Divinity thesis and dissertation collection
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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 ... -
Theological thinking and loving: dogmatics and ethics in the theology of Herman Bavinck
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-18)In James Eglinton's 2011 editorial, "Bavinck: Dogmatics and Ethics," he asserted that the greatest issue facing Bavinck studies in the English-speaking world was understanding the relationship between Bavinck's dogmatics ... -
Cardinal Contarlni at Regensburg: a study in ecumenism, Catholicism and curialism
(The University of Edinburgh, 1968)Since the end of the twenties, since the initiation of Visitations in Electoral Saxony, since the Diet of Speyer,the Reformation had been clothing itself in quite definitely confessional garb. Emergent Protestantism ... -
Impact of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s intellectual project on his views on Christianity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-08)This thesis explores Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 606/1210) views on Christianity to answer the question: How does al-Rāzī’s intellectual project impact his examination of Christianity? The use of the term ‘intellectual ... -
Suffering for our sakes: the soteriological thought process of Ignatius of Antioch
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)This thesis provides a comprehensive account of the understanding of salvation in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch. Ignatius' surviving writings date from the first quarter of the second century and are some of the few ... -
Our Chalcedonian selves: how traditional Christology informs constructive approaches to theology and psychology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)This thesis employs traditional Chalcedonian Christology to construct a new, interdisciplinary method for understanding our humanity that is capable of robust engagement with modern conceptions of humanity derived from ... -
Meta-textual semantics in the Hebrew text of Jeremiah
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)In this study, I examine the linguistic infelicities (i.e., meta-textual semantics) in the Hebrew text of Jeremiah. The introduction to Proverbs, especially Prov 1:5-6, suggests that it utilises mind-advancing strategies ... -
William Temple’s Doctrine of the will: the bridge between his theology and social thought
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-23)William Temple (1881–1944) is undoubtedly one of the most influential Anglican figures of the twentieth century. Research on Temple, however, tends to be lopsided. Studies tend to have an imbalanced focused on his ... -
'By craftsman's arte': theology and decorative practice in Scottish ecclesiastical and domestic buildings, 1560-1639
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-23)This thesis examines religious decoration and decoration in religious spaces in Scotland in the period between 1560 and 1639. It contends that between these dates there was a lively culture of decoration in ecclesiastical ... -
Production of Christian sacred space in fourth century Jerusalem (335 – 385 CE)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-21)The increased Christian interest in sacred space during late antiquity has been understood as a shift from a more spiritualised practice in early Christianity (the ‘Utopian’) towards a more place-based form of devotion ... -
‘Work’ in the Gospel of John: a cognitive perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-20)The abundance of figurative expressions in the Gospel of John have always puzzled readers. The text’s riddles pose a challenge in various ways, occurring both on the linguistic and on the hermeneutical levels. The current ... -
'Everyone has a story': Jordanian churches reimagine Middle Eastern Christianity in response to refugees
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-20)Syrian and Iraqi refugees displaced by regional conflicts have become a large presence in Jordan since 2011. The scale of the refugee phenomenon has affected both Christian-Muslim and intra-Christian dynamics in the country. ... -
Brazilian evangélicos in diaspora in South Florida: identity, ecclesiology and mission
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-15)Although there has been a rise in interest in the study of migrant churches in current World Christianity Scholarship, one of the gaps in scholarship today is Lusophone Christianity in the US. This is in part due to the ... -
Between ruins and remnants: religious reinvention and renewal among Christians in West Bank Palestine
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-26)This thesis offers an ethnography of local Christianity and its relation to the changing social, cultural, and political context of contemporary West Bank Palestine. This study argues that the changes over the course of ... -
God’s artefacts: the beauty of mathematical structures in physics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-26)The purpose of this thesis is to argue the following case: amongst the structures of the world beauty is characteristic of those investigated by mathematical physics. It is a plausible response to this that their aesthetic ... -
Role of Christian faith for women living with disabilities and HIV in South-South Nigeria
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-25)This study seeks to understand how women living with disabilities and HIV cope with the challenges in the society and in the church, and the extent to which Christian faith helps them to face their difficulties. In many ... -
Creation of the Free Church of Scotland, 1842-1847
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Jesus as the fulfillment of the Temple and its cult in the Gospel of Matthew
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)In the world of antiquity, temples fulfilled the role of providing a home for the deity to live among the people. Thus, temples were the points at which divine power intersected human weakness in order to meet the needs ... -
Divine illumination: traditional Chinese medicine and the spirit field theory of Wolfhart Pannenberg
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)The discussion of divine action in the field of science and religion is largely divided into two schools of thought, compatibilism and incompatibilism. Incompatibilists, in the main, discuss the physical and spiritual ...
