Browsing School of Ecumenics by Subject "Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin"
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An examination of the epistemology contained in Bernard Lonergan's Insight as a potential integrative frame for interreligious dialogue, with particular reference to Karl Rahner's Foundations of Christian Faith and Nāgarjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2014)This thesis sought to examine the viability of the epistemology proposed by Bernard Lonergan in his seminal work Insight, particularly with regard to its possible application in the field of interreligious dialogue. This ... -
Beyond the walls : a dialogue with Abraham Joshua Heschel and Edith Stein on the interreligious significance of empathy for Jewish-Christian understanding
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2010)The following thesis of approximately 94,000 words explores the interreligious significance of empathy for Jewish-Christian understanding. We examine how Edith Stein (1891-1942) responds to the call of empathy through a ... -
Coexisting in the divided city : the differences made by shared public spaces to cross-community relations in Jerusalem, Belfast and Brussels
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2016)This thesis aims to determine whether shared public spaces enhance the level and quality of cross-community relations in divided cities such as Jerusalem, Belfast and Brussels; and what differences such spaces can make to ... -
Community-based local capacities for peace in pastoralist areas : the case of Isiolo District - Kenya
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2007)There exists a conventional contention, albeit largely anecdotal, that pastoralist areas, for all intents and purposes, are “a lost cause”. There is a relentless media bombardment portraying communities forever embroiled ... -
Divided loyalties : a reconciling ethic for churches in Northern Ireland
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2006)Can a denomination publicly engage with those who are different and maintain its own theological integrity? Can a biblically, theologically and ecumenically informed ethic be developed to sustain a denomination in such ... -
Dynamics of essentialist representations of nationhood and the politics of interpretation : the role of religion in the making and unmaking of the Sri Lankan nation-state
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2008)Sometimes the impression given of the Lankan conflict by both the local and mainstream media is that the conflict has been caused by primordial or perennial antagonisms that existed between the parties involved. Such a ... -
From the tears of things to the play of grace : discerning textures of faith through a practice of reading contemporary literary texts
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2014)The core of this thesis consists of a practice of close readings of a series of texts: poetry, fiction, literary essay. Conversations about 'sacred' and 'secular' as supposedly distinct ways of naming the meaning and purpose ... -
Investigating the liberation method of interreligious dialogue as a common ground for Muslim-Christian relations in Northern Nigeria
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2004)This dissertation investigates the relevance of the liberation method of interreligious dialogue as a common ground for Muslim-Christian relations in Northern Nigeria. The region of our study is one characterised by the ... -
Isolated in academia : an analytical study of the mechanisms of academic boycotts
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2006)Academic boycotting is withdrawing support for or participation in one or more aspects of academia in order to make specific changes. Support is restored after those who are boycotted make the desired changes. The mechanisms ... -
James Henthorn Todd, a Tractarian at Trinity : making Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2015)In the following chapters I have created a biographical portrait of Todd as a Tractarian at Trinity College, Dublin and studied the variety and range of his texts which contributed to making Ireland in the mid-nineteenth ... -
Meaningful practices of citizenship in urban middle-class Peru : the case of political blogging
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2013)This thesis discusses political blogging as a meaningful praxis of citizenship among members of the (traditional) urban middle classes in post-transitional Peru. It examines the meanings political bloggers attach to ... -
Moral equality, war, and defence of the community : a critque and reconceptualisation of moral equality
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2015)This thesis focuses on Michael Walzer’s argument for the moral equality of soldiers and aims to reconceptualise moral equality. This concept explains why it is not a crime when soldiers kill each other during a war. In ... -
Post-Westphalian global security : the strategic implications of applying nonviolent consent theory to the global war on terror
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2009)In characterising 9/11 as a transformative moment in global security, IR realists have failed to contextualise such threats within the larger trends of global populism. The rising technological and temporal-spatial ... -
The '2002 Peace Process' in the Sri Lankan media : comparing Sinhalese, Tamil and English editorial discourse in the national newspapers
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2007)This case study analyses how three widely read national daily newspapers in Sri Lanka presented and framed the origins and ongoing development of the Norwegian-sponsored 2002 “Peace process” between the Sri Lankan government ... -
The ethics of the EU border regime : an argument for consequentialist cosmopolitanism
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2014)This thesis titled “The Ethics of the European Union Border regime: an argument for consequentialist cosmopolitanism” has been developed through a reflection on the experiences of Third country nationals from developing ... -
The Theology of Alexander Knox (1757-1831)
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2012)This thesis describes and analyses the theology of the Irish Anglican layman, Alexander Knox (1757-1831), which is here for the first time explored in depth. The method it uses is historical, focusing on Knox’s published ... -
Theology of dialogue : Trinitarian approach
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2009)The work introduces dialogue as a mode of human being that had initially been presented by Buber and his followers from a very human perspective. People always exist personally, in a dialogical realm which was viewed by ... -
Undocumented migrants and the hegemonic ideology of the system of territorial states : a critical analysis of ideological contention in Irish Christians' moral imagination
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2013)States respond punitively to those who cross their borders without authorisation. Consequently the human rights of undocumented migrants, often including the right to life itself, are systemically denied them. Every year, ... -
Women's peacebuilding iniatives in the Benue Valley, Nigeria : gender, fundamental human needs and conflict resolution
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2014)In this research, I investigate and provide a multi-disciplinary scholarly analysis of four grassroots groups of women peacebuilding in the multi-communal Benue Valley, Nigeria (BVN): to offer analysis of the causes of ...