Reading the wedding at Cana in Galilee (Jn 2:1–11) through the lenses of introverted sensing and introverted intuition: Perceiving text differently [PDF]
Working within the reader perspective approach to biblical hermeneutics, a series of empirical studies have tested the theory that the readers’ psychological type preference between sensing and intuition (the two Jungian perceiving functions) shapes ...
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Reading the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25–37) through the lenses of introverted intuition and extraverted intuition: Perceiving text differently [PDF]
Working within the sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study focuses attention on the distinctive voices of introverted intuition and extraverted intuition, by analysing the way in which two small ...
Leslie J. Francis, Christopher F.J. Ross
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Preaching on the revised common lectionary for the feast of Christ the King: Joy for intuitive thinking types, nightmare for sensing feeling types? [PDF]
This qualitative study was positioned within an emerging scientific field concerned with the interaction between biblical text and the psychological profile of the preacher.
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Engaging Jungian function-orientations in a hermeneutical community: Exploring John 11: 1–17 [PDF]
Working within the sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical hermeneutics, the present study invited a hermeneutical community of 23 type-aware participants to explore the account of the Death of Lazarus as reported in John 11: 1 ...
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The Role and the Significance of the Reader and the Act of Reading in Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author” [PDF]
The reader and the act of reading play an important part in Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”. Barthes’s perspective of writing and the writer is appealing for this study to conduct.
Jati Ariya
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Psalm 73 is a challenging Psalm in which the Psalmist draws on rich imagery to juxtapose doctrine and experience and to juxtapose the goodness of God with divine retribution.
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CONy: a new perspective for readers of JNT [PDF]
The way knowledge advances is by finding new truths, and by discarding old beliefs. There is more than one way to progress, but the basic one is to question previously held views. The Jewish Talmudic scholars, just as the Greek sophists and, more importantly, the Socratic dialect followers, headed and developed this method. This method is invaluable in
Amos D, Korczyn, Peter, Riederer
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Exploring Psalm 73:1–10 through sensing and intuition: The SIFT approach among Muslim educators
A group of 20 Muslim educators participating in an M-level module on Islamic Education were invited to explore their preferences for sensing and intuition (the two functions of the Jungian perceiving process).
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A group of 22 Muslim educators participating in a residential Islamic Education summer school were invited to explore their individual preferences for thinking and feeling (the two functions of the Jungian judging process). They were then invited to work
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Environmental communications: The reader’s perspective [PDF]
AbstractConnecting reception theory and social semiotics, this article offers a framework for the analysis of hortatory texts. An illustrative case uses the pronouncements of environmental regulators, with the reader group represented by a sample of executives in financial institutions.
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