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Jack Clemo's vocation to evangelical poetry and erotic marriage : an examination of his poems of personal tribute and critique.
(2011-01-05)Jack Clemo, whose dates are 1916-1994, calls to us from the margins: a working-class voice from deep within in the china clayworks of Cornwall, having been educated outside the conventional system, contending with deafness ... -
Jacob and the divine Trickster : a theology of deception and YHWH's fidelity to the ancestral promise in the Jacob cycle.
(2010-10-08)The book of Genesis portrays the character Jacob as a brazen trickster who deceives members of his own family: his father Isaac, brother Esau, and uncle Laban. At the same time, Genesis depicts Jacob as YHWH's chosen from ... -
James M. Dunn and soul freedom: a paradigm for Baptist political engagement in the public arena.
(2008-10-01)In the last half of the twentieth century, James Dunn has been the most aggressive Baptist proponent for religious liberty in the United States. As the leader of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, Dunn’s ... -
James W. Fannin Jr.: A Biography
This thesis is a biography of Colonel James W. Fannin Jr., a pivotal and controversial but often marginalized figure in the Texas Revolution. Showing brilliant potential in the 1835 campaign, he was later caught up in the ... -
Java bytecode compilation for high-performance, platform-independent logical inference.
(2006-05-11)Automated reasoning systems are powerful computer programs capable of solving complex problems. They are characterized as computationally intensive having high performance requirements. Very few reasoning systems have ... -
Jean Daniélou's doxological humanism : Trinitarian contemplation and humanity's true vocation.
(2010-02-02)In the first half of the twentieth century there arose a loose conglomeration of theologians that were pejoratively dubbed la nouvelle théologie. Initially known for the monumental debate with the Dominican Thomism of the ... -
The Jeffersonian Revolution and Multiple Modes of Institutional Change in Reconstructive Presidencies
Using Thomas Jefferson's Presidency as an overarching example, the way Presidents reconstruct and implement lasting institutional change is examined. The idea that the only way presidential reconstruction occurs is in ... -
Jesus Christ Warrior-King: Analysis of the Old English Christ and Satan
(2018-05-21)The Old English poem Christ and Satan is an interesting and important work of literature, but various circumstances have left it without the widespread scholarly attention or fame of other Old English poems. This thesis ... -
Jesus on the radio : theological reflection and prophetic witness of American popular music.
(, 2011-09-14)The image of God in humanity is the image of the creator, the creative spirit, the imagination, manifest in our ability to understand, appreciate, and reflect on the beauty of God in creation. Therefore, the spirit of ... -
Jewish American Women's Autobiography: Mary Antin to Golda Meir
(2016-08-11)Throughout the twentieth century, the United States experienced vast changes such as large-scale immigration, world wars, and civil rights movements. The effects of these changes on minorities, women, and especially ... -
The Jewish and Christian Appropriation of Dionysian Iconography at Dura-Europos
(2014-06-02)The discovery and excavation of the ancient city of Dura-Europos, located in present-day Syria, provided the world with the earliest extant example of Jewish narrative art and some of the earliest Christian art dating to ... -
Jezebel or servant of God?: how Julie Pennington-Russell became the first female pastor in Texas.
(2008-10-01)In 1998 Calvary Baptist Church, in Waco, Texas, appointed Julie Pennington-Russell: the first female Baptist pastor in Texas. This thesis will show the dynamic relationship between the conservative and moderate Baptist ... -
John Dewey and Mortimer Adler on curriculum, teaching, and the purpose of schooling : how their views can be incorporated within a Christian philosophy of education.
(2008-10-02)In this dissertation, I explore the topics of curriculum, teaching, and the purpose of schooling in the philosophies of John Dewey and Mortimer Adler. The work evaluates the educational philosophies of these two prominent ... -
John Rawls and the Supreme Court : a study in continuity and change.
(2011-05-12)In his influential book A Theory of Justice, John Rawls indicates his approval of an independent judiciary and judicial review for stabilizing a just regime. His later works, particularly Political Liberalism, place ... -
Joint circuit and waveform optimization for next-generation radar.
(2018-04-17)Due to congested wireless radio spectrum, next-generation radar transmitters will need to be adaptive and reconfigurable in real time to share spectrum with wireless communication devices. Typical system optimization methods ... -
Joseph Gallieni: Pacifying Tonkin and Providing the Base for Imperial Success in French Indochina
French presence in Indochina can be traced back as far as the 16th century when European missionaries first traveled to South East Asia. The formal colonization effort began with the protectorate of Cambodia in 1863 and ... -
Journeying toward the beatific vision: the uses and abuses of Dante in Robert Elsmere.
(2007-12-04)In Robert Elsmere, Mrs. Humphry Ward addresses the Christological concerns of Victorian England. Robert’s crisis of faith and resulting inability to maintain a belief in the divinity of Christ is juxtaposed against his ... -
Judge not lest ye be judged : relationships between body mass index and engagement in a religious community.
(2010-10-08)According to the Center for Disease Control, obesity is currently at epidemic proportions in the United States. Approximately a third of American adults are obese. With the prevalence of obesity in the United States has ... -
June 17, 1953: a fifty-year retrospective on a German Cold War tragedy, 1953-2003.
(2008-04-15)The failed June 17, 1953, uprising in East Berlin and elsewhere in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) marked an early, tragic flashpoint of the Cold War. While the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) ...