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Salvation
Get PDFSalvation in Christianity means being saved from sin and damnation. In other words, salvation means eternal life with God and Jesus Christ with the company of the saints in heaven. Loss of salvation means ending up in hell, cut off from God and from others as well. Hell is often pictured as a place of fire and demons. But it is not necessarily a place, certainly not a place on earth, so much as it is a state—a state of isolation from God and from others.
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One Reader Writes
No full textAnnotates and comments on familiar and obscure details and allusions to the people, places, things, events, and other references found in the story. Opens with a discussion of the story\u27s composition history and critical reception before moving into an explication beginning with the title and closing with the story\u27s employment of stream of consciousness in the final lines, noting its use in other works such as A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Topics covered include Hemingway\u27s relationship with Dr. Logan Clendening, who sent him the reader\u27s letter used in the story, and background information on venereal disease for U.S. servicemen in China during the period
Freedom of Excellence: A Thomistic View of Free Will and its relationship to the Contemporary Free Will Debate
Get PDFThis thesis puts into dialog contemporary views of human freedom with Servais Pinckaers Thomistic view of freedom, a freedom rooted in virtue. His freedom of excellence enlarges the focus from the role of volition in a single atomic human act to include the effects arising from the integration of that act and subsequent acts changing the very being of the individual. We demonstrate that Aquinas’ view of the relationship between the will and the intellect possesses a complex interplay which extends to the habits, inclinations and finally the virtues. We review the philosophical landscape with particular emphasis on libertarian and compatibilist theories, both of which rely on a purely materialistic and deterministic metaphysical framing. We survey the neuroscience evidence such as Libet’s experiment and Tse’s criterial causation formulations, including Douglas Hofstadter’s simulation proposals from the field computer science and the implications of developments in chaos theory. We argue that contemporary approaches have been undermined by the abandonment of the metaphysics of man’s final ends, the felt need to maintain a false homage to an exclusively materialistic basis to man’s being, and the failure to fully assimilate the fundamental limitations of the concept of determinism. We conclude that the role of freedom with those decisions most central and most important to us as human beings is incompatible with either a libertarian or compatibilist theory but is at the core of the concerns of freedom of excellence and is compatible with current understanding of the physical universe and the neurosciences. This freedom is to be found in the virtues we acquire in part as gifts, and then practice in our daily life. Therein lies the true locus of freedom.
Included as an appendix is a review of the scholarly literature on the development of the concept of the will from Socrates to Maximus the Confessor, and an appendix that provides an introduction to the mathematics of chaos with its implication for determinism
We are the Gap: One Cohort’s Reflection on the Impacts and Outcomes of Their Interdisciplinary Ed.D. in Leadership Program
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The purpose of this case study was to explore the career impacts and learning and development outcomes experienced after participating in an Ed.D. leadership program at the University of St. Thomas by a single cohort of nontraditional educational leaders. Qualitative data was gathered from nine members of one cohort who completed 15 in-depth interviews. A focus group was used to triangulate and validate research findings. The primary research question was what are the career impacts and learning and development outcomes of non-traditional educational leaders participating in and graduating from a cohort-based Ed.D. program in leadership. Themes emerged from the responses that highlight the collective and transformational impacts the program had on participants. The primary research findings identified three themes: (a) direct career impacts, (b) transformative learning outcomes, and (c) program learning outcomes. Ultimately, the program led to direct career impacts for several participants. The program resulted in participants becoming scholars; experiencing transformation of their worldviews, perspectives, and lives; and developing confidence in or greater refinement of their strengths and abilities. Finally, data analysis identified participants’ learning and development aligned with the five program learning outcomes, revealing that the program’s intention and impact aligned. Secondary research findings identified how participants used the highly sought credential post-graduation, and how the cohort structure influenced participants in their learning and development. The credential was used liberally as part of four cohort members’ professional identity. The credential was identified as providing legitimacy and authority for several members of the cohort. The cohort had a foundational role in supporting participants in completing the program and provided a community of scholars. Overall, the program led to transformational learning across all participants, clear attainment of intended program learning outcomes, and positive impacts on the careers of several participants
The Past, Present, and Future of Investment Treaty Conflict Management and Dispute Systems Design
Get PDFCorporate Social Responsibility and the International Investment Law Regime: Not Business as Usual
Get PDFAddictive Disorder Education: A Necessary Means to Prepare Health and Human Sciences Students to Work with Addictive Disorders
Get PDFThis banded dissertation is a culmination of three individual products that explored the role of biopsychosocial factors on addictive disorders among students in health in human sciences disciplines. This dissertation further explores the need for integration of addictive disorder education into the curricula of health and human sciences disciplines as a way to improve care for individuals with addictive disorders, decrease stigma associated with addiction by addressing implicit and explicit bias, and ultimately arm future healthcare providers with the knowledge and skill to support these individuals. Product one is a conceptual paper which explores the connection between biopsychosocial factors, addictive behaviors, stigma, and beliefs about individuals with addictive disorders. Product two reports the findings of a quantitative pilot study that assessed student beliefs toward addictive disorders. In this study, participants completed a pretest (n=92), an educational seminar on addiction, and a posttest (n=86). Findings showed that statistical significance was not present in the analysis of the three subscales and that the hypothesis was not met; however, all subscales showed improvement in the expected direction at posttest. Product three is a summary of an e-poster presentation that was part of the Council on Social Work Educations 66th Annual Program Meeting, which is a national, peer reviewed conference. The e-poster was titled Decreasing Stigma by Addressing Student Beliefs Toward Addictive Disorders
The Red Badge of Courage and World War II
No full textOn Hemingway\u27s admiration of Crane\u27s Red Badge for its authentic depiction of battle, the only complete novel he included in his 1942 anthology of war stories, Men at War. Hayes speculates on when Hemingway first read the novel and comments on his careful arrangement of the anthology\u27s material
Intimacy and Revenge: The Psychological Dynamics of Literary Widows
No full textDespite an agreement with her husband to refrain from being a Boswell wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway kept a diary that spanned their marriage. Her eventual memoir, How It Was (1976), is among eleven spousal autobiographies Meyers visits here, although he finds it woefully wanting, a destructive hagiography
Hemingway and Me: Letters, Anecdotes, and Memories of a Life-Changing Friendship
No full textBiography/memoir by Jeffrey Lyons, film critic and son of famed journalist Leonard Lyons. Lyons recounts his father\u27s enduring friendship with Hemingway, which also extended to Lyons\u27s wife and sons. Traces his father\u27s relationship with Hemingway from their initial 1937 meeting in New York to Mary Hemingway\u27s 1961 call to her old friend Lenny asking him to announce Hemingway\u27s death to the world. Covers his father\u27s reportage on Hemingway in his daily columns, reprints correspondence, and reminisces about his own time spent with Hemingway at the Lyons family home in New York, the Finca Vigía in Cuba, and elsewhere. Lyons writes of his father\u27s relationship with Hemingway: He trusted my father as he trusted very few friends. His candid letters revealed some of the substance of the man behind the legend. Includes a foreword by Liam Neeson and eight black-and-white photographs but no index