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Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
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Verbum et EcclesiaThis article examines the role of the Beatitudes (Mt 5:3–12) in constructing a framework for ethical church leadership, situating this inquiry within the broader trajectory of New Testament ethics and the scholarship of Professor Francois P.
Walter Maqoma
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 Working within the reader perspective approach to biblical hermeneutics, a recent series of empirical studies has tested the theory that the readers’ psychological type preferences between sensing and intuition (perceiving functions) and between feeling ...
Leslie J. Francis +2 more
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Rethinking Merit in Calvin's Doctrine of the Atonement: Beyond Possessive Individualism
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Joan Lockwood O'Donovan argues that the Reformation doctrine of grace entails a rejection of the proprietary anthropology of self‐owning individuals and its attendant notion of justice – what C. B. Macpherson termed the “theory of possessive individualism.” Although O'Donovan praises Calvin's anthropology and his account of law for its non ...
John Walker
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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The Sapiential Background of Jesus’ Beatitudes [PDF]
, 2015 The author shows the literary background of the evangelical Beatitudes in the books of wisdom from the Old Testament (Psalms, Proverbs, and Sirach). He starts with an explication of the grammatical form of ashre (lit.
Tronina, Antoni
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Wiara podstawowym dynamizmem moralnym osoby
Verbum Vitae, 2004 In a morał apprehension the faith has got a personal character. The development of person is a dynamic process. It includes an intelectual heritage wherein it realizes itself as well as constant internal dispositions what comes from the nature of human ...
Stanisław Jóźwiak
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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Persecution is no blessing: Matthew 5:10–12 as a ‘practical theodicy’
In die SkrifligAbout 30 years ago, Hanson argued on linguistic, literary-critical, and cultural grounds, that the term μακάριος in the macarisms should be translated as ‘how honourable!’ rather than ‘blessed’.
Myriam G.P. Klinker-De Klerck
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2005 Reading the Gospel of Matthew from the perspective of postcolonial theory means taking the context of the Gospel seriously. The political and religious circumstances of Palestine under Roman colonization influenced Matthean redaction.
Lazare S. Rukundwa, Andries G. Van Aarde
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