Browsing University of Winnipeg Theses by Subject "Christianity"

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    • Anthony Burgess and God, faith and evil, language and the ludic in the novels of a manichaean wordboy 

      Torchia, Darryl Anthony (University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba, 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, ...

    • Christian and Contemporary Doctrines of Man 

      Harland, H. Gordon (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1945)
      A new and thoughtful English literary critic, making an inquiry into the assumptions as to the nature and purpose of Man which underlies much modern literature, opens his work with these words: "In the Middle Ages, however ...

    • Forrest Gump: theological text in a postmodern context 

      Wells, Chris (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2004)
      As a Christian minister I have been trained in interpretation of the biblical text. This current interpretive exercise goes beyond the biblical text, however, to include contemporary artistic expression. The modern North ...

    • Holiness and the Atonement 

      Sellars, W. C. (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1952-04)
      Thesis: That the concept of Atonement as throughout the work of a God whose nature is holy love is more clearly exhibited in the classic view described by Aulen in Christus Victor than in either the subjective or objective ...

    • An Inquiry into the Adequacy of the Practice of Confession in the Christian Church 

      Quiring, Jacob H. (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1949-04)
      An investigation into the nature of confession in different Christian denominations.

    • Matteo Ricci: Friendship and Chinese Christianity 

      Poon, Raymond Wai-Man (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2022-08-16)
      In the late sixteenth century CE, Macau was a fishing village located on China's south. Ruled by the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), a fleet of ships had anchored in the village’s docks. China had limited foreign visitors. ...

    • Pragmatism in the Philosophy of Religion 

      Freer, Gordon John (University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba, 1948-03)
      In this age of turmoil and uncertainty man has to find a faith to live by. Religion has at last been recognized as the universal controversial issue. One of the many results of the action of the questioning mind is Pragmatism. ...

    • Sparks of Light: Survivor Narratives Reflected Through the Lens of Irving Greenberg’s Theology 

      Jarniewski, Belle (University of WinnipegUniversity of Winnipeg, 2018-01-22)
      In the future, when no first-person witnesses to the Shoah are left to tell their stories, we will be left with their written, audio, and video narratives. Those who will be left to bear witness for them can tell their ...

    • A Study of the Relations of the Philosophy of Pragmatism and Religious Activism 

      Mutch, Robert Bruce (University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba [United College], 1948)
      Christianity today embodies an ever increasing programme of activism. The growth of this element in the Christian religion during the past sixty years has been contemporaneous with a similar development in the field of ...