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Bolle, Pierre. "Saint Roch: genèse et première expansion d'un culte au XVe siècle." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211647.

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Brady, Jessica B. "The servant saint : Zita of Lucca and Sitha of England (1278-1550)." Thesis, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14175.

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Scarcella, Philip J. "Pope Benedict XIV concerning saints' causes /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Higgins, Kyle Patrick. "The life of the historic Patrick." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Sands, Tracey Renée. "Heliga Katarina och Liten Karin : the cult of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and its resonances in medieval and post-Reformation Sweden /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6584.

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Morello, Sara Elizabeth. "The canonization of servants of God the diocesan process in the 1983 Norms /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Munk, Ana. "Pallid corpses in golden coffins : relics, reliquaries, and the art of relic cults in the Adriatic Rim /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6213.

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Gascón, Christopher Doherty. "Desire and the woman saint in the Spanish Baroque drama /." Digital version, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9983211.

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Perez, Alyssa. "Margaret of Cortona, the second Mary Magdalene a model for the sexual female rendered sexless /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1018.

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Smit, Dérick-Louw. "De reis van Sint Brandaan 'n interpretasie van geselekteerde temas /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2000. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01102007-095515.

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Stallman, Cynthia Jean. "The life of S. Pancratius of Taormina." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:18905ad4-bdbc-48a3-88cd-0882b4fd3699.

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The Life of S. Pancratius of Taormina describes the mission and martyrdom of S. Pancratius, a disciple of the Apostle Peter sent to evangelize Taormina as its first bishop, and purports to have been written by S. Pancratiusâ successor, Evagrius. It also records details concerning S. Marcian, who was dispatched to Syracuse at the same time. The text exists in three recensions. The editio princeps of the first recension is presented here, based on six manuscripts (Vat. Gr. 1591, Mess. S. Salv. 53, Crypt. BÎ²V, Vat. Gr. 1985, Vind. Hist. Gr. 3 and Vat. Ottobon. Gr. 92), together with an introduction and commentary. External and internal evidence has been used to argue that it should be dated to the early eighth century and that it is of Sicilian provenance. The analysis of the sources of the text and its presentation of the apostolic era contributes to our understanding of the Byzantine attitude to the past and of the novelistic approach to hagiography. The Life is a product of an important, but obscure period of Sicilian history, and it provides some evidence from a local perspective concerning matters such as ecclesiastical arrangements and attitudes in Sicily, views about religious images, practices in church decoration, liturgical rites, book production, the development of legends concerning the apostles, especially S. Peter, civil and military administration, the Sicilian language question, the topography of Sicily and Calabria and contacts with Lombardy, as well as curious references to Slavs and Avars in Sicily. The Commentary is concerned with these questions and in general with the exegesis of the text. A summary of the use made of the Life of S. Pancratius by later writers contributes to our understanding of the iconoclastic controversy. An edition of the Encomium of S. Pancratius by Gregory the Pagurite, probably written in the early ninth century, has been included in an Appendix.

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Cutlip, Andrea. "The influence of holiness : religion, politics, and the veneration of Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi /." Electronic version (PDF), 2003. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2003/cutlipa/andreacutlip.html.

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Taylor, Faye C. "Miracula, saints' cults and socio-political landscapes : Bobbio, Conques and post-Carolingian society." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12805/.

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Despite the centrality of monastic sources to debates about social and political transformation in post-Carolingian Europe, few studies have approached the political and economic status of monasteries and their saints' cults in this context, to which this thesis offers a comparative approach. Hagiography provides an interesting point of analysis with respect to the proposition of mutation féodale, and more importantly to that of the mutation documentaire and its relation to monastic 'reform', which Part I discusses. Parts II and III consider Bobbio and Conques, and their miracula (dedicated to San Colombano and Sainte Foy) within their respective socio-political environments, since the best of the recent scholarship concerning the millennial period has emphasized the specificity of regional experience. At Bobbio the closeness of the king physically and some continuity in royal practices between the tenth and eleventh centuries shaped monastic experience. It directed and sometimes restricted monastic discourse, which maintained an older tradition of general service to the kingdom, although innovations in relic usage helped monastic negotiations with the sovereign. At Conques, the waning of royal control created space for literary and cultic advances that served to bolster the monastery's position within local power structures. In this landscape older forms of public authority were purposefully minimized and hierarchy and landownership were negotiated between aristocrats, including Sainte Foy at the head of Conques. Whilst the categories of the 'feudal transformation' debate can offer a useful framework for the analysis of two very different monasteries and their local societies, the comparison demonstrates that placing monasteries at the centre of our debate is crucial to understanding the documents they produce, and therefore questions the potential that these have to shed light on wider societal change. Concerns over land and autonomy were central to both institutions, although these operated on different conceptual planes, because of different bases of landed patrimony dating back much further than the tenth century. Each monastery negotiated hierarchy and clientele through their miracula and according to local socio-political rules. Therefore, whilst related documentary and cultic transformations were inseparable from socio-political pressures, these were not necessarily pressures simply reacting to mutation féodale, but were formative processes in the direction and shape of social change.

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Derksen, James S. "Christian response to folk Islam in north India and Pakistan with special reference to pirs and leadership." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Bowman, Gaynor. "Edward II : England's lost saint?" Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633645.

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The cult that arose around the posthumous memory of Edward Il is currently recognised but dismissed as a brief, localised aberration, dependent upon external stimulus. The subsuming understandings required to support and project an image of Edward Il as a saintly figure remain unexplored. Therefore, this thesis through a synthesis and analysis of literary and material sources, read against contemporary political, cultural and religious views, aims to identify the foundations of his alleged sanctity and assess the nature, scope and duration of his veneration. This study contends that the idea of Edward Il as a martyr developed three years after his death when it was announced that he had been murdered. The vital nucleus to this was the deeply acculturated belief in the ' inherent sanctity of an anointed king, catalysed into veneration by the abject horror of his murder. This conviction adopted a political dimension in retrospective criticism of the regime of Isabella and Mortimer, which had supplanted the rule of Edward Il and usurped the rule of Edward Ill. The understanding of Edward Il as a saintly figure who stood against the usurpation of God's order became quiescently embedded into the contemporary spiritual hierarchy, resulting in some evidence of it becoming overlooked (as perhaps in the Luttrel/ Psalter) or under evaluated. This argument is explored through fresh interpretations, some re -dating and close readings of four literary pieces. The Lament of Edward If reveals a previously undetected analogy of Edward Il as Boethius. The Vita et Mars is suggested as a hagiography for the king. The Fieschi Letter is considered as a piece of anti-English propaganda emanating from the Hundred Years War and Adam Davy's 5 Dreams about Edward If is re-contextualised as a piece of propaganda possibly written or adapted to gain support for Bishop Despenser's crusade of 1383.

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Zimmern, Matthew. "Hagiography and the cult of saints in the diocese of Liège, c. 700-980." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/358.

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Starks, Gwendolyn. "The living light Hildegard von Bingen's visionary life : a one act play /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Marino, Jeannine. "The required canonical documentation in the diocesan phase of causes of canonization." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0714.

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Brantley, Claudia Preacher. "Equipping the saints enabling persons in the church to lead inductive Bible studies /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Heming, Carol Piper. "Protestants and the Cult of the Saints in German-speaking Europe, 1517-1531 /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9999296.

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Naylor, Rebecca Mia. "Local pilgrimage in Syro-Mesopotamia during Late Antiquity : the evidence in John of Ephesus's Lives of the Eastern Saints." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610845.

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Belghaus, Viola. "Der erzählte Körper die Inszenierung der Reliquien Karls des Grossen und Elisabeths von Thüringen /." Berlin : Reimer, 2005. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/60333168.html.

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Tjernqvist, Madeléne. "Woman Monks of Coptic and Christian Hagiography." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323484.

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Woman monks are not uncommon to find in Coptic and other hagiographic literature. They were described to dress into male attire and travel to anchoritic monasteries where they would get a single cell to devote their lives to God through seclusion, prayers, fasting, meditation, studies, and other daily chores, all the while not being known as women by most of the men in their brethren. It was a tough life for a man and it would have been a tough life for a woman. In this study, five hagiographies about woman monks will be examined: three Coptic, one Christian, and one found in both traditions. These women performed miracles and went through changes in both body and mind. The woman Hilaria is one of the most popular saints in Coptic belief and her story is the corner stone of this thesis. Her legend is also considered to be one of the oldest and might be the origin of these kinds of stories, which makes it remarkable on its own. Nonetheless, four other female saints will be examined to find what this essay seeks to answer: What are these women, as women, doing and why? What is the meaning of these stories? Why do they go to anchoritic monasteries? Are we dealing with portraying ideals on Coptic and Christian women? These are some of the questions that this essay is based upon. It combines Egyptological, Christian, literary, as well as gender research for a relevant and fresh view on these texts and their meaning.
Kvinnliga munkar är inte ovanliga att hitta i koptisk och annan hagiografisk litteratur. De klädde sig i manliga kläder och reste till anakoretiska kloster där de fick en cell för att viga sitt liv åt Gud genom avskildhet, böner, fastande, meditation, studier och andra vardagliga sysslor, allt medan de flesta av männen i deras brödraskap inte visste att de var kvinnor. Det var ett hårt liv för en man och det var ett hårt liv för en kvinna. I den här studien kommer fem hagiografier om kvinnomunkar att undersökas: tre koptiska, en kristen och en som återfinns i både traditioner. Dessa kvinnor utfärdade mirakel och gick igenom förändringar i både kropp och sinne. Kvinnan Hilaria är ett av de mest populära helgonen inom koptiskt trosväsende, och hennes historia är hörnpelaren i denna uppsats. Hennes legend anses också vara en av de äldsta och kanske ursprunget till dessa sorts historier, vilket gör den enastående i sig själv. Trots det kommer fyra andra kvinnliga helgon att undersökas för att hitta de svar som denna uppsats söker: Vad gör dessa kvinnor som kvinnor, och varför? Vad betyder dessa historier? Varför går de till anakoretiska kloster? Har vi att göra med porträtterande av ideal för koptiska och kristna kvinnor? Dessa är några av de frågor som denna uppsats bygger på. Den kombinerar egyptologiska, kristna, litteratur- och genusstudier för ett relevant och färskt perspektiv på dessa texter och deras betydelse.

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Quash, Jonathan Ben. "A critique of Hans Urs von Balthasar's theological dramatic theory : with special reference to the thought of Hegel." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272693.

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Crumplin, Sally. "Rewriting history in the cult of St Cuthbert from the ninth to the twelfth centuries." Thesis, St Andrews, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/406.

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Fröjmark, Anders. "Mirakler och helgonkult : Linköpings biskopsdöme under senmedeltiden /." Stockholm : Almqvist och Wiksell, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355297849.

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Donovan, Leslie Ann. "The old English Lives of Saints Eugenia and Eufrosina : a critical edition /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9397.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1993.
Includes portions of British Library Manuscript Cotton Julius E VII. in the original Old English and modern English transcription. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [291]-312).

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Bouteneff, Peter. "The history, hagiography and humor of the fools for Christ." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1990. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p015-0201.

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Johnson, Jim. "Toward a contextualized model of church leadership in Pakistan." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Shinn, Beth Alison. "Christian mission in the early Middle Ages : an examination of mission, baptism, conversion, and saints' lives from the perspective of missiology." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/17581.

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The underlying question explored by this thesis is whether missiology, applied as a lens to examine Christian mission in the early middle ages, can reveal new insights from historical sources. This approach has raised new questions and has revealed new tensions such as that between the group and individual, that between top-down and bottom-up mission, and that between syncretism and contextualization. One of the key insights is the need to hold the group and individual in tension, that is· not to choose to interpret sources as either group or individual oriented but as moving between the two. Taking one's identity from a group did not negate the individual, it only meant that the individual submitted to group decisions. This tension, it is argued, needs to be highlighted and held in balance in order to understand how groups and individuals in the early middle ages reacted to, and interacted with, the Christian gospel message. To make this case mission, baptism and conversion, as foundational to Christian mission, are examined. An examination of a selection of the writings of the Church Fathers, Saints' Vitae, Church councils and synods, and other correspondence of the early middle ages in light of syncretism and contextualization has raised questions about definition and content. With Rome and Constantinople setting the standard of content and practice, often anything that looked different was labelled as heretical, barbaric or pagan and this has usually been defined as syncretism. However, if the central core content of the Christian gospel message was not compromised, what was happening could be contextualization (that is, the working out of the Christian gospel message in an appropriate cultural manner). Although these are contemporary labels, early medieval sources do reveal an underlying concern about the loss of correct belief and practices. The common interpretation of missional work as a top-down movement often fails to take into account the evidence for the bottom-up, or organic, spread of the Christian gospel message. This is not to say that the official accounts should be set aside, but rather these need to be balanced with the evidence for bottom-up growth. To put some of these insights into an appropriate context, the Vitae of Boniface, Anskar, and Cyril and Methodius are examined as case studies. Each of these men represents different cultural starting points, different geographical areas, and different emphases in mission work. However, in each of these Vitae the tensions between the group and the individual, a top-down or bottom-up approach to mission, and syncretism versus contextualization can be examined, especially in light of the issues of baptism and conversion. The conclusion is that missiology has much to offer early medieval studies. It is a field of study that is broadly interdisciplinary in its approach which gives it an elasticity which allows it to illuminate this period of history valuably. On the basis of this thesis, the discipline of missiology deserves to be applied much more frequently to the study of early medieval history.

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Meïmaris, Giannis E. "Sacred names, saints, martyrs and Church officials in the Greek inscriptions and papyri pertaining to the Christian Church of Palestine /." Athens : Paris : Research centre for Greek and Roman antiquity, the National Hellenic research foundation ; diff. de Boccard, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36632633z.

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Astarita, Susan G. "The church as convener an Anglican model for Christian communion in community /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Jetter, Christina. "Die Jesuitenheiligen Stanislaus Kostka und Aloysius von Gonzaga : Patrone der studierenden Jugend - Leitbilder der katholischen Elite /." Würzburg : Echter, 2009. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3193575&prov=M&dok%5Fvar=1&dok%5Fext=htm.

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Hearden, Maura E. "The Mother of Christ as a symbol of Christian unity a case study for ecumenical dialogue /." 24-page ProQuest preview, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1538430211&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=10355&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Picard, Jean-Charles. "Le Souvenir des évêques : sépultures, listes épiscopales et culte des évêques en Italie du Nord, des origines au Xe siècle /." Rome : Paris : École française de Rome ; diff. de Boccard, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34995916d.

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Munro, Alison Mary. "Aspects of imagery in Catherine of Siena from a Jungian perspective." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018216.

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This study investigates whether or nor not the imagery of Catherine of Siena can be interpreted from a Jungian perspective. It takes a lead from other studies, notably one on Teresa of Avila and Jung. Reading of medieval literature suggests that medievals applied the use of symbols and imagery in ways that are at times baffling to people of our time. Carl Jung was no stranger to imagery and symbol. In our current age with its renewed emphasis on the insights of spirituality, and to some extent its disenchantment with aspects of traditional psychology, there is room for a dialogue between the two disciplines of mysticism and psychology across a six-hundred year divide. The use of imagery, as a window to the soul, in the Christian tradition is examined. Catherine of Siena is situated within her own medieval context, one of upheaval in the church, but also an age of mysticism and spiritual/religious phenomena strange to our own time. Catherine is introduced against the background of her world and against the backdrop of the Dominican tradition. A discussion of some of her major imagery demonstrates her aim of union with God. An understanding of conscious aspects and of unconscious aspects of the self is shown as key to Jung ' s view of the psyche. Elucidation of some archetypes and a discussion of Jung's dream analysis demonstrates how Jung believed the unconscious becomes conscious, and how individuation becomes a possibility. Key Catherinian images are examined from a Jungian perspective. Catherine has relevance for the twenty first century, and we are invited to be challenged by the mysteries and truths to which her images point us.

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Woeber, Catherine. "A study of Christ and his saints as representatives of the values of Christian heroism in Old English poetry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21143.

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Bibliography: pages 71-72.
This dissertation investigates the concept of Christian heroism as it appears in a number of Old English poems, through a study of the figure of the miles Christi. These poems present a specific Christian heroism which, though couched in terms culled from Germanic heroism, nevertheless exists in its own right and is quite different from it. Christ and his saints are seen as heroes in themselves (Christian servants obedient to the will of God) rather than as heroic warriors as they are usually regarded (Germanic heroes fighting for a Christian cause). They are leaders and heroes in the sense of servants, and not only like kings and warriors of the Germanic code. A study of some poems from the Cynewulf canon shows that the poets understood Christian heroism to mean more than brave battling for the cause of good; in essence, it is complete submission to the will of God.

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Hess, Daniel Lund. "The Evolution of Media in the Church Educational System of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2002. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4787.

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This thesis will chronicle the efforts of Church Educational System employees, those in the Church Audiovisual Department, and those in Church Correlation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in the development of media produced specifically for use in the CES classroom.Following a brief overview of the history of Church Education and LDS motion picture production, this thesis will document the efforts in producing media support for CES from 1965 to the present. It will chronicle how CES media development, approval, and production have mirrored changes and developments in CES curriculum philosophy, Church organization, and advances in motion picture production technology. The creative and collaborative processes during each phase of media development will also be explored.

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Drauden, Jeff. "An examination of the claim of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to be a Christian denomination." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Cain, Andrew. "The letters of Jerome : asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity /." Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9780199563555.

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Harrington, Jesse Patrick. "Vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints' Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277930.

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This dissertation concerns the narrative and theological role of divine vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints’ Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215. The dissertation considers four case studies of primary material: the hagiographical and historical writings of the English Benedictines (Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Eadmer of Canterbury, and William of Malmesbury), the English Cistercians (Aelred and Walter Daniel of Rievaulx, John of Forde), the cross-cultural hagiographer Jocelin of Furness, and the Irish (examining key textual clusters connected with St. Máedóc of Ferns and St. Ruadán of Lorrha, whose authors are anonymous). This material is predominantly in Latin, with the exception of the Irish material, for which some vernacular (Middle Irish) hagiographical and historical/saga material is also considered. The first four chapters (I-IV) focus discretely on these respective source-based case studies. Each is framed by a discussion of those textual clusters in terms of their given authors, provenances, audiences, patrons, agendas and outlooks, to show how the representation of cursing and vengeance operated according to the logic of the texts and their authors. The methods in each case include discerning and explaining the editorial processes at work as a basis for drawing out broader patterns in these clusters with respect to the overall theme. The fifth chapter (V) frames a more thematic and comparative discussion of the foregoing material, dealing with the more general questions of language, sources, and theological convergences compared across the four source bases. This chapter reveals in particular the common influence and creative reuse of key biblical texts, the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, and the Life of Martin of Tours. Similar discussion is made of a range of common ‘paradigms’ according to which hagiographical vengeance episodes were represented. In a normative theology in which punitive miracles, divine vengeance and ritual sanction are chiefly understood as redemptive, episodes in which vengeance episodes are fatal can be considered in terms of specific sociological imperatives placing such theology under pressure. The dissertation additionally considers the question of ‘coercive fasting’ as a subset of cursing which has been hitherto studied chiefly in terms of the Irish material, but which can also be found among the Anglo-Latin writers also. Here it is argued that both bodies of material partake in an essentially shared Christian literary and theological culture, albeit one that comes under pressure from particular local, political and sociological circumstances. Looking at material on both sides of the Irish Sea in an age of reform, the dissertation ultimately considers the commonalities and differences across diverse cultural and regional outlooks with regard to their respective understandings of vengeance and cursing.

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Meimaris, Yiannis E. "Sacred names, saints, martyrs and church officials in the Greek inscriptions and papyri pertaining to the Christian church of Palestine." Athens, Greece : Paris : Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation ; Diffusion De Boccard, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18374549.html.

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"Based on the thesis submitted by the author for the degree 'Doctor of Philosophy' to the Senate of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 1976"--P. viii.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and indexes.

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Newswander, Lynita Kay. "Biopolitics and Belief: Governance in the Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26685.

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This dissertation offers an analysis of two American religions–the Church of Christ, Scientist (CS), and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)–and the ways that their particular/peculiar ideologies regarding the body govern the everyday realities of their respective memberships. Biopower is the political power used to control bodies and bodily actions, such as the care of oneself, and the details of personal family life. Belief can act as an especially powerful agent of biopolitical power as it inspires a lived faithfulness through its various theologies. What is more, the effects of biopolitical belief are often complicated by the mixed interests of Church and State, leaving the territory of the individual body a disputed claim. To better understand these disputes, this project utilizes a Foucaultian interpretation of the CS and LDS churches to better understand the roots of the biopolitical conflicts they confront. Specifically, the histories and contemporary practices of these religious organizations are analyzed through a genealogical method, using Foucaultian interpretations of the biopolitical, pastoral, and psychiatric powers they use to effectively govern the minds, bodies, and spirits of their people. A historical background of the CS and LDS churches traces the emergence of the biopolitical practices of each group by evaluating their groundedness in their current social-political milieus, and by making connections between their respective religious beliefs, practices, and government and the broader Jacksonian American political culture into which they were born. Additionally, this particular form of analysis poses important questions for the study of religion and politics today. Although most of the examples used in this study are historical, both the LDS and CS churches continue to hold on to many if not all of the theologies and doctrines which historically brought them into conflict with the US government. What has changed is not the belief itself, but the embodiment of it, and also the state and federal government reaction to it. Therefore, the theological histories and founding stories of these religions remain relevant to their contemporary status as extra-statal biopolitical forces within the US today.
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Martone, Thomas. "The theme of the conversion of Paul in Italian paintings from the early Christian period to the high Renaissance." New York : Garland Pub, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/11970051.html.

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Persona, Emerson. "A imagem de Maria Bueno na representação artística de Raul Cruz." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2017. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/2578.

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O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar as representações artísticas das imagens de Maria Bueno (1854-1893), especificamente na pintura “Retrato de Santa Maria Bueno”, de Raul Cruz. Com este objetivo, analisam-se as particularidades e o contexto de produção desta pintura, dentro do universo do artista. As imagens de Maria Bueno são sacralizadas por parte da população da capital paranaense e, sendo assim, estuda-se neste trabalho o seu processo de sacralização. A partir de seu assassinato em 29 de janeiro de 1893, começam a lhe ser atribuídos milagres. Uma vez que não existe nenhum registro fotográfico da aparência de Maria Bueno, pensa-se também sobre a construção do branqueamento de seu tom de pele na sua representação em imagens. No caso de Maria Bueno, existem duas versões sobre sua real aparência, uma delas descrita como branca e a outra como negra, pois se tem que foi filha de pai branco e mãe negra. No entanto, desde as suas primeiras representações imagéticas, ela foi evidenciada com a pele branca. Exemplos desta representação branqueada são imagens feitas pelo pintor norueguês Alfredo Andersen (1860-1935) e também a pintura do artista plástico paranaense Raul Cruz (1957-19). Para se atingir o objetivo deste trabalho, discorreu-se sobre a imagem como construção do indivíduo, passando pela construção da imagem do branco e do negro e a representação do corpo branco nas imagens sacralizadas da igreja. O exercício de análise dessas imagens nesta dissertação trouxe um foco diferenciado à produção artística da imagem de Maria Bueno, uma vez que evidencia o viés da construção ideológica dessa imagem no sentido da sua sacralização e branqueamento de seu tom de pele.
The present work aims at studying Maria Bueno (1854-1893) image artistic representation, specifically focusing the painting “Saint Maria Bueno Portrait” by Raul Cruz through analyzing the particularities and context of the picture production taking into consideration the artist universe. Part of the Paraná capital (Curitiba) population considers Maria Bueno pictures sacred, thus our work studies such sacredness process. From January 29, 1893, the day she was murdered, people started to impute miracles to Maria Bueno. Since there are no photographic records of Maria Bueno appearance, so we also analyze the skin whitening process in her portraits. There are two versions of Maria Bueno appearance; one describes her as a white person and the other as a black one for it is believed that her father was white and her mother was black. Nevertheless, painters have showed her as a white woman since the first time she was painted. Good examples of whitened representations of Maria Bueno are the portraits painted by Norwegian Alfredo Andersen (1860-1935) and Paraná citizen Raul Cruz (1957-1993). To meet the present work objective we discussed image as a process to build a person, including white and black, as well as the representation of white bodies in the Church sacred imagery. The image analyses process carried out in the present dissertation made us see the artistic production of Maria Bueno image in a different light, since it highlights the ideological building of images towards sacredness and skin whitening.

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Knowles, Todd Allen. "An exploration of literacy issues and religiosity in LDS seminaries /." ProQuest subscription required:, 2001. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=990270581&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8813&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Adams, Sarah Joy. "Wonder, derision and fear the uses of doubt in Anglo-Saxon saints' lives /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1185822398.

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Craft, Alan Logan. "The place and power of the hope of heaven in the teaching of Richard Baxter's The saints everlasting rest." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p048-0325.

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Antonsson, Haki. "St. Magnús of Orkney : a scandinavian martyr-cult in context /." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/librarytitles/Doc?id=10270729.

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Mitrea, Mihail. "Late-Byzantine hagiographer : Philotheos Kokkinos and his Vitae of Contemporary Saints." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31489.

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This dissertation offers the first systematic historical contextualization and literary analysis of the five saints' lives composed by Philotheos Kokkinos (ca. 1300-1378) for his contemporaries Nikodemos the Younger, Sabas the Younger, Isidore Boucheir, Germanos Maroules, and Gregory Palamas. Notwithstanding Kokkinos' prominent role in the political and ecclesiastical scene of fourteenth-century Byzantium, as well as the size and significance of his hagiographic oeuvre, both the hagiographer and his saints' lives have received surprisingly little scholarly attention. My dissertation fills this gap and shows Kokkinos as a gifted hagiographer who played a leading role, both through his ecclesiastical authority and hagiographic discourse, in orchestrating the societal breakthrough of hesychast theology that has remained at the core of Christian Orthodoxy up to this day. The dissertation is structured in three parts. The first, Philotheos Kokkinos and His OEuvre, offers an extensive biographical portrait of Kokkinos, introduces his literary oeuvre, and discusses its manuscript tradition. A thorough palaeographical investigation of fourteenth-century codices carrying his writings reveals Kokkinos' active involvement in the process of copying, reviewing, and publishing his own works. This section includes an analysis of the 'author's edition' manuscript Marcianus graecus 582, and presents its unusual fate. Moreover, Part I establishes the chronology of Kokkinos' vitae of contemporary saints and offers biographical sketches of his heroes, highlighting their relationship to their hagiographer. The second part, Narratological Analysis of Kokkinos' Vitae of Contemporary Saints, constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of Kokkinos' narrative technique. It first discusses the types of hagiographic composition ('hagiographic genre') Kokkinos employed for his saints' lives (hypomnema, bios kai politeia, and logos), and then it offers a detailed investigation that sheds light on the organization of the narrative in Kokkinos' vitae and his use of specific narrative devices. This includes a discussion of hesychastic elements couched in the narrative. Part II concludes with considerations on Kokkinos' style and intended audience. The third part, Saints and Society, begins with a detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of the miracle accounts Kokkinos wove in his saints' lives. This considers the miracle typology, types of afflictions, methods of healing, and the demographic characteristics of the beneficiaries (such as age, gender, and social status), revealing that Kokkinos shows a predilection for including miracles for members of the aristocracy. Second, it presents Kokkinos' view on the relationship between the imperial office and ecclesiastical authority by analysing how he portrays the emperor(s) in his vitae. Moreover, this part addresses the saints' encounters with the 'other' (Muslims and Latins), revealing Kokkinos' nuanced understanding of the threats and opportunities raised by these interactions. Finally, it makes the claim that through his saints' lives Kokkinos offers models of identification and refuge in the troubled social and political context of fourteenth-century Byzantium, promoting a spiritual revival of society. As my dissertation shows, Kokkinos' vitae of contemporary saints sought to shape and were shaped by the political and theological disputes of fourteenth-century Byzantium, especially those surrounding hesychasm. Their analysis offers insights into the thought-world of their author and sheds more light on the late-Byzantine religious and cultural context of their production. The dissertation is equipped with six technical appendices presenting the chronology of Kokkinos' life and works, the narrative structure of his vitae of contemporary saints, a critical edition of the preface of his hitherto unedited Logos on All Saints (BHG 1617g), a transcription of two hitherto unedited prayers Kokkinos addressed to the emperors, the content of Marc. gr. 582 and Kokkinos' autograph interventions, and manuscript plates.

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