Dissertations / Theses: 'Gentiles'

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Lee, Kukzin. "Jesus and the gentiles in Matthew." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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White, Margaret E. "Righteous Gentiles rescuers of the Jews during the Holocaust /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Philip, Finny. "'Apostle to the gentiles' : the origins of Pauline pneumatology." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3706/.

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The research sets out to inquire into Paul's initial thoughts on the Holy Spirit. Paul’s convictions, that he was called to be an apostle to the Gentiles and that God has given the Spirit upon the Gentiles apart from Torah obedience, are foundational for any enquiry on the subject. The key questions are: Did Paul expect a bestowal of the Spirit upon the Gentiles apart from Torah obedience when he went into Gentile mission? And, how can we account for Paul's conviction that God has poured out the Spirit upon the Gentiles? Central to our argument is Paul's conviction that God has graciously endowed the gift of the Spirit upon his Gentile converts, an understanding that is rooted primarily in his own conversion/call experience and secondarily in his experience with and as a missionary of the Hellenistic community in Antioch. By investigating the range of expectations of the Spirit that were present in Hebrew scripture and in the wider Jewish literature, the study found that such a concept is rare, and that it is usually the covenant community to which the promise of the Spirit is given. Further, Paul's own pre-Christian convictions about the Spirit, which particularly evolved from his own self-perception as a Pharisee and persecutor of the church, display a continuity between his own thought patterns and those of Second Temple Judaism. Paul’s Damascus experience was an experience of the Spirit. His experience of the 'glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ' (2 Cor.3.1-4.6) provided him with the belief that there is now a new relationship with God, which is possible through the sphere of the Spirit. In addition, Paul was influenced by the Hellenists, whose theological beliefs included a perception of the church as the eschatological Temple where the Spirit of God is the manifest presence of God. It is in these notions that one may trace the origins of Paul's thoughts on the Holy Spirit.

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Keesmaat, Sylvia C. "Welcoming in the Gentiles: a Biblical Model for Decision Making." Anglican Book Centre, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/296292.

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Hsiao, Jo-Ping. "YHWH's coherent attitude toward the Gentiles in Zechariah's vision reports." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=231774.

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This thesis employs a historical-critical approach to explore the theme of 'the Gentiles' in Zechariah's vision reports. Chapter 1 introduces the aim and methodology and the four texts to be studied, viz. Zech 1:15, 2:4, 12-13 and 15a [Eng. 1:21; 2:8-9 and 11a]. It provides a literature review, a proposal, namely that YHWH's attitude toward the Gentiles in Zechariah's vision reports is coherent throughout, describes the structure of the thesis, and gives an explanation of terminology. Chapter 2 investigates the literary and historical contexts of the relevant texts. It argues that the series of vision reports (Zech 1:8-6:8) is a compositional unity. The oracular material is as integral as the visionary material and so both forms of material may be examined for evidence of the meaning of the four texts. This chapter also explores the international situation in the ancient Near East around the date, the integral character of which is supported, in Zech 1:7. Chapter 3 investigates the four texts from three perspectives: whether all the components are integral, what the texts mean, and who 'the Gentiles' referred to as גוים are. This chapter reaches the conclusions that all of the components in the MT readings of the four texts are probably original and that the גוים in the texts refers to two distinct sets of Gentiles, viz. Nebuchadnezzar's army of Chaldean tribes (Zech 1:15; 2:4 and 12-13) and Gentiles in general (Zech 2:15a). This division explains the different views of the Gentiles in the abovementioned four texts. Chapter 4 argues that the message concerning YHWH's attitude toward the Gentiles in the four texts is coherent and would have been relevant to the contemporary Judahites in sixth-century Yehud. Chapter 5 provides concluding remarks.

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Stenschke, Christoph Wilhelm. "Luke's portrait of Gentiles prior to their coming to faith." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1997. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU099069.

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This thesis examines Luke's portrayal of the Gentiles' state prior to their coming to Christian faith. Following the survey of research, it commences with Luke's direct references to Gentiles prior to faith. It then gathers conclusions concerning their state from the Gentile encounter with Jesus and Christian salvation. This includes Luke's notes on the condition of Gentiles and on their appropriation of salvation. Finally it draws conclusions from Luke's portrayal of Gentile Christians. Such a comprehensive study of this aspect of Luke's anthropology has not been undertaken previously and constitutes the major fresh contribution of this thesis. This comprehensive approach is necessary to challenge some previous contributions to Lukan anthropology. It argues that the main study in the field (J.-W. Taeger, Der Mensch und sein Heil; 1982) does not sufficiently consider all the evidence. By concentrating on the Gentiles in Luke-Acts (including Samaritans and God-fearers) this present thesis comprehensively covers all the relevant material. Against Taeger who suggests that Gentiles do not need 'saving' as much as 'correcting', it concludes that Luke portrays Gentiles prior to faith in a state requiring God's saving intervention. Thorough correction has to accompany and follow this salvation. Though allowing for distinct Lukan emphases, this portrait is not essentially at odds with that of other NT authors. These results further show that the Areopagus speech needs to be and can be satisfactorily interpreted in it's context and in conjunction with similar statements. This thesis further argues that Luke's narrative sections and the characterisation they present should no longer be neglected in favour of the speeches. Luke's portrayal of Gentiles prior to faith also bears on his understanding of sin and provides additional justification for the Gentile mission. This study challenges proposals of Luke's alleged anti-Judaism and provides some hitherto little-noticed correctives.

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Meek, James A. "The Gentile mission in Old Testament citations in Acts text, hermeneutic, and purpose /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p020-0240.

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Santos, Evaniel Brás dos 1984. "Criação e cosmologia na Summa contra Gentiles de Tomás de Aquino." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/278916.

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Orientador: Márcio Augusto Damin Custódio Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T07:21:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_EvanielBrasdos_M.pdf: 1468909 bytes, checksum: e86d693216376464f306ca34e7ed2e3e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 Resumo: Esta dissertação tem por escopo expor como Tomás sustenta que a criação é passível de demonstração filosófica na Summa contra gentiles, livro II, capítulos 6; 15-22; 52-55. Para tanto, explicitarei que Tomás procede do seguinte modo: primeiro, estabelece um novo sentido para a noção de substância na SCG, II, 53-55, esta que, por sua vez, difere daquela que Tomás leu nos textos de Aristóteles, qual seja, a substância se constitui de matéria e forma. Nesse sentido, para demonstrar filosoficamente que a substância, além de gerada, também é criada, Tomás estabelece um novo componente na constituição da substância, além dos dois acima mencionados, a saber: o ato de ser. Segundo, analisarei como Tomás postula que esses componentes são realmente distintos na SCG, II, 52. Terceiro, investigarei porque esses componentes por serem distintos, todavia unidos numa relação, devem ser efeitos de uma causa eficiente. A partir desses três modos de investigação, a operação da causa eficiente tratada na SCG, II, 6; 15, e, ademais, o surgimento do efeito sustentado na SCG, II, 16-22, designa-se de criação Abstract: This dissertation addresses how Thomas Aquinas holds that creation is philosophically demonstrable in his Summa contra gentiles, book II, chapters 6; 15-22; 52-55. In order to do so, it will be argued that Aquinas does it as follows: first, he establishes a new sense to the notion of substance in SCG, II, 53-55, which, in its own turn, differs from the one Aquinas could read in Aristotle's texts, i.e., that substance is composed by form and matter. In this sense, in order to philosophically demonstrate that the substance, besides being generated, is also created, Aquinas assumes a new feature in substance constitution, which is different from the two previously mentioned, namely, the act of being. Then I shall analyze how Aquinas postulates that those components are really distinct in SCG, II, 52. Third, it will be investigated why those components, for they are distinct although merged in a relation, should be the effect of an efficient cause. Having accomplished these three modes of inquiry, the operation of the efficient cause addressed at SCG, II, 6; 15, and also, the appearance of effect held in SCG, II, 16-22, is named creation Mestrado Filosofia Mestre em Filosofia

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Yarbrough, O. Larry. "Not like the Gentiles : marriages rules in the letters of Paul /." Atlanta : Ga : Scholars press, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb349309833.

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Carr, Lyndon Charles. "Christ's exclusive mission to Israel and the inclusion of a gentile woman whose faith is great an exegetical study of Matthew 15:21-28 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Lee, Sang-In. "Mission to the Jews and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2003. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=120496.

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This thesis investigates the theme of mission to the Gentiles in Matthew’s gospel. Questions arising include: Was Matthew a Jew or a Gentile? What was the nature of the community that he addressed, and how was it related to Judaism? How did he view the Judaism of his time? Should there be a continuing mission to the Jews? Did Matthew believe that the church, including specifically his own community, should be involved in mission to the Gentiles? How could he show this in a Gospel about a Jesus who rarely met Gentiles and even told his disciples not to go to Gentiles during his lifetime? If he did commend mission to the Gentiles, were there any conditions (such as circumcision and other Jewish commandments) that they must fulfil? How did Matthew’s attitude compare with those of the other Synoptic Evangelists and Paul? The thesis arises from the need to respond to such scholars as D. Sim, A. J. Saldarini and J. A. Overman who are sceptical to various degrees that Matthew was an enthusiast for mission to the Gentiles. Although a majority of scholars have held that Matthew was a proponent of the Gentile mission, nobody has as yet responded to the case against this view and treated the evidence supplied by the Gospel in detail. After summarising current scholarly debate (Introduction) the present thesis will go carefully through the Gospel, treating all those passages that are relevant to the problem and interacting particularly with scholars who deny Matthew’s concern that his own church should evangelise the Gentiles.

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Schattenfroh, Sebastian. "Die Staatsphilosophie Giovanni Gentiles und die Versuche ihrer Verwirklichung im faschistischen Italien /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb371921871.

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Thompson, Richard Gordan. "Paul's collection for the Jerusalem church and the inclusion of the gentiles." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Wendel, Susan. "God does not show partiality expectations of gentile salvation in Luke-Acts /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2004. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p047-0055.

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Gadenz, Pablo T. "Called from the Jews and from the Gentiles Pauline ecclesiology in Romans 9 - 11." Tübingen Mohr Siebeck, 2008. http://d-nb.info/995735034/04.

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Wilkinson, Jennifer. "Mark and his Gentile audience : a traditio-historical and socio-cultural investigation of Mk 4.35-9.29 and its interface with Gentile polytheism in the Roman Near East." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4428/.

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This thesis takes a novel, inter-disciplinary approach to an examination of the Markan evangelist’s portrayal of Jesus’ interface with Gentiles in a central section of his Gospel (Mk 4.35-9.29). As a framework to this section, Mark created a connected account of Jesus’ itinerary that included trips to perform miracles in the Gentile territories of Gerasa, Tyre, Bethsaida, the wider Decapolis and Caesarea Philippi. This thesis examines the role of these pericopae in the narrative as a whole and challenges the view that Mark’s geographical references were largely symbolic, rural and for the most part aimed at Jewish followers. The study scrutinizes Mark’s choice of geographical locations, systematically examines recent research on the religious milieu in these specific locations and brings this research into connection with the Gentile mission portrayed by Mark. The polytheistic and social environment in which Mark’s first century audience functioned has received little attention in recent scholarship and represents a lacuna in New Testament historical-critical research which this study addresses. A detailed exegesis of this section of the narrative concludes that Mark (a) deliberately redacts his text to place miracles in geographical regions where Gentiles predominate; (b) emphasizes obduracy and faithlessness on the part of Jewish officialdom and the Jewish disciples, in contrast to an implied understanding on the part of the Gentiles; (c) orchestrates a prolonged and sustained Jesus mission to the Gentiles as a precursor to his own community’s mission, to respond to their need for support and reassurance and (d) formulates his narrative to engage with his intended first century audience's Graeco-Roman religious and social worldview, inviting them to make comparison between the activities of Jesus and other contemporary miracle-performing men and polytheistic gods.

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Kim, Young Jin. "Jesus and the gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew a historical study of the redemption motif /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Darko, Daniel Kwaku. "No longer living as the Gentiles : differentiation and shared ethical values in Ephesians 4.17-6.9." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2006. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/no-longer-living-as-the-gentiles--differentiation-and-shared-ethical-values-in-ephesians-417--69(67a065fa-dd70-42ff-9f41-4d1507d55008).html.

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Darling, Timothy. "A soteriology of the Moabites illustrating how the Lord worked with Gentiles in the Old Testament." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Baughman, Terry R. "Gentile inclusion in the kingdom of heaven as revealed in Matthew 13." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Savelle, Charles H. "The origin, purpose and significance of the prohibitions in the apostolic decree of Acts 15." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Pettem, Michael. "Matthew : Jewish Christian or gentile Christian?" Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74296.

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This dissertation addresses the problem of whether the Gospel of Matthew reflects a Jewish Christian or gentile Christian stance within the early church. A study of the principal theories of the evolution of the early church provides the background against which the terms "Jewish Christian" and "gentile Christian" may be understood. The dissertation examines the bases on which Matthew has been classified as either Jewish Christian or gentile Christian. This previous work on Matthew is found to be unsatisfactory because of the lack of adequate criteria for classifying Matthew. A study of Acts and the letters of Paul reveals that the practice or rejection of Jewish dietary purity was a cause of division in the early church, and thus constitutes a suitable criterion for distinguishing between Jewish and gentile Christianity. Examination of Mt 15:1-20 shows that Matthew does not accept Jewish dietary purity as a part of God's will. Matthew thus reflects a gentile Christian position.

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Nordlinger, McDonnell Lillooet. "In the Company of Gentiles: Exploring the History of Integrated Jews in British Columbia, 1858-1971." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20200.

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By way of five microhistories focusing on the lives of Cecelia Davies Sylvester, Hannah Director, Leon Koerner, Harry Adaskin, and Nathan Nemetz, this study examines various modes of integration for Jews within particular periods of British Columbian (BC) history. Each microhistory explores the boundaries that were crossed and fostered by Jews whose careers and social contributions led them outside the confines of the established Jewish community. These Jews represent the vanguard of Jewish integration for each era to which they contributed.

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Tung, Chun-Lan. "Paul's missionary tactics : faith and the law for Jews, for Gentiles and for a mixed community." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30863.

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The main question of this thesis, how Paul employs various missionary tactics to meet different situations, is explained in Chapter One. The question stems from the debate on whether Paul has a coherent attitude to the law or not. The position adopted here is that Paul has various attitudes to the law and that these various attitudes are the tactical implications of a missionary strategy which is designed to meet different situations. There are three missionary tactics. Chapter Two deals with Paul's first missionary tactic: Paul encourages Jews to observe the whole law, rather than to practise circumcision only. Paul provides a law-bound tactic as an option for Jews, because the law is often so important for Jews that, unless they are allowed to continue to obey the law, it will be very difficult for them to become Christians. Observance of the law, however, is considered only as a life-style appropriate to making the response of faith. What is essential for salvation is faith in Christ. Chapter Three explains Paul's second missionary tactic: for Gentiles faith alone is essential. The law is not necessary for them to become members of God's people. Here Paul employs the Abraham story and claims that Abraham was reckoned as righteous by faith long before he was circumcised. Accordingly, he is a 'man of faith'. Therefore those who want to inherit blessings given through him must possess what Abraham has, that is faith. Chapter Four talks about Paul's last missionary tactic: when Paul faces a mixed community of Jews and Gentiles, he requires each individual to choose whatever he believes to be an appropriate way to respond to faith: Jewish Christians may respond to God's saving grace by observance of the law, while Gentile Christians may respond to the same grace in another way, a way freed from Jewish law and also freed from those things which are incompatible with faith.

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Downs, David J. "The offering of the Gentiles Paul's collection for Jerusalem in its chronological, cultural, and cultic contexts." Tübingen Mohr Siebeck, 2007. http://d-nb.info/988941287/04.

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Kim, Choo Sung. "Salvation of the gentiles by faith in the parable of the wicked husbandmen Luke 20:9-19 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Balbier, Michael. "A biblical theology of the strangers in Israel." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Hamilton, Karen A. "A light for revelation to the gentiles, preaching the Old Testament in the United Church of Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ65191.pdf.

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Chae, Daniel Jong-Sang. "Paul as apostle to the Gentiles : his apostolic self-awareness and its influence on the soteriological argument in Romans." Thesis, Brunel University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260215.

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Lincicum, David Nathan. "St. Paul's Deuteronomy : the end of the pentateuch and the apostle to the gentiles in Second Temple Jewish context." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9db626e8-7858-4fe4-be80-ac2e82bbd38f.

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Amid the recent turn to Paul’s reading of Scripture, the role Deuteronomy plays in his letters has generally been examined in individual citations without regard to the larger role Deuteronomy plays in Paul’s letters, or with an exclusive focus on either the theological or the ethical importance of Deuteronomy for Paul. In contrast, this study argues that Paul read Deuteronomy with three interlocking construals (as ethical authority, as theological authority, as an interpretation of Israel’s history), each equally basic. These construals can be combined to achieve a sense of the shape of Paul’s Deuteronomy as a whole. In order to ascertain and specify these construals, Paul’s engagement with Deuteronomy is examined as an instance of Jewish engagement with the book. Part I, therefore, supplies the historical conditions of Paul’s and other Jewish authors’ encounter with the scroll of Deuteronomy (Chap 2). On this basis, Part II proceeds to survey the major Jewish interpreters of Deuteronomy from the 3rd c. BCE to the 3rd c. CE (Chaps. 3-8). Because Paul is himself a Jewish author, this study foregoes the traditional bi-partite thesis division into “background” and Paul, opting instead to see Paul as one in a chain of Jews who turned to Deuteronomy to make sense of the present. These chapters thus also provide a sustained analysis of Deuteronomy’s broader effective history in Second Temple Jewish writings – and, in a few cases, beyond. In light of the range of interpretations to which Deuteronomy was susceptible, the concluding chapter examines what is distinctive about the shape of Paul’s Deuteronomy and what contribution this may make to debates on Pauline theology and to the study of Second Temple Jewish biblical interpretation.

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Farnham, Margaret L. "Do not call profane a biblical model for inclusion of lesbians and gays in the church /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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SANTOS, Samuel Nunes dos. "Identidade cristã no século ii d.c. uma análise da i apologia de justino Mártir." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2012. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2338.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:17:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao SAmuel N dos SAntos.pdf: 1063779 bytes, checksum: 95147b60c8e271abf2cf57c25320fd96 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-31 The intention of this study is to analyze the proposal of the making of Christian identity from the work entitled First Apology, by Justin Martyr. We believe that in the formation of Christianity, some authors such as Justin, promoted the project of creating a Christian identity, from the rules and practices that should equalize / standardize the fact of being a Christian in the first and second centuries A.D. Justin, in his First Apology, indicates what should be done and what should be avoided to be considered Christian, and such discourse allows the production of identity characteristics. To achieve this goal, we investigated the relationships of interculturality in the first and second centuries A.D, we researched and presented specific aspects of author and his work, such as: its dating, the extant manuscripts, the genre, the historical context, etc. Finally, in the last chapter, we presented closely at particular aspects of the First Apology: its internal structure, his idea about Jesus, the Jewish prophecies, the Christians as a race, those who were not Christians and the groups considered heretical, the relationship of the author with the stoicism and the Platonism, the author s intention in drawing up his speech and, finally, about the Christian identity proposed by him seen from the data above. A intenção do presente trabalho é analisar a proposta de construção de uma identidade cristã a partir da obra intitulada I Apologia, de Justino Mártir. Acreditamos que na formação do cristianismo, alguns autores como Justino, promoveram o projeto de criação de uma identidade cristã, a partir de preceitos e práticas que deveriam igualar/homogeneizar o fato de se ser cristão nos séculos I e II d.C. Justino indica na I Apologia o que se deveria fazer e o que se deveria evitar para se ser considerado cristão e tal discurso possibilita a produção de características identitárias. A partir dessa ideia, investigamos as relações de interculturalidade nos séculos I e II d.C., pesquisamos e apresentamos o autor e aspectos específicos de sua produção, tais como: datação, manuscritos existentes, gênero, o contexto histórico, etc. Por fim, no último capítulo, apresentamos detidamente aspectos particulares da I Apologia: sua estrutura interna, sua ideia de Jesus, das profecias judaicas, dos cristãos enquanto uma raça, que os diferenciavam dos que não eram cristãos e dos grupos considerados heréticos, a relação do autor com o estoicismo e o platonismo, a intenção do autor na elaboração do discurso e, por último, a identidade cristã por ele proposta a vista disto tudo.

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Morrison, Steve. "Euaggelion Kata Paulon, a study of Paul's initial preaching to gentiles according to his epistles and the Book of Acts." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.109-0001.

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Cantelli, Arianna. "Male Jews and female gentiles: intermarriage and exogamous relations in the fiction of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/687.

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Olmstead, Wesley G. "Matthew's trilogy of parables : the nation, the nations and the reader in Matthew 21.28 - 22.14 /." Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2003053192.html.

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Kohlsmith, Colin. "The Apostolic decree in its cultural context." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Usue, Emmanuel Ordue. "The place of non-Jews/foreigners in the early post-exilic Jewish community in Ezra and Nehemiah." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02052004-102606.

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Kwok, Hon Lee. "Use of Isaiah in the Pauline letters : with special reference to his self-conception of being an Apostle to the Gentiles." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4154.

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Many may have noticed that Paul employs large number of passages from the book of Isaiah in his various Epistles. Some of those Isaianic texts are used as explicit citations whilst others are used in a more nuanced manner such as allusions and intertextual echoes. Yet, in spite of the importance of Isaiah in Paul’s letters and the centrality of Paul’s vocation as an apostle to the Gentiles in Paul’s life, no specialized study of the relationship between these two significant aspects has appeared to date. More specifically, amongst those who notice the significance of Isaiah in Paul’s Epistles, it has been widely held that Paul identifies himself with the Isaianic Servant in the way that he sees himself as the fulfilment of the Isaianic Servant. The present study seeks to explore how Paul reads Isaiah as reflected in Galatians, Romans, and 1 and 2 Corinthians, four of his undisputed authentic letters, where explicit citations and clear allusions are detected. It is not so much a study of the mechanics of citation or allusion per se as of seeing Paul as a reader and interpreter of the scriptural text. Special attention is paid to the interplay of Paul’s reading of the Isaianic texts, the role of the servant figure portrayed in Isaiah 40-66, and his understanding of Jesus as well as his own Gentile mission in the light of Isaiah. Based on a slightly modified model set out by Richard Hays, the study proceeds by looking at some of the major instances of Paul’s using of Isaianic texts within the larger literary contexts, both in Isaiah and in the flow of Paul’s argument. The goal of the study is fourfold: First, to see whether Paul’s use of these ancient texts is ‘atomistic’, taken the text out of context and applied it to his argument to serve his own purpose or given consideration of the wider context of the original text. Second, to explore how Paul reads Isaiah in the light of his special called ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles, and how the reading of the scriptural text provides him insights to God’s ongoing salvific work in the history of Israel and the person of Jesus. Third, to clarify Paul’s sense of identification with the Isaianic servant figure in relation to the ministry of Jesus and his own mission; and finally, how Paul views the Gentile mission in which he is involved in relation to the final salvation of Israel and humanity. Particular attention has been paid to Paul’s identification of the Isaianic Servant. It has been argued that he sees Jesus as the eschatological fulfilment of the Isaianic Servant. Jesus’ death and resurrection established the foundation of hope and provided a paradigm for his apostolic existence. He sees himself as the Isaianic servant in the sense that he lives a life in total identification with that of Christ, who, though experiences suffering and death, will be vindicated eventually by God.

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Clawson, Kevin Leon. ""Come to the Knowledge of Their Redeemer": The Book of Mormon's Message to the House of Israel." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8568.

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One of the major themes in the Book of Mormon is the promises of the Lord to the house of Israel. Even before Lehi and his family left the promised land, Lehi and Nephi prophesied of the future scattering and gathering of Israel. After the family of Lehi arrived on the Americas, prophets continued to teach about God’s covenants with Israel. The destiny of the house of Israel was a major theme in the books of 1 and 2 Nephi, and also at the end of the Book of Mormon in the teachings of Jesus Christ, Mormon, and Moroni.In Lehi’s prophecy about the house of Israel in 1 Nephi 10, he prophesied that the future remnants of the house of Israel would be scattered and then defined how they would be gathered together again. They would do so by coming to the knowledge of their Lord and Redeemer (see 1 Nephi 10:14, emphasis added). When teaching about the house of Israel, many prophets taught similar principles as Lehi. Additionally, many prophets—including Nephi, Jacob, Alma, Samuel, Jesus Christ, Mormon, and Moroni—alluded to Lehi’s same phrase when they taught about the house of Israel during their own ministries. In the various sermons about the covenants of God with the house of Israel, several prophecies and principles were repeated. All of the major writers on the plates knew that the remnant of Israel would be scattered. They also taught that in the latter days, the gospel would go forth first to the Gentiles, who would in turn gather the scattered remnants of Israel. The instrument and tool by which they would be gathered would be the writings of the Nephite prophets – the Book of Mormon. Most important, the Gentiles and house of Israel would be gathered by coming to the knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Redeemer. The Book of Mormon prophets understood these teachings and engraved them on the plates to come forth to the world in the latter days. This thesis surveys the teachings of the prophets in the Book of Mormon about the gathering of the house of Israel. It also discusses the allusions and references to Lehi’s prophecy about how the Gentiles and house of Israel will be gathered – by coming to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, their Lord and their Redeemer.

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Van, der Westhuizen Elsabé. "Jesus en die insluiting van nie–Jode by die kerk na aanleiding van Matteus 16:18 / Elsabé van der Westhuizen." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/6919.

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The gospel according to Matthew has particularistic (i.e. specific to the Jews) as well as universal features. The particularistic features are demonstrated by the Jews included in the gospel, whereas the gentiles (non–Jews) are representative of the gospel’s universal nature. Traditionally, it is said that the gentiles in the gospel often come to confess Jesus as the Messiah, whereas the majority of Jews reject Him. Gentiles who come to confess Jesus will likely become part of the church. However, some researchers doubt whether the gospel according to Matthew does indeed present such a positive picture of the gentiles. This may have implications for the inclusion of the gentiles in the church. The question arises whether gentiles become part of the church by virtue of their confession of Jesus as the Christ. The purpose of this study was thus to determine whether gentiles become part of the church by virtue of their confession. Chapter 1 sets out the background to the research question and the problem statement. Chapter 2 asks whether gentiles do indeed come to confess the Messiah. The birth narratives provide an outlook of gentiles who will come to a confession. In the ministry narratives, the Roman officer and the Canaanite woman acknowledge Jesus’ authority. The Roman officer receives the promise that non–Jews will be part of the Kingdom of Heaven. The Canaanite woman points towards gentiles who will triumph over the gates of hell. When Jesus dies, the Roman soldiers acknowledge Him as the Son of God. This is based on a literature study. Chapter 3 asks whether the Jews reject Jesus as the Messiah. The fulfilment citations place the unrighteousness of the Jews in continuity with Israel of old, and the disputations and declaration of woe reveal the hypocrisy of the Jewish leaders. This is also based on a literature study. Chapter 4 explores the meaning of the word rock (petra) on which Jesus builds His church ? according to Matthew 16:18. In order to establish the meaning of the word, an overview of the word’s interpretation history is provided. Secondly, the meaning of the word is also determined exegetically. Chapter 5 sets out a summary of all the findings of the study. The main findings are: Gentiles often come to confess Jesus; in contrast, most Jews reject Jesus as the Messiah. Jesus builds the church on Himself as the Rock, but extends the privilege to those, like Peter, who confess Him to become lesser bricks in the church. It can therefore be said that gentiles become part of the church by confessing Jesus as the Christ. Thesis (M.A. (New Testament))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.

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Nahemiah, T. L. Yee. "'You who were called the uncircumcision by the circumcision' : a study of Jewish attitudes toward the gentiles and ethnic reconciliation according to Eph. 2.1-22." Thesis, Durham University, 1999. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4315/.

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The present work is a study of the connections between Jewish attitudes toward the Gentiles and ethnic reconciliation according to Eph. 2. It begins by assessing previous scholarly tradition whose hermeneutical 'grid' has been derived from the philosophy of dialectics or the Protestant Reformation. The 'new perspective(s) on Paul', however, shifts our perspective back to first century Judaism and enables us to penetrate fully into the historical context of first century Jews and Judaism. We have taken pains to describe some of the relevant Jewish features and demonstrated them by focusing particularly on Eph. 2 and attempting to set it as fully as possible into its historical context. The uncontroversial a priori of Jewish context conceals many explosive issues: how much was our author influenced by Jewish ideas? Does he wish to speak about his Gentile addressees from a Jewish perspective? Does his status as a Jew also create for him a convenient 'pre-text' so that he could reiterate the perspective of other Jews about the Gentiles in his representation of it? These questions are addressed in this study. We have paid attention to the question of 'representation' or characterization and suggested that ethnography provides a way into the author's statements about the Gentiles: it aids die author to heighten the boundary between Jews and Gentiles and to underscore the negative valence which is attached to the Gentiles. The author's ethnographic statements enable us to show the way in which the language of 'powers' had become for our author a means of dividing human groups, establishing the differences between them and suggesting wherein their 'otherness' lies (Eph. 2.2). These statements and the negative verdict which the author passes on the Gentiles represent but a preamble to the author’s arduous effort to surmount the social distance between Jews and Gentiles. This is made most evident in his rhetoric of admission and conciliation in which he lays bare the fact that the Jews (himself included) were in no better position than the Gentiles who are 'sub-let' to the 'powers', although the idea of Israel’s status was never put in question (2.3). His aim is to evoke the need for the promptings of divine grace and love toward humankind (2.4-10). We also seek to show that Ephesians does not consist of a polemic against meritorious works. We have taken pains to demonstrate that the author of Ephesians has adopted a subtle approach in unraveling the exclusivistic Jewish attitudes toward the Gentiles. His characterization of the Gentiles reveals a distinctively Jewish perspective, and, more importantly, tells us much about the Jews (2.1 l-13a). We also show that the Gentiles were estranged by the Jews and that the estrangement can be best explained by die hypothesis that the Gentiles were perceived by die Jews through the 'grid' of covenantal ethnocentrism. The task of the author at this point is to exhibit his de-constructive strategy which provides a resolution to one of the thorniest issues regarding two ethnic groups: can Jew and Gentile, the two estranged human groups, be one {people of God)l And if so, howl We then go on to consider the way in which an exclusive, ethnic-oriented 'body politic of Israel' is transposed into an inclusive community-body. We pointed out that a major weakness with previous treatments of Ephesians has been a lack of appreciation for the close connections between die exclusive Jewish attitudes toward die Gentiles and the author's encomiastic statements about Christ (2.14-18). Previous scholarship has also been substantially hampered by its attempt to 'discover' a preformed material in Eph. 2.14-18, failing to recognise the discussion in Eph. 2.11-13 which sets the parameters for understanding Eph. 2.14-22. Rather than a 'parenthesis' or 'digression', which is tangential to the primary design of die author's argument, we suggested that Eph. 2.14-18 can be best read as an amplificatio through which the author has set in comparison with the magnanimity of Christ the Jewish attitudes toward the Gentiles (w. llb-12). What becomes immediately clear in his attempt to accentuate Christ's magnanimity toward humankind is that this attempt was prompted by the Jewish tendency to exclude. The author maximises the expedient, noble act of Christ who brings peace to an estranged humanity and surmounts the social distance between Jews and Gentiles, and whose death has in his perception provided a new framework, i.e. pax Christi within which mutual acceptance or 'the oneness of spirit' between Jews and Gentiles may then be filled out (v. 18; cf. 4.1-6). Such community- enhancing metaphors as 'one new man', 'one body' and 'one spirit' signalled the importance of and were introduced to put the exclusive Jewish 'body politic' and Jewish conception about humankind in question, but they never question the legitimacy of Israel as God's choice or replace Israel. Some vital implications of Christ's reconciling work for the Christian Gentiles and, not least, for their relation to Israel are considered in the penultimate chapter of this study. Two major topoi from ancient political theorists and from the Jewish Temple are introduced by the author to surmount the 'us- them' divisions, to forge the idea of sameness and to consolidate a close relationship of Gentiles with other members of an inclusivistic community. Although die author could readily suggest that Gentiles have become fellow-citizens with 'Israel' (2.19; cf. 2.12), he nevertheless refrained from making this suggestion. The fact is that the meaning of Israel had been hijacked, transcoded and turned into an etimically-based 'body politic' (). But with 'die holy ones' (2.19), the author can redefine the relationship of die Gentiles to die Israel of God afresh. We round off our present study by considering the implications which our present study may have for future research on Ephesians.

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Min, Guofang. "Mission to the Gentiles in Luke-Acts as fulfilling God's promise to Israel: A critical reading of the Apostolic Decree of the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15:1-29." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108070.

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Thesis advisor: Christopher R. Matthews Thesis advisor: Thomas D. Stegman The overall narrative in the Acts of the Apostles displays a noticeable dual-emphasis of the author: emphasis on the mission to the Gentiles despite the obstructions of the Jews and emphasis on the Jewish roots of the Gentile mission, which results in an ambivalent attitude toward the Jews and Judaism. These seemingly contradictory emphases easily push careless readers to an unbalanced interpretation and reading of Acts, and the Holocaust is the ultimate horrible consequence of the anti-Semitic interpretation of Acts. This thesis argues that the two emphases, rather than being contradictory, are mutually intertwined: Jewish roots help illuminate the origin and meaning of the mission to the Gentiles, and the mission to the Gentiles fulfills the promise God made to Israel. A good example of this is the Apostolic Letter composed at the Jerusalem Council, which was held to address and solve the problem of the conditions by which the Gentiles could be members of the church (cf. Acts 15:2). In this study, I will place the Apostolic Letter (15:23-29) within a larger theological and narrative framework of Luke-Acts—the fulfillment of God’s promise to Israel— and argue that, as Luke’s rhetorical device, the Decree (15:20, 29; 21:25) not only serves to explain some already existing practices among Jewish and Gentile Christians, but more importantly, serves as a guiding principle for concrete table fellowship between Jewish believers and Gentile believers within a community that calls its believers to be of “one heart and soul” (4:32) Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2018 Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry Discipline: Sacred Theology

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Testori, Marinella. "A syntax-based approach to the language of causality in Thomas Aquinas : the case of principium and causa (Summa Contra Gentiles, books I-II) : explorative study and first results." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-syntaxbased-approach-to-the-language-of-causality-in-thomas-aquinas--the--case--of-principium-and-causa-summa--contra-gentiles-books-iii-explorative-study-and-first-results(e0fd1f07-b06a-4edd-ab02-a7dc96e40589).html.

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Despite being well-studied with respect to his philosophical and theological production, there is still not a robust scholarship dealing, from a linguistic viewpoint, with the writings of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). This dissertation aims at establishing this new line of research by proposing a case-study of syntax-based analysis of the lemmas principium and causa, which are relevant for the Thomistic language of causality. The case-study, conducted by means of the PML Tree Queries language, is based on the annotation of a corpus of sentences corresponding to the first two books of the Summa Contra Gentiles, which are part of the Index Thomisticus Treebank Project (IT-TB), developed in continuity with the Index Thomisticus (Index) created last century by Roberto Busa SJ. Drawn up in the context of Busa’s theory regarding the existence of “two philosophies” in the mind of a philosopher, the fundamental aim of the research is to cast light on Aquinas' mind according with a threefold structure: a) investigating the connection between what we already know about the meaning of these lemmas and their syntax-semantic relation with the verbal heads to which they are related as syntactic arguments in accordance with the linguistic framework (the Prague Dependency Guidelines and Harm Pinkster's categories) adopted by the IT-TB; b) disclosing more refined meanings of the lemmas in the context of their relation with the same verbal heads, and c) analyzing the implications of the theory of valency for explaining the meaning of the lemmas themselves. In continuity with Busa's wish for a syntactic study of Aquinas' texts, the dissertation aims to contribute also to two other fields of research: a) Computational/Corpus linguistics for Latin, which is currently attracting the interest of an increasing number of scholars, and b) the general development of the debate in digital humanities, by proposing a language-based approach to informatics along with the concept of linguistic annotation as language-causative activity.

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Leopold, Seth. "Denmark April 9, 1940-October 1943 : timing as a factor in the Danish rescue of Danish Jewry." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32925.

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It has been nearly sixty years since the October 1943 Danish rescue of Danish Jewry. Since this time, no historian has examined the role that the timing of the planned Jewish round-up played in the degree of success of the rescue. Would a National Socialist round-up of the Danish Jews have been successful if it occurred in 1941 for example? As long as the Danish government was in power, no anti-Jewish measures were implemented in Denmark. Within a month of the Danish government's resignation, National Socialist plans to eliminate Danish Jewry were being drafted. This thesis examines the major events in Denmark that led to the resignation of the Danish government in August 1943, and the failed plan to round-up and deport the Danish Jews. The most important conclusion of this thesis is that to a significant degree, the Danish people were successful in their rescue of Danish Jews because of the timing of the anti-Jewish measures.

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Larsen, Lillian. "The letter kills but the spirit gives life an analysis of the contexts from which rescuing/resistance behavior emerged during the Jewish Holocaust /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Bueno, Clovis Henrique. "Lucas 4.16-30: um ideário programático do evangelho." Faculdades EST, 2015. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=586.

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A perícope de Lucas 4.16-30 aparenta ser uma síntese literária e teológica do terceiro evangelho. A partir de uma releitura de uma perícope do evangelho de Marcos, de textos de Isaías e, eventualmente de outras fontes, Lucas transformou a tradição recebida em programa para o ministério de Jesus, com vistas aos destinatários de seu escrito. O trabalho está organizado em três capítulos: questões introdutórias, análise semântica da perícope e análise da intervenção redacional do evangelista no material recebido. Entre os temas que Lucas destaca através desse programa, está a oferta do evangelho aos pobres, a condução pelo Espírito Santo, a rejeição do evangelho na própria pátria e a abertura do evangelho aos gentios, temas que atravessam a dupla obra lucana. The pericope of Luke 4: 16-30 seems to be a literary and theological synthesis of the third Gospel. Based on a rereading of a pericope of the Gospel of Mark, of texts from Isaiah and, eventually of other sources, Luke transforms the received tradition into a program for the ministry of Jesus aiming at the public of his writings. The work is organized into three chapters: introductory issues, semantic analysis of the pericope and an analysis of the redactional intervention of the evangelist in the material received. Among the themes which Luke highlights from this program is the offering of the Gospel to the poor, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the rejection of the Gospel in his own country and the opening of the Gospel to the gentiles, themes which pervade the two works of Luke.

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Pesce, Antonio Giovanni. "L'etica dell'intersoggettività in Giovanni Gentile." Thesis, Universita' degli Studi di Catania, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/308.

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Il pensiero di Giovanni Gentile e' stato spesso accusato di essere una forma di misticismo o di solipsismo. La tesi che qui si sostiene e', invece, che la cifra intima dell'attualismo gentiliano sia l'intersoggettivita'. Grazie alla letture delle fonti del pensiero di Gentile, e all'analisi dei fondamenti teorici del suo pensiero, si e' tentato di dimostrare come l'atto del pensiero prenda identita' facendosi "persona".

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Chancey, Mark A. "The myth of a gentile Galilee /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb388392722.

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TOGNI, Fabio. "Il periodo palermitano di Giovanni Gentile." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/26731.

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Ben, Braiek Hnia. "Espaces gentils et analyse de régularité." Paris 7, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA077024.

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Le sujet de cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'analyse fonctionnelle et l'analyse par ondelettes. Il est principalement fondésur deux études : la première traite le caractère "gentil" d'une large classe d'espaces fonctionnels, à savoir les espaces de Besov homogènes isotropes et anisotropes, les espaces de Lizorkin-Triebel homogènes isotropes et l'espace d'interpolation entre deux espaces "gentils", et la deuxième étude porte sur l'analyse par ondelettes des régularités 2-microlocales (associées aux espaces "gentils"), directionnelles et anisotropes The subject of this thesis is part of the functional analysis and wavelet analysis. It is mainly based on two studies : the first treats the "gentle" character of a large class of function spaces, namely isotropic and anisotropic homogeneous Besov spaces, isotropic homogeneous Lizorkin-Triebel spaces, interpolation spaces between "gentle" spaces and the second study focuses on the wavelet analysis of 2-microlocal regularities (associated to "gentle" spaces), directional and anisotropic regularities

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