Divinity, School of: Recent submissions
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Telos of faith-based aid: Christian organising in development, humanitarianism and advocacy through the lens of institutional logics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-09-20)This thesis is situated within the field of faith-based organisations (FBOs), but is concerned with a specific kind of FBO: large non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that operate within the same sphere of activity as ... -
Tanzanian Christianity and socio-political thought in the Nyerere years: a comparative study of the Chagga of Kilimanjaro and the Haya of Kagera, 1954-1985
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-08-29)This thesis analyses the ways in which Christianity interacted with socio-political thought in Tanzania between the late colonial period and the end of Julius Nyerere’s presidency. It focuses primarily on the Chagga people ... -
Word-to-word: a constructive account of speech between God and humanity in the theologies of Herman Bavinck and John Webster
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-08-08)Modern theology and philosophy have often concerned themselves with questions of the knowability of the divine, questions that gravitate around the nexus that is the concept of revelation. Questions such as the ability of ... -
Divine sovereignty in Jihadi-Salafist thought: an intellectual genealogy
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-07-14)This dissertation examines the concept of divine sovereignty in Jihadi-Salafism through a study of four of its major proponents. In the subfield of Jihadi-Salafism, scholars have argued that the notion of ‘divine sovereignty’ ... -
Changing Scottish Presbyterian missionary vision of India and China, 1840-1914
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-06-27)This thesis examines Scottish public views of Christian overseas missions and the growth of the British Empire in India and China between the 1840s and the beginning of the First World War – a period which saw the predominant ... -
Poetic plantwork practices: radical herbalist relationships with plants
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-06-16)This project is about engagements between people and plants; namely those familiar plants that we call ‘herbs’ and those people - 'herbalists' - who cultivate intimate acquaintance with them. Looking to the praxes and ... -
From Treblinka to Trenton: Holocaust perpetrators as immigrants to the post-war United States
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-17)In the period following the end of World War II, an unknown number of collaborators with the Nazi regime immigrated to the United States from Europe. This included active perpetrators of the Holocaust, around 200 of which ... -
Theological contribution of Robert William Dale
(The University of Edinburgh, 1955-12)The full impact of nineteenth century thought has been most deeply felt in the last ten years. There is a growing realisation that the problems with which the Victorians struggled a hundred years ago laid the foundations ... -
Letters into exile: narratological strategies and identity-forming storytelling in the post-war correspondence of the Ernst Levin Collection (1946-1962)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-28)This thesis aims to contribute to the field of epistolary research, research on ego-documents as well as cultural and literary studies of the fin de siècle, the interbellum period and the post-World War Two era in ... -
Gadamerian approach to science and religion historiographies: reinterpreting essentialism, anachronism, and complexity in recent science and religion historiographies through the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-21)This thesis explores three historiographical categories used in recent science and religion research: essentialism, anachronism, and complexity. It observes that these categories are historico-methodological tools that are ... -
Reformed yet Catholic: the ecclesiology of Samuel Rutherford reflecting conciliarism, the Scottish banding tradition, and Covenant theology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-15)The ecclesiastical polemics of Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661), champion of the Scots Presbyterian Covenanters, has been criticised for inconsistency. It has been argued that Rutherford’s anti-tolerationism rejecting the ... -
Gifts from the world: bringing Dumitru Staniloae in conversation with some prominent themes in majority world theologies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-15)This thesis engages the theological topic of the “gift” and “gift-giving” that has become popular within Euro-American theological discourse. While the academic discourse is traced back to an anthropological work that ... -
Law, bioethics and society: Jewish and Islamic approaches to fertility treatments and human germline genome editing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-02)In 2018, the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui announced the birth of the first genetically modified babies; this broke an international moratorium. When the Russian biologist Denis Rebriko reported similar intentions, ... -
Dialectic as dialogue: Emil Brunner's theology of encounter
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-30)This thesis is an examination of Emil Brunner’s theological epistemology, arguing that epistemic questions and concerns stand at the center of Brunner’s entire theological project. One cannot properly understand Brunner ... -
Nomina Sacra in the Corpus Paulinum in the first millennium: the textual and visual transmission of θεοϲ, κυριοϲ, ιηϲουϲ, χριϲτοϲ, and υιοϲ in the papyri and majuscules of Romans, 1 Corinthians, Philemon, and Hebrews
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-18)Some of the most conspicuous features in the text of Greek NT manuscripts are the nomina sacra (NS), words written in abbreviated form, with an overline. This study examines the twofold—visual and textual—nature of the ... -
'Speaking to my heart': a close reading of Qohelet as a literary character
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-11)This project seeks to analyze Qohelet’s first-person speech as a route to understand his character through the words spoken by himself. In scholarship, although Qohelet is recognized as a character, it is often analyzed ... -
Protestant Magdalene Asylums in Scotland, 1797-1914
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-12)This thesis provides an account of the Protestant Magdalene Asylums in Scotland between 1797 and 1914. These were Christian homes that provided accommodation for, and that aimed to reform, women deemed to be in need of ... -
Paul and Seneca on consolation: a comparative study
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-07)This thesis provides the first book-length comparative treatment of consolation in the writings of the apostle Paul and Seneca the Younger. It starts by offering a fresh conceptualisation of consolation in antiquity through ... -
Marrow of certainty: the theology of assurance of Thomas Boston
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-18)Assurance was a central issue for the eminent Scottish theologian-pastor Thomas Boston (1676–1732) long before it emerged as a focal point of the theological debate in the Marrow Controversy. Despite the sensation ... -
Imago Dei in Jonathan Edwards: the locus of divine activity for the glorification of the Triune God in the end of creation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-20)The central argument of this dissertation concerns how the imago Dei in the theological corpus of Jonathan Edwards ought to be interpreted as the center of gravity of the Triune God’s providential work from creation ...
