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Resurrection of beauty for a postmodern church / ThesisHerbert, Brook Bradshaw. 11 1900 (has links)
The purpose of this thesis is to re-assert beauty as a fundamental and essential
value within contemporary Christendom as it exists within a postmodern culture.
Once a strong and meaningful concept within Christian belief, beauty has been lost
over the passage of two millennia. This thesis examines the loss of beauty as a
meaningful concept in western Christian belief, and offers a re-evaluation of the
concept particularly within the postmodern world. Drawing together the fundamental
concerns of postmodern society and the contribution that beauty is able to make from
within the Christian context, this thesis demonstrates that "beauty" speaks to
contemporary concerns and meets its deepest needs. Here, beauty, understood as the
relational aspect of forms conceived by God, and offered to humanity as gift, is shown
to overcome the affective sterility that has overtaken western society as an effect of
enlightenment thought. An examination of the concept of beauty, particularly in the
works of Thomas Aquinas, Jonathan Edwards and Gerard Manley Hopkins serves as a
basis to posit a definition of beauty that is consistent with Christian beliefs without
violating its unique content. Tracing the loss of beauty in western Christian thought
and in western culture at large, and recognising the absence of a similar phenomenon
within the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, suggests that the genius of these
eastern traditions is their refusal to minimise the notion of "mystery" that stands at the
heart of Christian revelation. The western Church then, is called to refocus on the
centrality of the "mystery" inherent in her life. To this end, contemplation is proposed
as the avenue wherein the believer experiences an intimate and transforming encounter with the Triune God which leads to the fruition of unique personhood that increasingly
takes form as the "beauty of holiness." / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th. (Christian Spirituality)
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A hagiografia de Santa Rosa de Lima = narrando a santidade na América / The hagiography of Saint Rose of Lima : narrating sanctity in AmericaCappi, Olivia Barreto de Oliveira, 1984- 19 August 2018 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Os santos são figuras presentes no universo católico com funções muito específicas: são personagens de religiosidade exemplar, que devem servir de norte para as práticas religiosas dos fiéis e trabalhar como intercessores entre eles e Deus. Eles estão presentes desde os primórdios da Igreja, já no século IV, e sobrevivem a todas as mudanças dogmáticas, doutrinais e teológicas configuradas pela instituição. No entanto, a permanência do santo não subentende a permanência dos discursos de santidade: este é orgânico e adapta-se às necessidades das comunidades em que estavam presentes, assim como aos momentos distintos vividos pela instituição. Suas histórias, constituídas pelos discursos de santidade, são relatadas em textos que são configurativos de um gênero literário próprio, chamado hagiografia. No monumento hagiográfico, a trajetória de vida sagrada de um personagem considerado exemplo de virtude é narrada com três objetivos principais: servir de distração e diversão para os fiéis, como guias de vida católica virtuosa e como textos definidores da moral que deveria permear a piedade e as práticas sociais de uma comunidade em dado período - ou seja, servir de instrumento de manutenção de uma dada ordem social. A hagiografia de Rosa de Santa Maria, primeira santa a ser canonizada na América no século XVII, atendia a esses objetivos, e ia além: o modelo de santidade ao qual ela pertencia seria utilizado como instrumento de conversão e manutenção da religiosidade católica que estava sendo transplantada para as novas colônias espanholas. A figura de Rosa, posteriormente, seria utilizada como baluarte do movimento identitário criollista e se tornaria um guia de espiritualidade para as Américas. O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar com profundidade a obra hagiográfica de Rosa, escrita pelo dominicano Leonard Hansen na década de 1660 para o processo de canonização da santa americana, nascida em Lima, no vice-reino do Peru. Busca-se compreender quais são os discursos de santidade presentes na construção da personagem santificada, assim como os modelos de espiritualidade que ela representa e o pioneirismo do texto como fundador de um novo modelo de piedade específico para a realidade americana dos séculos XVI-XVII. Nossa conclusão final é que a narrativa da vida da santa limenha apresenta todas as características da hagiografia europeia medieval e os elementos simbólicos definidores da figura santoral representativa do modelo tridentino. Portanto, apesar de sua personagem ter sido incorporada como bandeira de movimentos identitários criollistas e como fundadora de uma espiritualidade americana, não há pistas em sua hagiografia que apontem para a conformação de um novo modelo hagiográfico que respondesse às necessidades do novo território / Abstract: The saints are characters present in the catholic realm with very specific duties: they are characters of exemplary religiosity that ought to be considered as guides for religious practices and serve as mediators between the Christians and God. They have been present from the consolidation of the Catholic Church, in the 4th century, and have outlived every single change in the dogmas, doctrines and theology that the institution has faced. However, the permanence of the saintly figure does not imply the permanence of the discourses of sanctity: these are organic and adaptative to the necessities of the communities in which they dwell, as well as to the distinctive moments lived by the institution. Their life stories, constituted by the discourses of sanctity, are told in texts that are configurative of a literary genre on its own, called hagiography. At the hagiographical monument, the sacred life trajectory of a character who is regarded as an example of virtue is narrated for three main purposes: serve as entertainment for the Christians, as a handbook of righteous catholic life and as texts that define the moral that should permeate pity and the social practices of a community within a period - that is to say, serve as an instrument for the maintenance of social order. The hagiography of Rosa de Santa Maria, the first saint to be canonized in America in the 17th century, fulfilled those purposes. It even went beyond: the model of sanctity to which she belonged was to be used as an instrument of conversion and maintenance of the catholic religiosity that was being transplanted to the new Spanish colonies. The figure of Rosa was latter going to be used as the bastion of the identitary criollista movement and would become a spiritual guide for the Americas. The objective of this dissertation is to analyze in depth the hagiographic monument written about Rosa by the Dominican Leonard Hansen in the 1660s for the process of canonization of the saint that was born in Lima, the capital of the viceroyalty of Peru. It was sought to understand which were the discourses of sanctity that were present in the construction of the saintly character, as well as the models of spirituality that she represented and the forwardness of the text as the founder of a new model of pity that was specific for the American reality in the 16th and 17th centuries. The final conclusion was that the narrative of the saint?s life bears all the characteristics of the European medieval hagiographies and the symbolic elements which defined the sanctoral figures of the Tridentine period. Therefore, although the character was incorporated as the bastion of criollista movement and as the founder of a specific American spirituality, there are no signs in her hagiography that point towards the conformation of a new hagiographical model which responded to the necessities of the new territory / Mestrado / Historia Cultural / Mestre em História
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The hattat ritual and the Day of Atonement in the Book of LeviticusKim, Gyung-Yul January 2013 (has links)
Please read the abstract in the thesis. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2013 / Old Testament Studies / unrestricted
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La Cathédrale Rouge. Images de la mort dans le Haut livre du Graal / The Red Cathedral. Images of death in The High Book of the GrailPoisson-Gueffier, Jean-François 25 November 2016 (has links)
Ses principaux lecteurs n’ont cessé de concevoir le Haut Livre du Graal comme un roman des confins de la barbarie. L’éclatement des cadres de l’écriture arthurienne est prégnant dans ses épisodes les plus emblématiques, qui révèlent un hiatus irréductible entre une « haute écriture » et l’exaltation de la matérialité des êtres. Le roman semble soumis à une double postulation vers le haut et le bas, vers les convulsions du monde sublunaire et une mystique aussi présente que ténue. L’étude des manifestations et senefiances de la mort s’applique à saisir l’écriture de cet entre-deux, tout en privilégiant l’approfondissement de deux traits majeurs : la dimension visuelle inhérente à la représentation de la mort et les procédés d’écriture propres à esquisser les linéaments d’une « écriture funèbre ». Le paradigme visuel relaie la puissance évocatoire des morts narrées, tandis que la dominante funeste du récit semble être l’un des gages les plus viables de l’unité d’une œuvre dont les structures narratives se dérobent. Le parcours herméneutique de cette étude considère tout d’abord le vocabulaire de la mort, avant d’aborder les circonstances de l’instant mortel, les deux versants spirituel et temporel de la mort, et le lien toujours puissant qui unit les vivants et les morts. Après des considérations à la fois stylistiques, rhétoriques, historiques et anthropologiques, la deuxième partie déplace vers le champ de la poétique du texte la problématique d’une mort fondamentalement ubiquitaire. / The main scholars always depicted the High Book of the Grail as a novel which borders on barbarism. The bursting of the frames of arthurian writing is significant in its most iconic episodes as well, which reveal a huge gap between "High Scripture" and a glorification of the materiality of beings. The novel seems based on a double postulation up and down, towards materiality and spirituality. The study of events and senefiances of death applies to grasp the writing of in-between, while emphasizing the study of two major elements: the inherent visual dimension to the representation of death and methods of its own writing which sketches the outlines of a "funeral writing." Visual paradigm relays the evocative power of the dead narrated while that fateful dominant narrative seems to be one of the most efficient guarantee of the unit of a work whose structure is relevent to illusion or arcana. The hermeneutic thought process of this study considers at first the vocabulary of death, before addressing the circumstances of the "instant mortel", the two spiritual and temporal sides of death, the always powerful unity of the living and the dead. After some stylistic considerations, as well as rhetorical, historical and anthropological ones, the last chapters move to the field of poetics, in a world where death appears fundamentally ubiquitous.
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Anna Vratislavská, mezi Slezskem a Čechami / Anne of Silesia, between Silesia and BohemiaCekotová, Zdislava January 2020 (has links)
(in English): The aim of this thesis is to present the personality of Anne of Silesia at several levels: as king's daughter, wife, mother, duchess, foundress and candidate to holiness. The initial part sums up the phenomenon of female sanctity in the 13th century influenced both by new religious orders and by the ideal of "holy ruler" pursued by Anne of Silesia as well. The biographical chapter that follows deals especially with Anne's activities as the duchess of Silesia and benefactress of ecclesiastical institutions. It is based on extraordinarily rich diplomatic material. Though Anne of Silesia did not reach official canonization, a Latin legend on her survived which testifies that a certain religious veneration of her existed. The final part of the thesis studies the legend using the comparative analysis method, that is comparing Anne's legend with those of her more famous predecessors and relatives, Elizabeth of Thuringia, Hedwig of Silesia and Agnes of Bohemia. The thesis concludes that the position of Anne of Silesia after her husband's death was extraordinarily strong for the given period, and formulates the hypothesis that Anne may have held the land in indivisible ownership with her son. It is impossible to find an unequivocal answer to the question why Anne did not reach official...
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ECCE EDUCATRIX TUA: The Role of the Blessed Virgin Mary for a Pedagogy of Holiness in the Thought of John Paul II and Father Joseph KentenichPeters, Danielle M. January 2008 (has links)
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Do We Pray, or Do We Shoot? An interdisciplinary approach to reconcile polarized stances: Peace and defense church theological and practical responses to the threat of a mass shootingBranscome, Caroline Finlay 29 June 2023 (has links)
The goal of this research was to find ways to help churches keep safe from a mass shooter. To do that, I hoped to find common ground among academics, law enforcement, peace churches, and defense churches and then leverage that common ground to find ways the groups could collaborate on church safety. I observed three churches and conducted interviews at 14 churches. I reviewed academic literature about academics and law enforcement officers. The common ground I found between all groups was fear of violence, desire to be safe, and a general belief in metaphysical forces. Other key takeaways were that outsiders cannot make accurate assumptions about religious groups based on denomination and that a religious group's response to the threat of violence might not be internally consistent or make sense to outsiders. I designed a course based on my research results and pedagogical best practices. I limited the target audience to police officers because they were the easiest to identify and contact and because their job was to counter violence. Police officers who complete the course should better understand religious worldviews, know examples of how different Christian groups view violence, know how to effectively interact with religious groups, and know how to leverage common ground between religious groups and law enforcement officers. Future efforts include producing the course, observing law enforcement officers, and creating an undergraduate course on contemporary Christianity. / Doctor of Philosophy / The goal of this research was to find ways to help churches keep safe from a mass shooter. I hoped to connect academics, police, and different Christian churches so they could collaborate on church defense. To learn about Christian churches, I attended three churches and interviewed leaders at 14 churches. I read prior research about academics and police. I found that all groups had in common the desire to stay safe from violence and a general belief in a force greater than themselves. I also learned that outsiders could not make accurate assumptions about religious groups based on denomination and that a religious group's response to the threat of violence might not be internally consistent or make sense to outsiders. To apply my results, I designed a course for police officers because they were the easiest group to identify and contact and because their job was to counter violence. Those who complete the course should learn to better understand religious worldviews, know examples of how different Christian groups view violence, know how to effectively interact with religious groups, and know how to leverage commonalities among religious groups and law enforcement officers. Future efforts include producing the course, observing law enforcement officers, and creating an undergraduate course on contemporary Christianity.
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The serpent handlers from the Appalachian mountains in the southern states of the USAMeister, Inga Maja 01 January 2002 (has links)
Text in English / The southern Appalachian mountain region is home to a sincere group of religious fundamentalists. They obey Jesus' last command that serpents should be taken up (Mark 16:17-18). They believe the Holy Ghost anoints them and gives them the power to handle serpents, drink poisons, handle fire, and to heal the sick. Nevertheless, they are fully aware that they may be bitten and may even die. Each church is autonomous. / Religious Studies and Arabic / M.A. (Religious Studies)
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Nelly Hall: uppburen och ifrågasatt : Predikant och missionär i Europa och USA 1882-1901 / Nelly Hall: Esteemed and Questioned as a Preacher and Missionary in Europe and United States 1882-1901Gunner, Gunilla January 2003 (has links)
In 19th century Sweden women preached in the popular revival movements as they did in the other Nordic countries, in Great Britain and the United States. One of the most famous preachers in Sweden was Nelly Hall (1848–1916). Internal and external evidence of her public life is the main focus of the study, and in this way it seeks to uncover the origin of her inspiration and to specify her connection to the spiritual movements of the time, at the same time that it analyses the reception and the debate of women as preachers in the period when she was active. Nelly Hall studied at the Royal School for Women’s Higher Teacher Education and worked as a teacher for ten years before she decided to enter into the ministry of preaching. She was influenced by the Anglo-American Holiness movement and had close contacts with the Salvation Army in London. From 1883 she travelled in the southern parts of Sweden. Thousands of people listened to her and as part of her ministry she practised faith healing. She went on preaching tours to Finland, Norway, Germany and the United States. When the Swedish Holiness Mission started as a small mission society in 1887 it was to some extent a result of the preaching work carried out by Nelly Hall. She was elected a member of the first board and worked as a mission secretary for ten years. Around 1900 there was a shift in her theological thinking and she became more absorbed by apocalyptic ideas. In 1901 she went for the second time to the United States and lived there until 1916 when she died in Brockton, Massachusetts. Little is known about the last fifteenth years of her life. The ministry of Nelly Hall and other women raised considerable public interest and in the Swedish context her time of ministry coincided with the emerging movement for the emancipation of women. Many were against women preaching in public and the discussions often occurred in the press. Parts of these discussions as well as several pamphlets in favour of women’s preaching are analysed in this study. / <p>Contains a summary in English</p>
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The serpent handlers from the Appalachian mountains in the southern states of the USAMeister, Inga Maja 01 January 2002 (has links)
Text in English / The southern Appalachian mountain region is home to a sincere group of religious fundamentalists. They obey Jesus' last command that serpents should be taken up (Mark 16:17-18). They believe the Holy Ghost anoints them and gives them the power to handle serpents, drink poisons, handle fire, and to heal the sick. Nevertheless, they are fully aware that they may be bitten and may even die. Each church is autonomous. / Religious Studies and Arabic / M.A. (Religious Studies)
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