This study explains the eschatology of the present in liberation terms. Chapter two looks at the Old Testament and New Testament eschatological elements. Chapter three explains that liberation theologians are using Marxism's social analysis for the pursuit of the New World. Chapter four explains that God's action in the course of history and Jesus Christ's deeds are means of liberating human being from economic, political and social oppression; therefore God the Creator and Jesus the Liberator are the content ofliberation eschatology. The fifth chapter explains that there is an interface between practise and theory. By putting our faith into action through revolution, love and struggle we can create a New World. In short, this study explains how liberation theologians close the gap between christian eschatology and the Marxist hope of Utopia by using the biblical message of liberation and Marxist social analysis, and find an eschatology of the present in liberation terms / Theology / M.Theology

This study explains the eschatology of the present in liberation terms. Chapter two looks at the Old Testament and New Testament eschatological elements. Chapter three explains that liberation theologians are using Marxism's social analysis for the pursuit of the New World. Chapter four explains that God's action in the course of history and Jesus Christ's deeds are means of liberating human being from economic, political and social oppression; therefore God the Creator and Jesus the Liberator are the content ofliberation eschatology. The fifth chapter explains that there is an interface between practise and theory. By putting our faith into action through revolution, love and struggle we can create a New World. In short, this study explains how liberation theologians close the gap between christian eschatology and the Marxist hope of Utopia by using the biblical message of liberation and Marxist social analysis, and find an eschatology of the present in liberation terms / Theology / M.Theology

University of Macau / Faculty of Arts and Humanities. / Department of English

林豔. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2007. / 參考文獻(p. 170-191). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2007. / Can kao wen xian (p. 170-191). / Lin Yan.

This study compares the behavior of differential equations and difference equations of various orders in order to predict the state of the systems at a given time by using initial information about the system. We have demonstrated that differential equations are used in a continuous domain whereas difference equations are employed for discrete dynamical systems. Furthermore, the difference between the two models is amplified in logistic models which both are known to give explicit solutions. However, the discrete logistic model is especially superior in exhibiting a chaotic behavior of the system which the differential equation is incapable of dealing with. The conclusions drawn from the findings conform the similarities and the stark differences between these two models.

Economic liberalism has always been a very controversial issue in the content of development economics. The relation of neo-liberalism with economic development, as today&rsquo / s dominant discourse of economics, has been highly debated in the last decades. The main objective of this thesis is to investigate this relationship via comparing four countries&rsquo / development experiences / Argentina, China, Turkey and Poland, in between 1965-2005. In addition to that purpose, this thesis aims to analyze whether the experiences of the countries are unique or they display strong similarities with each other / and moreover to assess whether countries that follow the dominant development discourse are more successful than those that diverge from it. Development is defined on the basis of twenty-one indicators which consist of both purely quantitative ones and also others that possess qualitative elements. The comparison was concluded with the results that there was not a universal development path followed by the four countries / neo-liberal transition and reforms in the four countries have in fact brought about changes in some indicators and finally China has been performing better than the other countries by means of a number of indicators, as a country which has relatively been outside the dominant development trend in the world

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1988.

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Social Sciences

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Social Sciences