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An exploration of the Holistic relationship between grace, truth and love in the fourth Gospel.
(2014-03-08) Nguyen, Toni
This thesis begins with an observation that our understanding of “grace upon grace” and “grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” demands revelation beyond human imagination. Grace, as God’s undeserved kindness, speaks of the truth, Jesus Christ, as self-giving love. This is the consistent testimony of Jn. 1:14-18—that grace and truth cohere in the person Jesus Christ. The portrayal is complete, which John then expounds in this completeness. In approaching this thesis, various themes will be examined through a composite interpretive approach, using the works of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Luc Marion, and Kelly and Moloney as a premise to engaging those selected dialogues of the Gospel. What is of particular interest in these works is their focus on the whole form of Jesus Christ as God’s demonstrative expression of grace and truth that is engaged at a theological level akin to aesthetics. The beauty of grace and truth is unreservedly given in love but only become tangible in the experience and lives of the beholders of Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of the Father.
Curing and Healing: Vital Elements of Catholic Health Care
(2017-11-08) Torres, Eric Manuel
In this research, the significance of curing and healing will be explored with an emphasis on how both are vital to Catholic health care. This essay aims to show that only by embracing both components can health care professionals truly care for the whole person. Moreover, Christian health care professionals ought to follow Christ’s example in order to serve in His mission of caring holistically for those that are ill. As Luke’s account of the Haemorrhoissa (Lk 8:42-48) not only provides a vignette distinguishing between curing and healing, but also an excellent example of how Christ attended to both elements, this essay will interpret this story in order to gain insight into the indispensability of both to whole person Catholic health care. Further, examples extracted form palliative care, an area of health care where curing and healing can be clearly distinguished, will be used to illustrate these elements in practical terms.
Luke's Paradise in its Judicial Setting (Lk 23:43)
(2011-03-18) Tucker, Steven
My study begins with “paradise” as it is found in the Lukan Jesus’ promise to the second criminal crucified with him (Lk 23:43). I look at the different associations “paradise” carried in the Septuagint and in Second Temple Judaism, from a royal park to the garden of Eden. Next I concentrate on the immediate context of Luke‘s “paradise,” and suggest that an informal trial and judgment is taking place in the dialogue between the two criminals and Jesus. Finally, I examine Luke‘s passion narrative and Luke-Acts for further signs of conflicting judgment between human beings and God: those whom people reject, God favours. In the end, I suggest that Luke’s thinking on “paradise” coheres with his theology of the divine reversal of unjust human situations.
Participation with Christ: Past, Present and Future Aspects of the Believer’s Death and Resurrection with Christ in Romans 6:1-14
(1998-03) Weymouth, Richard John
The thesis explores the motif of death and resurrection with Christ in Romans 6:1-14, Paul’s language, its connection to the redemptive events, to Christian baptism, faith, and ethics, and the interrelationship between its past, present and future tense aspects, concluding that it is essentially participationist in nature.
Potential Barriers to Membership of the Pauline Churches
(2011-05-12) Johns, Reginald B.
This Thesis presents a reconstruction of two of St Paul’s writings, the Letter to Philemon and 1 Corinthians, Chapter 7. Both writings deal with personal inter-relationships relevant to the specific addressees and to their communities. Paul must be heard and understood within his own cultural milieu and the Thesis discusses the socio-cultural characteristics of his and his audience’s society. Honour and Shame, Patronage and Kinship are characteristics discussed in some detail in order to understand how Paul’s preaching may have been received (leading to membership of the Pauline Communities) or rejected. Paul’s advice is sensitive to his audience who are often persons of higher status and who in turn could have been influential within the Churches. Paul does address slaves directly, particularly in 1 Cor. 7 but the Letter to Philemon is a letter on behalf of apparently a common Christian slave to his Christian Slave-owner. It suggests an alternative way of relating to such a person and the slave can be taken as representative of the disadvantaged persons who were in a majority . The advice in the Letter suggests an attitudinal change which would have been seen as a radical departure from the social norm; its influence, however, did survive in the Early Church for a good 200 years!
Rethinking the Western Non-interpolations: A Case For Luke Re-editing His Gospel
(2018) Capuana, Giuseppe
This thesis presents a new paradigm for understanding the Western non-interpolations. It argues that when Luke originally wrote his Gospel it did not contain 22:19b–20; 24:3b, 6a, 12, 36b, 40, 51b and 52a. However, at a later time, around the time Luke wrote Acts, he returned to his Gospel creating a second edition which contained these readings.
Slaves and Benefactors: A Social-Scientific Investigation Of Luke 22:21-27
(2014-03-05) Southall, Susan
This thesis examines the roles of benefaction and servitude in the Roman imperial context, to determine how Luke sees spiritual authority and Holy Spirit power as contrasted with Roman domination and greatness, showing how honour comes through humility for Jesus' disciples.
The Glory of the Human Person: the Resurrected Body in the Letter to the Romans
(2011-05-12) Rowse, Paul
The rise in scholarly and popular interest in theological anthropology has seldon seen a corresponding interest in the eschatological future of the human body. This thesis seeks to redress that imbalance by considering Paul's theology of the resurrected body as it is found in the letter to the Romans, an underdeveloped area of Pauline studies. The eschatlolgical revivification of the mortal bodies of believers will be the completion of the process of their conformity to Christ in his death and resurrection, the One who is the icon of resurrected somatic existence. The resurrection of believers in their bodies will also be the vindication of their cause as the suffering children of God. For now, the indwelling Spirit in individual believers empowers them to live according to the righteousness they have received, giving them hope that God will complete in them what he has already accomplished in Christ's bodily resurrection.
The Kingdom of God in the Gospel of Matthew
(2010) Esbensen, Michael
Utilising insights from Narrative Critisicm, informed by Historical Criticism, this thesis examines the four occurrences of the term 'the Kingdom of God' in the Gospel of Matthew: 12:28; 19:24; 21:31 and 21:43. An 'Inclusio' is identified, comprised of the section from Matthew 12:28 to Matthew 21:43. Matthew's 'Sitz im Leben' is then discussed within the context of the 'Inclusio'. Matthew clusters the themes of 'the Kingdom', 'Pharisees' and 'fruit' to warn his cmmunity not to emulate the way of contemporary Pharisaism. It was this Pharisaic imphasis which was condemned by Matthew's Jesus: 'the Kingdom ''came upon' them in Judgement 12:28 and it will be 'taken from' them 21:43. Thus Matthew deliberately uses the term 'the Kingdom of God' to devastating effect in his narrative.
Transforming Tables: Meals as Encounters with the Kingdom in Luke
(2010) Crabbe, Kylie
This discussion explores Lukan meal scenes as encounters with the Kingdom of God. Addressing the limitations of some other approaches, the thesis argues that the meals create a liminal space which brings to life the challenge and opportunity of responding to Jesus' proclamation. Initially, the study outlines background material on meal traditions Luke inherited - both those derived from Greco-Roman symposia and from tradiditons within Judaism. It then describes Jesus' proclamation of release and acceptance, and the Kingdom of God as presented in Luke, in order to demonstrate the ways in which meals embody this proclamation. Finally, the study considers two meal scenes in detail, Luke 7:36-50 and 14:1-24, and draws conclusions about the challenge to transformation which takes place in Lukan meals.

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