Dissertations / Theses: 'Thy blessed'

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Irwin, Kevin W. "Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament:." The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103729.

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Schellbach, Paul. ""Blessed are those who mourn" penthos in Christian spirituality /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Pearson, John T. "The reservation and veneration of the Blessed Eurcharist." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5384.

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Aylor, Floyd Irvin. "Blessed are ye poor a model for a Biblical response to hunger /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Fernandes, Flynn M. "Mary: Co-redemptrix, mediatrix of all graces, and advocate of the people of God: An interdisciplinary exposition and evaluation of the proposed fifth Marian dogma." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:105006.

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Thesis advisor: Margaret E. Guider
Thesis advisor: Michael Simone
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology

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Wright, Mary. "The canonical development of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7574.

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Lowery, Martyn John. "The blessed of impossible worlds : J.G. Ballard and the catastrophic imagination." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.279741.

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Allen, Preston L. "The Church of Our Blessed Redeemer Who Walked Upon the Waters." FIU Digital Commons, 1994. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1067.

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The Church of Our Blessed Redeemer Who Walked Upon the Waters is a collection of short stories about Elwyn Parker, a devout pianist who becomes a worldly car salesman. "Thirty Fingers," "My Father's Business," and "Apostate" introduce Elwyn, a saint at church and a trouble-making evangelist at school, who nevertheless finds himself in a love affair with an older woman, Sister Morrisohn. In "Captivity," Elwyn, a college freshman, experiences worldliness, then grows to resent and ultimately reject Sister Morrisohn. In "The Leap," Elwyn is back at the piano, but unemployed and unhappily married. He finds comfort only in his decade-old affair. In "The Lord of Travel," Elwyn, a car salesman, appears bereft of his former morals until he hoodwinks Ida, who reminds him of the now deceased Sister Morrisohn. Elwyn repairs Ida's car, redeeming himself in the process.

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Razer, Abby. "AMELIORATING THE EFFECTS OF FESCUE TOXICOSIS IN HEIFERS WITH BLESSED THISTLE." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/545.

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Fescue Toxicosis occurs when animals are fed or grazing on Tall Fescue (Festuca arundinacea) syn. (Lolium arudinacea [Schreb]) grass that is infected with the endophytic fungus Neotyphodium coenophialum (Bacon et al., 1977). This disease affects cattle, sheep, and horses causing reduced feed consumption, average daily gain (ADG), and reproductive performance (Hoveland, 2003). The disease is caused by ergot alkaloids within the fungus, which lives in the plant (Hoveland et al., 1980). Fescue toxicosis is a major concern because at least 35 million acres in the United States contain Tall Fescue (Faulkner, 1999); areas impacted include southern Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, northern Mississippi, northern Louisiana, Georgia, West Virginia, Arkansas and Missouri and in some areas of the Pacific coast such as Oregon (Roberts et al., 2004). Due to the effects of this disease, producers lose an estimated 609 million dollars per year (Paterson et. al, 1995). The aim of this research project was to determine if the herbal supplement, Blessed Thistle, could be used to counteract the effects of fescue toxicosis in cattle. Eighteen Angus first calf heifers and their calves were divided into three treatment groups (n = 6); negative control fed non-endophyte infected Max Q hay (EN), positive control fed endophyte infected KY-31 fescue hay (E+), or treatment fed KY-31 fescue hay and Blessed Thistle extract (E+/BT). Heifers fed E+/BT diet maintained pretreatment prolactin levels throughout the study. Additionally, the change in prolactin levels E- and E+/BT were not significantly different suggesting a protective effect from the blessed thistle. The change in heifer BCS was insignificant except for the E+/BT group which was significantly different (P = 0.02) before and after. The differences between the calf weights were trending (P = 0.088) indicating the ability of the E+/BT calves to perform similarly to the E- calves. The milk production estimate was insignificant (P = 0.497). The rectal temperatures data indicated a difference at the beginning and end of the study (P < 0.001). However, no differences were detected between treatment groups. These results suggest that Blessed Thistle can ameliorate some symptoms of fescue toxicosis however, further research is needed.

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Wright, Thorin M. Mason T. David. "The blessed and the damned peacemakers, warlords, and post civil war democracy /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3901.

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Wright, Thorin M. "The Blessed and the Damned: Peacemakers, Warlords, and Post Civil War Democracy." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3901/.

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This thesis seeks to explain how democracies emerge out of the ashes of civil wars. This paper envisions transitions to democracy after a civil war largely as a function of the peace process. Democracy is thought of as a medium through which solutions to the problems and issues over which the civil war was fought can be solved without violence. Transitions to democracy are more likely if there is a large bargaining space and the problems of credible commitments to democratization can be solved. Democratization is more likely if four conditions exist in a state after the civil war: a negotiated settlement, credible commitments via international enforcement, demobilization, and a cooperative international environment. The hypotheses derived are tested through an event history analysis for two different standards of democracy. The results suggest that factors indicative of all four theoretical concepts contribute to the likelihood of democratization after a civil war.

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Gilbert, Alphonse. "The Youngsters' Best Friend: Fifteen Days of Prayer with Blessed Daniel Brottier, CSSp." Paraclete Press, 2007. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/spiritanbook,4145.

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Table of Contents -- Introduction -- (p. 9) -- Day One: The Offering of His Life -- (p. 15) -- Day Two: An Effective Commitment -- (p. 21) -- Day Three: Obstacles -- (p. 27) -- Day Four: Love in Action -- (p. 33) -- Day Five: Purification of Spirit -- (p. 39) -- Day Six: Uniting Contemplation and Action -- (p. 45) -- Day Seven: Be All Things to All People -- (p. 51) -- Day Eight: For the Glory of the Master -- (p. 57) -- Day Nine: Spiritual Poverty -- (p. 63) -- Day Ten: Teamwork -- (p. 69) -- Day Eleven: Trust in Providence -- (p. 75) -- Day Twelve: Loving Service -- (p. 81) -- Day Thirteen: Docility to the Spirit -- (p. 87) -- Day Fourteen: Radiating Goodness -- (p. 93) -- Day Fifteen: The Cross and the Glory -- (p. 99)

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Partridge, Henry Charles. "Blessed are the forgetful : aspects of forgetting in modern European philosophy and literature." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430814.

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This thesis challenges the received idea that forgetting is simply an assault on memory. Instead of narrowly identifying forgetting with memory loss, retrieval failure, and the obliteration of the past, this thesis considers the active role of forgetting in maintaining the health of memory and the mind in general. After examining recent literary, phenomenological, and psychological accounts of forgetting, the thesis considers positive approaches to forgetting in the works of Sebald, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, and Kant. Rather than attacking memory, Heidegger argues that forgetting actually opens up the memory of the past to remembrance. Indeed, in W. G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz it becomes plain that forgetting does not necessarily imply a loss of memory. Memories that cannot be recalled often become available through recognition. Indeed, Benjamin argues that forgetting is an essential precondition for the involuntary emergence of memory. Memories must be forgotten deep within the unconscious to be triggered independently of conscious recollection. Nietzsche also argues that forgetting is an active ability to "shut the doors and windows of consciousness" essential for maintaining the mind's receptivity to new stimuli. Forgetting limits our awareness of stimuli whose proliferation would overload the mind with redundant information. Kant, too, maintains that the capacity of the imagination to suppress is essential for maintaining the representational unity of objects necessary for intelligible experience. Clearly, an uncritical acceptance of forgetting as the enemy of memory overlooks its obvious benefits. By highlighting the positive aspects of forgetting this thesis aims to encourage a reexamination of our attitudes towards a much maligned phenomenon

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Brasher, Michael C. "Blessed are the Peacemakers: Transnational Alliance, Protective Accompaniment and the Presbyterian Church of Colombia." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/885.

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The purpose of this thesis was to explore how Christian networks enable strategies of transnational alliance, whereby groups in different nations strive to strengthen one another’s leverage and credibility in order to resolve conflicts and elaborate new possibilities. This research does so by analyzing the case of the Presbyterian Church of Colombia (IPC). The project examines the historical development of the IPC from the initial missionary period of the 1850s until the present. Specifically, the purpose of the study was to consider how the historical struggle to articulate autonomy and equality vis-à-vis the U.S. Presbyterians (PCUSA) and paternalist models of ecclesial relations has affected recent political strategies pursued by the IPC. Despite the paternalism of the early missionary model, changing conceptions of social transformation during the 60s contributed to a shift in relations. Over time the IPC and PCUSA negotiated relationships in which groups both acknowledge a problematic history and insist upon an ethnic of partnership and respect. Today, PCUSA groups, in concert with the IPC, collaborate on a range of transnational political strategies aimed at strengthening the IPC’s leverage in local struggles for justice and peace. A review of this case suggests that long-established Christian networks may have an advantage over other civil society groups such as NGOs in facilitating strategies of transnational alliance. Although civil society organizations often have better access to important resources needed for international advocacy initiatives, Christian networks, such as the one established between the IPC and U.S. Presbyterian communities, rely on a history of negotiating power-disparity in order to elaborate relationships based on listening and partnership. Such findings prove important not only to how we conceptualize transnational alliance but also to the ways that we think about the history and future of Christian networks.

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O'Cinnsealaigh, Benedict D. "The Marian theology of Adam of Dryburgh." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1431440615.

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Andrews, Johansson Ann-Katrin. "Tropes for the proper of the mass, 4 : The feasts of the blessed Virgin Mary." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för franska, italienska och klassiska språk, 1998. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-45041.

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Shea, Edward F. "Blessed ordinariness a reader's guide to the discipleship of minor characters in the fourth Gospel /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Thakkilapati, Sri Devi. "Better Mothers, Good Daughters and Blessed Women: Gender Performance in the Context of Abortion." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1258503022.

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Maxwell, Felicity. "Nicholas Love's "Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ": Continuity and cultural change." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28005.

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This thesis investigates Nicholas Love's negotiation of the social and religious tensions of early fifteenth-century England---caused by increasing lay literacy, the ongoing Wycliffite controversy, and the aftermath of the Lancastrian takeover---in the Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, his translation of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes vitae Christi. It demonstrates that although Love's Middle English translation extended the Meditationes to a broad lay readership, manuscripts of the Mirror circulating ever more widely as the fifteenth century progressed, the work was early associated with figures in positions of power, ranging from Archbishop Arundel, the leader of the orthodox suppression of Lollardy, to Thomas Beaufort, an extender of Lancastrian military power abroad, to Sibyl de Felton, the abbess of a prosperous and somewhat worldly convent, who might have used the Mirror to stir up orthodox zeal among her nuns. It is argued that despite these connections, the intentional conservatism with which Love condescends to his lay readers, and even the aggressive orthodoxy of the Treatise on the Sacrament, which is original to Love, this work is more than a piece of Church propaganda, for, retaining the Meditationes's emphasis on Christ's human relationships, it invites its readers to an intimate and emotionally charged encounter with Jesus, the divine human being who is both the instigator and the object of their devotion. Finally, it notes the paradox that in the Treatise on the Sacrament, which closes the work, Love incorporates material that is dramatically powerful but theologically problematic.

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Duggan, Paul E. "The Assumption dogma: some reactions and ecumenical implications in the thought of English-speaking theologians." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430383403.

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Calnan, James E. Taylor. "Blessed be the tie that binds, voluntary associations and community in Picton, Ontario, 1870-1914." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ51036.pdf.

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Humphries, Mark. "Communities of the blessed : social environment and religious change in Northern Italy, AD 200-400 /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37222229v.

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Luzyte, Rasa. "A thealogy of Mary : the non-Christian myth of Mary, the shadow of Mary and an individual connection to the divine self through Mary." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20251.

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My work on the thealogy of Mary conveys a largely subjective way of thinking, it does not claim to present the view of any group, and it does not profess a theoretical agenda for a cult or a religious movement of Mary. The framework of this work is grounded in symbolic (legends, fairy tales and images), psychological (the structure of the psyche according to Carl Gustav Jung: the Self, the conscious, the unconscious, the Shadow) and imaginative (individual interpretations of narratives and images) spheres that are combined with feminist spirituality theories, religious philosophy and literary analysis. In my thesis, I offer a non-Christian myth of Mary which I form out of the folklore narratives about Mary. In my work, Mary is understood as the female divine archetype on the collective level, and as an expression of the Self on the individual level. Following Jung’s theory, the archetypes are forms and not contents, that is, an archetype can be comparable to an empty shell, which we fill with our own experience or with narratives that are meaningful to us. I take the image of Mary out of the Roman Catholic context and give it a new mythological narrative. This means to me a possibility not only to acquire a non-Christian myth of Mary but also to develop an individual relationship with the divine in its female personification. On the collective level, the thealogy of Mary creates a spiritual and psychological sphere in which the female divine has a possibility to outweigh the one-sidedness of the past few thousand years of the male predominance in the religious philosophy in the West.

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Burnet, Grace. "Saint as Superman? : memorial to the Blessed Agostino Novello attributed to Simone Martini (c. 1324-1328)." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.761224.

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Calloway, Donald H. M. I. C. "Purest of all lilies: the Virgin Mary in the spirituality of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1431436028.

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Beachum, Edwin P. "Francis and the feminine: a study of women and the Blessed Mother in the life of St. Francis." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1417006966.

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Buffer, Thomas. "The mariological doctrine of Charles Journet (1891-1975): a survey." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1431532719.

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Humphries, Mark. "Communities of the blessed : the origins and development of regional churches in Northern Italy, c.250-381 C.E." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2633.

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This thesis argues that the origins and evolution of Christian communities in Northern Italy between c. 250 and 381 are comprehensible only within the region's social environment. Whereas previous studies of early Christianity in Italy have sought to explain its origins in terms of modern diocesan structures, this thesis shows that the evidence for this view is untrustworthy and that a new methodology is needed to explain the rise of the church. To this end, the thesis describes the 'north Italian human environment', which consists not just of the physical landscape, but of the social networks within it. This environment allows an understanding of why Christian communities had developed in some places and not in others by c. 300. The development of the church continued to be influenced by this human environment in the fourth century. Christian diffusion remained a partial and variable phenomenon. In the cities Christians found themselves confronted by the adherents of other religions, notably Judaism. Thus, in the fourth century, Christians did not yet dominate the communities in which they lived. Moreover, the active participation in ecclesiastical affairs of emperors after Constantine - particularly the intervention of Constantius II in Italy during the 350s - added a new dimension to the human environment. Such interventions defined how north Italian Christianity came into contact with ecclesiastical and theological affairs throughout the empire. In sum, the history of early Christianity in northern Italy is circumscribed by the social environment within which it developed. This thesis argues that for northern Italy - indeed for the rest of the Mediterranean - a proper understanding of Christian growth can only come from an appreciation of the particular social context of the region within which it occurred.

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Useldinger, Karl Joseph. "Canons 941 and 942 an historical survey of the law regulating veneration and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Moberg, Sanna. "Blessed are the Peacemakers? : A Comparative Case Study of Faith-Based Mediators and Their Strategies for Creating Peace." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-294487.

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This research examines faith-based mediators and their usage of mediation strategies, in relation to durability of peace agreements and it is guided by the following research question; Why do some faith-based mediators succeed to aid the creation of durable peace, while others do not? In order to find an answer to this question a hypothesis, suggesting that faith-based mediators applying the fostering, rather than the forcing, strategy will be more successful, is tested. This hypothesis mirrors the causal logic, suggesting that faith-based mediators have the potential to contribute to the creation of durable peace agreements, through the usage of facilitative and formulative techniques. The methodological design makes use of tools provided by Mills Method of Difference and Structured Focused Comparison. These tools aid the analysis of faith-based mediation in Uganda and Sierra Leone. The findings indicate that the application of the fostering strategy has a positive effect in relation to the process of creating durable peace agreements. However, this positive effect comes with one condition, the faith-based mediators have to be influential in relation to the peace process.

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Collier, Jacqueline. "A 'blessed asylum' or a utopian vision : the viability of a Protestant nunnery in early nineteenth-century England." Thesis, Bath Spa University, 2014. http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/5158/.

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In 1694, Mary Astell proposed the establishment of Protestant nunneries in England; in 1809, Helena Whitford reiterated the theme; yet, it was Lady Isabella King in 1816 who sought to put this radical idea into effect. A single, Irish, evangelically influenced gentlewoman, a younger daughter of the Earl of Kingston, she established the Ladies’ Association, a ‘conventual’ home for eighteen distressed gentlewomen at Bailbrook House in Bath in 1816, securing support for it from such influential figures as Queen Charlotte, William Wilberforce and Robert Southey. When Bailbrook House was sold in 1821, she relocated the Ladies’ Association to Clifton in Bristol, where its eventual failure in 1835 shattered her vision of establishing a national scheme of conventual homes that would benefit future generations of women. Limited attention has yet been paid by historians to the role elite women played in creating and managing philanthropic institutions in the early nineteenth century, particularly those aimed at assisting other women in an urban setting. Some historians of philanthropy, such as Frank Prochaska, have identified an ‘explosion’ of early nineteenth-century female activity; however, elite women’s charitable contributions have tended to be understood as rural, concentrating on family estates. Kim Reynolds, who has addressed Victorian elite women’s philanthropy in an urban setting, maintains it functioned simply as a strand of elite women’s work. This dissertation draws upon a previously unstudied collection of papers compiled and annotated by Lady Isabella King, which span the existence of the Ladies’ Association, in order to explore the nature of Lady Isabella’s involvement in this philanthropic venture and her understanding of her role. Thus it not only seeks to recover Lady Isabella as an important historical figure in the development of early nineteenth-century philanthropic ventures, something for which she was recognised by her contemporaries, but also to examine the structure of her unique experimental institution and cast some light on the sorts of women who became its residents. By doing so, it provides a case study in the development and practical application of a philanthropic ideal. It examines the ways that Lady Isabella, quite a conventional elite single woman, used her status, her location and her networks to create and maintain the institution for nearly twenty years. It provides a valuable opportunity to examine a number of the problems she faced in establishing and running the institution, given the social and gendered milieu in which she was operating, and the strategies she employed to achieve her ends. I argue that Lady Isabella’s elite status provided her with the wealth and access to influential social circles to make a difference, that her single status added independence to devote time to her cause and while she was initially beset with self-doubts about her competence to author and manage the project, she gradually gained confidence as she developed ways to implement and manage the institution. At the same time the groundbreaking nature of the Ladies’ Association, the consequent public criticism and a growing discordant atmosphere among the residents of the institution lead to its closure in 1835.

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Davies, Elaine Fitzback. "I came to guard you : the use of Marian icons for protection." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683026.

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Alken, Martha. "The healing power of forgiving." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Armstrong, Christopher R. "Under the veil of the Virgin: the gradually developing relationship of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face to the Blessed Virgin Mary." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430298748.

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Fraatz, Charles Thomas. "Blessed Is the One Who Reads and Those Who Hear the Words of Prophecy: Rome and Revelation’s Use of Scripture." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107708.

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Thesis advisor: Pheme Perkins
The recognition of Rome in the ciphered images of Revelation 13 and 17–18 is a hallmark of historical criticism on the Revelation to John (John’s Apocalypse). This dissertation examines Revelation’s use of scripture to characterize the Roman Empire like the nations God has already defeated. The prophet-seer John spurred his audience, the churches of Asia Minor, to abandon pagan practices of eating meat sacrificed to idols and participation in emperor worship, practices seemingly tolerated by John’s opponents, Jezebel and the Nicolaitans. Unlike the majority of contemporary Jewish and Christian apocalypses, Revelation uses neither ex eventu prophecy nor pseudepigraphic narration to authorize its message to “come out” of Rome. Instead, Revelation alludes to scripture hundreds, if not a thousand, times. When describing Rome in Revelation 13 and 17–18, John alludes some six dozen times to the defeated Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the nations of Babylon, Tyre, Nineveh, and Edom, and the justly punished Judah and Samaria. God showed his servants the prophets the downfall of these powers, and they all fell. Likewise, he has shown John the vision of Rome’s desolation and the things which will happen to it soon
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology

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Falls, D. J. "Love's mirror before Arundel : audiences and early readers of Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546051.

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Dobos, Agoston. "Revitalization of ethnic churches an attempt to help the Hungarian Reformed Church in Columbus, Ohio towards a blessed future /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Douglas, Jamie Marguerite. "INVESTIGATING THE USE OF BLESSED THISTLE FOR AMELIORATION OF SYMPTOMS OF FESCUE TOXICITY IN BEEF COWS CONSUMING ENDOPHYTE-INFECTED TALL FESCUE SEED." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1781.

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The present investigation was designed to investigate the use of blessed thistle (Cnicus benedictus) in amelioration of fescue toxicosis in beef cattle. Twenty-seven crossbred Angus cows were blocked by age and weight into groups of three. Each group (n=9) was then randomly assigned to one of three dietary treatments: endophyte-free (EF), endophyte-infected (EI), or endophyte-infected with addition of cut and stemmed blessed thistle (EIBT). Each group was also randomly assigned to one of three 29-day replicates. Parameters measured during this trial included: urinary ergot alkaloid concentration (ng ergot alkaloids/mg creatinine), body weight (kg), rectal temperature (°C), serum progesterone (ng/ml), and serum prolactin (ng/ml). No effect of treatment (P>0.05) was detected in any of these parameters. A treatment x time interaction (P<0.0001) was observed for progesterone concentrations, likely a result of estrous cyclicity of cows. Results of this study suggest that we were unsuccessful in inducing fescue toxicity in test subjects assigned to EI and EIBT treatments. Minimal dietary ergovaline (1.72 μg kg-1) and cool ambient temperatures (-6.7°C to 23.3°C) likely contributed to this inability. Data from this research do suggest, however, that C. benedictus can be successfully incorporated into cattle diets. Further research will need to be performed to fully elucidate what, if any, benefits blessed thistle can have in the treatment of fescue toxicity.

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Padgett, Christopher M. "The Life and Mariology of Father Juniper B. Carol, O.F.M." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1582553304538469.

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Svendsen, Eric. "Who is my mother? : the role and status of the mother of Jesus in the New Testament and in Roman Catholicism / Eric Svendsen." Thesis, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10309.

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This work begins by providing an historical overview of Mariology, tracing Marian issues from the early fathers, to the Mariology of the Middle Age, to the apex of Mariology during the time of the Reformation and beyond. A contrast is then noted between pre-Vatican II Mariology and post-Vatican II Mariology. Matthew 1:18-25 is our first treatment of the biblical text. Here the work surveys the various views of issues related to Mary, including the meaning of Joseph's "righteousness," the meaning of "before they came together" (v. 18) and the meaning of "until" (v. 25). An indepth study is provided on the use of the phrase ("until") in the NT to see whether there are any implications for the Roman Catholic teaching of Mary's perpetual virginity. The work continues its investigation of the phrase in the LXX and in the Hellenistic literature of the two centuries surrounding the birth of Christ to see whether any clear examples of this phrase can be adduced in support of the Roman Catholic understanding of Matt 1:25. Since much of the literature examined is not available in English translation, the author has done the primary translation work himself. Equally important in this regard is the identity of the "brothers" of Jesus in the NT. A survey is provided of the three major views on the identity of those called the brothers of Jesus in the NT, listing each one's strengths and weaknesses. The work also investigates the semantic range of the words in the LXX, the NT, and the surrounding Hellenistic literature. Again, Mary's perpetual virginity is at issue. Next, we begin our examination of the status of Mary in the New Testament, starting with the Synoptic Gospels. The work surveys the common Marian accounts found in the Synoptic Gospels, and examines their impact on our understanding of the relationship between Jesus and his mother vis-a-vis her status as mother. Special considerations are given to Luke's account, which includes Marian episodes not found in the other gospels. This intent is to determine whether Luke views Mary in a different way than the other Gospel writers, and what status he gives to Mary. The work also examines the evidence for seeing special Marian symbolism in Luke. It investigates the common understanding among Roman Catholic interpreters that Luke, in his Annunciation and Infancy narratives, intends for us to see in Mary OT allusions to the Ark of the Covenant, the daughter of Zion, the Ana win, and the like. Once our investigation of the Synoptics is over, we turn our attention to John's gospel, which contains two passages of particularly Marian significance. We first examine the issues surrounding the encounter between Jesus and his mother in John 2:1-6 to see what impact, if any, this passage has on our overall understanding of Mary's role and status in the church, particularly in regard to her role in Roman Catholicism as Mediat1:ix. Next, we examine the issues surrounding the encounter between Jesus and his mother in John 19:25- 27 (at the foot of the cross) to see what impact, if any, this passage has on our overall understanding of Mary's role and status in the church, particularly in regard to her role in Roman Catholicism as Mother of the church. Our inquiry reaches its conclusion with an investigation of the possible Marian significance in Revelation 12. Here we examine the meaning of the "woman clothed with the sun," to see whether there is an allusion to Mary, as well as to the Roman Catholic understanding of her Assumption. A survey of the various views is included, as well as a survey of views throughout the history of the church. Once finished, we propose a Mario logy that is at once biblical and honouring to the woman of whom it is said, "all generations will call [her] blessed."
Thesis (Ph.D. (New Testament))--Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2002

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Frank, Patrik Immanuel, and n/a. "Blessed is he who keeps the words of prophecy in this book : an intra-textual reading of the apocalypse as parenesis." University of Otago. Department of Theology and Religious Studies, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080506.163527.

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This thesis seeks to explore the implications of a parenetic reading of the Book of Revelation as a whole, rather than merely of the seven messages in which this is more commonly regarded as the primary purpose of the text. It examines the validity of this approach in relation to the book�s claims about its purpose in the original communication event of which its text is a witness and its effectiveness in addressing hermeneutical issues in key passages of the book and argues that attention to the function of parenesis facilitates readings of Revelation which connect more directly with the intention of the book free from the need to decipher obscure coded references to past or future history. Drawing from the text of the Apocalypse a twofold hermeneutical strategy is developed and exemplified by application to key passages of the book. The first aspect of this reading strategy is focussed on the proposed parenetic nature of the book. In an examination of Revelation�s introductory and concluding passages it is argued that as a coherent unity they form a frame around the book. This frame serves to establish the perspective from which the whole book may be read. It does so by giving rise to the expectation that the whole book contains parenetic exhortation to faithfulness in light of the imminent parousia. Consequently this thesis proceeds to interpret the Book of Revelation by focussing primarily on how the various images in the book�s body (4:1-22:9) as well as the explicit parenesis in the seven messages serve to communicate this parenetic exhortation to the original addressees. The second aspect of interpretation seeks to facilitate scholarly analysis of the parenesis expected to be contained in Revelation�s body with systematic regard for the individual situation of each of the addressees of the book, as documented in the comparatively accessible seven messages. To this end an intra-textual hermeneutic is employed. It builds on an examination of the links between the various parts of Revelation which is part of the examination of both the book�s frame and the seven messages. This intra-textual reading utilizes the many links between the seven messages and Revelation�s body by allowing them to play a determinative role in the investigation of an image�s parenetic implications. In order to further explore the validity of a parentic reading, the intra-textual principle is applied to two central parts of Revelation�s body, the Babylon vision (Rev 17-19:3) and the seal, trumpet and bowl visions (Rev 6, 8, 9, 11:15-19, 15, 16). In this reading, the Babylon vision is read not as a general critique of the church�s pagan environment but as a divine commentary on the concrete threats and temptations with which the churches of the seven messages were confronted. In God�s judgment of Babylon those who suffer under her violence against Christians are promised vindication and are thus encouraged to maintain their faithful witness as citizens of the New Jerusalem. The citizens of Babylon however are exhorted to repent and leave her behind, becoming citizens of the New Jerusalem and thus escaping Babylon�s demise. The seal, trumpet and bowl visions are interpreted as illustrating the dividing line between what constitutes faithful witness to Christ on the one hand and heed to satanic deception on the other. Faithfulness even to the point of death is expected of the followers of the Lamb; the inhabitants of the earth are exhorted to repent from their affiliation with the beast and give glory to God. Thus such an intra-textual reading of Revelation as parenesis offers a strategy for reading the book in a way that is relevant for the Christian church beyond the limits of end-time phantasms on the one hand and mere historic interest on the other hand and so might facilitate the emergence of the message of the book from the obscurity in which it appears to be hidden to a significant proportion of its contemporary readers.

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Roth, Gregory E. "Ave Maria, o auctrix vite: Mary in the visions of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430754980.

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Davison, Timothy. "Immaculate Conception and original sin in recent authors: a study in the relationship between these two doctrines." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430318580.

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Boccardi, Donald S. M. "Contemporary attitudes towards Mary in the United States: the reception of ecumenical dialogues by clergy and laity of eight denominations." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430300866.

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Burns, Ruth Barbara. "Reading race in Western Christian visual culture : tracing a delirium from Renaissance art to the Chris Ofili affair and contemporary religious cinema." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98915.

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This thesis examines the role of the Manichean dualism, the pervasive colour symbolism of white as good and black as evil. It looks at the manifestation of this symbolism in representations of Christianity, and the subsequent implications for race and racism in Western society. Through images of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, I posit that the Western conflation of holiness with whiteness is a primary means through which whiteness retains hegemony. I argue that Renaissance painting has had a pivotal role in privileging the white body through its hyper-whitening of both Jesus and Mary. Both figures emerge as improbable ideals of male and female whiteness, demonstrating the anxiety around the intersection of race, gender and religion. I am primarily interested in Mary and how the canon of Western art has didactically laid out the terms of her representation as a means of controlling the female body, dependant on the disavowal and whitening of her body. The privileging of religious Renaissance art results in the continued infection of the construction and reception of the Virgin's image as an ideal figure of feminine whiteness. As such, I analyze the lasting effects of the whitening of her image in the controversy surrounding the display of Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary (1996) at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, as well as her representation in Hail Mary (1985) and The Passion of the Christ (2004). These readings attempt to draw out the specious nature of the Manichean dualism of black and white, aiming to help in the creation of a space for alternative readings of race through the eyes of hegemonic society.

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Tibbetts, James J. S. F. O. "The historical development of biblical Mariology pre- and post-Vatican II (1943-1986 American Mariology)." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1431444995.

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Mauriello, Matthew Rocco. "Venerable Pope Pius XII and the 1954 Marian year: a study of his writings within the context of the Marian devotion and Mariology in the 1950s." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1431437505.

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Vickers, Kathleen. ""This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth." The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06182009-160955/.

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This thesis considers how contemporary British literature helps us negotiate better ways of being in an increasingly diverse world. Britain understood itself as a relatively homogenous white society and reacted badly when commonwealth citizens unexpectedly began to return following World War II. Colonial migrants increasingly large presence, particularly as many settled and had children, challenged the myth of a pure Anglo-Saxon Britain and forced a re-conceiving of what it is to be British. This thesis particularly examines how colonial immigrants found ways to (re)negotiate their identities as British in the face of hostility in their mother country. Chapter One looks at how Sam Selvons The Lonely Londoners depicts ways early West Indian immigrants found to endure in immediate post-war, nationalist, Britain. I argue that while working class migrants found ways to survive, they did so at the expense of personal growth. Nevertheless, their tenacity laid down the foundations of a new Britishness on which future generations could build. Chapter Two examines Hanif Kureishis The Buddha of Suburbia. I argue that Kureishis novel indicates how second-generation migrants, who are often more psychically flexible, form their identities differently to their immigrant parents. They negotiate ways of being British via their heritage and immediate family, but also with peers, and across various boundaries including those of class, gender, and culture. Chapter Three considers Zadie Smiths White Teeth. I argue that this novel suggests how immigrants negotiate their identities across even more boundaries and increasingly take advantage of the changing circumstances of life in Britain. This literature indicates reasons for some minority groups disaffection and subsequent behavior and so helps us to better understand and negotiate difference. In the Afterword, I reiterate that, starting from Britains nationalistic fear of hybridity in the 1950s, the novels in this study show the trajectory of how colonial immigrants found ways of being accepted as British. While it must remain vigilant to possible peril, Britains social imaginary has expanded to understand the benefits of multiculturalism and of valuing all citizens as equal.

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Roth, Gregory E. "Paradox beyond nature: the Marian homilies of Germanos I, patriarch of Constantinople (715-730)." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1430754356.

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Evers, Daniel. "Everything UoB Collections Search For: evers blessed Clear Search Box Search Advanced Search Browse Search 'If it were not for all these blessed revolutions, I should sink into hopeless lethargy' : a comparison of British and American literary responses to the European revolutions of 1848-51." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.689671.

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I will compare British and American literary responses to the European revolutions of 1848-51, focussing particularly on the 1848 French and 1849 Italian revolutions. Such a comparison has not previously been made, despite the fact that writers on both sides of the Atlantic were inspired to think about political and social issues through the lens of mid-nineteenth-century European events. Although they often thought differently about revolutionary history and key ideas such as democracy and republicanism, many writers from Britain and America supported the European revolutions through their works. Some, including Arthur Hugh Clough, Margaret Fuller, Robert Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB), witnessed the revolutions firsthand, either as travellers or expatriates. Even those who did not, such as Wait Whitman and Matthew Arnold, were affected by them and drew analogies between events in Europe and in their own countries. I argue that the European revolutions were central to the formation of some of the best-known works of nineteenth-century poetry, including Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage (1849), EBB's Casa Guidi Windows (1848-5 1), and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855). The political influences that shaped these works have often been overlooked in literary history and criticism, and yet the political landscape was not only influential but vital to the creativity of writers in the mid-nineteenth century. My introduction outlines the intersection of politics and literature that occurred during the revolutions. Chapters on Arnold and Clough, on Margaret Fuller, on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, and on Whitman, make the case for a political reading of the literary works I discuss. Although the thesis is author-based, I emphasise throughout the links between writers and texts, direct and indirect, which set them in dialogue with each other.

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