Dissertations / Theses: 'Holiness'

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Thompson, Melinda Lee. "Holiness in Leviticus." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Burton, Rufus Theodore. "Glorious in holiness : the holiness of God in the reformed tradition." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.565978.

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Ancmon, James P. "Conceptions of holiness an examination of St. Francis' teaching /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Wheeler, Robert H. "Faith, holiness and the marketplace." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Wilson, E. Jan. "Holiness and purity in Mesopotamia /." Kevelaer : Neukirchen-Vluyn : Butzon & Bercker ; Neukirchener Verlag, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35732069b.

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Spencer, Carole Dale. "Quakerism as holiness : an historical analysis of the theology of holiness in the Quaker tradition." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408360.

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Pemberton, Neil Ashley. "Holiness, civilisation and the victorian deaf:." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490225.

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Durey, David D. "Coming to terms with the doctrine of entire sanctification." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Tran, Son Thai. "To be holy: To be fully human." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108283.

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Dodson, Rhett Powell. "Discerning truths of holiness the theology and message of Leviticus 11-15 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Davis, Barry C. "The holiness of God in the Psalms." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Yeung, Chun-kwong, and 揚振光. "Development of Wing Kwong Pentecostal Holiness Church." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985579.

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Cholij, Roman. "Theodore the Stoudite : the ordering of holiness /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb389537717.

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Yeung, Chun-kwong. "Development of Wing Kwong Pentecostal Holiness Church." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25947904.

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Lessing, Robert Reed. "The holiness of Yahweh in conflict with the holiness of Baal vis-a-vis Mount Zion and Mount Zaphon." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Barnett, Christopher B. "Kierkegaard, pietism, and holiness in 'the present age'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491585.

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Huang, Chih-Heng. "Strategies in urban mission for Taiwan Holiness Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Omo, Curtis M. "The Old Testament saint and the holiness of God." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Garrity, Allen Kimball. "The meaning of "holiness" in the law of Moses." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Shiraiwa, Masaaki. "Justification or sanctification an interpretation of Galatians 2:15-21 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Kim, Paul Duk-Joong. "The idea of perfection in Matthew's Gospel against its Jewish background." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2003. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU602060.

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This work seeks to define the meaning of being "perfect" in Matthew's Gospel in relation to the Jewish holiness tradition. The first part is composed of three sub-chapters. (1) The first chapter discusses the idea of perfection in the Pentateuch, in which Matthew's perfection is mainly rooted. This chapter intends to study the way in which the idea of perfection is displayed in relation to the concept of holiness in the Pentateuch. The idea of perfection, which was derived from the qualification (oon) of the sacrificial animals that were offered to God, was applied to the priests because they were associated with the sacrificial animals in their functions. The idea is extended to the nation of Israel in Deuteronomy on the grounds that the nation of Israel is a holy and priestly nation. (2) The second chapter deals with the idea in the prophetic writings, which is closely associated with three elements: the idea of shalom, the suffering motif, and the New Covenant as a means of the restoration of Israel (a priestly nation). The idea of perfection in the prophetic writings stresses an ethical dimension within a covenantal relationship with Yahweh. (3) The wisdom writings place much emphasis upon wisdom as a means of achieving holiness and perfection. Wisdom literature introduces the divine wisdom as perfect wisdom which the people of God seek after. As a result, the Torah as a source of the divine wisdom is closely linked to the idea of perfection in the wisdom writings. Part two demonstrates how the idea of perfection played an important role in the life of the Jews in the Second Temple period. (1) The idea of perfection is crucial for the understanding of life at Qumran. The idea of perfection in the Qumran community is to be defined in the context of the Jewish expectation that a priestly kingdom would be restored as the fulfilment of the New Covenant. The Qumran covenanters regarded themselves as members of a priestly community which was expected to atone for the sins of the Land. Against this background, the covenanters applied priestly holiness, i.e., perfection, to their life and religious practices. (2) The Pharisaic idea of perfection is closely related to their ideal to establish a priestly nation in the Promised Land. On the basis of this, they applied priestly holiness to the people of Israel in general. Because of the centrality of the Torah and the wisdom influence in the life of the Jews in the post-exilic period, the Pharisaic perfection highly emphasises the importance of the dual Torah (both written Torah and the tradition of elders) as a means of achieving perfection. Part three discusses how Matthew's Gospel makes use of the idea of perfection effectively in his Gospel. Matthew intends to show how the promise of the New Covenant was fulfilled in the work of Jesus. Matthew describes the new people of God as a new Israel: the Church as the new Temple, Jesus as the High Priestly Messiah, and his disciples as priests ministering for the new Temple. Jesus' disciples were likened to the priests who served the Temple in the presence of the Lord. On this ground, Matthew demands that Jesus' disciples should be "perfect". Therefore, for Matthew, the Church, i.e., the new Temple, is the community of perfection. Matthew inherits the Jewish idea of perfection (the centrality of the love command in particular) and applied it to the life of the new people of God.

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Miao, Albert Wei Tsin. "The concept of holiness in the book of Ezekiel." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265431.

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The theme of holiness is prominent in the book of Ezekiel. This fact should not be surprising, given that Ezekiel is said to be a priest. However, a number of passages in the book express ideas about holiness chat relate specifically to Ezekiel's exilic setting. The present thesis examines how the concept of holiness is used in these oracles to provide an explanation ~of Israel's disaster and to prophesy the nation's restoration. Chapter 1 discusses the methodology of the thesis with reference to previous scholarly study of che book of Ezekiel. As in other areas of OT study, recent research has seen a polarization into diachronic and synchronic approaches. The present work generally adopts a synchronic approach, and particular emphasis is placed on rhetorical criticism as a means of discerning coherent blocks of text. This has the added benefit of highlighting those literary features that are particularly important for the interpretation of the passages being studied. The next four chapters present the main argument of the thesis. Chapter 2 examines Ezek. 20:5-26 for its literary structure and thence deduces the main themes of the passage. The point is that Yahweh's election of the people involves a promise of land, but that this promise could not yet be fulfilled because of the people's being defiled. However, Yahweh refrains from destroying his people completely in order to preserve the holiness of his own name. Chapter 3 turns to the theme of the "mythic mountain", whereby mountain imagery is employed to signify the land. Three concepts underlie Ezekiel's use of this metaphor: this mythic mountain represents the land of Israel; this land is seen as Yahweh's sanctuary; and the land is the place of Israel's inheritance. The mountain thus symbolizes the hope of the ideal future in which Yahweh, the people and the land are brought together. Chapter 4 examines the allegorical portrayal of the city of Jerusalem as a prostitute in Ezek. 16 and 23 . These chapters 'are similar in many ways, but differ in one important respect: while Ezek. 23 focuses on the sins of the people of the city, Ezek. 16 adopts the perspective of Jerusalem as placeYahweh's sanctuary. The sins of prostitution and adultery in these chapters represent idolatry and the illicit political alliances which Jerusalem forges with the peoples of Egypt, Assyria and Babylon. These chapters thus show how such "prostitution" opposes Yahweh's plans for holiness just as literal prostitution jeopardizes a marriage. At the same time, the dual focus on people and land as being married to Yahweh demonsrrates again the ti:iparrire nature of the relationship in the prophet's thinking. The contrasting themes of scattering and gathering, which are presented in a number of passages in Ezekiel, are then discussed in Chapter 5. These themes occur in a set pattern which demonstrates a significant degree of authorial (or redactional) skill. Thus it is reasonable co regard the ideas found in these several passages as a single point of view. It emerges that scattering and gathering depict the exile and restoration as affecting all parties in the tripartite relationship. Moreover, these themes constitute two parts of Yahweh's plan to achieve the state of holiness. The final result of these developments represents not only a return of the people to the land, but also a fulfilment of the original intention behind Yahweh's election of the people: the sanctification of the people, the land and Yahweh's name. Chapter 6 draws some conclusions from the preceding discussion. To Ezekiel, holiness is used in a broad sense. All forms of sin lead to the loss of the people's holiness, just as holiness brings about blessing on every aspect of life. Holiness is not merely seen as a cultic concern, but is an outworking of the motives and desires of the people. It is Yahweh's pursuit of holiness which causes the people to be "scattered" into exile. In the same way, however, the holiness of Yahweh's name provides the assurance of a transformation of the people and their future 'gathering" to their land. The theme of holiness is prominent in the book of Ezekiel. This fact should not be surprising, given that Ezekiel is said to be a priest. However, a number of passages in the book express ideas about holiness chat relate specifically to Ezekiel's exilic setting. The present thesis examines how the concept of holiness is used in these oracles to provide an explanation J of Israel's disaster and to prophesy the nation's restoranon. Chapter 1 discusses the methodology of the thesis with reference to previous scholarly study of the book of Ezekiel. As in other areas of OT study, recent research has seen a polarization into diachronic and synchronic approaches. The present work generally adopts a synchronic approach, and particular emphasis is placed on rhetorical criticism as a means of discerning coherent blocks of text. This has the added benefit of highlighting those literary features that are particularly important for the interpretation of the passages being studied. The next four chapters present the main argument of the thesis. Chapter 2 examines Ezek. 20 :5-26 for its literary structure and thence deduces the main themes of the passage. The point is that Yahweh's election of the people involves a promise of land, but that this promise could not yet be fulfilled because of the people's being defiled. However, Yahweh refrains from destroying his people completely in order to preserve the holiness of his own name. Chapter 3 turns to the theme of the "mythic mountain", whereby mountain imagery is employed to signify the land. Three concepts underlie Ezekiel 's use of this metaphor: this mythic mountain represents the land of Israel; this land is seen as Yahweh's sanctuary; and the land is the place of Israel's inheritance. The mountain thus symbolizes the hope of the ideal future in which Yahweh, the people and the land are brought together. Chapter 4 examit:!.es the allegorical portrayal of the city of Jerusalem as a prostitute in Ezek. 16 and 23 . These chapters are similar in many ways, but differ in one important respect: while Ezek. 23 focuses on the sins of the people of the city, Ezek. 16 adopts the perspective of J erusalern as placeYahweh's sanctuary. The sins of prostitution and adultery in these chapters represent idolatry and the illicit politic::tl alliances which Jerusalem forges with the peoples of Egypt, Assyria and Babylon. These chapters thus show how such "prostitution" opposes Yahweh's plans for holiness just as literal prostitution jeopardizes a marriage. At the same time, the dual focus on people and land as being married to Y dhweh demonstrates ag::iin the tripartite nature of the relationship in the prophet's thinking. The contrasting themes of scattering and gathering, which are presented in a number of passages in Ezeki el, are then discussed in Chapter 5. These themes occur in a set pattern which demonstrates a significant degree of authorial (or redactional) skill. Thus it is reasonable to regard the ideas found in these several passages as a single point of view. It emerges that scattering and gathering depict the exile and restoration as affecting all parties in the tripartite relationship. Moreover, these themes constitute two parts of Yahweh's plan to achieve the state of holiness. The final result of these developments represents not only a return of the people to the land, but also a fulfilment of the original intention behind Yahweh's election of the people: the sanctification of the people, the land and Yahweh's name. Chapter 6 draws some conclusions from the preceding discussion. To Ezekiel, holiness is used in a broad sense. All forms of sin lead to the loss of the people 's holiness, just as holiness brings about blessing on every aspect of life. Holiness is not merely seen as a culcic concern, but is an outworking of the motives and desires of the people. It is Yahweh's pursuit of holiness which causes the people to be "scattered" into exile. In the same way, however, the holiness of Yahweh's name provides the assurance of a transformation of the people and their future ''gathering" to their land.

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Turner, Philip Stanley. "Relating to God : a practical theology of Christian holiness." Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12882/.

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What does holiness mean to British Methodists in the twenty-first century? This thesis describes holiness from the perspective of a presbyter and over 100 participants from a Methodist church that journeyed together to discover what it means to be holy. Guided by Theological Action Research, the thesis outlines formal and normative theologies of holiness. ‘Relating to God’ is presented as a key hermeneutical phrase, showing that holiness begins with God, flows from God and flows through those who are responding to God’s love for the world. Yet when this theology was explored with participants diverse forms of welcome and resistance were encountered. These responses are presented and analysed in accounts of espoused and operant theologies. They showed that holiness is pursued in the complexity of real embodiment and everyday relationships. The author therefore argues that holiness is best understood when not generalised but rooted in a time, among a people and in their place. From a Christian perspective the whole of humanity is called to journey in holiness. This thesis contends that it is Methodism’s vocation to highlight this journey in the church and in the world, and concludes with practical suggestions for the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

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Willowby, Nathan. "Sanctification as virtue and mission| The politics of holiness." Thesis, Marquette University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10101022.

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This dissertation considers the political implications of the doctrine of holiness. I proceed by demonstrating the neglect of holiness in political theology, the viability of the holiness movement as an embodied witness of the political implications of the doctrine of holiness, and a biblical trajectory in Leviticus that extends into the New Testament. I describe this scriptural holiness as vocation for all of God’s people through personal formation and outward societal action to extend God’s holiness.

With attention to the approaches of political theology and formation, I demonstrate that the holiness movement of the nineteenth century offers an example of holiness in practice that addresses societal problems (e.g., urban housing crisis, intemperance, and slavery). I then propose three theological issues that undermined the political vision of the holiness movement in the twentieth century. First, the scope of sin narrowed resulting in a less hopeful expectation of sanctification’s power. Second, most of the holiness movement adopted premillennial eschatology, which altered the way it viewed social structures. Third, the holiness movement was marginalized by its theological rejection of the Third Great Awakening, which served to influence religious and civil approaches to social problems in the twentieth century (e.g., the New Deal and Social Gospel).

Three case studies (race, global missions, and temperance) demonstrate the influence these respective theological shifts had on social action. I argue that a theological interpretation of Leviticus 17-26 guides the holiness movement to embody the vocation of holiness as an alternative vision to the formation of modern politics regarding social orderings. I extend Israel Knohl’s insight that Lev 17-26 responds to prophetic critiques of cultic practices and reconceives holiness to address social challenges. I argue that Jesus picks up this stream when he recites, “love your neighbor as yourself,” and that Christian embodiment of this Scriptural holiness sustains the political vocation of holiness in changing contexts (including the modern bifurcation of life into private and public spheres). I conclude that vocational holiness enables a Christian understanding of political community.

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Espinoza, Joseph M. "The holiness of God in the book of Isaiah." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Thornton, Wallace. "The development of the American Holiness Movement and tensions over shifting behavioral standards." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Hutchinson, Andrew Thomas Greer. "Personal godliness : Puritan and contemporary an evaluation of the theology of personal godliness in the writings of Richard Foster in light of the practical writings of Richard Baxter /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Johnson, Truett J. "The holiness of God and the believer a study of Leviticus 1-7, John 18-19, and Hebrews 9-13 /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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MacKay, Garth M. "The Holiness Movement in the Canadian Maritime Region, 1880-1920." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21542.

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This thesis examines five religious organisations which existed in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, collectively known as the Maritime Region, between 1880 and 1920. Each of these denominations emphasised holiness theology, albeit in varying degrees. They include, in order of their establishment in the region, the Methodist Church, the Free Christian Baptist Conference, the Salvation Army, the Reformed Baptist Alliance of Canada and the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. This study assesses these religious bodies in a number of ways. First, it examines their theological beliefs, comparing them with one another and tracing any changes which occurred in them between 1880 and 1920. Second, it considers the various associations which each of these denominations developed with the late nineteenth-century American holiness movement. The enquiry devotes particular attention to the response of each religious body to a spiritual encounter, known as ‘entire instantaneous sanctification’, popularised especially during the last quarter of the nineteenth century by the holiness movement in parts of Canada, Great Britain and the United States. Third, a review of the unique strengths and weaknesses of each of the five institutions offers an explanation for the numerical and financial growth of several of these groups early in the twentieth century, as well as the degeneration of others. Fourth, the study discloses much of the opposition which was directed towards Maritime holiness movement sympathisers, offering a number of explanations why some of these individuals left their traditional religious affiliations to join holiness bodies which they perceived to be true advocates of scriptural holiness. Fifth, it appraises the strong leadership which a number of individuals offered to the holiness cause in the Maritime region, taking into account the education, religious training, financial status, gender and ancestral origin of these men and women. Finally, a thorough statistical analysis of each constituency highlights the unique composition of each denomination’s membership. Taken together, these features inform the primary argument of the thesis, which is that significant transformations occurred in some of these religious bodies at the same time as large percentages of constituents became wealthier and more socially acceptable. These changes eventually facilitated the merger of the Methodist Church and the Free Christian Baptist Conference, the two oldest denominations, with national mainline religious bodies. This thesis contends that such unions may not have occurred had these groups not attained public recognition. Furthermore, in realising these achievements both of these denominations relinquished the more radical elements of their heritage, as well as much of the spiritual passion linked with it.

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Chen, Andrew Chi-Jang. "Strategy for advancing the small church of Taiwan Evangelical Holiness Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Olesen, Elith. "De frigjorte og trællefolket amerikansk-engelsk indflydelse på dansk kirkeliv omkring år 1900 /." Frederiksberg : Anis, 1996. http://books.google.com/books?id=AiHkAAAAMAAJ.

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Chee, Wendy Ching Poh. "A comparison of the concept of the holy life in Phoebe Palmer and Francis de Sales as it relates to Christian spirituality." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Beard, John Marcus. "Writing holiness, writing violence suffering and the construction of female sanctity." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Atkins, Leonard Hardin. "Leadership development for the Royal Rangers of the Pentecostal Holiness Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Jenson, Philip Peter. "Graded holiness : a key to the Priestly conception of the world." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278122.

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Cholij, Roman M. T. "The ordering of holiness : life and thought of Theodore the Stoudite." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320873.

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Bacon, K. D. "The distinction of holiness : negotiating sainthood in Spanish novels, 1870-1915." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596238.

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In this thesis I argue that the texts examined allow us to understand sainthood not in theological terms, but as a socially constructed configuration of identity. Reading through Bourdieu and Valis, I explore how the texts represent the characters’ identification with saints as a strategy for distinction, showing how such identification may be used for self-definition, for self-justification, and for the acquisition of prestige. The texts reveal an ambivalent and complex attitude towards sainthood in Spain in this period, with no fixed and agreed definitions. In this context, sainthood becomes a locus for complex negotiations between tradition and modernity. Discourses on sainthood are also used both to express and to question received ideas about femininity and masculinity. I begin by examining the traditional structure and features of sainthood, proposing an innovative framework for understanding the attribution of sainthood in a person’s lifetime, which draws on Bourdieu’s notions of symbolic capital and the search for distinction, to develop the notion of “saintly capital.’ I then describe and analyse discourses of saintlessness from non-fictional religious texts of the period 1870-1915, bringing into play Valis’s work on the centrality of cursileria in modern Spain. I argue that these texts are unselfconsciously cursi, while the novels I look at in the rest of the thesis scrutinise and ironies such discourses of saintly distinction. Turning to the literary texts, I begin by showing how La familia de León Roch dramatises the struggle between different definitions and interpretations of sainthood, in a narrative which apparently privileges more “modern” definitions and yet ultimately ironises all such bids for distinction. La Regenta allows me to explore the way in which one saint (Teresa of Ávila) may become the focus of this struggle for the power to impose a particular interpretation of saintlessness. In the chapter on Nazarin I scrutinise the power of dynamics at work within the discourse of sainthood itself, while also bringing out the text’s emphasis on the constructed nature of this discourse, which is portrayed as a fantasy of distinguished identity. In the final chapter I trace how this fantasy of distinction is played out in Dulce deuño, as the re-telling of the saint’s story becomes an instrument of power and of self-definition.

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Wells, Jo Bailey. "A holy nation : Israel's call to holiness in a canonical perspective." Thesis, Durham University, 1997. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1643/.

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In Ex. 19: 6 God calls Israel to be `a priestly kingdom and a holy nation' (Ex. 19: 6). This thesis addressesth e meaninga nd significanceo f this call, as it is interpreted through the canon of Scripture. I arguet hat in this call to holinessli es the essenceo f God's purposei n choosing Israelf or himself.T he Torah addressetsh e subjecto f holinessa t its most fundamentalle vel: holiness concerns living faithfully in covenant relationship with YHWH. The priest representsa speciael xampleo f holiness. In Isaiaha nd Ezekiel holinessis developedp articularlyi n relation to Israel's place among the nations. Israel's holiness is to be a focus for the nations. Even so, the focus remainsp rimarilyo n Israeli tself, ast he dwelling-placeo f God's holy name. The covenant with Moses stands, in the Hebrew canon, in the context of the covenant with Abraham. The call to be a holy nation fulfils God's promise to bless Abram. He will become a great nation with a great name, and be a blessing to others. The covenant with Moses stands, in the Christian canon, in the light of Christ - the supreme priestly, holy figure. The notion of holiness is reappropriated and recast. lPet. 2: 9 explicitly cites Ex. 19: 6. God's call to be `a priestly kingdom and a holy nation' is opened to all peoples by the life, death and resurrection of Christ. Thus Gen. 12: 3 is fuflilled anew. Within the Christian canon there are different voices concerning holiness and its implications for the life of faith. There are shifts and tensions, not least regarding the place of other nations in relation to God's chosen people. Heard together, however, the voices yield a harmony which provides a depth to the Church's self-understanding, and especially to the significance of Ex. 19: 6.

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Cole, Carolyn Sue. "The sacred art of spiritual direction walking in wholeness and holiness /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Knohl, Israël. "The sanctuary of silence : the priestly Torah and the holiness school /." Winona Lake (Ind.) : Eisenbrauns, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41324882w.

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Brown, Jessica Caroline. "Reading Holiness: Agnes Grey, Ælfric, and the Augustinian Hermeneutic." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2365.

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Although Anne Brontë's first novel, Agnes Grey, presents itself as a didactic treatise, Brontë's work departs from many accepted Evangelical tropes in the portrayal of its moral protagonist. These departures create an exemplary figure whose flaws potentially subvert the novel's didactic purposes. The character of Agnes is not necessarily meant to be directly emulated, yet Brontë's governess is presented as a tool of moral instruction. The conflict between the novel's self-proclaimed didactic purpose and the form in which it presents that purpose raises a number of interpretive questions. I argue that many of these questions can be answered through the application of a hermeneutic presented in Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana. Such a hermeneutic shifts the burden of interpretation away from the author and toward the reader in such a way that the moral figure becomes, not a standard to be emulated, but rather a test of the reader's personal spiritual maturity. This sign theory heavily influenced the works of medieval hagiographers such as Ælfric of Enysham, who depended on Augustine's sign theory to mediate some of the less-orthodox behaviors of saints such as Æthelthryth of Ely. I argue that by applying Augustine's hermeneutic and reading Agnes Grey in the context of these earlier didactic genres, the novel's potentially subversive qualities are not only neutralized, but become an important element of Evangelical instruction.

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Trevaskis, Leigh M. "Rituals of persuasion: some prescriptive texts as motivational for holiness in Leviticus." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492453.

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Against the consensus view, reviewed in Chapter 1, this thesis argues that there is an ethical aspect to the Priestly (P) concept of holiness. It is contended that this aspect is implicit within the symbolic dimension of P's ritual texts. I propose that these texts were intended to persuade the Israelites to "be holy." For these reasons it is concluded that the concepts of holiness and P and the Holiness Code (Lev. 17-27; H) are possibly more similar than is commonly assumed.

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Amadi, Chima S. "The application of the synthetic leadership paradigm to the Holiness Evangelistic Mission." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Anderas, Phil [Verfasser], Herman J. [Herausgeber] Selderhuis, Christopher B. [Herausgeber] Brown, Günter [Herausgeber] Frank, Bruce [Herausgeber] Gordon, Barbara [Herausgeber] Mahlmann-Bauer, Tarald [Herausgeber] Rasmussen, et al. "Renovatio : Martin Luther's Augustinian Theology of Sin, Grace and Holiness / Phil Anderas." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. http://www.v-r.de/.

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Zanini, Gaia <1974&gt. "The Holiness of Healing: "Un Corso in Miracoli" e la questione dell'esoterismo." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2007. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/257/1/Tesi_Zanini.pdf.

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Zanini, Gaia <1974&gt. "The Holiness of Healing: "Un Corso in Miracoli" e la questione dell'esoterismo." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2007. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/257/.

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Stolz, Tinamarie Suzanne. "Gendered Holiness: The Characteristics Female College Students Assign to Holy Men and Women." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1513160164272978.

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Chun, Sang Wook. "Survey of ministers' attitudes toward the union of Jesus Korea Sungkyul Church and Korea Evangelical Holiness Church /." Free full text is available to ORU patrons only; click to view:, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/oru/fullcit?p3112959.

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Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2003.
Includes abstract and vita. Translated from Korean. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-150).

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Chi, In Sung. "Holiness and wholeness, toward a holistic Christian spirituality in the Korean syncretic context." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0008/NQ32300.pdf.

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Taylor, Larry C. "Holiness and devilry the organ in operas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1172617068.

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Thesis (Dr. of Musical Arts)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.
Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Apr. 5, 2007). Includes abstract. Keywords: organ; opera Includes bibliographical references.

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