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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"vernacular theology"”.
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Spirit, desire and the world: Roho churches of western Kenya in the era of globalization
… Churches, it examines their creation of a vernacular theology – the founders’ vision. This was characterized by a strong pneumatology, in which the Holy Spirit acts as guardian of the community. The thesis locates this vision, and its rejection of modernist, western, and capitalist modes of …
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Love and Drede: Religious Fear in Middle English
… even soteriologically optimistic late-medieval vernacular piety. Nevertheless, perhaps due to the positive and recuperative approach of this scholarship, it did not attend to the treatment of fear in devotional and literary texts of the period. This thesis responds to this gap in current …
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Kenosis as Performance of Power in the Theology of Julian of Norwich
… submission to Church teaching. Writing in the vernacular as a woman visionary in late medieval England placed Julian in an unprecedented and precarious position and enabled her to develop a creative dialectal theology that enacted her negotiation of power and submission.</p> <p>Chapter 3 …
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Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae: Amendinge of Lyf, a Middle English translation, edited from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 432
Emendatio vitae was the most widely copied of all Richard Rolle’s writings in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, and yet in modern scholarship this important work and its early audience have received comparatively little scholarly attention. My aim has been to address this lacuna by …