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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"sinful"”.
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Sinful, Sexual and Sometimes Smelly: Representations of Ethiopians, Women, and Ethiopian Women in Early Acetic Christian Literature
… Ethiopian women are represented as particularly sinful and sexual. Third, these stereotypical representations of Ethiopians, women, and Ethiopian women as sinful and sexual served to define the ascetic Christians as virtuous and celibate. Fourth, when the stereotypes related to Ethiopians and …
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Reviving His Work: Social Isolation, Religious Fervor and Reform in the Burned Over District of Western New York, 1790-1860
… an opportunity to "purify" society from sinful behavior. Revivalism waned as social conditions improved in rural areas, but the tradition of societal "purification" remained. In this way, rural evangelicals, as well as Quakers and Spiritualists, engaged in moral reform, to eradicate …
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A Training Curriculum Based on the Five Step Healing Model at Vineyard of Harvest Church, Walnut, California
… ministry is needed for people who suffer from sinful strongholds. (5) In the epistle of James, church believers are commanded to pray for one another for healing. Chapter 3 discusses the theoretical and practical issues related to healing prayer ministry. For effective healing prayer ministry …
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Apostasy -- A Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Approach
… cases which serve to define apostasy as a sinful process. The first example, belonging to the Old Testament, treats the Fall of Man, while the second example, belonging to the New Testament, deals with the Hebrews to whom the letter bearing the same name was addressed. Moreover, each of two …
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Painted Faces & Printed Music: Women and Music in the Paintings of Bartolomeo Veneto and Sebastiano Florigerio
… the court to avoid displaying the frivolous and sinful ways of music-making, but the new notion of the female courtier praised women for performing music, for it could only serve to enhance their beauty and virtue. These two opposing concepts can be seen simultaneously in treatises, …
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Twenty-Four-Hour Woman
… some might consider sacred and others quite sinful. These poems moan out the anthems of those unsung heroes and heroines from my family lineage. The voices of my long dead grandfather, grandmother, aunts and great uncle haunt poems such as "Blues," "Salvation," "A Memorial for Lawrence," …
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Living with s(k)in: An analysis of tattoo removal.
… tattooed person can attain absolution from a "sinful" tattoo. This paper explores the construction of the confessional act in two parts: the construction of the confessing subject and the construction of the medical clinic as the confessor's listener. Using the texts medical offices place on …
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The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England
… definitions of sin as intention (as opposed to sinful action), this dissertation traces the development of intention-based concepts of the moral self in English chronicles, parliamentary legislation and petitions related to the Rising of 1381, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, The Testimony of …
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Persons, perception, and play : human Christological inscape in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
… explains how a person is "cleaved" from their sinful past through cooperating grace. In the second chapter, I argue that Hopkins's treatment of human faces reveals the ways in which other human persons can both be a means and obstacle to Christological inscape. In my final chapter, I argue that …
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Setting Expectations for the Gospel in Genesis for Anchor Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
… that though people have hearts that are utterly sinful and broken, God continues provide a promised seed through which he will redeem his creation. 123 Chapter 4 clarifies the method through which God will bring salvation. It introduces the idea of a chosen seed through whom God will bless the …
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Reconciliation of Religious Beliefs and Minority Sexual Orientation
… rejected minority sexual orientations as sinful, while modem social science has identified these sexual orientations as a normal part of the variety of human experience. This study consists of structured interviews with seven participants who have sought to resolve this conflict in …
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2 Peter 2:4-16: The Redaction of the Biblical and Intertestamental References Dependent on Jude 5-11 and Their Overall Significance for the Document
… Pet 2:4-8) Jude names the Exodus generation, the sinful angels, and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, 2 Peter substitutes the Flood for the Exodus generation and returns to the correct chronological order of the sinful angels, the Flood, and Sodom and Gomorrah. Jude's second cluster (Jude 11) …
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Gustavo Gutierrez's Understanding of the Kingdom of God in the Light of the Second Vatican Council
… One wonders, then, whether human beings in their sinful condition are able to build a less sinful society.</p> <p>Finally, the dissertation evaluates Gutiérrez's understanding of the Kingdom in the light of Vatican II's teachings on the issue. The final conclusions are presented as well.</p>
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The Gospel in Genesis: How An Ancient Message Subverts Contemporary Worldviews and Lays the Foundation for a Christ-Centered Gospel
… investigate the major themes connected with the sinful fall of mankind. Chapters 7 deals with the worsening impact of sin through Adam’s descendants, while chapters 8 through 9 consider the flood, Noah’s salvation, and his subsequent fall in the renewed creation. Chapter 10 concludes the project …
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Designing a Neighboring Guide for the Hickory Grove Baptist Church Small Group Leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina
… of the gospel. Chapter 3 examines the sinful nature of humanity and suggests ways in which believers can love their neighbors with cultural sensitivity and gospel clarity. Chapter 4 gives a detailed outline of the project, including an explanation of the critical components of the …
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A Theological Justification for the Contribution of Culture to the Theological Task
… culture-producing image-bearers from being as sinful as they could be and God graciously enables humanity to retain positive epistemological value. Chapter 4 clarifies the worldview orientation antithesis that limits culture's value; though the antithesis limits culture's value in the …
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Between Morality and Myth: A Parodic Visual Manifesto
… which regard sexuality and sexual awareness as sinful and woman as subservient to the moral authority constructed by men. I am reacting to the moral concepts that originate from myths. With a post-modernist approach, I visually explored ways to present metaphoric characters that communicate my …
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O le Soga'imiti: An embodiment of God in the Samoan male body
… constructs the body as only a material thing, sinful, bad and evil as opposed to the divinity and purity of the spirit. On the other hand, the body is valued and greatly celebrated in the Samoan culture; this is a vitally important dilemma because while inside Church the body is evil and is to …
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"On this day atonement will be made for you": A theology of Leviticus 16
… radically independent, and the status of Israel, sinful but liberated covenant people.
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"Satan Danced in the Person of the Damsel" : dance, sacrilege, and gender, 1280-1640.
… act with potential to be either sacred or sinful to a gendered act, particularly transgressive when gendered female. Established scholarly narratives regard views of dance as transgressive as part of the reforms of the sixteenth century or as a static, intrinsic feature of Western …
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