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What Does the Happy Life Require? Augustine on What the Summum Bonum Includes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Many critics of religion insist that believing in a future life makes us less able to value our present activities and distracts us from accomplishing good in this world. In Augustine's case, this gets things backwards.
Cohoe, Caleb
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Implementing Automation: The Shopfloor Politics of Technological Change in the Canadian Aerospace Sector

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are the social processes of integrating new production technologies into existing work processes? How do management and trade union approaches shape the implementation and debugging of new technologies on the shopfloor? Drawing on the industrial relations literature on debugging and four cases of technological change at a major Canadian ...
Daniel Nicholson
wiley   +1 more source

An Epistemological Problem for Resurrection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Some theists have adopted materialism for human persons. They associate this metaphysics with their belief in resurrection and focus on problems arising from personal identity, temporal gaps or material constitution, but, in this paper, I argue that ...
Schmitt, Yann
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‘Like the Angel of Death Appearing to Take the Children Away’: The Portrayal of the Norwegian Child Welfare Service Among First‐Generation Muslim Parents

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the perceptions of Norway's Child Welfare Services (CWS), or barnevernet, among first‐generation Muslim migrant parents. It focuses on how personal experiences and community narratives shape attitudes. Using data from semi‐structured interviews with 24 first‐generation Muslim migrant parents, the findings reveal a stark ...
Alexander Gamst Page   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective

open access: yesDialog, EarlyView.
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

“Sleeper Awake, Rise from the Dead”: Future Resurrection and Present Ethics in Ephesians

open access: yesReligions
Within Ephesians, resurrection is the defining evidence of God’s divine power. A scholarly consensus contends that the letter is characterized by a realized eschatology in which the two references to individuals’ resurrection in Eph 2:5–6 and Eph 5:14 ...
Eric Covington
doaj   +1 more source

The Missing Face of Ecology in Pauline Theology: Conservation of Mass-Energy in Reconfiguring Immortality as Everlastingness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The early Judaic affirmation of generation(s) and earthly incorporation, a value of ecological potential, is undermined by the resurrection theology of Paul.
Roskos, Nicole
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Romano Guardini and Cornelio Fabro on Kierkegaard's Christian Humanism

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how Søren Kierkegaard's theological anthropology furnished resources for reconstructing Christian humanism among mid‐twentieth‐century Catholic thinkers. Focusing on Romano Guardini (1885‐1968) in Germany and Cornelio Fabro (1911‐1995) in Italy, I demonstrate how each thinker creatively appropriated Kierkegaard's ...
Joshua Furnal
wiley   +1 more source

The Resurrection of the Dead, Based on Avicenna’s and Thomas Aquinas’ View

open access: yesComparative Theology, 2013
 ’Resurrection’ is one of the most important issue among the religious, philosophical and theological issues. As an aim, this essay has to compare some opinions of the two prominent thinkers in Islam and Christianity.
Mohammad Mahdi Meshkati
doaj  

Considering Mulla Sadra as a Follower of the School of Tafkik [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت معاصر, 2011
Mulla Sadra in his transcendent philosophy used Tafkik method (i.e. separation of reason and tradition); it is claimed in a theory. According to the theory Mulla Sadra changed from his early philosophical-mystical and ta'vili method to Tafkik.
Janan Izadi, Ahad Faramarz Gharamaleki
doaj  

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