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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 ... -
Aquila's Secunda Editio: Evaluating the Appropriation and Evolution of a Concept
(Peeters, 2023)Scholars have used the concept of a secunda editio (‘second edition’) of Aquila since the eighteenth century to address numerous cruces interpretum of reception history and rabbinic tradition, including Aquila’s relationship ... -
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 ... -
Building Sustainable Peace Through Socio-Economic Cooperation: The Role of the Inter-Korean Cooperation Fund in Peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula
This research engages with ‘peacebuilding’ as ‘sustainable relationship building’ in the context of fluctuating inter-Korean relations between 1991-2022. Employing Lederach’s notion that sustainable peacebuilding is ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
'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 ...
