This dissertation contends that interpreters have underestimated assurance of salvation in the Letter to the Hebrews and the author's confidence in his recipients' salvation. Chapter 1 considers the history of research, examining how several recent commentators and interpreters have understood the warnings and assurance in the letter. Special attention is given to their interpretation of the perfection of believers and the new covenant promises, as well as the author's confidence, God's promise, and the believer's hope in Hebrews 6:9-20. Chapter 2 examines the concept of perfection in Hebrews--with respect to Christ and believers--and specifically considers its relationship to the promises of the new covenant as prophesied in Jeremiah 31, quoted in Hebrews 8:8-12 and 10:16-17. I analyze several relevant texts, including 3:7-4:13; 7:11-28; 8:1-13; 9:1-10; 10:1-18, 22; 11:39-40; 12:18-24; and 13:20-21, and consider implications for assurance of salvation. Chapter 3 provides an exegetical analysis of Hebrews 6:9-20, seeking to understand the author's confidence in the recipients and the contribution the passage makes to assurance of salvation in Hebrews. Chapter 4 offers an explanation of the warnings of Hebrews that can account for the findings of chapters 2 and 3. I consider and evaluate the three most common interpretations of the warnings: the loss-of-rewards view, the false-believer view, and the loss-of-salvation view. Building on this, I present the "means-of-salvation" view, responding to criticisms of the view and demonstrating how it best integrates the warnings with the passages and themes that promote Christian assurance. Thus, I defend the thesis that interpreters of Hebrews have greatly underestimated assurance of salvation in the letter (1) by demonstrating that the author implicitly affirms his readers can have assurance of salvation in light of the sacrificial work of Christ and (2) by demonstrating that the means-of-salvation view offers the best means of integrating assurance of salvation with the warnings against Christian apostasy in the letter.

Reproduction de : Thèse de 3e cycle : informatique et mathématiques appliquées : Grenoble 1 : 1987. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr. p. [129]-134.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2004. / Thesis directed by Jean Porter for the Department of Theology. "April 2004." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 393-413).

Magistro darbe nagrinėjamas Lietuvos ir užsienio autorių kvalifikacijos ir kompetencijos sampratų santykis, kaip mokytojų kvalifikacijos tobulinimas siejamas su mokymosi visą gyvenimą idėja, aptariami mokytojų kvalifikacijos tobulinimo vadybos aspektai. Darbe pateikiama Šiaulių miesto ir Radviliškio rajono mokyklų vadovų nuomonė apie mokytojų atestavimo sistemą, aptariami kokybinio tyrimo rezultatai, įvertinti mokytojų vadybiniai kvalifikacijos tobulinimosi etapai bei jų požiūriai apie įvairių institucijų organizuojamus renginius. Atlikus kokybinį tyrimą paaiškėjo, kad aukštesnė mokytojų kvalifikacinė kategorija ne visada garantuoja geresnę ugdymo kokybę: išryškinti dabartinės atestacijos sistemos trūkumai, pabrėžiama, kokios pedagoginės veiklos sritys turėtų būti vertinamos pedagogui tobulinant kvalifikaciją. Kiekybiniu požiūriu nustatyta, kad mokytojai kvalifikacijos tobulinimo vadybos procese nuosekliai planuoja, organizuoja kvalifikacijos tobulinimo, rodiklių kaupimo procesus, o vadovai užtikrina abipusį bendradarbiavimą su mokyklos bendruomene sprendžiant ugdymo klausimus, problemas, informuoja mokytojus kvalifikacijos ir kompetencijų tobulinimo klausimais. Tiriant pedagogų požiūrį apie įvairių institucijų organizuojamus renginius, išryškėja teigiami aspektai tiek pačių įstaigų, tiek renginių lektorių ir renginių pobūdžio atžvilgiu. / In the master’s work we analyze Lithuanian and foreign authors intercourse of qualification and competence conception, how improvement of teacher’s qualification is connected with the idea to study all life, we discuss aspects of teachers qualification management. In our work we give the opinion of Siauliai city and Radviliskis region schools leaders about system of teachers certification, discuss results of qualitative research, we evaluate stages of teachers management qualification improvement and their point of view to events, which are organized by different institutions. After qualitative research we can say that higher teachers qualification category not always guarantee better quality of education: we uncover imperfection in teachers certification nowadays, emphasize what field of pedagogical activity should be evaluated when teachers improve their qualification. We established by quantitative standpoint, that teachers improving their management qualification plan consecutively, organize improvement of their qualification, process of indexes accumulation, leaders ensure mutual co-operation with schools community solving different questions, problems in education, inform teachers about their qualification and improvement of their competence. According the research, teachers express their positive standpoints to different kind of events, to lectures and emphasize positive aspects to institutions and organized events.

The thesis indicates how central Canadian Methodists came to terms with Christian perfection in the years 1828-1884. It demonstrates that the concept was a matter of constant and considerable concern, and that the primary force in determining how it was attended to was the influence of John Wesley. The main elements of the concept are set out--an experience possible through momentary faith and resulting in cleansing from sin and the ability to love God with pure love. Influences upon Canadian Methodism are probed and, in particular, the thought of John Wesley on the subject is investigated. Lines of influence from Wesley to Canadian Methodism are traced. The thesis sketches the importance of the concept as seen in attempts to define it, to bring it to personal experience, to urge others to seek and find it. In the concluding remarks, some of the writer's observations are reflected.

The extent of the ethical component in the Buddha's teachings is often commented upon but has received disproportionately little attention from scholars. This thesis is intented to make a contribution in this area by (i): examining the substantive content of Buddhist ethical categories; (ii) locating ethics and the goal of ethical perfection in the context of the overall soteriological framework elaborated by the Buddha; (iii) offering a characterisation of the formal structure of Buddhist ethics according to the typology of philosophical ethical theory. The scope of the enquiry will include ethical data from both the Small and Large Vehicles. Previous research has concentrated almost exclusively on the Theravāda system and this has resulted in a truncated presentation of Buddhist ethics which has failed to reveal the underlying structure and its development through time. The present discussion therefore proceeds in a roughly chronological sequence in the selection of its data, considering first of all material from Theravādin sources (both Canonical and commentarial) and passing on to an investigation of the systematisation of ethical categories in the Abhidharma of the Small Vehicle as found in the scheme of the Sarvāstivāda preserved in the Abhidharmakośa. Subsequently, in Chapter 4, an account of Mahayana ethics is offered drawing mainly on the Śila-paṭala of the Bodhisattvabhūmi. The final two chapters (5 and 6) discuss two influential theories of ethics elaborated in the Western tradition which bear a prima facie resemblance to the theoretical structure of Buddhist ethics. Chapter 5 will deal with Utilitarianism and its resemblance to Buddhism, and Chapter 6 will be devoted to the Aristotelian ethical system. My conclusion will be that the Aristotelian model provides the closest analogue to Buddhism and a preliminary attempt will be made to pursue certain points of contact as an indication of the direction for future research. The overall argument, which is cumulative throughout the thesis, will be that ethical perfection in Buddhism is an integral and inalienable component in the perfection of human nature envisaged and attained by the Buddha. This, together with the intellectual perfection epitomised by the attainment of insightful knowledge (paññā). constitutes the Summum Bonum or complete good for man.

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, 2003. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-125).

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, 2003. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-125).

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, 2003. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-125).

Thesis (PhD(N.T.)--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 313-342)