Search for dissertations about: "divine will"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words divine will.

2. 1. Revelation as Divine Testimony : A Philosophical-Theological Inquiry

   Author : Mats Wahlberg; Dirkie Smit; Gerrit Brand; South Africa Stellenbosch Faculty of Theology Stellenbosch University; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Revelation; Studies In Faiths and Ideologies; tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap;

   Abstract : The dissertation examines, on the basis of insights from contemporary analytic philosophy of testimony, the intellectual viability of the traditional Christian conception of revelation as divine testimony. This conception entails that God reveals by speaking, and that people can acquire knowledge of God and divine things by believing what God says. READ MORE

4. 2. Panentheism, Panpsychism and Neuroscience : In Search of an Alternative Metaphysical Framework in Relation to Neuroscience, Consciousness, Free Will, and Theistic Beliefs

   Author : Oliver Li; Mikael Stenmark; Karin Johannesson; Aku Visala; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; physicalism; dualism; neuroscience; consciousness; free will; process philosophy; panpsychism; panexperientialism; panentheism; emergence theory; science and religion; theism; Philosophy of Religion; Religionsfilosofi;

   Abstract : This thesis philosophically examines, critically discusses, and proposes how a plausible philosophical framework of consciousness and free will should be formulated. This framework takes into account contemporary scientific research on human consciousness and free will and its possible challenges; also it is examined how this framework should be related to theistic beliefs – especially those connected to human and divine consciousness and free will. READ MORE

5. 3. Patterns of Destiny : Hindu Nāḍī Astrology

   Author : Martin Gansten; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Candrakalanadi; Devakerala; Gurunadi; Dhruvanadi; Amsanadi; karman; karma; predestination; free will; fate; purusakara; daiva; divination; astrology; jyotihsastra; jyotisa; Nadi; Hindu astrology; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Abstract : Like all divination, Hindu astrology (jyotisa) is concerned with central religious issues such as man’s relation to the world, moral responsibility, and the revelation of a coherent divine order underlying human experience. Comprising a descriptive as well as a prescriptive aspect, jyotisa allows for both prediction and the exercise of free will. READ MORE

6. 4. The birds in the Iliad. Identities, interactions and functions

   Author : Karin Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ancient ornithology; birds; bird symbolism; divination; double motivation; divine intervention; Homer s Iliad; identity; messenger; metaphorical utterances; oral tradition; parallelism; semiotics; species interactions; transformation; transmitter; Trojan war;

   Abstract : As the topic of this study embraces and entwines what is routinely divided into two separate categories, “nature” and “culture”, the birds in the Iliad challenge modern scientific division and in some ways, our thinking. They are simultaneously birds, signs and symbols. READ MORE

7. 5. Silence : Disputes on the Ground and in the Mind among the Iraqw in Karatu District, Tanzania

   Author : Lars Hagborg; Aud Talle; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; dispute; conflict; reconciliation; narrative; Iraqw; Karatu; Tanzania; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This dissertation argues that interpersonal disputes do not escalate among the Iraqw in Karatu district, Tanzania, because of an indigenous institution called wakari, which entails the erasure of all social contact between opponents in an irreconcilable dispute. In order to clarify the relationship between the role of wakari and other factors influencing the unfolding of a dispute, such as the role of the state, social structure and cultural values promoting peace, the dissertation discusses extensively how local communities have been integrated into colonial and post-colonial systems, and how meanings of peace, conflict, prosperity and poverty are articulated in different contexts by different actors. READ MORE