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Shields, Timothy Philip. "The word of the cross as the power of God." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Howard, Peter R. "Redemptive power a theological framework for using social power /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Mallen, Peter Lindsay. "God's power manifest in jars of clay." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Zailskas, Aldona. "The Christian use of power Mark 10:35-45 as Mark's summary of the disciples' ethic of the use of power /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Blaha, Jim. "Power in weakness apostolic authenticity in Second Corinthians /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Cheney, Craig Stephen. "The authority and power of Satan in the life of the believer." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Lee, Brian L. "Power theology methods and church growth." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Olvera, Francisca. "Pastoral reflection on the issues of women, power and spirituality." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Kim, JinHyok. "The spirit of God and the Christian life : a constructive study of Karl Barth’s Pneumatology with special reference to his incomplete doctrine of redemption." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:849dd89e-753b-4aa1-b5e0-c9beae28edc7.

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My study centres on Karl Barth’s pneumatology with special attention to its inseparable relationship with his vision of the Christian life. Many critics say that Barth’s emphasis upon the gracious God revealed in Christ improperly undermined both the role of the Spirit and the importance of human agency. In contrast, my research will demonstrate that it is possible to read Barth as offering a robust Spirit theology, which resulted in rich reflection upon the Christian life. More specifically, my thesis will first examine Barth’s pneumatology within the context of his incomplete doctrine of redemption. I will show that his unique understanding of redemption was largely shaped by his exegesis of Paul’s Spirit theology, in which he developed central pneumatological motifs, including the Spirit’s incorporation of humanity into the intra-divine fellowship, mediation in the form of pneumatic prayer, and the shaping of moral agency. I will, then, examine these redemptive works of the Spirit within a more comprehensive context of his theology, coordinating synchronic and diachronic approaches. In particular, I will read ‘through’ and ‘across’ Barth, tracing underpinning pneumatological themes, with special focus on the three modes of the Spirit’s work in the opera ad extra – the mediation of divine and human logic in revelation, the drawing of creation into God’s self-glorification movement through beauty, and the calling of individuals through community into God’s drama of salvation. In short, unlike criticisms that Barth reduced pneumatology to the subjective possibility of revelation, my study will show that his pneumatology is mainly about our prayerful participation in God, the constitution of human agency and a new vision of the Christian life under the direction of the Spirit.
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Kamps, Timothy James. "The biblical forms and elements of power encounter." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Ivanoff, Jonathan. "The language of powers in the epistles of St. Paul." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Gross, Edward N. "Power encounter in selected writings of the Princeton theologians." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Liverance, Richard H. "Power and petition an exposition of John 14:13-14 /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Schroeder, Mark A. "Configuring modern cultures using the biblical themes of power and wisdom." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Tooley, W. Andrew. "Reinventing redemption : the Methodist doctrine of atonement in Britain and America in the 'long nineteenth century'." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20230.

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This thesis examines the controversy surrounding the doctrine of atonement among transatlantic Methodist during the Victorian and Progressive Eras. Beginning in the eighteenth century, it establishes the dominant theories of the atonement present among English and American Methodists and the cultural-philosophical worldview Methodists used to support these theories. It then explores the extent to which ordinary and influential Methodists throughout the nineteenth century carried forward traditional opinions on the doctrine before examining in closer detail the controversies surrounding the doctrine at the opening of the twentieth century. It finds that from the 1750s to the 1830s transatlantic Methodists supported a range of substitutionary views of the atonement, from the satisfaction and Christus Victor theories to a vicarious atonement with penal emphases. Beginning in the 1830s and continuing through the 1870s, transatlantic Methodists embraced features of the moral government theory, with varying degrees, while retaining an emphasis on traditional substitutionary theories. Methodists during this period were indebted to an Enlightenment worldview. Between 1880 and 1914 transatlantic Methodists gradually accepted a Romantic philosophical outlook with the result that they began altering their conceptions of the atonement. Methodists during this period tended to move in three directions. Progressive Methodists jettisoned prevailing views of the atonement preferring to embrace the moral influence theory. Mediating Methodists challenged traditionally constructed theories for similar reasons but tended to support a theory in which God was viewed as a friendlier deity while retaining substitutionary conceptions of the atonement. Conservatives took a custodial approach whereby traditional conceptions of the atonement were vehemently defended. Furthermore, that transatlantic Methodists were involved in significant discussions surrounding the revision of their theology of atonement in light of modernism in the years surrounding 1900 contributed to their remaining on the periphery of the Fundamentalist-Modernist in subsequent decades.
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Geyser, Anna Barbara. "1 & 2 Kronieke as 'n magsteks." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05242006-144255/.

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Yoon, Gil Soo. "Discipleship ministry as power encounter in Thailand." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Hird, Cathy L. "The principalities and powers in the Pauline corpus : a reconsideration of their identity." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65976.

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Roos, Beverley. "Women and the Word : issues of power, control and language in social and religious life." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16636.

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Bibliography: pages 151-157.
The intention of this thesis is to offer a perspective on the current debate over women's place in Western religious institutions, i.e. the Judaeo-Christian tradition; and to provide a way of thinking about those issues which will lead to a positive, progressive and realistic vision of co-humanity, and a method of achieving it. The thorny battleground of the "women's debate", as it is inaccurately named, was not my original choice of thesis topic. A lifelong commitment to feminist principles has been matched with an equally lengthy wariness regarding society's attitude towards such matters. Also, the understandable obsession of South African religious studies departments, and journals, with the issue of racism has had the inevitable result of trivializing the related issue of sexism as secondary. The narrowness of such thinking has led to strange distortions, including the belief that evil can somehow be 'ranked' and that there can be a 'hierarchy' of oppression. My intentions changed during a search of religious publications and journals while completing a post-graduate assignment. It was abundantly apparent that the scale of the debate on women's place in religion was fast outstripping most other debates. However, it was not an area which had been treated locally with seriousness. It had unfolded into a comprehensive and highly contentious debate in North American and British campuses and religious institutions, and the proliferation of books and articles on the subject by not only theologians but also sociologists, anthropologists and linguists had greatly extended the platform and the level on which the debate was to be fought. It appeared that women working in many fields were laying claim to religion, and were engaging issues which had previously been left to the handful of articulate women working at least nominally within orthodox structures.
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Cahill, Helen E. "Power and vowed obedience explorations toward authentic praxis /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Ostby, Dana Keith. "The historical Jesus and the supernatural world a shift in the modern critical worldview with special emphasis on the writings of Marcus Borg /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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

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Holmgren, E. Henry. "Signs and wonders in Africa a biblical perspective in interaction with western missions, African independent churches and African traditional religion, with particular reference to Zambia /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Pierce, India. "My Pew, Your Pulpit: An Ethnographic Study of Black Christian Lesbian Experiences in the Black Church." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338383170.

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Camnerin, Sofia. "Försoningens mellanrum : en analys av Daphne Hampsons och Rita Nakashima Brocks teologiska tolkningar." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9413.

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The overall purpose of this thesis is to illuminate and critically evaluate Christian theology of atonement and redemption, in order to contribute to contemporary theology of atonement and redemption. The purpose is reached through an analysis of the work of two contemporary feminist theologians; Daphne Hampson and Rita Nakashima Brock. Hampson has formulated a sharp post-Christian position. Brock has distinguished herself through her critique of the Christian concept of atonement and through her contributions to reconciliation and redemption. Both Daphne Hampson and Rita Nakashima Brock argue that Christian atonement-theology, primarily the so called objective model, is hurtful to children and victims of abuse and violence. They both argue that theological language is not innocent. At the same time, they illustrate broken relationships, sufferings, and problems they want to change, give theological interpretations of how that change is to take place and present methodologies on how to reach reconciliation between human beings and God as well as between human beings. In two steps I undertake a critical analysis of content and presuppositions in Daphne Hampson’s and Rita Nakashima Brock’s theologies of atonement and redemption. In the first step, I describe Hampson’s and Brock’s critique of Christian atonement-theology. I analyze their theological critique and theological construction in a model "from-transition-to". My critical analysis focuses especially on internal consistency. In the second part, the analysis of presuppositions, I explain basic principles upon which they shape their theology. The analysis is made up by the analytical concepts; theoretical arguments of knowledge, understandings of faith, and the position of the subject. I also analyze other essential concepts out of which gender is one. In the last chapter I present my own constructive contribution, structured by content and presuppositions. I argue that theology is both a critical and constructive discipline. In the content-response I discuss images of God, the tragic, the cross, and the hope. In the presuppositions-response I discuss the concept "space-in-between". In conclusion I propose that theology of atonement/redemption is shaped between post and Christian. I argue that space-in-between-perspectives are necessarily experimental and critical, a space on the border where marginalized voices are to be included.
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Gustafson, Allen. "Faith at work the power of positive questioning and communal listening in the role of discernment for the business professional /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Wilhelm, Georg. "Die Diktaturen und die evangelische Kirche : totaler Machtanspruch und kirchliche Antwort am Beispiel Leipzigs 1933 - 1958 /." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/388126655.pdf.

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Univ., Diss./2003 u.d.T.: Wilhelm, Georg: Evangelische Kirche in Leipzig 1933 bis 1958--Leipzig, 2002.
Literaturverz. S. [499] - 536. I. "Drittes Reich" ; Voraussetzungen und Rahmenbedingungen des Kirchenstreites -- Nationalsozialistischer Angriff und protestantische Selbstpreisgabe 1933 bis 1935 -- Die Bekennende Kirche in Leipzig im Zangengriff von deutsch-christlichem Kirchenregiment, Polizei und Staat 1933-1935 -- Verstärkte Entkonfessionalisierung in Zeiten kirchenpolitischer Beruhigung -- Kirchenpolitik im Abseits: 1937 bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges -- Zusammenfassung.
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Júnior, José Sebastião de Souza. "Religião e poder : uma crítica da teologia cristã." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2014. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1040.

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Este trabalho constitui um estudo acerca das estratégias de poder usadas, no decorrer da história, pela religião judaico-cristã numa visão sociopolítica, histórico-crítica e teológica, discorrendo do tribalismo bíblico ao período capitalista, momento atual, onde se percebe a necessidade de se compreender como a religião deve se comprometer com os pobres. Observa-se que a dimensão pública da vida religiosa tem se restringido à crença individual, rituais pessoais e compromissos particularizados centrados em benefícios próprios. Assim, o cristianismo tem apresentado características de fórum íntimo. Com o olhar nesse contexto visivelmente secular, examinamos como a religião deve se posicionar e quais compromissos pode assumir que contemplem os marginalizados. A proposta é conhecer as estratégias de poder usadas no decorrer da história pela religião judaico-cristã com intenção de perpetuar-se no comando; identificar historicamente a maneira oportuna como se submeteu e subjugou-se ao poder opressor para se manter; apresentar, a partir da Teologia da Libertação, os compromissos que essa religião deve assumir a partir dos pobres, com os pobres, mas para todos.
This work is a study about power strategies used throughout the history of the Judaic-Christian religion in a socio-political, critic-historical, theological vision, from the Biblical tribalism period, to the capitalistic period, the nowadays reality, in which one perceives the necessity of a religion committed to the poor. It can be observed that the public dimension of religious life has been restricted to individual beliefs, personal rituals and private activities, focused on each persons gains and benefits. As such Christianity has personal characteristics. Viewing from this context, obviously secular, we examine how religion should position itself and what activities it should assume that would favor those on the margin of society .The proposal is to know which power strategies were used historically by the Judaic-Christian religion, with the intention of remaining in power, and identify historically the opportune way to maintain the oppressor in power; present through Theology of Liberation ( Teologia da Libertação), the commitment this religion should alongside the poor and all other persons.
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Souza, Júnior José Sebastião de. "Religião e poder : uma crítica da teologia cristã." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2014. http://tede2.unicap.br:8080/handle/tede/364.

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This work is a study about power strategies used throughout the history of the Judaic-Christian religion in a socio-political, critic-historical, theological vision, from the Biblical tribalism period, to the capitalistic period, the nowadays reality, in which one perceives the necessity of a religion committed to the poor. It can be observed that the public dimension of religious life has been restricted to individual beliefs, personal rituals and private activities, focused on each person s gains and benefits. As such Christianity has personal characteristics. Viewing from this context, obviously secular, we examine how religion should position itself and what activities it should assume that would favor those on the margin of society .The proposal is to know which power strategies were used historically by the Judaic-Christian religion, with the intention of remaining in power, and identify historically the opportune way to maintain the oppressor in power; present through Theology of Liberation ( Teologia da Libertação), the commitment this religion should alongside the poor and all other persons.
Este trabalho constitui um estudo acerca das estratégias de poder usadas, no decorrer da história, pela religião judaico-cristã numa visão sociopolítica, histórico-crítica e teológica, discorrendo do tribalismo bíblico ao período capitalista, momento atual, onde se percebe a necessidade de se compreender como a religião deve se comprometer com os pobres. Observa-se que a dimensão pública da vida religiosa tem se restringido à crença individual, rituais pessoais e compromissos particularizados centrados em benefícios próprios. Assim, o cristianismo tem apresentado características de fórum íntimo. Com o olhar nesse contexto visivelmente secular, examinamos como a religião deve se posicionar e quais compromissos pode assumir que contemplem os marginalizados. A proposta é conhecer as estratégias de poder usadas no decorrer da história pela religião judaico-cristã com intenção de perpetuar-se no comando; identificar historicamente a maneira oportuna como se submeteu e subjugou-se ao poder opressor para se manter; apresentar, a partir da Teologia da Libertação, os compromissos que essa religião deve assumir a partir dos pobres, com os pobres, mas para todos.
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Sonnenschein, Hannes. "The Living Messiah of Brooklyn : Dealing with the theological postmortem legacy of the Chabad movement’s last Rebbe and final messianic redeemer." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-123535.

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The Chassidic Chabad movement is one of Judaism’s most successful and influential groups interms of missionary presence around the world and distributed missionary material online.Chabad’s final Rebbe is still regarded by his followers to be the long-awaited final redeemerand Messiah, despite his clinical death in 1994. The aim of this study is to describe how theChabad-followers, through the movement’s publications, maintain the belief in the Rebbe asthe Jewish Messiah, and the theological interpretive tools utilized in order to ‘survive’ as aunited movement. The study indicates that Chabad is still a united and radical messianicmovement, wherein, internal theological mechanisms interpret the Rebbe as corporally alivebut concealed by illusion, and will soon be revealed or imminently resurrected to complete theredemption of the world. The study also discusses the movement’s extreme right-wingedpolitical stance in regards to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, the movement’s Holocausttheology as means to further understand how the group ‘survived’ the cognitive dissonance thedeath of the Rebbe created and the theological similarities between Chabad and earlyChristianity.
Den Chassidiska Chabadrörelsen är en av judendomens mest framgångsrika och inflytesrikanya religiösa rörelser när det gäller missionär närvaro runt om i världen och missionärt materialonline. Chabads sista Rebbe anses av hans anhängare att vara världens sista försonare ochMessias, trots hans uppenbara kliniska död år 1994. Denna studie beskriver hurChabadanhängare, genom rörelsens egna tryckta och online publikationer, upprätthåller tron påRebbe som den judiska messias och de teologiska tolkningsverktyg som rörelsen använder föratt ‘överleva’ som en enad grupp. Studien indikerar att Chabadrörelsen, ändå till våra dagar, ärenad och radikal-messianistisk där man genom interna teologiska mekanismer tolkar Rebbensom levande i materiell kropp, gömd genom illusion men snart uppenbarad eller snartåteruppväckt från de fysiskt döda och i båda fallen för att fullgöra världens försoning där Gudförsonar människan i den materiella världen. Studien diskuterar också rörelsens extremahögerpolitik, i synnerhet när det gäller Israel-Palestina konflikten och förintelseteologi som ettsätt att vidare förstå hur gruppen ‘överlevde’ den kognitiva dissonansen Rebbens död skapadei termer av misslyckad profetia och de teologiska likheterna mellan Chabadrörelsen och tidigkristendom.Nyckelord: NRR,
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Boonzaaier, Jacobus. "God, skepping en verlossing 'n eksegetiese verkenning van Kolossense 1:13-20 /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03272003-163619/.

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Torres, José William Lopes. ""Revolução... uma necessidade!: a Igreja Católica e a produção do anticomunismo em Caruaru-PE, no jornal a defesa (1958-1959)." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2016. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1206.

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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar aspectos da produção e divulgação nos últimos anos da década de 50, do século XX, do discurso anticomunista de matriz católica integrista na sociedade caruaruense. Veiculado através do jornal A Defesa, esse discurso, construído pelos próceres e intelectuais da Igreja local, do clero e do laicato, buscou a manutenção da hegemonia da Igreja e a da classe à qual seus líderes sentiam-se ligados. Para essa análise, partiu-se do entendimento, baseado em Foucault, de que as relações do cotidiano são constituídas com o uso de códigos e linguagens, nos quais o jogo da dominação e dos saberes impera, com a finalidade de manter, através do discurso, as formas de dominação na sociedade. Além de Foucault, para a elaboração do presente trabalho, também foram utilizados os conceitos de Certeau a fim de compreender o cotidiano. Práticas e relações cotidianas que colaboram para a manutenção, como também a produção dos sujeitos sociais por meio de discursos e relações nos interstícios da sociedade como uma arte de fazer e ser dos sujeitos cotidianos. Aplicando esse instrumental teórico buscou-se analisar o discurso desenvolvido pela Igreja Católica, que se utilizou da linguagem da fé e da doutrina social formulada pelo papa Leão XIII, no final do século XIX, com a encíclica Rerum Novarum, a fim de coibir o avanço do comunismo no mundo e consequentemente no Brasil, como também na cidade de Caruaru, Pernambuco local. Pesquisou-se a metodologia utilizada pela Igreja na difusão imagético-discursiva acerca do comunismo, que não se resumiu apenas em pregações durante as missas, mas buscou alcançar a grande maioria dos caruaruenses, lançando uma guerra santa contra o comunismo, por meio do jornal A Defesa.
The goal of this essay is to analize aspects of production and dissemination from the anticommunist speech of Catholic matrix in Caruaru society throuth the diocesan newspaper A Defesa, in the last years of the 50s of the twentieth century. This speech built by grandees and intellectual men from the local church both clergy and laity, it tried to maintain the churchs hegemony and mass which leaders are connected. The analyze was based on Foucault, everyday relations are established with the use of codes and languages in which there are domination and knowledge, in order to keep forms of domination in society by the talking. In addition to Foucault, it was also used the concepts of Certeau on the daily practices and relationships that contribute to the social networks, and the production of social subjects through speeches and relations of the society interstices, as an "art of doing and being. It is applying this theoretical tool, it analyzed the speech developed by the local Catholic Church which used the language of faith and the social doctrine formulated by Pope Leo XIII and developed by his successors, in order to stop the spread of communism in the city of Caruaru, Pernambuco. It was researched the methodology used by the Church in imagistic discursive dissemination about communism that was not reduced only in preaching at MISSA, but it wanted a big number of Caruaru people, it started a "holy war" against communism, through the newspaper A Defesa.
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Belcher, Jodi L. A. "Subversion through subjection a feminist reconsideration of kenosis in Christology and Christian discipleship /." Diss., 2008. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-03292008-214258/.

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Sephamola, Joseph Mopeli. "Christian mysticism in relation to Catholic teaching on the issue of gender." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8236.

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Mysticism is a broad concept in a diversity of traditions. Our study focuses on Christian mysticism in the Catholic Church tradition). This concept is shortly a special relationship with God that translates into observable behaviours that impact on the other people. Mysticism itself is for everyone regardless of their perceived spiritual connectedness with God. In other words everyone can be a mystic. However, in the Catholic Church it would seem that the decision regarding who is a mystic is done by the leadership of the Church which comprises of all-male clergy. As a result, those who have been considered mystics in the Catholic Church were predominantly male with significantly few women. Mysticism cannot but be seen through the lens of gender. Gender equality in the Catholic Church or lack of, is then a yardstick through which mysticism should be scrutinized. This analysis should be done by studying the Catholic Church’s teaching on gender from the past eras to the present. An attempt should be made to look at the esteemed doctors of the church who have influenced the Church’s attitudes towards women. Not only should these attitudes be explored, but also their influence on the discipline of the Church or the way the Catholic Church carries its mandate in as far as gender is concerned. The Church’s mandate includes but not necessarily limited to its laws (canons). The mandate is also found in its declarations which are found in the Church’s documents. These will be analysed to arrive at a conclusion whether the Catholic Church has established gender equality in its teachings and practices. The analysis should also compare the teaching on gender and its translation into observable, real formal equality and substantive equality when it comes to gender. Formal Equality means the same formal legal rights and status while Substantive Equality means the same material and effects between men and women in the Catholic Church. Gender equality then or lack of, will be used in exploring the subject of mysticism in the Catholic Church. This study will attempt to explore how gender equality in mysticism can impact on the Church’s endeavour to establish gender equality so that there is authenticity in its teaching and practice. That alignment is necessary to bring to life the scriptural dimension of the Church.
Thesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2012.
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Morris, Allen William. "Prophetic theology in the Kairos tradition : a pentecostal and reformed perspective in black liberation theology in South Africa." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25907.

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This study focused on the ‘silence of the prophets’ in the post-apartheid era. It sought to understand why the prophets, who spoke out so vehemently against the injustices of apartheid, did not speak out against the injustices of the government after 1994 even when it became blatantly apparent that corruption was beginning to unfold on various levels, especially with the introduction of the so-called Arms Deal. Accordingly, the study singles out Drs Allan Boesak and Frank Chikane who were among the fiercest opponents of the apartheid regime before 1994. The study traced the impact of the ideological forces that influenced Boesak and Chikane’s ideological thinking from the early Slave Religion, Black Theology in the USA and Liberation Theology in Latin America. Black Theology and Black Consciousness first made their appearance in South Africa in the 1970s, with Boesak and Chikane, among others, as early advocates of these movements. In 1983, Boesak and Chikane took part in the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. This movement became the voice of the voiceless in an era when the members of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan African Congress (PAC) had been sent into exile. It also signalled a more inclusive and reconciliatory shift in Boesak and Chikane’s Ideological thinking. Whereas Black Consciousness sought to exclude white people from participating in the struggle for liberation, the UDF united all under one banner without consideration for colour, race, religion or creed. After the advent of liberation in South Africa in 1994, it became increasingly obvious that corruption was infiltrating many levels of the new government. But the prophets were silent. Why were they silent? The study presents an analysis of the possible reasons for this silence based on interviews with Boesak and Chikane as role players and draws conclusions based on their writings both before and after 1994. Overall, the study concluded that they were silent because they had become part of the new political structures that had taken over power. To sum up, the study demonstrates the irony of prophetic oscillation and concludes that no prophet is a prophet for all times. Thus, as a new democracy unfolds in South Africa, the situation demands new prophets with a new message.
Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology
D. Phil. (Theology)
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Maboea, Sello Isaiah. "The influence of numinous power in the African traditional religion and the Zionist churches in Soweto - a comparative study." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6824.

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Van, Zyl Mathew Paul. "A personal research into the concept of power/knowledge abuse within the church." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2504.

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This research regarding power/knowledge abuse within the church was conducted within the postmodern social construction discourse and in the context of narrative therapy, feminist theology and practical theology. It presents a chronicle of five individuals who experienced abuse within their congregations. It reflects on the co-authoring journey of these five individuals personally and within the context of the narrative group. As part of the narrative group they came to re-author their lives around what they had experienced regarding abuse within their churches. Together they challenged those dominant structures that are so often hidden just below `sacred' tradition. In conclusion the five individuals experienced a renaissance within themselves and their personal theology of God and His dealings within the church. This renaissance has led them to seek out others who have experienced this form of abuse and to give them the hope that they discovered together.
Practical Theology
M. Th. (Practical Theology - with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy)
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Troskie, Mariza. "Ervaring van mag in konfessionele bybelse berading." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1216.

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I wanted to investigate the way people experienced confessional pastoral therapy by conducting a qualitative research study. The role of the pastor were examined as well as the effect of discourses of power and ethics in pastoral counseling. I interviewed clients who were counseled by pastors of the AFM Church (Apostolic Faith Mission). The research supposes that knowledge and power discourses have a major influence in pastoral counseling which is often not accounted for. I wanted to see how clients experienced the effects of these discourses of power and ethics. I furthermore wanted to see how these power discourses could result in clients feeling subordinate to the pastor and his knowledge and the effect that these feelings might have on them. The purpose of this study was not to generalize the experiences of the participants, but rather to set a contextual background of the experiences of power in confessional pastoral counseling.
Practical Theology
M. Th. (Pastorale Terapie)
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Bardata, Kornelius Supranoto. "A descriptive assessment of sacraments as language events in Louis- Marie Chauvet and David Noel Power." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/22755.

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This paper is entitled: A Descriptive Assessment of Sacraments as Language Events in Louis-Marie Chauvet and David Noel Power. What motivates the author to proceed with this topic is that the author feels the need of finding a new and creative approach to the sacraments. The author is determined to discuss this topic using the methodology of library reading. The two theologians whose theologies are being presented in this paper, namely, Louis-Marie Chauvet and David Noel Power, are the main sources. In addition to reading the works of Chauvet and Power, the author also gets into discussions with the supervisor. Since Chauvet and Power live in postmodern world, their theology can be of the good readings for students of theology who are interested in the theology of the sacraments in the midst of this ever-changing world. Chauvet, for example, proposes a new looking into the sacraments as language of the Trinitarian communication with his people. The church is the place where this interaction happens. The interaction itself occurs through the listening of the Scripture, sacraments and ethical commitment. In the same rhythm, David Noel Power suggests a theology where the sacraments are read as the language of God’s giving. They are the language of God’s giving because the church is the bodily present of the Trinity in the church. This present is, in turn, celebrated and relived through the Scripture, the sacraments, liturgy, rite, customs and cultures. Through all these elements, the language of God’s giving in the past is brought to life in the present time through the language of the church. Chauvet and Power recommend a fundamental theology through which the sacraments are no longer viewed as alienated from the daily experience of the church.The paper is written primarily as the author’s personal journey into the reflection on the sacraments. The author, therefore, hopes to achieve nothing more important than the growing of a personal love of the sacraments. In the second place, the author expects to have been able to introduce the fundamental sacraments of Louis-Marie Chauvet and David Noel Power to a larger context.
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Spies, Nicoline. "Exploring and storying Protestants Christian women's experiences living in sexually unhappy marriages." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4823.

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This research project arose from my journeys with Protestant Christian women who were living in sexually unhappy marriages. In South African Protestant faith communities there is the expectation that Christian marriages will experience sexual fulfilment. For many Christian women however, sexual unhappiness becomes their reality. Sexuality is cocooned in silence not only within the church, but also in many Christian marriages. This leaves many Christian women (and men) with little or no recourse to address sexually unhappy marriages. My research journey briefly explored the social construction of sexuality within the history of Christianity to see which discourses underpin current constructions of White Christian female sexuality. This participatory feminist action research journey centralised the voices of present-day contexts: Protestant Christian women, as well as clergy, were invited to share their understandings and interpretations of matrimony and sexual practices in relation to their faith. With the help of narrative therapeutic practices, some of the dominant social and religious discourses that constitute White Christian female sexuality were explored, deconstructed and challenged. This research journey aimed to penetrate this silence and to invite Christian women, who are living in sexually unhappy marriages, to share their experiences. This exploration included the faith predicaments and relational complexities, challenges and dilemmas Protestant Christian women experience when living in sexually unhappy marriages. This feminist-grounded action research explored the effects and consequences which living in sexually unhappy marriages held for the cosearchers.
Practical Theology
D.Th. (Specialisation in Pastoral Therapy)
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