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Journal of Urban History, 2013
As Erin O’Connor recently noted, “Asiatic cholera exposed the frailties of England’s urban industrial structure,” and it provided the most serious test of the old Poor Law system in Birmingham. This paper intends to explore the response of the medical, political, and religious authorities of Birmingham to the outbreak of cholera in 1832 as well as the ...
Ian Cawood, Chris Upton
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As Erin O’Connor recently noted, “Asiatic cholera exposed the frailties of England’s urban industrial structure,” and it provided the most serious test of the old Poor Law system in Birmingham. This paper intends to explore the response of the medical, political, and religious authorities of Birmingham to the outbreak of cholera in 1832 as well as the ...
Ian Cawood, Chris Upton
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Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 2019
Abstract Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1201–1274), the most eminent Muslim thinker of thirteenth-century Iran occupies a unique place among the Muslim polymaths of the Middle Ages who have gained recognition both in the East and West. In the West, he is recognised as a scientist whose contribution to astronomy, trigonometry and mathematics influenced the ...
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Abstract Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1201–1274), the most eminent Muslim thinker of thirteenth-century Iran occupies a unique place among the Muslim polymaths of the Middle Ages who have gained recognition both in the East and West. In the West, he is recognised as a scientist whose contribution to astronomy, trigonometry and mathematics influenced the ...
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2021
In Chapter Six the central metaphor is that of our exemplars’ intermediary role in bringing together the “seen and unseen” realms through their “wondrous feats.” Here an overarching metaphor intimately connected to marvellous powers in the first place is that of charismatic authority, a clear cut above mere “acquired/discursive” epistemic credentials ...
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In Chapter Six the central metaphor is that of our exemplars’ intermediary role in bringing together the “seen and unseen” realms through their “wondrous feats.” Here an overarching metaphor intimately connected to marvellous powers in the first place is that of charismatic authority, a clear cut above mere “acquired/discursive” epistemic credentials ...
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The Mystery of Divine Providence
Theological Studies, 2003[Catastrophic events, both personal and collective, raise the question of divine Providence. How can an infinitely good Creator allow the kind of evil that puts the divine goodness in doubt? The question has been faced since patristic times. Theories of predestination have been proposed.
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Religious Studies, 1978
In the preface to his book God the Problem, Gordon Kaufman writes ‘Although the notion of God as agent seems presupposed by most contemporary theologians … Austin Farrer has been almost alone in trying to specify carefully and consistently just what this might be understood to mean.’
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In the preface to his book God the Problem, Gordon Kaufman writes ‘Although the notion of God as agent seems presupposed by most contemporary theologians … Austin Farrer has been almost alone in trying to specify carefully and consistently just what this might be understood to mean.’
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The Secret of Divine Providence
2018The emphasis on political continuity in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution leads to a specifically Whig providentialism, examined in Chapter 3 through the work of Clara Reeve, Horace Walpole, and Matthew Lewis. In Clara Reeve’s The Old English Baron, the country Whig version, stressing links with the medieval past, unites with Newtonian theology ...
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Providence, Divine Causality, and the Gratuitousness of Love: A Thomist Perspective
New Blackfriars, 2023Rik van Nieuwenhove
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