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Imago Dei and the earthly life : the theological anthropology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
(2016-11-28)
This dissertation offers a theological anthropology in light of the doctrine of imago Dei and the importance of place for our understanding of human identity. Through reading the early writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in ...
The Crack in The Wall
(2016-11-28)
The Crack in The Wall is a composition constructed to serve as a “concept” work and a response to the recent increase of violent rhetoric in the political and social climate of the United States of America. In an effort ...
The symbol's end : reflections on the Coleridgean symbol's eschatological telos.
(2016-03-18)
In his famous definition of the symbol, Coleridge employs three terms that draw the symbol’s ultimate, eschatological telos into relief – representation, participation, and conveyance. Through symbolic representation, ...
Physical activity, sedentary behavior, and perceived stress among adults : an application of the theory of planned behavior.
(2016-04-08)
Background: Young and middle-aged adults engage in low levels of physical
activity, high levels of sedentary behavior, and experience high levels of stress.
Examining physical activity and sedentary behavior through the ...
LEED and STM studies of rutile (1x1) and (1x2) TiO2(110).
(2016-04-20)
The structures and properties of rutile (1x1) and (1x2) TiO2(110) surfaces are studied using low energy electron diffraction (LEED) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). For (1x1) TiO2, LEED analysis shows common ...
Cultivating character : spiritual exercises, remedial virtues, and the formation of the heart.
(2016-02-05)
According to philosophical situationists, empirical psychology suggests that most people are not virtuous, and that we should be skeptical about the possibility of cultivating virtue. I argue against the second claim by ...
Theoretical and experimental approaches to the dark energy and the cosmological constant problem.
(2016-09-08)
The cosmological constant problem is one of the most pressing problems of physics at this time. In this dissertation the problem and a set of widely-discussed theoretical solutions to this problem are reviewed. It is shown ...
Glazman-Krein-Naimark theory, left-definite theory, and the square of the Legendre polynomials differential operator.
(2016-02-27)
As an application of a general left-definite spectral theory, Everitt, Littlejohn and Wellman, in 2002, developed the left-definite theory associated with the classical Legendre self-adjoint second-order differential ...
A History of banking in Lamar County, Texas.
(2016-06-14)
The opportunity to present some facts of history regarding the banks of Lamar County has indeed been a pleasure to me. The earliest days of my recollection go back to the time when, as a small boy, much of my time was spent ...
Political pluralism and the common law tradition.
(2016-08-30)
The term “pluralism” has many meanings. In my project, I refer to the conception offered by a collection of British writers in the early nineteenth century. They understood pluralism as a response to the excesses of both ...