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Writing Blood and Nature: Redemption in Jim Harrison's Dalva and The Road HomeStein, Brittany S.M. 30 May 2012 (has links)
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The Quest for the Lost Princess in Rabbi Nachman of Braslav's "Book of Stories from Ancient Times"Azriel, Yakov Shammai 29 November 2003 (has links)
One of the most innovative and original Hasidic leaders and thinkers, Rabbi Nachman of Braslav (1772 – 1810), related thirteen long, complex fables during the final four years of his life. This doctoral thesis presents an analysis of the quest for the Lost Princess in Rabbi Nachman of Braslav's "Book of Stories in Ancient Times." The image of the Lost Princess and the quest to find and rescue her, which appear in four of these stories (including the first and the last ones), are central symbols in Rabbi Nachman's thought. The most important key to an analysis of this image and theme lies in understanding the symbols and concepts of the Jewish mystical tradition (the Kabbalah), as Rabbi Nachman himself suggested. / Classsics, Near & Far East & Religious Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Judaica)
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Mission passion is lightning on the horizon anticipating rain : redemption transforms the Adventist church towards a dynamic missionary movementNtshangase, Israel Mbuso 11 1900 (has links)
The thesis proposes solutions for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Newcastle area
to perform Christ’s mission work effectively. It examines how mission could be meaningful
in contemporary society, which is challenging mission so gravely. The study challenges all
churches, including youth, women, men and clergy towards mission.
An analysis of a mission perspective is delineated, aware of the social contexts for mission
in Newcastle. The context of culture has been dealt with, encouraging the Church to be
culturally sensitive, and to use cultural means to reach people. God uses cultural means to
reveal himself. Evil cultural practices, for example, ancestral ‘worship’ and ‘talking to the
dead’ are exposed and denounced.
Bible readings promote mission in the Adventist Church. The teacher of the Bible is to study
it thoroughly, ensuring that he/she is able to proclaim the gospel. Creative teaching of the
Bible includes different levels of understanding, namely, a rote level, a recognition level, a
repetition level, an interactive and a realisation level. The gospel is to be applied in life.
Different hermeneutical approaches to the Bible are summarised, for example, a
postmodern approach.
Strategic planning regarding evangelism is vital. ‘Gift-based’ ministry would inspire all
believers to perform mission work according to people’s ability. All Christians should be
able to evangelise others, leading people as acknowledged sinners to accept Christ as
Saviour and Lord, and to establish the reign of God in society according to his justice.
The heart of the thesis is as follows:- The gospel of Christ is a missionary message to reach all people with the gospel
of salvation and societal renewal
- The church of Christ is a missional church, which stands and falls by its
missionary task to proclaim Christ as Saviour and his reign and justice as
ultimate in society / Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)
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The Living Messiah of Brooklyn : Dealing with the theological postmortem legacy of the Chabad movement’s last Rebbe and final messianic redeemer. / Den levande Messias från Brooklyn : Om det teologiska arvet av Chabadrörelsens sista ledare, Rebben, som fortfarande uppfattas som världens sista messianistiska frälsareSonnenschein, Hannes January 2016 (has links)
The Chassidic Chabad movement is one of Judaism’s most successful and influential groups interms of missionary presence around the world and distributed missionary material online.Chabad’s final Rebbe is still regarded by his followers to be the long-awaited final redeemerand Messiah, despite his clinical death in 1994. The aim of this study is to describe how theChabad-followers, through the movement’s publications, maintain the belief in the Rebbe asthe Jewish Messiah, and the theological interpretive tools utilized in order to ‘survive’ as aunited movement. The study indicates that Chabad is still a united and radical messianicmovement, wherein, internal theological mechanisms interpret the Rebbe as corporally alivebut concealed by illusion, and will soon be revealed or imminently resurrected to complete theredemption of the world. The study also discusses the movement’s extreme right-wingedpolitical stance in regards to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, the movement’s Holocausttheology as means to further understand how the group ‘survived’ the cognitive dissonance thedeath of the Rebbe created and the theological similarities between Chabad and earlyChristianity. / Den Chassidiska Chabadrörelsen är en av judendomens mest framgångsrika och inflytesrikanya religiösa rörelser när det gäller missionär närvaro runt om i världen och missionärt materialonline. Chabads sista Rebbe anses av hans anhängare att vara världens sista försonare ochMessias, trots hans uppenbara kliniska död år 1994. Denna studie beskriver hurChabadanhängare, genom rörelsens egna tryckta och online publikationer, upprätthåller tron påRebbe som den judiska messias och de teologiska tolkningsverktyg som rörelsen använder föratt ‘överleva’ som en enad grupp. Studien indikerar att Chabadrörelsen, ändå till våra dagar, ärenad och radikal-messianistisk där man genom interna teologiska mekanismer tolkar Rebbensom levande i materiell kropp, gömd genom illusion men snart uppenbarad eller snartåteruppväckt från de fysiskt döda och i båda fallen för att fullgöra världens försoning där Gudförsonar människan i den materiella världen. Studien diskuterar också rörelsens extremahögerpolitik, i synnerhet när det gäller Israel-Palestina konflikten och förintelseteologi som ettsätt att vidare förstå hur gruppen ‘överlevde’ den kognitiva dissonansen Rebbens död skapadei termer av misslyckad profetia och de teologiska likheterna mellan Chabadrörelsen och tidigkristendom.Nyckelord: NRR,
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Reviving the past : eighteenth-century evangelical interpretations of church historySchmidt, Darren W. January 2009 (has links)
This study addresses eighteenth-century English-speaking evangelicals' understandings of church history, through the lens of published attempts to represent preceding Christian centuries panoramically or comprehensively. Sources entail several short reflections on history emerging in the early years of the transatlantic Revival (1730s-1740s) and subsequent, more substantial efforts by evangelical leaders John Gillies, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Joseph and Isaac Milner, and Thomas Haweis. Little scholarly analysis exists on these sources, aside from the renaissance of interest in recent decades in Edwards. This is surprising, considering the acknowledged prominence of history-writing in the eighteenth century and the influence attributed, then and now, to the works of authors such as Gibbon, Hume, and Robertson. The aim is, first, to elucidate each of the above evangelicals' interpretations of the Christian past, both in overview and according to what they said on a roster of particular historical events, people and movements, and then to consider shared and divergent aspects. These aspects range from points of detail to paradigmatic theological convictions. Secondarily, evangelical church histories are analyzed in relation to earlier Protestant as well as eighteenth-century 'enlightened' historiography, in part through attention to evangelical authors' explicit engagement with these currents. This contextualization assists in determining the unique qualities of evangelical interpretations. Is there, then, evidence of a characteristically 'evangelical' perspective on church history? An examination of this neglected area illumines patterns and particulars of evangelicals' historical thought, and these in turn communicate the self-perceptions and the defining features of evangelicalism itself. Findings support the primary contention that evangelical leaders made use of a dynamic pattern of revival and declension as a means of accounting for the full history of Christianity. Beyond displaying the central place of 'revival' for evangelicals, these church histories demonstrate evangelicalism‘s complex relationship—involving both receptivity and critique—with Protestant and Enlightenment currents of historical inquiry.
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Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz: A Study of Apocalyptic Cycles, Religion and Science, Religious Ethics and Secular Ethics, Sin and Redemption, and Myth and Preternatural InnocenceSmith, Cynthia M. 12 June 2006 (has links)
Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a timeless story about apocalyptic cycles, conflicts and similarities between religion and science, religious ethics and secular ethics, sin and redemption, myth and preternatural innocence. Canticle is a very religious story about a monastery dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge from the time before nuclear war which devastated the world and reduced humanity to a pre-technological civilization. The Catholic Church and this monastery are portrayed as a bastion of civilization amidst barbarians and a light of faith amidst atheism. Unfortunately, humanity destroys the Earth once again, but Miller ends with two beacons of hope: a starship headed for the unknown to help humanity begin again and the preternaturally innocent Rachel who portends a future for similarly innocent human beings repopulating the Earth. Thus, faith ultimately triumphs over atheism even in the midst of almost total catastrophe.
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The Quest for the Lost Princess in Rabbi Nachman of Braslav's "Book of Stories from Ancient Times"Azriel, Yakov Shammai 29 November 2003 (has links)
One of the most innovative and original Hasidic leaders and thinkers, Rabbi Nachman of Braslav (1772 – 1810), related thirteen long, complex fables during the final four years of his life. This doctoral thesis presents an analysis of the quest for the Lost Princess in Rabbi Nachman of Braslav's "Book of Stories in Ancient Times." The image of the Lost Princess and the quest to find and rescue her, which appear in four of these stories (including the first and the last ones), are central symbols in Rabbi Nachman's thought. The most important key to an analysis of this image and theme lies in understanding the symbols and concepts of the Jewish mystical tradition (the Kabbalah), as Rabbi Nachman himself suggested. / Classsics, Near and Far East and Religious Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Judaica)
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Mission passion is lightning on the horizon anticipating rain : redemption transforms the Adventist church towards a dynamic missionary movementNtshangase, Israel Mbuso 11 1900 (has links)
The thesis proposes solutions for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Newcastle area
to perform Christ’s mission work effectively. It examines how mission could be meaningful
in contemporary society, which is challenging mission so gravely. The study challenges all
churches, including youth, women, men and clergy towards mission.
An analysis of a mission perspective is delineated, aware of the social contexts for mission
in Newcastle. The context of culture has been dealt with, encouraging the Church to be
culturally sensitive, and to use cultural means to reach people. God uses cultural means to
reveal himself. Evil cultural practices, for example, ancestral ‘worship’ and ‘talking to the
dead’ are exposed and denounced.
Bible readings promote mission in the Adventist Church. The teacher of the Bible is to study
it thoroughly, ensuring that he/she is able to proclaim the gospel. Creative teaching of the
Bible includes different levels of understanding, namely, a rote level, a recognition level, a
repetition level, an interactive and a realisation level. The gospel is to be applied in life.
Different hermeneutical approaches to the Bible are summarised, for example, a
postmodern approach.
Strategic planning regarding evangelism is vital. ‘Gift-based’ ministry would inspire all
believers to perform mission work according to people’s ability. All Christians should be
able to evangelise others, leading people as acknowledged sinners to accept Christ as
Saviour and Lord, and to establish the reign of God in society according to his justice.
The heart of the thesis is as follows:- The gospel of Christ is a missionary message to reach all people with the gospel
of salvation and societal renewal
- The church of Christ is a missional church, which stands and falls by its
missionary task to proclaim Christ as Saviour and his reign and justice as
ultimate in society / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)
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A great king above all gods : dominion and divine government in the theology of John OwenBaylor, Timothy Robert January 2016 (has links)
Scholarship has tended to depict John Owen as a “Reformed catholic” attempting a synthesis of Reformed principles with a largely Thomist doctrine of God. In this thesis, I argue that this depiction risks losing sight of those aspects of Owen's doctrine of God that are intended to support a distinctly Protestant account of the economy of grace. By an examination of the principles of divine government, I argue that Owen employs the theme of God's “dominion” in order to establish the freedom and gratuity of God's grace, and to resist theologies that might otherwise use the doctrine of creation to structure and norm God's government of creatures. In chapter one, I argue against prevailing readings of Owen's thought that his theology of the divine will is, in fact, “voluntarist” in nature, prioritizing God's will over his intellect in the determination of the divine decree. I show that Owen regards God's absolute dominion as an entailment of his ontological priority over creatures. Chapters two and three examine the character of God's dominion over creatures in virtue of their “two-fold dependence” upon him as both Creator and Lawgiver. Chapter four takes up Owen's theology of God's remunerative justice in the context of his covenant theology. I show here that his doctrine of divine dominion underwrites his critique of merit-theology and attempts to establish the gratuity of that supernatural end to which humans are destined. Finally, in chapter five, I examine the principles of God's mercy, expressed in the work of redemption, where I demonstrate how Owen's conception of divine dominion underwrites the freedom of God in election and his account of particular redemption.
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The representation of alterity : aspects of subjectivity in Schubert's second Moment musical and Wilde's 'The Nightingale and the Rose'Bushakevitz, Ammiel Issaschar 03 September 2010 (has links)
This study uncovers and interprets the representation of alterity in Schubert’s Moment musical in Aβ, op. 94 no. 2 (1828) and Wilde’s ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ from The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888). Furthermore, the study locates and contextually investigates analogies between Schubert’s representation of alterity and Wilde’s. There is a strong likelihood that Schubert was part of a Viennese subculture that was involved in illicit activities and dissident experimentation. Since Maynard Solomon published his essay ‘Franz Schubert and the Peacocks of Benvenuto Cellini’ in 1989, the possibility of Schubert’s homosexuality has received a vast amount of critical attention. Whatever his sexuality, his music has long been seen as containing distinctly feminine traits and subversive elements. Similarly to Schubert, Wilde’s homosexuality and resulting ostracism forms an essential aspect of his life, oeuvre and of subsequent and current Wilde studies. The way in which both Schubert and Wilde’s marginalisation and illicit activities lent a sense of alterity to their works is intriguing. Taking on the loose appearance of deconstructive readings, the analysis of Schubert’s work incorporates musical semiotics, while the analysis of Wilde’s fairy tale builds on ideas raised in the Schubert analysis. The deconstructive readings focus on the binary opposition between the concepts of redemption and defeat as found in Wilde’s fairy tale. The duality between redemption and defeat is shown to have particular resonance with the Romantic image of the artist as messiah and martyr. This study offers the hypothesis that the sense of alterity experienced by Schubert and Wilde is reflected in their works as a longing for the unattainable, a quest for redemption, and that the representation of this alterity is often subversive and dissident. Specific ways in which Schubert and Wilde represent alterity are by refusing climactic moments, by juxtaposing opposites, by symbolising homoeroticism, and by purposefully disobeying stylistic obligations. Copyright / Dissertation (MMus)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Music / unrestricted
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