Thesis (S.T.M.)--Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-153).

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill., 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-103).

Thesis (Th. D.)--Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1955. / Bibliography: p. 259-270.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-154). Also available via World Wide Web.

Notre recherche aborde le processus de pardon comme travail d’élaboration du mal souffert et comme mouvement existentiel, dans une approche phénoménologique-existentielle complémentaire aux études nord-américaines qui se développent depuis une vingtaine d’années dans le champ de la psychologie du pardon. En partant de la question « Comment le pardon peut-il guérir ? » nous décrivons le pardon comme mouvement de déliement du mal souffert. Le travail d’élaboration psychique sous-tendant un processus de pardon est analysé à travers deux questions : (1) « Que faire du mal que l’on m’a fait ? », (2) « Comment faire du passé ‘ce qui passe’ » ? Nous éclairons la dimension intérieure du travail de pardon en montrant que le déliement se joue dans une dialectique subtile entre mémoire du malheur et intégration de ce malheur à l’existence. La recension de la littérature psychologique et l’analyse de la notion d’étape dans un processus de pardon ouvrent sur une présentation de la filiation occidentale de la notion de pardon dans le legs narratif biblique, avant une mise en perspective des dialogues entre Jankélévitch, Derrida, Arendt et Ricoeur. Une étude qualitative basée sur trois cas cliniques permet d’approfondir la nature de la blessure, les réactions à l’événement blessant et la mise en sens du pardon. Une analyse phénoménologique interprétative précise certaines dimensions subjectives et existentielles autour de trois axes : (1) l’impardonnable, (2) le pardon unilatéral et le pardon à soi-même, (3) le pardon réciproque. L’abord d‘une oeuvre de Rembrandt met en évidence la fécondité de l’art pour éclairer sous de nouveaux angles la clinique du pardon. Notre étude suggère également des pistes d’accompagnement thérapeutique du travail de pardon dans une perspective phénoménologique-existentielle. / .../...

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Magister Theologiae - MTh / The aim of this research project was to seek a reinterpretation of the Christian motif of 'bearing one's cross'. This motif has been widely criticized by feminist theologians as an instrument that exacerbates the oppression of women, since it encourages self-sacrifice and in this way legitimizes abusive relationships. The research project focuses on Mary Grey's contribution to feminist discourse on atonement as the work of Christ and, more specifically, the symbol of the cross. In general, the problem, which will be addressed in this research project, is how oppressed women should respond to the call in Christian piety "to bear one's own cross". More specifically, the research problem, which will be investigated in this project, may be formulated in the following way: How should Mary Grey's position on a feminist reinterpretation of the doctrine of atonement and the meaning of the cross of Jesus Christ be assessed within the South African Christian context? The study assesses Mary Grey's views within the context of her own work, a feminist reinterpretation of the doctrine of atonement and the meaning of the cross of Jesus Christ in order to establish whether it is internally coherent

Facilitating forgiveness: an NLP approach to forgiving is an attempt at uncovering features of the blocks that prevent people to forgive. These blocks to forgiveness can be detected in the real life situations of the six individuals who told me their stories. The inner thoughts, feelings and the subsequent behaviour that prevented them from forgiving others is clearly uncovered in their stories. The facilitation process highlights the features that created the blocks in the past thus preventing forgiveness to occur. The blocks with their accompanying features reveal what needs to be clarified or changed in order to eventually enable the hurt individuals to forgive those who have hurt them. The application of discourse analysis to the stories of hurt highlights the links between the real life stories of the individuals within their contexts with regard to unforgiveness to the research findings of the existing body of knowledge, thereby creating a complexly interwoven comprehensive understanding of the individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviours in conjunction with their developmental phases within their socio-cultural contexts. Neuro-linguistic-programming (NLP) is the instrument with which forgiving is facilitated in the six individuals who expressed their conscious desire to forgive, because they were unable to do so on their own. Their emotions had the habit of keeping them in a place in which they were forced to relive the hurtful event as if it were happening in the present. Arresting the process of reliving negative emotions requires a new way of being in this world. The assumption that this can be learnt is based on the results from a previous study, in which forgiveness was uncovered by means of the grounded theory approach as a cognitive process (Von Krosigk, 2000). The results from the previous research in conjunction with the results and insights from this research study are presented in the form of a grounded theory model of forgiveness. / Psychology / D. Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:19:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIEL ALVES DOS SANTOS.pdf: 753945 bytes, checksum: afda5a269470fca58eeade14eb681377 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-09 / In his theory of mimetic desire, René Girard presents Christ as an ideal to be followed since Jesus has demonstrated how is it possible to solve conflicts without associating it to vengeance of violence. Through his victimization on the Cross, Jesus reveals the truth about whom we are and who the Lord is. By demonstrating his innocence, He reverts to himself the accusation of those keeping themselves on the circle of self-justification by transfer of guilt. Thereby, the Christ decides to forgive by his own will. This is a new form of forgiveness that is called Novum.The Novum reveals a new way to bond with people who have wronged us and to try to understand ourselves through the other. This new mimesis values life, freedom, and care for the neighbor, the reconciliation more than gifts and sacrifices. This is dialectical overcoming because in this process the decision of forgiving belongs to the subject and the decision of reconciliation also depends on the one that was offended.Through the novum it is possible to change the direction of the past, destroy fatality and not to continue being a hostage of guilt. This attitude allows the subject to look to the future with hope. Focusing on the Passion and the Resurrection the subject finds who he really is and will be able to decide to pursue the Christ centric model. This decision takes him off the violent mimesis to start to elaborate the will to decide to forgive the one that has offended him. Finally, the subject recognizes the novum forgiveness as a model that when is imitated and donated is capable of remaking the one forgiving as well as the one that is forgiven. / Em sua teoria mimética do desejo, René Girard apresenta Cristo como modelo ideal a ser seguido, uma vez que Jesus demonstrou como é possível resolver conflitos sem associá-los à vingança ou à violência. Através de sua vitimização na Cruz, Jesus revela toda a verdade de quem somos e quem Deus é, ao manifestar sua inocência, Ele reverte para si a acusação daqueles que se mantêm no círculo da auto justificação por transferência da culpa. Assim, o Cristo decide, por sua livre vontade, perdoar. Isto é, uma nova forma de perdão, que denominamos novum. Fundamentado no amor, ele vem de fora e fura o círculo da violência. O novum revela uma nova maneira de se relacionar com as pessoas que nos prejudicaram, de tentar compreender quem somos através do Outro. Essa nova mimesis valoriza a vida, a liberdade, o cuidado com o próximo, a reconciliação mais do que ofertas e sacrifícios. Trata-se de uma superação dialética, pois, apesar de nesse processo a decisão de perdoar estar de posse do sujeito sendo esta uma via de mão única , a decisão de reconciliação depende também do ofendido/ofensor, esta outra, via de mão dupla . Através do novum é possível mudar o sentido do passado, destruir a fatalidade e não ter necessidade de continuar como refém da culpa. Esta atitude possibilita o sujeito olhar o futuro com esperança. Ao focar a Paixão e a Ressurreição, o sujeito descobre quem ele realmente é e poderá decidir seguir o modelo Cristocêntrico. Essa decisão leva-o a sair da mimesis violenta e passar a elaborar a vontade, para então decidir perdoar àquele que o ofendeu. O sujeito, por fim, reconhece o perdão novum como modelo que ao ser imitado e doado é capaz de refazer a pessoa de seu doador, bem como àquele que é perdoado.

O presente trabalho tem o propósito de analisar o conflito existencial humano que se apresenta na tensão entre as exigências de uma autoridade absolutizada (Lei) - encontrada tanto na ótica psicanalítica como na teológica, na representação do pai, superego, Deus e o pecado enquanto categoria teológica e antropológica, como condição de toda existência e, ao mesmo tempo, ato voluntário que impossibilita corresponder às expectativas legalistas de uma autoridade exigente. Deste conflito, destacamos suas manifestações clássicas: o sentimento de culpa, entendido aqui como angústia de culpa daquele que não cumpre as exigências; e o orgulho, entendido como idealização do eu daquele que se entende como sujeito capaz de atender às expectativas da autoridade. Tanto a culpa quanto o orgulho são fatores de destruição do ser humano conforme as perspectivas teológica e psicanalítica. A fim de discutir este conflito, propomos examinar a imagem do pai que Jesus apresenta no seu relacionamento com Deus. Entendemos que esta representação, a partir do perdão, é paradigma para a relativização da figura de autoridade absolutizada, para a superação do pecado, para a noção de uma nova justiça, para a cura da culpa e para uma imagem real do ser humano não baseada no orgulho. / The goal of this work is to analyze the human existential conflict that appears in the tension between the demands of an absolutized authority (Law) found in the psychoanalytic view and in the theological view in the representation of the father, superego, God and the sin as a theological and anthropological category, as a condition of every existence, and at the same time a voluntary act that makes it impossible to meet the legal expectations of a demanding authority. It highlights the classical manifestations of this conflict: the feeling of gilt, understood here as anguish of gilt, of the one who cannot meet the demands; and the pride understood as the idealization of the self, of the one who understands himself or herself as a person able to meet the expectations of the authority. Gilt and pride are factors of destruction of the human being according to the theological and psychoanalytic perspectives. In order to solve this conflict it wants to examine the image of Father that Jesus presents in his relationship with God. It understands that this representation, originated in forgiveness, is a paradigm in the relativization of the absolutized figure, in the surpassing of sin, for the notion of a new justice, for the healing of gilt and for a real image of the human being not based on pride.