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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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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Untamed God or Reckless Risk-Taker? A Reply to Hasker\u27s Natural Order Theodicy [PDF]

, 2017
This paper argues that Molinism best rebuts the problem of natural evil when compared to the attempts of Open Theists, particularly William Hasker. The author begins by summarizing Hasker\u27s own Natural Order Theodicy, and subsequently critiques it. He
Justice, Nathan S
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Wittgenstein and Maimonides on God and the Limits of Language [PDF]

, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to bring together two thinkers that are concerned with the limits of what can be said, Wittgenstein and Maimonides, and to explore the sense of the good life and of the mystical to which their therapeutic linguistic work ...
Verbin, N.
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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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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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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Reconstructing Advaita in John Thatamanil\u27s The Immanent Divine : Some Questions [PDF]

, 2009
The publication of John Thatamanil\u27s The Immanent Divine allows us to ask many questions about projects in comparative theology and where they could lead us. I hope that my response to this interesting work will have the value of probing a little more
McLaughlin, Michael
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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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