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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art

open access: yesModern 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Reverb of Divine Revelation: Theological Poetics in John of the Cross

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the theological poetics of John of the Cross, investigating both the conditions under which contemplative experience gives rise to speech and the theological status of that speech within John's account of divine revelation.
Michael C. Costas
wiley   +1 more source

This (Mortal) Christian Life: Growth in Grace and the Problem of Senescence

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theological accounts of the Christian life attempt to describe the manner in which the Holy Spirit's communication of Christ's redemptive work engenders new ways of being in the world. Such descriptions normally entail, in one form or another, the conclusion that the Christian life is marked by progressive growth in grace, an upward spiral in ...
Daniel Lee Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Why Liberalism Might Last

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Can Liberalism Last?’ Anomaly and Faria (2023) argue that liberal societies tend to undermine their own long‐term survival, chiefly by fostering conditions—urbanization, mass migration from culturally distant regions and sub‐replacement fertility—that erode social trust and grant a demographic advantage to illiberal groups, whereas ...
Bouke de Vries, Maarten Boudry
wiley   +1 more source

The Ramadan Gambit: The Impact of Fasting on Cognitive Performance

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than 2 billion people participate annually in Ramadan fasting, making its potential effects on cognitive performance important for workplaces, education and high‐stakes decision‐making. We study these effects in tournament chess, an incentivised, real‐world cognitive task in which move quality can be evaluated objectively by a strong ...
Samuel Buckland, David Smerdon
wiley   +1 more source

Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
wiley   +1 more source

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