Search for dissertations about: "divine"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 54 swedish dissertations containing the word divine.

  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. First-Order Logic and Classical Theism : Toward Logical Reorientation

    Author : Anders Kraal; Eberhard Herrmann; Mikael Stenmark; Simo Knuuttila; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; classical theism; divine simplicity; divine attributes; God; Augustine; Thomas Aquinas; first-order logic; formalization; argument-function analysis; quantifier analysis; bivalence; natural deduction; truth-bearer; inference; inference rule; logical validity; logical pluralism; logical monism; G. Frege; B. Russell; L. Wittgenstein; R. Carnap; J. Maritain; J. Salamucha; J. Bocheński; W.V.O. Quine.; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

    Abstract : This inquiry seeks an answer to the question whether classical theistic doctrines about the nature of God are amenable to formal analysis in terms of standard first-order logic. It is argued that due to the conceptual impact of classical theism’s doctrine of divine simplicity there is a good reason for answering this question in the negative. READ MORE

  5. 3. Deficient bodies and divine interventions : women, midwives, and the medicalisation of childbirth - a gender perspective

    Author : Agneta Westergren; Monica Christianson; Kerstin Edin; Ingela Lundgren; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Birth experiences; birth plan; birth setting; childbirth; cross-sectional study; femininity; feminism; focused ethnography; gender perspective; intrapartum interventions; medicalisation; midwifery; qualitative methods; women; Barnmorska; feminism; förlossning; förlossningsplan; förlossningsupplevelse; förlossningsvård; genuskonstruktion; genusperspektiv; intervention; kvalitativ metod; kvinna; medikalisering; observation; tvärsnittsstudie;

    Abstract : Background In Sweden, one of the safest countries to give birth and to be born in, there is a trend towards increasing interventions during childbirth, and fewer women than ever give birth without having their labours induced or augmented, epidural analgesia, or caesarean section. While interventions at times are vital for a safe birth, there is a growing body of evidence demonstrating that an overuse of medical and technological interventions may have adverse effects on woman and child. READ MORE

  6. 4. Sharers in Divine Nature : 2 Peter 1:4 in Its Hellenistic Context

    Author : James M Starr; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hellenistic philosophy; incorruption; virtue; ethics; participation; knowledge; koinônos; divine nature; Epictetus; Seneca; Stoicism; Plutarch; Philo; Josephus; Old Testament; Paul; 2 Peter; General Epistles; Bible; New Testament; Corpus Hellenisticum; Bibelvetenskap;

    Abstract : This book offers a theological study of an expression unique in biblical literature concerning the purpose of life: “that you might become sharers in divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4). Following an analysis of the text-immanent features in 2 Peter 1:1—11, the study delineates comparable notions of “sharers in divine nature” in selected writings that were current in the first century and contrasts these with 2 Peter. READ MORE

  7. 5. The God who Seeks but Seems to Hide

    Author : Francis Jonbäck; Mikael Stenmark; Ulf Zackariasson; Atle Ottesen Søvik; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Divine hiding; Sceptical theism; Theism; Theodicy; Value agnosticism;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to reconstruct and evaluate two types of responses to an evidential argument from divine hiding, namely the ‘value agnostic’ response and the ‘theodicy’ response. In the study, the term ‘divine hiding’ refers to the experience of all those who find themselves having inconclusive evidence for the existence of God. READ MORE