Sökning: "The presence of God"

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  1. 1. "Herren är mitt ibland oss" – en analys av föreställningar om gudsnärvaro i Den svenska kyrkohandboken från 1986

    Författare :Boel Hössjer Sundman; Sven-Erik Brodd; Bernice Sundkvist; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Church studies; The presence of God; Church of Sweden; liturgical texts; personal; non-personal; the 1986 Swedish Service Book; God; humankind; Divine Service; relation; general presence; event; process in humankind; the absence of God; prayer; Eucharist; forgiveness; blessing; Kyrkovetenskap; Church studies; Kyrkovetenskap; kyrkovetenskap; kyrkovetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the ways in which conceptions of the presence of God are described in the Swedish Church Service Book that was adopted by the Church Assembly of the Church of Sweden in 1986. The author has used a systematic theological method when making a close textual analysis of the liturgical texts used at the Sunday services. LÄS MER

  2. 2. The Messenger of the Lord in Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis

    Författare :Camilla Hélena von Heijne; Tord Fornberg; Mikael Winninge; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bible; Old Testament; Genesis; Judaism; early Jewish interpretation; angel of the Lord God; messenger; angelology; angelophany; ambiguous identity; relationship; God; theophany; vision; revelation; dream; anthropomorphism; angel of the Presence; hypostasis; Raphael; Gabriel; Wisdom; Logos; Old Testament Pseudepigrapha; Book of Tobit; Wisdom of Solomon; Philo; Josephus; Rabbinic literature; Midrash; Targum; rewritten Bible; Talmud; type-scene; allusion; Gospel of Luke; annunciation narrative; Gospel of John; Hagar; Jacob Israel; Aqedah.; Old Testament exegesis; Gamla testamentets exegetik;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the ambiguous relationship between God and ‘the angel of the Lord/God’ in early Jewish interpretations of Genesis, for example, Gen 16:7–14; 22:1–19, and 31:10–13. Although the designation ‘the angel of the Lord’ does not appear in Genesis 32, this text is included because it exhibits the same ambiguity as the explicit ‘angel of the Lord-texts’. LÄS MER

  3. 3. The Hermetic Piety of the Mind : A Semiotic and Cognitive Study of the Discourse of Hermes Trismegistos

    Författare :J. Peter Södergård; Anders Hultgård; Jörgen Podemann Sörensen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of religions; Religionshistoria; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : The present work explores how the concept mind is used in the discourse of Hermes Trismegistos for the bringing forth of a Hermetic piety of mind, which culminates in mystical vision and in the divinization of the initiand. In focus are some constitutive elements of a religious discourse stemming from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and which has survived largely in the form of spiritually instructive dialogues, written in the name of Hermes Trismegistos or in the names of those associated with him. LÄS MER

  4. 4. The Kakure Kirishitan of Ikitsuki Island : The End of a Tradition

    Författare :Kristian Pella; Lena Roos; Kentaro Miyazaki; Mark Teuween; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Acculturation; Christianity; folk religion; gozensama; Ikitsuki; Japan; Kakure; Kakure Kirishitan; Kirishitan; Kirishitanism; Maria-Kannon; Senpuku; syncretism; tradition; tsumoto; underground Christian; Virgin Mary; Xavier.; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Sammanfattning : The organization of the Kakure Kirishitan of Ikitsuki Island remained relatively intact until the end of the 1990s. Today it seems that this tradition is approaching its end. The Kakure Kirishitan have become a rapidly vanishing minority since much of the organized activities on the island have ceased to take place during the last decade. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Byzantine holy images and the issue of transcendence and immanence : The theological background of the Late Byzantine Palaiologan iconography and aesthetics of the Chora church, Istanbul

    Författare :Anne Karahan; Margareta Rossholm Lagerlöf; Madeleine von Heland; Øystein Hjort; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aesthetics; Balance; Basil the Great; Byzantine; Cappadocian Fathers; Chora church; Chora museum; Church Father; Fresco; Gregory of Nazianzos; Gregory Nazianzen; Gregory of Nyssa; Holy Image; Icon; Iconography; Immanence; Istanbul; John of Damascus; John Damascene; Kariye Camii; Kariye Müzesi; Kinetics; Late Byzantine; Medieval Art; Mosaic; Mural painting; Palaiologan; Palaeologan; Patristics; Transcendence; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : On the basis of theological ideas in the Christian Orthodox tradition in general, and the Cappadocian Fathers in specific, this dissertation examines how the ontology of the transcendent triune God and the human and divine in Christ is implied or manifest in the Late Byzantine Palaiologan mosaics and murals of the Chora church.The study is divided into four chapters. LÄS MER