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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Practical reasoning and transnational justice John Rawls's argumentation on justice in dialogue with Onora O'Neill's Kantian cosmopolitanism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2015)This thesis evaluates two opposing accounts of justice and international justice that both claim Kantian foundations: firstly, the international account offered by the political philosopher John Rawls, and, secondly, the ... -
The Fundamentals and their place in modern Protestant church history
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The invention of the first century synagogue : a critical examination of the archaeological evidence
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2010)This dissertation deals with the processes by which five sites at Delos, Jericho, Herodium, Masada and Gamla were identified as first century synagogues. The five sites were chosen for study in this dissertation because ... -
The Irish public service modernisation programme 1994-2007 : A critique from the perspective of Catholic social teaching
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2009)This thesis critiques the Irish public service modernisation programme (IPSM) from the perspective of Catholic social teaching (CST). The IPSM is part of an international movement called New Public Management (NPM). Chapter ... -
The limits of law : Paul Ricoeur and a critical phronesis to engage law, ethics and religion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2008)This study explores the relationship of law and ethics from the insight, evident for many who have been engaged in law as a profession, that the practice of law encounters limits which point to a broader context in which ... -
Tradition and deconstruction : the theological implications of the postmodern crisis of continuity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 1989) -
Translation for transformation : André Chouraqui and his translation of the gospels
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2010)Although he remains largely an unknown in the English-speaking world, André Chouraqui (1917-2007) was, for much of the twentieth century, a prominent and respected figure in the francophone world, in the Middle East and ...
