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Woman is a Parable
… hermeneutics. It is a reinterpretation of the Parable of the "Ten Maidens" from an African Womanist Perspective consonant with an Epideictic Rhetoric approach. Through this perspective the social position of women in parables based on an androcentric world is explored. However, this position is …
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Portable church: parable and paradox
1- As cities emerge in indeterminate directions, the mobility of structures prolongs their usability. 2- A portable church having an approximate life of 40-50 years will be capable of being re-erected several times and have expansion potential where greater activity requires. 3- Alternative uses …
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Creating a Realistic Set Design for Doubt: A Parable
… set design for the Richmond premiere of Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley. The project was a creation of a set to be used by the Barksdale Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. The performance was held in February 15, 2008 through March 22, 2008 at the Barksdale Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. The …
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Jesus' teachings concerning the kingdom of God in parable ..
Typewritten sheets in cover. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Bibliography: 2 p. at end.
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Inductive preaching with clarity: Qualifying a preacher's employment of Jesus' parable method
This dissertation examines Jesus' parable methodology as recorded in Matthew and asks if modern preaching that emulates his method requires any qualifications. Chapter 1 surveys the interest Jesus' preaching methods receive from modern homileticians and establishes the thesis that modern preachers …
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The Gospel According to Melville : BILLY BUDD as an Altered Christ-Parable
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The parables of Jesus as symbols of social transformation in a critical view of food insecurity systems for vulnerable households in urban townships
… aim of this study is to determine the use of the parables of the historical Jesus as transformative interpretive instruments of food shortage in urban townships. We will give much attention on the 12 theses critical reading of the parables espoused by Van Eck. In order to reach stated objectives, …
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Doing justice to the Unjust Steward: An exegetical examination of Luke 16:1-13 and its context
… ascertains the meaning of the Unjust Steward parable (Luke 16:1-13) by examining its language, historical background, and literary context. Chapter 1 introduces the parable's interpretive problems, acknowledges that it is perhaps the most difficult of Jesus' parables to understand, and offers …
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Speech, Voice and Parable: Reading and Writing through Auden (Letters to Auden, a Reading of His Poems, and a Serial Poem of Barack Hussein Obama)
… the sonnet sequence “In Time of War”, Auden uses parable to combine lyric and narrative elements in order to universalise the Sino-Japanese War. Some of the issues raised in the chapters of critical analysis, such as poetic truth, poetic voice, the lyric subject, and parabolic writing, are …
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Give me that old time religion: reclaiming slave religion in the future
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents tell the story of a young visionary, Lauren Olamina, in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Lauren, the fifteen year old daughter of a black Baptist minister, reveals a religious philosophy called Earthseed as a means of helping her …
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An Africentric Reading Protocol: The Speculative Fiction Of Octavia Butler And Tananarive Due
… Octavia E. Butler and Tananarive Due. Butler's Parable Series and Due's African Immortals Series are examined using seven elements of Africentric narrative specific to cultural speculative fiction. Finally, I discuss the implications of using an Africentric reading protocol as an example of …
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Bound to Shame: Sexual Addiction and Christian Ethics
… to the types of the two sons in the Lukan parable of the prodigal. This parable may be understood as shedding light on the equal dangers of patterns of control and release. Additionally, sex addiction is viewed from an Augustinian perspective of sin. It is argued that human vulnerability to …
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Octavia Butler's Parables and Black African American Hyper-Empathic Neurodivergent Feminists : On Shame and Solidarity
… analysis of two of Octavia Butler's novels, Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998). The following research questions guide my analysis: 1a) How is shame conceptualized in shame research? 1b) How does shame function and why? 2) How does shame hinder our interpersonal …
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“THE KINSHIP OF HER PAIN”: INTIMATE HEALING IN AMERICAN WOMEN’S FICTION
… Gates Ajar is followed by Octavia Butler’s 1998 Parable of the Talents. My third and final chapter returns to the nineteenth century with Warner’s 1850 The Wide, Wide World, and my conclusion addresses Toni Morrison’s Paradise.
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The Emblematic Divide: Contemplating Reality, the Imaginary and Perception in Photographic Practices
… Jacques Lacan (1977) recounts the ancient Greek parable of the contest between the Zeuxis and Parrhasios, two artists competing to paint the most convincing trompe l'oeil painting. In the first instance, Zeuxis painted grapes so perfectly that birds flew down from the sky to peck on them. …
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The Model Prodigal: Jesuit School Plays and the Production of Devotion in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1611
… I focus upon plays that reinterpret the Biblical Parable of the Prodigal Son to argue that the Society of Jesus utilized the stage to acquire religious authority over the domestic sphere and to promote paradigms of masculinity that would halt imperial decline. Chapter One sets forth a theoretical …
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Wages of Righteousness: The Economy of Heaven in the Gospel According to Matthew
… this language occurs in five uniquely Matthean parables dealing either with the pricelessness of the kingdom or judgment and reward (the hidden treasure in 13:44; the pearl in 13:45-46; the parable of the unforgiving servant in 18:23-35; the parable of the workers in the vineyard 20:1-16; the …
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The Johannine Paroimia
… are found in vss. 5 (10b), 16. They are not parables, proverbs, illustrations, or figures of speech. They are riddles. Features of the Johannine riddles which occur in chap. 16 were observed: short; expanded by the use of a parable; cause questions; Jesus centered; Jesus' sayings; and use of …
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