Les objectifs de ce travail se situent à deux niveaux, l'un exégétique l'autre méthodologique.Sur le plan exégétique, les chapitres 27 et 28 de l'évangile de Matthieu sont analysés à l'aide du modèle sémiotique développé par Jacques Geninasca (Université de Zürich). Ce modèle s'inscrit dans le courant de la sémiotique « française », rassemblé autour des travaux de A.J. Greimas. Il se donne pour objet de construire la signification d'un texte dans un parcours interprétatifcompris comme un acte d'énonciation. La comparaison des résultats obtenus avec ceux produits par d'autres méthodes exégétiques (principalement l'approche historico-critique) permet d'évaluer la pertinence des procédures et des concepts introduits par Geninasca. Sur le plan méthodologique, un développement de ce modèle est proposé afin de prendre en charge le caractère particulier des textes étudiés. Depuis l'émergence des méthodes critiques d'analyse littéraire, une séparation existe entre les lectures dites savantes et celles que l'on qualifie de personnelles ou de lectures croyantes de la Bible. L'exégèse historique lit les textes en fonction de leur capacité référentielle à représenter la réalité qu'ils décrivent et le contexte qui les a vu naître : la rationalité qu'elle met en oeuvre a pour effet de détacher l'objet d'étude du lecteur. L'extension proposée du modèle de Geninasca a pour but de définir, dans le cadre d'une lecture sémiotique, une « saisie » et un « croire » aptes à décrire la dimension interpelante des récits bibliques. / Two goals have been pursued in this work : the first one deals with literary exegesis, the second one with methodology. On the exegetical side, chapters 27 and 28 of Matthew's Gospel are analyzed using a semiotic model developed by Jacques Geninasca (University of Zurich). This model fits into the French school of semiotics founded by A.J. Greimas. Itsaim is to build a text's meaning by an interpretive procedure understood as an act of enunciation. Comparison of results with those produced by other exegetical methods (mainly the historical-critical method) assesses the adequacyof the procedures and concepts introduced by Geninasca. On the methodological level, a development of the model is proposed in order to take into account the peculiar status of the texts studied. Since the use of critical methods in the biblical field, the so-called scholarly reading of the Scriptures is disconnected from the believer's reading. Historical exegesisreads texts according to their ability to represent reality and try to determine the context where they originated : the rationality behind this method detaches the object of study from the reader. The proposed extension to the Geninasca's model aims to define, within the framework of a semiotic reading, both a « saisie » and a « croire » fit to describe the interpellative dimension of the biblical stories.

The church is facing a season of challenge in Western Europe and America, areas where once the church was strong and influential. We find, however, that the affluent suburbs in Cape Town are themselves not exempt from the challenge western culture is bringing to the church. Though there are signs of growth in some Christian sectors to inspire hope, there remains a great responsibility on the leaders of the local church today to engage this challenge. A responsibility rests on church leaders to hold firmly to the timeless message of the scriptures, and lightly to the forms of church that no longer engage a culture increasingly unimpressed with the face of modern Christianity. Within this thesis, we will attempt to outline a tenet of the western church’s ecclesiology that has been diluted in many places; this weakness has impacted the church’s ability to engage its community, as well the form and shape of the activities of the local church. Through investigating Jesus’ intention for the local church, we will shown that the church is not defined by the form of its activities, but by people’s response to the demands of the kingdom. We will show that focusing on the church’s response to the demands of the kingdom is able to be a uniting and strengthening force in the church in this season of cultural challenge. The demands of the kingdom are, therefore, to set the agenda for local church leaders, and free those leaders to redesign the form of the church’s activities to engage the local community in culturally appropriate ways. Copyright / Dissertation (MA(Theol))--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Practical Theology / unrestricted

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-01-25T10:24:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 giovanibernardocosta.pdf: 1765423 bytes, checksum: 57e0d021d0a6836e297fe07431eef402 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-01-25T18:57:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 giovanibernardocosta.pdf: 1765423 bytes, checksum: 57e0d021d0a6836e297fe07431eef402 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-25T18:57:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 giovanibernardocosta.pdf: 1765423 bytes, checksum: 57e0d021d0a6836e297fe07431eef402 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-28 / Apesar do crescente número de grupos religiosos tidos como tradicionalistas, ainda são poucos os estudos que abordam a vertente do tradicionalismo católico. Diante disso, entende-se que a abordagem, acerca dos Arautos do Evangelho, pode acrescentar informações, auxiliando na compreensão da lógica e da dinâmica desses grupos. Na presente dissertação procurou-se investigar as formas e meios utilizados pelos Arautos do Evangelho como movimento tradicionalista no campo religioso. Utilizou-se de recurso referencial para obtenção das informações nativas, a Revista Arautos do Evangelho, bem como sítios eletrônicos, blogs, redes sociais e, sobretudo, a página oficial dos religiosos em questão. Na análise foi utilizada literatura diversa, com ênfase em estudos sobre novos movimentos católicos de vertente tradicionalista. Por fim, inferiu-se que os Arautos do Evangelho oferecem, sobretudo aos jovens, uma sistema de sentido, plausível e bem estruturado, suficiente para apresentarem-se como mais uma opção de modelo de vida na modernidade. / Despite the growing number of religious groups seen as traditionalists, there are few studies on the part of the catholic traditionalism. Therefore, it is understood that the approach , about the Heralds of the Gospel, can add information, helping to understand the logic and dynamics of these groups. In this dissertation attempts to investigate the ways and means used by the Heralds of the Gospel as traditionalist movement in the religious field. It was used as a reference resource for obtaining the native information, the Journal Heralds of the Gospel, and electronic sites, blogs, social networks and, above all, the official site of the religious concerned. In other literature analysis was used, with emphasis on studies of new traditionalist Catholic movements of the present. Finally, it was inferred that the Heralds of the Gospel offer, especially to young people, a sense system, plausible and well structured, enough to present themselves as more a life model option in modernity.

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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.

This thesis has served to accomplish several objectives. First, a foundation was laid for the consideration of ethical factors in an engineering context. This was done by first establishing the need for ethical judgement in the engineering disciplines. A summary of several significant classical ethical theories followed, providing several tools with which to evaluate decisions that have ethical implications. Finally, the conclusion was made that the best framework for making ethical decisions is found in the application of the virtues espoused by the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The focus of this study was on traumatic suicide attempt due to lack of remuneration to the clergy by the church: a pastoral care perspective. The assumption was that no one in the church took responsibility of caring for clergy families. Trauma referred to a spiritual wound in the soul of humankind and it is a spiritual event when humankind was experiencing loss of faith, loss of hope, loss of trust, loss of meaning, loss of innocence and when the spiritual wound was being healed spiritually. Suicide was defined as purely personal act that appeared to be entirely the outcome of the extreme personal unhappiness of the minister who as a result of non-payment of their stipend by the church. The operational framework of research methodology included: the research design, literature review and interviews; data collection method and data analysis and interpretation. The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa belongs to the Reformed family of the Protestant churches. In this project, semi-structured scheduled interview open-ended Questions were designed to allow interviewers free movement. The concluding chapter dealt with research findings and recommendations to the church. / Dissertation (MA Theol)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / gm2014 / Practical Theology / unrestricted

Sanctification according to John 17: 13-19 The diploma thesis deals with an exegesis of John 17:13-19 with emphasis on an interpretation of the verses 17 and 19 and within them especially on the meaning of the term sanctification. The first chapter presents a brief introduction to the Gospel of St. John, the second one shows the chosen pericope in a contextual view and subsequently brings its literary-grammatical analysis. The third chapter focuses on an analysis of the selected biblical-theological terms which are fundamental for understanding of the pericope. The last chapter brings the exegesis itself with the aid of selected commentaries. The aim of the thesis is to interpret the presented pericope and to get to its deeper sense especially in connection with the term sanctification. The method used in this thesis is an analysis of the original text and a comparison of selected commentaries.

The thesis "Jesus Cleansing the Jerusalem Temple: History and Theological Accents in Individual Gospels" deals with the event described by all four canonical Gospels. The paper describes the appearance of the Jerusalem Temple in Jesus' time and selected aspects of its spiritual, political, economic and sociological role in the life of the Jewish population of Palestine in the 1st century AD. The author notices the selected negative circumstances that could have led Jesus of Nazareth to enter the Jerusalem temple with the intention of disrupting the order and returning the Temple to its original purpose. The author pays great attention to evidence to confirm the theory that the "event" in the Temple occurred twice. One at the beginning of Jesus' public activity (described in the Gospel according to John) and once at the end (described in synoptics). Further, the author pays attention to the arguments in support of the historicity of the described events. Keywords Jesus of Nazareth, Jerusalem Temple, Gospel, Historicity, Cleansing of the Temple

The thesis deals with the Jesus' logia about vocation contained in Matthew 8, taking into account the synoptic parallel of the text in Luke. The original Greek text is, first, translated into Czech and then linguistically analyzed. The thesis further examines the original setting of the logia and their foundation in the hypothetical Q source. With the help of selected commentators (France, Hagner, Osborne, Fausti) are the logia and their meaning interpreted within the wider context of contemporary research. These modern interpretations are supplemented by views of the early Church Fathers. The method used in the present thesis is the analysis of the original text and a comparison of relevant commentaries.