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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"public square"”.
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Liturgy and the public square : from inauthentic workshop to credible witness
Through a literature study into the historic-philosophical roots of what John de Gruchy calls the privatisation of piety, the origins of this privatised faith to Enlightenment thinking and the individualism and secularism that came along with it are traced. Indications are found that, especially …
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The Metaverse: Problems the Church Will Face in a Digital Public Square and Its Missional Responsibility
… and authentic community. With the digital public square emphasizing convenience, curated identity, and consumerism obstacles to faithful mission and embodied witness will continue to arise within the church. Finally, this thesis proposes a four-pillar framework consisting of embodied …
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Higher Education Chaplaincy and the Changing Role of Religion in the Public Square : a contextual theology for university chaplaincy
… an understanding of the role of religion in the public square of the secular university. Using a discourse analysis of recent policy documents and reports from government, the Higher Education Sector and the Churches I seek to uncover their underlying understandings of the role of religion in …
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Reintroducing the Existential Dimension of the Public Square: An attempt to design a place in relation to its natural environment
A public square provides for a social cultural life to take place. The square ought to be located in the part of the city where human activities are the most intense. The edges of the square consist of the buildings that define its space. The architectural style of these buildings shapes the …
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Contest of Civility: Conformity, Dissent, and the Struggle for Religious Liberty
… the state while simultaneously retaining a free public square where all citizens expressed their deepest convictions. These two incompatible consortiums emerged in colonial America as the representatives of two contrasting traditions that the Protestant Reformation birthed. The magisterial …
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The archetype and the ideal
… on one side that suggest the completion of a public square. The means by which l tried to find a resolution to this architectural suggestion involve a historical search for connection as well as a vision for the future. The circumstantial demands of place and occasion allow the project to …
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Pedagogies and Practice: How Religious Diversification Impacts Seminaries and Clergy
… or should not engage with diversity in the public square. This study investigates how seminaries and individual members of the clergy, as sources of religious authority, are responding to religious diversification in different ways – the former sluggish to recognise the impact of religious …
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Religious Liberty in Contemporary Evangelical Social Ethics: An Assessment and Framework for Socio-political Challenges
… a review of the academic literature, evangelical public theology often lacks a systematic, theologically grounded social ethic concerning religious liberty. The resulting impasse is one where religious liberty lacks distinctly evangelical contours. Modern and contemporary religious liberty …
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A Critically Comparative Kuyperian Analysis and a Trinitarian, ‘Perichoretic’ Reconstruction of the Reformational Philosophies of Dirk H.Th. Vollenhoven and Herman Dooyeweerd
… academy, and for Christian engagement in the public square.
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A Plan for Mclean Bible Church to Increase Apologetics Knowledge for the Congregants in the Context of Secular Washington, DC
… Christians in promoting Christianity in the public square. Chapter 2 provides the exegesis of four passages of Scripture (1 Pet 3:15; 1 Cor 9:19, 22-23; 1 Cor 15:3-38; 2 Cor 10:1,5). Chapter 3 discusses the scientific and cultural biases that seek to eliminate Christianity from the public …
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Sounding the last mile: Music and capital punishment in the United States since 1976
… have responded to and helped shape shifting public attitudes toward capital punishment during this time. From a public square in Chicago to a prison in Georgia, many people have used their ears to understand, administer, and debate both actual and fictitious scenarios pertaining to the use of …
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Thinking, with Heidegger, the Religion-Science-Theology Relation
… does theology have a rightful place in the public square dominated by the view that science serves as the "gold standard" for rationality and truth? The inquiry interweaves five threads, or lines of inquiry, which are posited as pertinent in the current RST discourse and central to …
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Rediscovering the Heart of Public Administration: The Normative Theory of <i>In His Steps</i>
Public administration literature lacks richness and context regarding the moral history of the founding of the field in the early 1900s. As a result, current calls for "recapturing the soul" of public administration have failed to stimulate a theory-or even a working understanding-of how to …
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Religious Conviction, Respect, and the Doctrine of Restraint in the Exclusionist-Inclusionist Debate
… a coercive law for which he lacks suitable public justification. This view has been challenged by Christopher Eberle in <italics>Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics</italics>, who argues that although a citizen has an obligation to pursue a convincing secular rationale for a coercive …
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Infrastructural architecture: social design for the public realm in underground transit systems
… are comparable in their role to that of the public square, court, or forum. There is an untold architectural relationship within these urban environments between subways as a space of movement, and as a place of activity. This thesis aims to re-examine subways under this lens. To posit that …
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Faiths together? Muslim-christian co-working on a publicly funded project in beeston Hill, South Leeds
… and Christians, the role of religion in the public square, and the relationship between formal and informal models and experiences of inter-faith dialogue, are discussed as both theoretical and practical concerns. The conclusions of this thesis are surprisingly varied, reflecting as they do …
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Evangelical critical discourse and the modern world: The sources and implications of the work of Craig Gay
… voices that energize debate in the postmodern public square, voices from conservative Protestantism have traditionally been quite muted and indistinct—missing from much public debate. But in the past few years there has been a burgeoning of Evangelical writing on the subject of interaction …
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There's Something Happening Here: What is Really Happening on the Front-lines of Environmental Regulation
… policy debates are gaining momentum in the public square from scholars and citizens alike. From all sides of the debate, a growing consensus is emerging that advocates a shift in the environmental regulatory system in the United States from one that emphasizes command and control regulations …
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Critiquing Atomistic Individualism in Law: Rosenzweig's Beloved Soul as Open and Relational Subject
… freedom guarantees. In exposing both the public square and law as only apparently secular, their work helps me underscore the problem posed when majority religious values and prejudices are exempted from application of anti-discrimination laws generally and public accommodations laws …
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