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Anthony Burgess and God, faith and evil, language and the ludic in the novels of a manichaean wordboy
(University of Winnipeg, 1997-05)
In this thesis, a detailed study of religious and ethical themes in selected novels by the late British writer, Anthony Burgess, will be undertaken. I will demonstrate that his work contains a consistent ethical worldview, ...
Telling Stories around the 'Electronic Campfire': The Use of Archives in Television Productions
(University of Winnipeg, 1999)
The purpose of this thesis is to develop an archival perspective on the use of archival documents in television productions and to explore the significant public programming opportunities presented to archivists by the ...
The Authorship and Characteristics of the Fourth Gospel and its Interrelation with the Synoptic Gospels
(University of Winnipeg, 1930-03)
The Fourth Gospel has been traditionally attributed to John. In modern times there has been much discussion about the authorship and value of the Fourth Gospel as a source of knowledge of its time because of the contradictions ...
Martyrdom in Latin America: Gustavo Gutierrez Challenges the Traditional Concept of Authenticated Martyrdom in the Roman Catholic Church
(University of Winnipeg, 1996-09-01)
The concept of martyrdom emerged in the pre-Constantinian Church. Many Christians believed that the martyrs, imitators of Jesus Christ in life and death, would be saved in imitation of his resurrection. The local communities ...
An Inquiry into the Adequacy of the Practice of Confession in the Christian Church
(University of Winnipeg, 1949-04)
An investigation into the nature of confession in different Christian denominations.
The "Indian," the "Other" in the Canadian Quest for Identity
(University of Winnipeg, 1981-03)
“The 'Indian,' the 'Other' in the Canadian Quest for Identity” focuses on four prairie novels of the 1970's to examine the relation of literature to a nation's identity. By looking at the way the authors use Indian characters ...
A Study of R. G. Collingwood's Theory of Logic and Philosophical Method: Its Meaning and Significance
(University of Winnipeg, 1948-03)
Every period of history and every race upon the earth have produced men who yielded to the call, so peculiar and so vital to the nature of man, to embark upon a quest for certainty. The material world, in which man lives ...
Form Criticism and the Life of Jesus
(University of Winnipeg, 1939)
The publication of David Friedrich Strauss's book, "Life of Jesus", in 1835, marked a growing interest in the historicity of the gospels. This book, as typical of the theology of its time, was based on the priority of ...
"Custodians of a Great Inheritance": An Account of the Making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives
(University of Manitoba & University of Winnipeg, 1994-05)
The Hudson's Bay Company Archives at the Provincial Archives of Manitoba is indispensable for the study of many aspects of Canadian history. This thesis will survey the history of the company's management of its archives ...
The Change of Concern in New Testament Scholarship in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
(University of Winnipeg, 1953)
The Christian religion is grounded in something given. Christian faith has its origin not in general religious experience, not in some particular esoteric mysticism, not in dogma but in a particular series of events in ...