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Dalessio, Christine Falk. "Prophetism of the Body: Towards a More Adequate Anthropology of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body Through a Feminist Hermeneutic." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1571918527212752.
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Bérard, Bruno. "Un philosophe et théologien occultisant au XIXe siècle : la vie et l’œuvre de l’abbé Paul François Gaspard Lacuria (1806-1890)." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EPHE5007.
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Dans un siècle postrévolutionnaire particulièrement marqué par les tumultes politiques, le progrès scientifique, les idéologies sociales et le développement de la rivalité entre la raison et la foi, l’abbé Paul François Gaspard Lacuria (1806-1890) élabore son œuvre principale : Les Harmonies de l’être, dont l’objectif annoncé est précisément de réduire l’opposition apparemment irréductible entre science et foi. C’est sous l’égide de la doctrine trinitaire, et grâce à des considérations géométrico-mathématiques, que l’abbé recherche cette conciliation philosophique harmonieuse qui doit fonder, selon lui, les bases synthétiques d’un savoir universel ramené en définitive à la « Grande Unité ». L’absence de travaux universitaires abordant le cas de ce métaphysicien mystique, marqué par l’occultisme à des titres divers, nous a incité à entreprendre le présent travail qui comporte, outre une biographie complète de l’auteur, une présentation et une analyse détaillées de son œuvre, enfin un examen de la postérité de celle-ci et de son influence posthume<br>In the aftermath of the Great Revolution, France witnesses, during the Nineteenth Century, and apart from continuous political turmoils, the development of scientific progress, social ideologies, and new phases in the progressive evolution of the age-old strife between faith and reason. It is during this eventful period that Father Paul François Gaspard Lacuria (1806-1890) elaborates his main work : Les Harmonies de l’être, with the declared intention of bridging the gap between science and faith. Basing himself on the trinitarian doctrine of Roman Catholicism as well as on deep-reaching geometrical and mathematical analogies, Father Lacuria seeks an harmonious philosophical synthesis capable of establishing a universal knowledge, ultimately reducible to the “Great Unity”. The conspicuous lack of an academic monograph devoted to such an important mystical figure, whose work borders sometimes on occultism, has given birth to the present research, which attempts to retrace the French metaphysician’s biography and to give a detailed analysis of his works and of their posthumous fate
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Sztutman, Renato. "O profeta e o principal: a ação política ameríndia e seus personagens." Universidade de São Paulo, 2005. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8134/tde-01102007-144056/.
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Esta tese parte de uma interrogação sobre a articulação, entre os antigos Tupi da costa brasílica, entre o profetismo e o domínio político. Para tanto, ela revisita discussões caras à história da antropologia, como aquelas promovidas por Pierre e Hélène Clastres, o primeiro fortemente engajado no projeto de uma antropologia política. Cruzando os dados do passado com as etnografi as sobre povos ameríndios do presente, esta tese propõe uma refl exão sobre a ação política ameríndia, tendo em vista as maneiras pelas quais podem se constituir (e estender) pessoas e grupos, líderes e unidades sociopolíticas, mas também os mecanismos que impedem, a todo o momento, que estes se estabilizem, se enrijeçam, congelem assimetrias.<br>This thesis focus on the relationship, among the ancient Tupi of the brazilian coast, between prophetic movements and the political domain. In so doing, it returns to some classic discussions that play an important part in anthropology\'s history, as those which were carried by Pierre and Hélène Clastres; the fi rst one hardly engaged on the foundation of a political anthropology. Comparing data of past societies with recent ethnographies of contemporary indigenous peoples, this thesis proposes a refl ection on Amerindian political agency, stressing the ways people and groups, leaders and sociopolitical units, can be made (and thus be extended), as well as regarding the mechanisms that offer resistance to the stabilization of these people and groups, which could result in a fixed asymmetry.
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Costa, José Carlos de Lima. "A INFLUÊNCIA DO PROFETISMO HEBRAICO NA PRÁXIS DE JESUS À LUZ DOS EVANGELHOS SINÓTICOS." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2012. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/843.
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Previous issue date: 2012-12-21<br>This work deals with the influence of the Old Testament prophetism on the actions
and words of Jesus, as he is presented by the synoptic Gospels. The present
research intends to demonstrate that in the presentation of the life and teaching of
Jesus portrayed by the synoptics, the Nazarene partially breaks with most of the
religious movements of his time and reclaims ancient prophetic traditions available to
him in the TaNaK. Initially, a bibliographical research shall undertake a biblicotheological
revision, aiming at understanding Israelite prophetism as presented in the
Hebrew Bible. Then, a bibliographical and exegetical study will be done in the
principal synoptic texts which present Jesus‟ prophetic praxis. The investigation shall
focus on the image of Jesus as seen in the synoptic gospels, in their canonical form.
In the final stage, the data of both researches will be analyzed and compared with
each other. The common points observed between Old Testament prophetism and
Jesus‟ praxis shall be carefully analyzed, in order to establish possible influences.
The research‟s final report is made up of three parts: First, according to the synoptic
presentation, it becomes clear that Jesus saw himself as a prophet of God, an
impression shared by those who knew him; second, so as to understand better this
influence, a further investigation of Israelite prophetism is done, as this tradition is
presented in the Hebrew Bible; third, an investigation is undertaken of both the deeds
and the preaching of Jesus, identifying possible influences that Old Testament
prophetism might have exerted upon his actions and words. Finally, this work deals
with the implications of prophetic influence on the praxis represented by Jesus.<br>Este trabalho se propõe a abordar a influência do profetismo veterotestamentário
nas ações e palavras de Jesus, conforme a apresentação feita dele nos Evangelhos
Sinóticos. A pesquisa pretende demonstrar que na apresentação da vida e ensinos
de Jesus feita pelos sinóticos, o Nazareno rompe parcialmente com os principais
movimentos religiosos de seu tempo e retoma antigas tradições proféticas, as quais
lhe estavam disponíveis na TaNaK. O trabalho consistirá, inicialmente, de uma
pesquisa bibliográfica, através da qual se fará um estudo bíblico-teológico, visando
compreender o profetismo israelita conforme se apresenta na Bíblia Hebraica. Em
seguida, será feito um levantamento bibliográfico e exegético nos principais textos
Sinóticos que expressam a práxis profética de Jesus. A presente investigação
focalizará a imagem de Jesus apresentada nos Evangelhos Sinóticos, em sua forma
canônica. Na etapa final, os dados de ambas as pesquisas serão analisados e
comparados. Os pontos comuns observados entre o profetismo veterotestamentário
e a práxis de Jesus serão cuidadosamente analisados, a fim de se estabelecer
possíveis influências. O relatório final da pesquisa compõe-se de três partes:
Primeiramente, demonstra-se que, de acordo com a apresentação sinótica, tanto
Jesus quanto aqueles que o conheceram, viram-no primeiramente como profeta de
Deus; em seguida, a fim de se compreender melhor esta influência, procede-se com
a investigação do profetismo israelita, conforme ele se apresenta na Bíblia Hebraica;
por último, investiga-se tanto a atuação quanto a pregação de Jesus, identificando
possíveis influências que o profetismo veterotestamentário possa ter exercido sobre
suas ações e palavras. Finalizando, o trabalho aborda as implicações que a
influência profética na práxis de Jesus representa.
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Suaiden, Silvana. "MIQUÉIAS 6,1-8: UM TEXTO PARADIGMÁTICO NA INTERFACE DA CRÍTICA PROFÉTICA COM A SABEDORIA ISRAELITA." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2012. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/240.
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Previous issue date: 2012-09-04<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>This master dissertation in Literature and Religion in the Biblical World has the objective of making a exegetical and hermeneutical comment of a text which has been recognized as a prophetic one, and its relationship to the theological, anthropological and literary with the Israeli sapiential universe in post-exilic period. It is about the study of Micah 6,1-8, whose focus of investigation has developed from the discourse analysis and the hypothetical confluence of literary genres, namely, the prophetic and sapiential. Considered under formal aspects, contextual and of theological anthropology content, the studied text is the result of the composition of several literary genres and manifests, internally conflicting theologies ranging from the interpretation of the history of Israel to the religious practice with their conceptions of God. Micah 6,1-8, played here from modern exegetical methodologies and contextual and anthropological approaches configured as a true synthesis of non-hegemonic deuteronomist interpretation of events of Exodus and the message of biblical prophets of the eighth century BC Micah, Amos, Hosea and Isaiah. We are before a text that presents itself at the same time, cohesive and carrying different universes and voices in his composition. His discourse, whose content born of the conflict between projects and groups in the post-exilic period, redeems old memories of an exodus that goes through marginal subjects and reinterprets the prophetic critique in his role as an ethical and theological insight, however, in the sapiential format. For the socio theological depth and by the no sacrificial proposal of his discourse, Micah 6,1-8 has been a continually revisited text inside the Theology of Liberation in Latin America, inspiring much of his production.<br>A presente dissertação de mestrado em Literatura e Religião no Mundo Bíblico tem por objetivo realizar um comentário exegético e hermenêutico de um texto reconhecido como profético e sua relação no plano teológico, antropológico e literário com o universo sapiencial israelita no período pós-exílico. Trata-se do estudo de Miquéias 6,1-8, cujo foco de investigação desenvolveu-se a partir da análise do discurso e da hipótese de confluência de gêneros literários, a saber, o profético e o sapiencial. Considerado sob os aspectos formais, contextuais e de conteúdo antropo teológico, o texto estudado apresenta-se como resultado da composição de diversos gêneros literários e manifesta, internamente, conflitos de teologias que vão desde a interpretação da própria história de Israel até a prática religiosa com suas concepções de Deus. Miquéias 6,1-8, interpretado aqui a partir de metodologias exegéticas modernas e abordagens contextuais e antropológicas, configura-se como uma verdadeira síntese de interpretação deuteronomista não hegemônica dos eventos do êxodo e da mensagem dos profetas bíblicos do século VIII aeC Miquéias, Amós, Oséias e Isaías. Estamos diante de um texto que se apresenta, ao mesmo tempo, coeso e portador de diferentes universos e vozes em sua composição. Seu discurso, cujo teor nasce do conflito entre projetos e grupos no período pós-exílico, resgata memórias antigas de um êxodo que passa por sujeitos marginais e reinterpreta a crítica profética em sua função de discernimento ético e teológico, porém, no formato sapiencial. Pela profundidade sócio teológica e pela proposta não sacrificial de seu discurso, Miquéias 6,1-8 tem sido um texto continuamente revisitado no interior da Teologia da Libertação na América Latina, inspirando boa parte de sua produção.
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Maury, Serge. "Histoire d'un groupe convulsionnaire tardif à la fin du XVIIIe siècle : 'les Fareinistes'." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO30028/document.
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La présente thèse traite de l'histoire d'un groupe convulsionnaire janséniste à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Ce groupe sectaire se constitue dans le village de Fareins (dans le futur département de l'Ain) dans les années 1780, autour du curé François Bonjour, qui crucifie une prophétesse de sa "secte" en 1787 puis fait l'objet d'un procès sous la Révolution. Libéré finalement, François Bonjour s'installe à Paris, où une prophétesse convulsionnaire parisienne, dite "sœur Élisée", commence une prédication soutenue jusqu'en 1805 (année de l'arrestation de François Bonjour et ses proches). L'histoire de cette "secte" convulsionnaire a déjà été traitée par plusieurs historiens successifs, mais notre approche se distingue par un regard délibérément anthropologique et sociologique. Nous avons été attentif, pour l'épisode local de Fareins, à faire une ethnographie des luttes villageoises, ainsi qu'une analyse anthropologique du prophétisme rural et des faits de possessions démoniaques. La radicalisation des Fareinistes consécutive à la Révolution française nous a permis de reprendre le problème du millénarisme révolutionnaire. Puis l'imposant corpus des prophéties et "visions" de la sœur Élisée a été analysé selon plusieurs axes. D'une part, les discours de la prophétesse sont une arme dans les luttes de pouvoir qui l'opposent à ses adversaires. D'autre part, nous avons reconstitué la "culture" de ce groupe (au sens anthropologique de ce concept), en rendant compte du fonctionnement de l'ésotérisme biblique propre à ce milieu. Enfin, les transes spectaculaires de sœur Élisée ont été étudiées en mobilisant les travaux anthropologiques sur les faits de possession<br>This thesis deals with the history of a group of convulsionnary Jeansenists of the end of the eighteenth century. This sectarian group forms in the village of Fareins (in the area which will later become the département of Ain) in the 1870's, around the priest François Bonjour, who crucified a prophetess of his "sect" in 1787 and went on trial under the Revolution. Eventually released, François Bonjour set himself in Paris, where a convulsionary Jeansenist prophetess, called “sister Élisée", started a preaching which would go on until 1805 (the year of the arresting of François Bonjour and his circle). The history of this convultionary sect has already been studied by several historians, but our approch distinguishes itself by a deliberate anthropological and sociological point of view. When dealing with the local events in Fareins, we deemed relevant to do an ethnographic study of the villager’s struggles as well as an anthropological analysis of rural prophetism and of devilish possession. The radicalization of the Fareinists which followed the French Revolution allows us to take up the problem of revolutionary millenarianism. The imposing corpus of the prophecies and “visions” of sister Élisée is then analyzed under several lines. First, the prophetess’ speeches are a weapon she uses in the struggles for power against her opponents. Secondly, we reconstructed the « culture » of this group (in the anthropological sense of the concept) and showed how the biblical esotericism specific to this environment works. Eventually, the spectacular transes of sister Élisée were studied in the light of the anthropological works on the facts of possession
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Aernie, Jeffrey W. "Is Paul also among the prophets? : an examination of the relationship between Paul and the Old Testament prophetic tradition in 2 Corinthians." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2011. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=167027.
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Despite a broad consensus within Pauline scholarship that Paul develops certain aspects of his apostolic self-understanding and argument with reference to the OT prophetic tradition, there has been little systematic analysis of the ways in which the material in canonical 2 Corinthians contributes to this facet of Pauline studies. The present study seeks to elucidate the prophetic dimensions of both Paul’s self-presentation and rhetoric in this portion of the Corinthian correspondence. An initial attempt is made (chapter two) to define the parameters of the OT prophetic tradition through an examination of prophetic material in the OT and its relationship with the prophetic material in Second Temple Judaism, Hellenistic prophetic traditions, and the prophetic dimensions of the early Christian movement. The subsequent analysis of material in 1 Corinthians (chapter three) constitutes an investigation of the effect of the OT prophetic tradition on Paul’s selfpresentation in 1 Cor 9:15-18 and rhetorical framework in 1 Cor 14:20-25 as a methodological foundation for the exegetical analysis of 2 Corinthians. The study then turns to an extensive exploration of the influence of the OT prophetic tradition on both Paul’s apostolic self-presentation (chapter four) and rhetoric (chapter five) in 2 Corinthians. The analysis of Paul’s self-presentation examines the apostle’s relationship with particular prophetic figures (Moses, the Isaianic servant, and Jeremiah) in order to define Paul’s position with regard to the preceding prophetic tradition. The analysis of Paul’s argument at certain points of the epistle (2 Cor 2:14-16; 4:1-6; 6:14-7:1; 12:1-10) then seeks to examine the influence of the OT prophetic tradition on the formation of Paul’s rhetorical framework. The intention within this argument is to provide support for the notion that the particularly prophetic nature of Paul’s apostolic persona affects both his self-presentation and rhetorical agenda in 2 Corinthians.
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Cardoso, Jamille Oliveira Santos Bastos. "Ecos de liberdade: a Santidade de Jaguaripe entre os alcances e limites da colonização cristã." Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, 2015. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/23332.
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Dissertação_Jamille.pdf: 8111516 bytes, checksum: eb4c5be0d77088a54e7c77e8c1b9849d (MD5)<br>Capes<br>Por volta do ano de 1580, jesuítas, autoridades régias, colonos e mais tarde agentes
inquisitoriais presenciaram um fenômeno bastante curioso que, para a percepção
religiosa ocidental e a ortodoxia católica, causou profundo desassossego e
estarrecimento. Conhecida como Santidade de Jaguaripe, o movimento religioso e
“sincrético” que despontou no sertão do Orobó, e depois se fixou em Jaguaripe no
Recôncavo da Bahia e dali se espalhou também para outras regiões, abalou a
colonização em suas duas linhas de frente, evangelização e exploração. Partindo do
contexto em que a Santidade foi gestada, o presente trabalho objetiva analisar entre os
anos de 1580 a 1595 os processos de propagação e adesão a partir da experiência
histórica dos sujeitos que participaram dos rituais, aderiram, creram e propagaram a
“seita indígena”, e por isso tiveram que comparecer à mesa do visitador Heitor Furtado
de Mendonça, entre 1591 e 1595. As denúncias, confissões e processos produzidos pela
Primeira Visitação às partes da Bahia nos dizem muito sobre as heresias que foram
praticadas por esses indivíduos; dizem também da maneira pela qual a Inquisição
avaliou seus crimes e seus penitentes e como lidou com as práticas gentílicas em um
universo tão paradoxal como era a colônia portuguesa. Mas esse arcabouço documental,
se lido com o devido cuidado e teor hermenêutico, pode indicar-nos as formas de
reelaboração e resistência que os povos indígenas construíram a partir da exploração
colonial e da catequização cristã, sendo a Santidade de Jaguaripe não apenas um
símbolo da heresia nos trópicos, mas, sobretudo demonstração do agenciamento
indígena que, atrelando o político ao religioso, conseguiu impor limites à colonização
cristã. Por isso não nos atemos apenas aos significados, aos símbolos e ritos presentes
no nosso objeto de análise, mas também ao contexto, às políticas indígenas, às
contradições e conflitos que compõem as relações sociais e étnicas especialmente no
momento de emergência da Santidade de Jaguaripe, momento no qual diferentes formas
culturais, sociais e econômicas entravam em choque com o processo de colonização
portuguesa.
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Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia. "Priestly rites and prophetic rage : post-exilic prophetic critique of the priesthood /." Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2838710&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Blumenthal, Christian. "Prophetie und Gericht : der Judasbrief als Zeugnis urchristlicher Prophetie ; mit zahlreichen Tabellen /." Göttingen : V & R Unipress, Bonn Univ. Press, 2008. http://d-nb.info/988889102/04.
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Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia. "Priestly rites and prophetic rage : early post-exilic prophetic critique of the priesthood." Thesis, Tübingen Mohr Siebeck, 2002. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2838710&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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TEALDI, ELENA. "Il Vade mecum in tribulatione di Giovanni di Rupescissa. Edizione critica." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1398.
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Il Vade mecum in tribulatione, scritto nel 1356 dal frate minore Giovanni di Rupescissa, è un breve testo di carattere profetico-apocalittico, scritto con l'intento di guidare i Cristiani attraverso un'imminente tribolazione, attesa entro il 1370.
La tradizione manoscritta latina comprende quaranta codici, divisi in tre gruppi: la versione integrale del Vade mecum; una versione epitomata; altri casi di riassunti del testo.
La ratio editionis mostra le caratteristiche di ciascuna di queste famiglie e la struttura complessiva dello stemma codicum ipotizzato.
La versione integrale e l'epitome sono edite criticamente, mentre gli altri casi di riassunti sono trascritti parzialmente o integralmente, secondo la loro originalità rispetto alla forma integrale.
Lo studio introduttivo, che precede l'edizione, affronta i seguenti argomenti: l'uso delle fonti profetiche e il confronto con la tradizione francescano-spirituale e con le “profezie papali” medievali; la teorizzazione e la struttura dell'ermeneutica storica di Rupescissa; l'evoluzione del genere della “profezia politica”.<br>The Vade mecum in tribulatione, written in 1356 by the minor friar John of Rupescissa, is a short text, oriented in a prophetical-apocalyptical direction with the aim to lead the Christians across an imminent persecution, expected before the year 1370.
The Latin tradition comprehends forty manuscripts, divided in three groups: the integral version of the Vade mecum; the epitome version; other kinds of summary and abstract of the text.
The ratio editionis explains the characteristics of each family and the structure of the stemma codicum.
The integral version and the epitome are separately edited, while the other summaries are
partially or integrally transcribed, according to their originality.
The introductory study, that precedes the edition, faces these arguments: the use of the prophetic sources and the comparison with the spiritual Franciscan tradition and the “papal prophecies”; the structure and the finalization of an historical hermeneutic; the evolution of the genre of “political prophecy”.
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Brutocao, James Steven. "Prophetic Zion in Jesus' ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p059-0039.
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Sabanal, Annelle G. "The motif of 'shepherd' and politics in the Hebrew prophets." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22960.
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The shepherd metaphor is used in the Hebrew Bible to refer to kings or leaders of the Israelite community. It belongs to the larger group of pastoral metaphors which are used to convey ideas about governance and politics. This is especially apparent in how the Hebrew prophets have utilized pastoral imagery in their rhetoric about politics. Specifically, the imagery occurs in Micah 2:12-13; 5:1- 5; 7:14-20; Isaiah 40:9-11; 44:24-45:7; 56:9-12; 63:7-14; Jeremiah 3:15-20; 10:19- 21; 22:18-23; 23:1-8; 25:30-38; 31:10-14; Ezekiel 34 and Zechariah chs. 10, 11, 13. This study is an analysis of these passages. It investigates the political processes depicted in the text and describes the political ideas that they express. In order to show that pastoral metaphors are powerful rhetorical devices for revealing political ideas, Chapter 1 provides a survey of metaphorical theories that are relevant to the exegesis of the shepherd texts. Particularly useful is Janet Soskice’ notion of ‘metaphorical modeling’ which leads to the overarching metaphorical assumption in the use of pastoral metaphors, that ‘Political governance is shepherding.’ New meanings are created by mapping out the structures of shepherding onto the domain of governance. Secondly, the chapter also examines the sociological background of pastoral metaphors in their wider Mesopotamian context to show that the shepherd metaphor is a political metaphor. Lastly, it explores ideas in political theology that might enhance the exegesis of the text from the perspective of politics. Particularly, the study draws upon the conceptions in political theology proposed by Oliver O’Donovan, Walter Brueggeman and Dale Launderville, who all base their theories on the notion of the ‘authority’ of God. O’Donovan suggests four organizing concepts for doing political theology, namely, salvation, judgment, possession, and praise. On the other hand, Brueggeman intimates a reading that uses the ‘politics of Yahweh vs. politics of Pharaoh’ as a paradigm. As for Launderville, he explores the idea of authority through the notion of legitimation by the gods and by the people. Each of the subsequent chapters (2-6) will offer a detailed exegetical analysis of the prophetic books containing shepherd texts. These close readings result in variety of political implications based on the interactions of three main players, Yahweh who is the owner of the flock and sometimes also portrayed as the Great Shepherd, the human shepherd, and the flock. The web of relationship and interaction of these three players affirms the centrality of the ‘authority of God’ in the politics of the shepherd texts. Moreover, five aspects of politics arise and consistently thread their way across the five chapters. Primary among these is [1] the different manifestations of the dynamics of relations of power between different entities such as: Yahweh, the Great Shepherd and the supreme king of the flock, the human shepherd-rulers who are considered as vicegerents and are under the jurisdiction of the Great Shepherd, and the flock who are subordinate to both the Great Shepherd and the human shepherd-rulers. Consequent to this notion are the following ideas: [2] the need for the human-shepherd to be attentive to divine sanction; [3] the human-shepherd as the chief redistributor of material and symbolic goods in the community; [4] the shepherd-leader, whether referring to Yahweh or to the human shepherds, as the centralizing symbol in the community; and [5] justice as a central aspect of governance within the shepherding-governance framework.
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Kent, Russell Hathaway. "The prophetic role of the judges." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Clark, Jeanne Ellen. "Prophetic rhetoric and the Sanctuary movement." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184355.
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Throughout history, religion and politics have approached each other with a wary appreciation of mutual power. One of the latest offspring of this uneasy relationship is the Sanctuary movement. On 24 March 1982, Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona and five churches in Berkeley, California publicly proclaimed their status as sanctuaries for Central American refugees. Three years later there were 214 churches involved and eleven church workers were about to be tried in Tucson. This study is an analysis of the rhetoric used by the movement as it sought to extend its mantle of authority and thus move from the social periphery to the center of society evoking a new public vision of reality. The rhetoric of religious critique of the governmental and social order has been designated "prophetic rhetoric" after the often modeled discourse of the Old Testament prophets. Such discourse can be sectarian and polarizing in tone and impact, but to achieve social transformation the prophet needs some central acceptance. This study examines the potential of prophetic rhetoric within the Sanctuary movement in southern Arizona. It explores how Sanctuary rhetoric draws on the prophetic tradition; how that rhetoric expands or leaves the tradition; and how the rhetoric employs prophetic themes, authority claims, and emotional imagery. The letters and statements of Jim Corbett introduce major Sanctuary themes of the God/Love-Money/Government conflict, prophetic action, civil initiative, and the WWII parallel. The predominantly in-group rhetoric of Southside Presbyterian develops religious justification arguments, while ecumenical Sanctuary services use varied texts, church authority figures, and bonding rituals to build prophetic community across denominational lines. In public debate, religious argument is deemphasized as Sanctuary speakers focus on legal justification and assertion of general social values through image manipulation. Sentencing statements of eight Sanctuary workers vary as some are harshly polarizing, others focus on secular images and legal values, and still others deftly interweave religious and secular justification. Sanctuary speakers use prophetic discourse to critique, without falling into the trap of purely secular political campaigning. A tiny core of dissenters, viewed as extremists, grew into a movement with worldwide support. The justifying message adapted and was at times diluted, but it did not lose prophetic essence.
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Iorkighir, Jonathan Terzungwe. "Issues in preaching from prophetic literature." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Rowe, Eric. "Prophetic fulfillment in Matthew 1-2." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Rochester, Kathleen Margaret. "Prophetic ministry in Jeremiah and Ezekiel." Thesis, Durham University, 2009. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1355/.
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This study seeks to make a contribution to the understanding of Old Testament prophetic ministry by offering a close comparison of selected texts from two different, yet related, prophetic books: Jeremiah and Ezekiel. The approach is canonical, based on the received text. Texts on key areas of prophetic ministry are examined exegetically then compared. These relate to the prophet's call (J er 1: 1-19, Ezek 1-3), worker images for prophetic ministry (assayer Jer 6:27-30, potter modelled on Yahweh's work in Jer 18:1-12, and watchman Ezek 33:1-20), the prophet's relationship with the temple (Jer 7:1-15, Ezek 8-11) and assessment of deviant prophets (Jer 23:9-32, Ezek 13). Although each of these prophets remembers an experienced call and is sent out as Yahweh's messenger, their styles of communication are strikingly different. It is the contention of this thesis that a serious acceptance of the settings given in each book provides interpretive clues regarding the reasons for these differences. In Jeremiah, where his people are still in the land with the temple present, Yahweh is perceived as close and the communication between Yahweh and prophet is characterised by intimate dialogue. Jeremiah's communication to the people is focused on Yahweh's spoken word, the medium of proximity. Where Ezekiel and his people are conscious of distance from their temple and land, Yahweh is also presumed to be distant. Communication between Yahweh and Ezekiel is more distant, Ezekiel is often spectator rather than participant. His communication to the people is more visual and more distant. Jeremiah's call for the people to 'turn' back to listen to and obey suggests that a break has not fully developed; Ezekiel's call to respect the 'holiness' of Yahweh suggests that the relationship must begin again from a more distant point before drawing close to a place of intimacy. Comparing two such significantly different prophets gives a range of fruitful insights into the relationship between prophetic ministry and local context.
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Crockett, Rhonda Mary. "Prophecy and the prophetic in Dickens." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2007. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/prophecy-and-the-prophetic-in-dickens(d13a2aab-2c01-4678-acc1-494ca8c95169).html.
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Lanir, Shoshana. "Biblical prophets who resisted their divine missions." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23339.
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Hubbard, Greg H. "The Characterization of false prophets in Jeremiah 23." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
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Ingalls, Alan Dean. "Jeremiah's condemnation of false prophets and the tests of a prophet Deuteronomy (Jer. 23:9-40; Deut. 13:1-5; 18:9-22) /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Thompson, Ella Richardson. "Early Christian female propheticism : sources and development." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/early-christian-female-propheticism(0492858d-5b7c-434b-861e-2cdfbde65b57).html.
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Why is prophecy, especially female prophecy, minimized in the contemporary church? To address this inquiry, we consider the qualities and historical precedence of prophecy in the Jewish Scriptures and the New Testament church, the women who op-erated prophetically, the organic nature of Judaism and the early church, and the social, cultural and political dynamics up to the second century of Early Christianity that bounded female propheticism. Although God uses his prophets to speak on his behalf to address social issues, particularly as it relates to justice, the female prophetic form, pres-ence and voice is maligned, marginalized and minimized in the Jewish Scriptures and Early Christianity. For the prophetess, to proclaim God’s voice is heretical and worthy of social and even physical death. From Israel’s exodus from Egyptian bondage to the present day, the motif of deliverance and freedom for the oppressed and marginalized emerges through the prophetic voice. However, the prophetic voice is distinctively male to the exclusion of the female prophetic voice and her leadership. Though the Israelites were freed, the prophetic women of the Jewish Scriptures and Early Christianity have traditionally been bounded by two predominant options: Eve or Mary, that is, the sexual temptress or the self-effacing, submissive mother. Accordingly, female propheticism has been excluded from traditional representations of prophecy and God’s messages to the church are diluted because of the resulting prophetic diaspora.
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Knobloch, Harald. "Die nachexilische Prophetentheorie des Jeremiabuches." Wiesbaden Harrassowitz, 2008. http://d-nb.info/996781641/04.
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Ott, Katrin. "Die prophetischen Analogiehandlungen im Alten Testament." Stuttgart Kohlhammer, 2007. http://d-nb.info/994206712/04.
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Lalleman-de, Winkel Hetty. "Jeremiah in prophetic tradition : an examination of the book of Jeremiah in the light of Israel's prophetic traditions." Thesis, Coventry University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338571.
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Lalleman-de, Winkel Hetty. "Jeremiah in prophetic tradition : an examination of the Book of Jeremiah in the light of Israel's prophetic traditions /." Leuven : Peeters, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38836559z.
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Hill, Bradley N. "Kings and prophets sermons from Africa /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Thesis (D. Min.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1987.<br>Typescript. Part II, The product, has text of sermons in Lingale and English on facing pages. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-117).
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Klaus, Nathan. "Pivot patterns in the former Prophets /." Sheffield (GB) : Sheffield academic press, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37102682t.
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Beyer, Jürgen. "Lutheran lay prophets (c.1550-1700)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275248.
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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries some 300 Lutheran lay people claimed to have met angels who admonished them to act as preachers of repentance. Such prophets can be found in all occupations, in all age groups, in all types of settlements and among both sexes from the entire Lutheran area (Scandinavia, parts of Germany and parts of the Baltic states). The main medieval antecedent to the Lutheran prophets was the apparition of saints in conjunction with the establishment of pilgrimage sites. Prospective prophets could get to know about other prophets through various channels: cheap print, sermons and oral communication about current events. Prophets copied many traits of their performances from the way pastors delivered their sermons. The main difference was the way in which prophets used their body (e.g. fasting or ecstasy) to authenticate their calling. The established pattern of lay prophets allowed ordinary people to speak out, claiming that their message had come from God's angel. Their utterances allow modern scholars to look into lay people's beliefs, practices and concerns as well as their perceptions of local politics. Many Lutheran lay prophets can be seen as living saints, i. e. extraordinarily gifted religious specialists. The prophets also testify to the importance of saintly living to lay people. Students of Lutheranism generally associate godliness with the pietism of the late seventeenth century and some of its precursors, but the large number of prophets rather suggests that calls for reform already started in the sixteenth century and had a much wider appeal to lay people than hitherto assumed.
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Collins, Roger Gerald. "Eschatology within the prophetic speeches of Micah." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Pegram, Jeffrey Keefe. "Political liberalism, religion, and the prophetic tradition." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7219.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.<br>Thesis research directed by: Education Policy, and Leadership. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Stibbe, A. H. "Hans Nielsen Hauge and the prophetic imagination." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/15430/.
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The Norwegian lay preacher Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771-1824) has been described as a prophet who brought religious, social, economic and political change to nineteenth-century Norway. This thesis examines Hauge’s first four texts as prophecy using the paradigm ‘prophetic imagination’ as an analytical model to provide a comprehensive explanation as to how his speech acted to ‘evoke consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture’ by means of the cooperative action of ‘prophetic criticism’ and ‘prophetic energising’ (Brueggemann 2001:13). A formal analysis of Hauge’s texts identified idiosyncratic ‘framing devices’ which act to indicate the presence of prophetic speech at both the general and the specific level. These devices, particularly the prophetic call narratives, were also found to act to legitimate Hauge’s prophetic speech. Formal elements of prophetic speech were identified in Hauge’s specific prophetic utterances, enabling these to be classified as forms of two major prophetic genres: announcements of judgement (criticising) or announcements of salvation (energising). Apocalyptic, the third major prophetic genre, was identified as playing a greater role in Hauge’s early texts than has been previously acknowledged. An analysis of Hauge’s apocalyptic thought indicated that his prophetic task was motivated by basic beliefs rooted in this idiosyncratic worldview. The supplementation of Brueggemann’s paradigm with Wright’s worldview schema permitted the scrutiny of Hauge’s use of prophetic narrative against this apocalyptic backdrop (Wright 2001). This subsequently permitted the identification of the symbols which were dismantled by Hauge’s prophetic criticism - the personnel, practice and place of institutional religion, and the symbols which were transformed or generated by his prophetic energising - ‘true shepherds’, ‘priests and kings’, and membership of ‘a prophethood of all believers’. The adoption of these symbols explains the self-confidence expressed by Hauge’s followers and their subsequent involvement in all areas of public life.
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Jansma, Henry Peter. "The prophetic office in John Calvin's theology." Thesis, Durham University, 1991. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6105/.
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The aim of this thesis is to re-examine how Calvin understood the threefold office, with particular attention to the prophetic office, In his Christology. The author suggests that the offices are best understood In light of Calvin's fresh Interpretations of Chalcedonlan Christology and the Insights of the Reformation. The problem of the offices is their Interrelation. Calvin understood the unity of the offices in their relational character. Relational In the person of Christ as divine and human, and relational In the structure of the Trinity. These two elements, the relationality of the person of the Mediator, premised upon the relation of the persons of the Trinity, gave the offices the necessary ontological structure from which Calvin could postulate a theory of redemption with a single point of view, rather than previous theories of redemption which are simply juxtaposed. This unifying centre Is the person of the Mediator in the activity of the offices. It Is from this centre that Calvin interpreted the various biblical metaphors which are extremely difficult to bring together Into a unity. The argument Is carried further as the prophetic office In Calvin Is shown to contain the required ontological structure of the remaining offices of king and priest. Calvin's Insistence on the unity of the activity of God in each of the offices explains why there is a unity within the Church, which transcend temporal distinctions. The distinctions of the offices in history allows Calvin to underscore the centrality of Christ's incarnation into a particular time In history, further grounding the work of God In history and creation.
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Matson, Daniel William. "Are the seven churches representative or prophetic?" Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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Pei, Yun. "The prophetic Wordsworth : anxiety and self-fashioning." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/58875/.
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The thesis investigates the prophetic in Wordsworth's ‘golden decade' (1798-1808). It establishes the following arguments: the prophetic in Wordsworth should not be treated of only incidental interest; it is a mode of his self-fashioning, as well as a mode of his writing, channelling the poet's anxieties about his authorship, readership, reception and posterity. The thesis contains an introduction and a short conclusion, with two main sections amounting to 7 chapters. Chapter 1 to 3 form Part I, focusing on the prophetic as a mode of self-fashioning. Chapter 1 re-examines The Prelude, arguing that self-doubts and struggle are inherent to Wordsworth's prophetic aspirations. Chapter 2 discusses three major reasons that make Wordsworth's self-fashioning as a poet of prophetic quality possible: personal aspirations, knowledge economy, and prophetic discourse of his time. Chapter 3 investigates anxieties generated in self-fashioning: anxiety of influence and anxiety about reception. Chapter 4 to 7 form Part II, exploring the prophetic as a mode of writing. Chapter 4 studies the apocalyptic vision of the rupture in human history in Lyrical Ballads. Chapter 5 looks into Wordsworth's concern with the nation in ‘Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty'. Chapter 6 focuses on the dual prophetic quality of The White Doe of Rylstone and its links to discourse of duty and Catholic Emancipation. Chapter 7 studies the prophet-like speaker and the prophetic nature of the narrative in Peter Bell. It also considers the discrepancy between the poet's ideal reader and his actual reader as the reason why the poem fails to appeal. The claim to innovation in the thesis is that it offers a corrective reading of the prophetic as a mode of self-fashioning and a mode of writing in Wordsworth. It also sheds new light on the poet's acclaimed major works such as Lyrical Ballads, as well as widely criticised minor ones such as Peter Bell.
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Patrick, James Earle. "The prophetic structure of 1-2 Samuel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:309e6831-242b-40c9-9271-360dd4bec2d0.
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The book of 1-2 Samuel, originally one scroll, is an episodic narrative recounting how the ancient Israelite monarchy was established around 1000 BC by the prophet Samuel and the kings Saul and David. For well over a century historical critics have sought to discern the process of its composition, proposing various conclusions with little consensus. Presently it is generally believed that several blocks of traditional material on common themes (e.g. the History of David's Rise) were brought together in the later pre-exilic period as part of the so-called Deuteronomistic History. This thesis chooses to begin with the present limits of 1-2 Samuel (without including, for example, 1Kgs 1-2), and undertakes to apply rhetorical analysis to all fifty-five chapters, episode by episode, each in its final-form position. The particular structural technique that has been discerned throughout this book is inverted parallelism with an unparalleled centre, here termed 'concentrism'. The unique contributions of this thesis are firstly a careful methodology for concentrism in Hebrew narrative, based on Hebrew poetic and oral composition and proposing specific criteria for identifying and verifying such structures. Secondly, the thesis attempts to account for the current position of every episode in the book, discerning how each contributes to the larger work as regards literary structure and rhetorical message. The resulting arrangement demonstrates an overall unity of technique and authorial perspective, focused on the themes of prophecy (hence the thesis title), deliverance from military attack, religious devotion and dynastic succession. The centre of this thesis therefore provides a detailed description of the discovered structure, one chapter for each of the book's two primary segments (1Sam 1 - 2Sam 6; 2Sam 7-24). A lengthy preceding chapter addresses various theoretical issues often raised relating to such concentric patterns (often inadequately labelled 'chiasmus'/'chiastic'). A summary chapter likewise follows the central chapters, revisiting themes of the methodology and drawing conclusions together. An initial chapter outlines past and present compositional theories, and a concluding chapter suggests further avenues of future research.
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Jennings, Emily. "Prophetic rhetoric in the early Stuart period." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:13643178-0544-4b2b-9ca3-55d6c73a5d26.
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This is a study of the political prophecy in England in a period delimited by the accession of King James I (1603) and the end of the Interregnum (1660). It combines the analysis of hitherto obscure manuscript texts with that of printed works to provide a nuanced account of the uses and reception of prophecies in this period. Chapter One (which focuses on the first decade of James's reign) and Chapter Two (which covers the period 1613-19) approach the analysis of dramatic treatments of political prophecy through the study of prophecy both as a rhetorical buttress to the Jacobean state and as a protest genre. Attentive to the elite bias of the legal documents wherein allegedly oppositionist uses of prophecy are recorded, these chapters heed the counsel of historians who have found literary scholars insufficiently suspicious of the rhetoric of these materials. A focus on dramatic texts, neglected by the historians, reveals that Jacobean playgoers were encouraged to regard both official prophetic rhetoric and official rhetoric about prophecy with scepticism. Chapter Three considers how native and continental prophetic traditions were expanded and repurposed in England around the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, when belief in the purportedly inspired status of prophecies was rare but recognition of their utility as a vehicle for political discussion was nonetheless widespread. Chapter Four explores the adaptation and tendentious exposition of medieval, sixteenth-century, and Jacobean manuscript prophecies in printed propaganda for both the royalist and parliamentarian causes in the mid-seventeenth century. This study of literary and archival sources finds that previous scholarship has overestimated the extent of popular faith in the authenticity of allegedly ancient and inspired prophecies in the early Stuart period. The longevity of purported prophecies, it concludes, was ensured through the recognition, appreciation, and exploitation of their rhetorical affordances.
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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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Kell, J. Garrett. "Prophets on trial judging 'words from God' today with the model found in 1 Corinthians 14:29-33 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1108.
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Daily, Nathan. "The prophet as messenger of the divine council in the Hebrew Bible." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Schmitz, Barbara. "Prophetie und Königtum eine narratologisch-historische Methodologie entwickelt an den Königsbüchern." Tübingen Mohr Siebeck, 2007. http://d-nb.info/988962276/04.
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Kahne, Bruno. "In search of Max Weber's new prophets." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/72393.
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One hundred years ago, Max Weber postulated in his seminal work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism that after a tremendous development, capitalism would either reach a dead end, or would enter a new era of development through the guidance of new prophets (Weber, [1904] 2003:182). The tremendous development foreseen has occurred but have Weber’s new prophets appeared? Through a close analysis of the context in which the word prophet is found in the Bible and through the description that Weber gave to the concept of prophet in The Sociology of Religion (Weber, 1963) a prophet’s ideal type was constructed with fourteen specific characteristics. This ideal type was then used as a grid of analysis to put to the test the nineteen most renowned leadership gurus, potential candidate to the title of prophet.
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Watson, Khalilah Tyri. "Literature as Prophecy: Toni Morrison as Prophetic Writer." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/50.
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From fourteenth century medieval literature to contemporary American and African American literature, researchers have singled out and analyzed writing from every genre that is prophetic in nature, predicting or warning about events, both revolutionary and dire, to come. One twentieth-century American whose work embodies the essence of warning and foretelling through history-laden literature is Toni Morrison. This modern-day literary prophet reinterprets eras gone by through what she calls “re-memory” in order to guide her readers, and her society, to a greater understanding of the consequences of slavery and racism in America and to prompt both races to escape the pernicious effects of this heritage. Several critics have recognized and written about Morrison’s unique style of prophetic prose. These critics, however, have either taken a general cursory analysis of her complete body of works or they are only focused on one of her texts as a site of evidence. Despite the many critical essays and journal articles that have been written about Morrison as literary prophet, no critic has extensively investigated Morrison’s major works by way of textual analysis under this subject, to discuss Morrison prophetic prose, her motivation for engaging in a form of prophetic writing, and the context of this writing in a wider general, as well as an African-American, tradition. This dissertation takes on a more comprehensive, cross-sectional analysis of her works that has been previously employed, concentrating on five of Morrison’s major novels: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz and Paradise, in an order to assess how Morrison develops and infuses warnings and admonitions of biblical proportions. This investigation seeks to reveal Morrison’s motivation to prophecy to Americans, black and white, the context in which she engages with her historical and contemporary subjects, and the nature of the admonitions to present and future action she offers to what she sees as a contemporary generation of socially and historically oblivious African Americans, using literary prophecy as the tool by which to accomplish her objectives. This dissertation also demonstrates—by way of textual analysis and literary theory—the evolution through five novels of Morrison’s development as a literary prophet.
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McRobert, Laurie. "Emil L. Fackenheim, from philosophy to prophetic theology." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=76905.
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Stewart, David. "Blake, Boehme and the human or prophetic character." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314967.
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Rinquest, Linzay. "Prophetic rhetoric : a multidimensional interpretation of Amos 9." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49780.
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Thesis (DTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2003<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The issue of the identification of the audience/s of the final chapter (chapter 9) in the
book of Amos is currently moot. That is, there currently are as many opinions as there
are scholars who have in some form or the other made some inference as to the
identification of the audience. The same is true for the preceding chapters in the book.
The reasons for the divergence in opinions as to the identification of the audience varies
from the methods chosen for engaging the text to reasons that are not always easy to
identify. Yet the opinions are often freel y shared in the monographs, commentaries,
dissertations and scholarly journal articles. This dissertation aims to follow an approach
that is more interpretatively accountable and responsible in dealing with the
identification of the audience/s of Amos and in particular chapter 9. This goal is best
achieved by interacting with the scholars as they have recorded their findings in the
various scholarly publications while engaging the text with a suitable method.
The method chosen by this study for achieving the intended purpose is the
multidimensional approach of Vernon Robbins, termed socio-rhetorical criticism. This
approach aids in the study of the text by uncovering the various "textures" of the text.
These textures are identified by Robbins as innertexture, intertexture, social and cultural
texture, ideological texture and sacred texture. As socio-rhetorical criticism does not
overtly take into account the influence of the reader in the production of the meaning of
the text and how this influences interpretative results, it would be necessary to
investigate how to incorporate the influence of reader-response methodology to make
the results more responsible and accountable. The majority of scholarly opinion sees at least three possible audiences identifiable
within the book of Amos. These audiences are identified as eighth, seventh and sixth
century in setting. Yet the reasons for such identification is often not clear and greatly
debated. Differences in opinion have often resulted in religious questions being raised
regarding the authority and intention of the text should these various audience
identifications be accurate.
This study seeks to understand and identify the main influences that determines the
conclusions on various audience identification and present an approach that would be
more suitable to answer the question more clearly. The particular influence that this
study demonstrates is the reinvention of texts by identifying the layers of
reinterpretation contained in the text by identifying its implied audience/so It is this
identification that allows the text to be applied to current readers as they identify with
the process of reinvention and ethically accountable interpretation.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Daar bestaan op die oomblik geen finale beslissing aangaande die identiteit van die
toehoorders van die finale hoofstuk van die boek van Amos nie Met ander woorde, daar
is op die oomblik so veel opinies as wat daar kenners is wie op een of ander manier
gevolgtrekkings aangaande die identiteit van die toehoorders van die boek gemaak het.
Redes aangaande die verskillende opinies om die identiteit van toehoorders vas te stel
wissel van die metodes gekies om die teks te bestudeer tot redes wat rue al te maklik is
om te identifiseer nie. Maar gevolgtrekkings word openbaarlik in monografiee,
kommentare, proefskrifte en akademiese artikels aangaande die boek gepubliseer.
Hierdie proefskrif stel as doel om 'n metode van studie te volg wat meer
verantwoordelik en verantwoordbaar is ten opsigte van die identifikasie van die lesers
van die boek Amos en in besonder aangaande hoofstuk 9. Hierdie doel sal ten beste
bereik word deur saam met die kenners te debateer soos hulle opinies vasgele is in
publikasies en terwyl die teks bestudeer word.
Die metode wat hierdie studie gaan gebruik, is die multidimensionele benadering van
Vernon Robbins, sosio-retoriese kritiek. Hierdie metode benader die teks deur die
verskillende teksture van die teks te ontbloot. Hierdie teksture is deur Robbins
verduidelik as intertekstuur, intratekstuur, sosiale en kulturele tekstuur, ideologiese
tekstuur en teologiese tekstuur. Omdat sosiale-retoriese kritiek nie duidelik die invloed
van die leser in ag neem wanneer dit die produksie van die bedoeling van die teks
betrek, sal dit vir hierdie studie nodig wees om hierdie invloed deur leser-respons kritiek te benader. Die doel hiermee sal wees om die resultate van die studie meer eties
verantwoordbaar en verantwoordelik te maak.
Die meeste kenners bevestig ten minste drie toehoorders in die boek van Amos. Hierdie
toehoorders word geidentifiseer in agtergrond as agste, sewende en sesde eeu. Maar
soos alreeds gestel, die redes vir hierdie identifikasie is altyd nie duidelik nie. Verskille
in opinies het soms daartoe gely dat teologiese vrae aangaande die outoriteit en doel van
die teks gevra is sou die identifikasie van verskillende toehoorders waar wees.
Hierdie studie stel ten doel om die verskillende aspekte wat die gevolgtrekkinge
beinvloed aangaande die identifikasie van toehoorders te identifiseer en 'n benadering te
volg wat meer geskik is om die vraag beter te kan beantwoord. Hierdie studie
demonstreer dus dat die interpretasie van die teks deur die verskillende lesers bepaal
kan word deur die teks te bestudeer vanuit die oogpunt van die verskillende interpretasie
binne die teks. Dit is hierdie identifikasie wat die toepassing van die teks moontlik maak
vir huidige lesers soos hulle identifiseer met die proses van die herinterpretasie en etiese
verantwoordelike interpretasie van die teks.
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Goldman, William David. "'Prophetic history' : Blake, Browning & the visionary tradition." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416427.
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Cochran, David Maurice. "Revolutionary antislavery birth of an American prophetic tradition /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3331247.
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