commissioned for a special …
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Evil and the Ontological Disproof
… essential qualities, his perfect goodness and omnipotence, renders God impossible. The possibility of evil<em> </em>incompatible with God does exactly that. This simple argument has remarkable range: it serves as an ontological argument against the existence of God, but it can also serve as a …
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Developing a theory of the emotional impact of auditory hallucinations: an exploratory study
… sample were less likely to endorse the voices' omnipotence or omniscience. Similarities were shown in behavioural responses and factors reported as proof of the voices' potential power. Although it was not possible to explore the associations between the content of voices, affective responses, …
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The invincible defeat of a violent innocent : entertaining paradox and paranoia in the therapy of a borderline patient
… early childhood to the maintenance of a magical omnipotence in adult relating. I explore how the domination of intrapsychic contents negatively affects the successful development in the individual of empathy, concern and connected ness. I examine the way in which supportive therapeutic techniques …
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Dreams and the Maternal Imaginary: From Nostalgic Intersubjectivity to Mourning
… nostalgia, and whether this nostalgia has fueled omnipotence and obscured the work of mourning. Finally, it explores the idea that psychoanalytic theories are vulnerable to collusion with sociocultural fantasies about mothers and motherhood when they do not preserve a space for theorizing maternal …
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The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
… affirming God limited his foreknowledge and omnipotence while denying his immutability. Moreover, an underlying consequentialist ethic drove Wagner’s understanding and praxes of the Great Commission. Wagner’s telos sought to create disciples by any means necessary so that God could instill …
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The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
… affirming God’s limited foreknowledge and omnipotence while denying his immutability. Moreover, an underlying consequentialist ethic drove Wagner’s understanding and praxes of the Great Commission. Wagner’s telos sought to create disciples by any means necessary so that God could instill …
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An evangelical discourse on God�s response to suffering: A critical assessment of Gregory Boyd�s open theism
… God namely: God�s omniscience, immutability, and omnipotence to give an answer to the theodicy problem. Evangelicals understand the attributes of God to be part of God nature, therefore any changes in the attributes of God means changes to God him/herself. Because of Boyd�s claim to be an …
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The Effects of Refugeedom on Adolescents in Greece and the UK: Negative Responses, Resilience and Adversity-activated Development.
… adolescence-normative characteristics, including omnipotence and narcissism, appear to buffer some of the participants against the negative effects of refugeedom, while they result in deeper vulnerability for others. These results highlight the research participants’ uniqueness and the complexity …
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The Palaces of Comfort, Consolation and Distraction - The Pie and Mash shop as a performative space of a contested London working class memory
… around the loss of fantasy of a British omnipotence. The thesis argues that the shops and their simulacra-like reincarnations amongst the cockney diaspora in the Essex new towns offer an insight into the changing notions of taste and class within the convivialities of a unique but broadly …
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Far and Near: Christian Worship of the Transcendent and Immanent God of Wonders
… holiness, aseity, sovereignty, constancy, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, and timeless eternality. Chapter 5 considers how God's immanent attributes are rooted in and flow from his transcendent characteristics. Chapter 6 is a Christological reflection on how Jesus Christ--God …
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Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth
… act recognised by Shaftesbury as a ''Breach of Omnipotence."
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Epidemiologische Untersuchung zur Entwicklung der Balintarbeit in Deutschland (von 1970 bis 2000)
… of apostolic postulates, the giving up of omnipotence-fantasies and the verbalization of helplessness brings the participants more satisfaction, resulting in less of frustration and burnout. All these contribute to the psycho hygiene. The participants become more confident, more effective, …
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Reproductive Uncertainty: A sociological study of egg freezing governance in China
… with supernatural force of destiny; the omnipotence of science is challenged by vacuum of knowledge, power struggles, and ideologies; the dreams of liberation through modernity were challenged by unforeseen but serious consequences; the increasing social conflicts questioned the …