The question this paper attempts to answer is: “Does God base his blessings to church members solely on giving”. The research investigated prosperity gospel from a missiological perspective, a gospel that promises material wealth, health and happiness to faithful Christians who sow “faithful seed to the ministers”. A Collection of literatures relating to the subject matter coupled with citations from interviewees was reviewed and analysed, in making judgment in answering the research question. To accomplish the objective of the study the biblical foundation of giving and prosperity were examined, the background, history and synonymous features to prosperity gospel were evaluated, coupled with the views of respondents. A comparison was made, and a conclusion was reached, based on the findings. Thus, grounded on the result obtained from the research the researcher attempts to establish that though God blesses humanity for obeying his command to give, it does not mean that giving is his prerequisite of blessing humankind. The claim that God wants everyone to be rich contradicts the Bible. For no one can instruct God on who to bless and curse, therefore the claim that man of Rhema can decree blessing on humankind per our giving power is unbiblical. / Dissertation (MA Theol)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Science of Religion and Missiology / unrestricted

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:48:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SELMA D ABADIA OLIVEIRA.pdf: 1098350 bytes, checksum: 24a25fb82223091ad3332d6b1abaea28 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-06 / The research examines why, in a highly centralized individual context, the pilgrims on pilgrimage seeking the reconstruction of the community experience, and to keep the responses to the individual needs of the faithful. We adopted for literature because it is a systematic process of knowledge construction based on books and documents, highlighting the interaction between individuals and the community in order to explain the motivations found by pilgrims in participation in pilgrimages. / A pesquisa analisa o motivo pelo qual, em um contexto fortemente centralizado no indivíduo, os romeiros buscam na romaria a reconstrução da comunidade experienciada, procurando manter nas respostas as necessidades individuais dos fiéis. Optou-se pela pesquisa bibliográfica por tratar-se de um processo sistemático de construção do conhecimento com base em livros e documentos, destacando a interação entre indivíduos e comunidade, visando explicar as motivações encontradas pelos romeiros na participação em romarias.

Excerpt: Time and expense are perhaps the two biggest challenges in evaluating existing measures and devoloping new metrics. Measuring social characterists of a population such as religion typically involves expensive surveys undertaken by professional survey firms or academic centers.

Le concile de Trente définit à la fin du XVI° siècle les principales réformes à entreprendre afin de restaurer l'image de l'Église. Une nouvelle approche structurelle et humaine est ainsi promue pour répondre aux critiques des protestants et de certains catholiques. La reconquête de la confiance des fidèles par l'Église se traduit par une modernisation et l'instauration de structures ecclésiastiques locales. La formation et l'apprentissage sont placés au centre de la politique menée par la curie romaine et les épiscopats locaux. Ces principes sont soutenus par la résurgence et la fondation de nouvelles compagnies religieuses ou associations laïques, répondant aux besoins quotidiens des populations. Le processus d'évangélisation passe également par la diffusion d'une nouvelle forme d'art capable de susciter un sentiment de grandeur et de richesse. Le baroque s'affirme comme un outil pédagogique indispensable dont les traces, encore actuelles, attestent de la magnificence. Le renouveau du message catholique, suite au concile de Trente, connaît cependant une application relative selon les territoires. Il apparaît à cet égard intéressant d'étudier l'impact de cette contre-Réforme sur la manière de vivre sa foi au sein de trois espaces liés d'un point de vue culturel et géographique que sont la Corse, Gênes et le comté de Nice. / The council of Trent held at the end of the 16th century embodies main reforms to carry out in order to restore the Church’s image. A new structural and human approach is put forward in response to the critics addressed by Protestants and some Catholics. The regaining of the faithful’s trust, wanted by the Church, has led to a modernization and to the creation of local ecclesiastic structures. Training and learning have been put at the center of the policy conducted by the roman Curia and local episcopacies. This principles are supported by the renewal or the creation, of both religious societies and non-religious associations, able to meet the daily requirements of populations. Process of evangelization also goes through spreading of a new type of art, fostering a sense of glory and wealth. By doing so, the baroque asserts itself as a necessary educational tool, traces of which remain present until today and bear witness to its magnificence. However, the renewed catholic message, after the council of Trent, was not put in application equally in all the provinces. In this regard, it is interesting to study the impact of this counter-reformation on the way to live out is faith in this three culturally and geographically linked areas that are Corsica, Genoa and the county of Nice.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第22981号 / 理博第4658号 / 新制||理||1669(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科数学・数理解析専攻 / (主査)教授 玉川 安騎男, 教授 小野 薫, 教授 望月 新一 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

Software product line engineering is a common method for designing complex software systems. Feature modeling is the most common approach to specify product lines. A feature model is a feature diagram (a special tree of features) plus some crosscutting constraints. Feature modeling languages are grouped into basic and cardinality-based models. The common understanding of the semantics of feature models is a Boolean semantics. We discuss a major deficiency of this semantics and fix it by applying, in turn, modal logic, the theory of multisets, and formal language theory. In order to adequately represent the semantics of basic models, we propose a Kripke semantics and show that basic feature modeling needs a modal rather than Boolean logic. We propose two multiset based theories for cardinality-based feature diagrams, called flat and hierarchical semantics. We show that the hierarchical semantics of a given cardinality-based diagram captures all information in the diagram. We also charac- terize sets of multisets, which can provide a hierarchical semantics of some diagrams. We provide three different reduction processes going from a cardinality-based diagram to an appropriate regular expression. As for crosscutting constraints, we propose a formal language interpretation of them. We also characterize some existing analysis operations over feature models in terms of operations on the corresponding languages and discuss the relevant decidability problems. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Sei G eine p-adische analytische gruppe, welche die direkte Summe einer torsionfreien p-adische analytische gruppe H mit zerfallender halbeinfacher Liealgebra und einer n-dimensionalen abelschen p-adische analytische gruppe Z ist. In Kapitel 3 zeigen wir folgenden Satz: Sei M ein endlich erzeugter Torsionmodul über der Iwasawaalgebra von G, welcher keine nichtrivialen pseudo-null-Untermoduln besitzt. Dann ist q(M), das Bild von M in der Quotientenkategorie Q, genau dann volltreu, wenn M als Modul über der Iwasawaalgebra von Z torsionsfrei ist. Hierbei bezeichne Q den Serre-Quotienten der Kategorie der Moduln über der Iwasawaalgebra von G nach der Serre-Unterkategorie der pseudo-null-Moduln. In Kapitel 4 zeigen wir folgenden Satz: Es bezeichne T die Kategorie, deren Objekte die endlich erzeugten Modulen über der Iwasawaalgebra von G sind, welche auch als Moduln über der Iwasawaalgebra von H endlich erzeugt sind. Seien M, N zwei Objekte von T. Wir nehmen an, dass M, N keine nichttrivialen pseudo-null-Untermoduln besitzen und q(M) in Q volltreu ist. Dann gilt: Ist [M]=[N] in der Grothendieckgruppe von Q, so ist das Bild von N ebenfalls volltreu. In Kapitel 5 zeugen wir folgenden Satz: Sei G eine beliebige p-adische analytische Gruppe, welche keine Element der Ordung p besitzt. Dann sind die Grothendieckgruppen der Algebra stetiger Distributionen und der Algebra beschränkter Distributionen isomorph zu c Kopien des Rings der ganzen Zahlen, wobei c die Anzahl der p-regulären Konjugationsklassen des Quotienten von G nach einer offenen uniformen pro-p-Untergruppe H bezeichnet. / Let G be a compact p-adic analytic group with no element of order p such that it is the direct sum of a torsion free compact p-adic analytic group H whose Lie algebra is split semisimple and an abelian p-adic analytic group Z of dimension n. In chapter 3, we show that if M is a finitely generated torsion module over the Iwasawa algebra of G with no non-zero pseudo-null submodule, then the image q(M) of M via the quotient functor q is completely faithful if and only if M is torsion free over the Iwasawa algebra of Z. Here the quotient functor q is the unique functor from the category of modules over the Iwasawa algebra of G to the quotient category with respect to the Serre subcategory of pseudo-null modules. In chapter 4, we show the following: Let M, N be two finitely generated modules over the Iwasawa algebra of G such that they are objects of the category Q of those finitely generated modules over the Iwasaw algebra of G which are also finitely generated as modules over the Iwasawa algebra of H. Assume that q(M) is completely faithful and [M] =[N] in the Grothendieck group of Q. Then q(N) is also completely faithful. In chapter 6, we show that if G is any compact p-adic analytic group with no element of order p, then the Grothendieck groups of the algebras of continuous distributions and bounded distributions are isomorphic to c copies of the ring of integers where c denotes the number of p-regular conjugacy classes in the quotient group of G with an open normal uniform pro-p subgroup H of G.

While it certainly can be argued that translation is a quite demanding discipline in general, some areas within this field are, naturally, more challenging than others. One of these is hedging, which serves a broad variety of purposes both with regard to the author and to the intended readership, and hence must be translated accordingly. This paper investigates hedges in scientific research articles, the types and frequency of hedges in the analysed Swedish sourcetext (ST) compared to the English target text (TT), and the methods used for translating these hedges and their distribution by means of a short study conducted on two Swedish runology articles. The study’s quantitative analysis shows that the Swedish ST has a clear preference for adverbial hedges, and to an extent, also for modal verb hedges, whereas the English TT – while yielding an even higher preference for adverbials and also for lexical verbs – uses modal verbs much less frequently. It becomes evident that adverbials may feature so strongly in translations because they are easier to recall and to use than more complex structures, especially for L2 speakers. This practice does, however, result in a somewhat less flexible translation. The by far most frequently used translation strategy is faithful translation, particularly for content-oriented hedges. However, a fair number of adaptations (both in modal strength and word class change) and omissions – mostly of modal verbs – as well as numerous additions occurred, initiated by influential factors such as cultural differences regarding natural sounding text, L2 speaker perception of equivalence and/or lack of suitable linguistic equivalents. Thereby, the English translation showed a tendency toward adapting weaker modals compared to their Swedish ST equivalents, confirming the greater reader-orientation of English research articles.