From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Disintegration, Salvation, and/or Madness in Dostoevsky
ABSTRACT Psychological fragmentation and derangement suffuse Dostoevsky's fiction. This paper argues that the madness of Dostoevsky characters derives from intense wounds to the self: humiliating lacerations that impel fugue and disintegration. Such vulnerable, frangible characters seek to escape and deny themselves to avoid being seen for who they are.
Jerry Piven
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Gereformeerde teologie in die spervuur tussen fundamentalisme en anti-fundamentalisme
Reformed theology is often accused of harbouring fundamentalistic ideas, especially in its views regarding the authority and infallibility of Scripture, the validity of science, the nature of history and philosophical views on truth and reality. However,
G. J. C. Jordaan
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Rationalist and Reductionist: Andrew Fuller’s Response to Robert Robinson in Six Letters
Apologetic engagement was part and parcel of the ministry of Andrew Fuller. His most common opponents embraced extreme forms of rationalism that could not be reconciled with orthodox Calvinistic theology.
Rindels Ryan
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Teaching Buddhism in Britain's schools : redefining the insider role [PDF]
Dialogical approaches to Religious Education in Britain’s schools have opened the subject to input by Buddhist insiders more than ever in its history although shortcomings remain in the way Buddhism is portrayed in the classroom.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden
Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
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Political and economic theology after Carl Schmitt: the confessional logic of deferment
Carl Schmitt’s critical insights into ‘economic-technical thinking’ and the dominant role that a ‘magical technicity’ is said to assume in the social horizon of his times offers an opportunity to reframe contemporary debates on political and economic theology, exposing a theological core behind technocratic administration.
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A kapwa-infused paradigm in teaching Catholic theology/catechesis in a multireligious classroom in the Philippines [PDF]
The increasing religious diversity in educational space has raised a legitimate question on how Catholic theology/ catechesis must be taught in Philippine Catholic universities given the institutional mandate to educate students “into the faith of the ...
Aleshire D. +24 more
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Testimonial for Christ? A Theology of Witness in the Face of Testimonial Studies
Abstract As a contemporary mode of discourse and basic concept of Christian existence, the concept of witnessing, at the interface of public theology and testimonial studies, is examined with regard to its epistemic dimension: What implications does witnessing as knowledge practice have for theology? To this end, the paper outlines the understanding of
Frederike van Oorschot
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Badiou and the Reconstruction of the Concept of God
Abstract In this article I first summarize Badiou’s and Žižek’s critique of the concept of God, which I and other interpreters conceive as a radicalization of the theology of the death of God. I then pose the question of how to formulate a positive conception of God after the death of God that would overcome the limits of negative or apophatic theology.
Michael Hauser
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