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Browsing Christian Thought and History by Date Published
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(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 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, 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)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 ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010)This thesis examines various attempts by New Zealand Baptists to engage with social and political issues. It does this by exploring ten significant public debates that occurred between 1882 and 2000 and attempting to ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010)Christian theologians and missiologists frequently refer to the concept of culture but do not usually generate definitions for it, relying instead on those offered by the social sciences. Underpinning this reliance is the ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010)Born in the Highland town of Oban, the British moral philosopher Donald M. MacKinnon (1913-94) was educated at Winchester College and then at Oxford, where he came under the influence of Isaiah Berlin, R. H. Lightfoot and ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)This thesis traces the uncomfortable relationship between a mainstream Christian denomination in New Zealand, the Anglican Church, and a movement of religious enthusiasm, the Charismatic Movement. The institutional Anglican ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)'Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds.' [Rom 12:2] Hans Urs von Balthasar and Eberhard Jungel are profound and imaginative thinkers who unreservedly ground their theologies ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007)This thesis relates the resurgent evangelical Protestantism of mid-twentieth century New Zealand to the extensive international historiography which has emerged over the last thirty years, especially through the work of ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006)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 ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006)In this work, I argue that the Alexandiran position on feticide found in Hellenistic Judaism and appropriated by patristic, medieval and reformed theologians is defensible in the 21st Century. I formulate an argument from ...
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(Thesis, Master of Theology, 2003)
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(Thesis, Master of Theology, 2000)
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1999)In New Zealand in the 1860s, wars were fought between Maori and Pakeha over issues of land rights and sovereignty. The traditional historiography of the period has concentrated on this inter-cultural conflict and written ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1998)
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1994)
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