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The Theology of Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield: A Systematic Reconstruction
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Neural networks and learning machines / Simon Haykin.
No full textRev. ed of: Neural networks. 2nd ed., c1999.Includes bibliographical references (p. 847-887) and index.Book fair 2012.xxx, 906 p.
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No full textFirst paragraph: The novelist William Hale White, who specialised in depicting the English Dissenting tradition from which he sprang, was acutely aware of the processes of change that had moulded it over time. In his book The Revolution in Tanner's Lane (1887), Hale White recounts a sermon by Thomas Bradshaw, the minister of a London meeting house at the start of the nineteenth century who claimed descent from the family of a Puritan regicide and who himself upheld the full range of Calvinist belief. The sermon, on Jephthah's daughter, a moving but sternly cerebral discourse, asserts the doctrine of absolute predestination. It was, says the author, 'utterly unlike the simple stuff which became fashionable with the Evangelistic movement'. The book is designed to lay bare what Hale White sees as the decay of the Dissenting interest. Dissenters had once upheld Puritan views that were, in the author's eyes, totally untenable, but they had done so with admirable consistency. However, the 'Evangelistic movement', by which the author means the Evangelical Revival, had combined with subtle social influences to rob them of their inheritance. By the 1840s, as he goes on to suggest, they were shallow, affected gentility and lacked intellectual rigour. For this jaundiced observer of the impact of Evangelicalism, the movement was partly responsible for a transformation in the Dissenting tradition that left it impoverished. That was part of what he was portraying as a revolution in Tanner's Lane
John Piper: The Making of a Christian Hedonist
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A CHRISTIAN HEDONIST
Justin Gerald Taylor, Ph.D.
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015
Chair: Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin
This dissertation on noted pastor and author John Piper (1946- ) constitutes an early effort in the field of intellectual biography, tracing four key influences--in roughly chronological order--upon Piper's life and theology. Those with primary influence in Piper's formative years were his parents, William S. H. Piper (1919-2007) and Ruth Mohn Piper (1918-1974), who exhibited a unique combination of joyful fundamentalism. Piper's next major influence was C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), discovered during his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College, who introduced him to romantic rationalism. Piper's first teacher at Fuller Seminary was Daniel P. Fuller (1925- ), a hermeneutics professor who planted the seeds of Christian hedonism and who gave him a love for exegetical biblicism. It was during these seminary days and into his time of doctoral study that Piper discovered Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), whose affectional Calvinism would go on to shape Piper's theology more than anyone else. Piper's three primary venues of ministerial vocation--teaching, preaching, and writing--are all examined to reveal the ways in which each of these influencers played various roles in Piper's development of Christian hedonism and his distinct contribution to a theology of the Christian life. The dissertation concludes with two applications of the foregoing analysis, exploring how Piper uses Scripture and how he appropriates church history for pastoral ends. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of Piper's published works (1971-2015)
Book Review: A Conceptual Review of “Digital Communication Systems”
Get PDF(Author: Simon Haykin, 2014)Haykin, S. 2014. Digital Communication Systems.John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA.Available: <http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP001809.html>
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