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Abbot Jacob Panhausen of Steinfeld’s Praefatio in Regulam Divi Aurelii Augustini Hypponensis Episcopi (1570 Text and Commentary)
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Aesthesis and ascesis : the relationship between the arts and spiritual formation
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisThe general claim of the thesis is that the exercise and development of skills and capacities related to sensory perception can contribute positively to the process commonly referred to as spiritual formation. The dynamics ... -
The African contribution to the ecumenical debate on development : a survey of articles published in The Ecumenical Review, 1967 to 1985
(University of St Andrews, 1989-07) - ThesisThe social and economic conditions as well as political instability in the developing world and particularly Africa, is the concern of this thesis. The situations in the developing world seem ever to be worsening. Why? ... -
"All of you are one" : the social vision of Gal 3:28, 1 Cor 12:13 and Col 3:11
(University of St Andrews, 2007-11-30) - ThesisPaul's citation of an early baptismal tradition in Gal 3:28, 1 Cor 12:13 and Col 3:11 is as notable for its prominence in the Pauline corpus as it is for its ambiguity. A survey of the variety of views as to what Paul is ... -
An unpublished commentary of Moshě bar Kăphă on the Gospel of John (Cambridge University Library Add. 1971 (II))
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Analysis of Stanley Hauerwas' theology in post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong
(2018-03-02) - Conference paperThis paper analyses Stanley Hauerwas’ theology in terms of how Christian ethics inform acts of civil disobedience. Before presenting its argument, this analysis first provides a working definition of the Christian view of ... -
An analysis of the effect of contrasting theologies of preaching on the teaching of preaching in British institutions of higher learning
(University of St Andrews, 1988) - ThesisThis study examines the efforts of British universities and colleges to educate students for the ministry of preaching. It evaluates the hypothesis that a preaching lecturer's theology significantly influences his ... -
Analytic theology as systematic theology
(2017-04-03) - Journal articleIt is often said that analytic theology is not really systematic theology; it is something else entirely. However, specifying what this “something else” amounts to has proven a little more difficult. In this article I argue ... -
Angelology in situ : recovering higher-order beings as emblems of transcendence, immanence and imagination
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06-21) - ThesisThe aim of this study is twofold: to identify the theological purpose underlying the depiction of angels at certain key points in the history of their use, and to explore how far that deeper theological rationale can be ... -
The Apocalypse of John : a hermeneutical study
(University of St Andrews, 1988-07) - ThesisThe aim of this dissertation is to discover the relevance (so often called in question) of John's Apocalypse. It was necessary first of all to examine the nature of the genre 'apocalypse'. Modern scholarship seems close ... -
The apocalyptic-eschatological drama of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel : an investigation into the Johannine Christology and eschatology with special reference to John 12.20-36
(University of St Andrews, 1999-06) - ThesisIn this thesis we will explore the question of Jesus' revelation as a central motif of the Johannine Christology from the perspectives of literary criticism, Jewish apocalypticism and Graeco-Roman dramatic literature. In ... -
Apocalypticism and gnosticism : a comparison of their features, form and function
(University of St Andrews, 1982-07) - ThesisScholars have long noted the number of similarities that seem to exist between Gnosticism and Jewish Apocalypticism. Numerous hypotheses have been suggested to account for them, but no one has yet attempted to examine these ... -
Army chaplains in the First World War
(University of St Andrews, 1996) - ThesisIn 1914, Church leaders assumed that fighting men would require the ministrations of ordained clergymen close to the front line. The War Office Chaplains' Department had few plans for the deployment of chaplains beyond ... -
The art of faith in a world of progress : from transcendence to immanence
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-20) - ThesisThis thesis examines what the visual art of Christian faith might reveal, and teach us, about the living art of faith in a world characterised by progress. The argument focuses on two prominent visual artists from the ... -
Artful living and the eradication of worry in Søren Kierkegaard's interpretation of Matthew 6:24-34
(University of St Andrews, 2011-06-21) - ThesisDanish thinker Søren Kierkegaard published fourteen discourses, across four collections, on Matthew 6:24-34. The repeated readings of the biblical text, whose themes include the choice between God and mammon, worry, what ... -
'As one who serves' - Diakonia as a paradigm for ordination for ministry of the word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) : A study in the history of doctrine
(University of St Andrews, 1995-07) - ThesisThis study is an examination of the institution of ordination to ministry of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), through the lens of the particular biblical-theological paradigm of diakonia, or servanthood. ... -
The ascension, pleroma and ecclesia concepts in Ephesians
(University of St Andrews, 1976) - ThesisThe basic aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between a number of christological and ecclesiological themes. The first section of the essay is concerned with the identification of the traditions employed ... -
Aspects of controversies concerning the doctrine of grace aroused by the teachings of Claude Pajon
(University of St Andrews, 1974-09) - ThesisJohn Cameron highly influenced the development of theology at the Huguenot Academy of Saumur and left an impact on French Reformed thought that continued to the end of the Seventeenth Century. Cameron had modified orthodox ... -
At the boundary of place : rethinking the provenance of early Christian architecture
(University of St Andrews, 2010-11-30) - ThesisArchaeologists and historians have sought to understand the architecture of the early church using methods common to their respective fields of inquiry. This has included an approach to architecture which classifies buildings ... -
Atonement and pneumatology : a study in the theology of George Smeaton
(University of St Andrews, 1974) - ThesisThis is a study in the dogmatic theology of Christianity. The theological doctrines of atonement and pneumatology are based upon the revelatory work of the second and third persons of the trinity . The importance of ...