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1	Losing Faith in Fundamentalist Christianity: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Ross, Karen Heather 14 December 2009 (has links) This study investigated the psychological experience of losing faith in God, within the context of fundamentalist Christianity. Nine former fundamentalist Christians were interviewed about their experience of losing faith. Data analysis was guided by principles of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, 2004), an inductive qualitative approach that identifies themes to generate a description of an experience's essence. Themes were classified into three domains (Experience of Christianity, Transition out of Christianity, and Experience of Unbelief). Participants' transition was characterized by emotional shifts (associated with a loss of trust in, or loyalty to, God) and intellectual shifts (associated with a loss of belief in God's existence). Two typologies of experience emerged within the Experience of Unbelief, one characterized by a sense of relief and the other by a sense of struggle. The findings are discussed in relation to theories of identity and attachment, and are used to generate recommendations for counselling practice. counselling psychology loss of faith fundamentalist Christianity qualitative 0519
2	Losing Faith in Fundamentalist Christianity: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Ross, Karen Heather 14 December 2009 (has links) This study investigated the psychological experience of losing faith in God, within the context of fundamentalist Christianity. Nine former fundamentalist Christians were interviewed about their experience of losing faith. Data analysis was guided by principles of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, 2004), an inductive qualitative approach that identifies themes to generate a description of an experience's essence. Themes were classified into three domains (Experience of Christianity, Transition out of Christianity, and Experience of Unbelief). Participants' transition was characterized by emotional shifts (associated with a loss of trust in, or loyalty to, God) and intellectual shifts (associated with a loss of belief in God's existence). Two typologies of experience emerged within the Experience of Unbelief, one characterized by a sense of relief and the other by a sense of struggle. The findings are discussed in relation to theories of identity and attachment, and are used to generate recommendations for counselling practice. counselling psychology loss of faith fundamentalist Christianity qualitative 0519
3	Traumatic suicide attempt due to lack of remuneration to clergy by the church : a pastoral care perspective Gugushe, Joseph Mongezi January 2014 (has links) The focus of this study was on traumatic suicide attempt due to lack of remuneration to the clergy by the church: a pastoral care perspective. The assumption was that no one in the church took responsibility of caring for clergy families. Trauma referred to a spiritual wound in the soul of humankind and it is a spiritual event when humankind was experiencing loss of faith, loss of hope, loss of trust, loss of meaning, loss of innocence and when the spiritual wound was being healed spiritually. Suicide was defined as purely personal act that appeared to be entirely the outcome of the extreme personal unhappiness of the minister who as a result of non-payment of their stipend by the church. The operational framework of research methodology included: the research design, literature review and interviews; data collection method and data analysis and interpretation. The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa belongs to the Reformed family of the Protestant churches. In this project, semi-structured scheduled interview open-ended Questions were designed to allow interviewers free movement. The concluding chapter dealt with research findings and recommendations to the church. / Dissertation (MA Theol)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / gm2014 / Practical Theology / unrestricted Traumatic suicide attempt Remuneration to the clergy Clergy families Experiencing loss of faith Loss of hope Loss of trust Congregation Deacon Elder Gospel UCTD
4	The Breakdown of Theodicy as a Cross-Genre Event in Post-Shoah Tragedy, Using the Framework of Ron Elisha's TWO Wilson, Paul Wayne, II 27 April 2004 (has links) No description available. Theater tragedy drama theatre judaism holocaust shoah theodicy God nietzsche faith theism religion death of God loss of faith Holocaust theology Jewish theatre Ron Elisha
5	The breakdown of theodicy as a cross-genre event in post-Shoah tragedy, using the framework of Ron Elisha's Two Wilson, Paul Wayne. January 2004 (has links) Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Theatre, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-56).

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