The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between identity achievement and Christian religious ideology in selected university students attending Oregon State University. The sample consisted of two hundred and forty-nine students enrolled during the winter quarter 1978 in Psychology and Education courses. The respondents were given a Self Descriptive Inventory consisting of a religious scale (devised by the investigator), the Henry-Sims Identity Scale and Rosenberg's self-esteem scale. Each student was given a questionnaire (consisting of ninety-one responses to complete. The responses were scored and put on keypunched cards and analyzed on Cyber #3 Network Operating System (NOS) for the statistical package for the social sciences. Six hypotheses related to identity achievement and Christian religious ideology were tested, using a step wise multiple regression analysis (which yields a correlation coefficient), analysis of variance and Newman Keuls for comparisons which were made between sex, age, religious affiliations and academic majors. The .05 level of confidence was chosen for all statistical analysis. The following null hypotheses were examined: 1. There is no significant relationship between identity achievement and Christian religious ideology. (Rejected) 2. There is no significant relationship between ego career and Christian religious ideology. (Rejected) 3. There is no significant relationship between ego group and Christian religious ideology. (Rejected) 4. There is no significant relationship between ego self and Christian religious ideology. (Retained) 5. There is no significant relationship between ego effect and Christian religious ideology. (Retained) 6. There is no significant relationship between self esteem and Christian religious ideology. (Retained) The author concluded that there is a relationship between certain aspects of Christian religious ideology and identity achievement and two of its subfactors. This conclusion was made as a result of rejecting three null hypotheses: practice, experience and intrinsic dimensions correlated significantly (P < . 05) with identity achievement; ego career was correlated significantly (P < . 05) with knowledge and practice; and ego group correlated significantly with experience (P < . 05), practice (P < . 05), and belief (P < . 05). The author recommended a replication of this study using a personal interview in conjunction with the instruments in this study for analysis and comparison. Another important recommendation is the usage of an open-ended religious questionnaire which would include diverse religious groups. These two recommendations were made with the thought that they might prove helpful in further understanding the impact of a religious ideology in the life of the young person. This study must be considered with the following limitations: 1. The extent to which the instruments used accurately measure what they purport to measure may have a limiting influence on the study. 2. The study is limited to students who identify themselves as Christians. 3. Uncontrolled variables as motivation, interest, present emotional state, and other extraneous variables. 4. Limited to Oregon State University's students enrolled in Psychology courses 201, 202, and 314 and Education 309A, 311A and 311C classes. 5. Limited to students who are from 17 to 24 years of age. / Graduation date: 1978

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Thesis (M. Div.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2009. / Abstract. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-79).

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This work is an investigation of the influence of academic philosophy on non-academics in the Early Modern period (the 16th and 17th centuries). The first chapter will use Craig’s Similarity Thesis to examine Early Modern philosophy in general, Philosophy of Science and Theology and how they interacted to elevate human reason to the level of divine certainty. The second chapter will draw on Dear’s description of the changing status of mathematics in academia in the Early Modern period. This second chapter will draw the importance and divine relevance of rationality as developed in the first chapter into the discussion to further explore the relationships between science, metaphysics, mathematics and the divine. The third and final chapter will examine one particular instance of the influence of these ideas on popular thought, specifically in Girard Thibault’s early 17th century treatise instructing the reader in swordsmanship, who uses the view of mathematics and the rational mind that is discussed in the preceding chapters to inform his theories of martial arts practice and pedagogy. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.

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Chung Yi Cheung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-121). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Why This Topic? --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- The Scope of This Thesis --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- The Structure of this Thesis --- p.7 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Christianity and Nihilism --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Death of God and Nihilism --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2 --- Nihilism and the Project of Revaluation --- p.21 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- The Project of Revaluation and the Method of Genealogy --- p.26 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Fulfillment of Revaluation --- p.27 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Method of Revaluation --- p.3 3 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Genealogy of Christianity --- p.44 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Morality of Good and Evil --- p.46 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Interpretation of Human Nature --- p.53 / Chapter 4.3 --- The Ascetic Ideal --- p.58 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Nietzsche's Criticism of Christianity --- p.65 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Slave and the Overman --- p.65 / Chapter 5.2 --- The Nihilistic Effects of Christianity --- p.68 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Evaluation of Nietzsche's Understanding and Criticism of Christianity --- p.85 / Chapter 6.1 --- Nietzsche's Understanding of Christianity --- p.85 / Chapter 6.2 --- Nietzsche's Criticism of Christianity --- p.98 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.105 / Chapter 7.1 --- Dionysus versus the Crucified --- p.105 / Chapter 7.2 --- What Christian and Non-Christian Can Learn from Nietzsche --- p.109 / Chapter 7.3 --- Limitations of this Thesis --- p.112 / Bibliography --- p.114

Contemporary philosophers, wary of the vaulted metaphysical systems proposed by Enlightenment thinkers, have explored alternative avenues of doing philosophy. Unfortunately, these "new" philosophical systems often neglect their roots in ancient philosophical practice. The purpose of this thesis is to textually ascertain the ancient concept of philosophy as a way of life in the contemporary philosophical work of Simone Weil. This connection is demonstrated in two distinct yet related ways. The practical pedagogy demonstrated through biographical work and student lecture notes provide a distinct vision of her life's bent toward practical philosophy. In addition, her Notebooks, read in light of Pierre Hadot's interpretation of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, demonstrate the pervasiveness of this way of life in her personal textual engagement. In Weil, therefore, we find an important contemporary instance of continuing and reinterpreting the ancient philosophical practice where she finds her philosophical origin.

查尔斯·哈茨霍恩（1897-2000）是二十世纪美国哲学家、神学家，过程思想的重要代表人物。他在有神论领域贡献卓著，其新古典有神论不仅影响到神学、宗教哲学领域，还受到一些参与到儒耶对话的学者的关注和重视。 / 哈茨霍恩不认为上帝与宇宙是截然二分的，而是肯定二者存在千丝万缕的联系。他的思想中也包含了一套与其上帝论圆融的宇宙论。哈茨霍恩的有神论和宇宙论为我们理解人的道德行动提供了诸多暗示。这使我们可以以他的有神论和宇宙论为基础，系统阐发他思想中的伦理内涵。 / 当前过程思想与儒家的对话多集中于本体论和宇宙论领域，系统研究哈茨霍恩的伦理思想有助于我们在伦理学这一新领域中反思过程思想与儒家思想相互间的批判、建构意义。哈茨霍恩与儒家在伦理学上的对话可集中于两个主题：第一，生态伦理是过程神学家的一个重要关注，在这个领域哈茨霍恩也有自己的独到见解。在生态伦理领域，哈茨霍恩与儒家的对话研究是可能的；哈茨霍恩也可以为儒家的生态伦理建构提供具有启发意义的资源；二者的对话还可以为生态伦理学的发展提供新的视角。第二，近年汉语学界围绕儒家伦理展开的"亲亲互隐"之争一定程度上体现了儒家"差等之爱"在现代生活中的局限。若要避免"差等之爱"的不足，哈茨霍恩可为儒家伦理提供一条值得借鉴的思路。同时，基于哈茨霍恩的思想，展开家庭伦理的论说是可能的且是有意义的。 / Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) is an American philosopher, theologian, and one of the most important representatives of process thought in the 20th century. He made enormous contributions to the discussion of theism, including particularly neoclassical theism, which not only has a great influence on the research upon the fields of theology and philosophy of religion, but also attracts the attention from some scholars who have participated in Christian-Confucian dialogue. / Hartshorne does not believe that God and nature are entirely separate. On the contrary, he claims that there are various relationships between them. Inevitably, his theism and cosmology have certain implications on how to rigorously understand the moral action. We can thus systematically elucidate the significance of his thoughts based on his theism and cosmology for ethics. / The dialogues between process thought and Confucianism by far mainly focus on ontology and cosmology. A systematic study of Hartshorne's ethics may further help us to review critically and explore constructively the ethical aspect of the dialogue between process thought and Confucianism. This dialogical study of the ethics of Hartshorne and Confucianism will primarily focus on two topics. First, Hartshorne has his own ideas on ecological ethics, which is an important branch of process theology as well as an area which a dialogical study of Hartshorne and Confucianism is feasible and called for. The present study will show that research on Hartshorne’s ethics may shed light on the construction of Confucian-ecological ethics, and the dialogue between the ethics of Hartshorne and of Confucianism may facilitate the development of ecological ethics. Second, the recent debate in Chinese academia about "father and son concealing each other" reflects to a certain extent the limitation within the "hierarchical love" of Confucian ethics in modern life. Hartshorne may provide a helpful and promising approach to avoid or overcome some of the drawbacks on the "hierarchical love" in Confucian ethics. Meanwhile, his thought may further contribute to the development of family ethics. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 王計然. / Parallel title from added title page. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-132). / Abstracts also in English. / Wang Jiran.