Browsing University of Winnipeg Theses by Issue Date

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    • 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)

    • The Authorship and Characteristics of the Fourth Gospel and its Interrelation with the Synoptic Gospels 

      Robinson, George David (University of WinnipegWesley College, 1930-03)
      The Fourth Gospel has been traditionally attributed to John. In modern times there has been much discussion about the authorship and value of the Fourth Gospel as a source of knowledge of its time because of the contradictions ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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. ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • The Eagle and the Serpent: A Study in Nietzsche's Aesthetics 

      Borland, Jack C. (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1948-09)
      The thesis describes life and philosophy of famous German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche was the the first to recognize the importance of myth in the art.The author shows that Nietzsche's theory of the Apollonian ...

    • 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 Anabaptist Concept of the Church 

      Toews, J. A. (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1950-03)
      This thesis examines the Anabaptist concept of the church.

    • The Concept of Time in the New Testament 

      Tillemann, Paul D. (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1951-04)
      This thesis undertakes to examine the theology of time in the New Testament.

    • 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 ...

    • 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 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. ...

    • The Change of Concern in New Testament Scholarship in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 

      Watts, A. M. (University of WinnipegUnited College, 1953)
      The Christian religion is grounded in something given. Christian faith has its origin not in general religious experience, not in some particular esoteric mysticism, not in dogma but in a particular series of events in ...

    • 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," ...