Darbe nagrinėjamos rūpestingumo metaforos, aprašančios Dievą Senąjame Testamente, būtent: Dievas kūrėjas kaip menininkas ir puodžius, Dievas kaip tėvas, Dievas kaip motina, Dievas kaip gydytojas, Dievas kaip ganytojas, Dievas kaip sodininkas ir vynininkas. Aptariami šių metaforų teologiniai ir jų suponuojami antropologiniai aspektai. / The subject of this master thesis Metaphors of Gods solicitude. Their theological and anthropological aspects is metaphors from the Old Testament, which describe Gods solicitude. This thesis is based on the classification of A. Rubšys and analyses six main metaphors: God the Creator as an artist and a potter, God the Father, God the Mother, God the Doctor; God as gardener / vinedresser, God as pastor / shepherd. Also the subject of human is discussed in the context of these metaphors, the anthropological discourse is raised. It is necessary to say, that this subject is hardly studied in Lithuania and is significant, because it has been noticed, that talking about God often begins and ends with particular considerations and definitions about him, etc. We believe, that it is essential and possible to make theological discourse relevant, by raising the subject of human in parallel and, in this case, by searching for direct links between God (who is described as solicituous using metaphors in the Holy Bible) and human (whose picture evolved out of that – particular its definitions). It is interesting to review and discuss possible effects and outcomes of this process. The main goal of this thesis is to analyze and detect the theological and anthropological levels of metaphors of Gods solicitude in the Old Testament.

Thesis (doctoral)--University of Halle-Wittenberg. / Vita. Bibliography: p. [7]-8.

Diss.--Gt̲tingen. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--University of Halle-Wittenberg. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. [7]-8).

Habilitationsschrift--Bonn. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-187) and index.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of St Andrews, December 2009. / Electronic version restricted until 18th December 2014.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Div. with Concentration : Christian Doctrine)--Emmanuel School of Religion, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-106).

This thesis provides a critical analysis of the use of folklore and mythology that exists in Neil Gaiman's award-winning novel, American Gods. I focus on the ways in which American Gods is situated within an intertextual corpus of mythological and mythopoeic writing. In particular, this study analyses Gaiman’s writing by drawing upon Mircea Eliade’s ideas about mythology and Northrop Frye’s archetypal criticism to discuss the emergence of secular myth through fantasy fiction.

M.A. / This dissertation considers how shifts in the representation of mythological figures, images and tales are reflective of shifts in social ideology. The texts with which this study is concerned have been chosen because of the ways in which they deal with mythological themes and images and their transference from one historical and ideological context to another. This transference is effected principally through the device of what Viktor Shklovsky called “defamiliarisation”. In Neil Gaiman‟s American Gods, the fictional America of the novel is the framing context in which Gaiman considers the nature of mythology as it begins to shift from the ancient to the new. American Gods reveals how the natures of gods and the narrative patterns through which their exploits are told to men are altered as social idioms change. The battle between the gods of ancient mythologies and those of the new world is illustrative of a society undergoing ideological and religious change, especially in the conception of the godhead. Although disparate in time, style and culture, the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf also engages with a mythological shift, from pagan to Christian mythological idiomatic thought. Beowulf, the great pagan warrior, and the creatures by which he finds himself confronted intermingle in complex ways to demonstrate the shift, not only in myth, but in the perception of its archetypal figures and their roles. In particular, it is the human element of mythology that is emphasised through the process of defamiliarisation. To illustrate how a text‟s mythology can be adapted in order to be relevant to a temporally and ideologically distant society, this study will also examine the adaptation of the poem Beowulf into two filmic narratives. Beowulf 2007 and Beowulf and Grendel, are both concerned with the process of myth creation and dissemination and display an awareness of their own statuses as constructed narratives. In so doing, they draw attention to the constructed nature of mythology and its ideology. The films defamiliarise Beowulf and through the translation and adaptation of the poem are able to reinvent and thus revive the poetic material.