The work deals with pastoral care for the non-prisoners in the asylum house of St. Pavel. The theoretical part deals with issues of homelessness, pastoral work in the broader and closer sense of the word, the outlines of the pastoral milion of the church with reference to the Bible, social encyclicals, but fundamentally centering the excerpt of the Second Vatican Council, especially the constitution of Gaudium et Spes. The purpose of the work has to analyze pastoralism as a spiritual master for homeless people visiting the asylum house of St. Pavel. The partial results are focused on the area of personal life, street life and the spiritual life of homeless people visiting the asylum house of St. Pavel. Qualitative research techniques have been applied in the analyses of interwievs with homeless persons.

This research conducted according to the phenomenological method investigated the Pauline concept of suffering. It traces the historical development in Paul's thinking on suffering. The two lines of Paul's suffering are his personal suffering - his struggle with the thorn in the flesh; and his suffering through persecution for Christ's sake. It is through his personal suffering that Paul endears himself to his readers. 2 Cor.12:1-10 reveals the function of the thorn - it brings vindication. Paul's personal suffering merges with his suffering for Christ, and the note of joy, hope, glory and vindication is emphasized. Just as Paul shares in Christ's suffering, he will share in the victory and glory too. Paul sees his suffering in the light of Christ's suffering and the suffering of his readers in the light of his suffering. / Religious Studies and Arabic / M.A. (Religious Studies)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:18:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Joerley Orlando de Oliveira Cruz.pdf: 363159 bytes, checksum: bfcd4e19789a6dfaee3268dfb6157339 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-01-31 / As from of exegetical analysis of Deuteronomy 6,4-9, this work approach the meaning of unicity of God, your respect with the law, and the mutual relation between the Trinity´s Persons in defence of one God represented by Persons. In beginning we think in Deuteronomy 6,4-9 about text located in one of books more importants in formation of Israel´s nation. The importance happen with legal constitution that manage nation´s life, and the feeling that nation sustain during her history. Our investigation conduct us to one God that today we sustains yet, with perception of presence and prominence of three Trinity Persons. Our conclusion will find comprise that God Javé of Deuteronomy 6,4-9 be present and proceed, with involvement active how Father, Son through Jesus, and Holy Spirit, that move and talk together with nation, similar called attention of Israel with the voice that invite to listen. / A partir da análise exegética de Deuteronômio 6,4-9, esta pesquisa aborda o significado da unicidade de Deus, sua relação com a Lei, em defesa do Único Deus representado por elas. Em princípio, pensamos em Deuteronômio 6,4-9 por ser um texto localizado em um dos livros mais importantes na formação do povo de Israel. A importância se faz em meio à constituição legal que rege a vida do povo, como também no sentimento que o povo nutre durante sua história posterior. Nossa investigação nos conduzirá ao Deus Único que hoje ainda sustentamos, com a percepção de sua presença, e em sua relevância. Nossa conclusão buscará compreender que o Deus Javé de Deuteronômio 6,4-9 ainda se faz presente e atuante, com sua participação efetiva que se move e caminha em meio ao seu povo, da mesma forma como chamou a atenção de Israel por meio da voz que convida a ouvir.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:18:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RUY ROCHA JUNIOR1-90.pdf: 751585 bytes, checksum: 2ff074277ec7c52d395fb6c1819f5fc3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study examines some symbolic resignifications of the Ancient Mystery Cults, as well some developments of their historical realities. This dissertation evaluates the possible flows and exchanges occurring in Mediterranean environments, focusing on the reframes that the mysteries suffered in these borders, also discussing on their possible influence on a biblical passage. In the investigation some hypothesis will be made concerning the relation with the mysterical cults of the Hellenistic expansion, as well their possible interfaces with a primary source of the New Testament. Based on the study of the major mysteries in the Roman frontiers, and in the evaluation of the New Testament literature, will be considered the approaches and symbolic differences between the Dionysian cult and the text of John 2, 1-11. / O presente estudo analisa algumas ressignificações simbólicas dos Antigos Cultos de Mistério, bem como alguns desdobramentos de suas realidades históricas. Essa dissertação avalia os possíveis fluxos e trocas ocorridos nos entornos mediterrâneos, concentrando-se nas ressignificações que os mistérios sofreram nessas fronteiras, discorrendo igualmente sobre sua possível influência numa perícope bíblica. Na investigação serão levantadas hipóteses referentes a relação dos cultos mistéricos com a expansão helenística, bem como suas possíveis interfaces com uma fonte primária do Novo Testamento. Com base no estudo dos principais mistérios presentes nas fronteiras romanas, e na avaliação da literatura neotestamentária, serão consideradas as aproximações e distanciamentos simbólicos entre o culto Dionisíaco e o texto de João 2, 1-11.

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Repetition has received a bad press in certain streams of theological tradition; this reception has in part been caused by, and has in turn affected, readings of the Letter to the Hebrews, which speaks about repetition in ways unique in the New Testament. The present study addresses the insufficient critical attention paid to repetition in Hebrews, challenging the assumption that it functions uniformly and negatively throughout the letter, and exploring the variety of ways in which Hebrews presents repetition. The plurality of prophetic speech displays God’s manifold kindness in the old covenant; such speech is not opposed to but is fulfilled in Christ’s coming, and its ongoing repetition in the new covenant through citation and exposition serves to promote and explicate that event. Repeated mutual encouragement is essential to persevering in the Christian life and avoiding apostasy. And the regular entry of the Levitical priests into the outer sanctuary of the tabernacle in Heb 9.6 foreshadows the continual access to God achieved through Christ. Where repetition has a negative or contrastive role in the author’s argumentation, it does not cause inefficacy but rather indicates a weakness whose source is elsewhere – and which, moreover, is revealed fully only in the light of the Christ event. The uniqueness of Christ and of his death construed as a sacrifice, developed from concepts of singularity in Day of Atonement and early Christian crucifixion traditions, forms a unifying strand in the letter’s Christology. Rather than functioning in simple opposition to repetition, this singularity corresponds to continuity and eternity, and is developed at times in contrast to, and at times in correspondence with, repetition. The study thus offers a reappraisal of repetition in Hebrews, laying the foundations for renewed appreciation of the importance of repetition for theological discourse and religious life.

[pt] O objetivo deste trabalho é compreender a crescente importância da pesquisa filológica na história da literatura ocidental escrita pelo romanista judeu-alemão Erich Auerbach (1892-1957). Sua história literária foi escrita durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial (Mimesis - A Representação da Realidade na Literatura Ocidental - 1946) e o imediato pós-guerra (Linguagem Literária e seu Público na Antigüidade Tardia e na Idade Média - 1956). Desenvolvemos a hipótese de que sua condição judaica e sua formação acadêmica na romanística alemã (Romanistik) contribuíram para a construção de uma visão sui-generis sobre as origens e os rumos da literatura ocidental. Esta dupla condição, de judeu-alemão, determinou igualmente os focos de suas investigações filológicas, centrados em textos da Antigüidade pagã e cristã, principalmente da patrística. Os ensaios filológicos configuram, juntamente com a história literária, um complexo e articulado corpus, que constitui o todo da obra auerbachiana. Buscamos, neste trabalho, escavar as raízes germânicas e judaicas desta obra. / [en] The aim of this work is to understand the growing role of the philological research in the western literary history written by the Jewish-German romance philologist Erich Auerbach (1892-1957). His literary history was written during the Second World War (Mimesis - The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - 1946) and in the post- war period (Literary Language and its Public in late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages - 1956). We develop the assumption that his Jewish condition and his formation in the German discipline of Romance Philology (Romanistik) have contributed to a sui-generis vision of the origins and the path of western literature. This double condition, Jewish-German, also determined the core of his philological research, focused on texts of the pagan and Christian Antiquity, specially the patristical. The philological essays form, together with the literary history, a complex and articulated corpus, which constitutes the whole work of Auerbach. In this work, we seek to dig it`s Jewish and German roots.

Traditionally, it has been argued that the Gospel of John was never a mission book (Missionsschrift) but rather a “Gemeindeschrift” written to confirm or deepen the faith of the early Christians of the Johannine community. In this study however, it is argued that although John’s Gospel may be encouraging to believers, the author rhetorically intended to persuade his readers to embody the missional motif, which started with the mission of Jesus. The narrative of Jesus and the Samaritan woman in John 4:1-42, is investigated as an example of how Jesus for the sake of His mission crossed all barriers of His time to reach out to the Samaritans and therefore issued a pattern, which is to be followed by His followers. It is also argued that when the mission of Jesus and the narrative of the Samaritan woman are integrated, an ethical missional paradigm is constructed in which the believers as members of God’s family are called to embody the “missional ethics” of Jesus. Finally, it is argued that the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman could be interpreted as a narrative of social and spiritual reunion with moral principles that challenges the contemporary church to embark on missional journeys of restoration as Jesus did with the Samaritans. / Dissertation (MA Theol)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / gm2014 / New Testament Studies / Unrestricted

These three short papers were delivered in the ‘Quaestiones disputatae’ session at the 71st General Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, held at McGill University, Montreal, on 3 August 2016. The session was chaired by Professor Carl Holladay, President of the Society.

Abstract This work deals with the four final chapters of the Second Letter to Corinth, which are considered for their difference as a separate letter. The apostle Paul defends his apostolic mission here against "adversaries." The first chapters aim to bring closer the life of the Apostle Paul, his missionary journey. In abbreviated form, they also describe the individual leaves that St. Paul also wrote the so-called catalogs of suffering that these letters contain. The next section deals with Corinth. A brief outline of the history of this city-state is followed by a chapter on the local church community. After a short historical approach to Corinth, the characteristics of the local ecclesial community follow, followed by a description of the problems in this community as recorded in the letters that Paul addressed to Corinth. Behind this list is a brief introduction to the meaning of the word "apostle". At the end of this section, the work deals with the issue of Corinthian correspondence, ie the number of letters written in Corinth and their contents. After this general introduction to the problem, the work is devoted to a more detailed analysis of individual pericopes 2 Cor 10-13, which could shed light on what could be the reasons for this Great Paul's apology.