Search for dissertations about: "Church as Communion"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Church as Communion.

  2. 1. Byzantine holy images and the issue of transcendence and immanence : The theological background of the Late Byzantine Palaiologan iconography and aesthetics of the Chora church, Istanbul

    Author : Anne Karahan; Margareta Rossholm Lagerlöf; Madeleine von Heland; Øystein Hjort; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aesthetics; Balance; Basil the Great; Byzantine; Cappadocian Fathers; Chora church; Chora museum; Church Father; Fresco; Gregory of Nazianzos; Gregory Nazianzen; Gregory of Nyssa; Holy Image; Icon; Iconography; Immanence; Istanbul; John of Damascus; John Damascene; Kariye Camii; Kariye Müzesi; Kinetics; Late Byzantine; Medieval Art; Mosaic; Mural painting; Palaiologan; Palaeologan; Patristics; Transcendence; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : On the basis of theological ideas in the Christian Orthodox tradition in general, and the Cappadocian Fathers in specific, this dissertation examines how the ontology of the transcendent triune God and the human and divine in Christ is implied or manifest in the Late Byzantine Palaiologan mosaics and murals of the Chora church.The study is divided into four chapters. READ MORE

  4. 2. Latin Letters from Clergymen in the Province of Scania (Eastern Denmark - Southern Sweden) in the Seventeenth Century : A Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation and Commentaries

    Author : Johanna Svensson; Latin; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Neo-Latin; Latin letters; Latin epistolography; Lutheran confessional culture; clerical identity; Lutheran clergymen; North-Western Scania; Barkåkra; clerical networks; the pastor s communion; testimonials; churchings; the Treaty of Roskilde;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis comprises a critical edition of a previously unpublished manuscript from the late seventeenth century, which is housed in Lund University Library. The manuscript consists of copies of eighty-eight letters and other documents in Latin. READ MORE

  5. 3. Apostolic Succession in the Porvoo Common Statement : Unity through a deeper sense of apostolicity

    Author : Erik Eckerdal; Sven-Erik Brodd; Tiit Pädam; Susan K Wood; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Apostolicity; apostolic succession; episcopal succession; episcopate; Porvoo Common Statement; episcopacy; ecclesiology; ecumenism; substantive apostolicity; successio; traditio; communio; koinonia; ecumenical method; Kyrkovetenskap; Ecclesiology;

    Abstract : A number of ecumenical dialogues have identified apostolic succession as one of the most crucial issues on which the churches need to find a joint understanding in order to achieve the unity of the Church.When the Porvoo Common Statement (PCS) was published in 1993, it was regarded by some as an ecumenical breakthrough, because it claimed to have established visible and corporate unity between the Lutheran and Anglican churches of the Nordic-Baltic-British-Irish region through a joint understanding of ecclesiology and apostolic succession. READ MORE

  6. 4. Early Christian Determinism : A Study of The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate

    Author : Paul Linjamaa; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Tripartite Tractate; Determinism; Christian Ethics; Free Will; Origen of Alexandria; Nag Hammadi Texts; Valentinianism; Emotions; Ancient Epistemology; Early Alexandrian Christianity;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore the ethics of the Nag Hammadi text, The Tripartite Tractate. This text, the fifth tractate in Nag Hammadi Codex I, has received comparatively little attention, although it is the most detailed Valentinian treaty still extant. READ MORE