Search for dissertations about: "theology of religions"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 41 swedish dissertations containing the words theology of religions.

  2. 21. Breaking the Pot: Contextual Responses to Survival Issues in Malaysian Churches

    Author : Göran Wiking; Malmö Medicinsk strålningsfysik; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Non-Christian religions; inculturation Malaysia; islamisation; Contextual theology; Malaysian church history; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : Protestantism in Malaysia is in many cases the result of labour migration from China and India in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Under the British colonial administration, it enjoyed a certain degree of protection. READ MORE

  4. 22. Hope and Otherness : Christian Eschatology in an Interreligious Context

    Author : Jakob Wirén; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Joseph Ratzinger; Jewish Theology; Muslim Theology; Comparative Theology; Religious Otherness; Theology of Religions; Eschatology; Jürgen Moltmann; Wolfhart Pannenberg; John Hick; Gavin D’Costa; S Mark Heim; Mujtaba Musavi Lari; Fazlur Rahman; William C Chittick; Michael Wyschogrod; Stephen Schwarzschild; Neil Gillman;

    Abstract : This study explores the question of the place and role of the religious Other in contemporary eschatology. It has three basic aims. First, to investigate how and to what extent ‘theological integrity’ of the religious Other is articulated in the eschatologies of some influential contemporary Christian theologians. READ MORE

  5. 23. Peter's legacy in early christianity : the appropriation and use of Peter's authority in the first three centuries

    Author : John-Christian Eurell; Rikard Roitto; James A. Kelhoffer; Outi Lehtipuu; Sverige Stockholm Teologiska högskolan Stockholm Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm Avdelningen för religionsvetenskap och teologi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Peter; Weber; Bourdieu; New Testament; Early Christianity; Authority; Legitimacy; Petrus; Weber; Bourdieu; Nya testamentet; Tidig kristendom; auktoritet; legitimitet; Bibelvetenskap; Nt; Biblical Studies; New testament;

    Abstract : This study combines traditional historical-critical methods with the sociological theories of Max Weber and Pierre Bourdieu in order to discuss how Peter’s authority is portrayed and used to create legitimacy in Christian texts from the first three centuries. The New Testament texts that mention Peter are discussed together with other early Christian writings that in one way or another relate to Peter as an authoritative figure. READ MORE

  6. 24. Face to face with the absent Buddha : The formation of Buddhist Aniconic art

    Author : Klemens Karlsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Buddhist art; Buddhist sculpture; Aniconic art; Indian art; Iconology; Buddhism; Buddhist meditation; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History of Religions; Religionshistoria;

    Abstract : Early art in Buddhist cultic sites was characterized by the absence of anthropomorphicimages of the Buddha. The Buddha was instead represented by different signs, like awheel, a tree, a seat and footprints. READ MORE

  7. 25. Dissolving Dualism : A Tripartite Model of Cognition for Religious Truth

    Author : Elena Kalmykova; Eberhard Herrmann; Jonsson Ulf; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; truth; religious truth; embodied cognition; dualism; Merleau-Ponty; phenomenology; cognitive science; neurophilosophy; model of cognition; theories of truth; language; meaningfulness; meaning; subjective; objective; intersubjective; scientific realism; social constructivism; Wittgenstein; white spaces; agency; gaps in cognition; enacted cognition; extended cognition; embedded cognition; epistemology; philosophy and empirical investigation; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

    Abstract : This investigation can be described as a long journey to a final destination: a truth in religion. We start by considering dualism of the subjective and the objective, the classical model of cognition that underlies notions of truth. Dualistic notions of cognition lead to serious problems, especially for religious truth. READ MORE