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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"theocentric"”.
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Towards an explicitly theocentric model of forgiveness based on God's two-fold commandment to love
… and builds a case for the need of an explicitly theocentric model of forgiveness. Chapter 2 begins with an overview of redemptive history and its implications for understanding forgiveness, and then provides a biblical and theological understanding of divine love. The intimate connection between …
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Speech Act Theory and the Theological Convictions of Preaching
… are Spirit-compelled and empowered utterances of theocentric content. Chapter 5 explains that preaching’s illocutionary acts are Spirit-filled actions of declaring Jesus and calling for repentance and faith. Chapter 6 shows that preaching utilizes oral communication’s perlocutionary acts to …
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The material in salvific discourse : a study of two Christian perspectives.
… material realm by appropriating the Augustinian theocentric vision espoused by Radical Orthodoxy, especially as represented by its proponents such as John Milbank, Graham Ward, and Philip Blond. This theocentric vision does not see the material realm as an end in itself but rather as finding its …
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Dwelling with God: Psalms 120-134 for Indonesian Worship
… Chapter 3 elaborates the canonical, historical, theocentric, Christocentric, eschatological, and devotional reading used in this project. It also proposes the psalm guided worship based on Psalms 120-134 as a paradigm for worship. Chapter 4 describes the Indonesian Church in its religious …
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Connecting With the Heart of God in Grief: Employing Narrative in Christian Bereavement Care
… narrative. Chapter 4 develops the argument for a theocentric and Christocentric approach. A proposed bereavement care framework is derived from the way Jesus relates to the bereaved and God. Chapter 5 offers practical guidelines on caring for the bereaved using eight relational steps. Chapter 6 …
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Roger Fry as a Protestant Art Critic
… I compare Fry’s aesthetic ideas with the Theocentric theory of art advanced by Ruskin in the second volume of Modern Painters. Here I compare their respective formalist ideas. I discuss how Fry’s formalism led him to reject Impressionism and champion the Post-Impressionists. I examine the …
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A posthuman curriculum: subjectivity at the crossroads of time
… In that shift, the focus turned from a theocentric (God-centered) worldview to a humanistic (human-centered) worldview. From a genealogical perspective, this historical glance can help demonstrate how notions of humanness were privileged in the face of radical social chaos. In the end, …
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Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500-1900
… accumulation. My dissertation argues that the theocentric epistemic tradition of commensurability and resemblances structured by theological temporal formations have played a large role in colonial expansion, and can be better understood by applying the decolonial concept of coloniality to …
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The Fatherhood of God: an Exegetical Study From the Hebrew Scriptures
… is that it explores God's fatherhood from a theocentric perspective, rather than an anthropocentric one. However, the implications of this view of God impact human experience, since the attributes of God's fatherhood found in the Hebrew Scriptures provide researchers and practitioners in …
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Islamic environmental ethics: a model for shaping Muslim attitudes in helping to promote environmental education, awareness and activism
… the covenantal obligations, it puts forward a theocentric ecological ethics which can help to change attitudes, lifestyles and reinvigorate a spirituality that will create a metaphysical view of the world based on these Quranic concepts. The work provides an incentive to Muslim communities to …
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The relationship between the "Great Awakening" and the transition from psalmody to hymnody in the New England colonies
… represented a basic theological change from a theocentric to an anthropocentric viewpoint that subsequently required alterations in sacred song. The revival movement, through its evangelistic spirit, also provided the vehicle by which this change in psalmody was effected.2. The agitation of the …
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The Concept of Vengeance in the Book of Revelation in its Old Testament and Near Eastern Context
… Near Eastern vassal treaties. The rejoicing is theocentric, and focuses on God's redemptive purpose. Vengeance means deliverance and the restoration of the kingdom to the saints.</p>
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The Peruvian Education Reform of 1968-1980 and Seventh-day Adventist Education at Inca Union College : a Study in Models
… Adventist system classifies itself as theocentric. From this observation derive the other conclusions in the various philosophical categories. (2) While the Peruvian system views social change as its ultimate goal, Seventh-day Adventist education seeks man's redemption in both the …
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Förhållandet mellan praxis och teori inom etiken
… (Christian virtue ethics) and James Gustafson (theocentric ethics), deal with similar questions. The purpose of this study is therefore to identify various positions represented in the debate, and to examine which consequences they have for how decisions are made and justified within an ethical …
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História de Portugal de Fernão de Oliveira: edição semidiplomática e análise da retórica nos topônimos de Portugal
… whose behavior brought the ambivalence of the theocentric view of the Middle Ages and the anthropocentrism characteristic of the Renaissance. The result shows that Fernão de Oliveira sought to organize his ideas in order to prove Portugal’s superiority over Spain. To do so, the dominican built …
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A Hermeneutic for the Aqedah Test: A Way beyond Jon Levenson's and Terence Fretheim's Models
… the ram as God's provided solution. This theocentric Covenant Hypothesis rests on a linear, non-retracting alignment of God’s actions as the Tester in the Aqedah. Finally, on the macro-hermeneutical level, the Covenant Hypothesis revealed the Aqedah to be a summative (achieving the …
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Why should wild nature be preserved? A dialogue between biblical theology and biodiversity conservation.
The past century has seen a rapid acceleration in global anthropogenic biodiversity loss, despite massively increased conservation effort and knowledge. Consequently, there are wide-ranging debates around whether economic and instrumental valuations of wild nature assist in its preservation, or …