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Puisque le mouvement Pentecôtiste contemporain ne comprend ni apprécie la conscience sociale des premiers pionniers du mouvement Pentecôtiste, et puisqu'il ne possède pas de théologie adéquate des responsabilités sociales, ce mouvement croissant n'a pas pu démontrer une attitude consistante et significative envers les responsabilités sociales. D'après l'auteur de cette dissertation, une reprise de la conscience sociale des premiers Pentecôtistes pourrait inspirer le mouvement de prendre un plus grand engagement social. De plus, le développement d'une théologie biblique et pneumatique des responsabilités sociales pourvoirait un fondement adéquat de diriger et de soutenir un tel engagement. Les Pentecôtistes doivent s'ouvrir aux autres traditions théologiques qui pourraient contribuer à ce développement et qui pourraient les aider à voir que la puissance de l'Esprit Saint va au-delà de l'édification personnelle, elle va aussi vers la communauté et vers le changement social mondial. / Due to a lack of understanding and appreciation of the social conscience of the early pioneers of the Pentecostal movement, and due to an inadequate theology of social concerns, the growing Pentecostal movement has failed to demonstrate a consistent and meaningful attitude toward social concerns. It is my view that a a survey of the social conscience of the early Pentecostals may inspire the movement to a greater social involvement. And the development of a Biblical and pneumatic theology of social concerns will provide an adequate basis to drive and sustain such involvement. Pentecostals must be open to other theological traditions that can contribute to this development and help them see that the power of the Holy Spirit goes beyond personal edification to community and worldwide social change.

Thèse en cotutelle entre l'Université Laval Québec, Canada et l'Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Suisse / Les *Homélies* et *Reconnaissances* pseudo-clémentines présentent des caractéristiques qui ont parfois été considérées « gnostiques » : l'importance de la connaissance religieuse pour le salut, la transmission ésotérique de cette connaissance et une vision dualiste du monde. Plus précisément, certaines doctrines pseudo-clémentines, comme le Vrai Prophète, les fausses péricopes, la règle des syzygies, pourraient trahir la trace d'influences « gnostiques ». En mettant à contribution les avancées récentes dans le domaine des étude gnostiques, il apparait que les *Pseudo-Clémentines* ne prouvent pas l'existence d'un « judéo-christianisme gnostique », mais qu'elles trouvent leur place dans le contexte philosophique et théologique antique, et plus spécifiquement dans le domaine des théories chrétiennes anciennes de la connaissance religieuse - de la gnose. La connaissance religieuse joue en effet un rôle central dans la définition d'identités religieuses spécifiques et devient un instrument pour délimiter des frontières. C'est dans ce contexte que la gnose fait l'objet de revendications et de polémiques : qui a le droit de proclamer la posséder ? Quel est son contenu, et comment peut-elle être obtenue ? Quels sont les adversaires qui affirment, eux aussi, la posséder, et sur quels bases leurs prétentions sont-elles réfutées ? Par une approche résolument synchronique, qui cherche à restituer la spécificité de chacune des sources à l'étude, cette thèse cherche à étudier ces dynamiques dans les *Homélies* et les *Reconnaissances* pseudo-clémentines et à restituer les théories de la connaissance qu'elles développent. Les liens entre gnoséologie et narration sont explorés de manière à mettre en évidence non seulement la cohérence des *Homélies*, mais aussi les différences qui les distinguent des *Reconnaissances*. Une comparaison entre les *Pseudo-Clémentines* et certains écrits gnostiques, comme le *Livre des secrets de Jean*, permet de mettre en lumière des enjeux gnoséologiques dans le christianisme ancien. Tous ces écrits définissent la connaissance selon les mêmes paramètres et usent d'un mode discursif que nous avons nommé la « narration gnoséologique », définie comme la mise en intrigue d'une quête de connaissance philosophique et religieuse véritable. Toutefois, si les *Pseudo-Clémentines* et le *Livre des secrets de Jean* utilisent de dispositifs littéraires similaires, ils sont en fait des concurrents dans le domaine de la gnoséologie ; l'hypothèse d'une polémique antignostique dans les *Homélies* est postulée et ses potentielles modalités sont explorées.

A. B. Simpson / Charles Spurgeon / Andrew Murray / Oswald Chambers / George Muller / Hudson Taylor / John MacMillan / A. W. Tozer / Kenneth Hagin / Kenneth Copeland / Frederick K. C. Price / E. M. Bounds / Amy Carmichael / Phoebe Palmer / This thesis is a study of nineteenth and twentieth century faith theology and praxis, seeking to determine a balanced, healthy faith that is both sound in theology and effective in practice. Part 1 presents a history and sources of Faith Teaching and Practices. It first looks historicalty at the roots of later faith teaching and practice by presenting a sampling of teachings on faith from early church fathers, reformers, mystics, and Pietists. These form the foundation for the movements of faith in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--the classic faith teaching, followed by the modern faith movement and leaders. Part 2 deals with the foundational issues of faith teaching and practice: the relationship of faith to the supernatural, the concept of the inheritance of the believer and the practice of claiming the promises of God, the nature of faith, and the authority of the believer and its inferences for faith praxis. Part 3 investigates seven major theological issues of faith teaching and practice: faith as a law and force, the object and source of faith, the relationship of faith and the will of God, distinguishing between a logos and a rhema word of God, the concepts of revelation and sense knowledge, the doctrine of healing in the atonement, the question of evidence of the baptism in lhe Holy Spirit. Part 4 examines major practical issues of faith teaching and practice about which controversy swirls: positive mental attitude and positive confession; issues of discernment in acting upon impressions, voices, revelations, and "words from the Lord;" questions of failh regarding sickness and healing, death, doctors and medicine; the relationships between sickness, suffering, healing, and sanctification; and prosperity. Part 5 reflects upon these issues and comes to final conclusions regarding: the role of hermeneutics in determining failh theology and praxis, how to handle unanswered prayers and apparent failures of faith, the seeming paradox and tension between claiming one's inheritance and dying to self, a summary of practical conclusions for exercise of healthy faith, and final conclusions and recommendations on developing a sound theology and practice of faith for the twenty-fist century. / Practical Theology / D.Th. (Practical Theology)

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This thesis examines the controversy surrounding the doctrine of atonement among transatlantic Methodist during the Victorian and Progressive Eras. Beginning in the eighteenth century, it establishes the dominant theories of the atonement present among English and American Methodists and the cultural-philosophical worldview Methodists used to support these theories. It then explores the extent to which ordinary and influential Methodists throughout the nineteenth century carried forward traditional opinions on the doctrine before examining in closer detail the controversies surrounding the doctrine at the opening of the twentieth century. It finds that from the 1750s to the 1830s transatlantic Methodists supported a range of substitutionary views of the atonement, from the satisfaction and Christus Victor theories to a vicarious atonement with penal emphases. Beginning in the 1830s and continuing through the 1870s, transatlantic Methodists embraced features of the moral government theory, with varying degrees, while retaining an emphasis on traditional substitutionary theories. Methodists during this period were indebted to an Enlightenment worldview. Between 1880 and 1914 transatlantic Methodists gradually accepted a Romantic philosophical outlook with the result that they began altering their conceptions of the atonement. Methodists during this period tended to move in three directions. Progressive Methodists jettisoned prevailing views of the atonement preferring to embrace the moral influence theory. Mediating Methodists challenged traditionally constructed theories for similar reasons but tended to support a theory in which God was viewed as a friendlier deity while retaining substitutionary conceptions of the atonement. Conservatives took a custodial approach whereby traditional conceptions of the atonement were vehemently defended. Furthermore, that transatlantic Methodists were involved in significant discussions surrounding the revision of their theology of atonement in light of modernism in the years surrounding 1900 contributed to their remaining on the periphery of the Fundamentalist-Modernist in subsequent decades.

The Church was not the only progenitor and disseminator of ideas in medieval England, but it was the most pervasive. Relations between the ecclesiastical and lay realms are well documented at high social levels but become progressively obscure as one descends to the influence of the Church at large on society at large (and vice versa). The twelfth century was a time of great energy and renewal in the leadership and scholarship of the Church; comparable religious energy and renewal can be seen in late-medieval lay culture. The momentum was passed on in the thirteenth century, and pastoral care was the means of its transfer. The historical sources in this field tend to be either prescriptive, such as treatises on how to hear confessions, or descriptive, such as bishops’ registers. Prescription and description have generally been addressed separately. Likewise, the parish clergy and the friars are seldom studied together. These families of primary sources and secondary literature are brought together here to produce a more fully-rounded picture of pastoral care and church life. The Church was an inherently local institution, shaped by geography, personalities, social structures, and countless ad hoc solutions to local problems. Few studies of medieval English ecclesiastical history have fully accepted the considerable implications of this for pastoral care; close attention to local variation is a governing methodology of this thesis, which concludes with a series of local case studies of pastoral care in several dioceses, demonstrating not only the divergences between them but also the variations within them.

A produção textual de Georges Bataille (1897-1962), privilegiadamente estudada nos campos da Literatura e da Filosofia, apresenta uma vasta gama de temas e é considerada por seus comentadores como refratária a qualquer classificação rigorosa e indexável. Contudo, ele é autor de uma obra de grande interesse para área da Antropologia em função de um forte experimentalismo dos conceitos e da escrita e de uma compreensão totalizante da experiência do pesquisador e do escritor. O presente estudo tem como objetivo o exame de parte específica da produção e atuação de Bataille que coincide com os inícios da institucionalização da antropologia francesa (anos 1920- 1930), quando o autor encontra-se envolvido com o projeto da revista Documents, Doctrines Archélogie Beaux-Arts Ethnographie (1929-1930) e bastante próximo dos antropólogos que colaboram com a publicação. Ao recuperar a formação primeira de Bataille como arquivista paleógrafo na École des chartes e seus primeiros escritos e interesses, entre os quais se encontra a antropologia de Marcel Mauss, o trabalho se dedica a construir as conexões entre a profissão de arquivista paleógrafo nas bibliotecas Francesas e a produção do escritor que tem lugar entre os anos 1918 e 1930, interessado em destacar os nexos entre essas dimensões e o processo de constituição dos museus na França sobretudo aquele que culminará no Musée de lHomme (1937). As experiências nas bibliotecas, nos museus e na revista colocam Bataille diante da questão da classificação e do arquivamento de objetos e documentos. O interesse em uma leitura de Bataille por essa via que procura relacionar a institucionalização da disciplina etnográfica na França ligada à formação, catalogação e arquivamento de documentos nos museus e o processo de criação do Dicionário de Documents auxilia a iluminar uma dupla intervenção crítica que consiste em construir um deslocamento, uma derivação da forma de pensar. Essa perspectiva diversa nos oferece um duplo olhar para os modos pelos quais a reflexão sobre o lugar das histórias da disciplina e seus praticantes tem sido experimentada. / This present study has the purpose of examining some specific parts of George Bataille´s production and action that correspond with the beginning of French anthropology institutionalization (1920s and 1930s), when the author finds himself immersed in the Documents, Doctrines Archélogie Beaux-Arts Ethnographie (1929-1930) magazine project and building a very close relationship with the professionals involved in the publications creation. By resuming Batailles first occupation as paleographer archivist at École des chartes and his primary written pieces and interests, among which is the anthropology of Marcel Mauss, the work is dedicated to build connections between his job inside French libraries and his activities as a writer from 1918 to 1930, when his interests were focused on highlighting the links between these dimensions and the constitution of the museums in France - especially the one that will culminate at the Musée de l\'Homme (1937). The experiences in the libraries, museums and the magazine put Bataille before the classification and filing of objects and documents. His interest in this path that searches for relating the institutionalization of the ethnographic discipline in France connected to framing ideas, cataloging and archiving documents in museums and the creational process of the Dictionary of the magazine helps to illuminate a double critical intervention that consists in building a movement, an offshoot of thinking. This different perspective offers us another look to the means through which the reflections on the place discipline stories and its practitioners have been experienced.