Browsing Wesley College and United College Undergraduate Theses (1900-1967) by Title

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    • Form Criticism and the Life of Jesus 

      Dyker, George Fraser (University of WinnipegUnited College, 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Humanism and Theism 

      Moffatt, Kenneth Herbert (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1948-04)
      The purpose of posing humanism against theism is to allow us to view the fallacies of both when they are examined analytically and objectively. It is obvious today that humanism is playing, and has played, a great role in ...

    • 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.

    • The Mennonites in Canada 

      Neufeld, Herman (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1947)
      The thesis describes the origin and rootage of the Mennonite movement in Europe and the history of the Mennonite Church in Canada. The last area of study dedicated to relations between the Mennonites and the United Church ...

    • Pauline and Johannine "New Life" 

      Lake, G. Murray (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1953-03)
      Because the Gospel has the power to change men into "New Beings," it is extremely relevant for any age. The New Testament has it as a central theme that men have been made "New Creatures," and have received "New Life," ...

    • 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. ...

    • A Primitive Mystic Hymn: A Study of the Gnostic and Christian Elements in the Syriac, "Hymn of the Soul" 

      Graham, William C. (University of WinnipegWesley College, 1900)

    • Psychological Insights of the New Testament 

      Finlayson, Barbara A. (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1947-05)
      In the last twenty years, a new relationship has emerged between psychology and religion. For a time, the tendency to regard man as a highly complicated organism, whose ideals and insights could only be explained in terms ...

    • A Review and Critique of the Doctrine of the Atonement in the Writings of British Theologians Since 1900 

      Pratt, Donald E. (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1952-04)
      That the doctrine of the Atonement is still a subject of the greatest interest and importance to theologians is evidenced by the large number of books and articles published since the turn of the century dealing with the ...

    • The Spectator-Participant Problem: A Critical Study of Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Philosophy of History 

      Wallace, Edward Hugh (University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba, 1948-04-01)
      The term "spectator-participant problem" does not refer to any very new or modern problem of thought and action but rather, it refers to a problem which has long been known to exist in the thoughts of men. The problem is ...

    • A Study of R. G. Collingwood's Theory of Logic and Philosophical Method: Its Meaning and Significance 

      Bedford, Allen Gerald (University of WinnipegUniversity of Manitoba [United College], 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 ...

    • A Study of the Kingdom of God as revealed in the 'Q' Source 

      Clark, Ralph E. (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1958)

    • 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 ...

    • The Theological Understanding of Orders 

      Fry, Joseph D. (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1953)
      The New Testament always speaks of the Church in relation to Christ. The Church is never thought of as an entity within itself possessing its own life. Rather the Church consists for the New Testament writers in Christ. ...