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Keeping Silent: The Ethical Place of Silence in Theological Communication
Although many people understand silence as a passive act, I argue that silence is a powerful practice that the church must properly integrate into its communication in order to speak truthfully. To do so, I investigate the ... -
The Kelmscott "Chaucer" : William Morris's quest for the medieval reader.
(2009-08-26)William Morris's Kelmscott Chaucer was the culminating masterpiece of his "typological adventure," as he called his press. In preparing for his work at the press, he collected numerous medieval manuscripts as well as early ... -
The kid with a camera : Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic critique.
(, 2013-09-16)This thesis is an exploration of the film works of Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami. It argues that his films constitute a body of work that serves as a self-reflexive critique of cinema. Through both documentary and ... -
Kierkegaard and modern moral philosophy : conceptual unintelligibility, moral obligations and divine commands.
(2009-04-03)We moderns have lost a grasp on some of our most commonly used moral concepts. Or rather, the moral concepts that we use everyday have, in our grasp, lost the intelligibility they once enjoyed. Contemporary moral judgments ... -
Kierkegaard's dialectic of the one and the many : a Platonic quest for existential unity.
(2009-08-25)The dissertation argues that Kierkegaard's major philosophical works overall offer faith in Christ as the only genuine solution to 'the problem of the one and the many.' The problem lies with the apparently contradictory ... -
Kierkegaard’s practice of edification: indirect communication, the virtues, and Christianity.
(2006-12-05)The ultimate aim of Kierkegaard's authorship is to build up his reader's character. Kierkegaard's signed, religious works suggest this reading, but some interpreters say that the more indirect, pseudonymous character of ... -
Kinematic effects of mechanical horse simulated hippotherapy.
(2018-07-10)Hippotherapy is the use of horseback riding as a form of therapy for a variety of disabilities such as cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, and autism. It is also known that hippotherapy can be beneficial for stroke patients ... -
Kinetic characterization of thiosemicarbazones as cysteine protease inhibitors and their potential use as therapeutic agents against metastatic cancer and Chagas' disease.
(, 2013-05-15)Human cathepsins L and K are cysteine proteases that play important roles in physiological and pathological processes, such as cancer metastasis, bone resorption and neurodegenerative diseases. This research has focused ... -
Kinetic Studies of Thiosemicarbazone Inhibitors of Cruzain, a Validated Target of Cruzain
(2013-05-24)Chagas’ disease is caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. As determined by the World Health Organization, effective therapeutic medications are needed for the treatment of Chagas’ disease. Cruzain, a powerful ... -
Kinetics and mechanistic detail of Ni⁺ assisted organic decomposition reaction at low internal energies.
(, 2011-12-19)The unimolecular decomposition kinetics of jet-cooled cluster ions have been monitored over ranges of internal energies. The clusters are formed by the combination of Ni cation with and organic ketone, aldehyde or ether ... -
Kingdom of priests or democracy of competent souls? the 'Baptist Manifesto,' John Howard Yoder, and the question of Baptist identity.
(2007-03-08)This thesis examines "Re-envisioning Baptist Identity: A Manifesto for Baptist Christians in North America," a statement published by a group of Baptist theologians in 1997. The "Baptifesto," as it has come to be known, ... -
The kingship of Yahweh and the politics of poverty and oppression in the Hebrew Psalter.
(2011-01-05)This dissertation is a rhetorical critical analysis of the Hebrew Psalter's use of language connoting poverty to portray Yahweh, ancient Israel, and foreign nations and to structure the literary relationships between them. ... -
Kirvin and Streetman: a new history of the northwest section of Freestone County, 1900-1950.
(2006-12-05)A social history of the northwest section of Freestone County, Texas, focusing mainly on the towns of Kirvin and Streetman, 1900–1950, reveals the developments, the tragedies, the stories, and the obvious themes running ... -
Knot Equivalence Through Braids and Rational Tangles
(2013-05-23)A major goal in the study of knot theory is to discover more practical and universal methods that determine knot equivalence. In this paper, we will explore two methods of doing so through the use of rational tangles and ... -
Knowing the transcendent : analogous properties and speaking about God.
(2016-07-06)In this dissertation I defend an account of analogous predication that resolves a tension within classical theism between divine transcendence and knowledge of God. In chapter one I explain the tension and sketch a theory ... -
Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Organic Foods
(2014-06-02)The purpose of this project was to find out what knowledge college students have regarding myths concerning organically grown products. Since young adults are often consumers of organic products this study assesses a small ... -
Knowledge revealed to the heart : an articulation and defense of Pascal's epistemology.
(, 2011-09-14)It is the focus of this dissertation to articulate Pascal’s position, which may be viewed as a middle ground between skepticism and dogmatism; a position that induces the reader to seek. The second and third chapters ... -
Knowledge updating in jurors : cognitive load affects juror decision making.
(, 2013-05-15)Mock jurors read a trial summary describing the armed robbery of a convenience store and rendered a verdict. Then, half of the jurors viewed an exculpatory videotape of the robbery; the remaining jurors completed an unrelated ... -
Kongzi, Rawls, and the sense of justice in the Analects.
(2006-07-31)This dissertation is a comparative study of the philosophy of John Rawls and the Confucian Analects regarding the idea of a sense of justice. The first aim of this work is to correct a view that has been advanced by several ... -
Krylov methods for solving a sequence of large systems of linear equations.
(2015-07-22)Consider solving a sequence of linear systems A_{(i)}x^{(i)}=b^{(i)}, i=1, 2, ... where A₍ᵢ₎ ϵℂⁿᵡⁿ and b⁽ⁱ⁾ϵℂⁿ using some variations of Krylov subspace methods, like GMRES. For a single system Ax=b, it is well-known that ...