On Old Age: A Relational Account of Agency and Meaning in Later Life. [PDF]
Hastings Cent RepAbstract Cicero's treatise On Old Age offers an optimistic account of aging and responds to the prejudiced arguments of those who might otherwise ridicule older members of Roman society. While Cicero's rhetoric is, at times, scientifically naive and moralistic, this article argues that there are important insights that can be gained from carefully ...
Symons X, Savulescu J.
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Prophets With Enchantment: Framing Christian Climate Activism. [PDF]
Br J SociolABSTRACT This paper argues for a re‐enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism. It focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities.
Edwards G, Malcolm F.
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Why We Can Thrive past Seventy-Five: In Favor of Efforts to Extend the Human Lifespan. [PDF]
Hastings Cent RepAbstract About ten years ago, Ezekiel Emanuel wrote an article extolling the benefits of dying at seventy‐five. Since then, longevity and aging interest, research, and funding have exploded. Much of the public is supportive of aging biology research, and books on extending the human lifespan populate bestseller lists.
Ringel CB, Ringel MS, Caplan AL.
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The Role of Repentance in the Book of Ezekiel: A Second Chance for the Second Generation [PDF]
, 2012 It has become common to describe the book of Ezekiel as radically theocentric. Whilst this is a helpful concept, in the case of human repentance some scholars have taken it to the extreme, lapsing into total theocentricity and excluding the role that the
Strine, C.
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Ezekiel's oracles against the nations in light of a royal ideology of warfare [PDF]
, 2011 Over the last few decades a steady stream of scholarship has argued for a mythological background to the oracles against the nations (OANs) in the book of Ezekiel.1 Very few studies, however, have attempted to make overarching sense of Ezekiel’s use of ...
Crouch, C.L.
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Tyre, a Ship: The Metaphorical World of Ezekiel 27 in Ancient Judah [PDF]
, 2013 This essay offers a close reading of the dirge in Ezek 27, the metaphorical description of the famed and sinking Tyrian ship. The analysis pays close attention to the symbolic world of the text, situating it within the literary and historical milieux of ...
Ian Wilson
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A Hermeneutical Survey of the Book of Daniel: A Recipe for an Egalitarian Nigerian [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023 The fourth prophetic writing in the Old Testament, known as the Book of Daniel, has recently undergone an English translation. The primary focus of this text is centred on an individual by the name of Daniel.
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The spiritual world, Christ, ancestors, angels, and demons in Hlungwani's art and theology [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021 Jackson Hlungwani’s vision of a New Jerusalem is shaped by his unique African Christian theology teachings. They are expressed through his wooden sculptures in an “independent African Church which would echo the wish to Africanize Christianity and ...
Dr Raita Steyn
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Disappointed expectations and false hopes: The message of Ezekiel 13:1-16 in a time of change
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2002 Ezekiel 13 forms part of a whole complex in the book of Ezekiel dealing with those prophetic voices challenged by the prophet Ezekiel. His audience paid no attention to his message and had expectations of a quick return from exile.
H.F. van Rooy
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Hope in Exile: In Conversation with Ezekiel
Religions, 2019 The question of hope in dark times, though topical, is not new. The Babylonian Exile (597/587−539 BCE) is commonly recognised as perhaps the most profound, yet also most fruitful crisis in biblical (Old Testament) times.
Janina M. Hiebel
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