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The Spirituality of “Following Jesus” according to the Gospel of John: an investigation of "akoloutheo" and correlated motifs
Get PDFThe present thesis explores the Spirituality of following Jesus according to the Fourth Gospel by investigating the whole profile of the term akoloutheo. In particular, this thesis probes what theological implications are communicated by the association of akoloutheo with correlated motifs in the pericopes where it is employed in spiritual connotation. The texts investigated are: John 1:35-51; 8:12; 10:1-42; 12:26; 13:36-14:3; 21:1-19. Each text communicates the particular and manifold aspects of the Spirituality of following Jesus. Yet, the most distinctive aspects of the Johannine Spirituality of following Jesus imparted throughout almost all the research texts can be summarized by “directional” and “relational.” The life of following Jesus is a journey toward a destination to which Jesus leads his followers, that is, into a relationship with the Father by being with Jesus where he is, and by being with him where he goes and will be in glory. It is ultimately participating in the Son’s communion with the Father. Jesus, who was with the Father and in the bosom of the Father, came down (descended) to bring his followers to the Father, and ascends to the Father taking them with him, so they may be with him where he is with the Father in love and glory.D.Th. (Christian Spirituality)Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiolog
Light used as metaphor in the prologue of the Fourth Gospel: the influence of this metaphor on the Maronite 'Prayer of the Faithful'
Get PDFIn this dissertation, the affinities between the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel and the Maronite Prayer of the Faithful especially the use of light metaphor are examined and new hypothetic proposals are suggested: the former has influenced the latter; both of them might have shared the same milieu or have been influenced by an existent Antiochene liturgical hymn. These proposals are discussed according to reflections on the Fourth Gospel, the Antiochene Syriac Maronite Church, the light metaphor, the work done on the Prologue from a socio-rhetorical perspective and the study conducted on the first English edition of the Maronite Prayer of the Faithful.M.Th. (New Testament)New Testamen
The ‘lived experiences’ of the love of God according to a prayer in the letter of Ephesians
Get PDFThe epistle to the Ephesians is regarded as a circular letter, yet it also contains two specific
intercessory prayers (1:15–23; 3:14–21) in which the Trinity concept features persuasively. On
the one side, this research tends to point out how the divine attribute of love relates to all three
the divine persons in cooperation and how the trinity concept features in the prayer in
Ephesians 3:14–21. On the other side, the article also aims to identify conceived spiritualities
(lived experiences of the divine trinity) that the hearers (readers) could have perceived and
experienced when hearing this prayer or even praying this prayer themselves. Methodologically,
the ‘hermeneutic research approach’, as proposed and developed by Waaijman and Iser, has
been deductively applied for the investigation in this research. Firstly, the dynamic and
relational character of the trinitarian God is briefly discussed. Secondly, an exploration of the
appearance and inclusion of trinitarianism in Ephesians has been conducted. Thirdly, the
focus falls on trinitarian spirituality (the divine attribute of love) in Ephesians 3:14–21.
Mechanisms proposed by Waaijman and Iser, which could foster spiritualities in the reading
of texts, have been applied to Ephesians 3:14–21 to contribute towards a validation for a
trinitarian spirituality of prayer.
Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This research challenges believers to
experience divine presence in the reading of biblical texts, how the reader can become involved
in the text. This spirituality will certainly prepare them to experience the divine involvement
in their personal life every day. The magnificent methodology proposed by Waaijman has
been applied to guide the believers in accomplishing this
The concept and activity of 'obedience' in the Gospel of John
Get PDFThe concept and activity of obedience can be regarded as fundamental to human existence as
well as to Christian religion. The focus of this study was to investigate the occurrence of this
concept in the Gospel of John. Of the two well-known Greek nouns ὑπακοή and ἀπειθέω
(translated as ‘obedience’), and the two related verbs ὑπακούω and ἀπειθέω (translated as
‘obedient’), only ἀπειθέω occurs once (3:36) in the Gospel of John. The verb τηρέω has been used
several times and not consistently translated because of diverse literary contexts. The objective
of this study was to point out how the Gospel of John is filled with the obedience concept
and how it was implied from different perspectives. The following themes associated with
obedience will be discussed: (1) obedience to God as Father, (2) the essence of obedience – to
love, (3) various expressions of obedience, (4) the ability to obey, (5) Christian obedience is to
become like Jesus and (6) the rewards of being obedient.
Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The concept and activity, ‘obedience’,
are understood as a virtue fundamental to human existence, as well as fundamentally essential
and important for the Christian religion. This article investigates the occurrence of ‘obedience’
in the Gospel of John. To experience God’s blessings and enjoy God’s communion, God should
be obeyed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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