This dissertation assesses--from an evangelical perspective--Phillips Brooks's classic definition of preaching as "truth through personality" and, after pinpointing its substantial deficiencies, reconstructs it with evangelical doctrines. Chapter 1 describes the legacy of Brooks's definition among evangelicals. Chapter 2 provides the contextual information necessary for evaluating Brooks's thought, with attention given to the way that he responded to the influences of romanticism in the late nineteenth century. Chapter 3 unveils Christ's incarnation as the foundation for Brooks's preaching definition, and observes the way that his formulation and anthropocentric application of the doctrine shapes his "truth through personality" concept. Chapter 4 evaluates Brooks's definition in light of evangelical foundations for preaching, and identifies its three significant dangers. First, "truth through personality" promotes a nonpropositional form of revelation in which the preacher's thoughts on truth trump the truthfulness of Scripture. Second, the definition forces too close an association between God's Word and the preacher by conceiving preaching as a replica of the incarnation--an ontological impossibility and an unbiblical notion. Third, "truth through personality" embraces a classical form of rhetorical ethos that is consistent with Quintillian, but inadmissible in Christian preaching. Tested against Pauline literature, Brooks's approach to ethos appears biblically deficient and adverse to the gospel. Chapter 5 proposes that the phrase, "truth through personality," best serves preaching when conceived as an axiom and not as a definition, and asserts that an evangelical construction of the phrase emerges only from biblical anthropological and soteriological doctrines. Constructing the phrase in an evangelical manner, though, requires three clarifications. First, preaching extends God's mode of special revelation-- through human personality--not ontologically or phenomenologically, but functionally as a means of accommodating human weakness. Second, preaching--as a person-to-person encounter--forms a means by which God accomplishes his saving work. Third, when informed by evangelical anthropology and soteriology, "truth through personality" maintains the notion of the preacher as a personal witness to a divine message, not as another incarnation. Finally, the chapter discusses the practical implications of an evangelical construction of "truth through personality," including personal presentation and sermon application. / This item is only available to students and faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. If you are not associated with SBTS, this dissertation may be purchased from <a href="http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb">http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb</a> or downloaded through ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses database if your institution subscribes to that service.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Maria Gindhart, committee chair; Susan Richmond, Akela Reason, committee members. Electronic text (82 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed July 14, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-82).

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Many historians have failed to consider seriously the role of the Brooks-Baxter War of 1874 in ending Reconstruction in Arkansas. Of those who have, they have not examined participants in the conflict nor attempted a robust study to determine who fought in the conflict. This thesis examines the soldiers and officers of the rival armies of Joseph Brooks and Elisha Baxter. It surveys the participants' class, race, professions, places of birth, and especially places of residence at the time of the conflict. This analysis of the Brooks-Baxter War reaffirms other historians' work on the fall of Reconstruction, while finding unique characteristics to Arkansas's redemption, like substantial support from white Arkansans for upholding Reconstruction and instances of black Arkansans supporting the redeemer army of Elisha Baxter. It concludes that Arkansas redemption was typical of other redemptions in the South in the mid-1870s, insofar as the powerful role that the state Democratic Party and Democratic elites played in ending Reconstruction in the state. The Brooks-Baxter War shows, however, that redemption in Arkansas had a more moderate face in that explicit, naked white supremacist rhetoric was not as apparent in the overthrow of Reconstruction there as in some other Deep Southern states.

Thesis (M.A.)--Eastern Illinois University, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 40-41).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of Wisconsin. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Thesis (M.A.) in English--University of Maine, 2004. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-104).

Thesis (M.F.A.) Rochester Institute of Technology, 1992. / Typescript. Includes the Register for the Willard D. Morgan Archive. Includes bibliographical references.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Filosofía / Pocos saben a qué se refieren, de manera concreta, cuando hablan de inteligencia. Por inteligencia se puede entender el comportamiento de los animales, de las máquinas y los seres humanos según quién se exprese. Hay muchos, por ejemplo, que defenderían que la inteligencia es un rasgo particular de los seres humanos y no es propio de ningún otro organismo. Pero la verdad es que no existen buenas razones científicas para considerar esto último cierto. Es posible que la naturaleza de la inteligencia sea transversal a todos los organismos y no sólo característica del ser humano. Los comportamientos inteligentes en general cumplen con dos criterios: actúan en concordancia con las leyes sociales y físicas del ambiente y son diversos para responder a las circunstancias que se presentan. Esta manera de ver la inteligencia nos permite restarle relevancia en la explicación de la inteligencia a los mecanismos cognitivos que pudieran determinarla, y darle más importancia, en aquella misma explicación, a la relación de ese comportamiento con el ambiente.