Dissertations / Theses: 'Propheceis'

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Phillimore, Lady Amanda. "Religious and political themes in the prophecies of Arnau de Vilanova." Thesis, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407181.

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Cox, Amy S. "Self-fulfilling prophecies: the government's role in generating support for ethnic terrorists." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86592.

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Why do some ethnic groups support the use of terrorism and violence to change the status quo and others do not? Conventional wisdom suggests repression may provoke more violence, but consensus has not been reached on how this relationship works. I propose a Theory of Ethnic Group Support for Terrorism (TEST) that argues that the denial of political access to ethnic groups to resolve conflict through peaceful means creates conditions of structural repression. This structural repression then engenders ethnic groups to mobilize around seeking extra-institutional and often extra-legal avenues of change including terrorism. The avenue chosen depends upon the state's response to ethnic group mobilization, which may include reforming repressive institutions, thus undermining support for violence and terrorism, or may include using agent-driven discrete acts of repression, triggering increases in ethnic group support for terrorism. The TEST is applied and assessed in light of the cases of Northern Irish Catholics and the IRA, Quebecois and the FLQ and Corsicans and the FLNC. Ultimately, the TEST demonstrates that states' willingness to effectively address ethnic group grievances will marginalize, if not eradicate terrorism. In contrast, states that choose to neglect, alienate and discriminate against ethnic groups fail to enable them to use political channels to change the status quo, causing increases in support for terrorism. Pourquoi certains groupes ethniques appuient-ils l'utilisation du terrorisme et de la violence afin de modifier le statut quo alors que d'autres s'y opposent? Il est généralement admis que la répression peut engendre plus de violence. Or, le sens de cette relation ne fait toujours par consensus dans la littérature. Cette étude présente une théorie visant à expliquer l'appui des groupes ethniques au terrorisme (TEST) et qui suggère que les cas où les groupes ethniques se voient refuser l'accès au politique comme moyen pacifique de résolution de conflits créent des conditions de répression structurelle. Celle-ci devient alors un motif pour les groupes ethnique de se mobiliser afin de trouver des modes extra-institutionnels et des avenues extra-juridiques de résoudre les conflits, incluant le terrorisme. L'avenue choisie par les groupes ethniques dépend de la réponse offerte par l'État à leurs stratégies de mobilisation. Cette réponse peut inclure des réformes aux institutions répressives, minant l'appui des groupes à la violence et au terrorisme, ou l'utilisation discrète d'actes de répression conduits par des individus, générant une augmentation du soutien au terrorisme au sein des groups ethniques. Dans le cadre de cette étude, la théorie TEST est donc évaluée à la lumière des cas des Catholiques irlandais du Nord et de l'IRA, des Québécois et du FLQ, ainsi que des Corses et du FLNC. Elle démontre que, d'une part, la volonté des États de répondre aux revendications des groupes ethniques marginalise, si ce n'est éradique, l'utilisation du terrorisme par ces groupes. D'autre part, les États qui choisissent de négliger, d'aliéner ou de discriminer les groupes ethniques les empêchent d'utiliser les voies politiques de résolution des conflits, provoquant une augmentation de l'appui de ces groupes à l'utilisation de la violence et du terrorisme.

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Ware, Guy Mathew. "A vision of the Last Judgement : Marxist aesthetics and Blake's minor prophecies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316872.

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Lucas, E. C. "Akkadian prophecies omens and myths as background for Daniel chapters 7 - 12." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.256388.

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Ortlund, Eric Nels. "Shame and restoration an exegetical exploration of shame in Ezekiel's restoration prophecies /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Čeljo-Hörhager, Sanela. "Selbsterfüllbarkeit von Ratings self-fulfilling prophecies als Problem der Risikokommunikation durch Informationsintermediäre." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/993660932/04.

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Ortlund, Eric N. "Shame and restoration an exegetical exploration of shame in Ezekiel's restoration prophecies /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Schoales, Elizabeth. "Praise and propaganda : prophetic poetry in Wales." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683199.

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Lishman, Joyce. "An analysis of social work interviews using videotapes : Behaviour, effectiveness and self-fulfilling prophecies." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372435.

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Helbert, Daniel Glynn. "Layamon's Brut and the March of Wales: Merlin, his Prophecies, and the Lex Marchia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76961.

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This study explores Layamon's engenderment of cultural unification for the explicit purposes of an Anglo-Welsh cultural resistance to the Norman overlords in the March of Wales. In essence, I examine some of the most important cultural signifiers in medieval English and Welsh culture and the methods by which the poet adapts and grafts them together to form a culturally amalgamated text—neither explicitly English nor Welsh but yet simultaneously both - and the political implications of this amalgamation. Though Laymon's methodology emanates from multiple aspects of the text, I have concentrated here on what I feel are the most explicit manifestations of this theme: Merlin, his prophecies, and the Law of the March. Master of Arts

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Cohn, Shari Ann. "Scottish tradition of second sight and other psychic experiences in families." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9674.

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Second sight, a special psychic ability of having prophetic visions, is traditionally believed to be a natural inborn faculty of mind running in certain families in Scotland and other countries. Detailed written accounts of second sight from the 17th century onwards are consistent with modern-day accounts collected by folklorists and ethnologists. The visions could take the form either of direct representations of someone's fate such as seeing a funeral procession, or symbolic representations, such as seeing a death shroud on someone. The current study using questionnaire and interview methods examined the prevalence of second sight, the nature of the experiences, and whether there is any evidence to support the belief that it is hereditary. A large-scale mail survey, using random sampling methods, showed that the frequency of second sight was 10% in the Western Isles, 16% in the Highlands and Lowlands, and 33% in the Grampian region. Generally, neither highland descent nor gender seemed to be significantly related to people reporting second sight. In all the areas, people who reported having second sight were significantly more likely to report second sight in blood-related family members. A phenomenological and ethnological approach was applied to the design of the questionnaire and interview schedule, the style of the interviews and their analysis. The 65 item questionnaire covering the different types of second sight experiences found in the historical accounts and biographical and family history information, was sent to people who expressed an interest in the study. A total of 208 questionnaires were received, primarily from Scotland but also from other countries. The responses indicated that second sight is experienced by people of diverse ages, occupations, religious and cultural traditions. Women tended to report more experiences than men and an important factor related to having second sight was having had a religious experience. Fieldwork was conducted in different parts of Scotland. Seventy people were interviewed and over 500 accounts were collected. A phenomenoiogical approach was applied to looking at patterns in the accounts. A consistent feature is that the imagery, whether visual, auditory, kinaesthetic or olfactory, was described as real and not originating purely in the mind of the observer. This was true whether the emotional content was positive or negative. Some of the visions were seen as quick 'film-like' images through the mind, others appeared as projected three-dimensional images which became the central focus of perception. It was proposed that people with second sight could have an eidetic-like imagery. Two of the most common types of second sight experiences are awake visions of future deaths of people well-known to the percipient or of unfamiliar persons. Accounts of seeing funeral processions and death shrouds are rarely reported today. A total of 130 pedigrees from people with a history of second sight were constructed. The results of pedigree and segregation analyses demonstrate that second sight seems consistent with an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern, especially for small family sizes. Though certain aspects of the data favoured a social and cultural model, it was argued that they were still consistent with second sight having an underlying genetic component. The importance of other studies examining the pedigrees of second sight in different cultures was stressed. If similar inheritance patterns were observed in disparate cultures, this would provide further scientific support for the view that second sight is hereditary. It was speculated that second sight may be part of a creative mental process and what may be hereditary is the way information is received and processed by the brain and expressed in different sensory modalities.

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Westhaver, George Derrick. "The living body of the Lord : E.B. Pusey's 'types and prophecies of the Old Testament'." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6373/.

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In his ‘Lectures on Types and Prophecy’ (1836-7), E. B. Pusey urges the recovery of a patristic and ‘Apostolic’ approach to the interpretation of the Old Testament. This thesis will argue that for Pusey finding types and ‘typical’ prophecies of Christ and his Church in the whole of the Old Testament is not an exegetical curiosity or option, but rather a necessary expression of doctrine and spiritual discipline. For Pusey, the unwillingness of interpreters guided by the apologetic and evidentialist approach to theology in his day to follow the Fathers’ example manifests important theological differences. He advocates both the recovery of patristic exegesis and the theological vision in which it makes sense. ‘Every thing is a type’, in the books of God’s works and words, because all created things bear the impress of their creator. Moreover, all types or images, in Scripture, in nature, and in the human soul, seek a fulfilment in a salvific return to the Trinity in Unity. Drawing on both patristic and Romantic sources, Pusey describes knowledge as a form of participation in the divine life in opposition to the rationalistic and procedural presuppositions he finds implicit in the apologetic approach. For Pusey, epistemology must be treated alongside sanctification and typology reflects Christology; a sacramental or ‘typical’ reading of prophecy transforms people made in the image of God to become more like God and hence able to know God and to read with understanding. Articulating these ideas was a project which occupied Pusey and his Tractarian colleagues during the most creative years of the Oxford Movement. While in many ways they gave voice to important High Church ideals, the puzzled response which greeted this part of their work reveals its radicalism and suggests possibilities for the contemporary search for the re-integration of theology and spirituality.

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Tombs, George 1956. "Paradise, the Apocalypse and science : the myth of an imminent technological Eden." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20181.

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Scientistic authors in the latter half of the 19 th century and the early 20th century, such as Ernest Renan and H. G. Wells, discounted revealed religion. Yet they believed in the secular myth of an imminent technological Eden and they elevated science itself to the dignity of a religion. In so doing, they shaped bold visions of the future, drawing heavily on a millenary store of Western myth and metaphor. In historical terms, the myth of an imminent technological Eden represents a survival and a fusion of the ancient Greek myth of the Golden Age along with three Judeo-Christian myths: Biblical time, Earthly Paradise and the Apocalypse. Since the Enlightenment, the process of secularization has drained the religious content of such myths, although it does not deprive them of any of their deeply emotional force. This explains why the 19th century myth of an imminent technological Eden has considerable staying-power, in spite of the many events since 1945 which seem to discredit it.

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Zúñiga, Franziska. "Hold on to the good, a qualitative research on the discernment of prophecies in the Bewegung Plus, Switzerland." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p107-0001.

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Tollington, Janet Elizabeth. "Continuity and divergence : a study of Haggai and Zechariah 1-8 in relation to earlier Old Testament prophetic literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:06c75e99-566d-49b6-8301-26addd8cff33.

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The purpose of this thesis is to make a thematic study of the Books of Haggai and Zechariah 1-6 in order firstly to identify the ways in which classical prophetic methods and traditions are continued and developed in these works and secondly to consider the reasons for any divergence in thought and style. The study is based on the hypothesis that the community of Israel underwent radical change as a result of the fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile and that during the restoration period, under Persian rule, fundamental distinctions in theological understanding and the phenomenon of prophecy arose. The thesis contains six major chapters. The first is introductory and considers the composite nature of the books and the possibility of distinguishing and dating the different strata. The second compares the status, authority and roie within the community of Haggai and Zechariah with those of their prophetic predecessors. Chapter three studies the ways in which the prophetic messages were received and transmitted and includes a discussion on the development of angeloiogy. Specific themes which are important in Haggai and Zechariah 1-8 are dealt with in the next three chapters; issues relating to Israel's leadership and ideas of messianism; ideas about divine judgement and punishment upon the nation; and thoughts on the relationships between other nations, Israel and her God. Each of these compares the treatment of the themes with that found in the classical prophetic books and also considers the respective use that is made of other Old Testament material. Conclusions were drawn in each chapter and these have been collated in the short final chapter. The study concluded that Haggai stood firmly in the classical prophetic tradition while Zechariah was more innovative in respect of prophetic method and at times radical in the theological ideas he proclaimed.

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Persch, Sérgio Luis. "Imaginação e profecias no \'Tratado teológico-político\' de Espinosa." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-13022008-114220/.

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O foco principal da pesquisa é o capítulo I do Tratado teológico-político, no qual Espinosa discorre sobre as profecias. A exposição dos diferentes tipos de imagens proféticas mostra como, de maneira geral, a imaginação se constitui nos homens e como dela segue o conhecimento imaginativo. Os traços constitutivos da imaginação são idênticos em todo o gênero humano. Por conseguinte, Espinosa descreve a origem natural das imagens proféticas, negando a realidade do milagre ou de qualquer interferência divina extraordinária na natureza, já que a ordem natural segue leis necessárias que são, elas próprias, os decretos eternos de Deus. Tendo por exigência básica do método interpretativo prestar fidelidade à Escritura, o autor do Teológico-político a examina como uma coisa particular da natureza, elabora a história crítica dela com base na determinação natural de sua existência. À descrição histórica das profecias corresponde a dedução genética da imaginação efetuada na Parte II da Ética. Com base na estreita relação entre as duas obras, esta pesquisa consiste numa tentativa de provar que o ordenamento metódico dos diferentes tipos de profecias se funda e, ao mesmo tempo, explica a teoria espinosana da imaginação. A tipologia das imagens proféticas é um fator importante para se compreender a composição textual do Tratado e sua dimensão crítica frente à Escritura e aos intérpretes que, direta ou indiretamente, aparecem como interlocutores de Espinosa. The research main focus is the Theological-political treatise first chapter, in wich Spinoza makes a speechs about prophecies. The exposition of different types of predictive images shows how, generally, the imagination constitutes in men and ho w the imaginative knowledge follows from it. The imagination constituent traces are identical in all human sort. Therefore, Spinoza describes the natural origin of predictive images, denying the miracle reality or any divine extraordinary interference in nature, since the natural order follows necessary laws, which are, themselves, the perpetual decrees of God. Having as his basic requeriment the interpretative method giving allegiance to the Scripture, the author of the Theological-political Treatise examines it as a particular thing, he elaborates its critical history based on its existence natural determination. To the prophecies historical description corresponds the imagination deduction effectued in Ethic\'s Part II. Based on the narrow relation between the two works, this research consists in proving that the methodical order of the different types of prophecies is established on, and, at the same time, explaining the spinozist imagination theory. The prophetical images tipology is an important factor to comprehend the Treatise\'s textual composition and its critical dimension front to Scripture and to interpreters who, directly or indirectly, appears as Spinoza\'s interlocutors.

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Loar, Patrice A. "“On the Cusp of Half-Remembered Prophecies”: Interpreting Prophecy in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2225.

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The prophecies in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series are unclear and often appear to have multiple possible fulfillments, or none at all. In addition, some of these prophesied events occur before they are introduced, which further contributes to the lack of clarity in interpreting them. My thesis will discuss the methods by which Martin offers readers clues to a prophecy’s fulfillment and argue that Martin’s use of these imprecise prophecies challenges high fantasy tropes about prophecies.

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Puk, John-Tong. "The relationship between Old Testament prophecy and nuer prophecy : a comparative theological study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52561.

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Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2001. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study alms to compare ancient Israelite (Old Testament) prophecy with Nuer prophecy within its respective religious contexts, to detect the differences and similarities. The most important differences between Israelite (Old Testament) and Nuer prophecy are: • Israelite prophecy presupposes monotheism while Nuer prophecy functions within a polytheistic rei igious context. • Nuer understanding of creation is far less explicit than the Israelite accounts of creation in Genesis 1 and 2. In explaining the reasons for the dissimilarities between Israelite (Old Testament) and Nuer prophecy, reference was made to the difference in geographical location, cultural and societal context. Among the more important similarities between Israelite (Old Testament) and Nuer prophecy are the points of view related to sin and sacrifice, as well as the distinction between true and false prophets and the role of prophets in society. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie beoog om In vergelyking te tref tussen anti eke Israelitiese (Ou Testament-) profesie en Nuer-profesie binne hulle onderskeie religieuse kontekste, en om ooreenkomste en verskille te identifiseer, Die volgende is die belangrikste verskille tussen Israelitiese (Ou Testament-) en Nuer-profesie: • Israelitiese profesie voorveronderstel rnonoteisrne terwyl Nuer-profesie binne In politeistiese religieuse konteks funksioneer. • Die Nuer-begrip van die skepping is aansienlik minder eksplisiet as die Israel itiese weergawes van die skepping in Genesis 1 en 2, In Verklaring van die gronde vir die verskille tussen anti eke Israelitiese (Ou Testament-) profesie en Nuer-profesie het faktore 5005 verskille in geografiese lokaliteit, kulturele en samelewingskontekste in ag geneern. Sommige van die belangriker ooreenkomste tussen anti eke Israelitiese (Ou Testament-) en Nuer-profesie wat genoem word, is die vertrekpunte betreffende sonde en offerande, sowel as die onderskeid tussen ware en vals profete en die rol van profete in die samelewing.

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Han, Jung Geon. "The restoration of Israel in covenant perspective: an exegetical and revelation-historical study on the prophecies of the promise / Jung Geon Han." Thesis, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/7985.

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Die Joodse volk is deur die eeue geïgnoreer en het ontsaglike lyding deurgemaak as gevolg van Christene se gebrek aan begrip van sekere dele van die Bybel wat oor die herstel van Israel handel. Die meerderheidstandpunt in die kerk was nog altyd dat die sin van die hestaan van Israel met die verwerping van Christus verlore gegaan het. Hoewel daar gedurende die afgelope paar dekades toenemende kommer was oor die belangrikheid van die posisie van Israel soos gesien deur die Christelike geloof, is die situasie nog steeds onbevredigend met betrekking tot die verklaring van die beloftes van die profete. Die doel van hierdie studie is om 'n beter begrip van die profesieë wat oor die herstel van Israel handel, te bevorder. Die studie sal vasstel aan wie die beloftes van herstel gemaak is - aan Israel of aan die kerk - en hoedanig die verwagting oor die volk Israel is. Die proefskrif bestaan uit ses dele. Deel I is aan die formulering van die hermeneutiese beginsels gewy. Die histories-kritiese metode neem die Bybel as die geïnspireerde Woord van God nie ernstig genoeg op nie. Hoewel die opkoms van die nuwere kritiek, soos byvoorbeeld die kanonieke benadering, die strukturalistiese benadering en resepsie-estetika die aandag op die finale vorm van die kanon en die belangrikheid daarvan vir die geloof gevestig het, sal 'n eie beginpunt eerder wees om die historiese en kanonieke betekenis van die stukke wat vir hierdie onderwerp ter sake is, in oënskou te neem. Die onderhewige eksegetiese metode wat afwyk van die tipologiese metode of 'n vergeesteliking van die Ou Testamentiese profesieif, wat daartoe lei dat die ontwikkeling van die openbaringsgeskiedenis by 'n sekere punt ophou, is die metode wat berus op "letterlike betekenis sover as moontlik" en "die perspektief op die openbaringsgeskiedenis". Ook die verbondstema in die oordeel- en verlossingsvoorspellings word in hierdie hoofstuk ondersoek. Deel Il word aan die verlossingspassasies in Jeremia gewy. Die kontinuïteit en diskontinuïteit van die Ou en die Nuwe verbond word ook as 'n uitloper van hierdie studie ondersoek. Die meeste elemente van die Ou Verbond word ook in die Nuwe aangetref, maar hulle word radikaal tot nuwe dimensies gewysig. Afgesien van die Nuwe Verbondspassasie (Jeremia 31:31-40) is die gedeeltes in Jeremia 24:1-7; 32:36-44; 33:1-26 ook noukeurig bestudeer. Die herstel het verskillende aspekte: die terugkeer uit die ballingskappe, vrugbaarheid, vergifnis van sonde, vernuwing van die hart, gehoorsaamheid aan die wet, die herstel van die Dawidiese dinastie, die Levitiese gestag, ensovoorts. Deel III het as onderwerp die gedeeltes in Esegiël wat oor die verbond en herstel handel, soos 11:14-21; 20:33-44; 36; 37; 39:1-29. Die verbond word in die gedeeltes 34:23-37; 37:15-28 gemeld, en die verbondsformule word ook in ander passasies aangetref. Hierdie feit bewys dat die verbond die basiese agtergrond van Esegiël se boodskappe van herstel is. In hierdie gedeeltes is die "land-beloftes" (soos die terugkeer uit die ballingskappe en die vrugbaarheid) oorheersend. Die herlewing van die volk as geheel word in hoofstuk 37 in forse trekke geteken. Die heiligdom is vir Esegiël ook baie belangrik. Alle elemente van die herstet wat in Jeremia aangetref word, verskyn ook in Esegiël. Deet IV het ten doel om die profesieë van die genoemde profete te toels deur le kyk of hulle in die gemeenskap wat uit die Babiloniese ballingskap teruggekeer het, vervul is. Daar is bevind dat die na-ballingskapse profete al die elemente van die belofte van die herstel van Israel weer bevestig het, insluitende die belofle dat die mense na hul eie land teruggebring sal word. Die profete voorsien steeds die herstel binne 'n eskatologiese raamwerk. Deel V klassifiseer die beloftes onder verskillende hoofpunte soos hulle in die voorafgaande hoofstukke bespreek is. Deel VI word aan 'n toets van die geldigheid van die beloftes in die Nuwe Testament gewy. Veral Romeine 9-11 word deeglik onder die loep geneem. Die resultaat van die studie dui aan dat Israel van die kerk onderskei moet word (dit wil sê, die kerk bestaan uit Israel en die gelowiges uit die heidene) en dat daar steeds hoop en toekomsverwagting vir Israel is. Uiteindelik is die hoop in Israel se toekoms vir die profete en die apostels op God se uitverkiesing van Israel as sy volk gebaseer, en hierdie feit beteken dat dit onmoontlik is dat Hy hulle nou sal verwerp. Die historiese uniekheid van Israel, wat die verbondsvolk van God is, het in die loop van die openbaringsgeskiedenis bly voortbestaan: in die tyd van die ballingskap, die tyd na die ballingskap en die tyd van die apostels. Die gelowiges uit die heidene deel deur Christus, die ware saad van Abraham, in al die seëninge van Israel, terwyl die ware Israel (dit wil sê, die uitverkore een) dit van nature verkry. Die herstel word in drie dimensies gesien: Die natuurlike (byvoorbeeld die 'land-belofte") , die politieke (byvoorbeeld die Dawidiese koningskap) en die geestelike en godsdienstige (byvoorbeeld die vergifnis van sonde en die heiligdom). Alle elemente is dieseifde as die wat onder die Ou Verbond bestaan het (die kontinuïteit). Dit moet egter in terme van die Nuwe Verbond wat die ou elemente in nuwe dimensies verander (diskontinuïteit), verstaan word. Nogtans beteken die herstel van die verbondsvolk nie die herstel van die koninkryk van Israel van ouds nie. Dit sal in die Messiaanse koninkryk wanneer Christus weer kom, volbring word. Die motivering vir die herstel is die eer van Jahweh se Naam. Die herstel is nie net op die redding van die volk Israel gemik nie, maar op die redding van die wêreld, wat Israel en die nasies insluit. Die herstel van Israel is tot diens van Jahweh en sy openbaringshistoriese plan. Proefskrif (ThD)--PU vir CHO, 1987

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Sorhagen, Nicole. "Teacher and Mother Inaccurate Beliefs: Exploring Differential Effects on Child Achievement." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/286138.

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Psychology Ph.D. Conceptual development and achievement are embedded in social relationships. Research on self-fulfilling prophecies in the classroom has shown teachers' inaccurate perceptions about a child's ability shape schoolchildren's intellectual development in the direction of the misperception (Jussim & Harber, 2005; Rosenthal & Jacobson, 1968; Sorhagen, 2013). This contrasts with prior research on the influences of parents' misperceptions, which has shown that parents with accurate perceptions of their child's abilities, compared to those with misperceptions, have children with advanced conceptual development and higher achievement (Hunt & Paraskevopoulos, 1980; S. A. Miller, Manhal, & Mee, 1991; Sorhagen, 2014a, 2014b). Taken together, the literature on adult misperceptions of child abilities paints discrepant pictures of how adults' inaccurate beliefs may influence children's achievement trajectories. There is evidence for conditional direct and indirect effects of misperceptions within both literatures. Perhaps if moderating conditions were the same at school and at home, the effects of teacher and parent misperceptions would be the same. The present dissertation used prospective data to address the conflicting evidence on the effects of teachers' and mothers' misperceptions of abilities, focusing on differences in the magnitude and direction of adult misperceptions by the levels of environmental control (i.e. rigidly structured and intrusive versus autonomy-supporting). The results confirmed and extended the prior literature by showing that children's reading and math achievement in high school were differentially affected by the accuracy of adults' perceptions of the children's abilities depending on whether the adult is a teacher or mother. Children's high school performance benefited most when their teachers overestimated their abilities and when their mothers' accurately estimated their abilities in in third-grade. Furthermore, there was evidence for mediation through adults' differential treatment in the reading models. Evidence for moderation was also seen in the reading models, but only for the influence of teachers' misperceptions on teacher attention, which indirectly led to differences in child achievement (i.e. conditional indirect effects). The effects of teachers' misperceptions were more profound at low levels of environmental control compared to highly controlled classrooms. Thus environmental control did not lead to similar influences of teacher and mother misperceptions. This supports the notion that there are different consequences of teacher and mother misperceptions on child achievement. The results of additional analyses found child characteristics (i.e. child birth order, gender, ethnicity, family SES, child social competencies, and prior abilities), as well as teacher's self-efficacy predicted the degree of accuracy of the adults' perceptions of children's reading and math abilities. Furthermore, the results showed that teachers' and mothers' perceptions were often accurate, but when one adult was inaccurate, it was likely that the other adult's perception was similar. As we become increasingly aware of the importance of social influences on cognition, the results of the present dissertation suggest that it is important to consider differences between socializing agents. Temple University--Theses

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Evans, John Frederick. ""You shall know that I am Yahweh" Ezekiel's recognition formula as a marker of the prophecy's intertextual relation to Exodus /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Lemuel, Joel M. "The Radical Voice in the Rhetoric of the Tea Party Movement." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/63.

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This study examines the analyzes the 2010 National Tea Party Convention in order to determine whether the Tea Party Movements’ rhetoric is unique from the rhetoric employed by previously studied movements. The study forwards the concept of a pseudo-movement: a movement that appears radical, but has normative, procedural goals.

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Ehorn, Seth. "Citation of Psalm 68(67).19 in Ephesians 4.8 within the context of early Christian uses of the Psalms." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/17946.

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This thesis examines the citation of Ps 68(67).19 in Eph 4.8. Following an introduction that introduces the problem of the altered wording in the citation in Eph 4.8, chapter 2 comprises a History of Research that is organised around the possible sources for the author’s citation in Eph 4.8. One of several conclusions made is that the proclivity of NT scholars to attribute the source text to particular Jewish traditions has contributed to overlooking the import of Ps 68(67).19 within a normal pattern of christological reading of the Psalms in early Christianity. Following these opening chapters, the thesis is divided broadly into Part One and Part Two. The first is deconstructive in nature; the second is constructive. Part One examines textual traditions of Ps 68(67).19 within Justin Martyr, the Peshitta Psalter, and Targum Psalms. Each of these sources share the reading ‘give’ rather than ‘receive’, raising the question of the relationship between these traditions and Eph 4.8. Chapter 3 examines Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho, which contains two citations of Ps 68(67).19 that strongly resemble Ephesians. Nevertheless, as nearly all interpreters acknowledge, Justin never refers directly to ‘Paul’ or ‘Pauline’ letters in any of his writings. Is the parallel wording of Justin’s citations evidence for an early Christian tradition that was also available to Ephesians? I argue that although unmentioned by name, a reasonable case can be made that Justin is familiar with the Pauline corpus, including Eph 4.8. Chapter 4 considers the evidence of Peshitta Psalms, which agrees with the reading of Eph 4.8 in a strand of its copyist tradition. After examining scholarly construals of the Peshitta MS tradition, I consider direct evidence for the influence of Eph 4.8 upon some Peshitta MSS as intimated by Theodore of Mopsuestia. Chapter 5 examines Targum Psalms, focusing on translation techniques and the targumist’s tendency to add, alter, or modify his source in various ways. I argue that when the targumist’s techniques and tendencies are taken into consideration, the targum’s reading ‘give’ is better understood as a typical targumic insertion. The proclivity of many scholars to link Targum Psalms to Eph 4.8 is a classic example of ‘parallelomania’. Part Two turns to make a constructive case for the citation found in Eph 4.8. Chapter 6 is a close examination of the author of Ephesians’ approach to literary borrowing. I consider both his citations from the Jewish scriptures and his use of Colossians as evidence. Chapter 7 examines how early Christians read the biblical Psalms as prophecies. Following a survey of Jewish readings of the Psalms, this chapter surveys how early Christians read the Psalms in light of the death and resurrection- exaltation of Christ. Drawing insights from this, chapter 8 turns to consider the phrases ‘he ascended . . . he gave gifts’ in Eph 4.8. I argue that an ambiguity of the addressee in the text of Ps 68(67).19 allowed for the application of this text to Christ. Moreover, the ‘ascent’ language could easily be applied to the resurrection- exaltation and this association naturally led to the language of gift-giving in Eph 4.8. Chapter 9 considers how the citation of Ps 68(67).19 fits into the context of Ephesians 4, focusing on several important factors such as the language of descent in Eph 4.9–10. Part One and Part Two are followed by a short conclusion that summarises the thesis and draws out several conclusions and implications based upon this study.

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Gandré, Pauline. "Three Essays on the Role of Expectations During the Recent Economic Turmoil." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSEN060.

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Face à un constat de déconnexion entre la valorisation de trois types d’actifs (deux actifs financiers et un actif immobilier) et les fondamentaux économiques dans la période récente, marquée par l’occurrence de crises économiques et financières sévères, cette thèse vise à mettre en évidence le rôle des anticipations des agents économiques.Premièrement, cette thèse souligne que le rôle des anticipations dans la récente crise de dette en zone euro est lié à l’existence de complémentarités stratégiques dans les décisions des agents économiques. Dans cette perspective, l’apport de cette thèse est de s’intéresser à un fait central et pourtant passé relativement inaperçu : la hausse de la part de dette détenue par les résidents dans les économies les plus fragiles de la zone euro à partir de la fin 2008. Nous montrons que si les chocs d’endettement public ont bien un effet positifs ur le biais domestique dans la détention de dette publique, les chocs d’anticipations pessimistes peuvent également jouer un rôle significatif pour expliquer les variations du biais domestique. Deuxièmement, cette thèse montre que la volatilité excessive du prix de certains actifs relativement aux fondamentaux peut être expliquée dans le cadre de modèles standards dès lors que l’on relâche l’hypothèse d’anticipations rationnelles et que l’on suppose que les agents estiment les paramètres des lois gouvernant la dynamique des fondamentaux, à la façon d’économètres. Sous cette hypothèse, un modèle de prix d’actifs standard permet d’expliquer l’épisode de forte valorisation du prix des actions américaines au début des années 2000, suivi par un fort effondrement des cours à partir de 2008 et jusqu’à mi-2009.Enfin, nous montrons que modéliser un processus d’apprentissage bayésien sur le prix des actifs immobiliers dans le cadre d’un modèle DSGE avec des frictions de crédit permet d’expliquer simultanément la forte volatilité des prix immobiliers - qui a joué un rôle central dans la crise des subprimes - et celle de variables caractérisant le cycle des affaires aux Etats-Unis sur la période 1985-2015 In view of the disconnect between the pricing of three types of assets (two types of financial assets and real-estate assets) and economic fundamentals in the recent period ofsevere economic and financial crises, this thesis aims at highlighting the role of economicagents’ expectations.First, this thesis emphasizes that the role of expectations in the recent Eurozonesovereign debt crisis relates to strategic complementarities in agents’ decisions. In thisrespect, this thesis focuses on one major but mostly unnoticed fact: the share of governmentdebt held by the resident sector increased beginning at the end of 2008 in the mostfragile economies of the zone. We show that – whereas public debt shocks positively affectthe home bias in sovereign debt – pessimistic expectation shocks can also significantlyexplain variations in home bias.Second, this thesis shows that excess volatility in stock and in house prices relativeto fundamentals can be accounted for by standard models when the rational expectationshypothesis is relaxed and when agents are assumed to estimate the parameters of the lawsof motion driving the dynamics of economic fundamentals – that is, as econometricians.Under this assumption, a standard asset pricing model can explain the persistently highvaluation in US stock prices in the early 2000s followed by their dramatic bust by 2009.Finally, we show that modelling Bayesian learning regarding house prices in the contextof a DSGE model with credit frictions allows us to simultaneously replicate the dramaticvolatility in house prices - which played a crucial role in the subprime crisis - and in businesscycle variables over the 1985-2015 period

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Santos, Samuel Nunes dos. "Concepção de passado, presente e futuro na I apologia de Justino Mártir: Uma visão do tempo histórico no século II D.C." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8026.

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Adonis, Melany Marildia. "The theological significance of the propeht Huldah's prophecy : a feminist perspective on 2 Kings 22:14-20." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53179.

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Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2002 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The question I am attempting to answer, IS "What is the theological significance of the prophecy ofHuldah, the prophet? Why is Huldah there?" Scholars have offered different reasons for the presence of Huldah in 2 Kings 22. Why Huldah and not one of the other male prophets, has been approached to "enquire from the Lord". The explanations offered, can all be challenged. It does not supply us with convincing theories which can be used to examine the theological significance of the prophecy of Huldah. I would therefore argue, that the text itself, supply us with clues which can be used to discuss the theological significance of the prophecy of Huldah. Seeing that the text is part of the Deuteronomistic History, clues (to help with the understanding of Huldah),would therefore also be found within this history. In other words, the literary context as well as the Deuteronomistic background of 2 Kings 22, provide us with clues for the theological significance of Huldah as a prophet. Furthermore, I would like to argue that the interpretations made from the clues could be enriched by the fact that I am a woman. A feminist approach could introduce a different perspective 1 therefore did a close reading of the text, 2 Kings 22 1-20 with specific focus on 2 Kings 2214-20. Special attention is given to the language used, the characters included in the story as well as the context of the story. In order to try and get a better understanding of the language, the Hebrew text was used as point of departure and a translation to Engli h was made to use in my discu sion. Through my journey with Huldah, t have been inspired The inclusion of Huldah, highlights the presence of female prophets in the history of Israel. God calls women as well as men. Huldah can be used a a different model for women. In her patriarchal society, she was a married woman who was also a prophet. A prophet who was repected by her people. The king sent his "trusted attendants" (five males) to "enquire from the Lord" and they went to Huldah, the prophet. Therefore, the story of Huldah emphasises the fact that women also played important roles in the history of Israel. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die vraag wat ek probeer beantwoord is, "Wat is die teologiese belang van die profeet Guldah ') Waarom is Guldah daar." Talle geleerdes het verskillende redes vir die teenwoordigheid van Guldah in 2 Konings 22 verskaf Redes waarorn Guldah, en nie een van die manlike profete me, genader is om " die Here te raadpleeg" nie. AI die verduidelikings wat aan die hand gedoen word, kan egter bevraagteken word. Dit verskaf nie oortuigende teoriee wat gebruik kan word om die teologiese waarde van Guldah te ondersoek nie. Ek wil dus argurnenteer dat die teks self leidrade verskaf wat gebruik kan word ten einde die teologiese belang van die profesie van Guldah te bespreek. Aangesien die teks deel is van die Deuteronomistiese Geskiedenis sal leidrade, om te help met die verstaan van Guldah dus ook in hierdie geskiedenis gevind word In ander woorde, die literere konteks sowel as die Deuteronomistiese agtergrond van 2 Konings 22, verskaf ons met leidrade vir die teologiese belang van Guldah as profeet. Verder sou ek graag wou argumenteer dat die interpretasies gernaak vanuit die leidrade, verryk kan word deur die feit dat ek 'n vrou is. 'n Ferninistiese benadering kan 'n ander perspektief in Iei. Ek het dus die reks, 2 Konings 221-20 krities gelees met spesifieke fokus op 2 Konings 22.14-20. Spesiale aandag is gegee aan die taalgebruik, die karakters wat ingesluit is in die storie, sowel as die konteks van die storie Ten einde die taalgebruik beter te erstaan, is die Hebreeuse teks as vertrekpunt gebruik en 'n vertaling in Engels gedoen, wat in die bespreking gebruik is. Die reis met Guldah, het my geinspireer. Die teenwoordigheid van vroulike profete word deur die insluiting van Guldah uirgelig. God roep vroue sowel as mans. Guldah verskaf dus 'n ander 'radikale' model vir vroue van haar tyd en daag ook sodoende vroue van vandag uit. In haar patriargale samelewing, was Guldah 'n getroude vrou, sowel as 'n profeet. 'n Profeet wat deur haar mense gerespekteer was. Die koning het sy "getroue volgelinge" (vyf mans) gestuur om "die Here te raadpleeg", en hulle het na Guldah die profeet gegaan. Die storie van Guldah beklemtoon dus die feit dat vroue ook belangrike rolle in die geskiedenis van Israel gespeel het.

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Silva, Neusiene Medeiros da. "Experi?ncias de inverno no Serid? Potiguar." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2013. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/18241.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:55:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NeusieneMS_DISSERT.pdf: 4145047 bytes, checksum: a8d5d969818e324e8108c851d6b9a74b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-04 The knowledge known as "winter experiences" has been developed for centuries among country people in the Brazilian Northeast hinterlands. It consists in the systematic observation of the nature to forecast and protect people against the effects of droughts. This knowledge is transmitted orally through generations. These experiences are guided by the observation of the behavior of fauna, flora, stars, the weather in the holy days and other very specific aspects of the lives of country people. Almost all country people living in the rural area know at least one experience, but the Prophets of Rain are known as the communicators of winter prophecies formulated from the observation of the experiences. The country person is identified as a Prophet of Rain because of his close relationship with nature and his ability to forecast. No matter if the prophecies are always right, he possesses a vital social role, as his practices contribute to prevent, ease and encourage other people. The main aim of this work is to analyze the role of the winter experiences for the country people in the Serid? Potiguar. In this sense, we sought to understand to what extent this knowledge still orients the productive practices of farmers living in this region and identify which factors instigate the observation of winter experiences nowadays. 241 questionnaires were applied to farmers in the rural cities of Acari, Caic?, Parelhas and Lagoa Nova and interviews were conducted with 15 Prophets in the Serid?. The methodological framework of this work is the analysis of content proposed by Bardin (2010). In this study area, the experiences exert influence and relevance to the country people in the Serid?, because they consider them as a way to ease their anguishes face the possible drought in the region. The major role of the Prophet is to feed the hope of country people for better days, rather than contribute for the organization of the productive activities. Among the interviewed people, the forecast from the observation of winter experiences have greater credibility than the meteorological and disseminated by media. The Prophets of Rain base their prophecies on the set of natural elements present in the environment. Many factors stimulate the winter experiences by the Prophets nowadays, as cultural transmission, age, relationship with nature, level of education, faith, among others, but specially the productive activities (agriculture and cattle raising) and the droughts. The winter means abundance and happiness in this region and the experience is one of the ways that people find to minimize the anxiety and, according to their possibilities, to prepare for a year of droughts or for winter No sert?o do Nordeste brasileiro, desenvolveu-se ao longo dos s?culos, entre os sertanejos, uma pr?tica denominada de experi?ncias de inverno , que consiste na observa??o sistem?tica da natureza para prever o tempo e preveni-lo contra os efeitos da seca. Essa forma de conhecimento ? repassada entre gera??es, de forma oral. As experi?ncias est?o pautadas na observa??o do comportamento da fauna, da flora, dos astros, do tempo meteorol?gico nos dias santos e outros ainda de aspectos bem espec?ficos da vida do sertanejo. Quase todo sertanejo que vive na zona rural conhece pelo menos uma experi?ncia, mas s?o os Profetas da Chuva os respons?veis por divulgar as profecias de inverno, formuladas a partir da observa??o das experi?ncias. E o sertanejo, que por sua estreita rela??o com a natureza e reconhecida habilidade nas previs?es, ? identificado pela comunidade como o Profeta da Chuva. Embora suas profecias nem sempre se cumpram, ele desempenha uma fun??o social importante, ? medida que suas pr?ticas contribuem para prevenir, tranquilizar e animar o sertanejo. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo geral analisar o papel das experi?ncias de inverno para o sertanejo do Serid? Potiguar. Nesse sentido, buscou-se compreender at? que ponto esta forma de conhecimento ainda orienta as pr?ticas produtivas dos agricultores que habitam a regi?o e identificar quais os fatores que instigam a observa??o das experi?ncias de inverno nos dias atuais. Foram aplicados 241 question?rios aos agricultores em comunidades rurais dos munic?pios de Acari, Caic?, Parelhas e Lagoa Nova e 15 entrevistas com os Profetas da Chuva identificados no Serid?. Na an?lise dos dados foi empregada a t?cnica An?lise de Conte?do, proposta por Bardin (2010). Na ?rea de estudo, as experi?ncias mostraram exercer grande influ?ncia e import?ncia para o sertanejo seridoense que as percebem como uma forma de amenizar suas ang?stias, diante da possibilidade de seca na regi?o. Seu papel fundamental estaria em alimentar a esperan?a desse seridoense por dias melhores do que contribuir na organiza??o das atividades produtivas dos mesmos. As previs?es de chuva realizadas a partir da observa??o das experi?ncias de inverno encontram maior credibilidade entre os entrevistados, do que as previs?es meteorol?gicas cient?ficas divulgadas pelos meios de comunica??o de massa. Os Profetas da Chuva t?m na paisagem seridoense um rico conjunto de elementos da natureza utilizados na elabora??o de suas profecias. Diversos fatores como a transmiss?o cultural, a idade, a rela??o do profeta com a natureza, o n?vel de escolaridade, a f?, entre outros, mais principalmente as atividades produtivas (agropecu?ria) e a seca, estimulam a observa??o das experi?ncias de inverno pelos profetas do Serid? nos dias atuais. O inverno ? sin?nimo de felicidade e abund?ncia para o seridoense, que vive na zona rural e a experi?ncia ? uma das formas que o mesmo encontrou para minimizar a ansiedade e, de acordo com as suas possibilidades, se preparar para um ano de seca ou de inverno

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Hojnowski, Ronald A. "Analyzing the assignment of enlisted recruiting goal shares via the Navy's enlisted goaling and forecasting model." Thesis, Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2284.

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Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited This thesis examines the process by which enlisted goal shares are generated by Commander, Navy Recruiting Command (CNRC) and assigned to Navy Regional recruiting commands. Through use of an econometric goaling and forecasting model employed by CNRC and a less complicated weighting system used by Regions, goal shares are generated using factors believed to accurately predict future recruiting success. The factors used in the new contract prediction model include local economic conditions, population demographics, and recruiting resources. This thesis evaluates these factors to obtain a clear understanding of how each affects the establishment of goal shares. The various levels within the recruiting organization are analyzed, to include a discussion on how each of these levels prioritizes assigned goals, specifically accessions and new contract objectives, and the reasons why these priorities differ across levels within the organization. The thesis analyzes the role of past production data and Production per Recruiter (PPR) in establishing goal. Recruiter incentives and potential impacts of these incentives on the attainment of quality contracts are also discussed. Finally, the accuracy of CNRC forecasts is evaluated and recommendations are made to help ensure the continued success of these forecasts well into the future. This thesis finds CNRC's goaling forecasts to be quite accurate; however, with more precise data for a few specific variables within the goaling model, it is believed the accuracy of forecasts could be improved. Additionally, this thesis finds that due to current recruiter incentives, recruiters may not be motivated to contract the best possible candidates for enlistment at all times. Lieutenant, United States Navy

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Vivès, Rémi. "Three essays on the role of expectations in business cycles." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AIXM0453.

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Cette thèse étudie le rôle des anticipations dans les cycles économiques en analysant trois types d’anticipations différentes. Dans un premier temps, je me concentre sur une explication théorique des cycles économiques générée par des changements d'anticipations qui se révèlent auto-réalisatrices. Ce chapitre contribue à améliorer un puzzle provenant de la littérature sunspot, soutenant ainsi une interprétation des cycles économiques basée sur les prophéties auto-réalisatrices. Dans un deuxième temps, j’analyse empiriquement comment les annonces de la banque centrale se propagent à l’économie via la modification des croyances des acteurs du marché. Ce chapitre montre que des annonces crédibles sur les futures politiques monétaires non conventionnelles peuvent être utilisées comme un instrument de coordination des anticipations dans un contexte de crise de la dette souveraine. Dans un troisième temps, je m'intéresse à un concept plus large d'anticipations et étudie le pouvoir prédictif du climat politique sur la tarification du risque souverain. Ce chapitre montre que le climat politique apporte un pouvoir prédictif supplémentaire aux spreads des obligations d'Etat, au-delà des déterminants traditionnels. Différentes méthodologies sont utilisées dans cette thèse, notamment des analyses théoriques et empiriques, du web scraping ainsi que des méthodes d'apprentissage automatique et d'analyse textuelle. Par ailleurs, j’exploite dans cette thèse des données innovantes provenant du réseau social Twitter. Tous mes résultats transmettent le même message : les anticipations comptent, tant pour la recherche en économie que pour l'élaboration de politiques économiques In this thesis, I investigate the role of expectations in business cycles by studying three different kinds of expectations. First, I focus on a theoretical explanation of business cycles generated by changes in expectations which turn out to be self-fulfilling. This chapter improves a puzzle from the sunspot literature, thereby giving more evidence towards an interpretation of business cycles based on self-fulfilling prophecies. Second, I empirically analyze the propagation mechanisms of central bank announcements through changes in market participants' beliefs. This chapter shows that credible announcements about future unconventional monetary policies can be used as a coordination device in a sovereign debt crisis framework. Third, I study a broader concept of expectations and investigate the predictive power of political climate on the pricing of sovereign risk. This chapter shows that political climate provides additional predictive power beyond the traditional determinants of sovereign bond spreads. In order to interrogate the role of expectations in business cycles from multiple angles, I use a variety of methodologies in this thesis, including theoretical and empirical analyses, web scraping, machine learning, and textual analysis. In addition, this thesis uses innovative data from the social media platform Twitter. Regardless of my methodology, all my results convey the same message: expectations matter, both for economic research and economically sound policy-making

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Kolm, Jonathan David. "Prophecies." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3124.

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Kolm, Jonathan David 1977. "Prophecies." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/13311.

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Warren, Ashlee. "The prophetic legacy studies in Aeneas' reactions to prophecies /." 2008. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/warren%5Fashlee%5Fb%5F200812%5Fma.

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"先知與民的關係: 舊約先知之言在中國文化處境中的詮釋". 2004. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896140.

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姜宗強 = The relationship between the prophet and the people : an interpretation of the Old Testament prophetic word in the Chinese cultural context / Jiang Zongqiang. "2004年6月". 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2004. 參考文獻 (leaves 121-140). 附中英文摘要. "2004 nian 6 yue". Jiang Zongqiang = The relationship between the prophet and the people : an interpretation of the Old Testament prophetic word in the Chinese cultural context / Jiang Zongqiang. Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2004. Can kao wen xian (leaves 121-140). Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. 目錄 摘要 致謝 Chapter 上篇： --- 以前學者硏究成果的追溯 Chapter 第一章、 --- 問題的提出：中國文化傳統中有無先知因素？ --- p.1 Chapter 一、 --- 韋伯對先知與先知之言性質的界定 --- p.1 Chapter 二、 --- 羅理的硏究：溝通古代以色列與中國文化傳統中先知因素的嘗試 --- p.7 Chapter 三、 --- 對羅理溝通古代以色列與中國文化傳統中先知因素硏究的評價 --- p.13 Chapter 第二章、 --- 狄百瑞對中國儒家式先知的界定 --- p.19 Chapter 一、 --- 韋伯的命題面臨挑戰 --- p.19 Chapter 二、 --- 先知之有無？ --- p.20 Chapter 三、 --- 何種類型的先知？ --- p.24 Chapter 四、 --- 對狄百瑞理論硏究的評價 --- p.32 Chapter 五、 --- 本篇論文硏究的問題、範圍、方法論、目的 --- p.37 Chapter 下篇： --- 先知與民的關係 Chapter 第三章 --- 跨文本閱讀的根據與方法 --- p.39 Chapter 一、 --- 跨文本閱讀的可能性 --- p.39 Chapter 二、 --- 跨文本閱讀的方法 --- p.43 Chapter 三、 --- 對古代以色列先知之言性質的理解 --- p.47 Chapter 第四章、 --- 《阿摩司書》與杜甫詩篇中“受苦者´ح主題的閱讀 --- p.67 Chapter 一、 --- 引論 --- p.67 Chapter 二、 --- 戰爭中的受苦者 --- p.76 Chapter 三、 --- 政治、經濟壓迫下的受苦者 --- p.91 Chapter 四、 --- 杜甫代表的爲底層受苦者呼籲公義的中國式的先知傳統一一詩歌文學中的民本思想 --- p.106 結語、先知與民的關係 --- p.116 參考書目 --- p.121

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Assali, Hadeel. "Prophecies of Palestine: Geology and Intimate Knowledge of the Subterranean." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-ggv1-5q71.

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This dissertation examines the narratives deployed to produce space(s) and how they become imbued with the authority to do so. The narratives-as-knowledge considered here are grounded in a specific place: the Mediterranean Basin, within which the site of analysis, Palestine, sits. How, in this particular place, has the earth been read and translated into different narratives of the past and the present, how does one gain the authority to do so, and how does this authority enable prophesizing the future? I argue for the importance of understanding the foundations of the earth sciences, namely geology, which remains steeped in colonial and capitalist roots and the ideological logics of extractivism as opposed to mutuality. Geology governs much of our understandings of the earth, space, and time. Archival research reveals that in Palestine, Biblical and geological narratives emerged concomitantly; both read the history of earth and mankind through its translation of the strata of the underground, which in turn granted the authority to prophesize the future. The local, intimate knowledge of the land, and thus the narratives of the land, are in contest in colonial contexts – colonial knowledge depends on and exploits local knowledge. The development of the modern-nation state enfolds the holders of this knowledge within its institutions as it seeks to make nature legible for extraction. In settler-states, however, the holders of intimate knowledge are excluded from the state. This, I argue, can help us understand the impasse between Gaza’s tunnel diggers and the Israeli military and offers us a case study of the potential of subterranean knowledge to rethink the Earth Sciences and their colonial capitalist paradigms. Place matters, and I focus on the dueling narratives in Gaza that reproduce it. Through a combined methodology of historical research and ethnography with the local population, I first argue Gaza should be unmapped from “the Gaza Strip,” and counter-mapped (through history and ethnography) as Southern Palestine. After redefining the geography of Gaza, I focus in on daily life on the surface of a vibrant Gaza filled with unexpected relations. The dissonance of mainstream humanitarian discourse on Gaza is shorn of historical context of colonialism and prophesizes certain death, whereas the anti-colonial narrative of local resistance promises a liberated future. I then move underground to the tunnels of Gaza, where smuggling and the logics of capital accumulation – which per local analysts had only the certainty of social deterioration – butt up against the underground resistance’s liberatory discourse and reality on the ground. I detail how the “purity” of resistance and its intimate knowledge is contained and captured in the different nation-states dividing the region of southern Palestine, namely Israel and Egypt and the quasi-state status in Palestine – but not entirely. Back above ground, social deterioration and state violence is mediated through conspiracy theories prophesizing an uncertain future for Gaza, namely the Deal of the Century that threatens to redraw the map of Gaza. Meanwhile, Egypt and Israel continue to deploy local knowledge for extractive industries. However, I argue, something fugitive remains that cannot be contained even by their powerful militaries. The dominant mainstream narratives of humanitarianism, climate catastrophe, the Deal of the Century, and so on only lead to catastrophe, whereas looking to local, intimate knowledge that is fugitive from containment or erasure offer a different reading of and relationship with the land and hence different, even liberatory possibilities for the future. Following assertions that we are a storytelling species and should re-write our origin stories and hence our prophecies, I conclude with a reflection on different subterranean poetics and land-human-animal relations to imagine what a critical geology might look like as a contribution toward new, all-inclusive theories of earth.

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Grogan, Ronda Vanese. "Democracy, technology, and the doom's day prophecies historical predictions of democracy's demise /." 1999. http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/etd/masters/ArtsSci/English/1999/Grogan/.

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Nunez, Luis A. "Impact of the GPA and prior college experience on the completion of the Navy Medical Laboratory Technician program." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/1723.

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CIVINS The research literature suggests that GPA, along with previously taken college courses, is a better predictor of success of student graduation than any simple measure. The purpose of this casual comparative study was to investigate whether students with prior college experience selecting a military career were better prepared for challenges in military schools than those students who have had no previous college experience. The research was conducted at the Naval School of Health Sciences in San Diego, California, located on the grounds of Naval Medical Center San Diego, California from May 2004 to August 2005. The questionnaire required students to indicate their responses to three questions. Each student (N=50) from two different classes was administered the questionnaire. The return rate was 100%. The study found that there was no difference in grade point average (GPA) of military students with and without prior college experience who were enrolled in the Navy's Medical Laboratory Technician program from May 2004 to August 2005. It was concluded that Navy's policy on requiring students to have certain college prerequisites may not necessarily impact their success in the MLT program. CIVINS US Navy (USN) author

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Lewis, Rosemary. "Role of the Pythia at Delphi: ancient and modern perspectives." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18723.

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The title of this dissertation emerged from an undergraduate Honours paper that investigated modern scholarly views concerning the authenticity of the Pythia’s possession. An attempt to answer one particular subquestion (Was the Pythia the priesthood’s puppet?) elicited significantly more divergent modern opinions than the discussions concerning the other possible causations of the Pythian prophecies (divine inspiration, clairvoyance, intoxication, and/or charlatanry) that the paper examined. The mere suggestion of the possibility that the Pythia may have enjoyed some degree of autonomy while performing her role in the consultative procedure stirred considerable controversy among modern scholars. This reaction identified a need for further reexamination of the Pythia’s role in the Delphic Oracle as depicted in both ancient literature and the commentaries of modern scholars. However, this dissertation is concerned more with what ancient and modern sources claim the Pythia actually did (i.e. the role she performed) during a mantic consultation than with how the Pythia managed to produce the oracles she uttered (i.e. the underlying causation of her ability to produce prophecies). Ancient sources, in particular Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, and Pausanias, depict and apparently accept the Pythia as the speaker of the oracles, for, after all, the Pythia functioned as Apollo’s mouthpiece “and as such she counted for little.”1 Most early 20th century modern scholars, all with access to the same ancient sources, nevertheless contend (perhaps because they do not believe in Apollo) that the Delphic priesthood was (must have been) responsible for at least the composition, or the interpretation, or even the actual delivery to the enquirers, of the oracles. However, some later modern scholars acknowledge, even if they cannot fully comprehend or embrace, the ancient sources’ portrayal of the Pythia as speaking the oracles directly to enquirers. Compton commences an article on the Delphic mantic session with these words: “As one reads through important treatments of the operation of the Delphic oracle, disparities in interpretation are striking.”2 The discrepancies between both ancient authors and modern scholars and between early 20th century and some later modern scholars warrant a reexamination of how all sources depict the Pythia’s role in the Delphic Oracle. Modern (20th and 21st century for the purpose of this dissertation) scholars all have access to the same ancient sources. However, an examination of modern commentaries on the role of the Pythia in the Delphic mantic (divinatory, oracular) consultation (session) appears to indicate a watershed year for a shift in modern perspective: 1978. Pre-1978 modern scholars depart from the ancient authors and depict the Delphic priesthood as the major player in the mantic procedure whereas several later modern scholars, in and after 1978, return to the ancient depiction of the Pythia as the one who delivers the Delphic oracles directly to the enquirers. A search for an explanation for this shift in modern interpretations of ancient literature underlies this dissertation, which seeks to answer not only how and also why modern classical scholarship on the topic of the Pythia evolved as it did. An investigation of this evolving view of the Pythia’s role includes examination of ancient literature and the commentaries on these ancient sources by modern scholars as found in English literature (including English translations and/or secondary quotations of Danish, French and German scholars) for information both about the person and role of the Pythia and about the composition and role of other Delphic temple personnel, referred to as the Delphic priesthood in this dissertation. Ancient and modern depictions of every step of the consultative process that culminated in the enquirers receiving the oracles that they accepted as Apollo’s answers to their enquiries—in effect, the entire process of oracular consultation, including its physical location, and the process of transfer of communications at Delphi—are also relevant. This dissertation uses the term “chain of communication” to indicate the elements in the communicative process whereby the Pythia learned the content of enquirers’ questions, and, in turn, enquirers learned the content of Apollo’s replies to their questions. Answers to specific questions such as those that follow must, therefore, be sought first in ancient literature before divergent modern scholarly contentions can be evaluated. Who was the Pythia, and what was her role? Who comprised the Delphic priesthood, and what was its role? Who put the enquirer’s question to the Pythia? Who heard the Pythia’s reply? Who spoke the response to the enquirer? Was the response oral or written, in prose or verse form? Who wrote the response down and/or composed the verse? These are some of the questions that indicate a direction for investigation in order to evaluate the division of roles within the Delphic Oracle’s administration. The findings in Chapters 3-6 of this dissertation are, therefore, consistently arranged under the headings of the Pythia (her person and role), the Delphic priesthood (its structure and overall function in the Delphic Oracle), the chain of communication (who did and said what, and how, and to whom, during a Delphic mantic session), and the location in which this mantic consultation took place. Because the first three headings all address aspects of the respective roles played by the Pythia and priesthood during an oracular consultation, some overlap of content is inevitable. Chapters 1 and 2 outline and review ancient Greek divinatory methods, seers, and oracles. Chapter 3 explores relevant ancient references to the Delphic Oracle as found in 8th-4th century BCE sources, including Homer, 5th century BCE tragic poets, and the historian Herodotus. Chapter 4 investigates post-4th century BCE ancient sources, including the works of historian Diodorus Siculus, Delphic priest, historian, and prose commentator Plutarch, and geographer Pausanias. Chapters 5 and 6 cover relevant modern scholarly views. Parke’s 1939 and Parke and Wormell’s 1956 authoritative works on the Delphic Oracle dominate the early 20th century (pre-1978) period, and Fontenrose’s innovative 1978 work on the same subject introduces the later period of modern scholarship on the Delphic Oracle. The conclusion attempts an explanation for and reconciliation of the various ancient and modern views. This dissertation essentially seeks to answer two questions: how do ancient and modern scholars view the role of the Pythia in the mantic procedure at Delphi, and can the variety of interpretations be explained and reconciled? Classics & Modern European Languages M.A. (Classical Studies)

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Kurianowicz, Tomasz. "The Unknown Future: Premonitions between Prophecy and Pathology, 1750 to 1850." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-zht0-cz40.

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My dissertation The Unknown Future examines the notion of Ahnung or Ahndung (in English: premonition) in German literature, philosophy, anthropology, and the sciences around 1800. Focusing on the heated debates among philosophers, writers and intellectuals as to whether humans can attain knowledge about the future, I trace the notion of Ahnung as it traverses various discourses. In doing so, I draw on Stephen Greenblatt’s idea of a new historicism and expand studies written by Stefan Andriopoulos, Joseph Vogl, Eva Horn, Michael Gamper and other scholars, explicitly referring to and expanding the literary theory concerning “poetologies of knowledge.“ Specifically I show how after 1750 religious models of prophecy were no longer easily accepted. At the same time, new statistical and mathematical models of prognosis were rising -- even as doubts remained about their ability to fully grasp the progression of time. Within these conflicts between traditional religious models and the new exact sciences, the concept of ‘premonition’ seemed to offer various thinkers and writers evidence for a prognostic capability of the soul that challenged rational, mathematical and statistical models of probability as the sole means for predicting the future. The hope was that premonitions could provide a supersensory knowledge based on fleeting, opaque glimpses into the progression of time. In chapter 1, I examine how philosophers discussed the phenomenon of premonitions and juxtapose Johann Gottfried Herder’s supportive perspective on premonitions in his essay On Knowing, Sensing, Wishing, Hoping, and Believing (1797) with Immanuel Kant’s dismissive claims in his study Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798). In chapter 2, I discuss major anthropologies and their representation of premonitions, specifically Karl Philipp Moritz’s Journal for the Experience and Knowledge of the Soul (1783-1793). Moritz not only presents interesting case studies of prognostic premonitory experiences, but also discusses them in a poetological context and defends them as valid prophetic narratives. My third chapter turns to a set of critical questions. If literary, poetic, and more generally narrative modes of expression are key instruments for articulating the prophetic power of premonitions – as Herder, Moritz and von Arnim argue – how are premonitions depicted in literature? Attending to three exemplary texts by Ludwig Tieck (The Story of Mr. William Lovell), Heinrich von Kleist (The Earthquake in Chili), and E.T.A. Hoffmann (The Sandman), the final chapter demonstrates how premonitions in literary texts question dominant mathematical and rational perspectives on the world. At the end of my dissertation, I briefly discuss the history of weather-based literary tropes between 1750 and 1850 and show why the limited ability to foresee the weather propelled discourses on supersensory knowledge, namely: premonitions. In the end, my dissertation shows how premonitions became a predominant literary technique for critically exploring the unknown progression of time and for questioning the objectifying impulses of a scientific world-view. This dissertation was advised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Andriopoulos and Prof. Dr. Oliver Simons.

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Bekker, Cornelius Johannes. "Die "offer" van Isak as motief vir die verkondiging van Jesus as die lydende Christus." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12555.

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Walsh, Patrick Joseph. "Words Full of Deed: Prophets and Prophecy in German Literature around 1800." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8H70T3C.

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In this dissertation, I consider the role of prophets and prophecy in German drama and dramatic discourse of the Romantic period. Against the backdrop of the upheaval wrought by the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, such discourse exhibits a conspicuous fascination with political and social crisis in general as well as a preoccupation with imagining how the crises of the present could provide an opportunity for national or civilizational renewal. One prominent manifestation of this focus is a pronounced interest in charismatic leaders of the legendary or historical past—among them prophets like Moses, Muhammad and Joan of Arc—who succeeded in uniting their respective societies around a novel vision of collective destiny. In order to better understand the appeal of such figures during this period, I examine works of drama and prose fiction that feature prophets as their protagonists and that center on scenarios of political or religious founding. Reading texts by major authors like Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and Achim von Arnim alongside those by the lesser-known writers such as Karoline von Günderrode, August Klingemann and Joseph von Hammer, I analyze the various ways these scenarios are staged and situate them within their specific political, intellectual and literary contexts. In so doing, I show that the figure of the prophet—a figure whose authority is based not on their own wisdom, talent, or cunning, but rather on their claim to speak for a higher, superhuman power—offers authors a paradigm of political and cultural innovation that radically displaces the agency of the rational subject in favor of non-rational factors like language, performance, history, myth and the emotions. Moreover, I argue that this figure reveals an important connection between the history of drama in this period and an emergent, post-Enlightenment political discourse concerned with the origin and nature of sovereignty.

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Santana, Márcia Patrícia Lima. "Profecia : a história do futuro na literatura portuguesa." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/3320.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Portugueses Multidisciplinares apresentada à Universidade Aberta Esta dissertação aborda a evolução da literatura profética desde a Idade Média até ao século XX, focando a personagem Merlim e autores como Bandarra, o padre António Vieira e Fernando Pessoa. Procuramos analisar o impacto que estes vultos tiveram na cultura portuguesa, assim como os pontos altos da literatura profética dentro do imaginarium lusitano. Por outro lado, focamos a aparição de Fátima, ligada à Igreja Católica Apostólica Romana, que atingiu uma grande notoriedade, tanto dentro como fora do nosso país, sendo um exemplo da importância que as visões e as profecias alcançam no âmago da identidade lusa. Este trabalho foca igualmente o caso Mórmon, menos conhecido em Portugal, mas que faz uso do profetismo e de questões relacionadas com o Quinto Império no proselitismo d’A Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias. Para além de explorarmos as diversas profecias e mitos que se tornaram parte integrante da nossa História, procuramos estabelecer um paralelo com as histórias bíblicas e com o desenvolvimento do sebastianismo, que se foi incrustando na alma portuguesa e se associando aos mais diversos prenúncios. This thesis traces the evolution of the prophetic literature between the Middle Ages and the 20th century. We centre our attention on Merlim (the character) and authors like Bandarra, Priest António Vieira and Fernando Pessoa. We analyse their influence on the Portuguese culture and the highest moments of the prophetic literature inside the Lusitanian imaginary. On the other hand we focus our attention on Fátima’s apparition linked to the Catholic Apostolic Church, which reached a great notoriety in and out of Portugal. This event is an example of the importance of visions and prophecies allied to the Portuguese identity. The present work also talks about the Mormon case, less known in Portugal but which emphasises a prophetic approach linked to the Fifth Empire on The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints’ preach. Besides exploring the different myths and prophecies that became part of our History, we try to establish links between stories from the Bible and the growth of Sebastianism, which is ingrained in the Portuguese soul and connected to different predictions.

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Heim, Detlef Peter. "Prophetisches Reden und Evangelisation: eine missiologische Untersuchung der über Berlin ausgesprochenen Prophetien (1980-2000)." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1099.

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Text in German Prophetie und Evangelisation sind zentrale Themen der Bibel und wichtige Instrumente Gottes. Biblische Berichte zeigen, dass Mission und Evangelisation oft erst durch ein prophetisches Wort moglich wurde. Das erste Kapitel widmet sich diesen Themen. Es ist das Anliegen dieser Studie, die in den Jahren 1980-2000 uber Berlin ausgesprochenen Prophetien zu analysieren. Die Prophetien werden mit biblischen Aussagen verglichen, gegeneinander ins Verhaltnis gesetzt und auf ihre missionstheoiogische Relevanz hin untersucht. Eine Befragung einiger Berliner Leber chainsmatisch-gepragter Gemeinden liefert den praktischen Anteil dieser Studie. Die theoretischen Grundlagen werden im zweiten und die Ergebnisse im dritten Kapitel behandelt. Es ist zu betonen, dass sich die untersuchten Prophetien jeglicher objektiver Beurteilung entziehen. Alle Angaben sind zeitlich nicht gebunden und sehr allgemein gehalten. Allen gemeinsam ist jedoch ein geistlicher Quantensprang, der von einer flachendeckenden Ausgiessung des Geistes Gottes uber Berlin handelt. Dieser Sachverhalt wird im vierten Kapitel dargestellt und diskutiert. Prophecy and evangelisation are central topics of the Bible and instruments of God, Biblical reports show, that mission and evangelisation were mostly possible by a prophetic word (Chapter one). The concern of this study is to analyse the prophecies spoken out for Berlin between the years 1980 to 2000. The prophecies were compared with biblical statements, were proportionate to one another and were analysed regarding their mission-theologicai relevance. A questioning of few leaders of charismatic-embossed churches of Berlin gives the practical part of the study (the theoretical part see chapter two, the results see chapter three). It has to be articulated, that there is no objective judgement for the analysed prophecies. All indications are not bound by time and were given in general sense. All prophecies deal with a spiritual quantum leap, who speaks of an out-pouring of the Spirit of God over Berlin covering the whole area (Chapter four). Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology M.Th. (Missiology)

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Du, Toit Hendrik Cornelius Benjamin. "Immanuel : geloof in die vernuwende krag van God - 'n poeties-intertekstuele studie (Afrikaans)." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26877.

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Wiri, Robert K. J. "The Prophecies of the Great Canyon of Toi: a history of Te Whāiti-nui-a-Toi in the western Urewera Mountains of New Zealand." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/800.

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This doctoral thesis is a social history of the lands and people Te Whāiti-nui-a-Toi, also known as The Great Canyon of Toi, a small isolated valley located on the western borders of the Urewera mountains of New Zealand. In the first chapter, the prophecies of the Great Canyon of Toi are revealed which is followed by a discussion of the theoretical model of the thesis in chapter two. In chapter three, an interesting historiography of Te Whāiti-nui-a-Toi and the scholar, Elsdon Best, is presented. These three preliminary chapters set the scene for the three main parts of the thesis. The first two parts of the thesis retrace the evolution of the Māori and Pākeha social histories of Te Whāiti, from their earliest origins, to the present day. In Part I of the thesis, chapters four to six, the mana Māori model is presented, which proposes the view that there is a peculiarly Māori way of knowing the social history of Te Whāiti-nui-a-Toi. Part I is divided into three domains of the spiritual, human and earthly authorities. In Part II, chapters seven to nine, the mana Pākeha model is presented, which argues that there is a peculiarly Pākeha way of knowing that same social history. Part II is divided into the three domains of initial alienation, legal imperialism, and neo-colonialism. Part III, chapter ten, analyses the power-struggle between the models of mana Māori and mana Pākeha and explores the dynamics of the relationship between Māori and Pākeha ways of knowing the social history of Te Whāiti-nui-a-Toi. The title of this thesis, 'The Prophecies of the Great Canyon of Toi', is a direct reference to a song composed by Te Kooti at Te Whāiti-nui-a-Toi in 1884. The lyrics of this song form a theoretical framework for this thesis and the song provides a new and fresh way of seeing the history of New Zealand. Finally, the events foretold in the song have all been fulfilled and are confirmed by historical events that are explained throughout the body of the thesis. Kia mau ki ngā kupu whakaari e pānuitia nei!

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