Religions and Theology (Theses and Dissertations)
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Interpreting in Ireland's Asylum Process
Asylum applicants fleeing persecution and seeking hospitality do not usually speak the language of the host-country. They express themselves through an interpreter, who mediates between asylum applicants and the examining ... -
Cleansing by Water and Spirit in the Dead Sea Scrolls and New Testament
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2022)This thesis seeks to fill a gap in Second Temple scholarship by giving sustained and focused attention to dual cleansing by water and Spirit in the Hebrew Bible, the Scrolls found at Qumran and New Testament literature. ... -
'MORE THAN A HYPOTHESIS': THE DISCOURSE BETWEEN CATHOLICISM AND ORGANIC EVOLUTION, 1859-2019
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2022)This thesis reviews and critiques the discourse between Catholicism and organic evolution over a period of one hundred and sixty years, from the first publication of Charles Darwin's famous book, On the Origin of Species ... -
Esther and Her Royal Predecessors
Previous scholarly conversations regarding royal women in the Hebrew Bible (HB) focus solely on the women in the Deuteronomistic History (DH). Yet Queen Esther, one of the fullest portrayals of a royal woman in the HB, is ... -
A hermeneutical reading of The Universe Story towards the configuration of the human in the text
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2021)This thesis undertakes a hermeneutical reading of The Universe Story through the lens of Paul Ricoeur s narrative hermeneutics, while drawing too on environmental hermeneutics, to determine the configuration of the human ... -
Inheritance, Identity and inclusion in Matthew's gospel and antecedent traditions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2020)Inheritance terms and concepts are ubiquitous throughout the Bible and the non-biblical Second Temple material. Throughout the Hebrew Bible, the Israelites believed themselves to be the people of God uniquely chosen from ... -
Stumbling blocks to stepping stones. The torah as a key to jewish-christian reconciliation: A new model
In recent decades, and particularly since the Second Vatican Council, Christians and Jews are beginning to ask questions about one another’s traditions and slowly erode some of the age old barriers of suspicion and ... -
Jezebel's voice : a feminist reconstruction of the message to Thyatira in the Book of Revelation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2011)Although she reportedly describes herself as a prophetess, the voice of the woman whom the Book of Revelation’s misogynistic Son of Man pejoratively describes as “the Woman Jezebel” (Rev 2:20) has been silenced by its ... -
Of Persepolis and Jerusalem. Towards an evaluation of Iranian influence on the Jewish apocalyptic traditions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2010)This dissertation presents the need for a reconsideration of Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic, and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed. The Prolegomena describes the history of scholarship on the ... -
On not hiding scripture : a hermeneutics of intrusion and the visible unity of the churches
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2011)The purpose of this thesis is to ask how a freshly conceived and embodied relationship of the churches to their canon of scripture might give new life, integrity and depth to the ecumenical movement. I argue for the ... -
Immanuel theology : retrieving a theology of presence from the writings of Paul Tillich
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2009)This work introduces the concept of "Immanuel Theology", a phrase synonymous with a theology of presence which seeks to reconcile panentheistically divine transcendence and immanence as inclusive transcendence. Presence ... -
Ricoeur's ethics of the person, complemented by Aquinas's analogy, developed as an intercultural hermeneutic
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2011)This summary is intended to provide a succinct overview of the methods used and the major findings of this thesis. I will begin by presenting my methodology before indicating the final conclusions of this work. The primary ... -
Neither naked nor sacred : a theology for the public square: The Irish Catholic Church in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies, 2001)Introduction: The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, accustomed from the genesis of the Republic to a "special position," has been experiencing the loss of that privileged status. In the growing pluralism of the Republic ... -
The House Key : House as key to understanding ACTS (the micro-text) within its Roman Imperial Context (the macro-text)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies, 2002)While "house" has long been recognized as key to understanding Christianity and its world, my contention is that its analytical potential has actually been under-utilized by scholars. The study demonstrates how conscious ...