Divinity thesis and dissertation collection
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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
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-10)[No Deposit Agreement] -
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 ... -
America and the rapture: Jerry Falwell's political theology
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Historical consciousness of eighteenth-century Britain: Viscount Bolingbroke and Edmund Burke
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-23)How did eighteenth-century Britain deal with the tension between its traditional political and religious foundations and the rise of commercial society with its emphases on individual self-interest and the accumulation of ... -
Polemic and piety in Francis Cheynell's The divine trinunity (1650)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-23)Francis Cheynell’s (1608-1665) The Divine Trinunity (1650) has recently been acknowledged for its co-extensive treatment of Puritan polemical and practical Trinitarian divinity. This thesis substantially advances the insight ... -
Non-reformists’ reform in the Age of Modernity: the development of Islamic ethico-legal theory in nineteenth-century Egypt
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)This thesis seeks to rethink the history of scholars of Islamic law in nineteenth-century Egypt, a group, time, and place which have all been viewed as static, rigid, and stagnant. I mainly have two objectives. Firstly, ... -
Apocalyptic spatiality in 1 Peter and selected 1 Enoch literature: a comparative analysis
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-14)The present work is an exegetical analysis that outlines the spatio-temporal aspects of the Jewish apocalyptic framework that has shaped the later 1 Enoch texts (1 Enoch 91–108) on the one hand, and as will be demonstrated, ... -
Ministering between Heaven and Earth: John Chrysostom's theology and practice of church leadership
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-10)This thesis systematically explores Chrysostom’s theology and practice of church leadership. It identifies major themes from Chrysostom’s treatise, De sacerdotio, and discusses them in the larger context of his theological ...
