Dissertations / Theses: 'Jacques Contributions in theology'

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Dugdale, Antony L. (Antony Lee). "Silent prayers : Derridean negativity and negative theology." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69603.

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Jacques Derrida's lecture entitled "How to Avoid Speaking: Denials", given in Jerusalem in 1986, responds both to those who subsume his project within negative theology and to those that ignore their interrelation. The former fail to see that while negative theology is oriented towards ineffable union with the divine, deconstruction radically denies the possibility of this union. The latter, however, read negative theology solely in the context of this ineffable union, ignoring the possibility of a second apophatic language whose critique of language is itself so radical that it engages in a paradoxcical self-critique that denies, if not union itself, at least the possibility of speaking about union. This second, concurrent language has a distinct family resemblance to Derrida's own deconstructive project, for it embraces the radically negative denials of differance. This study will first present a critique of those who offer either an affirmative or negative answer to the question "Is deconstruction a form of negative theology?", arguing instead that Derrida denies all answers. Its final step will analyze the similarities between negative theology's escape from the silence of pure denial--prayer--and Derrida's own means of escaping the silence summoned when he asks: "How to avoid speaking?"

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Glick, Shank Reuben. "J. Lawrence Burkholder's contributions to Mennonite theology and ethics." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Dunham, Paul L. "The meaning of technology a theology of technique in Jacques Ellul /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2287.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2002.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xxvi, 286 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-286).

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Collins, John Francis. "Foundations in practical theology: A critical appraisal of contemporary contributions." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2013. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/9f4fa0c15b580cf58744c65b1fe7f1a7132d3db70e7495937a3e4b036868f710/6675300/COLLINS2013.pdf.

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Practical theology is an emerging discipline with divergent understandings of what practical theology is and a plethora of theological methods on offer. Indicative of the nascent state of the discipline is the lack of an agreed-upon name. At times the prefixes “pastoral” and “practical” are used interchangeably; at other times the prefixes are sharply differentiated. Underpinning the current thesis is the belief that for practical theology to be taken seriously it needs to have a clear definition, and to know the manner whereby it relates to other theological disciplines and to the human sciences...

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Anderson, Peter Micah. "The Presence of the Peaceable Kingdom| Shaping Christian Social Ethics from Jacques Ellul and Stanley Hauerwas." Thesis, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10274575.

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The need for holistic solutions to diverse problems presents the church with an opportunity for a social witness shaped by the gospel. As a step toward accomplishing this end, this dissertation aspires to establish a refreshed approach for understanding Christian social engagement as fundamental expressions of the character of God through the virtuous witness of the church. To begin, chapter 1 contains the introduction to the dissertation, beginning with a statement of the thesis, namely, the church embodies a prophetic social ethic in the world through presence, possibility, and place as expressions of the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love. Following the articulation of this thesis will be definitions of “faith,” “hope”, and “love.” A proper understanding of these terms is crucial to the dissertation, and each will be elaborated further as the project progresses. This chapter closes with an overview of the project by explaining research methodology and brief chapter summaries.

Chapter 2 begins the explanation of the proposed virtuous social ethic: presence. Drawing together particular contributions from Ellul and Hauerwas to reveal how Christian faith enacted in social ethics requires the faithful ecclesial witness of God's people in the world. The goal of this chapter is to unpack, develop, and synthesizing particular emphases from the theological ethics developed by Ellul and Hauerwas. The resulting combination strengthens each respective position to encourage healthy Christian social presence from a disciplined theology of faithful presence.

Significantly, Ellul and Hauerwas encourage Christian social witness empowered by the revelational foundations of Scripture and biblical community. As well, the enduring witness of the church in the face of social instability, coercion, and injustice remains the peaceful paradigm of Jesus Christ. Only through genuine faith granted by the sovereign choice of God is the church able to maintain a prophetic and incarnational presence in the world. This chapter concludes by developing a theology of faithful presence revealed in the disciplined faithfulness of God's holy, redeemed people.

Chapter 3 moves from presence to possibility. The first part of this chapter explores how Ellul and Hauerwas see Christian hope driving and shaping the redeemed community. That is, joining Ellul's hopeful Christian freedom with Hauerwas' eschatological ethic encourages the church to embrace a broader vision for moral action. Such a living hope drives the Christian community to seek the substantive social good shaped by the dynamic awareness of God's lordship over all creation.

Chapter 4 moves to the third part of the proposed Christian social ethic: place. Through a loving relationship with the world, the church does not neglect cultural needs nor capitulate to social pressures but practices a dynamic commitment to Christ through enacting God's love. Christian social ethics are thwarted before they begin without an effort to know and understand context.

The first part of this section examines the way Ellul and Hauerwas describe the love exemplified by the church in relationship with God and the world. Specifically, Ellul's emphasis on living in relationship with the world complements Hauerwas' commitment to truthful community and Christian presence among the sick and suffering. The second part of this chapter further unpacks the lived significance of the loving God's world. Ellul's dialectic social ethic emphasizing man's need for divine intervention, Hauerwas points to the practiced presence of Jesus as the church's path to loving social witness. As a synthesis of the first two sections of this chapter, the final section explores how the Christian living in loving relationship with the world demands a rich theology of place emphasizing personal relationship, apologetic disposition, and temporary expressions.

Chapter 5 will wrap up this study by providing review, final analysis, and areas for further study. The church has a divine responsibility to embody the goodness and character of God in the world. Yet, the church often reacts in extremes by cultural capitulation or sectarianism. In light of this, the church must develop a balanced approach to the cultivation and practice of Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love. Even more, in the face of social marginalization, the church must maintain a creative yet distinctly Christian approach to social ethics. The hope of this study is to provide a constructive analysis of proposals made by Jacques Ellul and Stanley Hauerwas in order to empower the church to rightly embody the character of God for the glory of God and the good of the world. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.)

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Bertozzi, Alberto. "The language of subjectivity postmodernity, Lacan, Levinas, theology /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Prior, Matthew Thomas. "Hearing the word in an age of technique : the theology of Jacques Ellul." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752801.

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George, Michael. "Ethics and imagination: Contributions from the work of Paul Ricoeur to Bernard Lonergan's intentionality analysis." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6854.

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Moll, Clarissa C. B. "Lessons from strong women womanist contributions to a theology of motherhood /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Tan, Kang San. "An examination of dual religious belonging theology : contributions to evangelical missiology." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=229438.

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Dual religious belonging is a phenomenon of individuals who identify themselves as followers of more than one religious tradition. People of faiths may find themselves in different degrees of dual or multi-religious conditions due to growing up in inter-religious marriages of their parents, exposure to multi-religious traditions or inter-religious encounters. The thesis of this study is to argue for the legitimacy of “Dual Religious Belonging” for Christians coming from Asian religious backgrounds through an assessment of the threefold theology of religions. It concludes that “Universal Access Exclusivism” can be the best model for sustaining dual religious belonging from an Evangelical perspective. The study seeks to answer the following primary research questions: 1) Theologically, can Evangelical Christians belong to more than one religious tradition? What are the arguments forwarded for dual religious belonging and how do Christians develop a theological assessment of such phenomena, particularly for Christians who hold on to the finality of Jesus Christ for salvation? 2) Within the threefold model of theology of religions, which theology can best sustain dual religious belonging for Evangelical Christians? The study offers a comparative examination of the pluralist theology of Paul Knitter, the inclusivist theology of Raimon Panikkar and the exclusivist theology of Harold Netland. The secondary research question is what are some contributions of dual religious belonging theology toward an Evangelical contextual missiology? Specifically, some contributions toward “insider movements” debates and Christian discipleship for those coming from different faith traditions will be considered. The study seeks to, first, offer a critique against pluralist and inclusivist theologies for multiple and double religious belonging, and second, forward a proposal for dual religious belonging theology for followers of Jesus Christ coming from mixed religious backgrounds from an Evangelical perspective.

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Johnson, Steve. "John Wesley's liturgical theology : his sources, unique contributions and synthetic practices." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/john-wesleys-liturgical-theology-his-sources-unique-contributions-and-synthetic-practices(c82a6483-2390-465d-b561-64432067cb83).html.

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John Wesley’s Liturgical Theology: His Sources, Unique Contributions and Synthetic PracticesSubmitted to the University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy2016Steve JohnsonAbstractJohn Wesley was an eighteenth century priest in the Church of England who was best known for his leadership of the Methodist movement. His ministry was filled with tension, as he sought to maintain his affinity for the worship of the Church of England while introducing liturgical innovations such as the watchnight, lovefeast, covenant renewal and preaching services. A question emerges: How did he hold these very diverse patterns of worship together? Why was it so important to him? What was it about his liturgical theology that encouraged and enabled him to lead the Methodists in both traditional and innovative liturgical patterns? Wesley refused to be confined to either his inherited liturgical practices or his innovative liturgies. This thesis seeks to offer a solution as to why. This thesis will assess Wesley’s liturgical texts in their historical and pastoral context in light of Wesley’s commitment to a ‘religion of the heart.’ Chapter one will seek to establish ‘heart religion’ and the restoration of the image of God as foundational for Wesley, and establish that this foundation was worked out through his liturgical theology and practice. With ‘heart religion’ or Wesley’s ‘affectional’ theology as a hermeneutical lens, this thesis will evaluate the sources, texts and contributions of each part of Wesley’s worship corpus, making specific reference to the way each aspect of Methodist worship contributed to the restoration of the Image of God in humanity. Wesley’s incorporation of the traditional liturgical resources of the Church of England, specifically the Book of Common Prayer, and his own adaptation of the BCP, the Sunday Service, will be examined in chapters two and three. Chapter four will explore Wesley’s own unique form of catechism, Instructions for Children, and its use in character formation. Largely unexplored, Wesley’s Instructions emerges as an integral piece of his liturgical theology. Chapter five will consider the watchnight, lovefeast, covenant and preaching services, specifically addressing how each service was developed and how it contributed to the formation and manifestation of Christian affections among the Methodists. Wesley’s ultimate goal in worship was the honouring of God and the edification of the Church. He believed that God was honoured when the Church was edified, and the church was best edified when God’s people began to manifest Christian affections such as love, joy, humility and gratefulness. When these affections were practiced consistently, they were habituated into holy tempers. This development of holy tempers was the objective of the Christian life for Wesley. This was the goal and purpose of John Wesley’s liturgical theology.

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Magee, Neal E. Hamner M. Gail. "Remembering to forget theological tropologies of confession and disavowal (Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Slavoj Zizek, Jacques Derrida) /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Brown, Derek. "Decisions: Political Theology and the Challenges of Postmodernity." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109127.

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Thesis advisor: Andrew Prevot
Decisions: Political Theology and the Challenges of Postmodernity, argues that political theologies are both partially responsible for and responsive to the intrinsically related problems of racism, capitalism, and essentialist metaphysical thinking. Relying on dialectical materialist and post-structuralist theories, Decisions critically engages a wide range of classical and contemporary figures such as Karl Marx, Søren Kierkegaard, Carl Schmitt, Jacques Derrida, James Cone, Chantal Mouffe, Cornel West, Martin Hågglund, and Karl ove Knausgaard. These engagements are attentive to not only the particular theoretical and political decisions any one thinker makes, but also to the ways in which “decision” is itself understood as an important theoretical and political category. Although “decisionism” has become a popular motif in contemporary political theology, the concept remains under theorized. This is unfortunate, because contemporary ontological racisms and exploitative market structures aim to prevent political decisions: ontological racism decides in advance the essential “racial” characteristics of a person and market economies ensure that the distribution of goods is “decided” by the so- called invisible hand of the market. Moreover, both racisms and capitalism can imply an underlying modern metaphysics of substance and essence. While the postmodern critique of metaphysics is often read as a challenge to religion, this reading suggests that postmodernity presents an opportunity for the reemergence of an historical and politically engaged form of religion. Such an emancipatory and non-metaphysical approach can be found throughout various religious traditions, but is especially prominent amongst black political theologians working out of the Christian tradition
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2020
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology

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Stockdale, Todd. "Ecclesiological contributions of emerging churches for their parent communities." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8951.

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This thesis examines the contributions that emerging churches make to their parent communities’ understanding of church. As a work in practical theology, it is focuses on the theology that is deeply embedded within the everyday language, symbols, and practices of ordinary individuals and communities. Thus, the research in this thesis centres on two concrete emerging communities and employs qualitative methods to examine and analyse the actual practices, values, and beliefs of community participants—treating the data generated through the investigation of these emerging churches as theological material. The thesis is structured in six chapters, beginning in chapter one with a preliminary sketch of the wider emerging church phenomenon, a brief account of the researcher’s own earlier experiences with emerging communities, and an initial overview of the research already conducted on emerging church. Following this introduction, the thesis outlines the research methodology in chapter two, taking an approach to practical theology that moves beyond the prevalent models of correlation and recognizes the embodied nature of theology. Identified in this thesis as ‘theology in the vernacular’ or ‘local theologies’, this approach provides a mechanism for bringing two emerging churches into an impactful encounter with their parent communities’ understanding of church. This encounter unfolds through the remaining four chapters of the thesis. Chapter three provides the ecclesial context for this research by outlining the history and development of emerging church, and locating the two emerging communities within that narrative. Chapters four and five offer an in-depth portrayal and analysis of these two communities by depicting their ecclesial contexts and historical development, their weekly patterns, their physical and online spaces, their worship gatherings, the profiles and personal narratives of their participants, and the core practices of these communities. The findings from these separate sites of research are brought together in chapter six, where five key ecclesiological features are drawn from the common patterns present in these emerging churches. These are: (1) the prevalence of an ecclesial eclecticism, (2) the carving out of a space for theological discussion and intellectual enquiry, (3) a resolute fondness for their local cities, (4) the vital nature of the weekly gathering, and (5) a robustly verbal orientation in the worship gatherings. By bringing these five ecclesiological features into an encounter with the parent tradition of these emerging churches in chapter six, the contribution that these emerging churches are making to their parent communities understanding of church is explored. This thesis argues that these emerging communities are offering their parent communities two alternative ways of understanding church. The first is an understanding of church as a space for ecclesial borrowing and blending—which impacts on the formulation of a community’s ecclesial identity. The second is an understanding of church as a space for discussion, enquiry, and doubt—which impacts on the nature of belonging in ecclesial communities.

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May, David Keith. "Individual and collective human rights| The contributions of Jacques Maritain, Gustavo Gutierrez, and Martha Nussbaum." Thesis, The Florida State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3564926.

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Abstract The proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations on December 10, 1948 gave birth to the contemporary human rights movement. Despite the worldwide influence the idea of human rights has enjoyed, the concept of human rights has been plagued by a number of criticisms. Among the most pervasive and persistent criticisms of human rights are that they represent an individualist viewpoint, and they are a relative product of Western society that are hardly universal. One purpose of this dissertation is to challenge these criticisms. However, in recent decades the idea of human rights has been expanded past its original individual focus to incorporate the idea of collective, or group rights. The juxtaposition of universal, individual rights with particular, collective rights raises anew the issues of individualism and universalism in the human rights debate. In this dissertation, I compare the work of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, the Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, and the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum in order to yield a contextually sensitive natural law approach to human rights that will serve as a common justificatory basis for individual and collective human rights. This common justificatory basis is capable of addressing the questions of individualism and universalism generated by the theoretical tensions generated by the juxtaposition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), which enshrines individual, universal rights, and the more recent United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), which enshrines more particularistic, group rights.

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Lehman, Mark L. "The literary study of Esther showing contributions to the book's historicity and theology /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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McIntosh, Alastair Iain. "Some contributions of liberation theology to community empowerment in Scottish land reform 1991-2003." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.479459.

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Schindler, Angela N. "Unique contributions for oboe in the classical period Jacques Christian Michel Widerkehr's Duos for oboe and piano and François Devienne's Six sonatas for oboe and basso continuo /." connect to online resource, 2006. http://www.unt.edu/etd/all/Dec2006/Open/schindler_angela/index.htm.

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Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2006.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Accompanied by 4 recitals, recorded Apr. 3, 2000, Nov. 13, 2000, Mar. 11, 2002, and Sept. 25, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-51).

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Hoang, Linh N. "The nature and grace controversy at the mid-century the contributions of Henri de Lubac and Karl Rahner /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Chan, Sze Chi. "God in dialectic with human culture : a critical examination of the theology of culture of Jacques Ellul." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1997. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/god-in-dialectic-with-human-culture--a-critical-examination-of-the-theology-of-culture-of-jacques-ellul(2be5d8fe-fad7-46fa-89dd-ccbf1bf25228).html.

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Klauser, Sylvia M. "Whose ethos? Whose ethics? : the contributions of Anabaptist theology and ethics to contemporary biomedical ethics." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30363.

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This dissertation argues for the inclusion of Radical Reformation Theology into the discussion of contemporary biomedical ethics. Historically, Anabaptist/Mennonite theology has not had a place in the development of biomedical ethics. Catholic moral theology and various definitions of Protestant theological ethics have shaped the field of biomedical ethics alongside several important philosophical theories. A combination of such theological and philosophical theories of biomedical ethics has been the result of the Belmont Report and has later been expanded into The Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics with its focus on autonomy, beneficence, maleficence, and justice. However, the empirical research among Anabaptist/Mennonite physicians shows that such theories do not make adequate reference to Anabaptist/Mennonite theology and ethics and its approach to agent-based virtue ethics. This theology emphasises servanthood as the model for the physician, peace and non-violent justice as the modus operandi for this servanthood model, and community as the sustaining and sending forum for such servanthood. If these perspectives were included in the contemporary discussion of biomedical ethics, the virtuous agent would be enabled to embody a reconciling relationship- the physician with the patient and vice versa. In Anabaptist/Mennonite theology, agency formation has high priority and happens through the model of observation-participation-embodiment. Theology is therefore observed, participated in, and embodied by the individual agent within the setting of community. Such an agent-focused approach that seeks consensus in biomedical ethics would help to balance a principled approach that seeks to find the lowest common denominator. This agent-based approach could also aid in the process of uncovering the blind spots of contemporary biomedical ethics such as injustices in health care access and resource allocation, discriminatory policy-making, and the favouring of a largely utilitarian-deontological pragmatism in biomedical ethics.

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Nordling, Cherith Fee. "'The way things truly are' : the methodology and relational ontology of Elizabeth A. Johnson." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13524.

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This thesis seeks to examine and critique the transcendental feminist methodology and Trinitarian theology of Elizabeth A. Johnson. We will focus on four central, recurring themes that emerge out of her corpus, paying particular attention to how she assimilates these in She Who Is. They are: Johnson's feminist methodology and epistemology, her transcendental anthropology and epistemology, her panentheistic, relational ontology and her feminist 'Trinitarian' God-talk. The thesis will consist of four chapters, which will focus on these four main themes, and a conclusion. Chapter one will look specifically at the Johnson's modern, Catholic reformist feminist methodology and epistemology, which prioritise both the category of experience and the ontological principle of relation. The chapter will conclude with a brief summary of a few feminists who have defined their theological positions in direct opposition to Barth's view of Trinitarian revelation and language, and compare them to Johnson. Chapter Two will deal specifically with Johnson's embrace of Karl Rahner's transcendental metaphysics and her attempt to integrate this anthropology and ontological epistemology with feminist anthropology and epistemology. We will also highlight the various 'dilemmas of difference' Johnson faces in her use of conflicting appeals to experience. Chapter Three will analyse and critique her panentheistic, relational ontology with specific attention paid to her re-schematization of traditional Trinitarian theology and Christology. Barth's theology is used in part to critique Johnson's assertions at this point. In Chapter Four, we analyse Johnson's 'analogical' and 'symbolic' approach to God-talk to determine whether it is safeguarded from univocity, as she intends. We also raise-the question of whether she is kept from the potential equivocity that threatens her agnostic approach. In conclusion, we will summarise our response to the naturally emerging questions of the thesis, assess Johnson's approach overall and raise whatever questions we believe still remain.

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Karam, Peter. "Jacques Derrida and theology Derrida's grammatology in relationship to the theological methods of David Tracy and Mark Taylor /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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REIS, JAIR LUIS. "THE ACCEPTANCE OF FAITH IN A MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT: CONTRIBUTIONS OF KARL RAHNERS THEOLOGY FOR CONTEMPORARY BELIEVING." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15458@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
A presente tese versa sobre o tema da acolhida da fé no contexto multicultural. Pretende-se evidenciar as contribuições oferecidas pela teologia de Karl Rahner para o crer hoje. Para tanto, acredita-se que seja pertinente a chave de leitura da inculturação da fé. Com esse intuito e fundamentada na teologia do autor, essa pesquisa visa destacar os elementos indispensáveis para pensar a fé e a inculturação. Deste modo, coube num primeiro momento elucidar em que consiste o diálogo entre fé e cultura, para em seguida, com base no método antropológicoteológico transcendental de Rahner e na perspectiva de sua compreensão de Revelação e fé, assinalar como sua reflexão ajuda a pensar tal relação. São, então, fundamentais as noções centrais do seu pensamento, tais como a de: Deusmistério e sua autocomunicação, a da experiência que a pessoa faz de si e de Deus, a da intrínseca relação entre fé e vida, a da relação entre a dimensão existencial e sobrenatural da Revelação e da Fé, e, por fim, a da unidade do amor ao ser humano e a Deus. Do mesmo modo, merecem destaque os diferentes aspectos inerentes à fé, como: a razão, a emoção, a dimensão espiritual... Neste âmbito, as diferentes culturas mostram que tais dimensões completam-se e são determinantes para a unidade da fé. Igualmente determinante é a verdade de que é no bojo da nossa cultura que se experimenta Deus e é nela que Ele se revela para nós. Rahner, assim, enfatiza a estreita relação entre fé e experiência e atribui um papel indispensável à mistagogia. Ou seja, o processo de, com base na experiência humana, conduzir a pessoa ao mistério indisponível.
This thesis addresses the theme of acceptance of faith in a multicultural context. We intend to highlight the contributions of Karl Rahner’s theology for contemporary believing, and therefore we consider the conception of inculturation to be appropriate. The research then aims to highlight the essential elements to be taken into account when it comes to thinking faith and inculturation. We firstly clarify what constitutes the dialogue between faith and culture. Then we focus on the author’s understanding on such relation on the basis of his transcendentalanthropological method in theology and his understanding of revelation and faith. Consequently, the fundamental notions of his thinking are central. We refer to notions like the one of God as a mystery and his self-communication, the personal experience of the self and God, the intrinsic relationship between faith and life, the relationship between the existential and supernatural dimension of Revelation and faith, and the unity of love of man and God. Likewise, we note the different aspects related to faith, such as: reason, emotion and spiritual dimension. In this sense, the different cultures show that such dimensions are complementary and crucial to the unity of faith. Equally crucial is the truth that it is at the core of our culture that God is experienced and this is exactly where God reveals himself to us. Rahner, therefore, emphasizes the close relationship between faith and experience and says that mystagogy plays a vital role in the process of guiding the man to the unavailable mystery, based on the proper human experience.

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Sidiropoulou, Chryssi. "Wittgenstein, the self and religious life." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683124.

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璩理. "馬丁・路德論律法與福音 = Martin Luther on law and gospel." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2004. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/548.

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陸紅堅. "卡爾・巴特神學中三一進路的立約恩典觀 = Trinitarian understanding of grace as covenant in the theology of Karl Barth." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2010. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1143.

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Lupo, Joshua Scott. "Can We Be Forgiven?: On "Impossible" and "Communal" Forgiveness in Contemporary Philosophy and Theology." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/rs_theses/27.

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This essay traces two trends in current philosophical and theological debates concerning forgiveness. One, advocated by Vladimir Jankélévitch and Jacques Derrida, I label “impossible” forgiveness. The second, advanced by John Milbank and L. Gregory Jones, I label “communal” forgiveness. I explore and critically examine each of these positions in the first two sections of the thesis. In the last section of the thesis I examine a recent conversation amongst religious ethicists against the background of the theoretical conversations described in the first half of the essay. Bringing the theoretical conversation together with the religious ethicists’ conversation, I argue that whether or not we embrace forgiveness depends in large part in what tradition, religious or secular, we place ourselves.

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Lee, Hyo-Dong. "Jürgen Moltmann as a biblical theologian : political hermeneutic of scripture as foundational for ecological theology." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23225.

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This dissertation explores the way Jurgen Moltmann's biblical hermeneutic informs his salvation-historical approach to ecological theology. Coming from the post-Barthian camp of German Protestant theology, Moltmann has inherited Karl Barth's theological critique of the technological-scientific spirit of modernity. Moltmann differs from Barth, however, in the fact that his underlying preoccupation with the question of theodicy leads him to interpret Barth's theological critique of modernity from within the perspective of modernity's victims. This he accomplishes by retrieving the biblical tradition of eschatologia crucis. Moltmann's political hermeneutic of scripture, which he develops on the basis of the eschatologia crucis, vindicates his salvation-historical approach to nature by offering a substantial critique of the modern techno-scientific spirit. Furthermore, it enables Moltmann's ecological theology to put the crisis of modernity within the broader horizon of the problem of radical evil, thereby offering a profounder hope for the liberation of the suffering creation called for by the WCC theme "Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation."

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Schindler, Angela N. "Unique Contributions for Oboe in the Classical Period: Jacques Christian Michel Widerkehr's Duos for Oboe and Piano and François Devienne's Six Sonatas for Oboe and Basso Continuo." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5435/.

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Sonatas for oboe in the classical period are classified as 'solo sonatas.' These 'solo sonatas,' which originated in the baroque period, consist of a melody instrument and basso continuo. Solo sonatas for oboe, which account for a sizeable repertory in the baroque period, continued to be composed in the classical period but in the baroque style. The basso continuo setting for sonatas gradually disappeared toward the end of the period, developing into the duo sonata in which a solo instrument and piano played an equal role in presenting melodic material. While the fully developed classical sonata was written for piano alone, and duos for violin and piano and cello and piano, the sonatas for oboe did not make this transition. The duo sonatas for oboe and piano by Jacques Christian Michel Widerkehr are exceptions to the baroque style 'solo sonatas.' Widerkehr's sonatas are the only true 'duo sonatas' for oboe and piano written in the classical period. François Devienne's sonatas deserve special recognition as the only 'solo sonatas' for oboe written predominantly in the classical style. In addition to presenting an overview of sonatas for oboe, biographical information on Widerkehr and Devienne, current state of research of Widerkehr's sonatas, changes in performance venue and instrumental design of the oboe, an examination of Widerkehr's Duos for Oboe and Piano in E Minor and C Major will follow. Examples of classical style elements and procedures are identified in each analysis with an emphasis on the duo setting. Devienne's Sonata in G Major, Op. 71, No. 1, serves as an example of his six oboe sonatas. Although the work is composed in a basso continuo setting, examples of classical style characteristics are identified in an analysis of the three movements.

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LIMA, MARIA JANDIRA CORTES DE NOVAIS. "A MILITANT MYSTIC: REFLECTIONS ON THE POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS OF DIETRICH BONHOEFFER FOR A THEOLOGY AND PASTORAL ACTION OF INTEGRATION IN THE BRAZILIAN BAPTIST CHURCH." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=11718@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
O trabalho caracteriza o dualismo no protestantismo brasileiro. Com base na análise da vida e obra Dietrich Bonhoeffer apresenta estratégias capazes de iluminar a prática da Igreja Batista no país. Primeiramente apresenta- se o problema que instigou a pesquisa: os efeitos prejudiciais do dualismo para a propagação do Evangelho. Afirma-se, também, a necessidade de uma visão integrada do ser humano que resulte em prática e teologia que considerem a inseparabilidade entre mística (vida voltada para o transcendente) e militância (vida inserida e atuante no mundo). Em seguida, trata-se do processo e estratégias pedagógicas de penetração dualista no cristianismo e da formação da teologia e da doutrina batista brasileira. Por fim, o estudo da reflexão teológica e experiência pessoal de Bonhoeffer, procura extrair maneiras de articular as dimensões espiritual e prática da vida cristã e de, assim, informar maneiras renovadas de um proceder cristão que supere o dualismo. Desse estudo, cinco pontos foram tomados como pistas para essa superação: o amor a Deus e ao próximo; a inserção da Igreja no mundo; a Igreja tomada como comunidade viva; a visão ecumênica e a dimensão ética da fé.
This work characterizes dualism in Brazilian Protestantism. Based on an analysis of the life and works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, it presents strategies able to shine some light on the practice of the Brazilian Baptist Church in the country. Firstly, the research problem is presented: the harmful effects of dualism on the spread of the Gospel. The need for an integrated perspective of the human being, one that results in a practice and a theology that consider the inseparability between mysticism (life oriented to the transcendent) and militancy (life inserted and active in the world), is also affirmed. Next, the process and pedagogical strategies through which dualism penetrated Christianity and the formation of Brazilian Baptist theology and doctrine are discussed. Finally, the study of the theological reflection and personal experience of Bonhoeffer aims at gathering ways to articulate spiritual and practical dimensions of Christian life and, therefore, at offering renewed forms of Christian practice that surpass dualism. Out of this study five suggestions are given for overcoming dualism: love for God and the neighbor, insertion of the church in the world, the church taken as a living community, ecumenical vision, and, the ethical dimension of faith.

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Blair, Paul S. "Figura rerum : 'the pattern of the glory' : the theological contributions of Charles Williams." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6364.

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This thesis seeks to show that Charles Williams makes a significant contribution to theology, and it demonstrates the nature of that contribution. A pattern of theological themes centering on the Incarnation, emphasizing the humanity of Christ, is repeated throughout his works. For Williams, human beings are images of the coinherent Godhead. His theological anthropology further develops through his understanding of imaging, as shown for instance in the Incarnation, and in Dante's characterization of Beatrice as a God bearer. His view of images is built from Coleridge's understanding of the nature of a symbol. This picture of imaging is widely applied, first and foremost to relationships of love, seen as potential incarnate images of grace. Williams seeks to extend his picture to all relationships and, further, to whatever man must do to go beyond himself to an encounter with God. He believes that man is responsible for his brother, in practice by bearing his brother's burdens, with substitutionary acts of vicarious love. A further part of his thinking then views people as living in coinherent relationships, and the universe as a web of coinherent relations. He draws his examples of natural coinherent relations from the world of commerce with its exchange and substitution of labors and from the child living within its mother, and builds a picture of what he calls the City, a broader coinherent society. Coinherence begins and flows from the Trinity and the Incarnation and then is found in relationships between God and man: in the Church, in the future City of God, and in all Creation. The Fall brings about the breakdown of the coinherence of God and man and man and man, and that breakdown is a central characteristic of sin. Williams believes that a regenerated coinherence in Christ brings about a renewal of mankind.

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Belambo, Bedji Don-Jean. "La réception de la théorie de l'évolution dans la théologie catholique du XXe siècle : positions du Magistère et contributions des théologiens Gustave Martelet, Jean-Michel Maldamé et Jacques Arnould." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013STRAK015.

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Le Magistère catholique a accueilli la théorie de l’évolution et a reconnu sa valeur. L’encyclique Humani Generis en constitue le moment-clé. Mais le Magistère ne va pas loin. Il refuse de sacrifier les points forts de l’anthropologie chrétienne traditionnelle sur l’autel de l’évolution. Il insiste sur la création directe de l’âme humaine par Dieu. Quelques théologiens catholiques, comme G. Martelet, J.-M. Maldamé et J. Arnould, voient la nécessité d’articuler les discours théologiques et les acquis de la théorie de l’évolution, où la conceptualité de l’émergence est dominante ; une démarche qui repose sur l’idée que si Dieu est unique, la vérité de sa révélation ne saurait s’opposer à la vérité manifestée par le monde. Ce travail veut cerner les prises de position du Magistère, de Pie XII à Jean-Paul II. Il se propose aussi d’explorer les apports des trois théologiens dans le travail d’approfondissement de la théologie de la création, de montrer comment leurs réflexions contribuent à l’intelligence de la spécificité humaine et de l’action de Dieu dans la création. Les acquis scientifiques contribuent au progrès de notre connaissance de l’univers et de l’homme. Il en va de la compréhension de l’action de Dieu dans le monde. Celle-ci cesse de se penser à partir des schèmes mécaniques où le Créateur apparaît comme un ingénieur cosmique ; elle se dit en termes d’accompagnement des possibles inscrits dans l’intime de l’être. Le moins que nous puissions dire est que la Bible s’intéresse moins au passé de l’humain qu’à son origine. Selon la Bible, être humain, c’est répondre à l’appel de Dieu et appel de l’humanité en termes de responsabilité. C’est cela être à l’image de Dieu
The Catholic Magisterium welcomed the theory of evolution and recognizes its value. The encyclical Humani Generis constitutes its key moment. However, the Magisterium went no further. It declined to sacrifice the cornerstone of traditional Christian anthropology on the altar of evolutionary theory. It insists on the direct creation of the human soul par God. A few theologians like G. Martelet, J.-M. Maldamé and J. Arnould, saw the need to articulate this theological discourse and the advances of evolutionary theory, where the conceptuality of emergence dominates ; an approach that is based on the idea that if God is unique then the truth of is revelation would by no means oppose to the truth showed by the world. The present study attempts to grasp the stance taken by the Magisterium, from Pius XII to John-Paul II. It explores the contribution of the three mentioned theologians to a deeper reflection on the theology of creation, on how their work has contributed to the understanding of the human identity and God’s action within creation. The scientific knowledge contributes to the improvement of our awareness of the Universe and mankind. Indeed, the understanding of God’s action in the world is at stake. It is not considered according to mechanical patterns where the Creator is described as a cosmic engineer. It is more represented in terms of support and arousing of the potential within the innermost being. The least we can say is that the Bible is not as interested about the past of mankind but rather about its origin. According to the Bible, answering the call of God and the one of mankind in terms of responsibility defines what being human is. That is what being in the image of God

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梁媛媛. "卡爾・巴特神學人學的本體論意義 : 在耶穌基督裡的整體性和具體性 = Ontological meaning of Karl Barth's theological anthropology : wholeness and concreteness in Jesus Christ." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2009. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1049.

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Warner, David Brian. "John Henry Newman's idea of a Catholic academy : contributions from his life and work towards a theology of education, with reference to recent documents of the Catholic Church." Thesis, n.p, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Scaringi, Paul A. "Freedom and the 'creative act' in the writings of Nikolai Berdiaev : an evaluation in light of Jürgen Moltmann's theology of freedom." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/443.

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This project revisits the work of Nikolai Berdiaev, one of the first Russian Silver Age religious philosophers to be widely read in the West. The focus of this research is his thought on freedom and the ‘creative act’. We will argue that Berdiaev’s vision of freedom contains two types of freedom – a freedom understood within the created order and a freedom ‘outside’ of creation. It will be shown that in the former type, the reader finds a nuanced and insightful multi-layered conception of human freedom, which offers intriguing possibilities for exploring freedom and its implications for humanity. It will also be demonstrated that this type of freedom is closely related to his innovative view of creativity. Berdiaev conceives of freedom and creativity as distinct concepts, and yet so integrally related that they are interdependent. In the latter type of freedom, the reader will encounter a highly speculative and original metaphysical view that attempts to explain freedom as non-determination and answer the challenges of theodicy, which, this research will maintain, fails to do. This research will contend (contrary to Berdiaev’s own statements) that his thought is most comprehensible from a broadly theological perspective. This perspective will underscore the significant tension within his work that arises from his speculative metaphysics. Unlike earlier works on Berdiaev that glossed over this tension, we will attempt to ameliorate it by engaging Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of freedom. Moltmann’s theology will provide a number of ideas and concepts for an analysis, critique, and reconfiguration of Berdiaev’s vision. This reconfiguration will seek to remain faithful to Berdiaev’s core concerns, while providing a new interpretation of his thought that is relevant for a contemporary dialogue concerning the significance of freedom and creativity for the person and community in relation to God.

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Rohm, Robert A. (Robert Allan). "The Educational Contributions of Dr. W.A. Criswell, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, 1944-1987." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331141/.

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Dr. W. A. Criswell is the well known pastor of the twenty-seven thousand member historic First Baptist Church in downtown Dallas, Texas. He has held the position for the past forty-three years. Until now no one has attempted an in-depth study of Criswell's educational contributions to the First Baptist Church (which have also been adopted into the Southern Baptist denomination, America's largest Protestant religious organization). Although Criswell has been the Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas for many years, this was by no means his introduction to the pastorate. In 1928 he was ordained as a seventeen year old minister of the gospel in Amarillo, Texas. He has been a pastor for over sixty years. Criswell has made a lasting impact on the church staff, school staff (Criswell College and First Baptist Academy), students in those schools, the Southern Baptist denomination and also the city of Dallas. He has been one of the key figures in evangelical national movements. Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Senators, and Governors are no strangers to a Sunday morning service held in the large sanctuary in downtown Dallas. Much of the research for this project originated from the Oral Memoirs of W. A. Criswell. a program for oral history done by two professors (Charlton and Spain) from Baylor University. The study begins with a historical review of the setting of the First Baptist Church in 1944 when Criswell came to be pastor. Next there is a review of Criswell's early life that reveal influences which molded his educational philosophies. The body of knowledge is then presented which points out significant events, contributions, institutions and associations provided by Criswell. Finally, seventeen conclusions are drawn from the data presented. The study provides helpful information to pastors, church administrators, seminary students, theological professors and other individuals involved in education and administration.

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Malan, Yvonne. "Justice and the law : a perspective from contemporary jurisprudence." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51807.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2000.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the relationship between law and justice. Firstly, it is argued that the concept of justice tends to be defined too narrowly as distributive justice or as a mechanism to maintain social order. It is argued that Jacques Derrida's understanding of justice not only gives a richer and broader understanding of the concept, but also on its complex relationship with the law. Lastly, some of the possible implications for jurisprudence (with specific reference to Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory and Drucilla Cornell) are examined.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die verhouding tussen geregtigheid en die reg. Daar word eerstens geargumenteer dat geregtigheid te maklik gedefinieer word as distributiewe geregtigheid of as In meganisme om sosiale orde te bewerkstellig. Daar word geargumenteer dat Jacques Derrida se verstaan van die konsep nie aileen 'n breer en ryker verstaan moontlik maak nie, maar dat dit ook fokus op die komplekse verhouding met die reg. Laastens word sommige van die moontlike implikasies vir regsfilosofie (met spesifieke verwysing na Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory en Drucilla Cornell) ondesoek,

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Smith, Stephanie. "Prolegomena to a theological theory of justice : a comparative study of Catholic and Protestant anthropological foundations for political-economic justice with special reference to Karol Wojtyla." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13540.

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This work proposes that the foundation for justice in society begins with an understanding of personhood that begins with Christian theology. While ethical stances such as the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights are helpful in articulating the bounds of justice in society, such humanistic declarations and programs may reach an impasse if they do not incorporate the depth and complexity of human personhood revealed in Jesus Christ. I will make this argument by comparing the Christian anthropologies of two prominent advocates for social justice in the Catholic and Protestant traditions: Karol Wojytla/Pope John Paul II and Karl Barth. Parts One and Two of this thesis will examine the strong critique which both of these men offered within their own historical context toward systems which denied the vital connection between Christian theology and persons in society. These parts will outline the distinctly Christian anthropologies that each theologian proposed as a basis for social justice. The final part of this thesis will set these two anthropologies in critical interaction with one another in the key area of divergence: the ontology of human personhood and the methodological issues integral to it. While John Paul has raised critical issues which are central to social ethics and has articulated many of the complexities of human action, Karl Barth's Christological anthropology proposes an ontological construct of being which critically critiques human motivation and behaviour while also providing a social starting point for personal ethics.

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Della, Zazzera Anthony. "Rationality, Impossibility, and Analogy: Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the "Theological" Turn in French Phenomenology." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40898.

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In contemporary, French phenomenology, a debate has arisen concerning whether phenomenology can allow for a certain kind of “theological” consideration. In particular, Jean-Luc Marion argues that the potential of the reduction has not been fully explored and that a full reduction to pure givenness in fact allows one to give an account of the paradoxical experience of the impossible beyond experience, which is described as a phenomenon of revelation and may include a Revelation of God. Marion’s claims have been considered contentious. As I interpret it, the debate plays out between 1) those who also admit that phenomenology can occasion a form of “theological” consideration, but maintain, unlike Marion, that it remains a more existential affirmation of the impossible beyond experience, represented by Jacques Derrida and John Caputo, and 2) those who refuse any role for this impossible beyond experience within phenomenology (and perhaps more generally), and insist that phenomenology be preserved as an essentialist science of the appearances, represented by Dominique Janicaud. I take the positions of Derrida and Caputo, on the one hand, and Janicaud, on the other, to each entail extreme consequences that ought to be avoided—the former resulting in a form of irrationalism and the latter converting phenomenology into a form of pragmatism. Furthermore, I find Marion’s basic claim, that the impossible beyond experience ought to have a role in shaping finite experience, to be worth investigating further. However, Marion concedes too much to the deconstructive position of Derrida and Caputo at the outset, and so I find that the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer provides an opportunity to correct some of the deficiencies in Marion’s position, but also argue to a similar end as he does. I find that Gadamer’s position incorporates an implicit analogical structure between rational experience and the impossible, thereby permitting one to maintain the impossible as impossible, but also affirm a certain possibility for understanding it.

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Laksana, Albertus Bagus. "Journeying to God in Communion with the Other: A Comparative Theological Study of the Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Traditions in South Central Java and Their Contributions to the Catholic Theology of Communio Sanctorum." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104408.

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Thesis advisor: James W. Morris
This dissertation is a comparative phenomenological and theological analysis on Catholic and Muslim traditions of pilgrimage to sacred tombs and shrines in south central Java, Indonesia. Both in the Muslim and Christian traditions, pilgrimage is a rich and complex religious practice that has served as a privileged milieu in which pilgrims and their communities attempt to foster diverse kinds of communion with God and His spiritual company of saints and other sacred figures, including the founders and paradigmatic ancestors of the local community. Precisely due to its richness and complexity as a spiritual and religio-cultural practice driven by the deeper and inclusive dynamics of communion, pilgrimage has also become a crucial practice in which a distinctive and hybrid religio-cultural identity is forged and negotiated in creative and fruitful ways--among others through the process of engaging various forms of otherness including other religious traditions and cultures--in the context of a long historical continuum that is also marked by tensions and ambiguities. Based on the underlying and multifaceted category of communion with God, the self, and the other that lies at the heart of the pilgrimage traditions in Islam and Catholicism, and guided by the method of the new comparative theology, this study attempts to offer a focused analysis of the major ways in which this dynamic of communion is played out in the deeper shared features and intimate encounters that exist between these two pilgrimage traditions in south central Java. Carried out from the perspective of the Catholic tradition, this study also seeks to explore the ways in which the extraordinary depth and breadth of these dynamics of communion in the Muslim and Catholic pilgrimage traditions--that in Catholic theology can be placed under the inclusive category of the work of the Spirit (pneumatology)--can serve as a creative avenue for a comparative theological enrichment of our contemporary understanding of the Catholic doctrine and practice of communio sanctorum ("communion of saints and the holy"). Drawing from both the most salient features of both the Muslim and Catholic pilgrimage practices in south central Java as well as the corresponding insights from the larger Islamic and Catholic traditions, this proposed pneumatological framework for a renewed understanding of the Catholic theology of communio sanctorum can be seen as the modest constructive fruit of this study's comparative theological engagement with the dynamics of pilgrimage in these two traditions. Through this process, the Catholic theology and practice of communio sanctorum is also made more richly anchored in the Catholic principles of communion, mediation, and sacramentality. And since this very process includes other religious tradition(s), the Catholic doctrine of communio sanctorum becomes remarkably inclusive and expansive as well, thus becoming a profoundly "catholic" theological vision
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology

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Sierra, Rubio Miguel Angel. "Les contributions de Freud et Lacan à la théorie des structures cliniques. Des fondements généalogiques aux débats en psychopathologie." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC261.

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Le concept de structure clinique se réfère immédiatement à la classification d’une maladie mentale comme névrose, psychose ou perversion, mais aussi au sous-type nosographique la concernant. Actuellement, les développements de ce concept constituent la principale théorie psychopathologique de l’analyse lacanienne. Toutefois, il y a une disparité de jugement sur sa valeur : (1) quelques auteurs soutiennent une continuité naturelle entre cette théorie et la doctrine de Freud et Lacan ; (2) quelques autres proposent une réorganisation de la nosographie psychanalytique incluant des nouvelles pathologies ; (3) quelques autres, finalement, défendent la disparition complète de ces références théoriques dans la clinique.Cette disparité relève d’une lacune dans le savoir : les fondements des structures cliniques, ainsi que ses enjeux, n’ont pas été encore systématisés. L’objetctif général de ce travail fut de les restituer, afin de déterminer la légitimité de cette théorie en tant qu’interprétation de la pensée de Freud et Lacan, ainsi que sa pertinence dans les débats psychopathologiques actuels.Pour éclairer les filiations symboliques qui soutiennent le concept de structure clinique, une méthode généalogique a été employée. Les résultats démontrent que Freud a utilisé une notion de structure héritée de la science du XIX e siècle pour élaborer ses conceptions psychanalytiques. La référence minéralogique, fournie par son ancien professeur G. Tschermak, a notamment imprégné l’usage freudien de la structure en psychopathologie. Bien que les catégories de névrose, psychose et perversion n’arrivent pas chez lui à se constituer comme un triptyque, il y a dans ses textes une tendance à les considérer dans leurs rapports mutuels, en tant que perturbations de la vie sexuelle. Cette tendance a été récupérée par Lacan à partir de 1953, et déclinée sur son concept de structure – entendue alors comme un ensemble covariant de signifiants – et sur les registres du réel, du symbolique et de l’imaginaire. Les avancées de sa production intellectuelle, telles que l’invention de l’objet petit a et l’introduction des nœuds et des tresses en psychanalyse, auront apporté jusqu’à la fin de ses jours un approfondissement du triptyque freudien.La systématisation de la théorie des structures cliniques a proprement commencée en 1981, quand les membres du Champ freudien ont soudé cet ensemble d’éléments psychopathologiques avec le terme, homonyme et préexistant, de structure clinique. L’enjeu majeur de cette soudure a été de supporter la relation dialectique entre la théorie et la pratique analytique. À présent, le programme de recherche des structures cliniques porte sur les psychoses ordinaires et sur la spécificité de l’autisme. La psychopathologie lacanienne ainsi constitué est interrogée depuis nombreux angles : la proposition d’une structure psychosomatique, la promotion des pathologies borderline, la liquidation post-moderne de la structure perverse, la contrainte des nosographies opérationnalisées (CIM, DSM et PDM). Les conclusions de cette recherche qualifient la théorie des structures cliniques comme une interprétation légitime de la pensée de Freud et de Lacan. Elle est d’autant plus pertinente dans le contexte actuel qu’elle est d’une grande utilité pour l’établissement du diagnostic structural, pour la direction de la cure et pour la transmission du cas clinique. En tant que cartographie du malaise subjectif, la structure clinique signale la référence éthique du psychopathologique, et constitue une résistance et une subversion face à la défaillance contemporaine dans l’appréhension du réel clinique
The concept of Clinical Structure concerns the classification of a mental disease as neurosis, psychosis or perversion, and its corresponding nosographic sub-type as well. Nowadays, the developments of this concept constitute the main psycho-pathological theory brought about by lacanian psychoanalysis. However, there is a disparity of judgment regarding its value: (1) some authors assert the natural continuity between that theory and the doctrine of Freud and Lacan; (2) some others propose a reorganization of psychoanalytic nosography which includes new pathologies; (3) some others finally advocate a complete disappearance of these theoretical references from clinical studies. This disparity takes on a lack of knowledge: the clinical structures’ foundations, and its stakes, have not yet been systematized. The main objective of this work was to restore them, in order to determine the legitimacy of this theory as an interpretation of Freud’s and Lacan’s thinking, and its appropriateness in contemporary psycho-pathological debates.For clarifying the symbolic filiations that support the concept, a genealogical method has been employed. The results demonstrate that Freud has used a notion of structure inherited from 19th century science to elaborate his psychoanalytical conceptions. The mineralogical reference, provided by his ancient Professor G. Tschermak, has notably permeated the freudien use of the structure in psychopathology. Although he did not constitute the categories of neurosis, psychosis and perversion as a triptych, there is in his textes a tendancy to consider them on their mutual connections, as disturbances of sexual life. This tendancy has been recovered by Lacan since 1953, and declined on his concept of structure (then understood as a co-variant set of signifiers) and on the registers of real, symbolic and imaginary. The advances of his intellectual production, like the invention of the Object petit a and the introduction of knots and braids in psychoanalysis, have brought until the end of his days a deepening of the freudien triptych.Systematization of the theory of clinical structures has properly started in 1981, when the members of the Freudien Field have welded this set of psycho-pathological items to the term, namesake and pre-existing, of clinical structure. The major stake of this welding has been to support the dialectical relationship between the psychoanalytic theory and the practice.Nowadays, the in-depth study of clinical structures is focused on the ordinary psychosis and the specificity of autism. The Lacanian psychopathology thus constituted is questioned from many angles: the proposition of a psychosomatic structure, the promotion of borderline pathology, the Postmodern liquidation of the perverse structure, the constraint of operationalized nosographies (ICD, DSM and PDM).In conclusion, this research confirms the theory of clinical structures as a legitimate interpretation of Freud’s and Lacan’s thinking. It is even more relevant in contemporary context that it has an important utility in order to the establishment of structural diagnose, to the direction of the cure and to the transmission of cases. As a cartography of subjective discomfort, the clinical structure points to the ethical reference of the psycho-pathological, and constitutes a resistance and a subversion facing the contemporary failure in the apprehension of clinical real

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Karm, Miguel. "L'Europe à l'économie du politique : Les contributions des premiers néo-libéraux aux projets de gouvernance économique de l'Europe: paradigmes doctrinaux et implications politiques (1938-1958): institutionnalisation, intervention restauratrice et régulation du marché, planisme libéral, fédération et communauté des nations." Paris 2, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA020066.

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La " rénovation libérale " lancée par Walter Lippmann (The Good Society, 1937-1938) et le " Colloque Lippmann " (août 1938) organisé à Paris par Louis Rougier, fédère des économistes occidentaux et français dans une idéologie de mobilisation contre le collectivisme. En réaction à la politisation des sujets économiques, elle rallie des réformistes (néo-capitalistes, planistes, chrétiens, socialistes) à une " troisième voie " qui prophétise la paix par une Common law mondiale. Ce libéralisme institutionnaliste et constructif promeut de nouveaux paradigmes pratiques (Amérique, Suisse, petits pays intégrés dans la division du travail, gouvernements technocratiques autoritaires. . . ) et théoriques (" interventions ", transition au libre-échange, régulation, " planisme juridique ", fédéralisme et " communauté " internationale [F. Hayek, W. Röpke et l'ordo-libéralisme]). Après 1945, ses acteurs (Jacques Rueff, Robert Marjolin, Paul Van Zeeland. . . ), et successeurs (comme Maurice Allais) contribuent à la reconstruction de l'Europe. Ils inspirent les mouvements pro-Européens, les projets d'union douanière et d'intégration, les équipes autour de Jean Monnet, imprègnent les fédéralistes, la démocratie chrétienne et les technocrates. Ils théorisent la téléologie libérale du " marché commun institutionnel " (1950-1960). Ce premier néo-libéralisme fait rupture avec la matrice politique moderne (indépendance de l'Etat-nation autonome, souveraineté de la République et démocratie gouvernante), et prône une gouvernance économique despotique par des élites non-politiques. Il appelle une critique des idéologies qui concerne la science politique et la philosophie politique

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Hastings, W. Ross. "'Giving honour to the Spirit' : a critical analysis and evaluation of the doctrine of pneumatological union in the Trinitarian theology of Jonathan Edwards in dialogue with Karl Barth." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2707.

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The extent to which the 'honour' of the Spirit influenced the theology of Jonathan Edwards is a hitherto underdeveloped theme. Against a backdrop of Patristic thought and in dialogue with the theology of Karl Barth, evaluation is made of pneumatological union in Edwards' Trinitarian theology as this centres on the nature and inter-relatedness of the 'three unions' that characterize his theology: the union of the three Persons of the Trinity, the union of the saints with God, and the union of the divine and human natures of Christ. Edwards' seeks to honour the Spirit as the mutual love of the Father for the Son within his Augustinian, Lockean model of the immanent Trinity, and as 'Person' in the economy. The challenges of doing so within the limits of this psychological model of the Trinity are evaluated in dialogue with the Cappadocian Fathers and Barth. In a manner patterned after union in the Trinity, Edwards gave prominence to the concept of the pneumatological union of the saints with God in Christ, in fulfilment of the self-glorifying purpose of God in creation and redemption. Edwards' experiential theology of conversion, and his elevation of subjective sanctification by the Spirit over objective justification in Christ, for assurance, is contrasted with Barth's greater emphases on the Christological union of God with humanity and objective justification in Christ. Barth's more contemplative approach is contrasted with the overly introspective spirituality of Edwards. Edwards' view of the role of the Spirit in the hypostatic union of God with humanity in Christ, which is reflective of the other unions, is also evaluated in light of Patristic, Reformed-Puritan and Barthian thought on the nature of the humanity Christ assumed, and the doctrine of the vicarious humanity of Christ. A more emphatic incarnational emphasis may have saved Edwards' Spirit- honouring spirituality from an anthropocentricity which is ironical given that the glory of God is his ontic doxological concern.

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McSwain, Jeffrey Y. "Simul sanctification : Karl Barth's appropriation of Luther's dictum 'simul iustus et peccator'." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11818.

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‘Simul sanctification' is a transformational program for sanctification derived from Karl Barth's radical appropriation of Luther's dictum simul iustus et peccator. Barth's simul establishes the Christological link of the Second Adam with every human being. From this emerges what I contend is a ‘Chalcedonian anthropology' built on a double-duality: the original Chalcedonian formulation gives rise to a second duality revealed within Christ's one human person—the duality of a true, iustus humanity and a corrupt, peccator humanity. In order to appreciate the benefits regarding Barth's Spirit-charged epistemological program for sanctification and conversion, it will be imperative to elucidate the comprehensive nature of Barth's actualism as a way of establishing Barth's view of humanity's dynamic and free iustitia in Christ. Central to assessing the threat of the peccatum determination will be an examination of Barth's theology of the cross, especially in regards to his single subject economy derived from the person of ‘Jesus Christ and him crucified.' Through Barth's assessment of the cross I exposit the similarities and the differences between Chalcedonian Christology and ‘Chalcedonian anthropology;' the latter duality is proven by resurrection revelation to be ultimately provisional in nature. From here I probe Barth's position regarding the annulment of the simul as well as its beginning. By investigating Barth's doctrine of creation I argue that Barth's simul is reflective of the original antithesis between God and nothingness, the darkness under which Christ first placed himself so that humans would know both his solidarity in the darkness and his victory over it. Christians continue to dwell in the overlap of the simul's two mutually exclusive determinations, but by looking through Barth's simul to our true, created and redeemed humanity in Christ we are equipped to interpret our lives and the world around us most hopefully.

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Scott, Shawn A. "A study in transitions : Wesley's soteriology." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60096.

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The purpose of this thesis is to delineate the theological shifts that occurred in Wesley's post-Aldersgate soteriology. To realize this purpose, three distinct soteriological shifts in his thought will be examined. These shifts involve changes in how he understood the following: the conditions of redemption, the state of humanity and the scope of salvation. Through an examination of these shifts, three distinct phases (early, middle and late) were detected. In the early phase there appears to be a distinct Reformed bias; fallen human beings are totally depraved and can be redeemed only through explicit faith in Christ's atonement. In the two subsequent phases, an increasing emphasis is given to Arminian distinctives. Particular emphasis is given to the Arminian understanding of prevenient grace. In the middle phase, the Reformed and Arminian elements appear to co-exist within the same soteriological framework--reconciled through a tenuous and at times tortuous dialectic. This dialectic seems to crumble in the late phase. The Reformed elements are quietly dismissed; the Arminian elements dominate.

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歐陽肅通. "冷戰時代的世界危機與美國的責任 : 對萊因霍爾德・尼布爾後期政治神學的研究 = World crisis in cold war and American responsibility : on Reinhold Niebuhr's later political theology." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2005. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/622.

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Duby, Steven J. "Divine simplicity : a dogmatic account." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5935.

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This thesis offers a constructive account of the doctrine of divine simplicity in Christian theology. In its methodology, the thesis aims to present this divine perfection as an implicate of the scriptural portrayal of God, to draw upon the insights and conceptual resources of Thomas Aquinas and various Reformed orthodox theologians, and to respond to some objections to divine simplicity. The focus on exegetical elaboration of biblical teaching and the use of Thomas and the Reformed orthodox distinguish this work from a number of recent accounts of God in both systematic theology and analytic philosophy. The case for God's simplicity is made by examining God's singularity, aseity, immutability, infinity, and act of creation in Holy Scripture and then tracing the ways in which these descriptions of God imply that he is (negatively) not composed of parts. Rather, he is (positively) actus purus and really identical with his own essence, existence, and attributes, each of which is identical with the whole being of the triune God considered under some aspect. In light of the constructive work, this study then addresses the three most pressing objections to divine simplicity: (1) that it denigrates God's revelation of his many attributes in the economy; (2) that it eliminates God's freedom in creating the world and acting in history; and (3) that it does not cohere with the doctrine of the Trinity.

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Mary, Paul. "La question du premier principe : entre Plotin et Derrida : volume I : apophase, principe et matière dans les Ennéades : volume II : déconstruction, archéologie et apophase." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30003/document.

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Il semblerait que la recherche d’un premier principe ne puisse ni aboutir une fois pour toutes ni être abandonnée. L’objectif est de montrer, d’une part, que cette tension travaille l’apophatisme de Plotin et la déconstruction de Derrida en y induisant des difficultés symétriques, et, d’autre part, que l’exploration de ces difficultés suggère une doctrine « intermédiaire » du premier principe intégrant la tension en question. Leurs philosophies reposent toutes deux sur une instance que son excès radical conduit à déborder l’être et l’originarité, mais le néoplatonicien et le déconstructeur interprètent ce débordement de façons diamétralement opposées. Le premier la comprend comme un aboutissement de la quête d’origine, tandis que le second y voit une invitation à dépasser cette quête. D’un côté, Plotin pense une arkhè que sa transcendance radicale rend difficile à déconstruire, mais qui devrait aussi interdire d’en garantir l’existence et la fonction. Sa volonté de maintenir cette garantie induit une série de perturbations, notamment autour du thème de la matière. D’un autre côté, la déconstruction du principe repose sur l’usage d’un schème principiel dénié. Pour le montrer, il faut élaborer une présentation générale de la pensée derridienne, qui révèle une tension culminant avec l’occultation de cet usage par un positionnement anti-principiel. Il s’agit de montrer que l’auto-dépassement de l’arkhè ne représente ni une garantie ni une abolition, qu’il peut être intégré dans une conception originale fondée sur certains éléments propres à chacun de nos auteurs, et qui articule un premier principe métaphysique à une ontologie et à une éthique
It would seem that the search for a first metaphysical principle cannot either succeed once for all or be abandoned. The objective is to show, on one hand, that this tension works Plotinus’ apophatism and Derrida’s deconstruction by causing in it symmetric difficulties, and, on the other hand, that the exploration of these difficulties suggests an "intermediate" doctrine of the first principle, integrating the tension. Their philosophies rest both on something that its radical excess drives beyond being and origin, but they give diametrically opposite interpretations of this situation.The Neoplatonist understands it as a success of the quest for the first principle, whereas the deconstructionist sees it as an invitation to give up this quest. On one side, Plotinus tries to think an arkhè which its radical transcendence makes difficult to deconstruct, but that should also forbid guaranteeing its existence and its function. His will to maintain this guarantee causes disturbances, in particular in his theory of matter. On the other hand, the deconstruction of the first principle requires the use of a transcendental schema, which is yet partially denied by Derrida. To show this, it is necessary to elaborate a general presentation of derridean thought, which reveals a tension, peaking with the attempt to conceal the use of foundational methods.Our aim is to show that the auto-exceeding of the arkhè is neither a guarantee nor an abolition, and that it can be integrated into an original conception based on certain elements from each of our authors, which associates a first metaphysical principle with an ontology and an ethics

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Grzelak, Christopher. "The "inclusive pluralism" of Jacques Dupuis, its contribution to a Christian theology of religions, and its relevance to the South African interreligious context." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/985.

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This thesis falls within the area of systematic theology. It seeks, by examining Jacques Dupuis’s theological concepts and proposals, to evaluate his perspective on a Christian theology of religious pluralism. The concepts which are examined include the idea of a single history of salvation and revelation, God’s revelation in the sacred scriptures of other religions, the universality and uniqueness of Jesus Christ, the church in relation to the Reign of God, and the characteristics of interreligious dialogue. The main theological proposals cover religious pluralism “in principle”, the Trinitarian Christology for understanding God’s saving activity outside of Christianity, and the world religions as “participated” mediations of salvation. A brief characterisation is presented of Dupuis’s life and theology in general, the influences on his thought and its evolution, and his difficulties with the Vatican. The research also covers the historical theological context out of which the theology of “inclusive pluralism” emerges, giving an overview of the main approaches to religions, namely, ecclesiocentrism, Christocentrism and theocentrism in a Christian theology of religions. Dupuis uses the Trinitarian approach to the religious history of humanity to explain the work of the Holy Trinity in the process of salvation of humanity focusing on a distinction between the enduring action of the eternal Word of God, the Word incarnate in Jesus Christ and the saving presence of the Spirit. This Trinitarian Christology becomes the basis for Dupuis’s proposal for perceiving the religious traditions as “paths” to salvation. Dupuis attributes to the religious traditions “participated” mediation on the basis of God’s self-communication which takes place in other religions. Because this dissertation has been written in the South African context, the final question concerns the possible applications of Dupuis’s inclusivist thought to the present situation of dialogue among religions in this country. In this regard, a general background is given of religious diversity in South Africa. Relations among religions during respectively colonial and early apartheid years, the second half of the twentieth century and finally democracy are examined. The research suggests areas of application of Dupuis’s proposals for dialogue among religions in South Africa. The existing relationship between Christianity and Islam is the basis for a case study of the possible application of Dupuis’s proposals. The research indicates areas of convergence between Dupuis’s proposals and dialogue with Muslims. Concrete examples reveal that the most promising forms of dialogue with Muslims in South Africa remain dialogue of life and action that are especially needed in the process of reconstruction and nation-building. The thesis concludes with an evaluation of the “inclusive pluralism” of Jacques Dupuis, its validity and contribution to a Christian theology of religions and to the future of interreligious dialogue.
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2009.

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