This thesis deals with the research of humility from the view of its elusiveness - it does not define humility and it also does not even try to do so. Conversely, it walks around the phenomenon of humility and points at it in different ways. It uses examples, mostly from works of Comenius, and builds it with parallels from works of Jung, Foucault, Jünger, Drewermann and some other authors. It delimits humility against pride at example of different view of "epoché" in works of Comenius and Descartes; pride is basicly seen where human does not leave any unnaturalness and completely absorbs the world by his own opinion; work also uses Husserl's criticism of Descartes' view of "epoché" and Comenius' criticism of Machiavelli is also mentioned. Thence, the thesis sees the principle of humility in a close relation with the principle of faith or simply with the knowledge of the principle of some higher instance than the human's own sense is. The principle of humility is also nearby to the principle of grace - for this example the thesis researches Simone Weil's concept of "weight and grace"; grace from this point of view is an unpredictable step outside the performance-based part of human life. This thesis deals with mentioned phenomenons at first at the level of the visions of the world, later at the...

SVOBODA, Boris: The Priestly Blessing. [Master thesis] / Boris Svoboda. - Charles University in Prague. Hussite Theological Faculty; - Supervisor: Doc. Mgr. Jiří Beneš, Th.D. - Degree: Master. - Prague: HTF UK, 2014. 65 p. This thesis deals with the exposition of the textual unit of The Aaronic Blessing from The Book of Numbers, chapter 6, verses 22-27. Its aim is to characterize theological meaning of the textual unit and also to provide insight into the meaning of the phenomenon of blessing in The Old Testament. Reach of this theological reflexion surpasses the scope of Old Testament judaism and provides an impulses also for the christian theology, for usage and developing of blessing in its context. Results of the exegesis can present knowledge about understanding of blessing not only in its original context, but also in the understanding of contemporary society. Blessing gives strong impulses for personal lives, but it is also connected with the issues of whole society and with approaching the goal of peace and the status of world, in which will of God is implemented. KEYWORDS: priest, priestly, blessing, benediction, Aaron, Aaronic, Israel, Old Testament, Numbers, peace, grace Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Orientador: Marcos Ferreira Minicucci / Resumo: Introdução: A síndrome coronariana aguda sem supradesnivelamento do segmento ST (SCASSST) é responsável por grande parte das hospitalizações, morbidade e mortalidade no mundo. Diversos estudos sugerem que os escores de risco são ferramentas importantes no manejo das SCASSST e que aperfeiçoamento dos mesmos é fundamental. A literatura tem mostrado correlação entre força muscular (FM), fatores de risco cardiovasculares e mortalidade. É sabido que o teste de força de preensão manual (FPM) é indicador de estado geral de força de fácil aplicabilidade, porém pouco estudado no contexto das síndromes coronarianas agudas. Hipótese: A medida de força de preensão manual pode ser preditora de risco cardiovascular, podendo ser incorporada ao escore de GRACE nos pacientes admitidos com SCASSST. Objetivo: Analisar se a incorporação da FPM ao escore de GRACE, por meio do escore GRACE/FPM, melhora sua performance na predição de risco do desfecho combinado mortalidade, recorrência de angina ou infarto, acidente vascular cerebral (AVC) e reinternação em 30 dias após a admissão hospitalar, nos pacientes com SCASSST. Casuística e Métodos: Trata-se de estudo prospectivo e observacional com pacientes admitidos com SCASSST na Unidade de Emergências Cardiológicas e na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Coronariana de nossa instituição com idade maior ou igual a 18 anos, durante 6 meses. Na admissão, foi calculado o escore de GRACE e realizado o teste de FPM em até 72h da admissão. Foram realizadas análises... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Introduction: Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation (NSTE-ACS) represent a large amount of hospitalizations, morbidity and mortality around the world. Several researches suggest that risk scores are important tools in NSTE-ACS patients management and its improvement is primordial. Literature has shown a correlation between muscle strength, cardiovascular risk factors and death. It is well known that handgrip strength (HGS) is an easily applicable indicator of general muscular strength, but it is poorly studied in the context of ACS. Hypothesis: Handgrip strength measurement would be a good cardiovascular risk predictor and can be incorporated into the GRACE risk score for the patients with NSTE-ACS. Objective: To analyze whether the incorporation of HGS into GRACE risk score, by the score GRACE/HGS, improves its performance in risk predicting of combined outcome death, recurrence of angina or myocardial infarction, stroke and re-hospitalization in 30 days after hospital admission in patients with NSTE-ACS. Methods: This is a prospective and observational study that includes patients admitted with NSTE-ACS in Cardiologic Emergency Unit and in Coronary Intensive Care Unit of our institution aged over 18 years, for 6 months. In admission, GRACE risk score was calculated and HGS was measured within 72 hours of admission. Uni and multivariate analyses were done and ROC curve was built. Significant p value adopted was 5%. Resu... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:27:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Roberto Abreu de Mattos.pdf: 1065680 bytes, checksum: e698392ff109025c1b789802d20da2ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-05 / The aim of this monographic paper is to reflect upon the problem of evil. For a better understanding of the subject we decided to approach fundamental issues issues such as : what is evil, the reason of evil, its origen and mainly the meaning of evil and its suffering in relation to one s free will. Appealing to specialized bibliography, other concepts are seen essential for the understanding of this subject like: grace, freedom, divine prescience, will, love and so on. Basically all the answers about the issue of evil envolve directly or indirectly a reflection about God, in other words everything about evil envolves human suffering, and one of the strong points regarding modern atheism is why do I suffer? Where is God? Well, looking precisely through this prespective that is, approaching the issue of evil together with the issue of God arises the legitimaly and necessity to conceive and defend a right concept of as being almighty googd and fair / Uma vez que o objetivo deste trabalho monográfico é apresentar reflexões sobre a questão do problema do mal, para melhor compreensão do tema decidimos abordar questões fundamentais, tais como: o que é o mal, porque o mal, qual a sua origem e, principalmente, qual o sentido do mal e do sofrimento em relação ao livre-arbítrio. Buscando recurso na bibliografia especializada vamos encontrar outros conceitos que se apresentam como essenciais para a compreensão do tema proposto, dentre os quais destacamos: Graça, liberdade, Presciência divina, vontade, amor, etc. Não há como deixar de observar que praticamente todas as tentativas de respostas sobre a questão do mal envolvem, direta ou indiretamente, uma reflexão sobre a questão de Deus . Ou seja, toda a questão sobre o mal envolve a realidade do sofrimento humano, e uma das rochas do ateísmo moderno é justamente a questão do porque sofro? , onde está Deus? . Pois bem, é justamente dentro desta perspectiva, isto é, do afrontamento da questão do mal , arrostando conjuntamente a questão de Deus , que surge a legitimidade e a necessidade de conceber e defender um justo conceito de Deus como Onipotente, Bom e Justo

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:21:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roberto Pereira Miguel.pdf: 596885 bytes, checksum: 45b4ab84b0d2d4c07dbcb501fdc5d0e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-12-02 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In this dissertation we intend to analyse the way proposed, and developed, by Saint Augustine toward the visualization of the invisible God. That is Via Puchritudinis, the path of beauty, which is a mystic as much as an aesthetic way. The focus of this task is the aesthetic side of this journey, which becomes evident by the assertion made by Hans Urs von Balthasar on his aesthetic theology treatise called Glória. For him, Augustine s trajectory, especially his conversion, cannot be considered a walk from aesthetics to religious , but a conversion from a common aesthetic to another superior one (Balthasar, 1986, p. 97). Because, for Augustine, contemplating the beauty of the world and creation represents the first step of a trajectory toward an even more keenly discerning contemplation of God s beauty, from which creation s beauty is just a vestige. But when he identifies the absolute transcendent God with beauty, by the affirmation: Late have I loved You, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved Thee! , Augustine makes this journey in a mystical way, in which history (God s action fulfilled by Jesus Christ) and prophecy (Scripture and His messengers) represents the two main pillars. Thus, we will also tackle Augustine s Via Pulchritudinis mystical side, in proportion to its relationship with the principal concept of this dissertation, which is, beauty. We understand that this concept of beauty, just as it was thought by Augustine, may be relevant to the present time, whereas the notion of beauty, nowadays, seems to have left behind all its transcendent aspects to shut itself up just in what is imanent, that is, body and matter / Nesta dissertação pretendemos analisar o caminho proposto, e percorrido, por Santo Agostinho em direção à visualização do Deus invisível. Trata-se da Via Pulchritudinis, o Caminho da Beleza, que se configura numa trajetória tanto mística quanto estética. O foco deste trabalho é o viés estético desta jornada, o qual se evidencia na afirmação feita por Hans Urs Von Balthasar em seu tratado de estética teológica intitulado Glória. Segundo ele, a trajetória de Agostinho, sobretudo a sua conversão, não pode ser considerada uma caminhada do estético em direção ao religioso , mas, isto sim, a conversão de uma estética comum a outra superior (Balthasar, 1986, p. 97). Pois, para Agostinho, a contemplação da beleza do mundo e da criação representa o passo inicial de uma trajetória em direção à contemplação cada vez mais aguçada da beleza de Deus, da qual a beleza das coisas criadas é apenas um vestígio. Mas ao identificar o Deus absolutamente transcendente com a própria beleza, por meio da afirmação Tarde te amei, ó beleza tão antiga e tão nova! (AGOSTINHO, Confissões, p.299), Agostinho faz dessa jornada um caminho místico, no qual a história (a ação de Deus realizada por Jesus Cristo) e a profecia (a Escritura e os seus mensageiros) representam os dois pilares principais. Assim, abordaremos também o lado místico da Via Pulchritudinis agostiniana, na medida em que ele se relaciona com o conceito principal deste trabalho, isto é, a beleza. Entendemos que este conceito de beleza, tal e qual pensado por Santo Agostinho, pode ser relevante à atualidade, visto que a noção de beleza, neste tempo, parece haver deixado de lado todo o seu aspecto transcendente para encerrar-se tão somente naquilo que é imanente, isto é, no corpo e na matéria

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:21:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carla Cristiane Teixeira do Couto.pdf: 1373757 bytes, checksum: d7f58aae306064acc00cf36a684e7594 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-26 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This research has proposed a study on the diaspora of the Catholic Church of Portugal for Portuguese America in the eighteenth century, following some of the expansion of Christianity, noting the role of religious, political and cultural development of the Sacraments of Penance and the practice of indulgences. We consider the precepts laid down in Council of Trent and their influence in the process of Portuguese colonization, and remember that this period is marked by the ideas of the Renaissance and Enlightenment movements. By monitoring the administrative and pastoral concerns of the bishops, both in Portugal and in the colony, we realize that the ecclesiastical patronage system represented an obstacle to the action of themselves at dioceses. The character of animosity in relations between Church authorities and representatives of the Crown in the captaincy, especially in the middle of the eighteenth century show that the submission of religious power in the face of ecclesiastical patronage system was not full. Gradually, following the guidelines of Trent, the Church takes form more defined in Cologne / Esta pesquisa tem como proposta um estudo sobre a diáspora da Igreja Católica de Portugal para a América Portuguesa no século XVIII, acompanhando um pouco da expansão da Cristandade, verificando o papel religioso, político e cultural dos sacramentos da Penitência e da prática das Indulgências. Consideramos as normas religiosas estabelecidas no Concílio de Trento e suas influências no processo da colonização portuguesa, além de ter presente que esse período é marcado pelas idéias dos movimentos renascentistas e iluministas. Ao acompanhar as preocupações pastorais e administrativas dos bispos, tanto em Portugal quanto na colônia, percebemos que o Padroado representou um obstáculo para a ação dos mesmos nas dioceses. O caráter de animosidade nas relações estabelecidas entre as autoridades eclesiásticas e os representantes da Coroa nas Capitânias, especialmente na metade do século XVIII, revelam que a submissão de poder religioso em virtude do Padroado não era plena. Gradualmente, na esteira das orientações de Trento, a Igreja toma um corpo mais definido na Colônia

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:48:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernando de Almeida.pdf: 641891 bytes, checksum: 0a9fca13ced0a8239a6b733959c203e6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-02-28 / This dissertation deals with the relationship of Christianity and culture from the perspective of Richard H. Niebuhr, John Gresham Machen, and T. M. Moore`s categorizations. It presents, in these categories of reactions to culture, the transformationist or conversionist point of view as the one to be preferred in this relationship. It identifies the reformer John Calvin as the main exponent and referential of conversionism. The key to the interpretation of the relationship of Christianity and culture is located in the doctrine of common grace. The dissertation draws attention to the heirs of Calvin`s thought, especially Abraham Kuyper, who was the main responsible for the popularization of the doctrine. It also considers the controversy involving the Christian Reformed Church due to internal disagreements around the doctrine of Common Grace. It concludes by demonstrating the theological formula that present-day Calvinists have articulated Concerning this doctrine, reasserting it as the best way to see the relationship of Christianity and culture. / Aborda o relacionamento do Cristianismo e a Cultura a partir das categorizações de Richard H. Niebuhr, John Gresham Machen e T. M. Moore. Apresenta nessas categorias de reações a cultura, o ponto de vista transformacionista ou conversionista como o preferível nessa relação. Identifica o reformador João Calvino como o principal expoente e referencial do conversionismo. Localiza na doutrina da Graça Comum a chave de interpretação da relação do cristianismo com a cultura. Verifica quais influências Calvino recebeu para desenvolver seu posicionamento a respeito da doutrina da Graça Comum. Apresenta os herdeiros do pensamento de João Calvino em especial Abraham Kuyper que foi um dos principais responsáveis pela popularização da doutrina. Disserta sobre a controvérsia envolvendo a Christian Reformed Church por causa de discordâncias em relação à doutrina da Graça Comum. Conclui demonstrando a fórmula teológica que os reformados atuais chegaram a respeito da doutrina reafirmado-a como melhor maneira de enxergar a relação do cristianismo com a cultura.

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Nous modélisons le rapport entre variation de pesanteur et déplacement vertical du sol dus à une surcharge à la surface d'un modèle de Terre à symétrie sphérique, stratifié et élastique. Les résultats théoriques sont comparés aux valeurs numériques trouvées pour diverses charges à partir des sorties de modèles globaux. Nous évaluons la résolution et la précision des variations temporelles du contenu en eau du sol estimées par la mission de gravimétrie spatiale GRACE. Celles-ci sont comparées aux prédictions des variations saisonnières de plusieurs modèles hydrologiques. En Europe, la validation des mesures GRACE par les mesures des gravimètres du reseau GGP repose sur une analyse en composantes principales et met en évidence la sécheresse de l'été 2003. Les signatures gravitationnelles cosismique et postsismique associées au séisme de Sumatra (2004) sont extraites des données GRACE. Une modélisation de l'effet cosismique montre que la réponse statique de l'océan ne peut être negligée.

The Heart's Portrait is a twelve movement composition for SATB choir and string quartet. The eight poems selected as the text for this work were penned by the eminent American poet Emily Dickinson. The text for the first movement, Dickinson's poem "If I can stop one Heart from breaking," succinctly describes the themes she commonly expounded upon in her writings: life, love, aching, pain, and purpose through faith. The remaining seven poems were chosen because they also explore these elemental themes. The main poem returns in variation throughout the piece, resulting in a modified rondo. To complement the four-part consort of voices, I selected a consort of strings in the form of a string quartet. The role of the quartet varies throughout the work from subservient to the vocal part, to dominant of the entire texture, to an equal partnership with the voices; these relationships are dictated by the text. Throughout the movements, I was able to explore a range of compositional techniques, both traditional and contemporary, while maintaining the primary purpose of unifying the text and music. This paper illustrates the initial compositional decisions made to begin the piece, the texts chosen and their placement within the work, the poet's history as it relates to the composition, a brief discussion on composers who have set Dickinson's words, and a thorough analysis of the work itself.