Thesis advisor: James F. Keenan / For a variety of reasons, in the field of biblical ethics, Scripture scholars do not use much ethical theory, while theological ethicists do little actual exegesis. Even those recent attempts to bridge better Scripture with Christian ethics have either stressed the importance of the scriptural text or the importance of ethical hermeneutics. Throughout this entire work I advocate for a more integrated approach for a Scripture-based Christian theological ethics. In so doing I first propose using Allen Verhey's distinction of Scripture as 'scripted' and 'script': The former refers to exegesis and the latter to admonitions for ethical living. A more integrated approach will therefore treat Scripture as both 'scripted' and 'script', taking exegesis seriously and interpreting the text by using a sound hermeneutical framework. Subsequently, we can both acquire a more accurate understanding of the original meaning of the text and obtain a more complete and consistent interpretation of the text for today. From the perspective of Christian ethics, I further suggest virtue ethics as a worthy hermeneutical tool in treating Scripture as 'script'. Virtue ethics complements principle-based ethical theories by emphasizing practices and the importance of exemplary models. It also attends to the character formation and identity of both individuals and the moral community. Moreover, as I argue, there exists an explicit link between Scripture and virtue. Both the biblical link and the uniqueness of virtue ethics make it suitable as the hermeneutical tool for doing Scripture-based Christian ethics. In order to demonstrate concretely how the methodological shift into a more integrated scriptural ethics as such leads to actual benefits and improvements, I offer a three-step illustration. I begin with treating the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-12 as first `scripted'; that is, I exegete the text. Then I look at the text as 'script' through the hermeneutics of virtue ethics. I identify a new set of core virtues (and corresponding practices) not just for personal formation but also for the formation of the community and the larger society. Third, I then bring the fruits of this treatment forward by exploring the possible reception of the Beatitudes and its core virtues by the Confucian tradition. Methodologically speaking, Confucianism goes to its own texts in its search of ethical teachings; and Confucian ethics is primarily the fruit of careful interpretation of their 'sacred' texts. In other words, it is both text-based and interpretative, and shares a common methodological approach with the Scripture-based Christian ethics proposed here. Subsequently, we find significant parallel virtues in Confucian texts although dissimilarities (such as worldview) exist between the two traditions. As a whole, the proposed methodological shift into a Scripture-based Christian ethics produces a more accurate, complete and consistent interpretation of the biblical text for our contemporary audience and makes Christian ethics more explicable to Confucian society and more supportive of cross-cultural dialogue with Confucian ethics. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theology.

O objeto deste trabalho de pesquisa é analisar a ética em termos de liderança, mais especificamente identificada no texto bíblico do evangelho segundo Mateus (Mt 5.3- 11), bem como as implicações na utilização de cada virtude na liderança organizacional, objetivando o sucesso perene organizacional, bem como a realização pessoal e coletiva dos envolvidos nesta atividade. Em função da complexidade cada vez maior no espaço organizacional e a constante necessidade de mudanças, todo líder precisa de um número de habilidades capazes de promover mudanças e liderar projetos que conduzam as empresas à perenidade operacional, sem perderem a capacidade de alcançar a felicidade e realização pessoal e coletiva. O desenvolvimento pleno e perene das organizações pressupõe que toda liderança precisa desenvolver habilidades que permitam o desenvolvimento organizacional, em face à necessidade de gestão de mudanças que produzam ganhos de produtividade e agreguem a realização dos envolvidos na direção e operação da organização. É necessário considerar questões como transcendentalidade e espiritualidade como fontes que influem diretamente nas relações de liderança organizacional. Sendo assim, as bem-aventuranças compõem um programa ou até uma cultura que propaga valores em desuso como humildade, bondade e misericórdia. Ao assumir a necessidade de que cada líder precisa compreender sua espiritualidade compartilhando e aplicando as virtudes expostas nas bem-aventuranças, define-se um código de ética, mais especificamente a ética cristã. A ética extraída das bemaventuranças é, de fato, uma espécie de ética diferenciada e incomum no mundo corporativo. Cabe reafirmar a liderança baseada em valores, que em plena atividade são indiscutivelmente influenciados por questão culturais objetivas, mas também por questões subjetivas, entre elas a espiritualidade e transcendentalidade. Logo, a questão da ética é cultural, conjuntural e estrutural. Para ser feliz, o ser humano pode se realizar caminhando por um caminho mais individualista e egocêntrico; porém, para alcançar o ideal de mais que feliz ou bem-aventurado é necessário romper com diversos paradigmas estruturais do mercado e da academia das ciências administrativas. / The object of the present research work is to analyze ethics in leadership more specifically identified in the biblical text of the Gospel according to Matthew 5:3-11 wrote. As well, the implications in the use of every virtue in the above organizational leadership aiming perennial organizational success and the achievement of personal and collective involved in this activity. Due to the increasing complexity in the organizational space and the constant need for change, every leader needs a number of skills that promote change and lead projects leading companies operating perpetuity, without, however, losing the ability to achieve happiness and personal and collective. The full development and enduring organizations, assumes that all leadership must develop skills that enable organizational development, given the need for change management that produce productivity gains and aggregating the performance of those involved in the direction and operation of the organization. You need to consider issues such as spirituality and transcendental sources that directly influence the relations of organizational leadership so the beatitude composes a program or even a culture that propagates values into disuse as humility, kindness and mercy. By assuming the need for every leader must understand his spirituality sharing and applying the virtues exhibited in the beatitudes is defined as a code of ethics, more specifically Christian ethics. Ethics extracted from bliss, is actually a different kind of ethics and unusual in the corporate world. It should reaffirm the values-based leadership, which are in full swing arguably influenced by cultural objective question, but also by subjective issues, including spirituality and transcendentalism, then the question of ethics is cultural, structural and cyclical. To be happy humans can take place can walk down a path more individualistic and self-centered, but to achieve the ideal of "more than happy" or blessed is necessary to break with several paradigms structural market and the academy of sciences administrative.

Sacred Symphony is a work for orchestra, chorus and 8 soloists. It is scored for three horns in F, three trumpets in B flat (1st doubling trumpet in C), tenor trombone, bass trombone, percussion, celesta, piano and strings. The percussion consists of suspended cymbal, glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba, bass marimba, tenor drum, snare drum, bass drum, two slit drums (4 tom-toms if unavailable), small triangle, and finger cymbals. The work is in three movements: Sanctus, Beatitudes (Matt. 5: 3-12) and Gloria. The Sanctus primarily gives glory to God the Father while the Beatitudes are Christ's own words. The Gloria acts as a culmination of the previous two movements because it gives glory to both the Father and the Son.

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Bc. Ji í Ondruš The Jesus' Beatitudes in the Context of the Gospel of Matthew Anotace v anglickém jazyce: The Jesus' Beatitudes cannot be understood as a completely isolated part of Jesus' teaching. Therefore, the knowledge of the whole gospel of Matthew is necessary for their understanding. In this thesis I compare the individual words contained in the Beatitudes with the same words in the Gospel of Matthew outside the Beatitudes. By this means I find the meaning of Jesus' message in the Beatitudes contained in the Gospel of Matthew. I also present and compare ancient Greek copies (the Sinai Code and the Vatican Code) and six most famous Czech translations of this Gospel. I also compare the exegesis of well-known biblical scholars, especially what they agree on, but also what they fundamentally differ on. An important part is also a synoptic comparison with the Beatitudes of the evangelist Luke. The aim of this thesis is to get as close as possible to the meaning of the specific section of Mt 5: 1-12, which represents the lifelong program of Jesus' followers, but also Jesus. Jesus introduces himself at the beginning of the mountain sermon. He speaks not only of how his disciples are supposed to be, but also of how he is.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:40:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Vasconcelos de Almeida.pdf: 715177 bytes, checksum: 370f3e4453582069dc9e785b0809477f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation aims at problematizing a set of issues in contemporary subjectivation using literature, namely novels and some short stories, with a view to mapping ways of life and existence in the becomings of a given therapeutic attention. The set of issues encompasses the idea of vitality in every approached therapy, production of ways of life in literature and in therapy, paces of speed and slowness and the concept of process as material elements of the therapeutic undertaking, the processes of subject production carried about in the context of contemporary machines and, finally, beatitude. The concept of beatitude has been taken from a conceptual axis that runs through the thinking of Espinosa, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. The link between beatitude and psychotherapy refers back to the experimentation of a therapy s intensity edges, to the difficulties therein and to the limits that impose its end and consummation. The therapeutic procedure, as much as literature as therapeutic activity, may compose plans to produce healthier states able to favor encounters, try the intense, multiply the active energies, release happenings and becomings. It is about grasping life when it is collapse, hard and troublesome, when life and death are mutually potentialized. The work still has a second set of issues that aims at strengthening the first one: voice, listening, poetic conception of individuation, literary machines, utility of literature, singular essences, therapeutic variations. The writing of the dissertation operated in flows, cuts, disturbances, and problems stemming from the therapeutic work and the exercise of reading. Both constitute experimental practices and justify the cartographic and extracting procedures. Psychotherapy and Beatitude is the outcome of immersions in the sensitive field that cuts across the relations of resonance and difference between therapy and literature, and aims at contributing in the formation of a fruitful thinking for contemporary therapeutic issues / Esta tese procura problematizar um conjunto de questões da clínica contemporânea utilizando a literatura, mais especificamente alguns romances e contos, com o objetivo de cartografar modos de vida e existência nos devires de uma dada atenção clínica. O conjunto de questões engloba a idéia de vitalidade em cada clínica abordada, a produção de modos de vida na literatura e na clínica, os ritmos de velocidade e lentidão e o conceito de processo como elementos materiais do fazer clínico, os processos de subjetivação agenciados no contexto das máquinas contemporâneas e, por último, a beatitude. O conceito de beatitude foi extraído de um eixo conceitual que percorre os pensamentos de Espinosa, Nietzsche e Deleuze. A conectividade entre beatitude e clínica remete à experimentação dos limiares de intensidade de uma clínica, às dificuldades nela presentes e aos limites que impõem seu fim e sua consumação. O procedimento clínico, assim como a literatura enquanto atividade clínica, pode compor planos de produção de um estado de saúde capaz de favorecer os encontros, experimentar o intensivo, multiplicar as alegrias ativas, liberar acontecimentos e devires. Trata-se de captar a vida quando ela é colapso, quando difícil e problemática, quando vida e morte potencializamse mutuamente. O trabalho contém ainda um segundo conjunto de questões que visa dar consistência ao primeiro: voz, escuta, concepção poética de individuação, máquinas literárias, utilidade da literatura, essências singulares, variações clínicas. A escrita da tese operou por fluxos, cortes, incômodos e problemas oriundos do trabalho clínico e do exercício de leitura. Ambos constituem práticas experimentais e justificam os procedimentos cartográfico e extrativista. Clínica e Beatitude é fruto de imersões no campo sensível que perpassa as relações de ressonância e diferença entre clínica e literatura, e tem por objetivo contribuir na formação de um pensamento fecundo para as questões clínicas contemporâneas

O ensino transformador de Jesus evidenciado nas bem-aventuranças é ancorado em sua ética que é ancorada em seu amor. A presente pesquisa divide-se em três capítulos respectivamente: O evangelho de Mateus e seu contexto, Bem-aventuranças e Palavração. O primeiro capítulo trata do evangelho de Mateus na tentativa de detectar, autoria, fontes, lugar, data e também a questão social na prática de Jesus. O segundo estuda as bem-aventuranças em Mateus, suas semelhanças e diferenças com Lucas e ainda, contrapõe o ensino com base no ser com a lógica capitalista do ter. O terceiro trabalha a relação existente entre a palavra e a ação na atividade pública de Jesus e tenta fazer ponte com a prática docente atual. Sob o título Bem-Aventuranças: Didaqué Querigma e Ensino Transformador, o diálogo foca no ensino a serviço do reino de Deus, em qualquer espaço ou ambiente onde quer que ele aconteça. A partir das bem-aventuranças, que visam aproximar Deus e as pessoas e concretizar a fé, fica claro o posicionamento de Jesus, é ao lado do pobre, do simples, do injustiçado, em suas muitas faces. Jesus dá ênfase ao que é fundamental, o ser humano. Portanto, a pesquisa se preocupa em trazer a dimensão prática e atual do ensino das bem-aventuranças que desejam mostrar que o reino de Deus é possível em Jesus. Ele dá novo sentido para a vida humana, apontando para o alvo onde Deus quer que cheguemos como cristãos. Muito diferente de se limitar a transferir conhecimento, Jesus mostra que a justiça e a solidariedade estão por excelência acima da lei. E que servir não se caracteriza como lei, mas como impulso a partir da graça. Nesta perspectiva, o ensino transformador terá olhos para aqueles que estão desfavorecidos e encoraja a agir contrário às estruturas injustas existentes. Move a dirigir-se a eles como a amigos, assim como Deus escolhe ser nosso amigo e quando alguém o questiona responde simplesmente EU SOU O QUE SOU. Ensinar numa perspectiva transformadora só é possível se quem ensina tiver sido transformado. Ser transformado pela Palavra de Deus é ser fiel a Jesus e ao seu ensino que convida a converter primeiro os de cima, os líderes, que precisam perceber as pessoas e ajudar. Este é o verdadeiro ensino e culto. O que fundamenta as bem-aventuranças é a ética do ser. Valores como justiça e solidariedade nascem do cristianismo, por isso o ensino numa perspectiva transformadora requer urgência em agir para mudar, melhorar situações indignas. A saber, ensinar conforme o exemplo deixado por Jesus vai além de comunicar ou transferir, implica em se importar, se preocupar com outro, com o próximo. Pois, evidentemente quanto mais próximos estivermos dos ensinos de Jesus mais humanos nos tornaremos. / The transforming teaching of Jesus demonstrated in the beatitudes is anchored in his ethics that are grounded in his love. This research is divided into three chapters: The Gospel of Matthew and its context, the Beatitudes and Jesus' attitude in harmony with his preaching. The first chapter deals with the Gospel of Matthew and seeks to detect: authorship, sources, location, date, and also the social practice of Jesus. The second studies the Beatitudes in Matthew, their similarities and differences with Luke and also confronts teaching based on being with the capitalist logic of possessing. The third chapter deals with the relationship between words and action in the public activity of Jesus and tries to relate this to the current teaching practices. Under the title, "The kerygma in transformative teaching: "ethics-teaching" of the Beatitudes, the dialogue focuses on education in the service of God's kingdom in any space or environment wherever it happens. From the Beatitudes, which aim to bring God and people closer and make faith concrete, it is clear that the position of Jesus is with the poor, the simple, the downtrodden, in their many faces: children, women, poor, sick and others. Jesus emphasizes what is essential: the human being. Therefore, this research concerned itself with bringing the practical and present dimension of the teaching of the Beatitudes that wishes to show that the kingdom of God is possible in Jesus. He gives new meaning to human life, pointing to the place where God wants Christians to come. Very different from a simple transference of knowledge, Jesus shows that justice and solidarity are completely above the law. And that service is not characterized as law but as impelled by grace. In this perspective, transformative teaching has eyes for those who are disadvantaged and encourages them to act contrary to the existing unfair structures. It moves to view them as friends just as God chooses to be our friend and when someone questions him, he answer just: "I AM THAT I AM." Teaching in a transformative perspective is only possible if the one who teaches has been transformed. Being transformed by God's Word is to be faithful to Jesus and his teaching that invites first the top leaders to be converted, those who need to understand and help people. This is true teaching and worship. What underlies the beatitudes is the ethics of being. Values such as justice and solidarity are born from Christianity, by which the transformative teaching perspective requires urgency to act for change, to improve undignified situations. Namely, teaching as the example set by Jesus goes beyond communicating or transferring, it implies caring, being concerned about others, about our neighbor. This, because obviously the closer we are to the teachings of Jesus the more human we become.

Geoffrey Hill’s The Orchards of Syon (2002) occupies a contradictory position in twenty-first century poetry in being a major religious work in a post-religious age. Contemporary secular and atheistic insistence on the fundamentally crafted and flawed nature of religious faith has led Hill not to the abandoning of religious vision, but to a theologically disciplined approach to syntax, grammar and etymology. This dissertation examines Hill’s claim to a poetics of agnostic faith that mediate his alienation from a cynical and debased Anglophone contemporaneity. The oxymoronic nature of a faith co-existent with existential loss is the primary focus. The semantic distinction between paradox and poetic oxymoron is examined, and the agonistic and aporetic dimensions of the oxymoron are considered as affording theological significance. Poetic oxymoron as site of both foolish babbling and Pentecostal exuberance is made explicit, as is Hill’s relation to the oxymoronic nature of beatitudinous expression and the Kenotic Hymn. Hill’s reading of and relation to other theologically engaged poets is outlined. Thomas Hardy’s tragic-comic vision, Gerard Manley Hopkins’ restrained rapture in ‘The Windhover’, and T. S. Eliot’s expression of kenotic dissolution in ‘Marina’ are read as precursors to Hill’s revisionary God-language. William Empson’s significant difficulties with aspects of Hopkins’ and Eliot’s poetics is appraised as evidence of an oxymoronic and theological dimension within poetic ambiguity. Hill’s imperative to embody and enact theological vision and responsibility is tested in a reading of The Orchards of Syon. Paul Ricoeur’s perception of the religious significance of atheism is provocation for my own creative practice, as is the performative theology implicit in both Graham Shaw’s hermeneutic approach, and Hill’s visionary philology. Creative process draws on Simone Weil’s notion of decreation, the kenotic paradigm as exemplified in the life and writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the continuing secular vitality of the apostrophic lyric mode.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernando Figueiredo de Sousa.pdf: 733635 bytes, checksum: 85ab8a5ec8f155d7406fe37c93f05c6a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-13 / This paper seeks to study the text of Lk 6, 20-26, of the beatitudes and of the woes, seeing in this passage an example of the recuperation, analysis and recreation of Jesus words. In this resides one of the particularities of this text in the context of the New Testament, which places it, however, in the heart of a fundamental direction of the beginnings of Christianity, namely, the tradition that goes back to Jesus by the conservation and transmission of his teachings. The author of this paper proposes the study of this text in three aspects. The first is the study of the text in of itself, as a communicative unity. The second aspect is the verification of the literature that influenced the Lucan author in the construction of this text, especially the Q source, and its comparison with words of the beatitudes attributed to the poor present in the Gospel of Thomas and the letter of James. In the third aspect, the author s intention is to analyze the importance of the writer of the Lucan text, his interference and the use of the blessed are and the woe to for the community. He considers that one of the accomplishments of the beatitudes is the approximation to the table as the instauration of the Kingdom of God, that is, the rich who share their wealth with the beggars. In this way, it is possible to verify an important connection between sharing with the beggars and belonging to the community, as a key element to becoming part of the Kingdom of God, the central element Jesus life and preaching, proposed by the beatitudes according to Luke / A presente pesquisa se aproxima do texto de Lc 6,20-26, das bem-aventuranças e dos ais, vendo nessa passagem um exercício de recuperação, análise e recriação de palavras de Jesus. Aí está uma das particularidades deste escrito dentro do Novo Testamento, que o coloca no seio de uma vertente fundamental dos inícios do cristianismo, isto é, a tradição que se vincula a Jesus pela conservação e transmissão de seus ensinamentos. O autor desta pesquisa propõe o estudo deste texto percorrendo três aspectos. O primeiro é o estudo do texto em si, como uma unidade comunicativa. O segundo consiste em verificar a literatura que influenciou o autor lucano na construção deste texto, especialmente a fonte Q, e a comparação desta com termos das bem-aventuranças atribuídas aos indigentes presentes no evangelho segundo Tomé e na carta de Tiago. No terceiro a proposta do autor é analisar a importância do redator do texto lucano, a sua interferência e o uso das bem-aventuranças e dos ais para o seio de sua comunidade. Considera que uma das realizações das bem-aventuranças é a aproximação da mesa como símbolo da instauração do Reino de Deus, isto é, a partilha dos bens dos ricos com os mendigos. Assim se verifica uma grande conexão entre o partilhar com os mendigos e a pertença à comunidade, constituindo um elemento-chave para fazer parte do Reino de Deus, elemento central da vida e pregação de Jesus proposto pelas bem-aventuranças segundo Lucas

[pt] A presente dissertação trata do anúncio e práxis do Reino de Deus, com a finalidade de perceber os elementos escatológicos da temática, presentes no pensamento de Edward Schillebeeckx, contidos na obra Jesus, a história de um vivente, além de outras obras do autor e de outros autores em diálogo com ele. A metodologia adotada é a da revisão bibliográfica, e os pontos de relevância são o anúncio, a práxis do Reino, e a percepção dos elementos escatológicos destacados por Schillebeeckx. Jesus anunciou o Reino de Deus, por meio das bem-aventuranças, parábolas e a reinterpretação da Lei mosaica a favor dos pobres, trazendo de Deus a ajuda salvadora para a humanidade. Se as bem-aventuranças são o programa de vida do Reino, as parábolas são sua ilustração vital, e todas elas se referem ao próprio Jesus, que é, em pessoa, o Reino de Deus. Consequente do anúncio, a práxis do Reino em Jesus se verifica em suas atitudes de cura e libertação do mal, revelando a compaixão e misericórdia de Deus. O anúncio e práxis do Reino geram a comunidade de discípulos, que, após a morte e ressurreição de Jesus, na força do Espírito Santo, dá continuidade à sua missão na história. Com Jesus, o Profeta escatológico, o Reino de Deus se aproxima da humanidade e realiza já o que ainda há de ser plenamente experimentado no futuro escatológico de Deus. / [en] This dissertation deals with the proclamation and praxis of the God s Kingdom, in order to realize the eschatological elements of the theme, present in the thought of Edward Schillebeeckx, contained in the book Jesus, the story of a living, and other works by the author and other authors in dialogue with him. The methodology adopted is the literature review, and the points of relevance are the announcement, the praxis of the kingdom, and the perception of the eschatological elements highlighted by Schillebeeckx. Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God, through the Beatitudes, parables and the reinterpretation of the Mosaic Law for the poor people, bringing God s saving help for Humanity. If the beatitudes are the life program of the kingdom, the parables are a vital illustration, and they all refer to Jesus himself, who is, himself, the kingdom of God. Subsequent announcement, the praxis of the kingdom in Jesus is found in their attitude healing and deliverance from evil, revealing the compassion and mercy of God. The announcement and praxis of the kingdom generate a community of disciples who, after the death and resurrection of Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit, continues His mission in history. With Jesus, the eschatological prophet, God s Kingdom is approaching humanity and accomplishes what has yet to be fully experienced in the eschatological future of God.