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Item A Schaefferian sociology: The social theory of Francis Schaeffer(2008-12) Henson, James; Dunham, Charlotte C.; Koch, Jerome R.This thesis seeks to explore the role of Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer in the culture war as delineated by author James Davison Hunter through his influence on the Christian Right. After a brief examination of the history of the Christian Right and an exploration of Francis Schaeffer’s life and philosophy the culture war as conceived by Hunter will be introduced and examined. Following this will be an in-depth analysis of Schaeffer’s work A Christian Manifesto. The paper will conclude with an analysis of Schaeffer’s overall role in the culture war and an examination of the social theory implicit in his work. The findings of this paper suggest that through his status in the Christian Right Francis Schaeffer has a significant impact on the culture war and, therefore, the landscape of American culture as well.Item Origen's doctrine of the soul: Platonist or Christian?(2008-05) Essary, Kirk A.; Christiansen, Peder; Lavigne, Donald E.; Webb, Mark O.This thesis attempts to exposit Origen’s doctrine of the soul as it appears in his De Principiis, a work that in our day is fraught with textual problems for a number of reasons. The first part of the thesis contains a reasonably coherent and responsible view of Origen’s psychological cosmology, and that this exposition contributes to modern understanding of Origen’s thought. More specifically, the paper attempts to illuminate, regarding each of the aspects of Origen’s doctrine of the soul, to what extent he is Platonizing and to what extent he is writing within the realm of Christian orthodoxy. Origen is certainly doing both to some extent, whether he is conscious of it or not. Themes of Platonism inherent in Origen’s De Principiis abound. However, many of the aspects of Origen’s doctrine of the soul to have a strong Christian basis. Whether from the abundant scriptural evidence that support epistemic salvation or that Origen’s maintenance of the preexistence of souls to stem primarily from his attempts to defend Christianity against Valentinus and Marcion, Origen has primarily Christian reasons for setting forth his doctrines. At almost every point that Origen’s enemies have charged him with heresy, Origen can respond with a poem from David, or a line from one of Paul’s epistles. It might have been inevitable that Origen escaped Alexandria with positive views of Aristotle’s ethics and Plato’s metaphysics. Rather than being accused of subverting Christian thought, Origen ought more often to be commended for trying to strengthen it by drawing on a peerless tradition of Greek philosophy. He has shown us that the writers of the New Testament are not themselves free from occasional Platonizing, and he always argued that rather than eschewing anything that smacks of Athens, Christianity ought to take from it what it can use for the improvement of its own doctrine, but to be careful of allowing it to supplant the major tenets of Christianity. Our goal is to show that this is, at worst, what Origen has done in presenting his doctrine of the soul in the De Principiis.Item Talking stranger: a collection of prose poems(Texas Tech University, 2006-05) Weekley, J. Marcus; Wenthe, William; Kolosov-Wenthe, Jacqueline; Patterson, JillTalking Stranger uses the prose poem genre in order to explore the hybrid nature of the prose poem and the duality of being human—flesh and spirit. The prose poems employ various personae who use seemingly disparate dictions and syntax—colloquial, metaphorical, crafted, and spoken—to convey the idea that verbal and written communication is at best, faulty, and at worst, ineffective. That said, the personae of the prose poems—male, Christian, gay, female, middle-class, childish, straight—in Talking Stranger do try to overcome their own inadequacies regarding communication and rely on their memories, imaginations, and speech in order to engage, entertain, and inform others. Likewise, the personae struggle internally with conflicts about their own physicality and spirituality, desire to live now and fear of consequences, and creativity, mortality, and malevolence. Formally, the prose poems in Talking Stranger also blend expectations about the poetic and the prosaic to utilize then upset the notions of poetry being artful and prose conveying the ordinary. More precisely, the prose poems rely on reader expectations about how prose and poetry function in order to upset those same reader notions, with the hope of making readers more aware of the already-existing generic bridge between poetry and prose.Item Talking stranger: A collection of prose poems(2006-05) Weekley, J. Marcus; Wenthe, William; Patterson, Jill; Kolosov-Wenthe, JacquelineTalking Stranger uses the prose poem genre in order to explore the hybrid nature of the prose poem and the duality of being human—flesh and spirit. The prose poems employ various personae who use seemingly disparate dictions and syntax—colloquial, metaphorical, crafted, and spoken—to convey the idea that verbal and written communication is at best, faulty, and at worst, ineffective. That said, the personae of the prose poems—male, Christian, gay, female, middle-class, childish, straight—in Talking Stranger do try to overcome their own inadequacies regarding communication and rely on their memories, imaginations, and speech in order to engage, entertain, and inform others. Likewise, the personae struggle internally with conflicts about their own physicality and spirituality, desire to live now and fear of consequences, and creativity, mortality, and malevolence. Formally, the prose poems in Talking Stranger also blend expectations about the poetic and the prosaic to utilize then upset the notions of poetry being artful and prose conveying the ordinary. More precisely, the prose poems rely on reader expectations about how prose and poetry function in order to upset those same reader notions, with the hope of making readers more aware of the already-existing generic bridge between poetry and prose.