Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 2002. / Abstract. This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #028-0167. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-165).

Digest of Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1931. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 55-56.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-151).

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2006. / Abstract. Includes the hymns written for the Lenten season. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 139-142).

Digest of Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1931. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 55-56.

abstract: This dissertation is positioned at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and critical theory in order to explore the way early modern literature may be enlisted as a vehicle for a return to an ethically informed humanism, specifically with regard to how Western culture currently understands the contingent categories of "life" and "the human." While a great deal of critical work is currently being marshaled in the field of biopolitics, scholarly focus continues to be placed on the materiality of the physical body, or what I term "biopolitical materialism." What remains underexplored, however, is the reality that "life" and "the human" are deeply relational categories that should not be reduced to such material instances alone. Historically, and especially in the early modern period, "life" and "the human" are understood as interconnected and widely networked. Although such materialism indeed becomes solidified in the seventeenth-century, I seek to recuperate an ethical challenge to contemporary biopolitical materialism through an extended dialogue with early modern thinkers. By turning to works "in the Age of Shakespeare" I return attention to the originary epoch of what has been described as our "modern event horizon." I argue that within the very historical period that gives rise to the practice of biopolitical materialism exists a rich textual archive of resistance to this troubling phenomenon in the form of neighborly concern and the acknowledgement of shared creaturely estate. Chapter One inaugurates my argument by turning to Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, reading as its central theme the tragic effect inherent to dissociating the individual from the community. The remaining three chapters attend to neighborly forms given expression in three of Shakespeare's late plays: Chapter Two considers the potential political orientation of grace in Measure for Measure; Chapter Three positions neighborliness as a series of posthuman encounters in The Winter's Tale; and Chapter Four explores an early modern understanding of hospitality as stewardship at work in Timon of Athens. I conclude by turning to philosophy and political theology in order to suggest a way to think "life" as an ethical relation with, in, and through "the Age of Shakespeare." / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation English 2014

A investigação da Terra através da gravimetria implica um grande número de informações sobre o seu interior em diferentes escalas de observação. O presente estudo considerou pesquisas anteriormente realizadas na área da Zona de Fratura São Paulo (ZFSP) e Arquipélago São Pedro e São Paulo (ASPSP), no Oceano Atlântico Equatorial, cujos dados geoquímicos e petrológicos apontam a presença de uma anomalia térmica. Nesta área alguns levantamentos geofísicos já foram realizados, mas nada que contribuísse de forma significativa através de dados gravimétricos. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é a caracterização gravimétrica da Zona de Fratura São Paulo através de dados de gravidade, anomalia ar livre, anomalia bouguer, tensor gradiente da gravidade e altura geoidal residual. Como objetivo secundário, procurou-se a expressão desta anomalia térmica no campo geopotencial. Entretanto, os resultados obtidos indicam que o efeito da batimetria sobre este dados deve ser levado em consideração. Uma vez que área de estudo está localizada na porção equatorial da dorsal mesoatlântica e o processo de compensação isostática nesta área está influenciando os valores da gravidade no local. Sendo, portanto, necessária a confluência de outros métodos geofísicos para detectar a expressão desta anomalia térmica. / The investigation of the Earth by gravity implies a lot of information about the interior at different scales of observation. This study considered research previously conducted in the area of St. Paul Fracture Zone (ZFSP) Archipelago and St Peter and St Paul (ASPSP), the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean, whose petrological and geochemical data indicate the presence of a thermal anomaly. In this area some geophysical surveys have been conducted, but nothing that would contribute significantly by gravity data. The main objective of this work is the characterization of gravimetric St. Paul Fracture Zone by gravity data, free air anomaly, Bouguer anomaly, the gravity gradient tensor and residual geoid height. As a secondary objective, have sought the expression of this thermal anomaly in the field geopotential. However, the results indicate that the effect of bathymetry on this data should be taken into consideration. Since the study area is located in the equatorial portion of the mid-ridge atlantic and the process of isostatic compensation in this area is influencing the gravity values at the site. Therefore required the confluence of other geophysical methods to detect the expression of this thermal anomaly.

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The St. Paul Redevelopment Project was unique and touted as the first-of-its-kind to feature cooperation from all three levels of government. Several government agencies helped St. Paul accomplish an “impossible dream,” spending an estimated thirty million dollars to rechannel the Clinch River in the 1970s and 1980s. The small town of 1,000 residentsrelocated 100 families from South St. Paul to carry out the project, much to the dismay of many of the residents. A primary factor in enforcing the power of eminent domain in the St. Paul Redevelopment Project was the idea of “progress,” a commonality of many redevelopment projects. The St. Paul Redevelopment Project serves as a small case study of government intervention in the Appalachian region and of resistance. St. Paul as a community and “place” has been shaped by elected officials and government agencies, but ‘place’ also belongs to individuals. The example of redevelopment in St. Paul, Virginia, and the use of eminent domain exposes a complex system of power relations at work in Appalachia, that at least in the case under study, suggests how the response of one family, the Couches, reflected both participation in the dominant system of commodification and a rejection of it.

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