Experiences deemed spiritual or religious play important but complex roles in the life narratives and meaning systems of many. The relationship between these experiences and individuals’ beliefs and worldviews is only partially understood. This thesis explores how people make se…
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İnsanlık tarihinin temel sorunlarından birisi Tanrı konusu olmuştur. Düşünüp sorgulayan her insan, belli bir dini inanışa sahip olsun ya da olmasın Tanrı hakkında düşünmüş ve bu konuyu kendi düşünce sisteminde konumlandırmaya çalışmıştır. Fârâbî ve Gazzâlî'nin Tanrı tasavvurları…
Çalışmamızın amacı Jean Paul Sartre’ın edebî eserlerinden hareketle Tanrı görüşünü verebilmektir. Giriş ve üç bölümden oluşan tezimizde, çalışmanın kapsam ve sınırları genel olarak çizildikten sonra Sartre’ın hayatı, eserleri ve felsefesinin kısaca tanıtıldığı bir giriş sunulmuş…
Though personal authenticity is an organizing ideal of late-modern Western societies, it also is a site of some of our most contentious disagreements, lacks coherence in many of its formulations, is not fully understood in all of its implications, and is often unidentified in it…
The present study examines Paul's use of Isaiah in Rom 11:25–27 and seeks to determine how the apostle's treatment of Scripture in that passage informs his argument in Romans 9–11. Some recent studies have focused on the interpretive role of mystery in specific Pauline texts inv…
This study contributes to the dialogue in the higher education literature on spirituality by describing how traditional-age college students of monotheistic faiths make meaning of a challenge to their conception of God. These students' experiences were examined in order to addre…
In 1 Corinthians, Paul appeals to Israel's exodus traditions to shape the behavior and to mold the identity of the early church. The apostle employs these traditions in two sections of this letter: 1 Cor 5:6–8 and 10:1–22. A study of these passages reveals that Paul reads the ex…
Images of God, positive and negative, create an ongoing tension in the biblical text. This tension is due to the paradoxical character of God as seen in Exod 34:6-7. The cognitive dissonance created by the juxtaposition of positive and negative images of the divine is unsettling…
God does not appear often in the stories of the Hebrew Bible. As the primary national history progresses from Exodus through Kings, God's appearance becomes less and less common and eventually ceases completely. This trend is evident both within small narrative units and over th…
Is adult perceived image of god related to attachment style, and if so, is it parallel to or compensatory for early or adult attachment style, and does early image of god influence adult attachment? One hundred and thirty-one undergraduates completed measures of their present ad…
This dissertation intends to demonstrate that Karl Barth's doctrine of the Trinity, in that it is determined to be faithful not only to the apostolic, but also the prophetic witness to the God of Israel, provides the church with a different and highly-valuable approach to the do…
How can Christianity be made acceptable to the Chinese, whose history and culture extended far beyond the history and culture of those who were preaching the new religion? This has been a problem that generations of China missionaries had tried to solve. The Jesuits, led by Matt…
Les études sur les discours d'évangélisation des Actes des Apôtres sont nombreuses. La théo-logie des discours n'a pas bénéficié d'un traitement comparable à celui qu'a reçu, par exemple, la christologie des discours. Tout en reconnaissant que Jésus Christ occupe effectivement u…
Among Deutero-Isaiah's many metaphors for God are “father” and “mother.” Five pericopes clearly use one or both of these images. The parent imagery appears alongside, and interacts with, other metaphors for God. Thus, the implications of the images of father and mother vary grea…
Chapters 40–55 of the book of Isaiah, also known as Deutero-Isaiah, are concerned primarily with the themes of comfort and return. Its context is the time period of the Babylonian exile, though some scholars date portions as late as the mid-fifth century B.C.E. The message of co…
This dissertation provides the first full-scale literary and theological treatment of the motif of humans confronting God in rabbinic literature. The sages do not challenge God directly, but indirectly by placing moral critiques of God into the mouths of various biblical heroes.…
The study poses the question: “What was said about God?” in view of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Judah during the first half of the sixth century BCE. The answers to this question are examined through searching the issues that occupied religious thinking, with…
The question to be considered in this thesis is: should the Canaanite elements in the Psalter be classified as evidence of syncretism or, rather, as evidence of another process called contextualization? Contextualization is a process of communicating from one context to another …
This dissertation argues that through the use of rhetorical criticism, Paul's argument in Romans 9–11 can be understood as both literarily and theologically coherent. This study argues against such positions as that the coherence of Romans 9–11 is not demonstrable, or that one c…