Religious Studies (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Transformations in 11Q10 and Old Greek Job
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2020)The thesis compares aspects of translation technique of the earliest Aramaic and Greek translations of Job which date from the Second Temple period. While some preliminary studies have noted certain similarities between ... -
Inheritance, Identity and inclusion in Matthew's gospel and antecedent traditions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2020)Inheritance terms and concepts are ubiquitous throughout the Bible and the non-biblical Second Temple material. Throughout the Hebrew Bible, the Israelites believed themselves to be the people of God uniquely chosen from ... -
Stumbling blocks to stepping stones. The torah as a key to jewish-christian reconciliation: A new model
In recent decades, and particularly since the Second Vatican Council, Christians and Jews are beginning to ask questions about one another’s traditions and slowly erode some of the age old barriers of suspicion and ... -
Jezebel's voice : a feminist reconstruction of the message to Thyatira in the Book of Revelation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2011)Although she reportedly describes herself as a prophetess, the voice of the woman whom the Book of Revelation’s misogynistic Son of Man pejoratively describes as “the Woman Jezebel” (Rev 2:20) has been silenced by its ... -
Of Persepolis and Jerusalem. Towards an evaluation of Iranian influence on the Jewish apocalyptic traditions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2010)This dissertation presents the need for a reconsideration of Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic, and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed. The Prolegomena describes the history of scholarship on the ... -
On not hiding scripture : a hermeneutics of intrusion and the visible unity of the churches
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2011)The purpose of this thesis is to ask how a freshly conceived and embodied relationship of the churches to their canon of scripture might give new life, integrity and depth to the ecumenical movement. I argue for the ... -
Immanuel theology : retrieving a theology of presence from the writings of Paul Tillich
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2009)This work introduces the concept of "Immanuel Theology", a phrase synonymous with a theology of presence which seeks to reconcile panentheistically divine transcendence and immanence as inclusive transcendence. Presence ... -
Ricoeur's ethics of the person, complemented by Aquinas's analogy, developed as an intercultural hermeneutic
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2011)This summary is intended to provide a succinct overview of the methods used and the major findings of this thesis. I will begin by presenting my methodology before indicating the final conclusions of this work. The primary ... -
Neither naked nor sacred : a theology for the public square: The Irish Catholic Church in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies, 2001)Introduction: The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, accustomed from the genesis of the Republic to a "special position," has been experiencing the loss of that privileged status. In the growing pluralism of the Republic ... -
The House Key : House as key to understanding ACTS (the micro-text) within its Roman Imperial Context (the macro-text)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies, 2002)While "house" has long been recognized as key to understanding Christianity and its world, my contention is that its analytical potential has actually been under-utilized by scholars. The study demonstrates how conscious ... -
From the domain of certitude to the relational realm: U.S. Missions in Iran and the Politics of piecemeal social change
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2019)Methodologically this thesis employs a modified microhistorical approach to small social units alongside ethical reflection on historical events and persons. A critical theory method is also utilized in combination with ... -
After Nietzsche : Nietzschean ontology and semiotics in Christological metaperspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies, 2002)Nietzschean thought has, for obvious reasons, rarely been engaged with by Christian theology. Nietzsche explicitly offers his theory of values as the precise antithesis of that of Christianity, moreover Nietzschean ... -
Church as community : theological foundations and development in practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies, 2000)Since human beings are historical in nature it follows that the church, as a community, exists in time and place. Part I of the dissertation identifies a tradition, time and place in relation to which this study of church ... -
Harmony, modesty, dialogue : a Moravian contribution towards the development of Christian theologies of religious pluralism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2003)Despite the multiplicity of religions, religious aspirations and religious goals, Christians have generally maintained that in Jesus Christ God has been revealed in an unsurpassable way. In modem times, however, Christians ... -
A holistic pastoral approach to HIV/AIDS sufferers : reduction of stigmatisation in Zimbabwe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2012)This thesis was written as a research project on A Holistic Pastoral Approach to HIV/AIDS Sufferers: Reduction of Stigmatisation in the Diocese of Mutare, Zimbabwe. The purpose of the research was to explore the connection ... -
Actualizing Israel every month : the history and development of ḤŌDEŠ ritual in Israelite and Jewish tradition (8th century BCE-200 CE)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2008)This dissertation focuses on the festival of the new moon in ancient Israel and Judah from approximately the eighth century BCE, through subsequent Jewish history to c. 200 CE. The social significance of the festival remains ... -
Wisdom's Wide Trajectory: Reading the Letter of James in Light of 4Qlnstruction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religions,Theology & Ecumenics. Discipline of Religions and Theology, 2019)This Ph.D thesis reads James in light of 4QInstruction with the understanding that these two writings, in terms of their content and influence, represent two literary examples in which sapiential and apocalyptic elements ... -
Missing persons : individual eschatology in twentieth century Protestant theology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2001)This thesis comprises a survey and critique of individual eschatology according to the major Protestant theologians of the twentieth century; Rudolf Bultmann, Karl Barth, and the post-Barthians Jurgen Moltmann and Eberhard ... -
Practical reasoning and transnational justice John Rawls's argumentation on justice in dialogue with Onora O'Neill's Kantian cosmopolitanism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2015)This thesis evaluates two opposing accounts of justice and international justice that both claim Kantian foundations: firstly, the international account offered by the political philosopher John Rawls, and, secondly, the ... -
Building a civil peace with NEPAD : a Niger Delta case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2013)This dissertation is premised on the correlation between civil peace and human development. It explores the possibility of building peace with the new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) in the light of Kant’s ...
