[pt] A tese doutoral que tens sob teus olhos nasceu de uma caminhada. Ela é parte integrante de nossa ventura, na lida da vida, como discípulo do Mestre de Nazaré: vinculada a uma genuína vocação pastoral e teológica. O tema aqui tratado está inextricavelmente ligado a uma intensa vivência como humano, cristão e professor de teologia: fruto de uma transfiguradora experiência de Deus; de um encontro com o Sentido da vida: uma caminhada feita de afastamentos, descaminhos, dúvidas, incertezas, de noites escuras. Ao longo desta caminhada, uma questão fustiga-nos o coração, desde os primeiros passos no mundo da teologia, a saber: uma (pre)ocupação em relação ao conhecimento de Deus; sobre a chamada gnosiologia teológica. Esta questão têm nos acompanhado (e inquietado) desde os primeiros passos no labor teológico. Pois, se Deus desvelou Seu Rosto, conforme afirma a fé cristã, como se dá o conhecimento de Deus? Esta é uma pergunta que nos remete à gnosiologia teológica (e, lato sensu, aponta diretamente para a epistemologia teológica). Esta (pre)ocupação fundamental têm norteado e impulsionado nosso caminho na pesquisa acadêmica em teologia, fustigado nosso coração, pondo-nos a pensar. Questão para a qual buscamos uma resposta/proposta ao longo desta tese. Tendo em vista que o conhecimento de Deus sempre se dá entre homens e mulheres situados, inseridos numa determinada conjuntura histórico-cultural, sócio-política, sócio-econômica, etc., que nos condiciona e limita, mas simultaneamente nos possibilita e desafia a elaborar outras concepções teológicas, agora no horizonte pós-moderno. Neste sentido, propomos outra racionalidade teológica que tenha como ponto de partida a constatação da crise e declínio da Razão - a civilização da Razão entrou em colapso (seu logocentrismo, presente na gênese da teo-logia). Sendo assim, garimpamos outras fontes de sabedoria e racionalidade: outras fontes de inspiração. A primeira encontrada foi a rica concepção de racionalidade presente no pensamento pós-moderno, chamada doravante de razão sensível. A segunda fonte, é oriunda do século XVII (do racionalismo cartesiano): a razão sensível (cordial) conforme propunha o francês Blaise Pascal; na qual a mística encontra-se em primeiro plano: uma mística centrada no coração. A terceira e última fonte provém do húmus fértil da fé cristã, pela qual somos interpelados acerca de nossa real condição: finitude, indicando não só uma radical transitoriedade, mas desvelando com absoluta crueza nossa precariedade ontológica e profunda interdependência. Daí, a humildade não ser apenas mais uma virtude, em última análise, mas resultado de uma mínima tomada de lucidez. Neste Espírito de humildade, que é espaço vital (útero/húmus): somos gerados e regenerados, e podemos crescer. Trata-se do Espírito que ao lado do Pai e do Filho forma uma Comunidade de Amor humilde (em kénosis) e dançarina (em pericóresis). Modelo de Relação no qual o Terceiro está incluído: o Espírito. Somos filhos e filhas dessa Relação-Comunhão, e para Ela estamos vocacionados, que implica a possibilidade de desenvolver uma intercorporeidade trinitária. Abrindo espaço para a inclusão de dimensões antes marginalizadas no decorrer da história do pensamento ocidental: tecendo com outros fios, oriundos de novelos diversos, uma teopo(ética) trinitária. / [en] The doctoral thesis you have under your eyes born of a walk. It is an integral part of our venture, the read of life, as a disciple of the Master of Nazareth: linked to a genuine pastoral and theological vocation. The hereof theme is inextricably linked to an intense experience as a human, Christian and professor of theology: the result of a transfiguring experience of God; a meeting with the sense of life: a walk made of leaves, waywardness, doubt, uncertainty, dark nights. Throughout this walk, a matter harasses our hearts (since first steps in the world of theology), namely one (pre)occupation against the knowledge of God; on the call theological epistemology. This question has accompanied us (and troubled) from the first steps in theological work. But if God unveiled His face, as stated in the Christian faith, how is the knowledge of God? This is a question that takes us to theological epistemology (and lato sensu, points directly to the theological epistemology). This (pre)fundamental occupation have guided and pushed our way in academic research in theology, battered heart, putting us to think. Question to which we seek an answer/proposed along this thesis. Given that the knowledge of God always is between situated men and women, entered in the historical-cultural context, socio-political, socio-economic, etc., conditions and limits us, but at the same time enables us and challenges to develop others theological concepts, now in the postmodern horizon. In this sense, we propose another theological rationality that has as its starting point the finding of crisis and decline of Reason - Reason civilization collapsed (its logocentrism, the genesis of this theo-logy). So we have searched other sources of wisdom and rationality: other sources of inspiration. The first was found a rich conception of rationality in this postmodern thought, hereinafter called sensible reason. The second source comes from the seventeenth century (the cartesian rationalism): a sensible reason (friendly) as proposed to the French Blaise Pascal; in which the mystic is in the foreground: a mystical heart-centered. The third and final source comes from the fertile humus of the Christian faith, for which we are questioned about our real condition: finitude, indicating not only a radical transience, but unveiling with absolute rawness our ontological insecurity and deep interdependence. Hence, the humility not being just a virtue, ultimately, but the result of a minimum making lucidity. In this Spirit of humility, who is living space (uterus/humus): we are generated and regenerated, and we can grow. It is the Spirit that beside the Father and the Son form a humble Love Community (kenosis) and dancer (in perichoresis). Relationship model in which the Third is included: the Spirit. We are sons and daughters of this ratio Communion, and She are oriented, which implies the possibility of developing a trinitarian intercorporeality. Making room for the inclusion of previously marginalized dimensions throughout the history of Western thought: weaving with other wires, from various skeins, a trinitarian teopo(ethics).

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There is a brief introduction explaining the themes in the literature available to date and how this thesis aims to add to available material. In chapter one I give an account of early British research into nuclear science, including collaboration between British universities and the effect the MAUD Report had on accelerating the United States atomic programme. I introduce the main British scientists here . In chapter two I focus on diplomacy between Britain and the United States in the period up to the Quebec Agreement. The two countries had their own atomic programmes at this stage and I discuss the lead up to the amalgamation of both programmes in August 1943. Chapter three examines the British raids on German heavy water facilities and the efforts to stop Germany acquiring the means to make an atomic bomb before the Allies. Co-operation between the British and U.S teams at Los Alamos is discussed, along with the crucial role played by Britain in assisting the American scientists. The British nuclear spies are featured in chapter four, focusing on Alan Nunn May and Klaus Fuchs. Their actions are discussed along with their arrests and trials. Effects of their cases on British atomic diplomacy with the Americans are highlighted. The final section sums up the legacies of Britain¿s nuclear programme and its effect on British Cold War politics with America and the U.S.S.R. The fusion, or hydrogen, bomb is mentioned briefly and an overall assessment of the achievements of the British scientists is included.

This paper explores the importance of the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son in Basil of Caesarea's Trinitarian writings. In order to judge the importance of the doctrine for Basil, its impact on all of his exegetical and dogmatic writings on the Trinity were surveyed and evaluated. In his writings, Basil repeatedly addresses his belief that the Father and the Son is the one, eternal God. He considered this possible due to the Son's eternal generation from the substance of the Father. Basil considered the eternal generation of the Son to be both a scripturally warranted and philosophically coherent doctrine that explains how the Father and Son are indelibly same in substance and truly distinct persons. This study concludes that the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son is essential to Basil's Trinitarian theology throughout his life. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Systematic Theology)

This paper explores the importance of the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son in Basil of Caesarea's Trinitarian writings. In order to judge the importance of the doctrine for Basil, its impact on all of his exegetical and dogmatic writings on the Trinity were surveyed and evaluated. In his writings, Basil repeatedly addresses his belief that the Father and the Son is the one, eternal God. He considered this possible due to the Son's eternal generation from the substance of the Father. Basil considered the eternal generation of the Son to be both a scripturally warranted and philosophically coherent doctrine that explains how the Father and Son are indelibly same in substance and truly distinct persons. This study concludes that the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son is essential to Basil's Trinitarian theology throughout his life. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Systematic Theology)

In the thesis a methodology of understanding and explicating Christian faith consistent with the mystery of the simultaneous close connection and radical difference of God, human beings and the physical-organic cosmos environment is been mapped out. The theanthropocosmic principle as an expression of the mystery functions as the heuristic key in opening up the notion of kenosis (and incarnation) of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit within the scope of the enduring interaction of . The Spirit in the kenotic sense of the word connects and differentiates the overall processes of being and becoming, here and there, now and then of the mystery of the `presences' of God, human beings and the natural cosmic world in being there (Dasein), being thus and thus (Sosein) and being dynamically actual (Aktsein). God acts in terms of the Spirit's operational kenotic presence within the margins of the creatureliness of people and the natural cosmic world as the kenotic clothing of God. A dynamic interpretation of the integral and differential character of being and becoming suggests that making sense of the dynamics of the formation of identities and identification is an ever ongoing endeavour. It implies a continuous process of negotiation whilst experiencing various continuums, remaining open-ended in an ever-increasing sense of wonder and mystery of "exitus a Deo-reditus in Deum". / Systematic Theology and theological Ethics / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)

Text in German / Am Beginn der Menschheit steht das von Gott erschaffene Paar, in der Postmo­ derne ist es das aufgeklarte, autonome Individuum. Eine Diskrepanz zwischen ursprunglicher Schopfungsintention und der postmodernen Lebenswelt wird deutlich. Denn Mann und Frau wurden auf eine ganzheitliche Lebensgemein­ schaft hin erschaffen, die nicht nur den trinitarischen Gott widerspiegeln soli, sondem fur einen gelingenden Lebensvollzug urn die konstitutive Notwendigkeit der Gebundenheit des GeschOpfes an seinen Schopfer weiss. Das Bewusst­ sein, dass der Mensch nur in dieser existentiellen Verankerung zum wahren Mann- oder Frausein befahigt wird, ist in der aufgeklarten Postmoderne, primar durch deren zentrales Merkmal, der Absolutsetzung von Freiheit, abhanden ge­ kommen. Erschwerend kommt die Ablehnung der (ontologischen) Sundhaftig­ keit hinzu, was nicht nur das Heilsgeschehen per se obsolet werden lasst,son­ dern zugleich die Wiederherstellung der Beziehung zu Gott als Quelle allen Le­ bens a priori verunmoglicht. Damit verschliesst sich das postmoderne Indivi­ duum aber gleichzeitig die Meglichkeit zur Annaherung an die Schopfungs­ intention von Beziehung und Abhangigkeit der Geschlechter durch die in Jesus erlangte,endgultige Oberwindung der Sunde und deren Konsequenzen. Das Wissen urn die Intention Gottes mit Mann und Frau ist deshalb so entscheidend, weil vom Vorhandensein eines schopfungsbedingt angelegten anthropologischen Grundskriptes ausgegangen wird, welches die Beziehung und Abhangigkeit der Geschlechter entscheidend pragt.1 Das Geschlechterver­ haltnis ist also nicht beliebig und Folgen los veranderbar, resp. den sozio-kul­ turellen Vorgaben und Erwartungen anpassbar, eben weil dessen Kern unver­ anderbar ist. Dem steht jedoch das postmoderne Verstandnis gegenuber, wel­ ches die Geschlechteridentitat des evolvierten Primaten als reine sozio-kulturel­ le Konstruktion und damit als beliebig modellier- und veranderbar versteht. Ge­ nau in dieser Diskrepanz zwischen unaufhebbarem anthropologischem Grund­ skript einerseits und der vermeintlich ganzlichen Beliebigkeit des Geschlechter­ verhaltnisses andererseits liegt ein zentraler Grund fOr die Heute stark Problem belasteten Ehen. At the beginning of humanity we find man and woman as a couple created by God; in post-modern society, however, this place is taken by the enlightened individual. The discrepancy is evident. Man and woman were created for a lifelong marriage which was not only to reflect the triune creator but which was anchored in the dependence on the creator as a constitutive necessity for building a solid, successful and lifelong marriage. This awareness of the fundamental necessity of God as the creator of man has been lost in post-modern society. Instead we find the claim for absolute freedom, linked to the negation of the ontological sinfulness of man. It is obvious that such negation makes the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ by which sin is finally overcome superfluous, rending the re-establishement of the relationship between God and man impossible. But it is by this grounding in God the creator and redeemer alone that man and woman will unterstand marriage in its originally intended depth and fullness. The present study has resulted in discerning a fundamental, God-given anthropological script which defines both relation and dependence of man and woman; this implies that these fundamental elements cannot be deliberately transformed and/or adapted to various socio-cultural norms and expectations. However, the post-modern understanding of gender presents itself in clear opposition to this creational view. Nowadays, gender identity is seen solely as a socio-cultural structure and therefore subject to unlimited changes and modifications. In this study, one main reason for the instability of marriages in postmodern society has been discerned in the discrepancy between the permanent anthropological basic script and the apparent variability of the relation and dependence between man and woman. The negation of God the creator and redeemer proves to be of equal importance, as it is only through and in him that the basic script for marriage can be realized in its originally intended allembracing dimension. / Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)

With globalization the subject of partnership has become one of the main issues in World Mission. Partnerships are formed in all parts of the world in order to promote collaboration between churches, denominations, and mission organizations. Although good partner relationships are a desired objective, historical prejudices and cultural differences and bias lead to barriers which hinder good partnership relations. How can these barriers be overcome? Christian partnerships are usually only based on a collaboration of the partners and the Christian aspect in a relationship in World Mission is neglected. This study presents a theological basis for a Christian relationship in World Mission, coming from the creation of the human being in the image of God, the communion within the Trinity, especially the concepts of “kenosis” and “koinonia,” and the image of the Body of Christ. A second part of this study researches the historical and sociological aspects of partnership in order to identify barriers for a good partner relationship. The findings of the theological research will then be compared with the outcomes of the historical and sociological study and conclusions for an improvement should be presented. The foundation for mission-church relationship in a global context needs to be a spiritual relationship, since the acting partners come together on a basis of their Christian faith and are part of the universal Body of Christ. The kenotic attitude of the partners plays a major role in their relationship and the proposed model for functioning relationships in World Mission needs to be an organic-complementary communion. The last part then presents a new model for the relationship in World Mission, in which several elements of organic-complementary communion are described. These elements are living together in the Body of Christ, learning together, serving together, suffering and celebrating together, sharing together, working together, and discovering theology together. The study concludes with a proposal of a concept of a “common space” in order to show how such a new model could be lived out in the everyday relationships in World Mission. / Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology / D. Th. (Missiology)

The aim of this project is to investigate the proper response of theology to the Christian God who, as revealed through revelation, is Being-in-act. This project takes seriously the idea posited by Shakespeare, that totus mundus agit histrionem, and upon this stage ‘all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.’ If, then, God’s Being is in act, and as so many have deduced, life and death are enveloped within the drama of everyday, then, might it be possible that our theological endeavours would prosper through a dramatic rendering? In light of this, the project seeks to illumine that it is beneficial for both the Church and society, to realise how drama can be, and is, fruitful for our theological endeavours. God is Being-in-act, and through His revelation, He invites humanity to enter into and participate in His action. In light of the aforementioned, then, theology must contend with the implications for its practices, which, as is being argued, are benefited most through a full embrace of the dramatising of theology. The thesis is situated in the recent movement of our theological endeavours that recognise the profundity of the dramatic and its ability to illuminate God’s action and call to action from theology, the Church and society. Moving forward from the seminal work of Hans Urs von Balthasar, and set forth in the context of the theologies of Balthasar and Karl Barth, this project argues that it is through the dramatising of theology that theology is best equipped to illumine God’s desire for humanity’s participation in His Theo-drama. The dramatising of theology is a natural response to God’s Being-in-act; it is the natural movement of theology’s response to God’s action which calls for an active response on our part. Current examples of today’s theological movement towards the dramatic can be seen in such authors as Max Harris, Trevor Hart, Stanley Hauerwas, Michael Horton, Todd Johnson and Dale Savidge, Ben Quash, Kevin Vanhoozer, Samuel Wells and N.T. Wright. This project hopes to contribute to the movement towards the dramatising of theology.

Cette thèse a pour objet l’étude de la problématique du temps dans les réflexions de Saint Augustin et Saint Thomas d’Aquin, lesquels représentent un lien capital entre la pensée philosophique de l’Antiquité et celle de la période contemporaine. Elle vise dans un premier à analyser les théories développées par ces deux philosophes sur la notion et la mesure du temps pour répondre à la question de savoir quelle réalité il revêt et comment la mesurer. Cette étude cherchera, par son examen des corpus référentiels de Saint Augustin et de Saint Thomas d’Aquin, à déterminer s’il est possible d’y trouver la réponse dans le changement, le mouvement, la succession, la durée, l’instant ou le présent ou s’il faut concevoir le temps comme une forme du monde objectif ou comme schéma d’appréhension tributaire du sujet. La première partie de cette recherche répondra à la question de savoir si le temps reflète les propriétés du monde objectif en lui-même ou du monde subjectif, ou s’il est de l’ordre des relations que nous entretenons avec ces deux mondes. La seconde analysera la problématique du temps entre son origine et sa fin (la création et l’éternité). Nous chercherons à savoir jusqu’à quel point il est possible de démontrer que l’analyse philosophique du temps, ces deux auteurs ne constitue pas un moment absolument autonome, mais une reprise du problème du temps dans une théologie de la création et de l’éternité. En analysant les quatre thèmes que sont, la réalité, la mesure du temps, la création et l’éternité et certains concepts qui leurs sont liés, nous déterminerons s’il est possible de soutenir qu’il y a une séparation totale entre le temps en tant que catégorie cosmique et le temps en tant que catégorie psychologique. Nous établirons de façon précise, dans quelles limites il est possible de démontrer que les réflexions philosophiques de Saint Augustin et Saint Thomas d’Aquin sur le temps se présentent comme deux théories différentes, l’une qui soutient parfaitement la réalité subjective du temps qui permet à Saint Augustin d’être considéré comme l’un des fondateurs les plus marquants de la phénoménologie du temps alors que au contraire, Saint Thomas d’Aquin démontre indéniablement sa réalité objective, dans la continuité de l’objectivité aristotélicienne du temps. / This thesis has for aim to explore the problematic of the time within the reflections of St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas that are both seen as a key link between the philosophical thought of the antiquity and the contemporary period. It will firstly analyze the theories developed by these two philosophers on the concept and the measure of the time, to give an answer to the question: has the time a reality and how to measure it?Through a deep analyze of the two philosophers’ corpus referentials, this study will try to determine if it is possible to find the answer in the changing, the motion, the succession, the duration, the moment and the present or if we rather have to see the time as a shape of the objective world or as a scheme of the apprehension depending on the subject. The first part of this work will answer the question whether the time reflects the properties of the objective world itself or those of the subjective world or might it be the result of the links we have with these two worlds. The second will analyze the problematic of the time between its origin and its end (the creation and the eternity). We will try to know if it is possible to show that the philosophical analysis of the time made by these two authors cannot be seen as an independent instant but a way to reconsider the subject of the time in a theology of creation and eternity.In a broad analysis of the four themes that are, the reality, the measure of the time, the creation and the eternity and some specifics and close concepts, we will determine if it is possible to say that there is an absolute gap between the time as a cosmic category and the time as a psychological one. We will show precisely if it is possible to say that the St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas’s thoughts can be looked as two different theories, the one which sees the time as a subjective reality and allows St Augustine to be considered one of the most significant founders of the phenomenology of the time unlike St Thomas Aquinas who demonstrates the time's objective reality, in the continuity of the Aristotelian objectivity of the time.