About five years after British Occupation of Hong Kong in 1842, the foundation stone of St. John’s Cathedral was laid by Sir John Davis, the first Hong Kong Governor, on 11th March 1847. Being the second oldest building built in the colonial era of Hong Kong, although St. John’s Cathedral is not the official church in Hong Kong, it is the sovereign’s church. The Cathedral, together with the City Hall and the then Supreme Court building (i.e. the current LEGCO building) symbolised the 3 pillars of British sovereignty, namely: Religion, Administration/Military and Judiciary. Over the past hundred and sixty years, St. John’s Cathedral has grown with the Hong Kong society. Some of its growth has been reflected on the church building and the development of the St. John’s Cathedral compound. Yet, books on it were few on St. John’s Cathedral. Moreover, like general studies on church architecture, those books mainly focus on the buildings, and the interior furnishing, which is also an important component part of the church architecture has been overlooked. Among different church furnishing, the Bishop’s Throne is perhaps one of the most important pieces of interior furniture for a cathedral. From a Christian perspective, one might argue that the altar is far more important than the Bishop’s Throne as it is the centre of activities during worship. For example in Eucharist, the Christian celebration of the Last Supper, which is seen as a memorial of Christ’s sacrifice, a priest or minister celebrates at the altar, on which the bread and the wine which represents the body and blood of Christ are placed; also the area around the altar is seen as endowed with greater holiness. This is certainly very true, however, from the conservation perspective, the Bishop’s Throne deserves the same level of attention as the altar does. In fact, the name of “Cathedral” comes from the word “Cathedra” which is Bishop’s Throne in Greek, and a Cathedral is a church into which a Bishop’s official cathedra is installed. The dissertation aims at understanding the construction, placement, and symbolism of the Bishop’s Throne in Hong Kong. It will focus on the current and original Bishop’s Thrones in Hong Kong’s St. John’s Cathedral. The purpose is to research and document the construction, placement, design, and symbolism of the two Bishop’s Thrones in there. I hope that this dissertation will serve as a basis for future conservation of the Bishop’s Thrones in the way that it can minimize potential negative impact on the Bishop’s Thrones’ authenticity by any future conservation work i / published_or_final_version / Conservation / Master / Master of Science in Conservation

This paper examines the preaching at Washington National Cathedral as a response to the dual pandemic of COVID-19 and systemic racism in the United States. Drawing on research from over forty sermons from high church traditions and comparing it with analysis of sermons on Palm Sunday and Easter this paper will show how preachers in high church traditions, accustomed to preaching in the presence of eucharist, adapted their proclamation to respond to a virtual congregation and the absence of in-person communion. Then, the paper examines how Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde and Presiding Bishop Michael Curry further develop elements of eucharistic preaching in Pentecost and Trinity Sunday sermons to respond to the murder of George Floyd. Among other things, Budde and Curry’s sermons call for confession, evoke anamnesis, employ liturgical music, invite embodiment, and offer Christ as broken body and resurrected hope to target systemic racism. These sermonic examples show how the theology and rhetoric of the eucharistic liturgy can be a resource for preaching that more effectively confronts the challenges of a dual pandemic.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:58:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_rosemeiry_castro_prado.pdf: 413146 bytes, checksum: 6841bae3629f8a9185a6a574b52ddbe1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-12-18 / The present work studies some elements for history of mathematics teacher formation to secondary school. Through the specific analysis of the contests to Pedro II School cathedra in Rio de Janeiro we try historically to understand the changes demanded from knowledge of mathematics teachers. We try to show that professional knowledge of mathematics teacher is referred by the contests suffering changes with the creation of philosophy universities. The approached period permit to study elements that are present on the transition from the engineers to the licensed teachers. That passage is analyzed from the changes related to the demands of professional knowledge of those who teach mathematics on secondary school / A pesquisa inventaria alguns elementos para a história da formação do professor de matemática do ensino secundário. Mais especificamente, através da análise de concursos à cátedra do Colégio Pedro II, no Rio de Janeiro, busca-se compreender historicamente as alterações exigidas ao saber dos professores de matemática. Procura-se mostrar que o saber profissional do professor de matemática está referenciado pelos concursos, sofrendo alterações com a criação das faculdades de filosofia. O período abordado permite estudar elementos que estão presentes na transição dos engenheiros para os licenciados. Essa passagem é analisada a partir das alterações relativas às exigências do saber profissional daqueles que ensinam Matemática no secundário