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Spekulative Forensik. Verdacht und erzählerische Imagination in Edmond Locards Die Kriminaluntersuchung und ihre wissenschaftlichen Methoden. [PDF]
Edmond Locard's L'enquête criminelle et les méthodes scientifiques marks a pivotal moment in criminology's transformation from a largely unmethodical practice to a scientific discipline. While Locard is best known for advancing laboratory methods of forensic analysis, this article argues that at the heart of his conception of forensics lies the ...
Sander A.
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Advancing ethics support in military organizations by designing and evaluating a value-based reflection tool. [PDF]
Abstract Military employees face all sorts of moral dilemmas in their work. The way they resolve these dilemmas—how they decide to act based on their moral deliberations—can have a substantial impact both on society and on their personal lives. Hence, it makes sense to support military employees in dealing with these dilemmas.
van Baarle E, van Baarle S.
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This essay argues that a negative hermeneutics, i.e., a hermeneutics that takes its starting point from the experience of gaps, failures, and limits, is a suitable lens for the study of mysticism. It uses the concept of travail of the negative, which focuses on the dynamics of a continuous ‘unsaying’ and ‘subverting’ of traditional expressions of faith
Edda Wolff
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What Is Pedagogy? Discovering the Hidden Pedagogical Dimension
Abstract What is pedagogy, exactly? Merriam‐Webster defines it simply as “the art, science, or profession of teaching.” In contemporary academic discourse, however, pedagogy is generally left undefined — with its apparent implicit meanings ranging anywhere from a specific “model for teaching” (e.g., behaviorist or progressivist instruction) to a ...
Norm Friesen, Hanno Su
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This article discusses the introductory remarks to this special issue by Mattias Brand, as well as the two articles written by the Mattias Brand and Gerard Wiegers, respectively. It includes my own reflections in the commentary on the three contributions.
Volkhard Krech
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On the Present Possibility of Sola Scriptura
Abstract The historic Protestant wager that Christian theology is funded and governed sola scriptura sui ipsius interpres commits Protestant exegesis and theology to a particular hermeneutical programme. But is this programme viable? I argue that it is, and that it should be undertaken today by practising the theological interpretation of Scripture as ...
Philip G. Ziegler
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Abstract This article probes the question of whether or not the so‐called imprecatory Psalms may be prayed either in private settings or churches. In his Finkenwalde sermon on Psalm 58, Dietrich Bonhoeffer considers them ‘the prayer[s] of the innocent’. This article examines Bonhoeffer’s understanding and handling of the imprecatory Psalms, which leads
Nadine Hamilton
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Abstract Barth responds to the modern lack of language for talking of evil by developing the concept of das Nichtige (CD III/3, §50). ‘Das Nichtige’ – for which ‘nothingness’ is an insufficient translation – encompasses not only sin, but also the demonic dimension of evil, as well as physical suffering and death, without reducing it to a ...
Matthias D. Wüthrich
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Between Promise and Ecstasy: Hope as a Subject of an Engaged Theology
Abstract This article outlines a socially‐engaged theology that retrieves hope as an essential theological concept. The argument focuses not so much on the specific orientation that a socially engaged theology might take, but more on its motives. Here two notions of hope need to be distinguished: the hope that is future‐oriented (hoping that . . .) and
Hartmut von Sass
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Exchange, Atonement, and Recovered Humanity: Martin Luther on the Passive Obedience of Christ
Abstract This article engages Luther’s doctrine of Christ’s passive obedience (obedientia passiva)––a theme that comes to fullest expression in his Lectures on Galatians (1531/5). There, Luther argues that the sins of the godless become the true possession of the vicariously suffering Son.
John W. Hoyum
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