Divinity thesis and dissertation collection
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Conceptions of responsibility and visions of the common life: a comparative study of Karl Barth and Mou Zongsan
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)This thesis is a comparative study of the practical theories of responsibility across different traditions. The two thinkers under comparison are the Christian theologian Karl Barth and the Confucian philosopher Mou Zongsan. ... -
Evolution of evangelical socio-political approaches in contemporary China (1980s-2010s)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)This thesis explores the evolution of Evangelical socio-political approaches in contemporary China, arguing that Evangelicals in both the Three-Self church and the house churches have moved towards an increasing sense ... -
How Mark wrote: scripturalization in the Gospel of Mark and the Second Temple Period
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)Devorah Dimant distinguishes between an ‘expositional use’ and a ‘compositional use’ of the Jewish scriptures in the Second Temple period. The former refers to marked citations or allusions which seek to interpret the ... -
SIM – strengthened through diversity? An examination of the origins and effects of cultural diversity within a multi-national Christian mission agency 1975-2015
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)Through a historical analysis of the mission theology and practice of SIM, an evangelical mission organisation that was originally dominated by North Americans but is now increasingly multi-national, this thesis seeks ... -
Suddenness and signs: the eschatologies of 1 and 2 Thessalonians
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)Eschatology is generally and rightly regarded as the most significant topic of both 1 and 2 Thessalonians. However, the nature of the eschatologies in these two epistles—and particularly their relationship with each ... -
Identifying the primary purpose of Ephesians and the role of Ephesians 4:7-16: a linguistic-literary approach to Ephesians
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-27)“What is the primary purpose of Paul’s writing of Ephesians?” “Which paragraph plays the most decisive role in identifying the primary purpose of writing Ephesians?” Motivated by complicated issues such as the difficulty ... -
End of John: a literary-historical reading of John 21
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-13)The history of scholarship on John 21 is characterized by a routine set of general conclusions about its relationship to the rest of John. The following thesis begins with a survey of these longstanding historical and ... -
YHWH of hosts rules on Mount Zion: literary cohesion in Isaiah 24-27
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-13)Isaiah 24–27, the so-called "Isaiah Apocalypse," is a striking section in the book of Isaiah––from its opening depiction of cosmic upheaval, to the death of Mot, to the summoning blast of the shofar. Its heightened, ... -
Toward a Chinese American evangelical theology: the promise of neo-Calvinism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-27)Recent evangelical scholarship increasingly calls for ethnic theological perspectives in the American context; for just as the center of World Christianity has shifted from the West to the Majority World, the ethnic and ... -
From sayings to texts: the literary contextualisation of Jesus’s words in the writings of Tertullian and Origen
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-10-25)This thesis addresses the subject of the early Christian re-use and interpretation of the words of Jesus. Unlike previous studies, which focus predominantly on the text of, and sources for, citations of Jesus’s sayings ... -
New light on the Inner Light: an assessment of how Rufus Jones attempted to synthesize Quakerism and modern thought in Social Law in the Spiritual World
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)Concerned by the threat that psychology seemed to pose to Christian belief, Rufus Jones wrote Social Law in the Spiritual World in 1904 to show how this new science would actually lead to a deeper understanding of God. ... -
Sustainability and the sacred: a comparative study of Indian religious environmentalism with special reference to Christian and indigenous communities in the State of Kerala
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)This thesis is a study of Indian religious environmentalism with particular reference to Christian and indigenous religions in the state of Kerala, South India. Ethnographic investigations of church communities were carried ... -
The relation of the festivals of the Jewish calendar year to the structure of the fourth gospel
(The University of Edinburgh, 1955)In this study It has been concluded that in the Fourth Gospel, the following sections of the text are related to the feasts of the Jewish calendar year: 2:13 - 25 The introductory Passover 6:1 - 15; 25 - 65 ... -
John’s use of Mark: a study in light of ancient compositional practices
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)This study seeks to explore the perennial New Testament question concerning John’s use of Mark’s gospel by setting the fourth gospel within the ancient literary culture in which it was written, and interpreting John’s ... -
Beyond the dichotomy: a critical examination of critical realism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)Methodological issues lie at the heart of the current science-theology exchange and it has been in particular the concept of critical realism that has been widely adopted as providing the rationale for an enriching ... -
Not beyond language: Wittgenstein and Lindbeck on the problem of speaking about God
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)The problem of speaking about God arises from the claim that God is utterly transcendent and is ‘wholly other’ from human or this-worldly existence. Another challenge is the profound sense of mystery that surrounds God’s ... -
“Peace, peace, but there is no peace”: prophetic conflicts in Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Micah
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)This work looks at a peculiar blaming of the religious class (especially, the prophets) as it appears in the books of Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Micah. In these three books, the prophets (coupled with the priests on two ... -
Constructing Paul, (dis)placing Ephesians: the Pauline book and the dilemma of Ephesians
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)The problem of how to situate Ephesians vis-à-vis Paul and Paulinism—one with a long and venerable history in Pauline scholarship, although now largely taken for granted—is better characterised as the problem of how to ... -
Mind matters: towards the incorporation of panpsychism from analytic philosophy of mind within the doctrine of creation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-03-25)This thesis argues that a theological articulation of panpsychism, within the bounds of a broadly conceived Christian orthodoxy, would be of benefit to the doctrine of creation. Panpsychism is a family of theories within ... -
Rom 12:6–8: the seven Χαρίσματα and their cultic antecedents
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)This thesis investigates the transition gentile Christ-followers faced as they emerged as monotheistic worshipers in first-century Rome. Abandoning myriad cultic practices, this group must now find appropriate activities ...
