Master of Arts / Department of English / Michael L. Donnelly / Among the body of criticism on T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, critics such as Cleo McNelly Kearns and Alireza Farahbakhsh have recently interpreted the poet’s “intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings” (EC II) in light of deconstructionist theory. Although the poetry does recognize the difficulty of speaking about spiritual experience, it does not embrace the resulting linguistic miscommunication. In fact, the poems resist such a move, identifying the spiritual danger of such miscommunication; instead, they seek to overcome these difficulties and accurately communicate spiritual experience – an aim achieved in the context of biblical prophecy. Louis Martz argues that the Quartets are, in fact, not prophetic; however, he defines prophecy in terms of its social interests, rather than in terms of the interest in the human-divine relationship that characterizes both biblical tradition and Eliot’s poetry. I want to argue that reading the Quartets in the context of biblical prophecy, filtered through mystical tradition, explains their ability to transcend linguistic difficulty and explore spiritual experience in human language. In biblical tradition, the prophets overcome linguistic difficulty through a direct encounter with God, which purifies language of error and equips them to speak of divine reality. In Eliot’s Quartets, the poetry undergoes a similar purifying experience meant to replace linguistic error with a meaningful exploration of spiritual experience. For the Quartets, linguistic purification is accomplished by means of the mystical via negativa. Appropriating images associated with the via negativa, the poetry denies language tied to direct perception of spiritual reality and adopts instead a language that conveys such experience through unfamiliar words and images. In that language, the poetry is purified of its errors and made capable of exploring the human relationship with God. A poetry identified with the Incarnation, this solution communicates in human language the reality of spiritual experience. In this communication, the poetry at last explores spiritual experience in a way freed of miscommunication and meaningful for the audience, thereby fulfilling its prophetic aims.

This dissertation seeks to capture Muhammad's emergence as Prophet. It starts from the premise that he located himself as a Prophet within a fraternity of prophethood. More specifically he has seen his work as a continuation of the Biblical prophetic tradition. However he has stressed his election as correcting what has been altered in this Biblical tradition. Muhammad: A prophet of God argues that he has as prophet the same defining elements as Biblical prophets; as result we must not criticise him unnecessarily, that is, for the sake of fitting him into our categories. Muhammad must be seen terms of his experiences. In addition we must capture his contribution to humanity. / Religious Studies & Arabic / M.A. (Religious Studies)

Text in German / Prophetie und Evangelisation sind zentrale Themen der Bibel und wichtige Instrumente Gottes. Biblische Berichte zeigen, dass Mission und Evangelisation oft erst durch ein prophetisches Wort moglich wurde. Das erste Kapitel widmet sich diesen Themen. Es ist das Anliegen dieser Studie, die in den Jahren 1980-2000 uber Berlin ausgesprochenen Prophetien zu analysieren. Die Prophetien werden mit biblischen Aussagen verglichen, gegeneinander ins Verhaltnis gesetzt und auf ihre missionstheoiogische Relevanz hin untersucht. Eine Befragung einiger Berliner Leber chainsmatisch-gepragter Gemeinden liefert den praktischen Anteil dieser Studie. Die theoretischen Grundlagen werden im zweiten und die Ergebnisse im dritten Kapitel behandelt. Es ist zu betonen, dass sich die untersuchten Prophetien jeglicher objektiver Beurteilung entziehen. Alle Angaben sind zeitlich nicht gebunden und sehr allgemein gehalten. Allen gemeinsam ist jedoch ein geistlicher Quantensprang, der von einer flachendeckenden Ausgiessung des Geistes Gottes uber Berlin handelt. Dieser Sachverhalt wird im vierten Kapitel dargestellt und diskutiert. / Prophecy and evangelisation are central topics of the Bible and instruments of God, Biblical reports show, that mission and evangelisation were mostly possible by a prophetic word (Chapter one). The concern of this study is to analyse the prophecies spoken out for Berlin between the years 1980 to 2000. The prophecies were compared with biblical statements, were proportionate to one another and were analysed regarding their mission-theologicai relevance. A questioning of few leaders of charismatic-embossed churches of Berlin gives the practical part of the study (the theoretical part see chapter two, the results see chapter three). It has to be articulated, that there is no objective judgement for the analysed prophecies. All indications are not bound by time and were given in general sense. All prophecies deal with a spiritual quantum leap, who speaks of an out-pouring of the Spirit of God over Berlin covering the whole area (Chapter four). / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Missiology)

Prophetie und Evangelisation sind zentrale Themen der Bibel und wichtige Instrumente Gottes. Bib'lische Berichte zeigen, dass Mission und Evangelisation oft erst durch ein prophetisches Wort miiglich wurde. Das erste Kapitel widmet sich diesen Themen. Es ist das Anliegen dieser Studie, die in den Jahren 1980-2000 iiber Berlin ausgesprochenen Prophetien zu analysieren. Die Prophetien werden mit biblischen Aussagen verglichen, gegeneinander ins Verhliltnis gesetzt und auf ihre missionstheologische Relevanz hin untersucht. Eine Befragung einiger Berliner Leiter charismatisch-geprligter Gemeinden liefert den praktischen Anteil dieser Studie. Die theoretischen Grundlagen werden im zweiten und die Ergebnisse im dritten Kapitel behandelt. Es ist zu betonen, <lass sich die untersuchten Prophetien jeglicher objektiver Beurteilung entziehen. Aile Angaben sind zeitlich nicht gebunden und sehr allgemein gehalten. Allen gemeinsam ist jedoch ein geistlicher Quantensprung, der von einer flachendeckenden AusgieBung des Geistes Gottes iiber Berlin handelt. Dieser Sachverhalt wird im vierten Kapitel dargestellt und diskutiert. / Prophecy and evangelisation are central topics of the Bible and instruments of God. Biblical reports show, that mission and evangelisation were mostly possible by a prophetic word (Chapter one). The concern of this study is to analyse the prophecies spoken out for Berlin between the years 1980 to 2000. The prophecies were compared with biblical statements, were proportionate to one another and were analysed regarding their mission-theological relevance. A questioning of few leaders of charismatic-embossed churches of Berlin gives the practical part of the study (the theoretical part see chapter two, the results see chapter three). It has to be articulated, that there is no objective judgement for the analysed prophecies. All indications are not bound by time and were given in general sense. All prophecies deal with a spiritual quantum leap, who speaks of an out-pouring of the Spirit of God over Berlin covering the whole area (Chapter four). / Text in German / Titles in German and English / Keywords in German and English / M. Th. (Missiology)

The prophecies in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series are unclear and often appear to have multiple possible fulfillments, or none at all. In addition, some of these prophesied events occur before they are introduced, which further contributes to the lack of clarity in interpreting them. My thesis will discuss the methods by which Martin offers readers clues to a prophecy’s fulfillment and argue that Martin’s use of these imprecise prophecies challenges high fantasy tropes about prophecies.

A Igreja Ibérica na região da Península Ibérica, durante a Alta Idade Média, tornara-se uma referência para o poder temporal, como já o era para o povo. Embora fosse apoiada pela monarquia visigótica, ainda enfrentava problemas internos de dogma e de situações decorrentes dos conflitos humanos. O expansionismo árabe trouxe para a região ibérica um confronto além de civil, religioso que ameaçava e fragilizava o papel homogêneo que a Igreja desempenhava no território. A convivência entre muçulmanos e cristãos, que estavam subjugados, fez com que a Igreja buscasse respostas para a situação vivida naquele momento, após a invasão muçulmana no território ibérico. Este trabalho de mestrado buscou compreender o discurso elaborado pela Igreja, através do escrito de um de seus membros, que interpretaria a situação de acordo com a perspectiva eclesiástica. Concomitantemente, verificaremos os problemas estruturais concernentes a formação da monarquia visigoda, para analisar o contexto histórico no qual foi produzido o documento utilizado neste trabalho. / The Church in the region of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, become a reference to the laic power, as it was for the people. Although it was backed by the Visigothic monarchy, still faced internal problems of dogma and situations resulting from human conflicts. The Arab expansionism brought to the Iberian region a confrontation, as well as civil, religious that threatened and weakened the homogeneous role that Church played in the territory. The coexistence between Muslims and Christians, who were enslaved, made the Church sought answers to the situation experienced at that moment, after the Muslims invasion in the Iberian territory. This dissertation sought to understand the speech prepared for the Church, written by one of its members, who would interpret the situation according to the ecclesiastical perspective. Concurrently, we find structural problems concerning the formation of the Visigothic monarchy, to consider the historical context in which it was produced the document used in this work.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:29:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Sylvio Rocha Filho.pdf: 1947071 bytes, checksum: f14471c6b88e72f189023e8bee95e1c8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-06-09 / ABSTRACT We will try to demonstrate, and that is the most difficult part, that it is the Human Feeling which decides, hefts, appreciates, esteems, attributes value, concludes, sentences; that Reason says how much something measures and the Feeling says how much it is worth; that Reality and the things are constructed by us in our mind; that they are worth and specified by the Feeling. And this is why there are no law operator but law actors. We will affirm that when the cult of the reason was established, we were taught that the Feeling, activity considered till now like minor, should be censured, omitted, despised, plastered, manacled: but it is worthless, it is always there to accomplish its role and there is no way to ignore it; that because its role was never understood, the Feeling (on the contrary of the Reason) did not grow nor become refined, and that it causes problems to human being. We will try to show that in a conflict there are failures in the communication between the parts; that the feeling is a mean of communication; that in the analysis of the conflict the Feelings that caused rupture, appear; that this communication needs to be re-established; that the Law Actors (the parts, the lawyers, the judges ) show themselves in the Judicial Proceedings supported by their Feelings and that, after all, in the actual judiciary system will prevail as definitive solution the one determined by the feeling of the Judge, and that may, or not , provoke more problems. We will try to defend the position that sentence should not only finish the proceedings, but finish it satisfying both parts and society. We will try to study the question in such a way to become the juridical ambient foreseeable, to proportion to the parts previous knowledge of the real scenery, (which is fixed while not changed), and that they can through this knowledge, plan their lives and assume their risks consciously. We will try, at the end, copying the human system, to propose a judiciary system that learns at first rationally the truth involved, secondly that applies the human intuition in the subject, thirdly that tries to conciliate the parts and reconstruct their communication assigning its proportion of reason considering that in many proceedings both parts have reciprocally errors and discernments to adjust being not totally right nor totally wrong what will not be almost never contemplate by the actual judicial sentence in the actual way of treating the subject and at hindmost, to apply the elaborate and refined Feeling to the judicial decisions in a way to content both parts involved more than the actual system does. / RESUMO Tentaremos demonstrar, esta é a tarefa difícil, que é o Sentimento Humano que decide, sopesa, aprecia, estima, atribui valor, conclui, sentencia; que a Razão diz quanto mede e o Sentimento diz quanto vale; que a Realidade (e as coisas) são construídas por nós em nossa mente; que são avaliadas e especificadas pelo Sentimento. E que bem por isso não há Operadores do Direito, mas Atores do Direito. Afirmaremos que dado o culto da Razão ensinou-se que o Sentimento, atividade então apresentada como menor, deveria ser censurado, omitido, desprezado, engessado, manietado: mas, não adianta, ele está lá sempre a cumprir seu papel e que não há como ignorá-lo; que por não ter sido entendido seu papel, o Sentimento (ao contrário da Razão) não se desenvolveu nem se refinou o que é causa de problemas para o ser humano. Tentaremos demonstrar que em um conflito há falha na comunicação entre as partes; que o Sentimento é um meio de comunicação; que na análise do conflito aparecem os Sentimentos que causaram a ruptura; que esta comunicação precisa ser restabelecida; que os Atores do Direito (as partes, os advogados, os juizes...) apresentam-se no Processo com base em seus Sentimentos e que, afinal, no atual sistema judiciário, prevalecerá como solução definitiva a determinada pelo Sentimento do juiz que decidir a causa o que pode, ou não, provocar mais problemas. Procuraremos defender a posição de que a sentença não deve somente terminar o processo, mas deve terminá-lo satisfazendo as partes e a sociedade. Tentaremos estudar a questão de maneira a tornar previsível o ambiente jurídico de modo a proporcionar às partes conhecimento prévio do cenário real, que é este enquanto não for alterado, e que elas podem, via este conhecimento, planejar suas vidas e assumir seus riscos conscientemente. Tentaremos, ao final, copiando o sistema humano propor um sistema judicial que apure primeiro racionalmente a verdade envolvida nas proposições em debate, segundo que aplique a intuição humana ao assunto, terceiro que tente conciliar as partes e reconstituir sua comunicação atribuindo-lhes sua proporção de razão visto que em muitos processos as partes têm reciprocamente erros e acertos a ajustar não estando totalmente certas nem totalmente erradas o que quase nunca será contemplado em uma sentença judicial no atual modo de encarar o assunto e, por derradeiro, aplicar o Sentimento elaborado e refinado às decisões judiciais de forma a contentar as partes envolvidas mais do que contenta o atual sistema. Para tanto optamos por apresentar nossas teses da seguinte maneira desenvolvendo-as nos seguintes capítulos:

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:48:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ISRAEL SERIQUE DOS SANTOS.pdf: 1008807 bytes, checksum: ac152cafdd0aa05f84d73a08845e9f86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-28 / This research examines 1 Corinthians, with the central element for the analysis of the phenomenon known as glossolalia, treated in Chapters 12, 13 and 14 of this epistle. While prophetic charism, a developer of unjust power relations, glossolalia is searched, taking as a tool to interpret those that are proper and related to the exegesis of the concepts of religious studies at the prospect of conflictual analysis. This study is divided into three chapters. At first, it held a bibliography on the topic and presents the basic concepts (symbol, charisma, prophet, conflictual analysis, local social) by which the object of research will be analyzed. On the second chapter has the exegetical analysis of the proposed text to search, giving emphasis to the historical context from which it emerges, the grammatical structures in which it was formatted and the possible interpretations to the glossolalic question. In this chapter, is the conflictual model of analysis of Christian sacred texts, with its emphasis on local social and historic-critical method, which guide this research on power relations in the church at Corinth. The third chapter examines how the glossolalia was elevated to the status symbol of spirituality among the Corinthians, that the deleterious effects of this feature of community life and thought and positioning of the Apostle Paul, before the conflictual situation. Research will define the ideas by which a freeing reading can be presented to readers of this dissertation. Finally, in conclusion, it is the opinion that relates to the phenomenon glossolalic into ideological structure of power and its implications for the current religious situation charismatic. / Esta pesquisa investiga 1 Coríntios, tendo como elemento focal para análise o fenômeno denominado glossolalia, tratado nos capítulos 12, 13 e 14 da referida Epístola. Enquanto carisma profético, fomentador de relações injustas de poder, a glossolalia será pesquisada tendo-se como ferramenta de interpretação aquelas que são próprias da exegese e relacionadas com os conceitos das Ciências da Religião, sob o prisma da análise conflitual. Este estudo divide-se em três capítulos. No primeiro, faz-se um levantamento bibliográfico sobre a temática e são apresentados os conceitos basilares (símbolo, carisma, profeta, análise conflitual, local social) através dos quais o objeto de pesquisa será analisado. No segundo capítulo, tem-se a análise exegética do texto proposto para pesquisa, dando-se destaque ao contexto histórico do qual ele emerge, as estruturas gramaticais nas quais ele foi formatado e as interpretações possíveis para a questão glossolálica. Neste capítulo, é o modelo conflitual de análise dos textos sagrados cristãos, com sua ênfase no local social e o método histórico crítico, que norteiam esta pesquisa sobre as relações de poder na igreja de Corinto. O terceiro capítulo estuda como a glossolalia foi elevada a símbolo de status de espiritualidade entre os coríntios, quais as conseqüências deletérias desta ação para a vida comunitária e o pensamento e o posicionamento do apóstolo Paulo diante desta situação conflitual. Procurar-se-á delinear as ideias pelas quais uma leitura libertadora possa ser apresentada aos leitores desta dissertação. Por fim, na conclusão, há o parecer que relaciona o fenômeno glossolálico à estrutura ideológica de poder e suas implicações para a atual conjuntura religiosa carismática.

Since the First World War ended in 1918 and anthologies began to emerge, limited attention has been paid to the poets of this era. While a few select male poets have achieved canonicity, women war poets of this era have fallen into enigmatic obscurity. The intention of this paper is to expound, explicate, and expose the difficulties relating to gaining entry into the canon of English literature, especially where the poets of The Great War are concerned. This paper discusses the absence of the most profound and foreshadowing poems written during the war through research of scholarly journals and out-of-print poems. The paper also seeks to prove that the defenses offered up which exclude certain poems in the anthologies have had repercussions extending into the twenty-first century. Beyond all human imagination, the excluded poetry of The Great War is languishing, wanting, and imploring for exploration and canonicity.

How people think about the end of the world greatly affects how they live in the present. This thesis examines how popular American thought about “the end of the world” has been greatly affected by Hal Lindsey’s 1970 popular prophecy book The Late, Great Planet Earth. LGPE sold more copies than any other non-fiction book in the 1970s and greatly aided the mainstreaming of “end-times” ideas like the Antichrist, nuclear holocaust, the Rapture, and various other concepts connected with popular end-times thought. These ideas stem from a specific strain of late-nineteenth century Biblical interpretation known as dispensational premillennialism, which has manifested in various schools of premillennial thought over the last 150 years. However, Lindsey translated this complicated system into modern language and connected it with contemporary geopolitics in powerful ways which helped make LGPE incredibly popular and influential in the 1970s and beyond. This paper includes an introduction to some essential concepts and terms related to popular premillennialism followed by a brief history of popular prophecy in America. The second half of this thesis examines the social, religious, and political climate of the 1970s and how Lindsey’s success connects to the culture of the Seventies, specifically conservative reactions to the various social movements of the 1960s. The last major section discusses Lindsey’s malleable theology and the power of interpreting the Bible “literally.” In the 1970s, conservative theologians and denominations won the battle to define certain concepts within Christianity including terms like “literal,” “inerrant,” and related terms, and Lindsey’s treatment of “the end times” reflects these definitions and how they affect Biblical interpretation. Finally, the conclusion fleshes out the appeal of popular premillennialism in the 1970s and into the present day.