Browsing Christian Thought and History by Date Published
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The God of Israel in Robert W. Jenson's Theology
This research analyses the important place God’s identity as the God of Israel has in the systematic theology of American Lutheran theologian Robert W. Jenson. I demonstrate that the identification of the God of Israel as ... -
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Spatially Structured Ecclesiology. Reconfiguring the Confession of Christ's Presence.
From the beginning of his career Dietrich Bonhoeffer was invested in describing and then crafting a form of religious community that provided a way of being human, and a form of corporate sociality that was grounded in and ... -
Exploring a Christian conception of economic life from within Karl Barth's doctrine of creation
This thesis uses Barth’s doctrine of creation in Church Dogmatics III as a theological resource to explore a Christian conception of economic life. It gives particular emphasis to Barth’s pivotal insight that the covenant ... -
"Is Anyone In Charge Here?" A Christological Evaluation of the Idea of Human Dominion Over Creation.
How are we human beings to understand our place and apparently unique power among all other creatures of the Earth? This may seem a naive question, except that the world of the early twenty-first Century is increasingly ... -
A Theology of Spatiality: The Divine Perfection of Omnipresence in the Theology of Karl Barth
Throughout its history, the Christian Church has commonly assumed that God’s own being or nature is the opposite of ours. Human existence is conditioned by the spatial and temporal order of creation, so God is thought to ... -
Spirit Christology and Mission
It is largely acknowledged throughout the Western church that we now face various crises. Shrinking numbers and an increasingly secular society has led the church to face new questions. How do we conduct mission in ... -
A Braided River: New Zealand Baptists and Public Issues 1882-2000
This thesis examines various attempts by New Zealand Baptists to engage with social and political issues. It does this by exploring ten significant public debates that occurred between 1882 and 2000 and attempting to ... -
Imagining the revealed God : Hans Urs von Balthasar, Eberhard Jungel, and the triduum mortis
'Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds.' [Rom 12:2] Hans Urs von Balthasar and Eberhard Jungel are profound and imaginative thinkers who unreservedly ground their theologies ... -
A rising tide : the growth of Evangelicalism and Evangelical identity among Presbyterians, Anglicans and University students in New Zealand, 1930-1965
This thesis relates the resurgent evangelical Protestantism of mid-twentieth century New Zealand to the extensive international historiography which has emerged over the last thirty years, especially through the work of ... -
'The danger of vertigo' : an evaluation and critique of Theosis in the theology of Thomas Forsyth Torrance
The Christian tradition, both East and West, has developed various models and theories of the atonement as explanations of what it means to speak of the reconciling activity of God in Christ. Central to these has been the ... -
"Fouling the nest" : the conflict between the 'church party' and settler society during the New Zealand Wars, 1860-1865
In New Zealand in the 1860s, wars were fought between Maori and Pakeha over issues of land rights and sovereignty. The traditional historiography of the period has concentrated on this inter-cultural conflict and written ... -
"Church state relations in New Zealand 1940-1990, with particular reference to the Presbyterian and Methodist churches"
In the period between 1940 and 1990 church state relations in New Zealand underwent an extensive change. In 1940 New Zealand purported to be a Christian nation, while by 1990 New Zealand was said to be secular and pluralistic. ... -
The significance of apocalyptic ideas in the thought of Thomas Müntzer
This dissertation attempts to explore the apocalyptic dimension of the thought of Thomas Müntzer, a preacher and pastor of the early Reformation period in Germany who became embroiled in the "Peasants' War" of 1525 and was ...