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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"scholasticism"”.
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Scholasticism and Formal Structure in Camille Saint-Saëns's Fugues for Keyboard
<p>Drawing on the treatises of Cherubini (1835), Dubois (1901), and Gedalge (1901), this dissertation examines the relation between the fugue d’école and Saint-Saëns’s compositional practices with reference to his fugal works for piano and organ and sets out to answer the question: To what extent …
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Traditional Apologetics in a Postconciliar Church: From Scholasticism to Combinationalism and Beyond
<p>Recognizing that Christians cannot adequately understand the mysteries of faith from a single vantage point, Catholic theologians have been keen on emphasizing the multidimensional nature of theological understanding since Vatican II. The advantage of such a method has helped believers to …
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Thomas Aquinas, the real distinction between esse and essence, and overcoming the conceptual imperialism
… Although situated in the period of medieval scholasticism, such a study resonates with more contemporary philosophical critiques of the limitations and presuppositions of metaphysical knowledge and intelligibility.
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Shaking dance in the stormy valley: tendai discourse on kami-buddha relations in fourteenth century mount hiei
… the highest knowledge of medieval Taimitsu scholasticism on Mt. Hiei. Focusing on the inner logic of the “origin-trace” structure central to the Kami-Buddha combinatory discourse, this study investigates the rationale of nonduality between buddhas and kami or the origin and manifested …
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The Theological Edifice of Modern Experiential Protestantism: Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Palmer’s Reconstruction of nineteenth Century Pietism
… the other expressions of Protestantism, such as Scholasticism and Rationalism, Pietism’s early history in the development of Protestantism began as a counterweight to these intellectual movements. As a result, the necessity to remain outside of the established power structures became rooted in …
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Hidden Treasure: The Epistemology of Love According to Hans Urs on Balthasar
… epistemological scholarship. By way of Neo-Scholasticism much conversation has taken place pertaining to the relationship between faith and reason within the human knower. Whereas the Neo-Scholastic tradition considers faith and reason as separate realities within the human knower, Balthasar …
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Clemence of Barking and Valdes of Lyon: Two Contemporaneous Examples of Innovation in the Twelfth Century
… Romanesque and Gothic art was being produced, scholasticism was being cultivated, and economic growth was being fostered by the rise of towns. These are just some of the developments that help give this era the well-known term “twelfth-century renaissance.” Despite the flourishing of creativity …
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A Seventh-day Adventist Concept of the Kingdom of God and its Implication for Religious Education
… transcendent concept of the kingdom may lead to scholasticism, a philosophy of education that leads to intellectual attainment. Stress on immanence may lead to humanism that relates to practical education. But the transcendent-immanentist concept takes into consideration an education that deals …
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Retrieving Eternal Procession: A Dogmatic Western Account of the Holy Spirit’s Relation to the Father and the Son in the Triune God’s Divine Life
… orthodox teaching during the period of Reformed Scholasticism, I submit that Polanus’s dogmatic writing helps clarify contemporary theological discourse on the Holy Spirit’s procession. In chapter 6, I explain Aquinas’s view of the Holy Spirit’s thirdness within a framework of God’s life as a …
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The politics of the confessional imagination, from Calvin to Hobbes
… in Protestant theology and its sources in scholasticism and parallels in the Counter-Reformation Catholic Church. I then introduce the pessimistic account of the imagination which features prominently within English Protestant discourse. I conclude this section with another discussion of …
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Teaching natural philosophy and mathematics at Oxford and Cambridge 1500-1570
… lines. Cromwell’s visitors in 1535 outlawed scholasticism by decree but gave little indication of the alternative (their white list stipulating only Aristotle). The solution adopted by the Oxford masters was to import the Cambridge syllabus and textbooks wholesale. When the evangelical regime …
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Angelo Poliziano and the Renaissance invention of Greek-to-Latin verse translation, 1430-1589.
… including the relationship between humanism and scholasticism, the uses of translation in an education system newly accustomed to Greek, and the impetus and effect of the printing industry. These determinants are instantiated through a particular chain of influence, to which Angelo Poliziano is …
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The status of the world : rochdian creationism and peripatetic eternalism
… and philosophy and passed it on to Western Scholasticism.
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Understanding Human Sexuality in John Paul II’s Theology of the Body: An Analysis of the Historical Development of Doctrine in the Catholic Tradition
… has evolved from its ancient origins, into scholasticism, and how it has been used in political jurisprudence. More importantly to its reemergence within the last century as the new natural law theory which seeks to establish the same argument purely from a philosophical aspect and without a …
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Descartes and tradition: the miracle of the Eucharist
Descartes and the followers of his new mechanistic physics were subject to condemnation as a result of a reaction against his philosophy on the basis that it could not adequately explain the miracle of the Eucharist. Descartes, however, firmly believed that he could give an explanation of the real …
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The Crusade of Ramon Llull
… strength of the Muslim religion in the age of scholasticism was its philosophy, and with this in mind, Llull developed a system or logical machine (Art) where theological propositions could be arranged in circles, squares, triangles, and other geometric figures so that opponents could not …
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The patronage of Cardinal Oliviero Carafa 1430-1511
… in Rome where the intellectual traditions of scholasticism and theology provided a decisive input.
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The Authoritative Text: Raymond of Penyafort's Editing of the 'Decretals of Gregory IX' (1234)
… the study of the medieval papacy, the rise of scholasticism within the universities, and the extension of the Church's jurisdiction into almost every area of medieval life. The degree to which the man commissioned to edit the collection, the Dominican Raymond of Penyafort (1175-1275), actively …
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Unity and continuity in covenantal thought : a study in the reformed tradition to the Westminster Assembly
… the reaction of the Reformation against medieval scholasticism. Among the early reformers, Luther's theology held firmly to the basic concepts underlying covenantal theology, but it was in the Reformed camp that the importance of the doctrine was chiefly recognized and utilized in the …
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The Trinitarian Doctrine of Grace in Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will
… differing from the soteriological views of Scholasticism and Nominalism. The present study culminates in a systematic presentation of the three dimensions of Luther’s Trinitarian doctrine of grace: First, contrition, conversion, and faith are effected by God’s Spirit, sola fide is a …
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