Search for dissertations about: "theology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 196 swedish dissertations containing the word theology.

2. 1. Theology beyond Representation : Foucault, Deleuze and the Phantasms of Theological Thinking

   Author : Petra Carlsson; Mattias Martinson; Anders Johansson; Philip Goodchild; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Theology; Representation; Representation critique; Michel Foucault; Gilles Deleuze; Thomas J.J. Altizer; Graham Ward; Emilia Fogelklou; Death of God theology; Radical Orthodoxy; Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews; Systematisk teologi med livsåskådningsforskning;

   Abstract : Theology beyond Representation explores the theological opportunities embedded in Michel Foucault’s and Gilles Deleuze’s critique of Christian thinking and of what they regard as a Christian and oppressive logic of representation. Foucault’s and Deleuze’s thoughts on representation are currently discussed in many fields neighbouring theology (e. READ MORE

4. 2. The Dark Night : St John of the Cross and Eastern Orthodox Theology

   Author : Johannes Pulkkanen; Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm; Anders Ekenberg; Andrew Louth; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Orthodox theology; Catholic theology; mystical theology; St John of the Cross; the dark night of the soul; Plotinus; neo-Platonism; spiritual exercises; St Symeon the New Theologian; compunction; spiritual father; Vladimir Lossky; filioque; Trinitarian theology; energeiai; St Maximus Confessor; deification; union with God.; Systematic theology; Systematisk teologi;

   Abstract : Russian émigré theologian Vladimir Lossky's (1903-1958) claims in his classic study of 1944, The Mystical Theology of Eastern Church, that the emphasis on the experience of spiritual separation from God in Western mystical theology ultimately goes back to how Latin churches began to add the word filioque (and-of-the-Son) to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in the sixth century. In his explanation Lossky discusses the theology of the Greek fathers suggesting that the idea of the Spirit’s generation from both the Father and the Son both builds upon and generates philosophical ideas that conflict with the possibility of receiving personal experiential knowledge of God. READ MORE

5. 3. The Order of Value : Christian Theology and the Market Economy

   Author : Ida Simonsson; Mattias Martinson; Thomas Ekstrand; Stefan Schwarzkopf; Devin Singh; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Secularization; Post-Christian theology; Value theory; Just price; Marginalism; Christian subjectivity; Soteriology; Cosmology; Economic theology; Political theology; Systematisk teologi med livsåskådningsforskning; Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews;

   Abstract : This study explores the relationship between Christian theology and the market economy, with a particular focus on value theory. Its backdrop is the scholarly recognition of the historical intertwinement of Christian theology and secular society. READ MORE

6. 4. SACRED or NEURAL? : Neuroscientific Explanations of Religious Experience: A Philosophical Evaluation

   Author : Anne L. C. Runehov; Mikael Stenmark; J. Wentzel van Huyssteen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy of religion; Neuroscience; Neurotheology; Persinger; d Aquili; Newberg; neuroimaging technology; epilepsy; meditation; explanatory models; reductionism; religious experience; science and theology; Religionsfilosofi; Philosophy of religion; Religionsfilosofi; Philosophy of Religion; religionsfilosofi;

   Abstract : Neuroscientists place different explanations at our disposal of what religious experiences are. Some neuroscientists explain religious experiences in terms of consequences of a damaged, malfunctioning or mentally deranged brain. Others explain them in terms of existential crises. READ MORE

7. 5. Co-preaching : The Practice of Preaching in Digital Culture and Spaces

   Author : Frida Mannerfelt; Sune Fahlgren; Theo Pleizier; Avdelningen för religionsvetenskap och teologi Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; digital homiletics; online preaching; the practice of preaching; digital culture; the preaching event; Practical Theology including Religious Behavioural Sciences; Praktisk teologi med religionsbeteendevetenskap;

   Abstract : The purposes of this article-based thesis are to explore and understand preaching as a practice in general,and the practice of preaching in digital culture and spaces in particular. Informed by the practicetheory of Theodore Schatzki, it presents the results of a cross-case analysis of four di!erent case studiesof the practice of preaching in digital culture and spaces in Swedish protestant churches. READ MORE