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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"St. Thomas"”.
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Prudence in Aristotle and ST. Thomas Aquinas
For Aristotle, prudence or practical wisdom is a virtue of thought that is practical rather than theoretical and deliberative rather than intuitive. It is the intellectual virtue that perfects reasoning in regard to decision making in the realm of human action. To have this virtue is to be good at …
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DOMINICAN SPANISH IN CONTACT WITH ST. THOMAS ENGLISH CREOLE: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF SPEECH VARIATION ON ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS.
This dissertation will demonstrate that a variety of Dominican Spanish in contact with St. Thomas English Creole (STTEC) revealed many features which are consistent with Dominican Spanish in other contact environments and some new features which are emerging as the result of uniquely STTEC …
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Traces of Otherness in St. Thomas Aquinas' Theology of Grace
This dissertation looks into the work of St. Thomas Aquinas and addresses his theology of grace through the lens of the postmodern concern for the other. The first chapter sets up the postmodern view using Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida to draw out the fundamental grounding for the concern …
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Contemplation and the Human Animal in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
<p>This dissertation explores how, according to Thomas Aquinas, the operations of the sensitive soul are necessary for ordinary (i.e., not mystical) human contemplation, and for the acquisition of knowledge which precedes contemplation.</p><p>The sensitive soul is the soul possessed by all sentient …
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THE RESUSCITATION OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: CATHOLIC BIOETHICS AND ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES
… discourse. The project begins by detailing the history of abortion in Catholicism, followed by an exploration of the contemporary environment of the debate within the Catholic community, including the intersection of Catholicism and public policy. In order to firmly locate the study within the …
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St. Thomas More's Treatice to Receave the Blessed Body of Our Lorde: An Edition
<p>It is far from amazing that Saint Thomas More should have written as one of his last works, A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Sacrament. That the subject was dear to his heart was attested to by a life of devotion to this Sacrament as a private Englishman and also as a public controversialist. …
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Integrating water resources management : analysis of the St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, water market
… of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the water resources management of the St. Thomas water market. By applying the framework for Integrated Water Resources Management, the actual water resources situation in the island was analyzed. This framework requires meeting three …
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Metaphysics as a science in the "Summa Contra Gentiles" of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The general historical study of the works of St. Thomas under the aspect of metaphysics has for its purpose the reconstruction of Thomistic metaphysics. This thesis is a contribution to that study. In its present form it is concerned with metaphysics as a science as exposed in the Summa Contra …
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Some Implications of the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas for the Teaching of English in Secondary Schools
… DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:55:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913433.pdf: 9385399 bytes, checksum: bdc7dab3c092b8938976df6bb449625d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Interpreting site formation processes affecting re-emergent cultural sites within reservoirs: A case study of St. Thomas, Nevada
… inundation of cultural resources due to the construction of dams as water retention mechanism is a global problem, affecting thousands of historic and prehistoric sites. Recent warming trends, in combination with increasing water usage from growing populations and urban expansion has initiated …
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On Whether Or Not Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Lived Body Experience Can Enrich St. Thomas Aquinas's Integral Anthropology
… of mind who draw on Aquinas and Merleau-Ponty in strikingly similar ways. Analytical Thomists, as represented by Eric LaRock, and thinkers seeking to integrate neuropsychology and phenomenology, like Ralph Ellis, argue that that the concept of form (taken from Aquinas and Merleau-Ponty …
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Post-Secondary Education Decisions of High School Black Males in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (A Case Study)
This study sought to understand the perspectives of young Black males toward post-secondary education. A qualitative case study research design was selected because it allowed the researcher to examine in a holistic fashion the complexities of how the issues of school, home, community, and peers …
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Vāstu-śāstra for Christian spiritual well-being in St Thomas ancient church architecture of the Malabar Coast (southwest India)
This thesis studies the application of the Vedic architectural wisdom of Vāstu-śāstra for spiritual well-being in three pre-colonial churches of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church. It also addresses the need for Christian inculturation in church architecture, raised in the Literature Review. The …
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The Causes of Tyranny as a Guide to Political Reform: St. Thomas More's History of King Richard III of England
Part One of this dissertation establishes a basis for interpreting Moreâ s History of King Richard III. Chapter One inquires into its genre, concluding it is a â rhetorical historyâ like the histories composed by Thucydides, Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, a genre similar to drama which aims to reveal …
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A theology of persecution and Christian endurance: Cain, Abel, and a ‘Black Book of Acts’ among the St. Thomas Moravians, 1732-1740
… and practices of the eighteenth-century St. Thomas Island Moravians, one of the first African-led, multicultural churches in the Americas. Enslaved African Christians have been overlooked among the historical narratives of those who endure faithfully under anti-Christian persecution, as …
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Influence of river proximity on water quality and its impact on Caribbean Mangrove Oyster populations : a case study in Bowden Bay, St. Thomas, Jamaica
… höfðu áhrif á þéttleika og útlit skelja Crassostrea rhizophorae (CR) og Isognomon alatus (IA) í leiruviðaskógi við Bowden Bay, St. Thomas, Jamaíka. Niðurstöðurnar sýndu hærri þéttleika Crassostrea rhizophorae nær opnu hafi. Sú tegund var einnig í hærri þéttleika á rótum leiruviðartrjáa en …
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