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Justification and Good Works: A Study of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of JustificationChay, Justin 24 November 2011 (has links)
The doctrine of justification tells how the saving grace of God in Christ can be actualized in the believers. Because of the very importance of this doctrine, disputes broke out between Augustine and Pelagius, later in the medieval period, and most importantly during the Reformation period - which led to mutual condemnations and the division of the Western church. The church still does not have a unified voice in interpreting the doctrine despite recent ecumenical dialogues, which culminated in the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in 1999. / McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts; / Theology / PhD; / Dissertation;
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"Confident of Better Things": Assurance of Salvation in the Letter to the HebrewsCowan, Christopher Wade 14 December 2012 (has links)
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.
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The Sublimation of Pain and Sin: A Study of Johnsonian Happiness, Salvation, Virtue, and EternityYang, Su-ling 22 August 2007 (has links)
This thesis aims to examine Johnson¡¦s writings and argue his happiness is a state of eternity in the afterlife which results mainly from God¡¦s mercy and human beings¡¦ obedience, repentance and virtue (or good works). To prove my thesis, I need to study the foundation and essence of Johnson¡¦s salvation alongside his moral and religious thoughts. I thus argue, in Chapter One, that Johnson¡¦s early life has great influence upon him and his well-known spiritual anxiety serves as the main cause of his fear of death and as an important index in the study of Johnson¡¦s conditional salvation. Before probing into Johnson¡¦s salvation, I attempt in Chapter Two to expound religion in eighteenth-century England, especially Johnson¡¦s role as a religious man and a moralist. Both identities play crucial roles in analyzing Johnson¡¦s happiness. Johnson¡¦s morality is surely profoundly conditioned by the climate of social, religious and moral experience shared by his contemporaries in eighteenth-century England and can hardly be dissolved despite great care. His religious and moral thoughts are so large questions to approach, not to mention to answer them. Therefore, the treatment is necessarily selective. I will focus on the connection between Johnson¡¦s morality and his own Christian belief shown in his sermons and other genres of writings. Though Johnson is noticeably ambivalent towards his moral instruction at times, he never jumps the track of the core of his moral thinking: his happiness is of after-life. In Chapter Three and Chapter Four, I will do a close reading on Johnson¡¦s frequent discussion of happiness in his periodical essays and Oriental tale Rasselas and on that of salvation, virtue and eternity respectively with intent to argue that Johnson¡¦s happiness is largely supported by his belief in Christian¡¦s ideas of salvation and eternity.
Samuel Johnson in Rasselas voices the essence of happiness through Nekayah after a series of adventures and pursuit of happiness: ¡§To me, the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity¡¨ (Rasselas 418). This passage clearly marks that happiness of this life is unreliable and the quest will be not only aimless but endless. To assure everlasting happiness, one ought to aspire to the afterlife by strenuous efforts in this life for eternity. Furthermore, I will show evidence from Johnson¡¦s life and words to strengthen my presumption that eternity forwards the realization of happiness. The eternal state of afterlife pacifies Johnson¡¦s spiritual anxiety in this life and enhances the charm of the world coming after. This is quite at odds with Johnson¡¦s fear of death; however, it pinpoints how a devout Christian struggles for not merely salvation but rewards from God after death. As such, I conclude my thesis in Chapter Five by showing how the intertexture of Johnson¡¦s life, religion, morality and literature helps him accept his imperfection, physically wretched and mentally disturbed, and then strive for perfection, that is, an elevated state of life in another world.
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The Sinner's Prayer: An Historic and Theological AnalysisChitwood, Paul January 2001 (has links)
This dissertation is an historical and theological analysis of the Sinner's
Prayer. Chapter 1 introduces the topic, provides an example of the Sinner's Prayer, and
proposes the importance of this study. The methodology and limitations of the study are
also discussed.
Chapter 2 traces the history of evangelism from New Testament times.
Significant movements and persons are discussed as they have importance for the
development of a theology and methodology of evangelism that lead the way to the
introduction of the Sinner's Prayer. Gospel tracts receive attention because they are
representative of the popular approaches to evangelism. The case presented is that the
Sinner's Prayer originated in the early twentieth century as a result of efforts to simplify
and reproduce methods in evangelism. Billy Graham is given primary credit for
popularizing the prayer.
Chapter 3 provides a theological analysis of the Sinner's Prayer. The doctrine
of prayer is discussed. Biblical soteriology receives significant attention. Theological
objections that have been raised regarding the Sinner's Prayer are also discussed.
Theological correctives are offered to those who will continue to use the prayer as a tool
in evangelism.
Chapter 4 discusses the use of methods in evangelism, noting limitations,
dangers, and ethical considerations. This chapter stresses the need for reform in the way
the Sinner's Prayer is typically used.
This work contends that the Sinner's Prayer is of recent origin. It reflects the
theological and methodological shift in evangelism that occurred during the nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. Theologically, most versions of the Sinner's Prayer fail to
reflect the biblical directives for salvation. In the manner in which it is typically use, the
prayer has become a barrier to effective evangelism. If evangelists will continue to make
use of the prayer, reform is critical.
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William Tyndale and the Epistle to the Romans his polemic against the soteriology and ecclesiology of the Roman Catholic Church /Hurlbutt, Bryan F. January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-63).
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"Take up your cross" did Jesus call for radical repentance as a condition of salvation? /Danaha, Gregory M. January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Denver Seminary, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-238).
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Developing a delayed-response invitation program with evangelistic preaching aimed at the salvation of unregenerate church membersJin, Sung Yong. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (D. Min.)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-152).
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Soteriology of the Bantu in the thought of John HickMafuta, Willy L. January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-137).
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Adamic redemption in American literature: 1945 to the presentFrench, John Thatcher January 1974 (has links)
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La notion de salut dans Le salut de l'Irlande de Jacques Ferron /Giroux-Leutenegger, Suzanne. January 1975 (has links)
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