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The Temporal-Eternal Continuum Of C.S. Lewis, Paul Medford Knowles
The Temporal-Eternal Continuum Of C.S. Lewis, Paul Medford Knowles
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This thesis is a discussion of C.S. Lewis’s unique eschatological concept, the temporal-eternal continuum, primarily through detailed descriptions of his geographical metaphor, the borderlands of heaven. Lewis believed that he had discovered, both in his own experience and in the shared history of humanity, evidence of such a continuum, a direct path from the temporal to the eternal; a path that is followed in the present, and not merely anticipated as appearing at the climactic moment of one’s death. Each person has already taken his place on that continuum, and will hold that position unless a choice is made to …
The Stations Of The Cross: A Calculated Trap?, Susan D. Shantz
The Stations Of The Cross: A Calculated Trap?, Susan D. Shantz
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
A popular Catholic devotion most familiar in images, texts, and rituals, the Stations of the Cross contains the via cruces paradigm which is at the heart of Western Christian culture. In the following text an account of the historical development of the fourteen episode devotion provides a framework from which to examine in detail four visual interpretations of the Stations of the Cross by contemporary Canadian artists. The unusual serial nature and mythic content of the sequence lent a more ritualistic quality to the creative process of each artist so that, in the extended time and space spent working on …