Most recent studies of Cassian and his writings have examined the monk’s historical contexts, the theology expressed in his texts or his role in the development of monasticism. This dissertation examines the spirituality of Cassian and assesses its value to contemporary Christian communities. By applying a hermeneutical approach to the study of Cassian’s texts, the investigation distinguishes between the spirituality of Cassian, the historical person; the spirituality Cassian conveys in his writings; and Cassian’s spirituality as lived experience. The dissertation argues that Cassian’s spirituality as lived experience, as elicited by Gadamer’s hermeneutical model of conversation between text and interpreter, is valuable to contemporary Christian communities. It offers a spiritual ‘route map’ that can inspire, encourage and guide members of such communities on a spiritual journey that leads to greater intimacy with, and faithfulness to, Christ. The hermeneutical process necessary to appropriate the spirituality of Cassian as lived experience has the potential to dismantle prejudgements and attitudes of superiority and triumphalism often displayed by Christian communities and encourage fresh engagement with the history, traditions and Scriptures of the Church. / Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology / M. Th. (Christian Spirituality)

University of Macau / Faculty of Arts and Humanities. / Department of Chinese

Disputes concerning the origin of the term bambuco persist among scholars in Colombia, as well as controversies regarding the process of notating the traditional bambuco (3/4 or 6/8), when it penetrates the written tradition of popular music. Composers writing popular and salon bambucos increasingly perceived the advantage of notating it in 6/8. This study investigates the traditional bambuco and its assimilation into nineteenth and twentieth-century cultivated tradition, with emphasis on piano pieces by representative Colombian composers of art music. I include specific analyses of Cuatro preguntas (ca. 1890) by Pedro Morales Pino (1863-1926), ChirimÍa y bambuco (1930) by Antonio MarÍa Valencia (1902-1952), Bambuco en si menor by Adolf o MejÍa (1905-1970), El bambuco by Manuel MarÍa Párraga (c. 1826-1895), and Trozos Nos. 6 and 158 (1927-1970) by Guillermo Uribe HolguÍn (1880-1971).

Chan, Yuen Lai. / Thesis submitted in: December 2007. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-133). / Abstracts in English and Chinese ; some text in appendix also in Chinese. / Abstract / Acknowledgement / Table of Contents / Chapter 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- PAINTER'S EXPERIENCE IN LANDSCAPE --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Bodily experience and body metaphor of place from western philosophy --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- "Jing, Guo Xi 226}0ةs three distances, and body as mountain and water" --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2 --- QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESIS --- p.9 / Chapter 1.3 --- RESEARCH MATERIALS --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- "Forms, words and images" --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- Research materials --- p.11 / Chapter 1.4 --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.11 / Chapter 1.4.1 --- Study of gardens from paintings --- p.11 / Chapter 1.4.2 --- Research methodology --- p.14 / Chapter 1.5 --- OUTLINE OF THESIS --- p.14 / Chapter 2 --- LANDSCAPED GARDEN FROM LANDSCAPE PAINTING --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1 --- WAYS OF LANDSCAPE DEPICTION --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Early landscape depictions --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Cultivated garden in natural landscape from Six Dynasties --- p.18 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Monumental landscape in Northern Song --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2 --- EARLY QING NANJING --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- "Geographical settings: Mountain, water and city" --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Garden culture --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Artistic milieu --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3 --- CHAPTER SUMMARY --- p.26 / Chapter 3 --- GONG XIAN: HALF-ACRE GARDEN ON THE MOUNTAIN OF PURE COOLNESS --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1 --- GONG XIAN THE LITERATI PAINTER --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Major Iiteratures on Gong Xian --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Gong Xian as an 'individualist' painter --- p.34 / Chapter 3.2 --- HALF-ACRE GARDEN ON MOUNTAIN OF PURE COOLNESS --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Mountain of Pure Coolness as a historical site --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Half-acre garden set within Mountain of Pare Coolness --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- A glimpse through half-acre garden --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3 --- PERMEABLE GARDEN SPACE --- p.47 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Ambiguous boundary --- p.48 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Everyday social encounters --- p.49 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Narrated landscape of the past --- p.52 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Imaginary landscape of the mind --- p.53 / Chapter 3.4 --- CHAPTER SUMMARY --- p.54 / Chapter 4 --- YUAN JIANG: ZHAN YUAN [OUTLOOK GARDEN] --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1 --- YUAN JIANG THE PROFESSIONAL PAINTER --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Major literatures on Yuan Jiang --- p.61 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Yuan Jiang as a jiehua painter --- p.62 / Chapter 4.2 --- ZHAN YUAN --- p.67 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- The evolutionary fame and popularity of the garden and its designations --- p.68 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- West Garden of Prince Zhongshan in early Ming --- p.68 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- West Nursery of Weigong in Ming Wanli reign --- p.69 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Zhan Yuan during Qing --- p.70 / Chapter 4.3 --- TRANSFIGURED GARDEN --- p.77 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- "Survey on the garden 226}0ةs sceneries, and courtly and paradisiac symbols" --- p.77 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Garden portraiture as courtly and paradisiac landscape --- p.80 / Chapter 4.4 --- CHAPTER SUMMARY --- p.82 / Chapter 5 --- SUMMARY AND POSSIBILITIES: PAINTER'S PERCEPTION OF GARDEN SPACES --- p.90 / Chapter 5.1 --- JING OF AN EXPERIENCED GARDEN --- p.90 / Chapter 5.2 --- TWO GARDEN READINGS FROM TWO ART TRADITIONS --- p.90 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Garden boundary and conception --- p.90 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Archetypal garden readings --- p.91 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Themes of the memorable and the historical past --- p.92 / Chapter 5.3 --- INSIGHTS AND POSSIBILITIES --- p.92 / Append --- p.ix / Bibliography

Most recent studies of Cassian and his writings have examined the monk’s historical contexts, the theology expressed in his texts or his role in the development of monasticism. This dissertation examines the spirituality of Cassian and assesses its value to contemporary Christian communities. By applying a hermeneutical approach to the study of Cassian’s texts, the investigation distinguishes between the spirituality of Cassian, the historical person; the spirituality Cassian conveys in his writings; and Cassian’s spirituality as lived experience. The dissertation argues that Cassian’s spirituality as lived experience, as elicited by Gadamer’s hermeneutical model of conversation between text and interpreter, is valuable to contemporary Christian communities. It offers a spiritual ‘route map’ that can inspire, encourage and guide members of such communities on a spiritual journey that leads to greater intimacy with, and faithfulness to, Christ. The hermeneutical process necessary to appropriate the spirituality of Cassian as lived experience has the potential to dismantle prejudgements and attitudes of superiority and triumphalism often displayed by Christian communities and encourage fresh engagement with the history, traditions and Scriptures of the Church. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Christian Spirituality)

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Current pentecostal scholarship is attempting to articulate pentecostal theological distinctives. For hermeneutics, this involves both a descriptive and a prescriptive approach to the use of the Bible. The descriptive approach appraises the historical roots of pentecostalism, which include the Wesleyan I Holiness movement, the radical Reformation, Tertullian and Montanism, and earliest charismatic communities. These understood Christian Scripture as guidelines to a Way of behaviour and testimony, rather than a source-book of doctrine. This 'alternative history' experienced the Enlightenment on a different level to protestantism and fundamentalism. Many of the concerns of historical church theology and hermeneutics during the last centuries are thus not always shared by pentecostals. The choice is: articulate a distinctive pentecostal hermeneutic, or 'borrow' from non-pentecostal theology. The prescriptive approach first investigates some of the latter options: some identify closely with conservative evangelical hermeneutics. Others prefer the political hermeneutic of the socio-political contextual theologies. The burgeoning Faith Movement has influenced many pentecostals. Some pentecostal scholars show interest in 'post-modern' literary theory. A viable pentecostal hermeneutic might be prescribed as follows: It respects the demands of scientific method, not ignoring the concerns of contemporary hermeneutical philosophy and literary theory. It highlights specifically pentecostal concerns: the teleology of any encounter with the text; historical continuity with the early church groups; implementation, demonstration and realisation of the literal intent of the text; the role of biblical narrative in defining experience of God; and the authority granted ongoing revelation via the charismata in the light of the canon. Application of a pentecostal hermeneutic would emphasise an holistic understanding of Scripture, the crucial role of the charismatic community, awareness of issues in the ongoing hermeneutical debate, and the need for the interpreter's personal ongoing charismatic experience. In a distinctively pentecostal exegesis of 1 Corinthians 14 prophecy is discussed as normal liturgical activity, as a confrontation of outsiders and unbelievers, in terms of its regulation, and in the light of spiritual discernment / Biblical and Ancient Studies / Th. D. (New Testament)

The political career of Gaius Marius (ca. 157-86 BC}, which spans the years between 120 and 86 BC, was memorable not only for its unprecedented personal and public triumphs, but was also of momentous significance in the whole history of the Roman Republic. At precisely the time that Marius achieved a supreme position in the state, the military might of the Romans, hitherto invincible at least in fairly recent times (second century}, had been dealt a series of humiliating setbacks abroad. Firstly, in North Africa by a rather minor despot, Jugurtha the king of Numidia. Secondly, much closer to home in Illyria and in southern Gaul by the migrating Germanic tribes, the Cimbri and the Teutones. Against this background of quite unremitting disaster, Marius obtained a place in republican political life which had not been witnessed before. In his pursuit of senatorial offices, Marius initially experienced both victories and disappointments (success in the tribunician elections but failure in elections for the aedileship) before finally winning the prestigious consulship in the elections held in 108. Thereafter, he was consul a further six times, and five of these consulships were held in successive years between 104 and 100. Just as he was dominant on the field of battle against the Numidians and the Germanic tribes, so, too, did he control the politics of the city during the decade from 108 to 99: The chapters which follow below set out to trace Marius' long rise to preeminence, his contribution to the intricate tribunician legislation of the period in which he flourished and, moreover, his involvement with other senior political figures who were his contemporaries. Furthermore, this biographical study seeks to fully expose the fact that, as a result of his participation in the politics of the time, Marius' career became an obvious example which other equally ambitious politicians (for instance, Sulla, Pompey, Crassus, Caesar and Octavian) sought to emulate or even to surpass. Consequently, Marius may not have realised the extent of the dangers which he bequeathed to the res publica but, inadvertently or not, he caused the beginning of the fall of the Roman Republic. / D. Litt. et Phil. (Ancient History) / History

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