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Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Narratives around emotions often foreground remarkable episodes that interrupt situations, producing a “rollercoaster” image of emotional life that leaves its stability underdescribed. To analyze the emotional dimension of social continuity, this article theorizes unmarked emotional states (UES): culturally default, interactionally unobtrusive
Lorenzo Sabetta
wiley   +1 more source

Beatitudes Session 1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
The theme that I\u27m going with this week is the theme of Kingdom living here now.
Johnson, David A.
core  

The beatitudes liberate

open access: yes, 2018
Reflection on pope Francis' presentation of the beatitudes in his exhortation 'Gaudete et Exsultate', in light of earlier Church ...
ten Klooster, Anton; id_orcid
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Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
wiley   +1 more source

A Spiritual Theology of Pastoral Supervision and Spiritual Direction: Incarnational and Redemptive Ministries of Love in Truth

open access: yesReligions
Pastoral supervision and spiritual direction are inherently personal in nature. They reveal a transformative life of spiritual and soul care demanding the formation of theological reflection, healing, guidance, and discernment.
Glenn Morrison
doaj   +1 more source

The Word, Sound, and Power of Reading Your Writing Aloud

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract This essay positions reading one's writing aloud as embodied praxis and examines it alongside “word, sound and power,” a Rastafari philosophy which asserts that spoken words can alter reality. The essay offers reading aloud as a crucial world‐making act that cultivates relationalities with our voices, our interlocutors, and their stories.
Kimberley D. McKinson
wiley   +1 more source

Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 242-266, July 2026.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
wiley   +1 more source

Learning to Speak Faith Publicly: Theology and Culture in the Secular University

open access: yesReligions
This article examines how theology can engage meaningfully with secular academic and cultural contexts, focusing on the possibility of public theology within the modern university.
Pavel Hanes, Benjamin Uhrin
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The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective

open access: yesDialog, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 76-83, Summer 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Emotion‐Focused Therapy: A Perspective From Traditional Chinese Medicine

open access: yesJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 62, Issue 3, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT In clarifying that Spinoza is not the first person to share insights about the necessity of a contrary, strong emotion in transforming an emotion, the present article focuses on expounding this perspective as embedded in the classical texts of Chinese medicine, along with illustrative examples of emotion‐focused therapy in the historical case ...
Wan‐chi Wong
wiley   +1 more source

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