This dissertation deals with two areas of investigation aiming to examine possibilities of convergence: the establishment of semantic outlines of the word assombração [apparition, haunting] and the analysis of occurences ...

The history of biblical interpretation is witness to the fact that whether to use the more human approach or the more supernatural approach to the Bible has always been cause for dissention in the Christian community. This ...

This paper was born from my clinical experience and from the need of a better comprehension of what happens in the therapeutic environment which affects the therapist as well as the patient. The use of the psychoanalytic ...

This thesis researches the pouring of the Spirit as a way of enabling people with power to testify about Christ and his works in the light of the narrative of Luke in the Acts of the Apostles 1: 6-8. For this we opted to ...

This research has investigated the relations between literature and religiosity elaborated from the living experience of an elderly students group with different religious beliefs, having as basis the reading and ...

Starting from a theological perspective, this dissertation explores the concept of alterity or otherness, as developed by Emmanuel Lévinas, a French-Lithuanian Jewish philosopher, outlining consequences ...

The prophecy of Ezekiel about the war against Gog, in chapters 38-39, reveals an apocalyptic scenario of a world war, with much death and destruction. This narrative filled with supposedly apocalyptic elements stands out ...

In this work we try to discover and understand why in spite of New Testament teachings a large part of the Church still guides the life of Christians based on the obligation to obey Christian duties, laws, and rules ...

Under Giorgio Agamben s perspective we search for the theoretical foundations which have involved the imagination during the western history until the moment in that this history is expropriated of the ...

This dissertation is about the theological-methodological production of Clodovis Boff. Through a historic-descriptive analysis, it synthesizes the theological production of the author in three phases. The ...