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    • Q & A Panel

      Knight, John (2011-11-01)
      Medicine & Science Panel Discussion, October 26 2011, 5:30pm
    • Q and the Passion - Challenging the Consensus View

      Collier, Steven D.; McAfee School of Theology
      This thesis challenges the consensus viewpoint of biblical scholarship that Q, the sayings source common to Matthew and Luke, contains no Passion account. Based on the absence of a Passion in Q (the Argument from Silence), the consensus view concludes Q’s theology is divergent from the cross-centered theology of Matthew and Luke. The purpose of the present study is to refute the Argument from Silence, and show that Q did in fact contain Passion material. With a Passion, Q must have had a theology more congruent with Matthew and Luke. The research methodology is source utilization, the study of how ancient writers used sources based on the then available technology of document production. Based on deviations from Mark in content, but more importantly order, source utilization points to a second non-Markan written source in Luke’s Passion, which source provided the alternative content and order. Q could be the second source because (a) the non-Markan portion of Luke’s Passion contains numerous sayings of Jesus consistent with Q’s genre as a sayings source, and (b) these non-Markan sayings also have thematic resonance with Q. The Minor Agreements of Matthew and Luke against Mark in their respective Passion accounts further support these findings. The Minor Agreements demonstrate Matthew’ s awareness of: (1) non-Markan sayings thematically related to Q, and (2) non-Markan material precisely at the point where Luke deviates from Markan order, and is therefore following the order of the second written source. Based on all of these results, I conclude Q is in fact the second written source for much of the non-Markan Passion material in Luke, and the material is echoed to a lesser extent in Matthew. I will pull the analysis together and propose an addition to Q of about 300 words of Passion material drawn from Luke and Matthew. I will end with a brief discussion of the implications of a Q Passion. These include rebuttal of the Argument from Silence, consequences for the Synoptic Problem and ramifications for the theology of Q and the history of early Christianity.
    • Quadcopter Flight Enclosure

      Mason, Brock; Volk, Dillon; Williford, Weslie (2014-12-15)
    • Quarterly Report for John A. Goodall, December 1874

      1874-12-22
      The Dec. 1874 class report card for John A. Goodall.
    • Quarterly Report for John A. Goodall, March 1875

      1875-03-31
      The March 1875 class report card for John A. Goodall.
    • The question

      Knight, John (2011-10-25)
      Polyjuice Potion or Pensieve?: Reading and Remembering 'through a glass darkly' in the Novels of Harry Potter. October 19 2011, 6:30pm
    • R. Peters presentation, Open Access Panel

      Shuping, Andrew (2012-05-03)
      R. Peters presenting at the Open Access Panel during National Library Week
    • R. Peters presenting, Open Access Panel

      Shuping, Andrew (2012-05-03)
      R. Peters presenting at the Open Access Panel during National Library Week
    • Raffle sign up

      Twombly, Lee (2012-10-09)
    • Raffle Winner

      Shuping, Andrew (2012-10-09)
    • Rainwater Harvesting at Habitat for Humanity Builds

      Arash Afshar; Natalia Cardelino; Stephen Hill; Michael MacCarthy; Philip McCreanor; Hannah Perry; Kelsea Southwick
      A senior design project of a rainwater harvesting system implemented at a Macon Habitat for Humanity home
    • Raising the Bar: Institutional Action to Address College Graduation Rates for Students of Color from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds

      Clark, Jr., Ricky; Tift College of Education
      The purpose of this qualitative single site case study was to examine the practices, policies, and programs at a university with exceptional graduation rates for students of color from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This study identified the impact of various departments, such as financial planning, recruitment and admissions, academic services, curriculum and instruction, and student services, on student persistence, from the perspective of both students of color as well as departmental leadership. This study also identified what students of color from low socioeconomic backgrounds perceived contributed to their success. The research question that guided this study was: How are the institutional factors of Swail’s (2003) Geometric Model of Student Persistence and Achievement implemented at a southern U.S. university with graduation rates for students of color from low socio-economic backgrounds that meet or exceed the national average graduation rate of 59 percent? The selected site was a private liberal arts institution in the southern region of the United States. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with faculty, staff, and students; campus observations; and document reviews. Hybrid thematic analysis (inductive and deductive) revealed that peer-to-peer mentoring and faculty/staff to student mentoring, supplemental instruction and tutoring, office or staff devoted to retention efforts, collaborative community campus environment, and consistent financial resources positively impacted the success of students of color from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This study may inform institutions of higher education of successful policies, practices, and programs that may influence persistence to graduate for students of color from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Implementation of the following may influence the success of students of color from low socioeconomic background: interdepartmental cross training, investment of additional time and resources into TRIO programs, creation or expansion of supplemental instruction and tutoring programs, create an office or train a staff member to address student retention, provision of consistent financial resources and education, provision of affinity group opportunities or safe space environments, and creation of a “community feel” on campus. Recommendations for further research include applying this research to various institutional types such as technical colleges, community colleges, HBCUs, Tribal Colleges or public institution; expand current research to include alumni perspective on student success; and expand current research focusing on individual academic departments or units to offer deeper understanding.
    • Ray Family Collection

      Ray, Mary Johnston, 1899-1977
      Two boxes, one regular sized filled with documents, and one oversized filled with miscellaneous materials, all in good condition.
    • Reads Day Poster

      Twombly, Lee (2012-10-09)
    • Real-Time Intelligent Solar Energy System (R.I.S.E.S.)

      Dumas, Mike; Ingende, Gauthier; Tention, Kei'Shawn; Thompson, Mary (2014-12-15)
    • Reawakening the Ethical Imagination of the Local Congregation Through the Exploration of the Biblical Metanarrative

      Hall, Jeremy S; McAfee School of Theology
      JEREMY SEAN HALL REAWAKENING THE ETHICAL IMAGINATION OF THE LOCAL CONGREGATION THROUGH THE EXPLORATION OF THE BIBLICAL METANARRATIVE. Under the direction of David P. Gushee In the fall of 2019, Towne View Baptist Church (TVBC), a small Southern Baptist Church in north Georgia, voted to welcome LGBTQ believers into full membership. While the church was proud of its newly adopted membership policy, its people were theologically unsure of their actions. If one had surveyed members on why they had welcomed LGBTQ believers, they would either have offered platitudes about God’s love and the ubiquity of sin or would have attempted to prooftext their way through the question. The concern is that this inclusion decision sat on a weak foundation and could be walked back in the future by poor Biblical interpretation. If leaders could move this group of (formerly) Southern Baptists to look at the Bible in a new and life-giving way to see a better and more inclusive church, then it would be possible to form a more robust church witness in the post-Christian United States. My thesis project sought to train the TVBC membership to approach ethical decisions in the context of the Biblical metanarrative and to awaken the ethical imagination by aligning church decisions with the themes and trajectory of the Bible. If effective, this training would also aid TVBC members in making difficult decisions in the future from a robust Christian ethic grounded in the trajectory of God’s dream for the creation as found in scripture. The exploration of the biblical metanarrative allowed the participants to engage their ethical imagination, moving from choosing affirmation as a negation of their culturally-embedded understanding of the LGBTQ prohibition found in the “anti-homosexual acts passages” to being able to understand their affirming position as a response to the metanarrative of the Bible and the trajectory of God’s redemptive work across the story of the Bible and in the world.