Divinity (School of)
The School of Divinity has an internationally renowned staff and a reputation for high quality in both teaching and research. Its primary expertise is as a centre engaging with theological and historical concerns, chiefly as raised and developed within the Christian tradition, its Jewish roots, and related critical scholarship. The School's academic staff seek to address wider concerns arising within western society through the growing prominence of other religious traditions and the rejuvenation of interest in questions of 'spirituality'.
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Cosmopsychism and the metaphysics of original sin
(2024-06-11) - ThesisConsciousness and original sin are two concepts that have both generated philosophical problems that have proven to be enormously challenging for scholars to grapple with. In this thesis, I shall consider how a solution ... -
Liberating interdependence : the multivalent hermeneutics of Musa W. Dube
(2024-06-11) - ThesisThis thesis analyses and expounds upon the writings and methodology of Musa W. Dube, offering in effect a hermeneutics of Dube’s hermeneutics. It argues that Dube has created a unique methodology and style of argumentation: ... -
Where darkness is as light : approaching the divine in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(2024-06-11) - ThesisThis dissertation explores how the British Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) pursued the divine, as shown in his poetry, notebooks, letters, and prose. I also consider the reception of Coleridge’s pursuit ... -
Reading Biblical Hebrew poetry through the lens of Information Structure theory
(2024-06-11) - ThesisIt is generally recognised that the constituent order of Biblical Hebrew poetry is more variable than that of narrative. Often, this is taken as a matter of stylistics and largely ignored in translation. Where the Information ... -
The prophet is the people : an answer to "why Elijah" in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian literature
(2024-06-11) - ThesisThis study offers a literary analysis of the texts referencing the prophet Elijah in the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Jewish literature, and the New Testament. From the perspective of these texts, it aims to answer the ...