Divinity thesis and dissertation collection
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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 ... -
One person in two natures: Christology and coherence
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-02-16)A commitment to the Chalcedonian standard implies a logical difficulty for Christology: a single person, in virtue of existing in two natures, exemplifies apparently incompatible attributes. This ‘problem of contradictory ... -
Paul’s designations of God in Romans
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-01)This thesis investigates one aspect of Paul’s God-languages, namely, Paul’s divine designations of θεός in his letter to the Romans. By comparing and contrasting Paul’s designations with his Jewish and pagan contemporaries, ... -
Impact of religion on interreligious peace: evidence from zones of peace in Abuja, Nigeria
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-01)This thesis argues that religion impacts peace between members of different religious groups, but it is at times not in the manner that some religious leaders and some of those who favourably comment on religious ... -
Ritual dimension of union with Christ in Paul's thought
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-01)The study of the ritual (sacramental) aspect of participation in Christ has long been marginalised in the literature due to an anti-ritual bias that has several strands. Theologically, given the Biblical studies conducted ... -
Transforming the finite: toward a Jacobi-ian ecological critique of big bang cosmology’s new German romantic philosophy of nature
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-01)Big bang cosmologists appear to utilize a neo-German romantic philosophy of nature, reinventing in the context of a modern science the critical monism through which Hölderlin, Schelling, Schlegel, and Novalis thought nature ... -
Faith-based social activism in Edinburgh: meaning, motive and definition
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis is a research investigation of the ways in which faith-based organisations (FBOs) engage in social activism with the goal of discovering how UK welfare reforms, including cuts in welfare provision and welfare ... -
First Christian ‘magicians’: early Christian afterlives of Matthew’s Magi (Matt 2:1-12)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Matthew’s magi (Matt 2:1-12) travel great lengths in the first three centuries CE. This thesis analyzes the early Christian afterlives of Matthew’s magi in the first three centuries in light of early Christian Wirkungsgeschichte ... -
Reconceptualising conversion: a phenomenological analysis of religious conversion, with particular reference to Maurice Merleau-Ponty
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Religious conversion is often understood as a sudden, dramatic, emotionally intense, one-off experience which utterly revolutionises a convert’s life and religious worldview. This conception of conversion is driven by the ... -
Impact of the Keswick and Cambridge Holiness Movement on British Protestant Missions in Asia (1881- 1906), with special reference to the Church Missionary Society and the China Inland Mission
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The religious revivals in later nineteenth-century Britain promoted significant commitment to the cause of overseas mission. One outgrowth of these revivals was the holiness movement, and particularly its expressions ... -
Marxism and Christianity: taking Roger Garaudy's project seriously
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Roger Garaudy occupied a position at the centre of the debate with Louis Althusser, Lucien Sève and others over Marxist humanism within the French Communist Party. That, and his active participation in the Marxist–Christian ...
