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This dissertation examines the possible interchangeable connection between the medieval ontological relationship of essence/existence and the modern epistemological relationship of subject/object. Rather than investigating the many medieval and modern philosophers, this disserta…

The concept of essence appeared very early in the history of philosophy, playing a very large role in the metaphysical thought of Plato and Aristotle, and hence in the thought of medieval thinkers influenced by them, such as Thomas Aquinas, a major thinker of thirteenth-century …

This study traces the development of Ernst Troeltsch's conception of Christianity from his early reflections on the concept of an "essence" of Christianity through his major analysis of the history of Christianity and ending in his philosophy of history. I argue that in these wo…

The post-Civil Rights era featured a burgeoning black middle-class, increased emphasis on corporate culture, conspicuous consumption, ebbs and flows in popular cultural nationalist sentiment, an encroaching urban African American youth culture, and at least theoretically, less m…

In the classical Christian tradition, personhood is a concept employed to distinguish the members in the Trinity while simultaneously affirming their oneness of being. Yet, this is a term applied to both human beings and God. At minimum a person is a being that exists in defined…