Philip Arthur Bence PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

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that statement and "the preacher must be true to tradition"
is not great.
-7-eThe 'Lloyd-Jones' statistic for question eight is
an exception.
Admittedly, survey responses relating to teaching
methodology do not frequently appear on tables 40-42. Of
the data lines dealing with more content oriented responses,
almost 80% do appear on those tables, thus indicating that
the theological pairing scheme helps to explain the
distribution of specific responses.
°These other patterns include lines where:
'related' colleges are paired with one of the other types,
the 'related' colleges are isolated on an extreme, or where
the data indicates relative similarity among all three
types. Statistically, these phrases can be defined as
follows:
1. All three types are similar--less than ten percent
difference in data dealing with percentages, two years or
less difference on questions 11 and 13.b.
2. For the other three patterns, in order for an
institutional type to stand alone (not be paired with
another), the distance between the intermediate statistic
and the extreme to which it is nearest must be more than 25
percent of the difference between the two extremes.
1 To determine what each group's survey responses
would be if there were no institutional factor, and each
subgroup's responses, thus, were precisely proportional to
its theological make-up, I computed the "theologically
predicted mean." I took the appropriate figures from tables
26-39, and weighted them proportionally in computing means.
(For example, in computing the "theologically predicted
means" for university lecturers, I weighted the responses
from 'Tillich lecturers' three times as heavily as responses
from 'Bultmann' and 'Stewart' lecturers, as per the table
below.
The correlation between institutional type and the
theologian with whom the preaching lecturers identify is as
follows:
University departments:
Tillich 3
Bultmann 1
Stewart 1
Other 1
Related colleges:
Rahner 4
Stewart 4
Tillich 3
Lloyd-Jones 2.5
Barth 1.5
Fosdick 1
Other 3
Independent colleges:
Lloyd-Jones 16.5