Search for dissertations about: "letters of paul"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words letters of paul.

2. 1. Paul’s Interlocutor in Romans 2 : Function and Identity in the Context of Ancient Epistolography

   Author : Runar Thorsteinsson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Judaism; proselytes; Jews; gentiles; function; identity; diatribe; dialogical style; audience; epistolary setting; epistolary structure; epistolary analysis; Greco-Roman letters; epistolography; interlocutor; Romans 2; Romans; Paul; Bible; New Testament; circumcision; Jewish Law; Rome; Bibelvetenskap;

   Abstract : Romans 2 has long been a crux interpretum. Among matters of dispute is the function and identity of Paul’s interlocutor(s) in the chapter. While scholars agree that the individual addressed in 2:17–29 is a Jew, there is no such consensus with respect to the identity of the person addressed in 2:1–5. READ MORE

4. 2. Crisis-induced learning in public sector organizations

   Author : Edward Deverell; Paul ´t Hart; Försvarshögskolan; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; crisis-induced learning; crisis management; organizational learning; public organizations; case studies; flexibility; centralization; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan;

   Abstract : How do public organizations manage crises? How do public organizations learnfrom crises? These seemingly basic questions still pose virtual puzzles for crisismanagement researchers. Yet, the interest of the academic and practitionerrealms in crisis management has grown in recent years. READ MORE

5. 3. Pensions, retirement behaviour and financial fraud victimisation

   Author : Amedeus Malisa; Paul Nystedt; Johannes Hagen; Marike Knoef; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of four articles that explore pension investments and retirement behaviour.The first article investigates how pension communication affects the trading behaviour among pension savers. READ MORE

6. 4. Limited and universal salvation : A text-oriented and hermeneutical study of two perspectives in Paul

   Author : Sven Hillert; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Bible; New Testament; Paul; universal salvation; limited salvation; perspectives; function; argumentation; multidimensionality; liberation theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; New Testament Exegesis; nya testamentets exegetik;

   Abstract : The purpose of this dissertation is to determine whether the letters of Paul can be said to support or to refute a modern belief in universal salvation. Theoretically many scholars would regard views of limited and universal salvation as mutually exclusive. READ MORE

7. 5. Paul between Synagogue and State : Christians, Jews, and Civic Authorities in 1 Thessalonians, Romans, and Philippians

   Author : Mikael Tellbe; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of the Christian church; hono; honor discourse; parting of the ways; imperial cult; imperial ideology; Rome; civic authorities; synagogue; Josephus; Jewish rights; Diaspora Judaism; Jews; Christians; early church; Philippians; Romans; 1 Thessalonians; Paul; Bible; New Testament; Kristna kyrkans historia; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Bibelvetenskap;

   Abstract : When first-century gentile Christians withdrew from the traditional and civic Graeco-Roman cults and increasingly began to be identified by the Romans as not belonging to mainstream or common Judaism, they soon found themselves pressed "between synagogue and state." On the one side, the fact that they did not observe the Torah elicited hostility from Jews who did not want to be identified with a movement that in Roman eyes could be interpreted as seditious and thus jeopardize their own political and religious privileges. READ MORE