Browsing Religions and Theology (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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A gleaner following the grape-pickers : the Jewish scribe, Ben Sira, as interpreter of biblical tradition in pre-Maccabean Hellenistic Judea
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A holistic pastoral approach to HIV/AIDS sufferers : reduction of stigmatisation in Zimbabwe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2012)This thesis was written as a research project on A Holistic Pastoral Approach to HIV/AIDS Sufferers: Reduction of Stigmatisation in the Diocese of Mutare, Zimbabwe. The purpose of the research was to explore the connection ... -
Actualizing Israel every month : the history and development of ḤŌDEŠ ritual in Israelite and Jewish tradition (8th century BCE-200 CE)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2008)This dissertation focuses on the festival of the new moon in ancient Israel and Judah from approximately the eighth century BCE, through subsequent Jewish history to c. 200 CE. The social significance of the festival remains ... -
After Nietzsche : Nietzschean ontology and semiotics in Christological metaperspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies, 2002)Nietzschean thought has, for obvious reasons, rarely been engaged with by Christian theology. Nietzsche explicitly offers his theory of values as the precise antithesis of that of Christianity, moreover Nietzschean ... -
Amidst mass atrocity and the rubble of theodicy : searching for a viable theodicy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2008)This work assesses the theological and pastoral viability of key theodic texts within post-Holocaust Jewish thought, liberation theology, and Christian philosophical theodicy through textual analysis of testimonies from ... -
An autonomy perspective in theological ethics on transgenic food production
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2006)Transgenic food organisms are microorganisms, plants and animals that have been transformed genetically using gene-transfer techniques. These recently- developed techniques have the potential to impact on food, agriculture ... -
Autonomy, Capability, Subsidiarity as Key to a Social Ethics for Sustainability
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2019)This thesis brings Amartya Sen'ss capability approach into dialogue with commitments in theological ethics to the autonomy and dignity of the human person in society, and to the integrity of creation. It applies the ... -
Building a civil peace with NEPAD : a Niger Delta case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2013)This dissertation is premised on the correlation between civil peace and human development. It explores the possibility of building peace with the new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) in the light of Kant’s ... -
Church as community : theological foundations and development in practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies, 2000)Since human beings are historical in nature it follows that the church, as a community, exists in time and place. Part I of the dissertation identifies a tradition, time and place in relation to which this study of church ... -
Conceptions of warlike angels in literature of the late Second Temple period
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2011)The work begins with a chapter that presents the various traditions concerning "angelic" warriors in the Hebrew Bible. In this context, we have investigated the two main biblical traditions: the council of gods and the ... -
From the domain of certitude to the relational realm: U.S. Missions in Iran and the Politics of piecemeal social change
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2019)Methodologically this thesis employs a modified microhistorical approach to small social units alongside ethical reflection on historical events and persons. A critical theory method is also utilized in combination with ... -
Harmony, modesty, dialogue : a Moravian contribution towards the development of Christian theologies of religious pluralism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2003)Despite the multiplicity of religions, religious aspirations and religious goals, Christians have generally maintained that in Jesus Christ God has been revealed in an unsurpassable way. In modem times, however, Christians ... -
Historical categories and the praxis of ethnicity in Ancient Israel
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2003)Within biblical archaeology the interpretation of ethnic groups has traditionally taken place within a narrative framework derived almost entirely from certain highly prized written sources, thereby reflecting the privileged ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Interessengeleitetes Studium. Eine niveaudeskriptorenorientierte Neukonzeption religionswissenschaftlicher Einfuhrungsseminare
(University of Berne, ZWB University of Berne, 2009)The thesis includes the development and evaluation of revised introductory courses on the study of religion adjusted to the Bologna framework. In the first chapter, we define the general competencies to be obtained in the ... -
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 ... -
Media, conflict and peace : a study of the media reporting of two major conflicts and peace processes in the Horn of Africa
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2015)The increase in global crises and conflicts as well as the ways and the effects of mediatisation of the phenomena has generated intense interest, research, and debate. This study is not about the impact debate i.e. the ... -
Missing persons : individual eschatology in twentieth century Protestant theology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2001)This thesis comprises a survey and critique of individual eschatology according to the major Protestant theologians of the twentieth century; Rudolf Bultmann, Karl Barth, and the post-Barthians Jurgen Moltmann and Eberhard ... -
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 ...
