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Pocohontas's baptism : Reformed theology and the paradox of desire [PDF]

, 1999
Seeking to elucidate certain elements of Reformed theology, the writer explores the conversion narrative concerning the baptism, in the early 17th century, of the Native American woman Pocahontas.
Fudge, Erica
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Critical evaluation of the doctrine of predestination within black-African theology: Christ the elected and electing

Theologia Viatorum, 2022
This article aims to deconstruct the ideology about God’s election in South Africa, which is attached to capitalism. I will discuss about its impact on the South African socio-politico-economic situation in the apartheid and post-apartheid era ...
Leepo J. Modise
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Fyodor Dostoevsky and America: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oldtown Folks and Issues of Calvinist Theology [PDF]

Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2020
The article considers the image of America in Dostoevsky’s artistic philosophy. It gives a brief overview of existing research, including literary, political, and mythological aspects of the American topos in Dostoevsky.
Tatyana V. Kovalevskaya
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De l’augustinisme à la théosophie

Recherches Germaniques, 2018
Despite the fact that its title definitely suggests an alchemical treatise, the present work by Johann Valentin Andreae proves, when read attentively, to be inspired by biblical theology.
Jean-François Alizon
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New technologies and the entertainment industry: Dichotomy of Supernatural and Predestination in the Narratives of Nollywood Movies

Ianna Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021
Background: The importance of genre creativity in the context of cinematic experience cannot be overstressed. This is because whoever controls content dominates audience’s mind.
Joe Odedina
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Trajectories in the Development of Islamic Theological Thought: the Synthesis of Kalam [PDF]

, 2007
The field of Islamic theology (kalam) is not merely a receptacle for the presentation of the creedal statements and doctrinal catechisms of Islam; it derives its raison d’être not only from the articulation and elucidation of the doctrines of faith, but ...
Shah, Mustafa
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PREDESTINATION AND ESSENISM [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2014
The widely spread Essenes practice of the future events prediction is likely to be based on their belief in the absolute predestination. In this light the hitherto unclarified etymology of the very term Εσσαιοι / Εσσηνοι can be traced to the Aramaic ...
Tantlevskij, Igor, Svetlov, Roman
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Free Will

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022
Free will is a perennial theological and philosophical topic. As a central dogmatic locus, it has been implicated in debates about core Christian doctrines, such as grace, salvation, sin, providence, evil, and predestination.
Aku Visala
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Voorbeskikking, goed en kwaad, menslike verantwoordelikheid, en die sending

In die Skriflig, 2023
Predestination, good and evil, human responsibility, and mission. The background of this article is the challenge that Paul deals with in Romans, namely predestination and the reference to good and evil in theology.
Pieter Verster
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'Islamic fatalism': life and suffering among Bangladeshi psychiatric patients and their families in London--an interview study 2 [PDF]

, 2013
An interview study of 44 Bangladeshi patients and relatives in eastern London demonstrated frequent appeals to God and deprecation of personal agency.
Dein, S, Littlewood, R
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