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Self-Referential Features In Sacred Texts, Donald Haase Jun 2018

Self-Referential Features In Sacred Texts, Donald Haase

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines a specific type of instance that bridges the divide between seeing sacred texts as merely vehicles for content and as objects themselves: self-reference. Doing so yielded a heuristic system of categories of self-reference in sacred texts based on the way the text self-describes: Inlibration, Necessity, and Untranslatability.

I provide examples of these self-referential features as found in various sacred texts: the Vedas, Āgamas, Papyrus of Ani, Torah, Quran, Sri Guru Granth Sahib, and the Book of Mormon. I then examine how different theories of sacredness interact with them. What do Durkheim, Otto, Freud, or Levinas say about …

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Is There A Christian View Of Everything From Soup To Nuts?, Roy A. Clouser Jun 2003

Is There A Christian View Of Everything From Soup To Nuts?, Roy A. Clouser

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Dr. Roy Clouser gave three lectures (October 21-22) as part of Dordt's 2002 Fall Faculty Lecture Series. The article below, transcribed and revised from his lecture, was the first of three presentations. These included "Is There a Christian View of Everything from Soup to Nuts?"; "How to Teach Technical Courses in a Distinctively Christian Way"; and "How a Christian Perspective Matters in Class."

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Vollenhoven And Thinking In The Light Of Scripture, John H. Kok Dec 1992