In this study, I examine some Qur'anic stories from a narratological perspective and develop a sustained discussion of Qur' anic narrative. I focus on the following sections in the Qur' an: Surat Al `Imran 3:33-62, Surat Maryam 19:1-58, Surat Y usuf , Surat T[dotbelow]aha and Su…
Can Catholic theology recognize the Koran (Qur'an) as the "Word of God?" The Constitution on Divine Revelation of the Second Vatican Council, "Dei Verbum," says that "no new public revelation is to be expected" after that embodied in the person of Jesus Christ, but does not addr…
This study brings Christian theology and Christian analytic philosophy into dialogue through an examination of the compatibility and complementarity of Karl Barth’s theology of revelation, and Alvin Plantinga’s epistemology of Christian belief. The first two chapters are aimed a…
One of the most lively and enduring debates in New Testament studies is the question of the significance of ‘apocalyptic' thought in Paul. This has recently given birth to a group of scholars, with a common theological genealogy, who share a concern to emphasise the ‘apocalyptic…
"Nuestra edición se ha basado en la versión alemana de la llamada edición crítica, /. G. Fichte-Gesamtausgábe der Byerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stuttgartt-Bad Cannstatt, Friedrich Fromma Verlag, 1964 I, 1, 15-166 a cargo de la Academia de Ciencias de Baviera, por lo qu…
"Nuestra edición se ha basado en la versión alemana de la llamada edición crítica, /. G. Fichte-Gesamtausgábe der Byerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stuttgartt-Bad Cannstatt, Friedrich Fromma Verlag, 1964 I, 1, 15-166 a cargo de la Academia de Ciencias de Baviera, por lo qu…
The Sabbath as the central commandment of the Law relates all of Judaism to God, to creation, to redemption, and to the final fulfillment of the promises in the eternal Sabbath of the end-time. However, early in the inception of Christianity, Sunday replaced the Sabbath as the d…
Problem. The Epistle to the Hebrews is the only document in the New Testament that explicitly describes Jesus as a high priest. The purpose of this dissertation is to ascertain whether or not the book of Revelation, in particular, in John's description of the "one like a son of …
This study attempts to resolve the theological and ethical problems raised by the call for and rejoicing at vengeance as they appear in Rev 6:9-11 and Rev 19:2, respectively. Central to the study is the question of whether vengeance in Revelation expresses a vindictive human att…
This dissertation resituates the Apocalypse of John as a document of the Jewish diaspora during the Judaean War. The argument of the study is that the category "Christian" has been more of a hindrance than a help in approaching the Apocalypse and that holding that category in ab…
This study identifies and classifies prophetic and revelatory phenomena in the Dead Sea Scrolls. We explore how the Qumran community and wider segments of Second Temple period Judaism reflected within the Qumran corpus conceptualized the function of a prophet and the nature of t…
This dissertation contends that the act of truthfully speaking of God, theology, is a tertiary medium of God's revelation. It is thus a thesis both about God, and the discipline of theology formally and materially. Theology is reverberation of God's revelation, his own knowledge…
The belief that God has spoken to humanity through God's revelation has historically been accompanied by the concern among believers and theologians not to replace God's message in revelation with their own human thought. When some elements in the Enlightenment pushed the knowle…
The principal aim of this dissertation is to describe and analyze the ethical and moral teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "LDS Church"), and the process by which those teachings come forth. A further aim is to compare the process and outcome with …