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Can Libertarian Free Will be Reconciled with Divine Providence?

TheoLogica
I try to reconcile libertarian free will for created agents with a qualified understanding of divine providence. Divine providence is not absolute, since created agents have some say in how things go in the universe.
Katherin Rogers
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John Polkinghorne on Divine Action: a Coherent Theological Evolution [PDF]

, 2012
I examine John Polkinghorne's account of how God acts in the world, focusing on how his ideas developed with the consideration of the notion of kenosis, and how this development was not a rejection of his previous ideas, but on the contrary a fulfilling ...
Silva, Ignacio
core  

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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Aquinas on Providence, Control, and Divine Simplicity

TheoLogica
In this article, I address Joe Schmid’s argument of providential collapse against divine simplicity. After presenting my reservations about Daniel Shield’s solution based on Aquinas’s theory of relations, I outline a three-step strategy to defend ...
Agustín Echavarría
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The theme of the people in Pushkin's tragedy "Boris Godunov"

Язык и текст, 2018
The article is dedicated to analysis of the people’s image and its place in the storyline of the tragedy. The authors examine the work by Pushkin with respect to its philosophical and theolog-ical aspects and not to positivist sociological ...
B.A. Kurkin, O.V. Murashkina
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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A Deleuzian Examination of Anorexia & Recovery: Opening up Possibilities for Conceptualizing Care. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
ABSTRACT Anorexia, a type of eating disorder, holds the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses. Contemporary etiological consensus reflected in eating disorder literature views anorexia as the result of an interplay between biological, psychological, and social factors.
Gaudet S, Symonds-Brown H, Spiers J.
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When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
As Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Government, Herbert Vere Evatt played a pivotal role at the United Nations in securing the partition of Palestine and recognition of the State of Israel. These endeavours were represented by Evatt and in subsequent commentary as exemplifying Evatt's commitment to justice.
Jeff Rickertt
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Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Civilian‐led coups are one of the most common routes to losing power in autocracies. How do authoritarian leaders secure themselves from civilian leadership challenges? We argue that autocrats differentiate civilian rivals in part by their social ties to the military.
Tyler Jost, Daniel Mattingly
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