The traditional Chinese and modernized Gregorian calendars represent vastly different ontics of time and have been framed by the Chinese government as being in intractable, existential conflict with one another. "The time of modernity" in general is regularly described as being …
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This dissertation argues that the influence and impact of the descendants of Hawaii's original missionaries thwarted the course of Christianity within the islands. Shaped by their exclusion from Hawaiian culture during formative years and trained in Western ideals through an eli…
Throughout the Arab history, fundamentalist tendencies have fostered distrust and prevented cooperation between Muslim and Christian Arabs. Sociologist and theologian Peter Berger demonstrates that such radicalization creates cognitive minorities, rendering these minorities unab…
This study examines the contrast between בִּשְׁגָגָה and בְּיָד רָמָה in Num 15:22-31, with the aim of clarifying the definition for both terms in relation to one another. It begins with a survey of the context of the passage and clarifies the methodology to be employed. Chapter 2 covers t…
In this dissertation, I primarily focus on the construction of the concept of anticipatory community and the theopoetic practice of anticipation as a unique, relevant, and urgently necessary contribution to the field of ecotheology and the practice of community in general in our…
Symbolical parallels and similarities are naturally present in all major religions. Zoroastrianism, a religion founded by Zaraθuštra and with origins in Eastern Persia, has numerous similarities with the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The purpose of…
This study explores the role of religious aesthetics in providing a religious experience from the perspectives of both the history of religion and contemporary scholarship on the subject. The study utilizes a phenomenological approach which looks at religious aesthetics as a vis…
Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern over the continued escalation of inter-religious violence among Muslims and Christians in Nigeria. The high level of ethnic and cultural diversity coinciding with acute politicization of religion have immensely contribu…
This thesis focuses on the methodology developed by Ismail Raji al Faruqi (d. 1986) to the study of religion, which he initially designed as an in introductory chapter to his book Christian ethics. The basic task in this study is to apply this methodology to the study of African…
This project investigates challenges to the New Testament’s presentation of the Incarnation of the Son of God which derive from the theological and philosophical worldviews of Orthodox Judaism, namely those promoted by Maimonides and Kabbalah. Maimonides’s worldview entailed tha…
Since its beginnings, the phenomenon of consciousness has been immersed in the ocean of the unconscious, which is reflected in a psychic existence that is experienced throughout and beyond the physical world. The creative impulse was thus born, as a desire to emulate the living …
The manuscript of Xu ting mishisuo jing 序聽迷詩所經 (the Record of Hearing the Sutra of the Intercessor) is thought to be the oldest Nestorian artifact produced in China. It conveys valuable information about the earliest contact between Nestorian Christianity and Central China. Howe…
This essay is concerned with the relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and torah observance as is discussed in the Gospel of Thomas’ logia 13, 14, and 53. I contend in this essay that torah observance and the correct interpretation of torah observance is a central theme both…
The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the nature and character of the Islamic representations of Jibril by means of biblically derived criteria for identifying spiritual beings and by comparing the representations of the Islamic Jibril with the representations of the bib…
Dating apps pose particular challenges for queer Christians, complicating an already sensitive combination of social and cultural commitments, values and beliefs. Dating apps position themselves in the dating market in a variety of ways, however all function to help people meet …
Evangelists in a Muslim context face a tension about the doctrine of the Trinity. On one hand, the doctrine of the Trinity is crucial to a Christian understanding of God and the gospel message. On the other hand, it stands as one of the foremost theological obstacles to Muslim c…
Problem Currently in Northern Nigeria, religious interaction among the three major religious traditions, Islam, Christianity, and African Traditional Religion, is marred by violent religious conflicts. Also, competing concepts of religious legitimacy, which appeal to the histori…
The cosmic mystery of Mary draws attention to what the Roman Catholic Church celebrates as her heavenly reign, an aspect of which is the proliferation of Marian apparitions and manifestations around the world particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries. This dissertation undersc…
The qur’ānic portrayals of the nativity, found primarily in Sūrat Maryam (Q 19.15-32) and Sūrat Āl-‘Imrān (Q 3.42-47), differ in cardinal ways from the accounts of the canonical Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Scholars long ago demonstrated that the uniqueness of qur’ānic depiction…