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Byers, Andrew Jason. "Johannine theosis : the Fourth Gospel's narrative ecclesiology of participation and deification." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10908/.
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Though John’s Gospel has been widely understood as ambivalent toward the idea of “church,” this thesis argues that ecclesiology is as central a Johannine concern as Christology. For the fourth evangelist, there is neither a Christless church nor a churchless Christ. Jesus is consistently depicted in the Gospel as a figure that destabilizes the social construct and generates a new communal entity. Rather than focusing on the community behind the text, the following study concentrates on the vision of community prescribed within the text. This vision is presented as a “narrative ecclesiology” by which the concept of “church” gradually unfolds throughout the Gospel’s sequence. Attending to this cumulative development, it will be argued that Johannine ecclesiology entails a corporate participation in the interrelation between the Father and Son, a participation helpfully described by the later patristic language of theosis. Before drawing on this theological discourse the thesis will provide exegesis on the theme of participation within the Prologue and the oneness motif. John 1:1–18 is recognized as one of the most influential Christological texts in early Christianity, but the passage’s Christology is inseparably bound to ecclesiology. The Prologue even establishes an “ecclesial narrative script”—an ongoing pattern of resocialization into the community around Jesus or, more negatively, of social re-entrenchment within the “world”—that governs the Gospel’s plot. The oneness theme functions within this script and draws on the Jewish theological language of the Shema: the Johannine claim to be “one” signifies that Christ-devotion does not constitute a departure from the “one God” of their Jewish religious tradition; moreover, to be “one” with this “one God” and his “one Shepherd” involves the believers’ participation within the divine family. Such participation warrants an ecclesial identity summed up in Jesus’ citation of Psalm 82: “you are gods.”
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Frank, Barbara 1951. "Respect for the autonomy of the elderly : an Orthodox perspective of theosis." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28050.
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This thesis will investigate the significance of the Eastern Orthodox perspective of theosis, for the bioethical principle of autonomy, specifically with regard to its respect for the elderly. Theosis is a central doctrine of the Orthodox Church which pertains to the salvation of human persons and their free and cooperative response to God's grace, and as such, has an intimate relationship with the Eastern Orthodox understanding of personhood.On the one hand there are a number of areas of mutual concern or overlap between the concept of respect for autonomy and the Orthodox understanding of personhood and the goal of theosis. There are, however, significant differences which prevent them from being viewed as synonymous or even as totally compatible.
There are complementary aspects, some of which will be identified in this initial study. It is hoped that such an investigation can help to further develop Eastern Orthodox thinking with regard to bioethical issues and be of value when dealing with the complex issues related to the elderly. This topic will also be of interest to a wider audience involved in bioethical reflection from both Christian and secular perspectives.
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Frank, Barbara. "Respect for the autonomy of the elderly, an Orthodox perspective of theosis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ43869.pdf.
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Choufrine, Arkadi. "Gnosis, theophany, theosis : studies in Clement of Alexandria's appropriation of his background /." New York : P. Lang, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb389600964.
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Chow, Alexander. "Heaven and humanity in unity : theosis, sino-christian theology and the second Chinese enlightenment." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3535/.
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This thesis explores various trajectories of contextual theology as they have developed in the two Chinese enlightenments of twentieth and twenty-first century China. Drawing methodologically from the typological works of historian Justo González and the missiologists Stephen Bevans and Roger Schroeder, one of the main aims of this study is to map and evaluate the various types of Chinese theology. An analysis of three major Chinese Protestant representatives will identify the tendencies of each type, highlight the importance of a contextual theology in dealing with a context’s socio-political concerns and religiophilosophical tradition, and show a bias in Chinese theology towards Latin Christianity. This leads to the second major aim of the study to explore the usefulness of Eastern Orthodox category of theosis and related subjects in the Second Chinese Enlightenment. It will highlight the tendencies of Chinese philosophy and religion, inclusive of Chinese Protestantism, to exhibit many themes from Byzantine Christianity. It will also call attention to the potential usefulness of this other “Eastern” theology in China’s socio-political concerns. This study will conclude by discussing the possibilities of Eastern Orthodoxy in playing an important role in complementing and supplementing future developments of a Chinese contextual theology.
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Tokay, Elif. "Continuity and transformation : theosis in the Arabic translation of Gregory Nazianzen's Oration on Baptism (Oration 40)." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53535/.
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This doctoral thesis examines the Arabic translation of Gregory Nazianzen’s Oration on Baptism (Oration 40) by a tenth-eleventh century Melkite translator and writer, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūḥannā al-Anṭākī. In particular, it focuses on the way al-Anṭākī presented Gregory’s theosis theology and investigates the extent to which he engaged with Islamic thought, primarily his borrowing of concepts and structures from Islamic debates such as the unity and the divine attributes of God and the perfection of the soul. This study asks to what extent this theology, which combines both the social and the spiritual aspects of human perfection, or the reception of Gregory helped the Antiochene Melkites develop a strong identity at a time when they were ruled by the Byzantine Empire but attached to the Islamicate culture they shared with their Muslim neighbours. The key conclusion of this thesis is that the Arabic translation of Oration 40 can be said to present a version of Gregory’s theosis theology which is enriched by the concepts and terms used by Christian and Muslim writers of the period. Although it cannot be said to represent a development in this theology but should be viewed as a creative retelling of it, al-Anṭākī’s erudition in the discussions of Christian Arabic theology and Islamic thought, as well as his references to these discussions in the words he used, makes this text particularly interesting. Theosis seems to have captured what he saw as essential for the good of his community: attachment to the Church or tradition, living the life that Christ lived in this world but with an emphasis on the public expression of the faith, perfection of the soul and the union with God here on earth and in the world to come.
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Fritz, Deborah Ann. "Salvation from Genesis to Revelation:God’s Eternal Relationship with Us." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1461622758.
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Habets, Michael, and n/a. "�The danger of vertigo� : an evaluation and critique of Theosis in the theology of Thomas Forsyth Torrance." University of Otago. Department of Theology and Religious Studies, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070508.120857.
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The Christian tradition, both East and West, has developed various models and theories of the atonement as explanations of what it means to speak of the reconciling activity of God in Christ. Central to these has been the claim that God has reconciled the world to himself in Christ. One way of testifying to the reconciling love of God has been the adoption of the metaphor theosis (�divinization�, �deification�) as an explanation of salvation. While central to Eastern Orthodoxy, a doctrine of theosis also has a rich tradition within Western, especially Reformed theology. The Reformed theologian, Thomas Forsyth Torrance, represents an attempt to construct a soteriology that incorporates both Eastern and Western models of the atonement around the controlling metaphor of theosis. A close reading of his theology presents a robust and clearly articulated doctrine of theosis as a key way of expressing God�s reconciling activity in Christ. As the true Man and the last Adam, Christ represents the arche and telos of human existence, the one in whose image all humanity has been created and into whose likeness all humanity is destined to be transformed from glory to glory. Through the Incarnation the Son becomes human without ceasing to be divine, to unite humanity and divinity together and effect a �deification� of human nature, mediated to men and women who are said to be �in Christ� by the work of the Holy Spirit. By means of a �wonderful exchange� Christ takes what is ours and gives us what is his. For Torrance, this is the heart of atonement. The goal of humanity is worship, something Torrance defines as the gift of participating through the Spirit in the incarnate Son�s communion with the Father. The locus of worship, and thus of theosis, is the church, the communion of saints created by the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Throughout Torrance�s doctrines of creation, anthropology, incarnation, reconciliation, and pneumato-ecclesiology, the concept of theosis plays a central and constitutive role in explaining a Christian theology of salvation. Theosis is thus foundational to Torrance�s theology and is one way in which he holds together in systematic fashion his diverse theological oeuvre.
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Tympas, Grigorios Chrysostomos. "Individuation and 'theosis' : the dynamics of psychological and spiritual development in Carl G. Jung and Maximus the Confessor." Thesis, University of Essex, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601376.
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The present thesis explores the process of psychological development, termed individuation in the psychology of Carl G. Jung, in comparison to the process of spiritual progress, termed deification-theosis in the writings of Maximus the Confessor, a philosopher and theologian of the seventh century AD. Despite the fact that these two systems of thought belong to entirely different academic disciplines, contexts and histori cal times, they appear to have striking similarities, regardless of some crucial differences . Three interrelated areas are addressed: (a) the distinctiveness of each model, focusing on the constituent psychic elements , structure and functions that they address; (b) the manner in which each model-theory defines 'the spiritual' and relates its elements to spiritual experience; and (c) the ways they define the specific stages of development (psychological and/or spiritual) as well as the. nature and process of attaining their respective final goal. The main themes the thesis explores are: 1. The epistemology of comparative methodology, in general, and of investigating psychological and spiritual realms, in particular. 2. The historical, philosophical and psychological underpinnings of the relationship between the 'psychological' and the 'spiritual' through a structu red framework based on phenomenological and ontological dimensions that add ress the bodily, psychic, social, cultural, and metaphysical levels. 3. The conceptualization of spiritual experience by lung and Maximus, and an investigation of the implications of their different pivotal points (psychological vs. metaphysical), emphasising the significance of the unconscious/instinct- and transcendencebased discourses, respectively. Thus, the thesis develOps a systematic framework for comparing these two approaches, which is then applied in examining a specific theme that overlaps the psychological and spiritual realms, i.e. lung's pivotal text on 'Answer to Job' .
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Pustay, Steven. "Becoming God, Becoming the Buddha: The Relation of Identity and Praxis in the Thought of Maximus the Confessor and Kūkai." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/361666.
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My dissertation investigates the concept of ‘divinization’, or becoming like (or identical to) God or the Buddha in the thought of two early medieval monk-philosophers from radically different religious-philosophical traditions, Maximus the Confessor (580-662 CE) and Kukai (774-835 CE). I use this as a means of comparing the relationship between understandings of identity and praxis advocated by these two thinkers. Maximus was a Christian monk who lived during a period of great theological and political turmoil in the Byzantine Empire and participated in the theological debates of his day. Kukai was a Japanese monk who studied esoteric Buddhism in China and returned to establish an esoteric lineage in Japan, allowing it to survive after its demise in China. In the first half of my dissertation, I investigate their philosophical understandings of identity, what makes a thing what it is and not something else. I consider this their metaphysic (using the term in the broadest sense of an account of reality). I begin by looking at their religio-philosophical contexts which informed their thought and then on texts written by my principles themselves. Maximus’ understanding, shaped by Greek philosophy and early Christian theologians, is embodied in a triad of concepts – logoi, divine ideas and wills which bestow being on created things and hold them in existence; tropoi, the modes of existence of particular creatures and hypostasis, the individual existent or creature which exists in the tension between logoi and tropoi. The core of Kukai’s understanding is funi (不二) or non-duality, a doctrine that has both epistemic and ontological implications. It is grounded in the experience of meditation as well as the esoteric Buddhist teaching of muge (無礙), the mutual interpenetration and non-obstruction of all things. It is a doctrine central to esotericism but also has roots in prajnāpāramitā (“perfection of wisdom”) literature, important to many schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. How they understand ‘identity’ is central to their philosophy and will reflect in both the practices they advocate and the rationale for them After establishing and explicating their understanding of identity, in consequent chapters I look at the praxes that they advocate and their metapraxis or reasoning behind these practices. I focus on regimes of self-cultivation, such as meditation, prayer, virtuous behavior, various ritual activities and how they lead to the ultimate goal of divinization. In Maximus, this process of divinization is called theosis (θέωσις), ‘deification’. He follows in a long line of Christian thinkers who hold that God created human beings in order to make them like himself, to become by grace what God is by nature. In Kūkai, this process is known as sokushin jōbutsu (即身成仏), ‘becoming a Buddha in this very existence’. He is the heir to an esoteric tradition that holds that all sentient beings are originally enlightened, they have Buddha-mind or already are the Buddha, but this reality is obscured by a profound miscognition of the reality which gives rise to egoistic craving. In the final section, I look more closely at these respective accounts of divinization, to show the profound parallels and divergences found in their thought and elucidate the source of these differences in their respective metaphysic, their accounts of identity; how does identity shape practice? What informs this understanding of identity? This is the larger question I am seeking to address. In doing so, even though my research is limited in focus to two particular thinkers, they do act as representatives of two larger traditions, Early/Eastern Christianity and Japanese Buddhism. The answers they give to this question reflect the insights and positions offered by these larger traditions.
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Schumacher, William Wallace. ""Who do I say that you are?" anthropology and the theology of theosis in the Finnish School of Tuomo Mannermaa /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Foster, Christopher. "Communal participation in the spirit : the Corinthian Correspondence in light of early Jewish mysticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/communal-participation-in-the-spirit-the-corinthian-correspondence-in-light-of-early-jewish-mysticism-in-the-dead-sea-scrolls(a312d7dd-978c-40c7-9a58-b74fbe580ea1).html.
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This thesis identifies Jewish mystical elements in the Dead Sea Scrolls and compares them with analogous elements in the Corinthian Correspondence, to illuminate through differences and similarities how Paul advocates a mystical and communal participation in the spirit. After defining early Jewish mysticism and introducing methodology—heuristic comparison—in chapter 1, Part I identifies and investigates mystical elements in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Chapter 2 explores how the spirit facilitates a liturgica mystica with angels in Hodayota. Chapter 3 shows from 1QS and Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice that the Qumran temple community, in an archetypal relationship, shares in the priestly service of the angels. Chapter 4 argues that Moses-Δόξα traditions in the Scrolls portray Moses as an exalted, angelic-like mediator with supernatural authority—an ideal model for the Qumran priesthood. The ascent texts surveyed in chapter 5 reveal the conceivability of heavenly ascent at Qumran. In light of these studies, the Qumran community’s worship praxis and apperception of divine transcendence can be characterised as a liturgical and communal mysticism. Part II compares these findings with corresponding elements related to participation in the spirit in 1 and 2 Corinthians. Chapter 6 shows how Paul advances an epistemology of the spirit and participation (κοινωνία) in the spirit that is communal. Chapter 7 analyses angelic presence and angelic tongues as extensions of the spirit-enabled temple metaphor. Chapter 8 demonstrates how Paul democratises the spirit-facilitated, mystical encounter with the glory of the Lord and supports an ongoing, christomorphic and theotic transformation of the community. Chapter 9 examines how Paul’s heavenly ascent functions rhetorically to build up and instruct the ekklesia with a cruciform perspective of communal participation. Chapter 10 draws final conclusions showing the fruitfulness and validity of heuristic comparison. Paul appropriates Jewish mystical traditions and reinterprets them to promote the ongoing Christological and mystical transformation of the Corinthian community in and by the spirit. This reveals the predominantly corporate tenor of participation in the spirit for Paul. Overall, this investigation builds upon and contributes to studies of Jewish mysticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul and Jewish mysticism, Corinthians, spirit, and notions of communal participation and theosis.
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Milkov, Kostake. "The contribution of the writings of Gregory Palamas to the definition and development of theosis as a doctrine in the Eastern Orthodox Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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Fredriksson, Rapp David. "Gå in i fridens hav : Katarina av Sienas samtal ur ett theosisperspektiv." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kyrko- och missionsstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-380878.
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White, Jordan P. "Return to Eden: An Examination of Personal Salvation in Martin Luther's Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1343412010.
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Black, Jonathan A. "The Church in the eternal purpose of the Triune God : toward a Pentecostal Trinitarian ecclesiology of theosis drawing on the early theology of the Apostolic Church in the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of Chester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620334.
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This dissertation examines the ecclesiology of the early writers of the Apostolic Church in the United Kingdom, and seeks to build upon this largely neglected body of Pentecostal thought for the contrastive work of contemporary Pentecostal systematic theology. A particular emphasis is placed on the thought of D.P. Williams as the most significant Apostolic writer of the early years of the movement. Connections between Apostolic ecclesiology and the Pentecostal distinctive of the baptism in the Holy Spirit are examined, as well as the role of Trinitarian theology in early Apostolic ecclesiology. Attention is then given both to distinctive Apostolic themes, including the 5-fold ministry and the Eternal Purpose, as well as their approach to other ecclesiological doctrines including the Totus Christus and the Lord’s Supper, before moving on to a constructive synthesis.
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Mendonça, Andrey Albuquerque. "Theósis: a mística ortodoxa russa em Paul Evdokimov." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2011. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1840.
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Previous issue date: 2011-12-08This dissertation will discuss about the concept of theosis (deification) as a key to understanding the Russian Orthodox mystic. To achieve our purpose, we have chosen, through the grandeur of the Christian tradition, studying the concept in the works of Paul Evdokimov - legitimate representative of the Russian theological and philosophical thought of the 20th century. Our research is aimed to bring together the literature and from the writings of commentators and Evdokimov investigating Christianity in Eastern Europe, the information that we allow an objectification of the concept theosis. We noticed in our work, that deification is the gravitational center of spirituality Patristic later bequeathed to Christian orthodoxy, the first Byzantine period, and then Russian. The union with God, not just human, but of the entire cosmos, is the beginning and end of the works of creation. For in a world where there is freedom there is in fact the possibility of sin - is understood by Christian tradition as shattering, fragmentation and disorder, or chaos. Therefore, to Evdokimov that echoes the voice of the Russian mystic and Church Fathers, theosis is the divine call to return, rebirth of a new being into a new life experience. Life in union with the Creator himself
Esta dissertação discorrerá sobre o conceito de theósis (deificação) como chave para a compreensão da mística ortodoxa russa. Para alcançarmos nosso objetivo, escolhemos, em meio à grandiosidade desta tradição cristã, estudar o conceito nas obras de Paul Evdokimov legítimo representante do pensamento teológico e filosófico russo do séc. XX. Nossa pesquisa é bibliográfica e buscou reunir, a partir dos escritos de Evdokimov e de comentadores que investigam a cristandade do leste europeu, as informações que nos permitissem uma objetivação do conceito theósis. Percebemos, em nosso trabalho, que a deificação é o centro gravitacional da espiritualidade Patrística, posteriormente legado à ortodoxia cristã, primeiro bizantina, e depois, russa. A união com Deus, não apenas do ser humano, mas de todo o cosmos, constitui o início e o final das obras da criação. Pois, em um mundo onde há liberdade, existe de fato, a possibilidade do pecado entendido por esta tradição cristã como despedaçamento, fragmentação e desordem, ou seja, caos. Portanto, para Evdokimov que ecoa a voz dos místicos russos e pais da igreja, a theósis é o chamado divino a um retorno, um renascimento de um novo ser em uma nova experiência de vida. Vida em união com o próprio Criador
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Jones, Jess P. "Deification Through Sacramental Living in LDS and Eastern Orthodox Worship Practices: A Comparative Analysis." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6318.
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This thesis is a comparative analysis of the doctrine of deification in sacramental worship as taught (and practiced) by the Eastern Orthodox and Latter-day Saint (Mormon) churches. The doctrine that man may become like God—known as deification, divinization, or theosis—is a central teaching in the Orthodox and Mormon traditions. Both faiths believe that man may become like God. However, because of doctrinal presuppositions and disagreements regarding the natures of God and man, Orthodox and Mormon teachings of deification do not mean the same thing. This thesis will outline several key distinctions between their respective doctrines. And yet, despite doctrinal disagreements, this thesis will also illustrate how Orthodoxy and Mormonism share several notable similarities regarding the function of sacramental worship in the process of theosis. Mormonism and Orthodoxy both believe that men and women may achieve theosis only as they interact with God. Through the combined initiatives of the Father, his son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, humankind may receive the attributes of divinity and participate in the process of deification. The means whereby humanity may interact with God are through sacramental participation. This thesis will illustrate how institutional rituals and personal worship practices foster man's divine interaction and ultimate deification. Furthermore, Orthodox and Mormon rituals are deeply rooted in the doctrine of deification—each ritual contributing to man's divine transformation. As such, those rituals reflect numerous thematic variations and emphatic differences of their respective traditions. This should not discourage the reader from comparing Orthodox sacraments with Mormon sacraments; rather, as one studies the similarities and differences in the Orthodox and Mormon sacraments, he or she will begin to see how deification is so intricately woven into the worship practices of these two faiths.
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Judge, Rebecca. "The Transformative Presence of the Theotokos: Aid in Our Suffering, Illness, and Healing." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1626736145589305.
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Jego, Charles. "Theories des champs conformes non rationnelles et applications a la theorie des cordes." Phd thesis, Ecole Polytechnique X, 2007. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00002591.
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Cette these est dediee a l'etude de quelques theories conformes non rationnelles, qui apparaissent dans le cadre de la theorie des cordes. Contrairement aux theories conformes rationnelles, qui ont beneficie de tres nombreuses etudes dans les toutes dernieres decennies, les theories non rationnelles ne sont pas encore bien comprises. Une meilleure comprehension est pourtant necessaire pour mieux apprehender la theorie des cordes dans des fonds courbes non compacts, et pour pouvoir a terme s'attaquer a des problemes cosmologiques. Dans la mesure ou la these a frequemment recours a des notions et a des resultats de la theorie des groupes de Lie et de la theorie conforme des champs, des introductions detaillees a ces domaines sont presentees a l'attention des lecteurs qui ne sont pas familiarise avec eux. La these presente ensuite le travail qui a ete realise au cours du doctorat. Ce travail s'est attaque a des espaces presentant pour symetrie l'algebre de Heisenberg, a une extension de la formule de Verlinde pour des theories conformes non rationnelles (comme H_3^+), et aux cordes ouvertes rigides contraintes sur des orbites co-adjointes d'algebres de Lie.
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Turdell, Wikström Eva. "Traditionens betydelse och plats i den ortodoxa kyrkan." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-509.
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Innebörden av begreppet tradition varierar mellan de stora kyrkorna. Denna uppsats beskriver traditionens betydelse och plats i den ortodoxa kyrkan. Traditionen har beskrivits både utifrån sin yttre och inre form. I traditionen står theosis, människans gudomliggörelse, i centrum både liturgiskt, i lära och i praxis. Fakta från litteraturen har främst hämtats från verk av de ortodoxa 1900-tals teologerna Kallistos Ware och John Meyendorff. Förutom litteraturstudier har en enkätundersökning med öppna svarsalternativ skickats ut till ortodoxa församlingsmedlemmar. Den fenomenografiska forskningsmetoden har tillämpats på enkätsvaren. Resultatet av dessa visar hur ortodoxa invandrare och svenska konvertiter uppfattar den ortodoxa kyrkan respektive den protestantiska. Utifrån svaren uppställdes olika kategorier som visar på likheter och variationer mellan gruppernas uppfattning om den ortodoxa traditionen. Slutsatsen av undersökningen blev att det finns en tydlig samstämmighet i uppfattningen om både den ortodoxa kyrkan och den protestantiska kyrkan oberoende av personernas uppväxt, utbildning och kulturella arv. Den enskildes uppfattning och kunskap inom detta område har troligen främst sin utgångspunkt i personliga erfarenheter.
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Robin, Michael. "A propos des theories en therapie familiale : interet de la theorie de l'auto-organisation." Aix-Marseille 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993AIX20951.
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Almon, Russell Lane. "The triune God and the hermeneutics of community : church, gender and mission in Stanley J. Grenz with reference to Paul Ricoeur." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29546.
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The aim of this dissertation is to undertake a study of the trinitarian ecclesiology of the North American evangelical theologian Stanley J. Grenz (d.2005), along with his imago Dei theology, revisioned social trinitarianism, narrative theology, incorporation of theosis, and theology of triune participation. This dissertation also utilizes the hermeneutical philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, in conjunction with Grenz’s trinitarian ecclesiology, to propose a missional and hermeneutical ecclesiology. Chapter one begins with an overview of Grenz’s theology and a discussion of the current state of Grenz scholarship. It then introduces Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of the self and theory of narrative identity. The chapter concludes with an overview of chapters two, three, and four. Chapter two traces the manner in which Grenz’s social trinitarianism and imago Dei theology yield a social imago. The first section overviews Grenz’s The Social God and the Relational Self, the social imago, the ecclesial self, his notion of ecclesial eschatological prolepsis, and his theology of triune participation. The second section responds to key criticisms of social trinitarianism, discusses Grenz and Ricoeur on the relational self, and outlines the manner in which Grenz’s theology of theosis and triune participation “in Christ” and through the Spirit yields an ecclesially oriented communal theo-anthropology. The final section takes up Grenz’s social imago and triune participation in relation to female/male mutuality in ecclesial participation and community. Chapter three discusses Grenz’s narrative theology and the development of a narrative imago. The first section overviews Grenz’s The Named God and the Question of Being and his development of the narrative of the divine name as the saga of the triune God, his further use of theosis, and the narrative imago arising within storied participation “in Christ” through the Spirit. The second section examines the continuity of Named God with Social God and argues that Grenz presents a revisioned social trinitarianism. The second section also considers Grenz and Ricoeur on the narrative self and proposes that Grenz’s ecclesial theo-anthropology now becomes a cruciform Christo-anthropology. The third section takes up the narrative imago and female/male mutuality and cruciformity as it arises from the ecclesial relation of storied and communal theotic triune participation. Chapter four treats the development of a Grenzian ecclesial imago and proposes a missional and hermeneutical ecclesiology. The first section presents Grenz’s ecclesiology as it is oriented towards mission and the connection of theosis, triune participation, and ecclesia. This section then proposes a missional grammar for the church as God’s ecclesial hermeneutics of community. The second section discusses potential charges of ecclesiological foundationalism, considers Grenz and Ricoeur on the summoned self, and extends Grenz’s theo-anthropology and Christo-anthropology into a missio-anthropology. The third section considers the mutuality and cruciformity of ecclesial “male and female” relation “in Christ” and through the Spirit, manifest in ecclesial friendship and hospitality, as the coming-to-representation and hermeneutics of community of the triune God. The conclusion offers a summary and possible avenues for further investigation.
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Tan, Loe-Joo. "The Trinity and the religions : an assessment of Gavin D'Costa's Trinitarian theology of religions with reference to the patristic Trinitarianism of Basil of Caesarea." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3163.
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As a key contributor to the current discussion of the Catholic theology of religions, Gavin D'Costa's writings represent a consistent attempt to utilize the resources of the doctrine of the Trinity to address a number of issues regarding the theological significance and function of religions in the salvific plan of God. The aim of this thesis is to examine critically his Trinitarian theology of religions through the lens of a main proponent of patristic theology, Basil of Caesarea, and through a historical-systematic study, address the question of whether his underlying Trinitarianism is consonant with classical Trinitarian theology. After a discussion of Vatican II and post-Conciliar sources, the main contours of D'Costa's theology are highlighted through an interpretive grid of particularity/universality (Christology/Pneumatology) with a second-order universality/particularity. Despite his distancing from the three-fold typology of exclusivism-inclusivism-pluralism, we analyzed that much of his theology continues to fall within the category of traditional inclusivism, particularly since his recent proposal of the limbo of the Fathers contained serious difficulties pertaining to his intention to maintain a singular OT Judaism-Christianity relationship. Next, we examined the main features of Basilian Trinitarianism, and proposed that three major themes are of relevance for a comparative analysis with D'Costa's theology, namely, (1) the doctrines of divine simplicity and inseparable operations, (2) the enlightening work of the Spirit, and (3) the theology of baptism and theosis. Throughout the discussion, in recognition that Basil's thought is part of the patristic theological matrix of his time, we will also reference the writings of other Church Fathers, including Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Augustine. We concluded that while in Basil's theology, economy, relationality and ethics are intricately woven into each other, D'Costa's system, despite its significant merits, was at risk of disaffiliating the connections between the three.
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Karlowicz, Tobias Amadeus. "Reclaiming Pusey for theology : allegory, communion, and sacrifice." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4122.
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Edward Bouverie Pusey once towered over nineteenth-century British theology, but he has now fallen into almost entire insignificance. However, analysis of this decline (Chapter 1) leads to a reassessment. His development—especially his complicated relationship with pre-Tractarian High Church Anglicanism—shows a deep criticism of post-Enlightenment intellectual trends, from his early years through his association with the Oxford Movement and the Tracts for the Times, to the end of his life (Chapter 2). This criticism led him to the patristic use of allegory, both as a biblical hermeneutic and as a creative, complex, image-based approach to theology (Chapter 3). His development of High Church theology (seen especially through comparison with Waterland) and his use of allegory can be traced throughout his theology. His understanding of union with Christ and theosis reveals both: the sacraments have a strong symbolic dimension, while his positions on baptismal regeneration and the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist show a development rather than a rejection of earlier High Church theology (Chapters 4 and 5). His understanding of the atonement blends High Church reliance on sacrificial types with his unitive theology to reconfigure traditional satisfaction theory as restoration of love for God, rather than redemption from punishment—a position which marks Pusey as an important transitional figure in 19th c. theology (Chapter 6). The flexibility of Pusey's allegorical approach also allows him to blend a High Church tradition of spiritual sacrifice with sacramental participation in Christ's self-offering, so that sacrifice becomes an aspect of union with Christ (Chapter 7). Pusey's use of allegory shows similarities to postmodern theology, while his development of High Church theology shows his originality (Chapter 8).
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Post, Kaeleigh A. "No Greater Love Than This: Violence, Nonviolence, and the Atonement." Trinity Lutheran Seminary / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=trin1440692149.
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Genig, Joshua Dale. "The sacramentality of the Word : through the lens of the annunciation to Mary." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2554.
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This thesis seeks to demonstrate that, in failing to take the sacramentality of the Word seriously, the preaching of the Church has suffered negative consequences. In short, preaching has often become, at best, a form of instruction or, at worst, an incantation of sorts, rather than an integral part of deepening our relationship with Christ by functioning sacramentally to bring about divine participation with Jesus' corporeal humanity in his living Word. Moreover, this trouble has had a profoundly negative effect on my own Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod due, in part, to our Reformation heritage as Christians who believe, teach, and confess the sole authority and divine inspiration of Holy Scripture. Yet, what has been lost over the past 500 years since the Reformation began is the reality of Christ's ongoing corporeal presence in and for the Church, particularly as he is present in the viva vox of preaching. In order to recover that reality, I propose that one should consider the annunciation to Mary where, with a sermon of sorts, the corporeal Christ took up residence in the flesh of his hearer. In addition to granting Mary a son, however, this tangible presence of Jesus also delivered to her precisely what was contained within his own flesh: the fullness of the Godhead (Col 2:9). When understood as a biblical paradigm for the Church, it becomes clear that what happened to Mary can, indeed, happen to Christians of the present day. To that end, I propose that preaching today, when understood sacramentally, can deliver the fullness of the person of Christ, who continues to come in corporeality, with humanity and divinity, in the viva vox of preaching.
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Jakobi, Tobias. "Ansätze der Theorie deliberativer Theorie." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB9718821.
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Israel, Dan. "Supercordes en espace-temps courbe et theories conformes." Phd thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 2004. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00007152.
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Cette these est consacree a l'etude des theories de supercordes dans les espaces-temps courbes. Nous etudions en particulier l'espace des modules des solutions de NS5-branes et de cordes fondamentales, a l'aide des techniques de deformations marginales de theories conformes. Parmi les exemples etudies se trouvent les espaces-temps anti-de Sitter a trois ou deux dimensions, differentes limites de decouplage de la theorie des petites cordes et l'univers de Goedel. Nous etudions egalement les fonctions de partitions de ces theories conformes, ainsi que les D-branes de certaines d'entre elles. Les applications holographiques potentielles de ces theories sont soulignees.
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Tallon, Luke Ben. "Our being is in becoming : the nature of human transformation in the theology of Karl Barth, Joseph Ratzinger, and John Zizioulas." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2572.
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This study offers an ecumenical exploration of human transformation through the examination of this topic in the thought of Karl Barth (1888-1968), a Swiss Reformed theologian; Joseph Ratzinger (b. 1927), a Roman Catholic theologian; and John Zizioulas (b. 1931), a Greek Orthodox theologian. Describing and understanding human transformation stands as a crucial task for theology because no one is simply born a Christian—in order to be a Christian one must become a Christian. The first chapter introduces this topic, the three theologians (highlighting their commonalities), and the three questions that guide the analysis of each theologian and the thesis as a whole: What is the goal of human transformation? What is the basis of human transformation? How are humans transformed? Chapters 2, 3, and 4 treat the topic of human transformation in the theology of Barth, Ratzinger, and Zizioulas, respectively. All three understand the goal of human transformation to be the prayer of the children of God, and locate its basis in God’s reconciling act in Jesus Christ—an act itself based in the primordial divine decision to be God pro nobis. Even within this broad agreement, however, differences are evident, especially with regard to eschatology. Consideration of how this transformation occurs reveals significant differences concerning the agency of Jesus Christ in relation to the Holy Spirit and the church. The final chapter explores 1) the convergences and divergences between Barth, Ratzinger, and Zizioulas regarding human transformation; 2) the contributions of this study to the interpretation of Barth, Ratzinger, and Zizioulas; and 3) the relationship between human transformation and participation in God. Throughout, attention is given to the relationship between Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the church, the eschaton, and the triunity of God and human transformation. All three accounts of human transformation point beyond the transition between sinful and redeemed humanity to a dynamic anthropology in which the constant asking, receiving, thanking, and asking again is the very “ontological location” of the eschatological life of humanity: our being is in becoming.
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Schnakenburg, Igor. "Symmetries of supergravity theories and quantum field theories." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397449.
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Heinze, Franziska. "Postkoloniale Theorie." Universität Leipzig, 2015. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15382.
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Postkoloniale Theorie bezeichnet ein breites Spektrum theoretischer Zugänge zu und kritischer Auseinandersetzungen mit historischen und gegenwärtigen Machtverhältnissen, die im Zusammenhang mit dem europäischen Kolonialismus und seinen bis heute währenden Fortschreibungen stehen. Als Gründungsdokument postkolonialer Theorie gilt Edward Saids Studie „Orientalism“ (1978). Postkoloniale feministische Theorie fokussiert auf die Situation von Frauen bzw. auf vergeschlechtlichte Identitäten in (neo-)kolonialen Settings. Neben der Konstruktion von Gender und Geschlechterrollen sind Sexualität und Begehren wichtige Topoi postkolonialer Theorie. Ein weiteres Themenfeld stellt die Dekonstruktion eurozentrischen / westlichen Wissens dar.
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Heinze, Franziska. "Postkoloniale Theorie." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220194.
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Postkoloniale Theorie bezeichnet ein breites Spektrum theoretischer Zugänge zu und kritischer Auseinandersetzungen mit historischen und gegenwärtigen Machtverhältnissen, die im Zusammenhang mit dem europäischen Kolonialismus und seinen bis heute währenden Fortschreibungen stehen. Als Gründungsdokument postkolonialer Theorie gilt Edward Saids Studie „Orientalism“ (1978). Postkoloniale feministische Theorie fokussiert auf die Situation von Frauen bzw. auf vergeschlechtlichte Identitäten in (neo-)kolonialen Settings. Neben der Konstruktion von Gender und Geschlechterrollen sind Sexualität und Begehren wichtige Topoi postkolonialer Theorie. Ein weiteres Themenfeld stellt die Dekonstruktion eurozentrischen / westlichen Wissens dar.
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Schröder, Tobias. "Die Theorie der Affektsteuerung als allgemeine Theorie der sozialen Interaktion /." Berlin : Dissertation.de, 2009. http://www.dissertation.de/buch.php3?buch=5972.
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Michele, Oliosi. "New viable theories of modified gravity : Minimal Theories and Quasidilaton." Kyoto University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/244509.
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Christ, Jürgen [Verfasser], and Andreas [Akademischer Betreuer] Podelski. "Interpolation modulo theories." Freiburg : Universität, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1119805767/34.
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Liakata, Maria. "Inducing domain theories." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413107.
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Carlisle, James. "Minimal superstring theories." Thesis, Durham University, 2006. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2591/.
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In this thesis we study the (2, 4m) series of Type OA minimal superstring theories, which are intimately related to the KdV integrable hierarchy. Chapters 1 to 3 constitute a comprehensive review of the relevant background material, including noncritical string theory, matrix models and integrable systems. In Chapter 4 we generalise the (2， 4m) theories so as to include unoriented worldsheet contributions in the partition sum. This generalisation is tested against a known result in the literature. Chapter 5 explores the D-branes of the theories in more detail and, by studying the Bäcklund transformation of the KdV hierarchy, gives conclusive evidence that the parameter speculated to control the number of zz branes in the theory is indeed quantised. The FZZT brane partition function is studied, and it is shown that the effects of the boundary cosmological constant arise only in certain predictable forms. Chapter 6 examines the string theory interpretation of the negative KdV hierarchy, which naively relates to supercritical string theories living in greater than ten dimensions. The models are seen to have some non-trivial characteristic properties, indicating that they do indeed describe valid string theories, but it is unclear whether said theories are actually supercritical.
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Jones, Paul Glyn. "Cyclic factorizability theories." Thesis, Durham University, 1999. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4393/.
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Let r denote a finite group and R a commutative ring. Factorizability theories seek to describe similarities between the local structure of R1-modules M and N, where M and N are related by, for example, being isomorphic when tensored up with Q. In the first three chapters of this thesis, we define two families of factorizability theories, the invariance and coinvariance factorizability theories. We will consider three members of these families. We demonstrate that monomial invariance factorizability is equivalent to monomial factorizability as defined in [19]. We go on to consider the two cyclic cases. We demonstrate that the weak cyclic invariance factorizability theory is strict and is identical to the weak cyclic coinvariance factorizability theory. We also demonstrate that the strong cyclic invariance factorizability theory and the strong cyclic coinvariance factorizability theory are not identical but are equivalent. In chapters 4 and 5, we discuss C.M.M. F-functors over R. Thus we find relations which can simplify the calculation of the invariance and coinvariance factorizability theories. An index of the less well known definitions used in this thesis is included as an appendix.
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Hörhager-Čeljo, Niels. "Theorie des Depositenvertrages." Lohmar Köln Eul, 2009. http://d-nb.info/992414709/04.
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Moores, Elisabeth J. "Dyslexia : challenging theories." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15162/.
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Experiments presented challenge theories on their ability to provide causal explanations of the pattern of performance in dyslexia. Studies la and 1 b employed a prism adaptation paradigm to investigate the Cerebellar Deficit Hypothesis (CDH). No group differences were found, although unfortunately it was concluded that the paradigm could not satisfactorily isolate cerebellar function from other compensation mechanisms. Studies 2a and 2b exploited a sequential stereopsis technique to test the visual deficit hypothesis. No group differences were found, although the dyslexic group did exhibit a fatigue effect on one condition. Using an attention shifting paradigm, Study 3 found a dissociation between focus and shift attention conditions in dyslexic children, but that they sustained their attention as well as controls. In Study 4, supporting the Dyslexia Automatisation Deficit (DAD) as opposed to a general resources deficit, control performance suffered most under visually degraded conditions of the same attention paradigm. Study 5 further investigated attention on a test thought to be sensitive to attentional lapses; dyslexic children did make more errors, although conclusions were limited by their qualitatively normal performance. Deficits in dyslexia were found to be wider reaching than many theories of dyslexia would suggest. At a cognitive level of explanation the DAD was able to account successfully for many of the findings. However, like the Phonological Deficit Theory the DAD specifies no neurological mechanism for the deficit; this is provided by the CDH (for which no evidence was found here). Analyses do point towards the need for either a very general explanation, or the identification of a smaller number of core deficits, for the apparently disparate deficits found. The fatigue effect found only in the dyslexic group on part of the vision experiment has further direct and immediate implications for future research.
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Mercer, Rebekah M. "Theories of Relativity." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278201/.
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Theories of Relativity is a post-modern novella that questions the authority of truth. Multiple perspectives are utilized in the narrative to recount how the murder of a young girl has affected the tragedy's survivors. The focus of the narrative is not to determine the innocence or guilt of the accused, but to show how perspective influences our perception of truth. Eighteen pages of prefatory remarks comprise the body of an essay that explores the parameters of truth.
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Lavdas, Ioannis. "AdS₄/CFT₃ and quantum gravity." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEE041.
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Dans le cadre de la dualité holographique entre une vaste famille de vides 1/2-maximalement supersymétriques Anti-de Sitter à quatre dimensions (AdS₄) et des théories des champs superconformes N=4 supersymétriques à trois dimensions (sCFT₃), nous étudions des questions théoriques majeures de gravité quantique et de théories de jauge. Ce travail a deux directions principales : La premiere partie est consacrée aux mécanismes par lesquels le graviton AdS₄ peut acquérir une petite masse, tandis que la seconde partie concerne la cartographie de la variété superconforme des sCFT₃ considérées. En ce qui concerne la question du mecanisme de Higgs pour le graviton d’AdS₄, nous proposons un nouveau mécanisme qui repose sur le couplage ”faible” de deux sCFT₃s, initialement découplées, en jaugent une symmétrie globale commune. Les deux tenseurs de stress initialement conservés se mélangent et le résultat est une combinaison conservée et une combinaison orthogonale, dont la dimension acquiert une petite dimension anormale. Holographiquement, cette configuration correspond à la connexion de deux univers AdS₄ initialement découplés via un AdS₅ × S⁵ fin, autrement appelé une “gorge” de Janus. Le résultat est une théorie AdS₄-bimétrique, avec un graviton sans masse et un graviton massif, dont la petite masse correspond à la dimension anormale de la combinaison duale de tenseurs de stress. Nous calculons la masse du graviton, qui est exprimée en termes de données géométriques de la ”gorge” de Janus et de l’univers AdS₄ vers zéro, résulte en une théorie de gravité massive dans AdS₄. En ce qui concerne la deuxième direction de ce travail, les déformations superconformes des sCFT₃s considérées qui génèrent la variété superconformale sont des déformations préservant N = 2 supersymétrie, générées par des opérateurs exactement marginaux. Nous présentons comment tous ces opérateurs peuvent être systématiquement extraits de l’index superconforme. Les opérateurs de branche de Coulomb et de Higgs sont pris en compte, tandis qu’une attention particuli ère est accordée aux opérateurs mixtes. On montre que les modules de branches mixtes de ces théories sont des opérateurs à double-corde qui se transforment dans la représentation (Adj, Adj) des groupes de saveursélectriques et magnétiques, modulo un surcomptage pour les quivers avec des noeuds de jauge abéliens. Enfin, nous commentons sur l’interprétation holographique des résultats, en affirmant que les supergravités mesurées peuvent capturer l’espace des modules tout entier si, outre les paramètres de la solution d’arri ère-plan, les modules de quantification des conditions aux limites sontégalement pris en compteBased on the holographic duality between a large class of half-maximally supersymmetric four-dimensional Anti-de Sitter (AdS₄) vacua and three-dimensional N = 4 superconformal field theories (sCFT₃), we study quantum gravitational and gauge theoretic questions. This work has two main directions: The first part is devoted to the mechanisms through which the low-lying AdS₄-graviton can acquire a small mass whereas the second part regards the mapping of the superconformal manifold of the considered sCFT₃s. Regarding the question of the graviton Higgsing in AdS₄, we propose a new mechanism which relies on ”weakly” coupling two initially decoupled sCFT₃s, by gauging a common global symmetry. The two initially conserved stress tensors mix and the result of this mixing is a conserved combination and an orthogonal combination, the scaling dimension of which acquires a small anomalous dimension. Holographically, this setup is dual to connecting two initially decoupled AdS₄ universes via a thin AdS₅ × S⁵ or Janus ”throat”. The result is an AdS₄- bimetric theory, with one massless and one massive graviton, the small mass of which corresponds to the anomalous dimension of the dual stress tensor combination. We compute the mass of the graviton, which is expressed in terms of the geometric data of the Janus ”throat” and of the considered AdS₄ universe. A special decoupling limit of this theory, where the effective four-dimensional gravitational coupling of one of the two universes vanishes, results to an AdS₄-Massive gravity theory. Regarding the second direction of this work, superconformal deformations of the considered sCFT3s which generate the superconformal manifold, are N = 2 supersymmetry preserving deformations, generated by exactly marginal operators. We present how all these operators can be consistently extracted from the superconformal index. Coulomb and Higgs branch operators are considered, while particular attention is payed to mixedbranch operators. It is shown that the mixed-branch moduli of these theories are double-string operators transforming in the (Adj,Adj) representation of the electric and magnetic flavour groups, up to overcounting for quivers with abelian gauge nodes. Finally, we comment on the holographic interpretation of the results, arguing that gauged supergravities can capture the entire moduli space if, in addition to the parameters of the background solution, quantization moduli of boundary conditions are also taken into account
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Kohlschmidt, Bernd. "Ethikmanagement in Theorie und Praxis : Ansätze der wirtschafts- und unternehmensethischen Theorie /." Marburg : Tectum-Verl, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3022601&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Tan, Chong Hui. "Equivariant K-theories, equivariant cycle theories and equivariant motivic homotopy theory." Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2004. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=795958481&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Villa, François. "La theorie sexuelle de l'acte. Preliminaires d'une theorie de l'action psychotherapique." Paris 7, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA070058.
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Nous procedons a la reevaluation et a la revalorisation de la notion d'acte dans la psychanalyse. Notre point de depart est la decouverte que la reduction de la notion de mi@@brauch au sens d'attentat sexuel est porteuse de confusion theorique. En lui restituant le sens de mesusage, nous soutenons qu'une premiere theorie : celle du mesusage de la fonction sexuelle, a precede celle de la seduction. Celle-ci est une variete de cette premiere theorie qui est une theorie sexuelle de l'acte. Freud, en construisant cette theorie, s'emancipe de la theorie de la degenerescence et de l'anatomopathologie et subvertit la neurophysiologie du reflexe. Le degagement de cette theorie conduit a soutenir que la theorie des nevroses actuelles est un des fondements de la metapsychologie. Ces nevroses sont un paradigme de la necessite de la construction du psychique comme appareil (palliatif) executif du sexuel, elles sont la theorie du psychique a l'etat naissant. La ressaisie de ce moment de la theorie oblige a repenser les raisons du tournant de 1897. La reconnaissance de l'importance etiologique et culturelle de l'infantilisme (effet neotenique) << de l'appareil sexue et de l'instrument d'ame >> (constitution sexuelle) contraint, sans ceder sur l'importance de l'accidentel, a articuler l'histoire individuelle a celle de l'espece. La problematique de l'acte fait de la sexualite le lieu ou se noue pour l'humain, de maniere conflictuelle, des la naissance, phylogenese et epigenese : l'ontogenese, qui doit surmonter une faille phylogenetique, est l'histoire du developpement, a partir de la sexualite infantile, de ce conflit et des formes qu'il prend et engendre. Une telle approche demontre que la reprise du << au commencement etait l'acte >> par freud n'a rien de conjoncturel. Elle conduit a reinterroger tant la visee de la cure que ses principes. La theorie sexuelle de l'acte a pour consequence le developpement de la metapsychologie qui est la condition meme de la pratique psychanalytique.
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Crankshaw, Amy Jane. "Hendrik Hofmeyr: the harmonic language of a theorist and composer theorist." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20035.
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This dissertation seeks to investigate an aspect of Hendrik Hofmeyr's engagement with music through his theories of harmonic analysis and his use of expanded tonality in his compositions. The purpose of the discipline of music analysis is investigated, and analysis is compared with its sister disciplines to consolidate its vital role in relation to musical study and practice at large. The debate started in the New Musicology in the 1980s is discussed with special reference to the objectives of analysis. The current state of theoretical and analytical study that has emerged since the 1990s is established as a background from which this study takes its cue. Hendrik Hofmeyr's harmonic analytical theories are positioned within the context of this present state of analytical development. Hofmeyr's theories and analytical methods deal with harmonically ambiguous music and expanded tonality. The methods are described in detail in this dissertation, drawing information from Hofmeyr's presentation of his methods of harmonic analysis at the Congress of the Musicological Society of Southern Africa in 2005. The focus then shifts to Hofmeyr's compositional interaction with harmony. Using the methods of Hofmeyr's analytical engagement with harmony, certain complex harmonies in Hofmeyr's Notturno are analysed. The purpose here is to gain a fuller Insight into Hofmeyr's direct compositional interaction with harmony. Hofmeyr's harmonic treatment within the realm of expanded tonality is used as evidence of an individual voice, as something that says,"This is the work of Hendrik Hofmeyr".
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Yilmaz, Nejat Tevfik. "Dualisation Of Supergravity Theories." Phd thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604804/index.pdf.
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By using the Kaluza-Klein reduction, the derivation of the maximal supergravities from the D=11 supergravity theory, as well as the Abelian Yang-Mills supergravities from the D=10 type I supergravity theory are discussed. After a thorough review of the symmetric spaces the symmetric space sigma model is studied in detail. The first-order formulation of both the pure and the matter coupled symmetric space sigma model is presented in a general formalism. The dualisation of the non-gravitational Bosonic sectors of the D=11, IIB and the maximal supergravities are also reviewed in a concise but a self-contained formulation. As an example of the dualisation of the matter coupled supergravities, the doubled formalism is constructed for the D=8 Salam-Sezgin supergravity.
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Ozonder, Sener. "Viable Higher Derivative Theories." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608468/index.pdf.
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In this thesis, higher derivative theories are investigated. Ostrogradskian instability of higher derivative theories is examined both at the classical and quantum levels.
It is shown that avoiding the instability in nondegenerate higher derivative theories is impossible. Moreover, the degenerate model of relativistic particle with a curvature
term is studied as a viable higher derivative theory.
Most of the work we present here is not original. We give a review of the literature and compile various detached works that already exist.
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Li, Brian. "The Theories of Deindividuation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/12.
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Has it ever occurred to you to wonder why a soldier would sacrifice his life by jumping on a bomb to save the rest of his brigade? Or why an individual in a gang might display respectable behavior when alone but swear and vandalize when in the group? The phenomenon of people getting pulled into crowds and adopting the group’s mentalities and behaviors has been recognized but not fully researched. However, it has been recorded in early literature and research that it is human nature to want to fit into a group, for example in Abraham Maslow’s (1943) paper, A Theory of Human Motivation, in which he proposed that the hierarchy of human needs includes a stage that emphasized an individual’s need to feel a sense of belonging.