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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)This thesis offers an alternative answer to a purported enigma, the meaning of ἁρπαγμόν in Philippians 2:6. Solutions which are based on the supposed synonymity of that word with ἅρπαγμα (such as those of Lightfoot 1868 ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Violence is a significant dimension of the rhetoric of the book of Job. The opening chapters narrate events of extreme violence, and the poetic dialogues are full of language of hostility and cruelty, much of it attributed ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)This thesis presents a reading of the characters of Moses and his sister in Exodus 2 through a “hermeneutic of empathy’’ with a postcolonial consciousness. This approach emerged out of reflection about the reading process ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)Lamentations consists of multiple speaking voices, expressing a variety of theological perspectives on the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BCE, and interacting dialogically. In seeking to clarify “the” theology of Lamentations, ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This thesis uses Barth’s doctrine of creation in Church Dogmatics III as a theological resource to explore a Christian conception of economic life. It gives particular emphasis to Barth’s pivotal insight that the covenant ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This research analyses the important place God’s identity as the God of Israel has in the systematic theology of American Lutheran theologian Robert W. Jenson. I demonstrate that the identification of the God of Israel as ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)The literature of middle Judaism, including the Epistle to the Hebrews, contains considerable temple symbolism. Through a careful examination of such symbolism, this study demonstrates that the wilderness tabernacle is not ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This thesis engages with three Modern Muslims accounts of the nature of the Quran and its interpretation as basis for reform schemes. I investigate how the three Muslim intellectuals Fazlur Rahman (d. 1988), Muhammad Arkoun ... -
(Thesis, Master of Theology, 2012)Through a critical use of migration theology this thesis determines pastoral outcomes for a former refugee community in Porirua, New Zealand. Resettlement after forced migration is challenging on many levels; migration ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)From the beginning of his career Dietrich Bonhoeffer was invested in describing and then crafting a form of religious community that provided a way of being human, and a form of corporate sociality that was grounded in and ... -
"Is Anyone In Charge Here?" A Christological Evaluation of the Idea of Human Dominion Over Creation. (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)How are we human beings to understand our place and apparently unique power among all other creatures of the Earth? This may seem a naive question, except that the world of the early twenty-first Century is increasingly ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This thesis investigates faith and the faithfulness of Jesus in Hebrews. Preceding studies have understated the christological dimension of faith or have made Jesus the object of faith. Furthermore, while Käsemann ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)The Davidic motif is well recognised in the Lukan narrative but David's identity as God's shepherd king has not seemed to influence how scholars have understood the Lukan Jesus and his mission to seek and save the lost. ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)It is largely acknowledged throughout the Western church that we now face various crises. Shrinking numbers and an increasingly secular society has led the church to face new questions. How do we conduct mission in ... -
(Dissertation, Master of Ministry, 2011)This research project seeks to asses what if any merits there are to the belief that the Baby Boomers, like past generations before them, will in their next and later stage of life have a strong reconnection with the church ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)Khruba Sriwichai (1878-1938) was a well-known monk in Thailand and especially in the Lanna regions in the northern part of the country. His local fame spread throughout the country among a diverse group of followers. Many ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)Spirituality, as presented in this paper, is characterized as an individual’s inherent need to find meaning and purpose in life, and as being the fabric that makes each person whole, (encompassing beliefs, values, attitudes, ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Throughout its history, the Christian Church has commonly assumed that God’s own being or nature is the opposite of ours. Human existence is conditioned by the spatial and temporal order of creation, so God is thought to ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Despite the lack of both historical and exegetical clarity that has emerged from scholarly study of 1 Cor 11.2-16, this passage has often been fundamental to understandings of gender and sexuality in many Christian traditions. ...
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(Thesis, Master of Theology, 2011)This thesis considers the responses of grassroots Christians to the introduction of Sunday trading to New Zealand in 1989. The key question addressed is, “by what authority are you doing these things and who gave you this ...
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