Search for dissertations about: "Kristna"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 27 swedish dissertations containing the word Kristna.

  2. 6. The Origins of the Synagogue : A Socio-Historical Study

    Author : Anders Runesson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ritual; archaeology; city gate; secondary state; Nehemiah; Ezra; Deuteronomy; ideology; Babylonia; Egypt; Palestine; cult centralisation; Artaxerxes I; Darius; Cyrus; administration; Persian imperial politics; origin; church; temple; Synagogue; proseuche; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : In the first century CE, synagogues existed not only in the land of Israel but in all parts of the Roman Empire where Jews lived. Although incorporating a number of activities, the most characteristic features of this institution were the public reading and teaching of torah, making the synagogue an unparalleled institution in the ancient world. READ MORE

  4. 7. Threads and Images : The Use of Scripture in Apophthegmata Patrum

    Author : Per Rönnegård; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hermogenes; Physiologus; Barsanuphius of Gaza; Dorotheus of Gaza; ergasia; chreia; referent; contextualization; monasticism; Septuagint; Early Christianity; Late Antiquity; desert fathers; reception history; Bible; Apophthegmata Patrum; Bibelvetenskap; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia;

    Abstract : This study is devoted to the use of the Bible in the Greek systematic collection of Apophthegmata Patrum (AP). After an introductory survey of earlier research on the use of Scripture in general, and that of AP in particular, the main purpose of the investigation is formulated: to describe how the Bible text is contextualized, i.e. READ MORE

  5. 8. Change and Identity : Protestant English Interpretations of John Henry Newman's Secession, 1845–1864

    Author : Erik Sidenvall; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kristna kyrkans historia; History of the Christian church; Anglo-Catholicism; Evangelicalism; anti-Catholicism; Roman Catholic Church; Church of England; John Henry Newman; communication; national identity; interpretation; Change of religious affiliation; England; Nineteenth century; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : This dissertation argues that the English Protestant interpretations between 1845 and 1864 of John Henry Newman’s secession were related to the notions which formed part of the British national identity. It demonstrates how various writers modelled their interpretations of Newman’s secession on the beliefs of British anti-Catholicism. READ MORE

  6. 9. John Rufus and the World Vision of Anti-Chalcedonian Culture

    Author : Jan-Eric Steppa; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of the Christian church; here; visions; holy man; propaganda; hagiography; Anastasius I; Zeno; Peter the Iberian; Severus of Antioch; John Rufus; Gaza; Palestine; asceticism; monasticism; monophysitism; anti-Chalcedonianism; Chalcedon; Patristics; Byzantine Empire; Late Antiquity; Kristna kyrkans historia; General; systematic and practical Christian theology; Kristen teologi allmän; systematisk och praktisk ;

    Abstract : The present study deals with the works of John Rufus, disciple of Peter the Iberian at Gaza. There are three works preserved from him, composed in Greek at the turn of the sixth century, and preserved in Syriac: the Life of Peter the Iberian, the Commemoration of the Death of Theodosius, and the Plerophories. READ MORE

  7. 10. Conversion and Contextual Conceptions of Christ: A Missiological Study among Young Converts in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

    Author : Carl Sundberg; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of the Christian church; Kä Mana; Buana Kibongi; B.; Bujo; Kongo; Ta Kimbangi; Brazzaville; Republic of Congo; Conversion conversion stories; Christology Africa; Missiology Congo Brazzaville; Eglise Evangélique du Congo; African Traditional Religion; Africa youth; African Independent Churches; Nganga; Ndoki; Kindoki; Kristna kyrkans historia;

    Abstract : This study presents contextual conceptions of Christ among young urban converts, within the Evangelical Church of Congo (EEC). The basic data consists of interviews, conversion stories, gathered during fieldwork in 1995-1997. From the data explicit and implicit conceptions of Christ were deducted and accounted for in the study. READ MORE