Look Again, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Let Live, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Lost And Found Pt. 2, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Lost And Found Pt. 1, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Need To Know, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Mother And Child, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Peach Pie, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Rituals, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Roman Collar, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Some Feelings, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Sickness And Health, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Small Change, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Spin, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Talking About It, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Time-In, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Waiting, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Yawning, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
Seeking Peace, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
"A Knot Worth Unloosing": The Interpretation Of The New Heavens And Earth In Seventeenth-Century England, 2014 CalvinTheological Seminary
"A Knot Worth Unloosing": The Interpretation Of The New Heavens And Earth In Seventeenth-Century England, John H. Duff
CTS PhD Doctoral Dissertations
Scholars interested in the history of Christian eschatological thought have focused primarily on the theme of heaven or on the various interpretations of the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20:1-6. Virtually no attention has been given to past interpretations of the biblical phrase the new heavens and earth. This dissertation uncovers the interpretations of this phrase that were extant in seventeenth-century England. These interpretations fall into two basic camps—those that understood the phrase metaphorically and those that understood the phrase literally. One group of English divines believed the new heavens and earth was a phrase referring to the new age …
"The Loved One Does Not Yet Know All She Shall Become": Mysticism As Eschatology In Medieval Writers., 2014 Calvin Theological Seminary
"The Loved One Does Not Yet Know All She Shall Become": Mysticism As Eschatology In Medieval Writers., John C. Medendorp
CTS Master of Theology (ThM) Theses
New developments in the study of Western Christian mysticism demand that the mystics be interpreted theologically if we are to accept the mystics on their own terms and take them seriously. This study argues that the medieval mystics in Europe up to the 13th century understand their work to be eschatological in nature, interpreting the mystical experience of union with the Divine as an inbreaking or foretaste of the eschaton. Reading Hadewijch of Antwerp, a 13th century Dutch mystic, together with contributions from Augustine of Hippo, Bernard of Clarivaux, and Hildegard of Bingen, this study attempts to demonstrate that the …