Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:46:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DARLYSON MOYSES ALVES FEITOSA.pdf: 1428336 bytes, checksum: 9fdf0ad0ea1cbabd7d865e5706bb7729 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-24 / The present research examines the various statements about the figure originally introduced as the 'Son' in the book of the Bible known as the Epistle to the Hebrews. The Son is identified as being Jesus Christ, described by the author of the epistle with attributes previously designated only to God, the Father, in a concomitant non-parallel perspective. The qualifications of the Son are in the intersection with the Father's attributes, and constitute the basis for the divine conception of the Son. Given the socio-religious implications, this process of deification is best unders - tood in the Jewish period of national crisis that follows the events of 70 AC, where intra-Jewish conflicts arose. And compared to the monotheistic concept according to Old Testament tradition, the deification of Jesus based on the Epistle to the Hebrews presents theological elements that suggest new monotheistic concepts, referred to in the research as neomonotheism. / A presente pesquisa analisa as diversas declarações sobre o personagem inicialmente apresentado como o 'Filho' no livro da Bíblia hoje conhecido como Epístola aos Hebreus. O Filho é identificado como sendo Jesus Cristo, qualificado pelo autor da epístola com atributos antes designados somente para Deus, o Pai, numa perspectiva concomitante e não paralela. As qualificações do Filho estão em interseção com atributos do Pai, e se constituem a base para a concepção divina do Filho. Em virtude das implicações sociorreligiosas, esse processo de divinização é melhor compreendido no período de crise nacional judaica que se sucede aos eventos de 70 d.C., onde os conflitos intrajudaicos afloraram. E, comparativamente à concepção monoteísta segundo a tradição veterotestamentária, a divinização de Jesus com base na Epístola aos Hebreus apresenta elementos teológicos que sugerem novos conceitos monoteístas, denominados na pesquisa como neomonoteísmo.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:46:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DARLYSON MOYSES ALVES FEITOSA.pdf: 1428336 bytes, checksum: 9fdf0ad0ea1cbabd7d865e5706bb7729 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-24 / The present research examines the various statements about the figure originally introduced as the 'Son' in the book of the Bible known as the Epistle to the Hebrews. The Son is identified as being Jesus Christ, described by the author of the epistle with attributes previously designated only to God, the Father, in a concomitant non-parallel perspective. The qualifications of the Son are in the intersection with the Father's attributes, and constitute the basis for the divine conception of the Son. Given the socio-religious implications, this process of deification is best unders - tood in the Jewish period of national crisis that follows the events of 70 AC, where intra-Jewish conflicts arose. And compared to the monotheistic concept according to Old Testament tradition, the deification of Jesus based on the Epistle to the Hebrews presents theological elements that suggest new monotheistic concepts, referred to in the research as neomonotheism. / A presente pesquisa analisa as diversas declarações sobre o personagem inicialmente apresentado como o 'Filho' no livro da Bíblia hoje conhecido como Epístola aos Hebreus. O Filho é identificado como sendo Jesus Cristo, qualificado pelo autor da epístola com atributos antes designados somente para Deus, o Pai, numa perspectiva concomitante e não paralela. As qualificações do Filho estão em interseção com atributos do Pai, e se constituem a base para a concepção divina do Filho. Em virtude das implicações sociorreligiosas, esse processo de divinização é melhor compreendido no período de crise nacional judaica que se sucede aos eventos de 70 d.C., onde os conflitos intrajudaicos afloraram. E, comparativamente à concepção monoteísta segundo a tradição veterotestamentária, a divinização de Jesus com base na Epístola aos Hebreus apresenta elementos teológicos que sugerem novos conceitos monoteístas, denominados na pesquisa como neomonoteísmo.

Arguably, the impact of Darwinism on the novel is an indispensable part of the study of English literature. However, with regard to such literary study there is an ongoing aversion towards approaching Darwin outside the confines of his contemporaneous Victorian setting. This thesis explores what remains an extremely under-represented area of current scholarship; namely, the active status of Darwinism as an influence upon contemporary novelists. To address this gap, this study starts by conducting textual and comparative analyses of a representative selection of contemporary British novels, a literary field that, since 1990, has featured significant authors who have found in Darwin a source of intellectual and literary inspiration. The aim is to argue that Darwin's classic texts, and more recent incarnations of his theory such as Sociobiology, are deployed as a materialist discourse, used to subvert various problematic assumptions in the declining Postmodernist philosophy, the previously dominant theoretical paradigm. For novelists including Ian McEwan, A.S. Byatt and Jenny Diski, Darwinism provides the tools to define human nature in an oppositional manner to the Social Constructivism which reduces the human to a blank slate ready for society's dictation. A universal human nature can be seen manifested in biological phenomena including competition, altruism, reproduction and aggression. The treacherous territory of biological determinism is still present, yet the desire to experiment is carried forward by McEwan in Enduring Love and Saturday into the realm of challenging traditional religion. In a more nuanced manner, Jim Crace's Being Dead manages to create a wholly naturalistic narrative of death. Finally, reinstating alterative meta-narratives is a practice that comes fully into its own in contemporary renditions of history. Byatt's Neo-Victorian novels, Possession and Morpho Eugenia, exhibit faith in knowing the past as if it were an evolutionary process of accumulated changes. Moreover, Diski's serio-ironic Monkey's Uncle is focused on how the present is haunted by the past in the form of immortal DNA coils. This study analyses the texts in a manner suggesting a paradigm shift in literary scholarship, where Darwin is no longer seen as simply an ideological threat. As the sciences continue to become more hermeneutically enigmatic, and as literature seems embedded in an elitist Postmodernist trajectory, there is now huge democratic potential in the New Darwinian Novel which invites the everyman of today to participate in the controversies of both disciplines.

Dans le contexte d’une société américaine où la religion occupe une place primordiale, une approche lacanienne des romans de Tom Robbins s’avère particulièrement utile pour dégager les thèmes directeurs de ses œuvres : le messianisme, le mysticisme et le monothéisme. Non seulement ces manifestations religieuses jouent un rôle central dans son œuvre romanesque, mais elles servent aussi à mieux exploiter les outils psychanalytiques développés par Jacques Lacan, et en particulier le Symbolique, l’Imaginaire et le Réel. Comment le RSI peut-il éclaircir le débat religieux dans les œuvres de Tom Robbins ou dans d’autres œuvres postmodernes ? Cette étude multidisciplinaire répond à cette problématique en se portant sur trois axes principaux. Premièrement, l’envergure de la messianité dans la société américaine donne lieu au phénomène littéraire que nous appelons « le sujet messianique », se caractérisant par son ancrage topologique dans le Symbolique lacanien. Ensuite, la prévalence d’une approche mystique de la spiritualité dans les œuvres robbinsiennes s’exprime par une relation mystique entre un être divin d’une part, et le croyant d’autre part – rapport symbiotique propre à l’instance Imaginaire. Enfin, le Réel lacanien met en exergue l’impossibilité de la réconciliation structurale entre ces deux instances en explorant le thème du monothéisme dans les œuvres de Tom Robbins. Cette thèse a l’ambition non seulement de faire connaître un écrivain américain peu connu du public francophone, mais aussi de mieux définir l’articulation entre la religion, la psychanalyse et les romans de Tom Robbins / In the context of an American society where the importance of religion takes on epic proportions, a Lacanian approach to analyzing Tom Robbins’ novels is particularly useful in the identification of his works’ major themes: messianism, mysticism and monotheism. Not only do these particular religious events play a central role in his fiction, but they also serve to put psychoanalytic tools to use, such tools as the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real developed by Jacques Lacan. How can RSI define the religious debate in the works of Tom Robbins? This multidisciplinary study addresses this problem by focusing on three main areas. First of all, American society’s infatuation with messianism has given rise to a literary phenomenon that I have termed « the messianic subject », characterized by its topological anchorage in the Symbolic order. Moreover, the prevalence of mystical approaches to spirituality in Robbins’ novels – expressed by a mystical relationship between a divine being on the one hand, and believers on the other – constitute a symbiotic relationship present in Lacan’s Imaginary order. Finally, the realm of the Lacanian Real highlights the impossibility of reconciliation between these two structural instances by exploring the theme of monotheism in the works of Tom Robbins. This dissertation aims not only to make a little-known American writer known to Francophone audiences, but also to better define the relationship between religion and psychoanalysis in the novels of Tom Robbins

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Göttingen, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-435) and indexes.

En mettant l’accent sur les figures extrabibliques de Dieu, cette recherche explore des aspects souvent négligés du développement de l’identité de la divinité qui est devenue à certain moment le Dieu unique et tout puissant des monothéismes « abrahamiques ». Pour les Égyptiens tous les baalim étaient des manifestations séthiennes. Seth, divinité très ancienne est devenue figure extrabiblique de Yhwh, très souvent oubliée, on a essayé d’explorer ses différents aspects en suivant son évolution et ses liens avec les populations d’origine sémitique et de manière générale de la côte levantine. Il est à l’autre extrême d’une longue période de temps, précisément au moment du dernier empereur romain non-chrétien, Julien II que l’on va chercher la trace d’une autre figure extrabiblique négligée de Dieu qui est très complexe. Il s’agit, en fait, de multiples approches philosophiques à l’idée d’une divinité supérieure. La deuxième partie de la thèse s’occupe des figures vétérotestamentaires de Dieu. Complément aux figures extrabibliques, on trouve dans la Bible hébraïque fortes traces d’un panthéon primitif autour de Yhwh/El et sa parèdre. Les dynamiques d’assimilation, association, usurpation, fusion et rejet des attributs des membres de cette « famille divine » en faveur d’une seule divinité toute puissante se trouvent dans les textes bibliques. / Putting the accent on the extrabiblical images of God, this research explores some often neglected aspects of the process which lead to the formation of a particular identity for the Only and all mighty God of the “abrahamic” monotheisms. For the Egyptians, all baalim were sethian manifestations. Seth, a very ancient god, became one of the sometimes forgotten Yahwe’s extrabiblical images. We have explored its different aspects following its evolution and ties with semitic populations, and in general with those of the Levantine coast. On the other chronological extreme of a very long historical period, during the reign of the last non-christian Roman Emperor, Julian the 2nd, we looked for another very complex extrabiblical image. It is is in fact, not one but many philosophical approaches to the ida of a superior divine entity. The second chapter studies God’s images inside the Hebrew Bible. These images are related and they complete the extrabiblica ones. In the biblical text we find strong tacs of an ancient local pantheon leaded by Yahweh/El and his paredra. We find in the biblical texts dynamics of assimilation, association, substitution, equivalence, fussion and rejection of divine attributs from this “family of gods” to the Only God.

This dissertation examines Paul's statement in Romans 9:5 within the context of Romans 9-11. The thesis of the dissertation is that in the Christological passages in Romans 9-11, Paul spoke of Jesus in a manner that suggests that in Romans 9:5 he meant that Christ is God over all, that is, the God of Israel. In addition, the dissertation argues that the confession that Jesus is God over all is the fundamental confession that must be made by Israel for salvation. Chapter 1 considers the history of the discussion of New Testament Christology during the last century, and suggests that the question of whether any Palestinian Jew could refer to Jesus as God or even as Lord is the proper background against which the discussion of Paul's intent in Romans 9:5 must be undertaken. Chapter 2 undertakes an in-depth exegetical study of the syntax of Romans 9:5 and argues that the syntax is best understood as identifying Jesus as God. Chapter 3 acknowledges and answers objections from outside Romans 9:5 that Paul as a monotheistic Jew would not identify Jesus as God. Similarly, chapter 4 answers objections that Paul would not refer to Jesus as God in Romans 9:5 because he does not so identify Jesus elsewhere. Chapter 5 considers the importance of Paul's identification of Christ as the stone of stumbling and the end of the law in Romans 9:30-10:4, especially for how he understood Jesus. Chapter 6 argues that in Romans 10:5-13, Paul understood Jesus as the referent of the one on whom all call for salvation, assigning to Jesus an Old Testament reference to YHWH as the one who could save. Chapter 7 argues there is no separate way of salvation for Israel and that Jesus is YHWH, the redeemer from Zion, which Israel must join Gentiles in recognizing. / This item is under embargo until 2013-05-23

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xi, 266 p. / This dissertation employs recent developments in the cognitive sciences to explicate competing social and religious undercurrents in Beowulf. An enduring scholarly debate has attributed the poem's origins to, variously, Christian or polytheistic worldviews. Rather than approaching the subject with inherited terms which originated in Judeo-Christian assumptions of religious identity, we may distinguish two incongruous ways of conceiving of agency, both human and divine, underlying the conventional designations of pagan and Christian. One of these, the poly-agent schema, requires a complex understanding of the motivations and limitations of all sentient individuals as causal agents with their own internal mental complexities. The other, the omni-agent schema, centralizes original agency in the figure of an omnipotent and omnipresent God and simplifies explanations of social interactions. In this concept, any individual's potential for intentional agency is limited to subordination or resistance to the will of God. The omni-agent schema relies on social categorization to understand behavior of others, whereas the poly-agent schema tracks individual minds, their intentions, and potential actions. Whereas medieval Christian narratives, such as Bede's Life of St. Cuthbert and Augustine's Confessions, depend on the omni-agent schema, Beowulf relies more heavily on the poly-agent schema, which it shares with Classical and Norse myths, epics, and sagas. While this does not prove that the poem originated before the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, it suggests that the poem was able to preserve an older social schema which would have been discouraged in post-conversion cultures were it not for a number of passages in the poem which affirmed conventional Christian theology. These theological asides describe an omni-agent schema in abstract terms, though they accord poorly with the representations of character thought and action within the poem. This minimal affirmation of a newer model of social interaction may have enabled the poem's preservation on parchment in an age characterized by the condemnation, and often violent suppression, of non-Christian beliefs. These affirmations do not, however, tell the whole story. / Committee in charge: James W. Earl, Chairperson; Louise Westling, Member; Lisa Freinkel, Member; Mark Johnson, Outside Member

O trabalho analisa as possibilidades e os entraves ao diálogo intra religioso na comunidade judaica em Recife, formada por judeus asquenazes, sefarades e messiânicos, buscando evidenciar o que os une e o que os distancia, tomando como chave hermenêutica a teocracia judaica e a complexidade da transdisciplinaridade. Constata-se que existe inegável tensão entre esses grupos que se distinguem entre si (e até se excluem) por alguns conteúdos sagrados específicos, mas que, ao mesmo tempo, estão ligados ao princípio fundamental da teocracia judaica, isto é, ao axioma judaico do monoteísmo, á fé num único Deus que tudo governa. A analise histórico-critica da origem de cada grupo ajudará compreender o que os caracteriza e as razões de suas diferenças, esperando-se, com isso, constatar reais probabilidades de um possível diálogo intra-religioso entre eles. / This work analyses the possibilities and the obstructions to the religious dialogue within the Jewish community in Recife, Pernambuco, formed by Asquenaze, Sefarade and Messianic Jews. It searches also to highlight what unites them and what divides them, taking the Jewish Theocracy and the complexity of transdisciplinarity as hermeneutic keys. One can see that there is undeniable tension among these groups: they distinguish (and exclude) themselves from one another based on some sacred specific topics. At the same time, they are linked to one another by the fundamental principle of the Jewish Theocracy, i.e. the Jewish axiom of monotheism, the faith in one single God who runs everything. The historical-critical analysis of each group will help to understand their characteristics and the reasons of their differences, hoping to find out the real probabilities for an inter-religious dialogue among them