Psalm 110 is a messianic psalm, because it has a Judean king as its contents. As such, it is also a royal psalm. As the son of God, every Davidic king was a representative of Gods rule over Israel. His task was to uphold justice and righteousness. In addition, every king was an instrument through which God redeemed his people from their enemies. In this way, the king was a kind of redeemer. As a sign of his authority and the fact that God chose him for a specific task, every king was anointed with oil. This made the king the messiah of God. In co ordinance with his Jebusiete predecessors, every Davidic king also was ‘n priest just as Melgisedek the king of Salem. Israel’s hope as a nation rested upon this line of Davidic priest-kings. The First Testament gives a unique significance to the concept of messiah. The Second Testament reinterprets this significance as being fulfilled in Jesus Christ. However, the unique significance that the First Testament gives to the concept of messiah can only be valued if the unique character of the First Testament and its historical context are taken into consideration. / Dissertation (MTh (Old Testament Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Old Testament Studies / unrestricted

Padre Manoel Lopes de Carvalho nasceu na Bahia no final do século XVII. Foi aluno da Companhia de Jesus, ordenado sacerdote em 1707. Grande admirador do Padre Antônio Vieira, deixou a Colônia em direção ao Reino, onde apresentando-se como um 2o Profeta Jonas, escreveu um \"Memorial à Sua Majestade\" El Rey D. João V. Prognostifica uma reforma da Igreja à luz de idéias vieirianas. Encontrou no judeu-cristianismo um referencial teológico que pudesse unir a Igreja à Sinagoga. Filosemita convicto, combateu com veemência a Inquisição e a perseguição aos cristãos-novos. Após acreditar que o Messias viria do Brasil, depois de sua prisão nos cárceres do Santo Ofício da Inquisição, iniciou um processo psicológico, onde acabaria por declarar-se Messias. Por fim, combinou uma série de complexos cruzamentos teológicos, sintetizando elementos judaicos, cristãos e gnósticos. Foi condenado à morte em Lisboa como \"afirmativo, profitente da Lei de Moisés\" no Auto de Fé de 1726. / Priest Manoel Lopes de Carvalho was born in Bahia in the end of the 17th century. He was student of Jesus\' Company, ordered priest in 1707. Great admirer of Priest Antônio Vieira, he left the Colony towards the Kingdom, where presenting himself as a 2nd Prophet Jonas, he wrote a \"Memorial à Sua Majestade\" El Rey D. João V. He prognosticates a reform of the Church to the light of Priest Antônio Vieira\'s ideas. He found in the Jew-Christianity a theological referencial that could join the Church to the Synagogue. Convict philosemitic, he combatted with vehemence the Inquisition and the persecution to the newChristian. After believing that the Messiah would come from Brazil, after his prison in the jails of Saint Service of the Inquisition, he began a psychological process, where he would end for declaring himself Messiah. Finally, he combined a series of complex theological crossings, synthesizing Jewish, Christians and Gnostics elements. He was condemned to the death in Lisbon as \"affirmative, professed of the Moses\' Law\" in the Act of Faith of 1726.

Studies and Correspondence of the priests-to-be of the Bohemian Brethren in 1610-1618 Markéta Růčková Two wooden boxes were found during the reconstruction of the former Minorite monastery Na Karmeli at Mladá Boleslav in 2006. The boxes concealed the so-called Archives of Matouš Konečný. The Archives contained documents that originated in the office of, or were addressed to, one of the four bishops of the Bohemian Brethren, Matouš Konečný (1569-1622), whose seat was at Mladá Boleslav. A significant part of the discovery consists of correspondence addressed to Bishop Konečný. A substantial part of the correspondence are documents related to the dispatch of young aspiring Brethren priests for study at educational institutions abroad. Along with letters of the students themselves, sent from Bremen and Beuthen an der Oder (Bytom Odrzański in Poland), where the young men attended academic grammar schools (gymnasia illustria), the boxes contain the students' pledges and accounts of their expenditures. The students' reports are supplemented with the correspondence of their teachers. The collection of letters from students and teachers as well as other documents being thus thematically delimited, our principal objective was to perform an analysis of their content and to prepare an edition of the documents....

The presented work focuses on the topic of priests of selected Christian Churches, and their potential possibility to live in marriage. In order to view pastors comprehensively, it is essential to define who a priest is, how it is possible to become one, how to terminate this status, what the rights, duties and punishments for the priests are and what hierarchy each Church has. A historical overview of the priests' celibacy in the history of the Church and specifically in Czech history is also included in the diploma paper, as well as theology of celibacy. Roman-Catholic Church, Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia and Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren are selected for the purpose of this work.

The Personality of Franciscan Jan Barta in Totalitarian Régime in Bohemia Abstract This thesis describes briefly the life of Francis of Assisi. Further, it deals with history of male Fraciscan orders in Bohemia and Moravia. Also it concisely maps important events within several centuries. Above all it focuses on modern history in the period of the totalitarian regime in Bohemia. The dissertation pays attention to the personality of Jan Barta, the leading figure of Czech Franciscanism and to holy orders in our country, in the communist supremacy time. The thesis presents important moments in the life of this famous personality. It covers years in prison, writing theological works, organizing life and study of brethren and nuns, re-establishing communion of monastic orders in family - like houses. It mentions suffering before his death linked with his health problems that were caused by questioning from state security. Keywords Franciscan, friar, clergyman or priest, driver, holy order communion, prison, study, organizer, questioning, trial or case at court.

In this dissertation I examine the role played by the ancient Near Eastern serpent in apotropaic and prophylactic magic. Within this realm the serpent appears in roles in healing and protection where magic is often employed. The possibility of positive and negative roles is investigated. The study is confined to the Bronze Age in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Syria-Palestine. The serpents, serpent deities and deities with ophidian aspects and associations are described. By examining these serpents and deities and their roles it is possible to incorporate a comparative element into his study on an intra- and inter-regional basis. In order to accumulate information for this study I have utilised textual and pictorial evidence, as well as artefacts (such as jewellery, pottery and other amulets) bearing serpent motifs. / Old Testament & Ancient Near Eastern Studies / M.A. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:25:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 HIS - Mayara S Mendes.pdf: 4028005 bytes, checksum: 2bd2228189015f79545c2c3c165df136 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-16 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This disssertation aimed at discussing religious conflicts and political relations in Pará between 1930 and 1941 against the political background of the events of the 1930 s and of the tenure of Dom Antônio de Almeida Lustosa as bishop of Pará. In this period, some priests have positioned themselves against the political status quo, taking some attitudes that pleased neither the political bosses nor the local catholic hierarchy, which provoked a censure on them. Involved with electoral lawsuits or defalcation of catholic property, Father José Maria do Lago, Father José Foulquier, Father Leandro Pinheiro and Father Alcides Paranhos were forced to rethink their sacerdotal behavior towards society. Working with different kinds of official documents and newspapers, this work discusses the actions of such religious men and the positions and actions of the Catholic Church and of the local Governments concerning these attitudes, which were classified, by some politicians of that time, as petty politics. / Esta dissertação procurou discutir os conflitos religiosos e as relações políticas no Pará entre 1930 e 1941, tendo como cenário político os acontecimentos de 30 e o bispado de Dom Antônio de Almeida Lustosa. Nesse período, percebemos que alguns padres se posicionaram contra a estrutura política vigente, tomando atitudes que não agradaram nem aos dirigentes políticos, nem os superiores católicos paraenses, o que os levou a uma censura religiosa. Envolvidos com processos eleitorais ou desvio de patrimônio católico, Padre José Maria do Lago, Padre José Foulquier, Padre Leandro Pinheiro e Padre Alcides Paranhos foram forçados a repensarem seu comportamento enquanto sacerdotes diante à sociedade. Trabalhando com ofícios, correspondências, atas episcopais, circulares, cartas pastorais e jornais da época, o trabalho discute as ações destes religiosos e a posição e ação da Igreja católica e da Interventoria locais diante de tais atitudes, consideradas, por políticos da época, de politiqueiras.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:33:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PatriciaBioto.pdf: 3272223 bytes, checksum: c4cd3e2067696f97fc5f54cdd5e7f2fb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-08-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work consist of a bibliographic research about the following texts: Didática Magna (1657), A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching Schoole, in four small Treatises (1660), Ratio Studiorum atque Institutio Societatis Jesu (1599), and the diary of Thomas Platter, a European teacher from XVI century. The process of configuration of the modern teacher in the pedagogical treatise from XVI and XVII centuries was the object of this research. The purpose is show that for the textual context of production of this treatises, as well the historical circumstances, in that these treatises comes from, this texts had configured the modern teacher as teacher-preacher and as a priest-teacher. The development of argumentation was based on ideas of contemporary educational theoreticals that affirm that the modern scholarization don´t have institutional ancienty, and that the study of pedagogicals discourses made in the XVI and XVII centuries allow the understand the elements that shaped to the modern scholarization, between the the teacher . The analyse of sources was operated starting from the procedures theorical-operationals of the research segment of the history of ideas. As much as the goals proposed to this research can be proof the pertinence of the hypothetical asked about the characteristics of the modern teacher assumed in the pedagogicals treatises from the XVI and XVII centuries / O presente trabalho consistiu numa pesquisa bibliográfica sobre as seguintes obras: Didática Magna (1657), A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching Schoole, in four small Treatises (1660), Ratio Studiorum atque Institutio Societatis Jesu (1599), e o diário de Thomas Platter, um professor europeu do século XVI. O processo de configuração do professor moderno nos tratados pedagógicos dos séculos XVI e XVII foi o objeto dessa pesquisa. Pretendeu-se demonstrar que, dado o contexto inter-textual de produção desses tratados, bem como as circunstâncias históricas em que emergiram, essas obras configuraram o professor moderno como um professor-pastor e como um padre-professor. O desenvolvimento da argumentação apoiou-se nas idéias de teóricos educacionais contemporâneos que afirmam que a escolarização moderna não teve ancestrais institucionais, e que o estudo dos discursos pedagógicos produzidos nos séculos XVI e XVII permite compreender os elementos que deram forma à escolarização moderna, entre eles, o professor. A análise das fontes foi operada tomando por princípios os procedimentos teórico-operacionais da linha de pesquisa da história das idéias. Quanto aos objetivos propostos para esse trabalho, pode-se verificar a pertinência das hipóteses levantadas sobre as características que o professor moderno assumiu nos tratados pedagógicos dos séculos XVI e XVII

La present tesi vol explicar la implantació de la Reforma Catòlica en una sèrie de parròquies rurals dels bisbats de Girona (valls de Ridaura, Bas, Hostoles i Amer) i Vic (El Collsacabra i les valls de Susqueda i Sau), entre 1587 i 1800, des dels bisbes posttrentins Jaume Caçador i Pedro Jaime als il·lustrats Tomàs de Lorenzana i Francisco de Veyan. La documentació principal són les sèries de les visites pastorals conservades a l'Arxiu Diocesà de Girona i l'Arxiu Episcopal de Vic; paral·lelament, s'ha reforçat amb documentació parroquial (llibres sagramentals, consuetes, llibres d'obra i confraries), protocols notarials (notaries de Rupit, Sant Feliu de Pallerols, El Mallol i Amer) i impresos episcopals. Els manaments de les visites pastorals s'han contrastat, amb semblances i diferències, amb els decrets del concili de Trento, de les constitucions provincials tarraconenses i les sinodals gironines i vigatanes, i amb les evidències artístiques, arquitectòniques i arqueològiques. Tots ells han servit per demostrar la lentitud en la implantació del programa tridentí, que s'assoleix, de fet, amb força retard (ben entrat el segle XVIII). / The present thesis tries to explain the implantation of the Catholic Reform in a few rural parish churches in the bishoprics of Girona (Valleys of Ridaura, Bas, Hostoles and Amer) and Vic (El Collsacabra and Valleys of Susqueda and Sau), from 1587 to 1800, from the post-Trent bishops Jaume Caçador and Pedro Jaime to Illustrated Tomàs de Lorenzana and Francisco de Veyan. The main sources of information are the pastoral bishop visits. These series are well preserved in the Arxiu Diocesà de Girona and the Arxiu Episcopal de Vic. We also have added some other documents: parish registers, notary books (from Rupit, Sant Feliu de Pallerols, El Mallol i Amer) and bishop printed material. We have contrasted the orders from the bishops visits with the decrees from the Council of Trent, the Constitutions of the Tarraconense Province and the Synodal Constitutions of Girona and Vic, and the artistic, architectural and archaeological evidences. All of them have shown the slow pace and the delay of the enterprise.

The aim of the presented theses is to discover and to compare the impacts of the education on the children in the preschool care and on the schoolchildren (teen-agers) as far as the acquiring of the basis of the Christianity as a religion and the formation of their life as Christians. In principle the corn of the theses lies in the assessment of the influence of different factors (as the family, friends, priest, Christian broadcasting, literature, participation of the parish activities) on the Christian faith of children and young people. In other words, whether the formation of the Christian life gained through the family (from birth up) has a more stabile and permanent experiences with God than the faith acquired at a later stage of growing up. The methods of testing, of questionnaire survey and the method of monitoring the behaviour of children and young people were used in the theses. The outcome of my research was the finding, that even if some adolescents have an interest in the matters of faith and God, this meeting with the religion does not form deep relationships to the faith as such and to the God. Only by a slight number of the young people has such a late cognition an influence on the formation of their future Christian life. By contrast, the acquiring of the Christian faith from the childhood on has other difficulties. The Christian faith of children faces the misunderstanding of classmates and later on of an atheist partner. Fort the maintenance of the faith of the adolescents the factors like family values, stand-points and patterns are of special importance.