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Michel, Matthew Paul. "That which every Christian must know Juan de Valdés and the Doctrina christiana /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0025121.

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Cristofoletti, Fabricio Klain. "A noção de eloqüência no De doctrina christiana de Agostinho de Hipona." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-04082010-142008/.

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Trata-se de uma dissertação sobre o pensamento filosófico de Agostinho de Hipona em relação à beleza do discurso e à utilidade da retórica e da eloqüência, temas que aparecem no livro IV do De doctrina christiana (Da instrução cristã) e, por isso, dentro da reflexão sobre o ideal de uma educação tipicamente cristã. Na Antigüidade, embora a eloqüência estivesse intrinsecamente ligada à arte retórica, esta questão, para Agostinho, deve ser tratada em conexão com algumas orientações da filosofia moral e da teologia cristãs, situadas para além da técnica. Em comparação com o antigo ideal oratório romano, sobretudo o ciceroniano, a maior importância conferida por Agostinho à Bíblia cristã, isto é, à sabedoria e à moral dos autores bíblicos, traz novos significados para o termo \'eloqüência\'. Além disso, o aprendizado oratório, que se alicerçava na doutrina e no hábito, é dessa vez resumido e transmitido por Agostinho segundo um método radical de imitação, cujos modelos passam a ser os escritores bíblicos e eclesiásticos, aqueles inspirados por Deus e gratificados com a união da eloqüência à sabedoria.
This dissertation is about the philosophical thinking of Augustine of Hippo in relation to the beauty of speech and the usefulness of rhetoric and eloquence, themes that appear in Book IV of De doctrina christiana (On Christian Teaching) and therefore within the reflection on the ideal of education typically Christian. In Antiquity, although the eloquence was intrinsically linked to the rhetorical art, this issue, for Augustine, it must be treated in connection with some directions of Christian moral philosophy and theology, located beyond the technique. In comparison to the antique ideal of Roman oratory, especially the Ciceronian, the greater importance given by Augustine to the Christian Bible, that is, to the wisdom and morality of the biblical authors, bring new meaning to the term \'eloquence\'. Moreover, the learning of oratory, which was based on the doctrine and habit, this time is summed up by Augustine and transmitted according to a radical method of imitation, whose models have to be the biblical and ecclesiastical writers, those inspired by God and rewarded with union between eloquence and wisdom.

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Tweedie, Fiona Jane. "A statistical investigation into the provenance of De Doctrina Christiana, attributed to John Milton." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364078.

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The aim of this study is to conduct an objective investigation into the provenance of De Doctrina Christiana, a theological treatise attributed to Milton since its discovery in 1823. This attribution was questioned in 1991 provoking a series of papers, one of which makes a plea for an objective analysis, which I aim to supply. I begin by reviewing critically some techniques that have recently been applied to stylometry. They include methods from artificial intelligence, linguistics and statistics. The chapter concludes with an investigation into the QSUM technique, finding it to be invalid. As De Doctrina Christiana is written in neo-Latin I examine previous work carried out in Latin, then turn to historical issues and examine issues including censorship and the physical characteristics of the manuscript. The text is the only theological work in the extant Milton canon. As genre as well as authorship affects style, I consider theories of genre which influence the choice of suitable control texts. Chapter seven deals with the methodology used in the study. The analysis follows in a hierarchical structure. I establish which techniques distinguish between Milton and the control texts while maintaining the internal consistency of the authors. It is found that the most-frequently-occurring words are good discriminators. I then use this technique to examine De Doctrina Christiana and the Milton and control texts. A clear difference is found between texts from polemic and exegetical genres, and samples from De Doctrina Christiana form into two groups. This heterogeneity forms the third part of the analysis. No apparent difference is found between sections of the text with different amanuenses, but the Epistle appears to be markedly more Miltonic than the rest. In addition, postulated insertions into chapter X of Book I appear to have a Miltonic influence. I conclude by examining the hypothesis of a Ramist ordering to the text.

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Kerr, Jason Andrew. "Loving Liberty: Milton, Scripture, and Society." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2421.

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Thesis advisor: Dayton Haskin
Using methods drawn from literary analysis, theology, and political history, Loving Liberty explores the relationship between Milton's thinking about liberty and his practice of scriptural interpretation. It argues that Milton advances a model of a free society ultimately modeled on the charitable relations between the Father and the Son, who in his view differ essentially from one another. This model of liberated unity in difference derives from, and responds to, Milton's encounter with the Reformation ideal of each believer reading the Bible for him or herself, along with the social chaos that accompanied the resulting proliferation of interpretations. Using a complex concept of charity, Milton's writings imagine a society in which all are free to use scripture in highly individualized ways that nevertheless conduce to unity rather than chaos. In the end, the very interpretative practice through which Milton thinks his way toward this model also stands as its shining example, culminating in a rich body of writing that creatively re-imagines scripture and that invites its readers to use these new creations or not, as charity demands and in keeping with their own freely exercised gifts. In contrast to what he calls “obstinate literality” and “alphabetical servility&rdquo in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Milton's liberated interpretative method requires the interpreter to generate his or her own Bible, whether by radically reassembling the text (as Milton does in De Doctrina Christiana), by prophetically speaking the scripture written on one's heart (as Michael teaches Adam to do in Paradise Lost)
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English

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Ruch, Hunter Thomas. "Practical implications for modern homiletics from Book IV of Augustine's De doctrina Christiana regarding three levels of style." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1105.

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Grignani, Mario Luigi. "Il P. José de Acosta, S.J., e l'arcivescovo di Lima Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo e la loro relazione riguardo il libro "Doctrina christiana y catecismo para instrucción de los Indios" /." Romae, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb413380251.

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須藤, 英幸. "アウグスティヌスの聖書解釈学における記号理論と言語理論 -De magistro から De doctrina christiana への展開-." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/189333.

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Stucky, Philip E. "Walk through doctrine a ten part survey of doctrine /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Spivak, Eugene (Jeff). "A Christian-Jewish school : Didache, Doctrina, Matthew." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2007. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=238086.

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The Didache studies are enjoying a renaissance ever since the early dating of the document has been confirmed and the possibilities of its use of early traditions suggested. In particular, the Didache is currently used as a fulcrum of scholarly efforts to define Christian Judaism as one ofthe pillars of the canonical Christianity. Yet, the heritage of the recent past remains in the form of a threatening number of hypothetical sources invoked to explain the literary composition of the Didache, while the implications of Christian Judaism are far from being fully understood. This thesis dispenses with the 'sources' and argues that the Didache can be readily accounted for on the basis of two extant texts, the Gospel ofMatthew and the Doctrina Apostolorum. Didache, Doctrina and Matthew add up to a tight conception of Christian Judaism, which thereby transpires as a powerful creative force in the post-70 C.E. Judaism and, by the same token, as a formative influence in early Christianity. Keywords: Matthew, Didache, Doctrina, Gospel, Jewish-Christian, Christian- Jewish, Jewish Christianity, Christian Judaism, Two Ways, scribal school

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McGaha, Robert K. "Lessons in Christian essentials an introductory course on Bible doctrine /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Elliott, Benjamin C. "Karl Popper and Christian theology." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2007. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=185763.

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The objective of this dissertation involves the application of the philosophy of Karl Popper to Christian systematic theology. Its intent is three-fold: first, to give reasons for considering the possibility of such an application in the face of potential objections; second, throughout its discussion, to demonstrate the form that a theological appropriation of Popper might take; and, third, to argue that several benefits arise from such a critical grafting of Popper into dogmatics (where appropriate). The possibility of applying Popper to theology is secured by taking realism as the proper parallel between science and theology and critical rationalism as a realist model amenable to metaphysical theorisation. The actuality and benefit of such an appropriation from within theology is demonstrated by the four-fold exposition of how a Popperian critical epistemology – in particular his solution to the ‘problem of induction’, his relating of good and better theories with the concept of approximation to the truth, his critical strategies for establishing preference, and his notion of ideas as objective – can assist the Christian systematic theologian as he works to resolve the problems of theology for the benefit of the Church and to the glory of God.

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Clarke, F. Stuart. "Fundamentum electionis : the work and person of Christ in the theology of Jacobus Arminius." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288089.

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Curran, Thomas Heinrich. "Doctrine and speculation in Schleiermacher's Glaubenslehre." Thesis, Durham University, 1991. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6266/.

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Conklin, Jerry L. "The imitation of Christ a proposed doctrine /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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White, Stephen Ross. "Don Cupitt and the future of Christian doctrine." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359128.

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Parker, Anthony B. "The doctrine of revelation in African Christian theology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Melo, Miguel Pedro Lopes de Almeida Teixeira e. "Doctrine and discernment: an approach on the changeable and unchangeble aspsects of Christian doctrine." Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108456.

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Thesis advisor: Richard Lennan
Thesis advisor: André Brouillette
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2019
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology

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Kohns, Jonathan Wesley. "An integrative theological framework in a post-Christian era." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Holt, Charles Edward. "Equipping a small group with a theological foundation for discipleship." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Sombrio, Murray L. "The Johannine contribution to the doctrine of the spiritual life." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Olson, Matthew D. "Is the just war theory a valid option for Christians?" Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Bowman, David Gene. "Preaching and teaching the doctrine of stewardship to equip families to practice biblical stewardship." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Bawulski, Shawn. "The fire that reconciles : theological reflections on the doctrine of eternal punishment, with special consideration of annihilationism and traditionalism." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3115.

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This study enters into the dialog within Christian theology between annihilationism and traditionalism on the nature of eternal punishment. The positions and issues within the topic will be examined theologically and analyzed doctrinally. In my first chapter I will summarize the views and arguments in the debate, establish operating definitions, address preliminary issues, and provide some historical context. I will establish a thesis agenda with dual aspects: negatively, to examine and critique annihilationism on theological grounds, and positively to offer arguments for a modified traditionalism. Chapters two, three, and four primarily serve the negative purpose. Chapter two critically considers annihilationism on exegetical and hermeneutical issues, concluding that the view is inferior to traditionalism. Chapter three examines annihilationism for consistency with other areas of Christian theology, concluding that the view generates major theological problems in Christology. Chapter four considers both annihilationism and traditionalism regarding the disproportionality problem of hell, concluding that annihilationism and two types of traditionalism can resolve the problem but of these three only one sort of traditionalism can do so whilst also satisfying other important theological criteria. Regarding the negative aspect of the thesis, I conclude that the severe theological problems in annihilationism constitute sufficient reason to reject the view. In chapter five I accomplish the positive aspect of this thesis, offering six criteria of success for any view of eternal punishment. I then provide detailed argumentation for a modified traditionalism called reconciliationism, concluding it best meets these criteria and is the most theologically and exegetically satisfying view on offer. In the concluding chapter I state this thesis' contributions, suggest several areas for further research, and offer some implications for pastoral theology. I finally conclude that annihilationism has seemingly insurmountable theological problems, but a modified traditionalism can succeed as a doctrine of hell.

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Wilson, L. C. "Across the bridge of sighs : reading a Christian theology of melancholy." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41910/.

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In this thesis, I will proceed by the examination of exemplary texts in the western Christian understanding of, and engagement with, the concept of chronically melancholic and destructively sorrowful states. I will begin with influential texts from the ancient west and near east, such as The Book of Job, and the Pseudo-Aristotle, that have provided the touchstones and archetypes of the subject throughout – and beyond – the historical period covered, as well as contemporary narratives whose concerns and themes instructively throw salient features of the former icons into high relief. Thereafter, I shall trace these themes and their development through the work of those Christians who have most powerfully and significantly dealt with the concept of melancholy theologically. In doing so, I will argue, certain significant patterns of interpretation and thematic weighting become apparent. In the narratives surrounding melancholy heroes, we find a personal interlocution with the divine that characteristically takes place in a public context. This is because they contain both a revolutionary critique, and radical reintegration, of a fractured society along compassionate lines. This compassion is interpersonal empathy in the face of the ultimately incomprehensible contradictions and limitations of human life - both in terms of theodicy, and the particularities of every individual’s melancholy, which is grounded in the metaphysically-ambiguous nature of humanity, whose limitations reflect our melancholic distance from divine consummation - the very atmospheric dynamic of contemplation itself. From Evagrius to Kierkegaard, sorrow is the kernel and fulcrum of both sin and moral development. To paraphrase Camus, sorrow is the theological question.

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Sills, Peter. "Christian ethics and the privatization of utility industries." Thesis, University of Kent, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327486.

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Rouch, Peter B. "The Christian doctrine of time in negotiation with contemporary physics." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516739.

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Alifano, John Anthony. "The pretribulation rapture doctrine and the progressive dispensational system are they compatible? /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Larkin, Lee Allen. "A study of the proposed origins of the Johannine Logos doctrine." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Altena, Kenneth. "The effectiveness of reformed doctrine in faith development." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Lawson, James. "The second purification : apologetic strategy and Christian self-definition in De Civitate Dei Book 10." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320796.

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Sween, Maurice Alwyn. "Christian missions in the early church historical considerations and contemporary reflections /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Mota, Francisco. ""Be angry, but do not sin": For a new understanding of Christian anger." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107474.

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Thesis advisor: James Keenan
Thesis advisor: Brian Dunkle
From its earliest days, Christianity has debated about when and how force can be used to repel harm without incurring sin. Although moderation and restriction have often been advocated both on a personal and on a social level, strict passivity has rarely been the proposed solution in mainstream Christianity when individuals or nations are confronted with harm. The Just War tradition, in its many variations, was born precisely out of this desire to make sense of how force can be used in a Christian way. And it soon became the prevalent theory throughout Christianity to address issues of violence, war, and force in general. What this thesis intends to argue is that Just War theory, despite all its pervasiveness, is flawed in some crucial aspects when scrutinized from a Christian viewpoint. Three such aspects seem to be especially relevant: Just War tradition is not grounded enough in Scripture; its jus ad bellum and jus in bello criteria do not protect in a satisfactory way the innocent who face harm; and it is a theory that is only reactive to force being imposed upon others. Because of these three flaws, it will be claimed that in the process of giving its support to Just War theory Christianity has largely forgotten an older, broader tradition. The “be angry, but do not sin” tradition has Scriptural and philosophical roots that, when combined, can bring a Christian virtue ethics to a much better understanding of when and how forceful intervention in the social sphere is required. At the very least, this anger tradition does not fall prey to the three criticisms that are addressed towards Just War – and that seems to make it especially valuable. Righteous anger, then, and not Just War, should be what guides Christianity in its thinking about how and when force can be used without incurring sin. That is the contention of this thesis
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology

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Fusilier, Lane Allen. "Deep roots for church leaders transferring the body of doctrine to church planters in central Asia /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Juli, Stephen James. "The doctrine of t̲h̲e̲ō̲s̲i̲s̲ in the theology of Saint Maximus the Confessor." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Roussel, Christopher M. "Multiple concepts of the Church : hermeneutics, identity, and Christian community." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3073/.

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This thesis aims to contribute to Western theology by exploring plurality as well as unity within Christianity. By looking at the history of orthodoxy as a narrative construction of identity, I argue that Christian identity is not based on doxa, dogma, or practises. Instead, I suggest that Christian identity should be rooted primarily as a practise in the experience of and participation with God through the living Christ. I propose that ecumenical unity is not ecclesial or doxalogical but rather practical because unity is achieved when groups act together and participate in each other without ceasing to be different. I explore in my first chapter the philosophical concepts (time and narrative) which form the basis of identity. I introduce the thoughts of G. Deleuze and P. Ricœur separately before bringing them together in a dialogue. The dialogue develops the concepts of time and narrative into a general theory for constructing identity. I analyse identity in the second chapter by reading historical reactions to I. Kant's conception of a permanent identity because Kant is a central focus in contemporary philosophical thought on identity. Inspired by the dialogue between Deleuze and Ricœur introduced previously, I construct a new approach to identity. My concept of identity can be applied equally to individuals and groups, however I primarily follow group identity in my thesis. My third chapter applies this theory of identity to the discussion of the concept of orthodoxy. I present a model for interpreting orthodoxy in terms of group identity, then I trace the history of orthodoxy in three general periods: the early Church, the Reformation era, and our contemporary period. I show that concerns with theological truth in questions of orthodoxy were often politicised and used to establish an authority to control Christian identity. During the Reformations, reforms were treated as questions of authority and at times resulted in exclusion rather than reform. Political moves subsequently created multiple authorities which I suggest reveal the contingency of authority. Since the nineteenth century, groups approached Christian unity without addressing the implications of authority's contingency. In my fourth chapter, I pursue the question of ecumenical unity by interpreting authorities as created and embedded in particular contexts which render impossible a single, universal authority. In contrast to a singular definition of the Church, I argue that Pauline images of the body of Christ shape Christian identity as polydox. My model of relating differences within unity reveals the extent to which many theological 'controversies' still are politicised. Finally, I argue that the ecumenical dialogue overlaps with inter-religious and 'secular' dialogues, both of which are necessary for the Church's work on identity as organic unity.

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Thomson, John Bromilow. "The ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas as a distinctively Christian theology of liberation (1970-2000)." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11192/.

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Of all the concepts that informed what is often called the Enlightenment Project, liberation is arguably central. Nevertheless the experience of the past 200 years has raised serious questions about the character of this liberation and its pathology. In particular, the place of Christian theology in sustaining, concepts of freedom appears to have been marginalised in much post- Enlightenment thought, a challenge of particular significance to theologians and ethicists. Stanley Hauerwas represents one response to the manifestation of the Enlightenment Project in the United States, a response which, I believe, can be described as a distinctive theology of liberation chiefly from the Enlightenment legacy. This approach involves the integration of theology and ethics in the practices of a people whose identity is correlative to the particular narrative which they embody as that diachronic and synchronic, international community called Church. It also reflects an ambivalence about metaphysics and idealism and a preference for demonstrative, ecclesially mediated, truthful living. Yet the credibility of Hauerwas' ecclesiology as a genuinely Christian politics of liberation depends upon whether Hauerwas can not only identify the limitations of post-Enlightenment liberalism, but transcend them in a way that demonstrates the truthful character of the Christian narrative he believes to be embodied in this community called church. In order to determine whether Hauerwas' Project is a genuinely Christian theology of liberation from the Enlightenment legacy, we shall need to gauge the architecture of that project in chapter 1. Then, in chapter 2, we shall locate him in the wider post-Enlightenment debate, before doing the same in terms of the theological debate in chapter 3. This will bring us into conversation with his use of narrative and story as heuristic tools to resource the character of this ecclesiology in chapter 4, before our attempt, in chapter 5, to explore whether his ecclesial politics represent a distinctively Christian expression of liberty.

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Greenough, Christopher. "Undoing theology : life stories from non-normative Christians." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7050/.

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The primary aim of this thesis is to explore the biographies and theologies of non-normative Christians. Prioritising the importance of sharing life stories as a source for theology, this thesis mobilises self-produced narratives from three individuals. By exploring the lives of the protagonists, we see how biographies and beliefs are revisited and revised throughout individual life courses. Mobilising resistance and rupture as characteristics of queer theory, I engage in a process which breaks free from traditional research paradigms. Thus, the secondary aim of this work became the development of an 'undoing' methodology, which liberates the researcher and allows me to approach and analyse the life stories using intuitive, reflective and creative methods. My critical insights on these participant stories reveal that all theologies are fluid, thereby exposing the temporal nature, but not significance, of all theology. Theologising from the basis of experience is always subject to revision. The process of 'undoing' theology points to a belief system based on experience which can never be rigidly fixed. The thesis reveals how 'undoing' theology is characterised by contingency, temporality, fluidity, becoming and unbecoming as its key indicators.

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Faulk, William Clayton. "Always reforming: creating a Christian education event to encourage theological reflection within the congregation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Brondos, David Allen. "Jesus Christ the living reconciliation : a transformational model of atonement." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244167.

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Cox, Morris Brenton. "Teaching believers a theological frame of reference for decision making." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Koepfer, Kristen Star. "Six year Sunday school theological topic sequence and basic curriculum guide year one for grades six through twelve at Memorial Park Presbyterian Church, Allison Park, Pennsylvania /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2003.
Vita. A project submitted to the Faculty of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Religion. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 61).

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Roseman, Jeremy Scott. "A Christian apologetic to the doctrine of grace in Shin Buddhism." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2010. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Leithart, Peter J. "The iron philosophy stoic elements in Calvin's doctrine of mortification /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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O'Neil, David Michael. "Forming moral community : Christian and ecclesial existence in the theology of Karl Barth 1915-1922 /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20080908.105728.

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Arnold, Jonathan W. "The doctrines of sin and human freedom in best-selling evangelical non-fiction from 1994-2004." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Anderson, D. Stanley. "Basics Biblical and Systematic Instruction for Christian Servants /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Scott, David I. "Revisioning transformation : towards a systematic proto-evangelical paradigm of the Christian life." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2016. http://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/651/.

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Within the contemporary church, usage of the term transformation has become commonplace. However, the way it is understood is often misguided. This study provides an original synthesis that points the church towards the need to express and live out a full, integrated, effectual and distinctly Christian vision of transformation. Self-identified “evangelicals” continue to explore the possibility of authentic transformation. There is now a proliferation of perspectives on the nature and process of Christian formation, some of which attempt a revision through ecumenical “ressourcement” or interdisciplinary methods. These often-conflicting approaches leave a landscape characterised by pluralism, division, fragmentation, confusion, relativism, individualism, pragmatism and subjectivism. Although evangelicalism is seen by some as a restorationist movement that seeks to draw the church back towards a prototypal faith, self-identified “evangelicals” clearly exhibit differences in their beliefs and practices. Both the absence of a common, coherent and integrated vision, and the lack of transformation itself, are often simply accepted and affirmed. In this thesis, it is argued that the only way to move towards the possibility a cohesive, integrated, broad, effectual and distinctly Christian vision of transformational theology, is through an approach that is grounded in rationallinguistic truth. Such a method is typified by J. I. Packer. His approach to integrating the concerns of theology and spirituality is used as the initial basis towards pursuing a “proto-evangelical” approach to Christian formation. In order to determine the breadth of Packer’s approach, he is brought into dialogue with Maximus Confessor. This critical conversation between two “theologians of the Christian life” allows exploration into the scope and diversity of a distinctly Christian view of transformation, and the seeking out of common characteristics in its nature and practice. This all provides a solid basis upon which to be able to outline an original synthesis.

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McCartney, William Robert. "Teaching Baptist doctrine to new church members through mentoring." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Blacketer, Raymond Andrew. "John Calvin's doctrine of Christian liberty and some implications for pastoral care." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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White, James W. "The doctrine of Christian perfection its historic and contemporary relevance for Methodism /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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