Thesis (M.C.S.)--Northwest Baptist Theological Seminary, Vancouver, B.C., 1988. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-138).

Thesis--Greifswald. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [75]-78).

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of St Andrews, January 2007.

The aim of this qualitative research study has been to investigate seven young adult Pentecostals conceptions about religious evil, that is Satan, demons and hell. The purpose has also been to analyze how these conceptualizations are formed. The method that has been used in this study is individual semi-structured interviews. The result of the study show that conceptions of Satan, demons and hell are strong in most of the individuals’ life but one. Berger & Luckmanns theories of socialization has been applied to the results and the discussion shows that conceptions about religious evil are formed in the primary socialization or the secondary socialization if the person goes through the process of alternation. Bultmanns argument that modern man can’t accept the world view that is presented in The New Testament has also been discussed and the discussion reveals that modern day people can believe in the New Testament worldview.

Lung Chun Ming. / "July 2012." / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.II / INTRODUCTION --- p.6 / DEFINITION OF THE TERMS --- p.8 / Chapter 1 --- EARLY PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.9 / Chapter 1.1 --- CHARLES FOX PARHAM --- p.10 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO CHARLES FOX PARHAM --- p.11 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- PARHAM'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.12 / Chapter 1.2 --- WILLIAM J. SEYMOUR --- p.16 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO WILLIAM JOSEPH SEYMOUR --- p.16 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- SEYMOUR'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.17 / Chapter 1.3 --- G. S. CASHWELL --- p.19 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO GASTON BARNABAS CASHWELL --- p.20 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- CASHWELL'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.21 / Chapter 1.4 --- CONCLUSION --- p.24 / Chapter 2 --- CONTEMPORARY PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTICS --- p.26 / Chapter 2.1 --- MENZIES'S VIEW POINT TO PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC --- p.28 / Chapter 2.2 --- STRONSTAD'S VIEW POINT TO PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3 --- LEWIS'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4 --- CONCLUSION --- p.32 / Chapter 3 --- CRITICISM OF BULTMANN'S PROGRAM OF DEMYTHOLOGIZATION FROM A PENTECOSTAL PERSPECTIVE --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1 --- CRITICISMS OF BULTMANN'S PROGRAM OF DEMYTHOLOGIZATION FROM HOWARD M. ERVIN --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO HOWARD M. ERVIN --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- FIRST CRITICISM WORLDVIEW OF MODERN MAN NO LONGER HOLDS --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- SECOND CRITICISM: DEMYTHOLOGIZATION IS ONLY A TASK OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE. DEMYTHOLOGIZATION NEGLECTS DIVINE HERMENEUTICS DURING INTERPRETATION --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2 --- ANALYSIS OF BULTMANN'S PROGRAM OF DEMYTHOLOGIZING --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- BULTMANN'S VIEW ON DEMYTHOLOGIZATION --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- RICOEUR VIEW'S ON BULTMANN'S DEMYTHOLOGIZATION --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3 --- A CRITICAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTICS AND BULTMANN'S DEMYTHOLOGIZATION --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- RESPONSE TO FIRST CRITICISM --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- RESPONSE TO SECOND CRITICISM --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4 --- CONCLUSION --- p.46 / CONCLUSION --- p.47 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.48 / BOOKS AND JOURNALS --- p.48 / ONLINE RESOURCES --- p.50

Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Seminary, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-137).

Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Seminary, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-137).

This study examines Angela Carter’s demythologising of origin myths and will investigate the extent to which her fictions offer viable alternatives that allow for productive representations of women and gender relations outside patriarchal paradigms. In the first half of the thesis (Chapters 1-3), I will primarily focus on how several of Carter’s earlier texts deconstruct existing mythical spaces, particularly the biblical creation story in Genesis. The Genesis myth is central to socio-historical constructions of gendered identities, and in itself, central to Carter’s imagination. She repeatedly returns to this myth in her challenging of the ways in which patriarchal narratives construct violent relations between self and other, specifically where ‘woman’ is situated as the repressed other of male desires and fears. Alongside her demythologising of Genesis, Carter deconstructs Freudian myths of sexual maturation, exposing where these also set up a relationship of antagonism or enmity between the sexes. Although Chapter One will explore how Carter attempts to revise these origin myths from a positive stance, Two and Three will focus on the inherent difficulties faced by the female subject in her struggle against patriarchal myths and their violent oppression of female autonomy. The second half of the thesis (Chapters 4-6) will shift to an investigation of how Carter’s later texts set up both possibilities and challenges for women when attempting to construct their own narratives of origin. Through her problematising of matriarchal myths and feminist fantasies of self-creation, Carter emphasises the need for confronting limitations rather than celebrating transgressions as entirely liberating. The thesis will conclude, however, with an examination of where Carter’s own attempts at remythologising opens up an alternative space, or ‘elsewhere’, of feminine desires that allows for a refiguring of the female subject as well as more reciprocal relations between the sexes.

Uppsala Universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, Konstvetenskap Christina Jensen, jensenkfz@gmail.com Sakral konst i Renässans och Nutid - En betraktelse av Piero della Francescas "Kristi Dop". Sacral Art in the Renaissance and Today - A Study of Piero della Francesca´s "Baptism of Christ". The aim of the study is to examine the relevance of sacral art to modern secular viewers. I have chosen the painting "Baptism of Christ" by Piero della Francesca from the Italian renaissance, since it has a well-known christological theme and narrative. I compare the impact of the painting on a renaissance viewer with the impact on a modern secular viewer. The intention is to find a common ground in these two viewers experiences, the inner signification behind the symbolic expressions in the painting. The renaissance viewer is rendered against a cultural context of Roman-Catholic theology with gnostic and neo-platonic cogitations. The modern viewer is described in relation to Protestant theology and to a modern existentialist context. In analysing the viewers experiences I use the iconography-iconology method, the hermeneutic theory of play and the theory of the aesthetics of reception.  In comparing these viewers experiences and using a process of demythologization a considerably older symbolic content emerges. This has a universal relevance and constitute the inner signification behind the symbols in the painting, relevant both for the viewer from the renaissance and for the modern viewer of today, as well as for a far more distant historical viewer. When the symbolic expressions from the Judeo-Palestinian context are excluded from the interpretation universal archetypes elucidates, these have a capacity to influence the modern individuals intellectual and spiritual cogitations.

Magistro darbo objektas – „Svetimų“ almanache publikuoti penkių autorių Dainiaus Dirgėlos, Valdo Gedgaudo, Evaldo Ignatavičiaus, Alvydo Šlepiko, Donato Valavčiausko tekstai, taip pat vėlesnė poeto Valdo Gedgaudo kūryba, kurioje išryškėja naujos, rinkinyje dar neįtvirtintos ir negatyvizmo etetiką lietuvių poezijoje ženklinančios temos. Grupė atvirai deklaruoja naują, kitokią savo egzistencinę ir vertybinę poziciją, visišką atsiribojimą nuo ankstesnių lietuvių kūrybinių ir literatūrinių tradicijų, kartu įteisindama naują žmogaus ir pasaulio sampratą. Tekstams būdinga demitologizacija, destrukcija santykyje su tradicija, karnavalizuotai traktuojama mirties tema. Almanache itin ryški negatyvizmo tendencija, kuri nėra vien tik bruožas ar motyvas, negatyvizmo etetika čia ima dominuoti, virsta mąstymo kategorija. „Svetimi“ žymi lietuvių poezijos raidos lūžį, naują jos epochą, savo kūrybinę koncepciją grįsdami specifiniu dalyku – triukšmingu svetimumo manifestu – kaip naujos, aktyvios, ambicingos ir kitoniškos kūrybinės laikysenos strategija. Darbo metodai pasirinkti atsižvelgiant į išsikeltus uždavinius: aptarti ryškiausias negatyvizmo tendencijas atsispindinčias šiame almanache, atskleisti svetimumo sampratą jų kūtyboje, išanalizuoti mirties diskursą, postmodernias karnavališkumo strategijas bei krikščioniškų kontekstų desakralizaciją. Tad daugiausia naudojamas analitinis interpretacinis metodas. / The object of the master’s work deals with the texts of five authors Dainiaus Dirgėla, Valdas Gedgaudas, Evaldas Ignatavičius, Alvydas Šlepikas, Donatas Valavčiauskas published in the almanac “Outlanders” as well as the posterior creative works of poet Valdas Gedgaudas where novel topics marking the esthetics of negativism although not fixed in the selection are noticeable. The group declares a novel different existential and valuable position as well as expresses complete dissociation from the earlier Lithuanian creative literature traditions at the same time legalizing a modern conception of the human and the world. Demythologization, destruction along with traditions are characteristic to the texts as well as the topic of death is approached using the elements of the carnival. The tendency of negativism is especially noticeable in the almanac although it is not supposed to be just a motive or feature while the esthetics of negativism tends to dominate transforming into the category of intellection. “Outlanders” signifies the turning point of the process of the Lithuanian poetry as well as its incoming era predicating their creative conception on the specific object of the manifestos of hilarious foreignness as a modern active ambitious different strategy of position. The work methods were selected according to its objectives which include discussing the most dramatic tendencies of negativism reflected by the almanac, revealing conception of... [to full text]