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The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective
ABSTRACT We look here at the characteristics of authoritarian government in the context of constitutional democracies and argue that its operative ethical system in public policy is egoism, with its supporters constituting a collective ego complicit in the undemocratic and Machiavellian practices used to sustain power and the authority of leadership to
James M. Childs
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Kant on Rational Reference: Theology as transcendental philosophy
Abstract The Critical Kant famously held that our cognition requires intuition, or essentially singular representation. Kant is also often understood as taking a dismissive attitude toward his rationalist predecessors' accounts of how we cognize singulars or individuals.
Maya Krishnan
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Immortality in the Christian Physicalistic Theology: A Critical Survey
Physicalistic Theology is a term that has no exact definition in theologian views. In the 20th century some of Christian thinkers on theology, like Nancy Murphy and Peter van Inwagen, by accepting a Physicalistic approach on human being, tried to analyze
Hasan Ahmadizade , Tayyebe Gholami
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Technology, Theology, Thinking, and the Church [PDF]
From the midst of what sometimes seems a brave new world of communication—Web 2.0, blogs, mobile phone service from almost anywhere, video by mobile phone—we should not forget that the Church and humanity have lived through it all before.
Soukup, Paul A.
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
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Triadic to Trinitarian: Kevin J. Vanhoozer’s Application of J.L. Austin’s Speech Act Theory [PDF]
The basis for Christian theology, the Bible, has come under considerable attack by decontructionalists in their attempt to disregard authorial intent and to prove that understanding the meaning of an author\u27s words is an impossible task.
Stone, Joshua C
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Active employees in the future workplace: From job crafting to selfergetic job crafting
Abstract The job crafting theory implies, but does not explicitly present the relationship between the self and the job. To fill the gap, we theorize upon the holistic view of the self, and selfergy, a new concept reflecting the unique manner by which employees craft their jobs. Based on the principles of the self‐determination theory, we have advanced
Louiza Paraskevopoulou +3 more
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Exploring the leaky pipeline: Tokenism, status group effects, or self‐selection?
Abstract In most European universities today, more than 50% of bachelor's degrees are awarded to women, but the corresponding share of full professorships is only about 25%. This phenomenon is called the leaky pipeline. Most explanations refer to gender biases and stereotypes, motherhood, discrimination, and tokenism.
Margit Osterloh, Katja Rost
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