Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-78).

This thesis is an investigation of the place and function of repentance in the theology of Paul as determined by the critical application of the categories "getting-in" and staying-in" to the passages where the term is used and to passages where the concept may be implied. It contains an exegesis of those passages and an analysis of Paul's conversion experience. Consideration is also given to the implications this study has for other areas of New Testament study. / The main theses are that repentance was used by Paul in a variety of ways and played a more important role for him than has been thought and that Paul's place in early Christianity was in line with the teaching of Jesus and the early Christian church.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-78).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-78).

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris (1958?) (Cf. p. (lxxiv) for probable date). / Includes bibliographical references.

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This thesis assesses the mitigating impact of repentance upon the fixed punishments for brigandage (hiraba), theft, and the accusation of fornication (qadhf) under Islamic law, focusing on classical sources of Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir), law (fiqh), and legal theory (usul al-fiqh). It examines and compares the opinions of jurists and exegetes who are not affiliated with a school of law as well as jurists who belong to any of the eight legal schools--namely the Hanafis, Malikis, Shafi`is, Hanbalis, Zahiris, Zaydis, Imamis, and Ibadis. This thesis demonstrates that the mitigating impact of repentance upon the fixed punishments for brigandage, theft, and qadhf constitutes a case of casuistry as jurists do not assign legal significance to the concept of repentance in all of these three cases. Furthermore, the legal tradition on the mitigating impact of repentance upon fixed punishments shows a high degree of commonality that transcends school affiliation and theological orientation.

The topic of this diploma work is "Effective repentance and bribery". Effective repentance is a reason which causes an extinction of punish ability. There are two kinds of effective repentance. The first is a general effective repentance. The second is a specific effective repentance. General effective repentance causes impunity when offender of criminal act of listed crimes retrieved injury by his own will, or announced criminal act to prosecutor or police officer in time when should be injury retrieve. Specific effective repentance is codified for just a few crimes. One of these crimes, where specific effective repentance was codified is bribery. Bribery effective repentance means, that the offender of bribe giving will not be penal responsible if he gives or promises bribe, just because he was asked for bribe and if he (by his own will and immediately) announced this to a prosecutor or a police officer. In the past since 1950 we have had this specific repentance in criminal law. Since 1/1/2010 we have got a new criminal law no 40/2009 Sb. New codex no. 40/2009 Sb. despite original legislative proposal does not codify specific effective repentance in corruption cases. It was tried to describe historical aspects of effective repentance in context with development of criminal law in our country. In my...

Matthew 18:18-20 is an important section of the discourse of Matthew 18 and one of the most important passages for Matthew's theology. The near identical wording of Mt. 18:18 to Mt. 16:19b-c gives this section even further importance. Mt. 16:17-19 has long been a source of disagreement about the place of Peter or the structure of the church in early Christianity, so the connection of Mt. 18:18 to Mt. 16:19b-c closely ties one important passage of Matthew to another. This thesis proposes a new interpretation for Mt. 18:18-20 and also for Mt. 16:19b-c, though the primary aim of the thesis is directed to the new interpretation of Mt. 18:18-20. The entire section of Mt. 18:18-20 is an expression of a central and repeated emphasis of Matthew's theology, his emphasis on divine causation in human behavior. The heaven-first order of binding and loosing in Mt. 18:18 expresses the conviction that God causes a person to repent (which does not deny there also being human causation). When the sinner of Mt. 18:15 looses his sin from himself through repentance, and when disciples respond by treating him as if his sin were loosed, such loosing has already occurred in heaven because God caused the person to repent. When the sinner holds fast to his sin and thus is treated by disciples in kind as if his sin were indeed bound to him, this is so because of the absence of such divine influence to repentance or because of the withdrawal of such influence in cases where the sinner has resisted it. It is thus appropriate to say that what has been loosed or bound on earth has already been loosed or bound in heaven. This explains the periphrastic future perfect verbal forms of Mt. 16:19b-c and 18:18. Matthew moves from the focus primarily on sin in Mt. 18:18 to a focus on conflict in Mt. 18:19. When two persons reconcile and thus resolve conflict, such reconciliation will have been divinely caused. The apodosis of Mt. 18:19 gives information about the cause of the event of the protasis. Something similar happens in Mt. 18:20, where the presence of the exalted Jesus mediates the presence of God, who works together with the exalted Jesus to bring reconciliation for the name of Jesus. Such an interpretation is the basis for renaming the discourse. It is a repentance discourse. This proposal for Mt. 18:18-20 avoids problems that have plagued previous interpretations of these verses. It does justice to the periphrastic future verbal forms and respects the linguistic evidence of Mt. 18:18-20. It also allows the interpreter to find a triad of triads structure that aligns the repentance discourse with the structure of the preceding discourses and with Matthew's use of triads in non-discourse material. Further, though this proposal is defensible on its own, it is also in continuity with Matthew's emphases on reconciliation and divine causation prior to Mt. 18. The results of this study are significant for source and redaction critical assessment of Mt. 18, for understanding Matthew's theology, and for understanding his conception of righteousness.

Esta pesquisa pretende investigar a participação da experiência de arrependimento na constituição humana. Uma das fontes que nos utilizaremos para tal, será a partir das contribuições que o psicanalista Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) faz sobre o surgimento do sentimento de culpa na vida de um bebê na relação com sua mãe, e a passagem desse sentimento para o que ele denomina de \"capacidade de consideração\" (concern). Também recorreremos à teologia cristã, e mais especificamente, ortodoxa, que compreende o fenômeno do arrependimento e sua relação com a condição humana a partir do conceito de metanoia, termo emprestado da cultura grega que guarda o sentido de \"transformação de consciência\", ou ainda, da passagem de um ser humano para uma nova postura existencial. Esses dois possíveis olhares para o arrependimento serão colocados em diálogo, a fim de enriquecer a investigação sobre o tema em questão e servir de análise sobre convergências e divergências entre os dois modelos e suas perspectivas paradigmáticas subjacentes. A pesquisa ainda se valerá da compreensão que o arrependimento parece ter no filme \"A Canção dos Pardais\", do diretor iraniano Majid Majidi. O filme contribuirá para o aprofundamento da discussão sobre o arrependimento e sua relação com a constituição humana. As diversas perspectivas oferecidas permitem com que tratemos nossa investigação em profundidade e complexidade, favorecendo ainda na formação de um olhar sobre a própria condição humana, que compreende a necessidade de tal experiência como elemento fundamental de amadurecimento. Procuraremos por fim fazer alguns apontamentos sobre a discussão realizada frente ao trabalho clínico e suas vicissitudes / This study aims to investigate the experience of repentance within human constitution. One of our sources to do so, will be through Donald Winnicott\'s (1896-1971) psychoanalytic contributions regarding the surging of the sense of guilt in a baby-mother relationship, and the transformation of this sense in what he named \"the capacity for concern\", or the \"stage of concern\". We will also approach Christian Theology, more specifically the Orthodox perspective, as a way to understand our subject. It presents repentance and its relations to the human condition through the concept of metanoia. This word was borrowed from the Ancient Greek Culture and has the meaning of \"change of mind\", or rather, \"a life change\", in which a human being finds a new perspective to life existence. These two ways of comprehending repentance will meet in a dialogue, and through it we can point out some commonalities and discrepancies between them, as well as their inner paradigms. Our research will add the understanding of repentance that can be taken from the movie \"The Song of the Sparrows\", of the iranian director, Majid Majidi. This movie can contribute with our discussion since it brings a live and poetic narrative concerning the subject in question. All the presented perspectives enable us to treat our investigation in a deep and complex way, and lead us to a specific look to the human condition that confirms the necessity of such transformational experience as a fundamental element of human constitution. In conclusion, all the theoretical contributions will be related to the clinical work and its peculiarities