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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"priestly"”.
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Yahweh's 'Priestly Kingdom': A Metaphor for Israel's Priestly Status Function in Exodus 19.6a
… of Israel’s identity, as the metaphor ‘priestly kingdom’ is conferred upon the nation via Yahweh’s speech act in Exodus 19.6a. The key interpretive question in the field of biblical studies with respect to Israel’s self–understanding vis–à–vis ‘Israel is priestly kingdom’ is to what …
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Foreigners in the Priestly Corpus
… on which Pentateuchal texts constitute the ‘Priestly’ corpus, there is also agreement that the corpus itself is not a compositional unity, demonstrating significant variation in theology and anthropology within its strata. This project investigates one important aspect in which this variation …
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Toward A Priestly Christology: A Hermeneutical Study Of Christ's Priesthood
… not have a consensus about the nature of the priestly work of the ascended Christ, including the conception of how Christ mediates salvation through his priesthood. This problematic situation raises the question whether there is a way to resolve this conflict of interpretations.</p> …
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Becoming a Priestly People: A Biblical Theology of Liturgical Sacrifice as Spiritual Formation
… to live as covenantal people, with a holy and priestly character, it is essential to explore these three underappreciated aspects. <p>This study offers a nuanced biblical theology of liturgical sacrifice as an action of covenantal love, covenantal faithfulness and covenantal obedience, which …
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"Clothes Make the (One Like a Son of) Man": Dress Imagery in Revelation 1 as an Indicator of High Priestly Status
… implicitly presents Jesus as having a high priestly status.</p> <p><em>Method</em> . This study focuses on Revelation since it is the work closest to Hebrews in terms of its rich cultic imagery, and it analyzes Revelation's first chapter since that is the part of Revelation where one finds …
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A Biblical-Theological Investigation of Christ's Priesthood and Covenant Mediation with Respect to the Extent of the Atonement
… argues that a biblical theology of the priestly mediation of the new covenant is necessary for understanding the extent of the atonement and that such a study will result in a clear affirmation of definite atonement. Chapter 1 shows how theologians have truncated Christ's priestly office …
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The Guardian-Priesthood, the Special Presence of God, and Church Discipline: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Priesthood
… as a divinely indwelt temple, attends to the priestly ministry of church discipline, with both its formative and corrective aspects. Church discipline, being rooted in the priestly identity, will continue as the mission of the new covenant priesthood until Christ returns and brings his …
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Clergy Preparation for Catholic School Leadership in a Midwestern Diocese
… at the local seminary conforms to the Program of Priestly Formation promulgated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (2006). Upon completion of seminary studies and ordination, priests are eligible for assignments that may include Catholic school leadership. This phenomenological …
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A New Covenant hermeneutic : the use of Scripture in Hebrews 8-10.
… detail in these chapters under the rubric of the priestly work of Christ: sanctuary, sacrifice and covenant. Chapter Three works through the main theological section of Heb. 9:1- Jo: i8, in which the old and new sanctuaries, sacrifices and covenants are compared. Chapter Four examines Heb. …
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The Priesthood of All Believers in Ecclesiological Development
… canonical survey tracing the priestly trajectory from Adam's Edenic vocation to the Melchizedekian priesthood of Jesus Christ. Building on this canonical foundation, the dissertation constructs a systematic theology of the new covenant priesthood, arguing that believers …
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Performative power and affective resonance: toward an understanding of Old Testament blessings as speech acts with affective impact
… the Jacob narratives (Genesis 27–28) and the Priestly Blessing (Numbers 6). The Jacob narratives highlight the complex interplay of intent, deception, and Divine fulfilment, while the Priestly Blessing illustrates the communal and covenantal dimensions of Divine-human relationality. Both cases …
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The restoration theme in the Book of Revelation: From creation to new creation
… priest and King of kings who accomplishes the priestly and kingly role of both Israel and Adam. Second, this dissertation explores the tension between the already restored church in Christ's kingdom and the future consummation of the church as the bride of Christ. The church is the new Israel, …
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Route Planning: Mapping Journeys to Priesthood in the Church of England
… have realistic models of what contemporary priestly ministry involves or whether they try to hold onto idealised, romantic visions of priesthood. In rapidly changing contexts and within an increasingly sceptical landscape, do they have the personal and institutional resources to grow and …
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God's Everlasting Covenant With Phinehas
… as to elucidate the mystery of the Messiah’s priestly identity. In applying all these data, this thesis reveals that Christ Jesus is viewed as the ultimate fulfillment of the Phinehasian covenant.
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Ecological insights revealed from the interpretation of Genesis 1:1 - 2:18
… today. The ecological insights revealed from the Priestly and Yahwist creation narratives include: goodness of creation, image of God, cultivation and care of the natural world, interdependency and chaos and order.
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The royal priest: Psalm 110 in biblical-theological perspective
… demonstrates that Adam is the Bible’s royal priestly prototype and that his royal priesthood is recapitulated in important covenantal figures—Noah, Abraham, Melchizedek, Israel, and Aaron. Melchizedek, in particular, is a priest-king uniquely associated with Abraham and the Abrahamic …
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"Our Father Isaac": Reading the Sahidic Testament of Isaac in an Egyptian Monastic Context
… context of the textual community - Isaac as priestly authority, Isaac as sacrifice, and Isaac as blind ascetic - to create a model for the new self that the textual community aimed to achieve. Two important ascetic practices in <em>T. Isaac</em> that the textual community was to perform were …
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Rethinking the Community as Temple: Discourse and Spatial Practice in the Community Rule (1QS)
… how it addresses the problems of atonement and priestly authority for a community without a physical temple. Edward Soja’s concept of Thirdspace—social space transformed by material and mental spaces—illuminates how temple, military, and judicial spaces order social and divine relationships for …
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George Herbert and Aristocratic Identity
… The Country Parson and the context of the priestly occupation in Stuart England. This manual for country priests expresses many of the aristocratic values of the active local gentry and the commonwealth ideology. Chapter 4 focuses on the notions of commonwealth ideology expressed in …
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