Mémoire de Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) : Université de Fribourg, 2015.
Institutions established depository library programmes to ensure universal access to specified documentation. Access to depository materials has traditionally been physical, requiring publishing, dispatching, cataloguing and shelving of documents. With the global shift from print to online availability of material, institutions are questioning whether their depository library programmes have...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2015.
Discrimination is one of the most challenging issues that we are faced with in the world today. It impairs human dignity and dehumanizes individuals and particular group of people, violating the order of God’s creation. It has and continues to be a critical issue and a serious challenge for Christian churches today. This thesis aims to link the theme of the liberation for the Burakumin who are...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2015.
The present study gives an outline on how bilateral and multilateral dialogues have used the notion of koinonia in relation to ecclesiology with a view to full visible Eucharistic fellowship. It is not so much an inquiry on the relation between modern communion ecclesiology, on the one hand, and scriptural and patristic visions of ecclesial unity, on the other. However, this comparison remains an...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2014.
Christ prayed that the Church be one “so that the world may believe” (John 17:21). The background of this thesis therefore is the wish to contribute to the efforts being made to realize this prayer of Christ. Our main concern is to find possible ways to address the challenges of diversity and uniformity to move forward in the search of Christian unity. In this context, the study of the...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2014 ; MASLU 10.
We are living in a world surrounded by the effects of climate change. A world exposed to the anxiety of future population and economic growth impacts such as decreasing resources and biodiversity. With a population of nine billion people by 2050, business as usual will not be an option. Sustainability has become more than a buzz‐word. It has turned into a global mindset. Already in 2007, the...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2014 ; MASLU 9.
The global luxury goods sector is outperforming the world economy with 6.5% versus 3.2% growth in 2013. While the average growth forecast for luxury goods until 2025 has been estimated at an annual rate of 8.5%, there are talks about an emerging “new normal” growth pattern of 4-6% per year for the industry. European brands still dominate the global luxury goods market worldwide and represent...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2013.
The thesis “Pastoral Counselling of the sick (case study: Ecumenical Chaplaincy of CHUV/Aumônerie Oecuménique du CHUV – Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Switzerland and Religious Assistance Service of the hospitals in the Romanian Orthodox Church, Romania)” presents the importance of Pastoral counselling, a unique form of counselling which uses spiritual and psychological...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2012.
This thesis investigates the possibilities of theological agreement between the Reformed and the Roman Catholic churches on the Eucharist from the Reformed perspective. The first chapter is dedicated to the theology of Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin on the Lord’s Supper. It unveils two aspects: first it shows that although they have different perspectives on the Christ’s Eucharistic presence,...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2012.
The study is a critical analysis of John S. Pobee’s theological thoughts on theological education in Africa focusing on social transformation. It argues that that for theological education to become relevant in the African context, it must be informed by the daily existential experiences of African people on the grassroots. By utilising a missiological analytical research methodology, the study...
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Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2012.
Indigenous spiritualities are a fact in contemporary Andean Christianity, so it is their attempt to hold gospel and culture together. As contextual manners of life, they are disseminated in and out of the churches’ tradition. Their place in the churches has been shifted from a complete aversion to a strategic tolerance of indigenous symbols and ritual practices. Thus, Indigenous spiritualities...
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