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David Martyn Lloyd-Jones 1899-1981 and twentieth-century evangelicalism.
Get PDFThe purpose of this thesis was to demonstrate the significance of the life and ministry of David Martyn Lloyd-Jones in post-war British evangelicalism and to show that, so far as Protestant churches in England and Wales were concerned, no history of the period can afford to ignore him. It is our contention that despite differences of opinion and self- marginalization Lloyd-Jones was and has remained a major force in evangelical thinking. In order to understand how this developed the thesis has been structured along thematic lines highlighting events, persons and questions. The study begins by setting the stage with a biographical chapter and goes on to examine the kind of impact that Lloyd-Jones's preaching had on Christians of all denominations. He believed preaching to be the greatest need of the day and the position of this thesis is that preaching was Lloyd-Jones's greatest contribution to twentieth- century Christianity. As a preacher he attracted one of London's largest congregations and in chapter three we look at the history and nature of Westminster Chapel comparing it with neighbouring ministries, and establishing the kind of people who went to hear him. Chapters four and five ascertain the factors which shaped Lloyd-Jones's views on the church and show how his Reformed evangelicalism led in a separatist as opposed to an ecumenical direction and finally, to a position which was neither Congregational nor Presbyterian. Our further argument is that while he favoured unity among believers his separatist ecclesiology only exacerbated the situation and left evangelicals more divided than before. Chapters six to eight evaluate Lloyd-Jones's background, the nature of his leadership and the extent of his influence - factors which either shaped or were the outcome of his ministry - and looks at the issues which these questions raise
Transit functions on graphs (and posets)
Get PDFThe notion of transit function is introduced to present a unifying approach
for results and ideas on intervals, convexities and betweenness in graphs and
posets. Prime examples of such transit functions are the interval function I and
the induced path function J of a connected graph. Another transit function is
the all-paths function. New transit functions are introduced, such as the cutvertex
transit function and the longest path function. The main idea of transit
functions is that of ‘transferring’ problems and ideas of one transit function
to the other. For instance, a result on the interval function I might suggest
similar problems for the induced path function J. Examples are given of how
fruitful this transfer can be. A list of Prototype Problems and Questions for
this transferring process is given, which suggests many new questions and open
problems
Benefiting from Good Reviews: Part 2
No full textMartyn Clark reflects on how his experiences of going through the peer review process as an author have influenced him as an editor.</jats:p
An axiomatic approach to location functions on finite metric spaces
No full textA location function on a finite metric space (X,dX,d) is a function on the set, X?X?, of all finite sequences of elements of X , to 2X\?2X\?, which minimizes some criteria of remoteness. Axiomatic characterizations of these functions have, for the most part, been established only for very special cases. While McMorris, Mulder and Powers [F.R. McMorris, H.M. Mulder, R.C. Powers, “The median function on median graphs and semilattices,” Discrete Appl. Math., 101, (2000), 221–230] were able to characterize the median function on median graphs with three axioms, one of their axioms was very specific to the structure of median graphs. Recently, however, Mulder and Novick [H.M. Mulder, B.A. Novick, “A tight axiomatization of the median procedure on median graphs,” Discrete Appl. Math., 161, (2013), 838–846] characterized the median function for all median graphs using only three very natural axioms. These three axioms are meaningful in the more general context of finite metric spaces. In this work, we establish that these same three axioms are indeed independent and then we settle completely the question of interdependence among the collection of axioms involved in the above mentioned two characterizations, giving examples for all logically relevant cases. We introduce several new location functions and pose some questions
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