Divinity: Recent submissions
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Sunflower, Stellvertreter, and symbol : vicarious action, forgiveness, and an anthropology of collective-persons in the theologies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Charles Williams
(2021-07-01) - ThesisIn Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower, Karl (a Nazi) petitions Simon (a Jew) for vicarious forgiveness. Lying beneath this story of forgiveness is an anthropological puzzle—namely, whether Karl or Simon is to be conceived ... -
The condescension of the Spirit : the nature of the relation of the indwelling Holy Spirit
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThere are no conciliar teachings which are authoritative on the doctrine of the indwelling Holy Spirit. And yet, this doctrine is central to properly understanding the relations between redeemed human creatures (individually ... -
The rock of Israel : a philological, historical and literary analysis of the epithet צור
(University of St Andrews, 2021-07-01) - ThesisThe focus of this dissertation is the biblical epithet צור, "rock", as found in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and cognate texts in the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE. The dissertation endeavours to integrate a historical/etymological ... -
Morunguetá, a nation-formation discourse : charting Brazil’s genesis in the sixteenth century through Tupian language and Jesuit theology
(2024-12-04) - ThesisBrazil’s colonial period in all its orgiastic ethnic diversity—the clumsiness of its colonial machinery, and the intense missionary enterprise of the Jesuits—still puzzles scholars. Historiography, however, tends to reduce ...