Browsing by Author "J. Patout Burns"
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Charlton, Matthew Way (2008-12-06)Department: ReligionA United Methodist theology of service is developed in the general context of United Methodist sacramental theology. Baptism, as a sign of covenant with God, marks the entry into a Christian life of service in the world. ...
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Ellis, Daryl Tad (2016-11-21)Department: ReligionThis dissertation proposes a novel way of reconceptualizing the nature, origins, and theological significance of egoic self-consciousness that successfully eludes the deeply-rooted impulse to ground the “self” circularly ...
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Barker, James William (2011-07-29)Department: ReligionThe relationship of the Gospel of John to the Synoptic Gospels has been a perennial question since the patristic era, and yet there has been little sustained focus on John's connection to Matthew. Scholars have predominantly ...
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Dunn, David James (2011-05-19)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that the “postliberal” ecclesiologies of John Milbank and Stanley Hauerwas fail to account for Christian implication in the secular in part because they collapse the kingdom of God into the visible ...
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Daugherty, Bradley John (2015-11-30)Department: ReligionThe long-running schism of African Christianity in Late Antiquity and the polemical literature between Donatists and Caecilianists that it produced placed the understanding of bishops and their ministry among the issues ...
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Peper, Bradley M. (2011-04-02)Department: ReligionThe image of mater ecclesia became one of the most popular and enduring ecclesial metaphors during the patristic era. Since its introduction in the late second century, early Christian writers continuously employed mater ...
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Jefferson, Lee Morris (2008-10-10)Department: ReligionIn early Christian texts, the image of Christ the Miracle Worker was a critical component in the development of the faith. In treatises and sermons of the church fathers, the subject of Christ’s healings and miracles were ...
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Axelson, Derek Willis (2011-10-27)Department: ReligionOne of the fruits of Augustine’s labor in De Trinitate, his seminal work on the Christian doctrine of God, is that he explains how Christians encounter God in the common experience of the liturgy in synthetic concepts ...
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Davis, Joshua Bradley (2010-04-19)Department: ReligionThis dissertation isolates and analyzes the different historical approaches to the systematic theological problem of the union of the doctrines of creation and grace. I argue that the history of Western theology’s grappling ...