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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God's disposition toward humanity in the theology of John Calvin: one will or two? : an analysis of Calvin's teaching on the knowledge of God, predestination and the atonement
(University of St Andrews, 2015-05) - ThesisIn the course of this study, we find that for Calvin, God has one righteous will that is expressed as two, decidedly asymmetrical dispositions toward humanity. For Calvin, the only God that can be known, proclaimed, and ... -
The ethics of the enactment and reception of cruciform love : a comparative lexical, conceptual, exegetical/theological study of Colossians 3:1-17 and the patterns of thought which have influenced it in their grammatical/historical context
(University of St Andrews, 2014-09) - ThesisThis thesis aims to compare the words and governing ethical pattern of thought in the catalogue of virtues and vice in Colossians 3:5, 8, 12-17 to Greco-Roman and Jewish texts that are antecedent to, or contemporaneous ... -
Glimpses of her Father's glory : deification and divine light in Longfellow's Evangeline
(University of St Andrews, 2013-09) - ThesisIn this thesis I endeavor to discover and show the Unitarian and Patristic theological influences on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s long narrative poem Evangeline, with special focus on the poem’s theological teachings ... -
The concept of "the human" in the work of Hermann Hesse and Paul Tillich
(University of St Andrews, 1977) - Thesis"The Concept of 'the Human' in the Work of Hermann Hesse and Paul Tillich" is an interdisciplinary study in theology and literature. Three chapters each on Hesse and Tillich discuss the life work, and critical significance ... -
Simul sanctification : Karl Barth's appropriation of Luther's dictum 'simul iustus et peccator'
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - Thesis‘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 ...
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