Esta tese investiga como ocorrem as vivências da metanoia em pessoas de meia-idade, período compreendido entre os quarenta e sessenta anos, na contemporaneidade. A metanoia caracteriza-se por um processo psicológico que pode ocorrer a partir do meio da vida, em que intensos fluxos de energia do inconsciente fluem em direção à consciência, trazendo novos conteúdos para a psique consciente e também reaproximando conteúdos reprimidos ou negligenciados no passado para que possam ser elaborados e integrados pelo ego. Esse processo mobiliza tanto crises como também desenvolvimentos emocionais. Por meio dos dados coletados em quatro encontros grupais, com seis participantes, sendo quatro mulheres e dois homens, com idade compreendida entre 46 e 59 anos, analisaram-se, a partir do referencial da psicologia analítica, as transformações psicológicas relatadas pelos colaboradores, relativas aos processos oriundos do envelhecimento, bem como dos processos de metanoia propriamente ditos. Os dados obtidos apontaram para transformações significativas nas seguintes categorias: relação com o corpo, saúde e energia; tempo, envelhecimento e finitude, sexualidade e relacionamento afetivo, relacionamento com amizades, relacionamento com pais e filhos, trabalho e aposentadoria, relação com a sociedade e a cultura, desenvolvimentos da maturidade. Foi observada no material estudado a intensificação do diálogo ego-self, já bem descrito pela literatura, bem como a intensificação do diálogo ego-persona e ego-puer-senex, sendo esses dois últimos tão importantes nos processos de adaptação, transformação e ampliação da personalidade consciente quanto o primeiro. Também se observou no material do grupo o funcionamento do eixo ego-arquétipo do herói, através de um pensamento e capacidade de ação reflexivos, o que ampliou a autonomia egoica para dialogar com ambos os polos das diversas instâncias psíquicas do inconsciente, sem se identificar com nenhum deles. A pesquisa comprovou que a idade adulta é, no mínimo, tão importante no desenvolvimento da personalidade quanto qualquer outra fase da vida. O trabalho também destacou a importância do papel do grupo, tanto como método de coleta de dados quanto em seu funcionamento como um ritual de iniciação para a maturidade. O grupo se mostrou como possibilitador de trocas significativas com pessoas da mesma faixa etária, proporcionando profundas reflexões sobre o desenvolvimento psicológico, por meio do reconhecimento e compartilhamento das necessidades de construção de novos papéis e de ressignificação de antigos papéis já consolidados na personalidade, em um mundo de rápidas e constantes transformações / This thesis investigates how the experiences of Metanoia occur in middle age, the period between forty and sixty years in contemporaneity. The Metanoia is characterized by a psychological process that can occur from the middle of life where intense fluxes of energy flow from unconscious toward consciousness bringing new content to the conscious psyche and also approaching repressed or neglected contents in the past so that they can be developed and integrated by the ego. This process mobilizes both crisis as well as emotional development. Through data collected in four group meetings with six participants, four women and two men, aged between 46 and 59 years, were analyzed, from the reference of analytical psychology, the psychological transformation reported by cooperators concerning proceedings from aging as well as the process of Metanoia themselves. The data point to significant changes in the following categories: relationship to the body, health and energy, time, aging and finitude, sexuality and emotional relationship, relationship with friendships and relationship with parents and children, work and retirement, society and culture, development of maturity. It was observed in the studied material increased dialogue ego-self, already well described in the literature as well as the intensification of the dialogue ego-persona and ego-puer-senex, being the latter two as important in the processes of adaptation, transformation and expansion of the conscious personality as the first. Also it was observed in the group\'s material the functioning of the axis ego-hero archetype through a thought and capacity of reflexive action which increased the egoism autonomy to engage with both poles of the various instances of the psychic unconscious without identifying with any of them. The research showed that adulthood is as important in the development personality as any other phase of life. The work also highlights the importance of the group both as a method of data collection as for its functioning a rite of passage into adulthood. The group showed up as an enabler for meaningful exchanges with people of the same age providing deeper insights into the psychological development by recognizing and sharing the needs of building old papers already consolidated in personality in a world of rapid and constant transformation

Thesis (Th. M.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-98).

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1991. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-70).

From the personal contemporary pastoral experience of caring for dying people, and with particular attention given to the psychospiritual anguish often associated with the perceived failure of death, I argue that suffering is primarily identified in the modern West as an insult to normality, often expressed in various forms of the question: 'Why me?'. I challenge this view of 'suffering as insult' by selectively identifying and critiquing some culturally embedded views of the nature of reality, taking note of the influence on suffering persons of the dialogue between science and faith in the UK, and by introducing dialogue with the process thought of Whitehead as an alternative to traditional theistic models of God. Such a dialogue also affects the nature of the person conceived in imago dei, and so I examine the effect of replacing the rational autonomous individual with the dialogical personhood of McFadyen. I then consider the rehabilitation of suffering as a key experience of metanoia in the formation of the person. Finally I reflect on suffering in postmodernity in the light of Ricoeur's hypothesis that reality is narrative in form, and develop the argument that suffering can be understood as an 'ontological impertinence', analogous to the 'semantic impertinence' which Ricoeur attributes to the category of metaphor.

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Fundada em 1911 em Belém do Pará pelos missionários pentecostais suecos Gunnar Vingren e Daniel Berg, advindos dos Estados Unidos da América, essa denominação atualmente possui pouco mais de 12 milhões de adeptos, segundo o censo de 2010, sendo, portanto, a maior denominação evangélica do Brasil. Foi forjada no caldo cultural do Norte/Nordeste entre os estratos mais carentes da população e após o fim do Ciclo da Borracha, um grande contingente de assembleianos migrou rumo ao Sudeste do país, onde sofreu com o processo de anomia e acomodação nos grandes centros urbanos. Somando-se a isso a expectativa escatológica de início de século, percebe-se o porquê dessa denominação ter nutrido uma mentalidade anti-intelectualista na maior parte de sua história, rechaçando a educação teológica regular e a educação superior secular. No entanto, ainda na primeira metade do século XX, com a chegada de missionários estadunidenses que intentaram implantar a educação teológica de nível superior nessa denominação, iniciou-se um processo longo e contencioso de mudança de mentalidade ou metanoia com relação à educação superior. Entre celeumas, retrocessos e avanços, alguns Institutos Bíblicos foram fundados à revelia da liderança e sem apoio institucional. Entrementes, quase cem anos após a fundação, isto é, em agosto de 2005, foi inaugurada na cidade do Rio de Janeiro a Faculdade Evangélica de Tecnologia, Ciências e Biotecnologia (FAECAD), a faculdade da Assembleia de Deus. Essa faculdade se insere num contexto maior de outras Instituições de Ensino Superior assembleianas espalhadas pelo Brasil, de alunos pentecostais cursando mestrado e doutorado em programas de pós-graduação de variadas universidades, além da criação da Rede Latino-americana de Estudos pentecostais (RELEP) e da Rede de Estudos Assembleianos (REA), grupos de estudos de pentecostais sobre o fenômeno pentecostal. A esse fenômeno demos o nome de “primavera educacional” na Assembleia de Deus no Brasil. Esta tese se dedica a iluminar, investigar e tentar compreender tal fenômeno. / The Evangelical Church of the Assembly of God in Brazil is the coutry’s second oldest Pentecostal denomination. Founded in 1911 in Belém do Pará by the Swedish Pentecostal missionaries Gunnar Vingren and Daniel Berg, arrived from the United States of America, this denomination currently has more than 12 million adherents, according to the 2010 census, being therefore the largest evangelical denomination in Brazil. It was forged in the cultural melting pot of Brazilian North/Northeast, among the poorest strata of the population. After the end of the Rubber Cycle, a large contingent of this church believers migrated towards the southeast of the country, which suffering the process of anomie and accommodation in large urban centers. Adding to this the eschatological expectation of the beginning of the century, it can be seen why this denomination has nurtured an anti-intellectualist mentality throughout most of its history, rejecting regular theological education and secular higher education. However, already in the first half of the twentieth century, with the arrival of US missionaries who attempted to establish higher level theological education in this denomination, a long and contentious process of change of mentality or metanoia with respect to higher education began. Amidst controversies, throwbacks and advances, some Bible Institutes were founded without the consent of the leadership and without institutional support. Meanwhile, almost a hundred years after the foundation of this Church, in August 2005, the Evangelical Faculty of Technology, Science and Biotechnology (FAECAD), the faculty of the Assembly of God, was inaugurated in the city of Rio de Janeiro. This faculty is inserted in a larger context of other confessional Higher Education Institutions scattered throughout Brazil, of Pentecostal students pursuing a master's and doctoral degree in postgraduate programs of various universities, as well as in the creation of the Latin American Network of Pentecostal Studies (RELEP) and of the Network of Assembleial Studies (REA), groups of Pentecostal studies on the pentecostal phenomenon. To this phenomenon we gave the name of “educational spring” in the Assembly of God in Brazil. This thesis is dedicated to illuminating, investigating and trying to understand such phenomenon.

Devant la mort qui s’impose comme fin inhérente à tout être humain, le message hermasien, dans la neuvième similitude, évoque une vie après la mort dans une démarche qui séduit son lecteur et l’interpelle en vue d’une conversion immédiate et ponctuelle. Tout en travaillant sur des données préexistantes, Hermas monte une thématique eschatologique, avec un vocabulaire propre : il christianise ses données, en mettant en lumière, la prééminence du Fils de Dieu, déjouant ainsi les difficultés liées, à cette époque (IIe siècle), aux expressions « Messie », « Christ » ou « Jésus ». Il voudrait démontrer aux chrétiens, en général, et aux saints qui sont tombés (lapsi) qu’une possibilité est à nouveau donnée. Ils doivent sortir de la conception de damnation pour enfin bénéficier, de manière ultime, d’une metanoia (postbaptismale) qui favoriserait leur purification, et la grâce de vivre dans la félicité, quand reviendra (d’ici peu d’où parousie imminente) le Maître de la tour en construction en Sim. IX (en Arcadie). Ainsi se dévoile toute la pensée hermasienne : la metanoia ne se réalise pas pour elle-même, elle a un but qui est essentiellement eschatologique. Elle prépare les chrétiens à la venue du Fils de Dieu, à la sunteléia définitive, et leur promet (après l’acquisition du Nom, par le baptême et la vie vertueuse) une place dans la tour, symbole du royaume des cieux dans la Sim. IX. / In front of death which imposes itself as inherent end to all human beings, the Hermasian message (of Hermas) in the ninth Similitude suggests a life after death in an approach that appeals to the reader and calls him for an immediate and timely conversion. While working on existing data, Hermas mounts an eschatological theme, with a proper vocabulary : he christianized its data, highlighting the rule of the Son of God, and thwarting the difficulties related to this time (second century), to the expressions « Messiah», « Christ » or « Jesus ». He would demonstrate to the Christians in general, and the Saints who have fallen (Lapsi), that one new possibility is given. They must depart from the conception of damnation to finally benefit, in an ultimate way, a metanoia (post baptismal) that would favor their purification, and the grace to live in bliss, when will return (shortly where imminent parousia) the Master of the tower under construction in Sim. IX (in Arcadia). Thus reveals all Hermasian thought: metanoia does not occur for itself, its purpose is essentially eschatological. It prepares Christians for the coming of the Son of God at the final sunteleia and promises them (after acquiring the Name, by baptism and virtuous life) a place in the tower, symbol of the kingdom of heaven in the Sim. IX.

Repentance is the first message of Jesus Christ, but the doctrine of repentance has been corrupted by the legalistic-penance doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, Arminianism, and synergism. The desire for the restoration of true repentance was the cause of the Reformation and Reformed theology has tried to build true repentance in soteriology. Calvin’s doctrine of repentance is balanced between subjectivity and objectivity, and repentance is a requisite element of salvation. Calvin made a connection between repentance and Practicus Syllogismus to emphasise the necessity of good works in salvation. K. Barth’s doctrine of repentance, which sees repentance as being the work of God alone, can be defined as forensic repentance. Genuine repentance only takes place in Christ. Christians can participate in the repentance of Christ, which then becomes their repentance. G. C. Berkouwer used the term ‘correlation’ to explain the balance between faith and repentance and to overcome the problem of subjectivity and objectivity in his doctrine of repentance. Faith and repentance are not interdependent, but are closely connected in the grace of God in Christ. By faith the sinner knows that he is a sinner and understands the necessity of repentance. Repentance is a means of strengthening faith. In the Roman Catholic Church penance is a requisite element in soteriology. There is no salvation without penance, and forgiveness of sins and salvation cannot be accomplished without a priest. This is a legalistic-penance theory which converts repentance through the righteousness of Christ into penance by man’s co-operation, changing the Christo-centric focus to include, partially, the merit of the Church and the Priest. Hyung-Nong Park called repentance a ‘co-operative’ work between God and man, but this does not imply synergism. He assumes that repentance is only given to the regenerated and to the Christian who has the sign of God’s children in regeneration. Repentance itself becomes a sign of redemption. With the exception of Barth, Reformed theologians tried to pursue the balance between subjectivity and objectivity in the doctrine of repentance. Calvin, Berkouwer and Park each tried to overcome the problems of the doctrine of repentance, Calvin with ‘Duplex acceptio hominis” or ‘Operum Justitia,’ Berkouwer with ‘Correlation’ and Park with his own term, ‘Co-operative’. True repentance is not declarative, forensic or human speculation. It is neither purely subjective nor purely objective, nor is it legalism or the result of synergism. Repentance is the action of man, but is provoked by the action of God, and by the power of God, man turns to God. This is a product of the grace of God; by His grace man has the opportunity to repent. Repentance requires good works, but neither man’s righteousness nor his merit save him from death; rather, it is man’s obedience and gratitude to God. True repentance, as well as true faith, is a sign of salvation and must be regarded as the heart of the Gospel, along with ‘justification by faith.’ When repentance has a proper role and position in Reformed soteriology, ‘justification by faith’ will not be human speculation or antinomianism, but will have the position of the heart of the true gospel in Reformed theology. / Thesis (PhD (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Dogmatics and Christian Ethics / unrestricted

The artist discusses her Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Thou Art That, held in Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, from November 3-7, 2008. The exhibit consists of self-portraits in oil on stretched canvas painted between May and October 2008. Ideas explored include the creative power of limitation, metaphor, divinity, relationship, human development, life experience, and the bond between mother and child. Influences discussed include the written works and ideas of Joseph Campbell and Joseph Chilton Pearce, as well as the ideas of artist Judy Chicago, art critic Suzi Gablik, and the artwork of Gerhard Richter. Included is a complete catalogue of the paintings from Thou Art That.