Divinity thesis and dissertation collection
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Gadamerian approach to science and religion historiographies: reinterpreting essentialism, anachronism, and complexity in recent science and religion historiographies through the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-21)This thesis explores three historiographical categories used in recent science and religion research: essentialism, anachronism, and complexity. It observes that these categories are historico-methodological tools that are ... -
Reformed yet Catholic: the ecclesiology of Samuel Rutherford reflecting conciliarism, the Scottish banding tradition, and Covenant theology
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-15)The ecclesiastical polemics of Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661), champion of the Scots Presbyterian Covenanters, has been criticised for inconsistency. It has been argued that Rutherford’s anti-tolerationism rejecting the ... -
Gifts from the world: bringing Dumitru Staniloae in conversation with some prominent themes in majority world theologies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-15)This thesis engages the theological topic of the “gift” and “gift-giving” that has become popular within Euro-American theological discourse. While the academic discourse is traced back to an anthropological work that ... -
Law, bioethics and society: Jewish and Islamic approaches to fertility treatments and human germline genome editing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-02)In 2018, the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui announced the birth of the first genetically modified babies; this broke an international moratorium. When the Russian biologist Denis Rebriko reported similar intentions, ... -
Dialectic as dialogue: Emil Brunner's theology of encounter
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-30)This thesis is an examination of Emil Brunner’s theological epistemology, arguing that epistemic questions and concerns stand at the center of Brunner’s entire theological project. One cannot properly understand Brunner ... -
Nomina Sacra in the Corpus Paulinum in the first millennium: the textual and visual transmission of θεοϲ, κυριοϲ, ιηϲουϲ, χριϲτοϲ, and υιοϲ in the papyri and majuscules of Romans, 1 Corinthians, Philemon, and Hebrews
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-18)Some of the most conspicuous features in the text of Greek NT manuscripts are the nomina sacra (NS), words written in abbreviated form, with an overline. This study examines the twofold—visual and textual—nature of the ... -
'Speaking to my heart': a close reading of Qohelet as a literary character
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-11)This project seeks to analyze Qohelet’s first-person speech as a route to understand his character through the words spoken by himself. In scholarship, although Qohelet is recognized as a character, it is often analyzed ... -
Protestant Magdalene Asylums in Scotland, 1797-1914
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-12)This thesis provides an account of the Protestant Magdalene Asylums in Scotland between 1797 and 1914. These were Christian homes that provided accommodation for, and that aimed to reform, women deemed to be in need of ... -
Paul and Seneca on consolation: a comparative study
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-07)This thesis provides the first book-length comparative treatment of consolation in the writings of the apostle Paul and Seneca the Younger. It starts by offering a fresh conceptualisation of consolation in antiquity through ... -
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 ...
