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The Entrepreneurial Family Team (To Demonstrate The Role Of The Family In An Entrepreneurial Company), C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

These documents contain handwritten notes and a typed outline from a 1983 Total Performance Seminar that both Bill and Judy Pollard participated in.

1983 Servicemaster Award Of Excellence, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Pollard delivered this speech at the celebration for the recipients of the 1983 ServiceMaster Award of Excellence. In it he speaks of the firm's rapid growth and notes five emphases that must be maintained in order to for it to continue: commitment, perseverance, confidence, single-mindedness, and source of authority.

What The Faith Is All About (Chinese), Elmer Towns

Towns Foreign Language Book Collection

No abstract provided.

Speech At 1982 Annual Shareholders' Meeting, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

In this address at ServiceMaster's 1982 Annual Shareholders' Meeting, Pollard comments on the company's record growth as well as radical changes within the firm. In so doing, he considers how these have impacted the employees and how they might serve as a foundation for future success.

Self Awareness Of Sin As The Cause Of Death In Four Of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales, Kathryn Louise Estep

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This study of four of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales presents a distinct view of a character's self awareness of sin and his refusal to seek repentance as being the cause of his death. The message here is that of the Fall. "The Great Carbuncle," "The Hollow of the Three Hills," "Lady Eleanore's Mantle," and "The Ambitious Guest" demonstrate that man is sinful and in need of redemption just as the Bible demonstrates man's fallen state and need for forgiveness through Christ, the second Adam. In these tales characters act out of selfish pride and become aware of their transgressions just …

Speech Given In Japan, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Speaking during a business trip in Japan, Pollard addresses the question of God and profit. He argues that what links the two is the corporation's duty to help people grow and develop as human beings, a goal which requires leaders willing to act like servants.

Faith, Reason And Scripture In The Theology Of Donald G. Bloesch, David R. Coward

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Donald G. Bloesch, an American theologian and seminary professor, is a leading spokesman for contemporary Protestant evangelicalism, a theological position that lies somewhere between fundamentalism and neo-orthodoxy. Heavily influenced by the German theologian, Karl Barth, Bloesch employs a methodology in which theology is based on revelation alone, unsupported by philosophy or the arguments of human reason. For Blosech, revelation is basically alien to human culture and human thought-forms. Because of this, revelation cannot be comprehended by reason, but only by faith. Bloesch’s view leads to a dichotomy between faith and reason, a dichotomy that ultimately lessons the impact of his …

Speech At Servicemaster Christmas Luncheon, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

In this brief speech at the ServiceMaster Christmas Luncheon (The Carlisle - Lombard, IL), Pollard encourages his employees to consider how Christmas represents the greatest reality of all.

Reformed Theological Ethics Of Speech Communication, Charles Veenstra

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

This project develops and applies a Biblically-based Reformed theological system of ethics for speech communication.

The dissertation includes a review of literature on ethics in speech communication and indicates that: 1) ethics is a significant concern in the field of speech communication, 2) no single normative ethical theory dominates, 3} each normative ethical theory currently advocated faces significant problems, 4) critical pieces applying normative standards are few, 5) little attention is given to ethics of religious speakers or broadcasters, and 6) the normative ethical theory based in Reformed theology, which is the subject of this dissertation, is undeveloped in the …

Six Characteristics Of A Good Leader, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Responding to a request from S.J. Jett, Edith Lawrence outlines on behalf of Mr. Pollard the six characteristics of a good leader, all of which he had previously reflected upon in a Delta meeting speech.

Empty Willing: Contemplative Being-In-The-World In St. John Of The Cross And Dogen, Philip Novak

Collected Faculty Scholarship

"If persons on different sides of the glove were independently to discover that bodies fall at the rate of sixteen feet per second squared, this would be taken as evidence that they had learned something about nature -- about the world and how it works. We see something like this at work in the sadhanas (spiritual paths) of St. John and Dogen. Though the Christian saint and the Zen master are leaves on quite different trees, similarities between then [sic], qua contemplatives, exist at a level profound enough to encourage the exploration of common ground. Ultimately this common ground invites …

A Developing Model To Meet Counseling Needs Through The Local Church, Wayne H. Lee

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

"The World Creeps In": Hiram Bingham Iii And The Decline In Missionary Fervor, Char Miller

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

To understand how and why Hiram Bingham III altered the course of his family's historical commitment to missionary service, one must recognize, as he later would, that the world in which he was raised was unlike that of his father, Hiram Bingham, Jr. The father had wanted his son to carry on in the family's service to God, but the roadblocks to the senior Bingham's desires to mold his son in his own image were numerous and interrelated: the family environment into which the child was born, the interaction of that nucleus with the larger community of Honolulu, and the …

A Cause Of Worth (Or A Cause Of Greater Worth), C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Published in ServiceMaster's 1981 Annual Report, this article details the company's guiding philosophy, namely one that understands work as stewardship of God's resources.

Speech At Emmaus Bible School Commencement, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

This document contains the text and handwritten edits of a commencement address Pollard delivered to the 1979 graduating class of Emmaus Bible School in Dubuque, IA. In it he reflects on how the pain caused by relinquishing our self-sufficiency and self-interest allows us to step into the unknown, thereby allowing us up to be better followers of Christ.

Psychology Gone Awry: An Analysis Of Psychological World Views, Mark P. Cosgrove

Books by Taylor faculty, staff, and administrators

Demonstrating that each of the three major psychological world views—naturalistic, humanistic, and transpersonal—has Its own singular weakness. Mark P. Cosgrove suggests an alternative: Christian theism. "A world view based on Christian beliefs." says Cosgrove. "adequately copes with the weaknesses of modern psychological world views and provides a suitable framework for the study of man and the development of solutions to human problems."

The Making Of A Missionary: Hiram Bingham's Odyssey, Char Miller

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

Throughout his twenty year tenure as minister of the mission church in Honolulu, Hiram Bingham earned hostile testimonials. Foreign residents and foreign visitors were virtually unanimous in their dislike for the meddlesome missionary. American visitors were appalled by Bingham's influence and actions: W.S. Ruschenberger, for instance, believed a "refined and elegant" missionary was more suitable than a "strong preacher." Similar sentiments were expressed by some of Bingham's colleagues. Asa Thurston complained that his co-worker was "too much disposed to take precedence of [me]"; later missionaries to Hawaii felt that Bingham assumed too much in the governance of the mission. Historians …

Leadership - A Case Study, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Written in the spring of 1978, this document provides a case study concerning leadership by telling the fictional story of a hospital administrator. The document includes a summary of the case study's principles applied to ServiceMaster's circumstances.

Political Disciple: The Relationship Between James A. Garfield And The Disciples Of Christ, Jerry Rushford

Churches of Christ Heritage Collection

James A. Garfield (1831-1881), the only preacher to ever occupy the White House, was a product of the profound social, intellectual and religious ferment of the early decades of the nineteenth century which produced the American religious movement known as the Disciples of Christ. The first fifty years of Disciple history closely paralleled Garfield’s life. The purpose of this study is to focus on the intimate Garfield-Disciples relationship, and to show its reciprocal nature. Garfield was helped by Disciples in the building of a political base (he won ten consecutive elections in the Western Reserve), and they in turn shared …

Faith Was His Fortune: The Life Story Of George Pepperdine, Bill Youngs

Churches of Christ Heritage Collection

This biography builds on and updates Faith is my Fortune by Richard Clark and Jack Bates. George Pepperdine (1886-1962) was the founder of Western Auto Supply and, later, Pepperdine University in Southern California. Pepperdine was a noted businessman, philanthropist, and a lifelong member of Churches of Christ.

History Of Religious Educators (Japanese), Elmer Towns

Towns Foreign Language Book Collection

No abstract provided.

"The Apollos Of The West": The Life Of John Allen Gano, Jerry Rushford

Churches of Christ Heritage Collection

The purpose of this thesis is the presentation of the life of John Allen Gano, a man important in the history of both early Kentucky and the Restoration Movement. Research toward that end resulted in the recovery of many important documents concerning the period. Basic materials are his own writings, whether in his “Biographical Notebook,” his frequent letters to the Millennial Harbinger, or that found reported to or copied in other brotherhood papers. In addition, a wealth of secondary sources are utilized to complete the overall picture of his life and times.

Information gathered from primary and secondary sources …

The Rediscovery Of Judaism: A Re-Examination Of The Conciliar Statement On The Jews, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

This booklet contains the paper that opened a Convocation of scholars at Seton Hall University from October 25-28, 1970, for the fifth anniversary of the promulgation of the Conciliar Statement on the bond of the Church to the Jewish people. The Convocation stood under the joint sponsorship of the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies and The American Jewish Committee.

An Inductive Study Of The Meaning Of [Hsd], Howard F. Boyle

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Observations And Concerns In Relation To Evangelism, John Brantingham

ATS Chapel Services

No abstract provided.

Syncretism, Gnosticism And Judaism : A Study In New Testament Background, S. B. Alexander

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Christian Reply To The Theory Of Reincarnation, James Franklin Minor

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Old Testament And Greek Thought On The Body And Their Influences Upon The New Testament Doctrine Of The Body, John E. Culp

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Self-Support In The Indian Church, Frederick Lawrence Gokavi

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Faith Is My Fortune: A Life Story Of George Pepperdine, Richard L. Clark, Jack Ward Bates

Churches of Christ Heritage Collection

This memoir, dictated to the authors by George Pepperdine, is subtitled “actual experiences, business success and reverses, stewardship and philanthropy, which have proved that strong religious faith is a greater fortune, more to be desired than riches, or any other assets.” This is the story of George Pepperdine (1886-1962), founder of Western Auto Supply and, later, Pepperdine University in Southern California. Pepperdine was a noted businessman, philanthropist, and a lifelong member of Churches of Christ.