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Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
What's love got to do with it? A constructive theology of love as the primary image of the trinitarian life in conversation with Thomas Aquinas and Hans Urs von Balthasar
(2024-06-11) - ThesisThis thesis is a constructive theology of retrieval in which I develop a metaphysical account of the trinitarian life in se as the eternally plerotic movement of mutually kenotic love. First, I turn to the trinitarian ... -
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the view from below : a method of repentance that overcomes corrupted longing
(2024-06-11) - ThesisDietrich Bonhoeffer has been rightly lauded for uniquely attending to the oppressed and subjugated in his theological endeavors. However, there are issues and ambiguities within his corpus—as well as complexities within ...