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The Doctrine of State Necessity

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article examines the doctrine of state necessity as a distinct but relatively underexplored doctrine of constitutional law. Drawing on case law from a range of jurisdictions, it considers instances in which courts have accepted otherwise unconstitutional measures as lawful in order to preserve the operation of state institutions or protect ...
Athanasios Peftinas
wiley   +1 more source

Biblical Theology of prayer in the Old Testament

open access: yes, 2023
Prayer is a major topic within Christian theology. The biblical text has various references to various recorded and reported prayers. In fact, references to prayer are found within the rich diversity of the various books, corpora and genres of Scripture.
Nel, Marius   +13 more
core   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

The Doctrine of Retribution and Religious Responses to the HIV and AIDS Pandemic [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
Despite many decades of interfacing with the HIV and AIDS pandemic, religious responses to the plight of the affected and infected still border on the doctrine of retribution.
Anniegrace Mapangisana Hlatywayo (PhD)   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution, Angels, and the Origin of Evil in Aquinas, Ratzinger, and Pendergast

open access: yesReligions
This essay confronts a classic tension: Christian tradition has long linked death in the world to human sin, yet evolutionary science reveals eons of predation, pain, and extinction preceding the emergence of Homo sapiens.
Matthew J. Ramage
doaj   +1 more source

"Orthodox and modern: studies in the theology of Karl Barth" by Bruce L. McCormack [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Review of Bruce L. McCormack: Orthodox and Modern: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2008)Publisher ...
Henderson, Frances
core   +2 more sources

What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
wiley   +1 more source

Prof. N. N. Glubokovsky and Theological Education Reform in Russia in the Late 19th and the Early 20th c. (On the Education of the Priests)

open access: yesForum Theologicum Sardicense
Ivo Yanev, Prof. N. N. Glubokovsky and Theological Education Reform in Russia in the Late 19th and the Early 20th c. (On the Education of the Priests). This article aims to explore some of Professor N. N.
Иво Янев
doaj   +1 more source

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