Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / The problem of this dissertation was to discover how Georgia Harkness's philosophical thought developed from the Boston Personalist Tradition which she studied under Edgar S. Brightman at Boston University into the distinctive synoptic whole that emerged in Harkness's writings. The methods of this work are historical, analytical, and critical/ comparative. / 2999-01-01