In his Historia Richardi Tertii, Thomas More shares a common goal with Sallust and Tacitus: to help prevent tyranny by promoting civic virtues in readers. After reviewing the similarities between More’s Historia and his classical models, I employ close reading and the insights o…
This thesis addresses how female beauty was understood in the eighteenth century and aims to build on and expand the existing scholarship from Robert Jones, Tita Chico, Tassie Gwilliam, G. J. Barker-Benfield and Naomi Baker, amongst others. Each of these scholars has discussed v…
I. This interdisciplinary study applies selected tropes of the letter and diary as types of personal writing to a study of the epistolary novel So Long a Letter. Bâ herself acknowledges and foregrounds both the letter and diary as features in the title and first paragraph of the…
This thesis presents the ecclesiology of Resident Aliens as an alternative to overcome the crisis of the Korean church and focuses on the ways to establish a Christian community through “virtuous leadership”. This thesis points out the crisis situations facing Korean churches in…
“Aspects of Character” uses quantitative evidence to trace new timelines in the literary history of characterization. The guiding premise of this work is that digital libraries and mathematical perspectives can shed new light on the practices used to configure fictional people. …
Christian teachers lead godly change in the lives of people whom they influence. The preparation of people to lead as teachers in the church requires the development of inner character that is consistent with Christian purposes. One of the fundamental attributes of this sort of …
For decades ordained pastors have been trained to effectively study the Bible in the original languages, present evangelistic sermons, and lead a variety of worship experiences that follow the flow of the liturgical season interspersed with weddings and funerals. Theological edu…
Patterns of perception distinguish the mind of Leopold Bloom as it is presented in Ulysses. Throughout the fictional day, June 16, 1904, in ways great and small, he apprehends limited views of people around him and supplements them with a mixture of inductive leaps, cliched assu…