Browsing Religious Studies by Date of Publication
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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 ... -
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 ... -
?Museality as a Matrix of the Production, Reception, and Circulation of Knowledge Concerning Religion
(2011)Aesthetics of religion focuses on the sensual and representational aspects of religion and develops appropriate terminological tools. The idea of museality as an analytical and heuristic term for culture analysis is specified ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Shahab Ahmed, Before Orthodoxy: The satanic verses in early Islam
(2018)This volume originally aimed at being the first of three volumes concerning the history of Islamic approaches towards the story of the satanic verses (qiṣṣat al-gharānīq); unfortunately, volumes 2 and 3 of this project ... -
Wisdom's Wide Trajectory: Reading the Letter of James in Light of 4Qlnstruction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religions,Theology & Ecumenics. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2019)This Ph.D thesis reads James in light of 4QInstruction with the understanding that these two writings, in terms of their content and influence, represent two literary examples in which sapiential and apocalyptic elements ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Transformations in 11Q10 and Old Greek Job
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2020)The thesis compares aspects of translation technique of the earliest Aramaic and Greek translations of Job which date from the Second Temple period. While some preliminary studies have noted certain similarities between ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Reconceiving Theology after the Anthropological Turn: The Doctrine of God in Friedrich Schleiermacher's "The Christian Faith"
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2023)This study consists of a reconstruction and evaluation of the Doctrine of God in Friedrich Schleiermacher's primary theological work, Der christliche Glaube. The study proceeds by following a method of close reading of ...
