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The relationship between symbolicism and connectionism has been one of the major issues in recent Artificial Intelligence research. An increasing number of researchers from each side have tried to adopt desirable characteristics of the other. These efforts have produced a number of different strategies for interfacing connectionist and symbolic AI. One of them is connectionist and symbol processing which attempts to replicate symbol processing functionalaties using connectionist components. In this direction, this thesis develops a connectionist inference architecture which performs standard symbolic inference on a subclass of first-order predicate calculus. Our primary interest is in understanding how formulas which are described in a limited form of first-order predicate calculus may be implemented using a connectionist architecture. Our chosen knowledge representation scheme is a subset of first-order Horn clause expressions which is a set of universally quantified expressions in first-order predicate calculus. As a focus of attention we are developing techniques for compiling first-order Horn clause expressions into a connectionist network. This offers practical benefits but also forces limitations on the scope of the compiled system, since we are, in fact, merging an interpreter into the connectionist networks. The compilation process has to take into account not only first-order Horn clause expressions themselves but also the strategy which we intend to use for drawing inferences from the. Thus, this thesis explores the extent to which this type of a translation can build a connectionist inference model to accommodate desired symbolic inference. This work first involves constructing efficient connectionist mechanisms to represent symbol components, dynamic bindings, basic symbolic inference procedures, and devising a set of algorithms which automatically translates input descriptions to neural networks using the above connectionist mechanisms. These connectionist mechanisms are built by taking an existing temporal synchrony mechanism and extending it further to obtain desirable features to represent and manipulate basic symbol structures. The existing synchrony mechanism represents dynamic bindings very efficiently using temporal synchronous activity between neuron elements but it has fundamental limitations in supporting symbolic inference. The extension addresses these limitations.

This thesis is intended to help churches to grow as an independent player which is able to increase social welfare conditions in their community by running a community children center. Churches should understand their growth by their running a community children center as God's favor and share God's blessing with others because they are only delivers and followers of God's teachings. Therefore, churches should run a community children center with their mission in mind: to spread the gospel; to build an intimate relationship with others; and to recognize their responsibility to serve others in need. Churches can run a community children center better than any other social welfare institute or group for good reasons. Hopefully more and more churches will become interested in child welfare initiatives in order to make God's teachings and intentions come true in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The primary purpose of this project was to engender godliness through doctrinal expository preaching on the attributes of God. The most significant human endeavor is the pursuit of the knowledge of God - not just the intellectual knowledge pertaining to the details about Him, but the personal knowledge of His nature and how we must relate to Him. Whatever we mentally conceive about God determines everything about us. Our purpose, our hope, and our eternal destination are inextricably tied to the One who created us. Since it is impossible to love what we do not know, an accurate understanding of God is imperative to living a reverent and acceptable life that is pleasing to the Lord. By learning about the theological nature of God as presented in Scripture, the intention of this project was to develop a godly mindset aimed toward reverent devotion and conduct appropriate to His glory. Godliness begins with the knowledge of God. An accurate view of God was a primary ambition of this doctrinal preaching project. The sermon series consisted often messages on the attributes of God preached in the Sunday morning worship services of Immanuel Bible Church in Santa Monica, California in the Fall of 2010. Each theological message was preached within the context of a specific portion of Scripture. The messages were doctrinally focused on ten particular attributes of God. But instead of a topical approach to the theological material, the messages retained an expository emphasis by developing each attribute within the exposition of a particular passage in which the attribute was addressed. The aim was to teach each attribute within the context of its scriptural presentation to develop appropriate application for godly thinking and living. A theological summary of each of the ten attributes addressed in this project is presented in the first chapter. Godliness is a function of informed reverence producing appropriate action. The knowledge of God in Scripture is not intended to be theoretical, but intensely practical. Knowing God should result in God-ward devotion, which in turn should produce Godhonoring conduct. Because the general challenge of Biblical exposition is communicating the original meaning of the text as well as its contemporary significance, considerable attention was given to the task of relevant application. And since the specific challenge of doctrinal exposition in this project was communicating the knowledge of God and its significance for godliness, particular emphasis was placed on the goal of godly devotion and conduct. The relevance of application generally and the goal of godliness specifically was discussed in the second chapter. In an effort to evaluate changing attitudes affecting godliness, surveys were conducted before, during and after the sermon series. Changes in responses to the same survey questions over the course ofthe preaching project provided a basis for analyzing shifting attitudes toward theology, life, and preaching. The data suggests that the result of this doctrinal preaching project was a moderate shift toward increasingly God-centered attitudes influencing worship and life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This writer believes that one of the key ingredients to building an effective growing Korean church is spiritual gifts. If every Korean Christian were involved according to his spiritual gifts, he would be used in ministering where he is most usable. This writer finds that growing churches cannot be dissociated from growing Christians, when spiritual gifts are well used. Therefore, when Christians have found their gifts, knows the significance of their gifts and properly exercise them, the Korean church will grow. The purpose of this dissertation is to introduce readers to the best use of spiritual gifts in the contemporary Korean church, and to build up an important contribution to Korean church growth. One more purpose of this dissertation project is to understand what the biblical principles for the Church Growth Paradigm are, and to evaluate the problems hindering it in the Korean Church Growth.