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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Imperial polemics and the end of the exodus in Romans : a rhetorical and intertextual reading of Romans 1.1-17

Lee, Byran Derek January 2009 (has links)
This thesis examines the possible intertexts in Paul's letter to the Romans as a heuristic for creating model readers. It is argued that Paul's use of the Scriptures of Israel in the beginning of Romans functions thematically in an effort for Paul to set forth a normative means of how his letter ought to be interpreted. This thesis aims to offer a brief interpretation of the exodus event, how it came to be a motif, and its variegated (re)use and transformation in Second Temple literature. By using the exodus motif(s) as a pretext this thesis examines the beginning of Paul's letter to the Romans highlighting how the exodus theme is used in an effort to maintain continuity with the Jewish past and to offer a rational for Paul's own vocation - the inclusion of the nations into the people of God. Paul was thus not about the business of settling disputes between Judean and non-Judean Christians, but rather about securing the obedience of faith among the nations. One of the main means of securing the nation's obedience in Rome was by the proclamation of his good news over against the competing claims of Caesar and the Roman imperial order, here again we find the exodus motif to be a very helpful tool in exploring this phenomenon. This thesis operates using aspects of literary theory, especially that of Intertextuality. Intertextuality is used as an umbrella for a variety of different and distinctive possible ways which texts can be read, and consequently understood. No specific theory of intertextuality is chosen to examine these texts, rather a broad intertextual reading is used as a means of showing the possibilities contained within a text.
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Structuring early Christian memory : Jesus in tradition, performance, and text

Rodríguez, Rafael January 2008 (has links)
Social memory research has complicated the relationship between past and present as that relationship finds expression in memorial acts (storytelling, music- and image-making, textproduction, and so on). This relationship has emerged as a dialectic in which the phenomena 'past' and 'present' are mutually constitutive and implicating. The resultant 'messiness' directly affects the procedures and products of 'historicaI Jesus' research, which has especially depended upon the assumption that we can neatly and cleanly separate 'authentic' (past) from 'inauthentic' (present) traditions. This thesis establishes some problems that attend to this assumption and attempts to establish a 'historical Jesus' programme that is more sensitive to the entanglement of past and present. Social memory research has especially identified 'reputation' . as a vehicle of this entanglement in the memory of specific historical persons. Therefore, Jesus' reputation' plays a key analytic role in this project. Another consequence of social memory research has been the emphatic insistence that all memorial acts are culturally and socially conditioned; the meaning of 'memories', the products of memorial act? emerges from the relationship of memorial acts and their social contexts. One aspect of the gospels' social context that has been underappreciated in most New Testament research is the contextualisation ofour written gospels within the vibrant and fluid oral traditional milieux ofJesus and Israelite communities. This project examines and applies the poetics of oral traditional narrative, including the textualisation of oral tradition, to our written gospels. The resultant theoretical perspective dramatically affects gospels and 'historical Jesus' research. Since both these fields are too vast to encompass here, this project focuses its attention on We appearance of Jesus' healing and exorcistic praxis in the sayings tradition. Afterwards, we will suggest a few areas in which critics might fruitfully pursue future research in the gospels and on tile historical Jesus.
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Critical and exegetical reexamination of Hebrews 5:11 to 6:8

Sauer, R. C. January 1981 (has links)
No description available.
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Abomination of desolation in Biblical eschatology

Ford, Desmond January 1972 (has links)
No description available.
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The concept of spirit in the Epistles of Paul

Pinnock, C. H. January 1963 (has links)
No description available.
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The interpretation of 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 and its place in Pauline eschatology

Harris, Murray James January 1970 (has links)
No description available.
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Manichaean Christology : the historical Jesus and the suffering Jesus, with particular reference to Western texts (i.e. texts from a Christian environment), and illustrated by comparison with Marcionism and other related movements

Gardner, I. M. F. January 1983 (has links)
No description available.
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Luke's account of the Lord's Supper against the background of meals in the ancient semitic world and more particularly meals in the Gospel of Luke

Leonard, Paul Ernest January 1976 (has links)
No description available.
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Melodies of community : towards a theology of Christian community through the metaphor of music, with particular reference to Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Iona Community

Gardiner, W. Craig T. January 2006 (has links)
The concluding chapters examine how the counterpoint of worship, ecumenism and healing is performed within the Church, and how the melodies of peace, justice and ecology are realised in and with the world. They confirm the importance of polyphony as a metaphor through which a new theology of Christian community may be articulated.
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Evangelization in the writings of Latin American liberation theologians

Pope-Levison, Priscilla January 1988 (has links)
This dissertation investigates evangelization in the writings of ten Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians who were chosen due to their interaction with the major themes of Liberation Theology and their interest in evangelization. The six Roman Catholic theologians include Leonardo Boff, Segundo Gulilea, Gustavo Gutihrrez, Archbishop Oscar Romero, Juan Luis Segundo, and Jon Sobrino. The four Protestant theologians include Mortimer Arias, Emilio Castro, Orlando Costas, and Jose Miguez Bonino. Along with a chapter on each theologian, two separate chapters are devoted to a comparison of the Roman Catholics as a group and the Protestants as a group. The concluding chapter collects the findings and presents a common view of evangelization in Latin American Liberation Theology. In addition, this thesis is set in its historical context with studies of evangelization in four Roman Catholic Documents – Vatican II, Medellin, Evanglii Nuntiandi, and Puebla, and WCC documents tram the New Delhi Assembly (1961) to the Vancouver Assembly (1983). This study demonstrates that evangelization is a central theme of Latin American Liberation Theology. Both Roman Catholic and Protestant liberation theologians devote a great deal of attention to this topic which serves for them as a bridge between theology and praxis. In the theological realm, evangelization is founded on the concept of the reign of God. III the arena of praxis, evangelization is centered on proclamation and action. In addition, evangelization stands as a theme around which Roman Catholic and Protestant liberation theologians unite; the similarities between them are significant and numerous. These theologians present a view of evangelization which has the potential to alter traditional understandings and existing structures of evangelization. Their concept of evangelization pioneers new frontiers as it interacts with liberation, the poor, denunciation, action, collective conversion, and a comprehensive view of the reign of God.

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