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My Father's Names (Korean), Elmer Towns Jan 1994

My Father's Names (Korean), Elmer Towns

Towns Foreign Language Book Collection

No abstract provided.


Renewing The Christian Contemplative Dimension Of Spirituality Through An Ancient Tradition Known Today As Centering Prayer, Joan Marie Young Bretthauer Jan 1994

Renewing The Christian Contemplative Dimension Of Spirituality Through An Ancient Tradition Known Today As Centering Prayer, Joan Marie Young Bretthauer

Theses

The purpose of this paper and documentary video is to present one particular aspect of the Christian contemplative tradition known today as centering prayer.

The topic is addressed by a brief review of ancient contemplation and meditative life styles as practiced by some of the major religions of the world. The focus is then narrowed to view the topic from the Roman Catholic perspective.

In the early Christian church (Roman Catholic) contemplation was the common goal of lay and religious life. 'This approach fell into disuse around the time of the Reformation, but has undergone a renewal in the last …


Who Are You? What Do You Want?, C. William Pollard Oct 1993

Who Are You? What Do You Want?, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

In this speech at Trinity Western University (Langley, British Columbia), Pollard explains his theory regarding the relationship between faith and vocation.


A Soul Rises Up : Imagery From Catherine Of Siena For Self In Relation To God, Carole Sanderson Streeter Aug 1993

A Soul Rises Up : Imagery From Catherine Of Siena For Self In Relation To God, Carole Sanderson Streeter

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Lessons Learned, C. William Pollard May 1993

Lessons Learned, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

In these notes from his trip to Eastern Europe and Russia, Pollard reflects on how businesses function in the former Communist bloc, the different ways he has committed to Christian causes in Europe, and the health care conference he attended in Germany.


Unconsciously Motivated Behavior : An Assessment Of Freud's Theory Of The Dynamic Unconscious And The Empirical And Theoretical Objections Raised To It, With Some Preliminary Implications For Christian Psychology, John M. Blythe May 1993

Unconsciously Motivated Behavior : An Assessment Of Freud's Theory Of The Dynamic Unconscious And The Empirical And Theoretical Objections Raised To It, With Some Preliminary Implications For Christian Psychology, John M. Blythe

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Understanding The Deeper Life (Korean), Elmer Towns Jan 1993

Understanding The Deeper Life (Korean), Elmer Towns

Towns Foreign Language Book Collection

No abstract provided.


Speech At Business Executives For Economic Justice Meeting, C. William Pollard Nov 1992

Speech At Business Executives For Economic Justice Meeting, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Speaking at a meeting of Business Executives for Economic Justice (University Club-Chicago), Pollard addresses the negative economic trends prevalent at the beginning of the 1990s and calls for a moral framework that will help steer the free market system in a positive direction.


Speech At Florida Southern College, C. William Pollard Oct 1992

Speech At Florida Southern College, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

In this speech at Florida Southern College (Lakeland, FL), Pollard considers how the free-market system can be a force for good if only business leaders would conceive of themselves as stewards of any given firm's greatest asset, namely its people.


The Passion Of Jesus Christ And Human Suffering, Dennis Charles Heiberg May 1992

The Passion Of Jesus Christ And Human Suffering, Dennis Charles Heiberg

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Image Of God Or Image Of Man, Kevin Emerson Lageer May 1992

Image Of God Or Image Of Man, Kevin Emerson Lageer

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Leading By Serving - Renewal Of Focus On Others, C. William Pollard Apr 1992

Leading By Serving - Renewal Of Focus On Others, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

In remarks delivered to the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago, Pollard notes that a radically changing socio-political climate calls for business leaders committed to serving the people that make up their organizations.


Divine Folly : Being Religious And The Exercise Of Humor, Doris K. Donnelly Jan 1992

Divine Folly : Being Religious And The Exercise Of Humor, Doris K. Donnelly

Theology & Religious Studies

No abstract provided.


The Christian's Relationship To The State : A Study Of Romans 13:1-7, Esther Hood Nov 1991

The Christian's Relationship To The State : A Study Of Romans 13:1-7, Esther Hood

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Withoutholding And Withdrawing Life-Support From Critically Ill Patients, Ekundayo L. King-Manley Jan 1991

Withoutholding And Withdrawing Life-Support From Critically Ill Patients, Ekundayo L. King-Manley

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


God And Nature: Historical Essays On The Encounter Between Christianity And Science (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma Dec 1990

God And Nature: Historical Essays On The Encounter Between Christianity And Science (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter Between Christianity and Science, edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (Berkeley: University of California Press) 1986. xi + 516 pp.


The Voices Of God's Call, Especially Dreams, Visions, And Angelic Messages, William N. Rickard Aug 1990

The Voices Of God's Call, Especially Dreams, Visions, And Angelic Messages, William N. Rickard

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


An Analysis And Evaluation Of The Concept Of Righteousness As Used In Korea Within The Religions Of Buddhism, Confucianism, Shamanism And Wesleyan-Arminian Christianity, Timothy J. Mercer Jun 1990

An Analysis And Evaluation Of The Concept Of Righteousness As Used In Korea Within The Religions Of Buddhism, Confucianism, Shamanism And Wesleyan-Arminian Christianity, Timothy J. Mercer

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Is Psychology Seducing Christianity (Chapter 7 From Christians In The Crossfire), Mark R. Mcminn Jan 1990

Is Psychology Seducing Christianity (Chapter 7 From Christians In The Crossfire), Mark R. Mcminn

Faculty Publications - Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program

No abstract provided.


A Christian Letter From The Michigan Collection, James G. Keenan Jan 1988

A Christian Letter From The Michigan Collection, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The papyrus edited below, P.Mich. inv. 3999, was purchased for the University of Michigan in 1925. It belongs to lot IV of the Nahman papyri, all of which come from Oxyrhynchus. The papyrus measures (roughly) 12 cm. (width) by 25 cm. (height). Margins are small at top (0.8 cm.) and (until line 19) at left (0.5 cm., discounting the vertical strip whose partial remains appear opposite lines 8-13). The prayer (lines 20-24) below the letter's body is indented at the left ca. 2.5 cm. inward from the mu of mhd°no!, the first word in line 19 (therefore ca. 3.0 cm. …


Review Of J. Philip Wogaman, Faith And Fragmentation (1985), Leslie C. Griffin Jan 1987

Review Of J. Philip Wogaman, Faith And Fragmentation (1985), Leslie C. Griffin

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Graduation - What Next?, C. William Pollard May 1986

Graduation - What Next?, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Speaking at the Baccalaureate for the 1986 graduating class of Wheaton Christian High School, Pollard encourages the students to submit to God's plan for their lives.


Ecclesiastes With Marginalia By C. William Pollard, C. William Pollard May 1985

Ecclesiastes With Marginalia By C. William Pollard, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

This document contains the entire book of Ecclesiastes (NIV) as well as Pollard's extensive handwritten notes on the text.


Speech At Seattle Pacific University Luncheon, C. William Pollard Oct 1984

Speech At Seattle Pacific University Luncheon, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Speaking at a conference on business ethics held at Seattle Pacific University and sponsored by the Christian College Coalition, Pollard reflects on what a corporation looks like when it recognizes God as its ultimate source.


Outline Of Speech For Morning Session At Seattle Pacific University, C. William Pollard Oct 1984

Outline Of Speech For Morning Session At Seattle Pacific University, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

This document, which includes handwritten edits by Pollard himself, served as an outline for a speech he gave at Seattle Pacific University. In it he covers the history of ServiceMaster, the company's core values, and the holistic orientation of its leadership structure.


Speech At Seattle Pacific University Chapel, C. William Pollard Oct 1984

Speech At Seattle Pacific University Chapel, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Speaking at a Seattle Pacific University chapel service, Pollard asks students how discipleship and work (or God and profit) can co-exist. For Pollard, profit is a means to an end, namely that of investing our lives in people made in the image of God.


The Highest And The Best Or The Value Of Values, C. William Pollard Oct 1984

The Highest And The Best Or The Value Of Values, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Pollard


Search For Nothing: The Life Of St. John Of The Cross By Richard P. Hardy, Philip Novak Apr 1984

Search For Nothing: The Life Of St. John Of The Cross By Richard P. Hardy, Philip Novak

Collected Faculty Scholarship

"A new biography of such a seminal figure could hardly be anything but welcome. Yet I can only recommend Hardy's book with reservations. Though written lovingly by a professor of spirituality who seems to share John of the Cross' contemplative sensibilities, and who, moreover, has done his homework, the book remains curiously one-dimensional. In a word it lacks, depth." ~ from the article


The Great Awakening, C. William Pollard Sep 1983

The Great Awakening, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

In this address at Delta Lambda Kappa in late September 1983, Pollard reflects on the eighteenth century's Great Awakening. In particular, he focuses on how the movement's emphasis on freedom is constitutive of the American way of life and thus, by extension, ServiceMaster's corporate culture.


Speech At Servicemaster's 1983 Shareholder's Meeting, C. William Pollard May 1983

Speech At Servicemaster's 1983 Shareholder's Meeting, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Speaking at ServiceMaster's 1983 Shareholders's Meeting, Pollard reflects on the commitment of the corporation's leaders and notes the company's rapid growth both at home and abroad..