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Buerger, Martin A. "Judgment and grace in the wilderness narratives." Portland, OR : Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textFrost, Ronald Norman. "Richard Sibbes' theology of grace and the division of English reformed theology." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1996. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/richard-sibbes-theology-of-grace-and-the-division-of-english-reformed-theology(55d469be-0faf-40de-b3aa-083339005c0f).html.
Full textWrisley, Shelby Katherine Joan. "The Vir Hierarchicus: St. Bonaventure's Theology of Grace." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107899.
Full textThe purpose of this dissertation is to provide a systematic account of St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio’s doctrine of grace. More particularly, the dissertation argues that a systematic account of this kind can only be provided by attending to that doctrine through his theology of hierarchy, a methodology that derives from the Seraphic Doctor’s own claim in the Legenda Maior that St. Francis was a vir hierarchicus, or a “hierarchical man.” Throughout the course of his theological career, the Seraphic Doctor defines sanctifying grace as a created influentia that “hierarchizes” human beings by purifying, illuminating, and perfecting them from within, thus causing them to become a “similitude” of the Trinity. This dissertation explains what this means and why it matters. Methodologically, the dissertation proceeds in three parts. Part I, “Theological Foundations for Bonaventure’s Doctrine of Grace,” lays the necessary groundwork for the rest of the project in two ways: first, by introducing three historical figures whose work will provide indispensible theological contexts for approaching Bonaventure’s doctrine of grace, namely, Pseudo-Dionysius, Thomas Gallus, and Alexander of Hales; and second, by introducing the Seraphic Doctor’s own theology of hierarchy as he inherited it from these sources. Part II, “Bonaventure’s Doctrine of Grace,” then builds upon these foundations to present a systematic account of that doctrine as it developed in some of his most important works throughout his career as a theologian. Part III, “Theological Implications of Bonaventure’s Doctrine of Grace,” concludes the dissertation by exploring how that doctrine can inform scholarship on Bonaventure’s theological anthropology, Christology, and theology of sanctity, respectively
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Adams, Kevin J. "Preaching grace to image-saturated audiences building a grace-full congregation in a video-shaped world /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBishop, Robert. "The doctrine of grace in the writings of Paul." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
Full textO'Leary, Stephen John. "Nature and grace : resources for a theology of grace in the theology of Gregory Palamas, Thomas Aquinas and Martin Luther." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15804.
Full textThis project arises out of an interest in the theology of grace and the theological question of the relationship between nature and grace. It rests on the conviction that a complete theology of grace can only be developed if due account is taken of the different approaches to the theology of grace adopted by the three main Christian traditions, namely Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism. It is axiomatic to this project that an adequately complete theology of grace which draws on all three traditions has not yet been developed. Another central conviction on which this project rests is that the position adopted on a fundamental theme like nature and grace will determine to a large extent one's position on less fundamental themes. This is an attempt, then, to show how the ideas of three formative theologians on "nature and grace" can benefit the development of a comprehensive doctrine of grace today.
Ziegler, George W. "Grace and participation in the theology of Thomas F. Torrance." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=214859.
Full textKang, Kevin Woongsan. "Jonathan Edwards' understanding of the distinction between common grace and saving grace." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBoulos, Wahib Helmy Kozman. "St Athanasius of Alexandria's doctrine of grace." Thesis, Durham University, 1991. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1567/.
Full textCorkery, James. "The social-structural dimensions of grace and "dis-grace" in the theology of Leonardo Boff." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
Full textWaguespack, Gary D. "Grace works a study of the effect of the application of "grace principles" in the pastoral leadership of a small church /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHoward, David Crombie. "New England's answer to the moral dilemma of grace." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHood, Kenneth Loyd. "Grace and openness in a congregation experiencing change." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
Full textKessler, Samuel Robert. "Theological grace in Spenser's poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365504.
Full textBlosser, Daniel M. "An examination of dispensational views of the Mosaic law and grace." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1185.
Full textLudwick, Sabina. "The grace of God in biblical counseling." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p091-0078.
Full textMorris, J. Scott. "Hebrews 10:29 the Holy Spirit which produces enabling grace /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1163.
Full textFurda, Danya MacQueen Graeme. "Karma and grace in the legend of Aṅgulimāla /." *McMaster only, 2005.
Find full textHaynes, Daniel. "Grace and metaphysics in Maximus Confessor." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12450/.
Full textKeay, Jeremy Allan. "Signs of grace Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p048-0343.
Full textShelby, Steven Tate. "Developing a theology of ministry centered on the covenant of grace." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHohman, Benjamin J. "Grace and Emergence: Towards an Ecological and Evolutionary Foundation for Theology." Thesis, Boston College, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109216.
Full textTaking as its mandate the expansive vision suggested by the integral ecology of Laudato Si’, in conjunction with the insights of contemporary ecological and evolutionary theologians, this dissertation proposes a framework for an integral, planetary, and cosmic theology of grace. It draws from and builds upon many of the insights of the leading Catholic contributors to ecological and evolutionary theologies, including especially John Haught, Elizabeth Johnson, Denis Edwards, and Celia Deane-Drummond. Through their various approaches, each emphasizes the created, cosmic effects of both the universal invisible mission of Holy Spirit and the visible mission of Christ’s Incarnation, intended from all eternity and culminating in his passion death and resurrection. Noting the strong resonances with traditional accounts of the economy of grace in human redemption, this dissertation seeks to provide a unitive account of God’s healing and elevation of all of creation through a creative and redemptive economy of grace. This project is also carried out in intentional dialogue with both with traditional understandings of grace, especially as articulated in the speculative and systematic synthesis of St. Thomas Aquinas, and with contemporary scientific understandings of world process. To facilitate this larger conversation, this dissertation also explores Bernard Lonergan’s transposition of grace, nature, and sin from the Medieval theoretical framework into a framework based on interiority, and it relies especially on Lonergan’s explanatory account of the dynamic orientation of nature as “upwardly but indeterminately directed,” as laid out in his generalized emergent probability. However, as Lonergan and his students have only attended to grace in relation to human contexts, the constructive part of this dissertation lays out an understanding of grace as “God’s created relationship of transformative love and care for all creatures that opens them up to ever deeper relationships with God and with each other.” This broad definition makes possible the identification of God’s grace throughout all of creation: humans, other animals, plants, and even “inanimate” matter are caught up in the networks of grace that bring them to greater perfection along three axes: According to their absolute finality, all creation may be observed as existing in a state of ontological praise of its Creator and Redeemer and in a state of eschatological expectation. According to their horizontal finality, each creature is empowered to realize its particular, fleshly excellences in line with its dynamically conceived nature, the account of which nature is described by the vast array of modern sciences. According to their vertical finality, each creature exists in networks of interconnection that undergird the possibility and, sometimes, the reality of surprising and irreducible inbreaking of renewal and emergence. At the same time, this framework also recognizes the elevation of human beings to not only these forms of relative supernaturality, but also to the absolute supernaturality of sanctifying grace and the habit of charity in which we are adopted into the intra-trinitarian life of friendship. By situating this theology of grace in relation to Lonergan’s transposition of nature in the form of his account of generalized emergent probability, the specifically theological character of this account of world process is both distinguished from and related to the other explanatory accounts offered by the whole range of the human, social, and natural sciences. To clarify these relationships and the particular role of theology in dialogue with these other sciences, the final chapters explore the hermeneutical and heuristic value of this theology of grace in relation to the larger conversations around emergence, convergence, and cooperation in evolutionary theory
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2021
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Kim, Jeana. "Freedom in Christ understanding legalism, license, and liberty : a study for youth /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0579.
Full textKlender, Daniel M. "Standing firm in the grace of God Peter's theology of suffering /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
Full textPeters, Benjamin T. "John Hugo and an American Catholic Theology of Nature and Grace." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1303852877.
Full textPark, Hong-Gyu. "Grace and nature in the theology of John Gill (1697-1771)." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2001. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU147951.
Full textDiSalvatore, Nicholas Pace. "The Notion of Faith in the Early Latin Theology of Bernard Lonergan." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107189.
Full textThis dissertation, an exercise in interpretation, is on Bernard Lonergan’s notion of faith as expressed in his early Latin theological writings—especially his scholastic supplement Analysis Fidei (1952). This interpretation consists largely of an analysis of the intellectual horizon in which Lonergan did his earliest thinking on faith; without a grasp of this horizon Lonergan’s early, especially scholastic notion of faith is almost overwhelmingly difficult to understand. The horizon analysis is completed in the first four chapters of the dissertation. Chapter One aims to show that Lonergan’s analysis of faith is rooted in the theological context informed by the decrees of Vatican I (especially Dei Filius) and its focus on the question about the relation of faith to reason, and by the effort especially in Catholic theological circles of the time to mine the works of Thomas Aquinas, the Doctor of the Church, for a deeper understanding of the revealed mysteries. Chapter Two situates Lonergan’s notion of faith in his understanding of a developing world-order; coming to faith is understood as a part of a larger process that, on the one hand, begins with a natural desire to see God (a natural desire to understand everything about everything) and, on the other, terminates in the absolutely supernatural goal of beatific knowledge: knowing God as God. Chapter Three narrows the scope and situates the act and virtue of faith in Lonergan’s rigorously systematic theology of grace that distinguishes clearly between grace as operative and cooperative on the one hand, and actual and habitual on the other. Chapter Four offers a very brief sketch of Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of the notion of faith, from which Lonergan’s own work takes its bearings. After this horizon analysis, Chapter Five offers an exposition of Lonergan’s own treatment of the notion of faith as found in his early Latin theology. The chapter investigates three principal sources, giving most attention to the third: first, the Gratia Operans dissertation (1940) together with the Grace and Freedom articles (1941–42); second, De Ente Supernatural (1946); and third, Analysis Fidei (1952). The chapter claims that Lonergan’s early presentation of faith breaks new ground by bringing into view, alongside a logical analysis of the act of faith, the psychological dimension of the conscious process of coming to believe revealed mysteries. Finally, a brief concluding chapter looks ahead to Lonergan’s later understanding of faith in Method in Theology (1972) in order to indicate some of the challenges that would need to be met in a full-scale treatment of the development of Lonergan’s notion of faith throughout his entire intellectual career—a project for which this dissertation can serve as a perhaps helpful prolegomena
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Roseman, Jeremy Scott. "A Christian apologetic to the doctrine of grace in Shin Buddhism." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2010. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
Full textPreston, Jim. "The relationship of law and grace in Romans 6 and 7." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p030-0171.
Full textNordstrand, Ivan Philip. "Mercy the compelling dimension of grace in Reformation and contemporary Lutheran writings /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
Full textAbstract. Includes the 1991 document, The church in society: a Lutheran perspective by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-71).
Wu, Huihua. "Lü fa yu en dian : lun Lujia ji Yesu yu Falisai ren chong tu zhi yi yi = Law and grace : the significance of the conflicts between Jesus and Pharisees in the gospel of Luke /." click here to view the abstract and table of contents, 1997. http://net3.hkbu.edu.hk/~libres/cgi-bin/thesisab.pl?pdf=b15646257a.pdf.
Full textHeggen, Bruce Allen. "A theology for earth : nature and grace in the thought of Joseph Sittler." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39918.
Full textCrofford, James Gregory. "Streams of mercy prevenient grace in the theology of John and Charles Wesley /." Thesis, Available from ProQuest, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/pqdweb?index=0&sid=4&srchmode=2&vinst=PROD&fmt=6&startpage=-1&clientid=10355&vname=PQD&RQT=309&did=1650501911&scaling=FULL&ts=1263926108&vtype=PQD&rqt=309&TS=1263926114&clientId=10355.
Full textWamala, Matthia Mulumba. "Grace and Human Transformation: A Theological Approach to Peace and Reconciliation in Uganda." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107530.
Full textThesis advisor: M. Shawn Copeland
The process of peace and reconciliation after conflict is based on developing a spiritual disposition of compassion that is informed by God’s grace and expressed through virtues of faith, hope and charity. Empowered by God’s grace individuals and communities can be transformed and enabled to work in solidarity with victims of violence in ways that seek to change social structures of sin and suffering. Compassionate understanding can shape and inform individuals and communities toward practices of truth-telling, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation. Solidarity and compassion underlie a Christian discipleship that nurtures healing of memories, rehabilitation of victim and perpetrators in order to reintegrate them in society. This encounter has a transformative potential for participants as they begin to share a common story and envision a reconciled future
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
Green, Jon Dale. "Equipping believers to heal broken relationships through cruciform forgiveness." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
Full textMurray, Laura B. "An evaluation of grace in Bhakti-Hinduism from an evangelical Christian perspective." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textGaine, Simon G. "Indwelling spirit and a new creation : the relationship between uncreated grace and created grace in neo-scholastic Catholic theology." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307474.
Full textDavies, Michael T. "Grace-ful reading : theology and narrative in the works of John Bunyan." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30261.
Full textVoak, Nigel. "Richard Hooker and reformed theology : a study of reason, will, and grace /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38953768b.
Full textAnderas, Phil [Verfasser], Herman J. [Herausgeber] Selderhuis, Christopher B. [Herausgeber] Brown, Günter [Herausgeber] Frank, Bruce [Herausgeber] Gordon, Barbara [Herausgeber] Mahlmann-Bauer, Tarald [Herausgeber] Rasmussen, et al. "Renovatio : Martin Luther's Augustinian Theology of Sin, Grace and Holiness / Phil Anderas." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. http://www.v-r.de/.
Full textJarvis, Charles Everett. "Ethnographic interviews in the practical struggle between grace and law developing a ministry model /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBawulski, Shawn J. "Grace and free will libertarianism, the Arminian soteriological framework, and freely chosen faith /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p006-1578.
Full textGeiger, Jane Noreen. "Spiritual freedom a gracious path /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p028-0282.
Full textBray, Jacquelyn L. "Grace, the double bind message, and human relationships." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBolen, Donald J. "Grace and the fulness of revelation in Christ: A study of Karl Rahner's "Foundations of Christian Faith"." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6798.
Full textZandstra, Benjamin. "Standing in grace a relational overview of Christian life /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
Full textDaniels, John R. "Developing a model for a healing ministry in the context of the Grove City UMC that will create an openness to and awareness of healing." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLindell, Jerald C. "Growing in grace-- the joy of becoming more like Christ the effect of teaching the spiritual disciplines within the Reformed perspective of sanctification upon the spiritual growth of believers /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
Full textUnger, Paul Edward. "Morality, moralism, and the grace of God in Christian leadership Frederick Buechner's Leo Bebb as suspect saint /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHatch, Derek Christopher. "E.Y. Mullins, George W. Truett, and a Baptist Theology of Nature and Grace." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1303840838.
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