Divinity thesis and dissertation collection
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Conservative in theology, liberal in spirit: modernism and the American Presbyterian Mission in Thailand, 1891-1941
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The thesis examines to what extent, and in what ways, modernism impacted the American Presbyterian Mission (APM) in Thailand between 1891 and 1941. At the end of the nineteenth century, an American Protestant missionary ... -
Spiritual turn. On the commitment to God and the good in epistemology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)It is commonly held that the search for truth is successful in proportion to the readiness of truth searchers to put aside their original beliefs and to accept whatever belief will appear to be proven. This view is taken ... -
Beloved Disciple as interpreter and author of scripture in the Gospel of John
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This study explains the Gospel of John’s emphasis on its written medium as a literary text by proposing that the authoritative text of the Jewish scriptures is appropriated as model for the gospel’s likewise textual ... -
Revelation and divination in the Letters of Paul
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis examines Paul's claims to divine knowledge from the perspective of divination in the Graeco-Roman world. Throughout his letters Paul claims to convey the words and will of a deity (usually his ancestral ... -
Narrative spirituality and the infrapolitical self in the Dark Goddess intertext
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)In the last three decades a discourse on the ‘Dark Goddess’ has arisen in the context of the Anglo-American ‘spiritual milieu’, and more specifically in the Goddess Spirituality and contemporary Pagan movements. Between ... -
'A Christian dogmatic does not yet exist': the influence of the nineteenth century Historical Turn on the theological methodology of Herman Bavinck
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)It has long been recognized that the nineteenth century’s turn to history signaled an inflection point not only in historical studies, establishing its place as a ‘science’ (Wissenschaft) in the university but in the ... -
Church of Scotland periodicals and the shaping of Scottish opinion regarding South African apartheid and the Central African Federation, c. 1912–c. 1965
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Using textual and visual material from Scottish Christian periodicals, this thesis examines the role of Christian humanitarianism in influencing Scottish public opinion relative to empire and race between c. 1912 and ... -
Implicit dimensions of explicit faith: inquiring into the centrality of belief by attending to the holistic character of Christian believing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis is first and foremost a work of Christian systematic theology that brings in interdisciplinary resources as is deemed fit for its inquiry into why believing is centrally significant in and for Christianity ... -
Critical hermeneutics: contemporary philosophical perspectives in Turkey on the understanding and interpretation of the Qur'an
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)From the moment of its revelation, the Qur’an has held a pivotal importance for Muslims. However, reverence for the Qur’an did not by default mean an indiscriminate application of its message. On the contrary, as old as ... -
Semantics of ַרע (bad) in Ancient and Mishnaic Hebrew
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)From the 1960s on, linguistic theory has become increasingly integrated into the analysis of Biblical Hebrew. As a result of Biblical Hebrew being analysed as language, it has increasingly been studied as a portion of ... -
Public theology in post-1997 Hong Kong: the perspectives of Anglican theologians, scholars in Sino-Christian theology, and evangelical theologians, and a critical engagement with Stanley Hauerwas's theology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis offers the first major study of the developments of Protestant public theology in Hong Kong. The thesis evaluates some of the major expressions of public theology that have arisen since 1997, referring to the ... -
Did Mark’s Jesus ‘live like a king?’: the Rex and Roman Imperial ideology in Mark’s Gospel
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The Gospel of Mark stands out uniquely from the other gospels in its understanding and presentation of Jesus’ kingship. Matthew, Luke, and John’s gospels positively assign Jesus the title “king” (βασιλεύς) and in fact such ... -
Contribution of Northern Sami everyday Christianity to a cosmologically-oriented Christian theology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The thesis explores the question of the contribution of North Sami everyday Christianity to cosmologically-oriented Christian theology. The basic assumption underpinning the study is that a ‘cosmological orientation’ – ... -
‘Let everyone examine themselves’: Radical Emotional Reflexivity in Scottish Reformed Protestantism, 1590-1640
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis argues that radical emotional reflexivity – self-examination of one’s emotions, ‘radical’ because intentional and rigorous – was a central practice in Scottish Protestantism between 1590 and 1640. It ... -
Origins and development of the church of Scotland mission Blantyre, Nyasaland 1875-1926
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Sacrifice, Brotherhood and the body: God's promise to Abraham and the transformation of the Ethne in Paul's Letter to the Romans
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-29)This thesis rereads Paul’s use of sacrificial language in Romans. Its central argument is that in 12:1, in which Paul appeals to the ethne to offer their bodies as a living sacrifice, Paul uses the language of sacrifice ... -
Theology as the Wetenschap of God: Herman Bavinck's scientific theology for the modern world
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-22)The revival of Calvinism in the nineteenth-century Netherlands entailed the neo-Calvinist movement. With Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck became a brand name of neo-Calvinism. Nonetheless, not until the first decade of the ... -
Theorising disruption at the intersection of madness, mental disorder and acute religious experiences: a mad studies approach
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-29)This thesis is derived from my own experience that: When I am sane, I am an atheist, but when I am Mad, I am driven by the Hand of God. From this paradoxical position I hypothesise a non-binary Intersection of Madness, ... -
An 'open-ended distinctiveness': the contemporary relevance of Wolfhart Pannenberg's participatory ecclesiology and ecumenism for World Christianity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)This thesis contributes to the wider discussion surrounding the viability of the emerging theological paradigm of ‘World Christianity’ by arguing that Wolfhart Pannenberg’s participatory ecclesiology and ecumenism are ... -
GA 1739: a monk, his manuscript and the text of Paul's Letters
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-29)Housed in the library of the Lavra Monastery on Mount Athos with the shelf number Bʹ 64 [184] is Gregory-Aland 1739, a tenth-century manuscript containing the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic Epistles, and the Pauline Epistles. ...
