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The baptism of the Christian adult: theme and variations by Burnish, Raymond

“…The thesis compares the teaching about Baptism contained in the catechetical and mystagogical teaching of the fourth century Churches in Jerusalem, Antioch and Mopsuestia with that of the period 1960-1980 emanating from the Church of South India and the Catholic, Orthodox and Baptist Churches in Britain. …”
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Baptism of fire into the teaching profession : tips from the practicum. by Hussin, Habsah, Swaran Singh, Charanjit Kaur

“…As they are teaching in a 'real context' of the profession for the first time, the practicum is their 'baptism of fire' into the teaching profession and could prove to be an overwhelming experience for some of them . …”
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Baptism by fire: the pivotal role of ancient conflagrations in evolution of the Earth's flora by He, Tianhua, Lamont, Byron

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Methodist allegiance in South Nottinghamshire parishes 1770-1875 by Woodcock, Anne C

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The trinitarian gift unfolded: sacrifice, resurrection, communion by Griffiths, John Mark Ainsley

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Healing not punishment: historical and pastoral implications of the penitentials as observed in ecclesiastical networking between the sixth and the eighth centuries by Kursawa, Wilhelm

“…Although the advent of the Kingdom of God in Jesus contains as an intrinsic quality the opportunity for repentance (μετάνοια) as often as required, the Church of the first five-hundred years shows serious difficulties with the opportunity of conversion after a relapse in sinning after baptism. The Church allowed only one chance of repentance. …”
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Subject to truth: before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s by Legg, Stephen

“…The latter focuses on early Christian individual manifestations of truth (baptism, penance, and spiritual direction) forming a genealogy of confession and, Foucault suggests, of western subjectivity itself. …”
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Athanasius of Alexandria and Gregory of Nazianzus: theopoiēsis and theōsis by McLoone, Daniel P.

“…The study observes areas of convergence and divergence at each stage of their respective narratives of deification, beginning with Creation and the Fall; then the Redemptive work of Christ; Pneumatology and Baptism; the Christian life, and finally the Deified State. …”
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Full of grace and truth: the sacramental economy according to Thomas Aquinas by Vnuk, Joseph

“…We then consider Christ as graced and gracing us, first of all by our configuration to him in the sacraments (using the analogy of clothes), followed by a conformation in grace. We look at this in baptism and penance, but then we take the Eucharist as a three-fold sign, and show how it generates in us faith, hope and love. …”
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Venetian istorie: re-evaluating Giovanni Mansueti's narrative painting (1500-30's) by Matino, Gabriele

“…Chapter 3 provides an analysis of Giovanni Mansueti’s three paintings for the Scuola (The Baptism of Anianus and The Healing of Anianus, 1518; Three Episodes from the Life of St. …”
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The interrelatedness of doctrine and ascetic life: St Basil of Caesarea’s proof of the divinity of the Holy Spirit by Rozumna, Yuliia

“…In this thesis we demonstrate that St Basil defends the divinity of the Spirit not only from traditional ideas of agency of the Spirit in inspiration of Scripture and in baptism, and not only in sanctification, but also from his role in creating the world, angels and humanity, his role in teaching true doctrines and guiding the Christians, in supporting humans in their ascetic struggles, and in providing knowledge of the Father and the Son. …”
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'The dogma is the drama': participation and sacramentality in the plays of Dorothy L. Sayers by Wiedemann Hunt, Margaret

“…This study aims to unite literary and theological methodologies in arguing that Sayers’s festival plays demonstrate an increasingly participative sacramentality that culminates in the onstage baptism of the final play, written for the Festival of Britain, The Emperor Constantine.…”
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Divine, yet vulnerable: Gregory Nazianzen's human eikon by Thomas, G.R.

“…I argue that if we consider together a) Gregory’s theological anthropology in which God creates the human person specifically to be vulnerable (or porous) to the spiritual realm, b) Gregory’s high pneumatology, c) his ideas about baptism and d) the interaction between the human eikon and the devil, then we must take seriously Gregory’s ideas about a ‘divine’ eikon. …”
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