Sökning: "literature and theology"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 51 avhandlingar innehållade orden literature and theology.
1. Pearl and Contemplative Writing
Sammanfattning : This dissertation places Pearl in the context of works by the English fourteenth-century contemplative writers (‘mystics’), as well as of patristic and other theological treatises, focusing on the theme of comprehending and speaking about a transcendent divine dimension. The purpose is to show that Pearl and the works of Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing share a concern with attempting to express the inexpressible. LÄS MER
2. Be for meg også : Om forkrøpling og lengsel etter forløsning i moderne litteratur og poetikk
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with the ways in which the biblical narrative of the Fall, and more specifically the predicament of creatureliness (connoting innocence as well as depravation), can be traced as a cryptotheological motif within widely dissimilar modernist poetics and literary strategies. Postsecular theory and the return to the apostle Paul in recent political theology provide the backdrop for the seemingly disparate approaches of my case studies. LÄS MER
3. Pentecostalism, Globalisation and Society in Contemporary Argentina
Sammanfattning : In Argentina, Pentecostalism had a breakthrough in the early 1980s, and today more than 10 per cent of the population are Pentecostals. The revival coincided with a socio-political transformation of Argentinean society. LÄS MER
4. Julian, God, and the Art of Storytelling : A Narrative Analysis of the Works of Julian of Norwich
Sammanfattning : This study offers a narrative comparison of A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love, the two texts created by the first known English woman writer, Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – c. 1416). LÄS MER
5. Hjalmar Gullberg och bysantinismen – ”som paradoxer i tid och rum”
Sammanfattning : The relation between modern Western literature on the one hand and Byzantine themes and aesthetics on the other has not yet been satisfactorily examined. This dissertation presents a study of the relation between the work of the modern Swedish poet Hjalmar Gullberg (1898-1961) and Byzantinism. LÄS MER