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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 474-492, June 2025.Abstract There have been plenty of interpretations regarding the meaning and function of sacrifice within the discipline of anthropology. Going beyond sacrifice as a ritual and exploring a wide range of its manifestations and functions as contemporary cultural practices, discourses, and underlying logics, we reveal its role in the social organization ...
Angelina Kussy, Dolors Comas‐d'Argemir
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Counterpunishment revisited: an evolutionary approach [PDF]
Evolutionary game theory has shown that in environments characterised by a social-dilemma situation punishment may be an adaptive behaviour. Experimental evidence closely corresponds to this finding but yields contradictory results on the cooperation ...
Wolff, Irenaeus
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Chaos Theology: A New Creation Theology and Its Applications [PDF]
, 2012 The problems inherent in creatio ex nihilo have led the author to the development of a new creation theology: chaos theology. Its main points are creation from an unexplained initial chaos, a remaining chaos element that is the source of physical and ...
Bonting, Sjoerd L., S.O.Sc.
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Vox Patrum, 2013 Although Peter seems to echo the opinion commonly held when he says that Jesus „went about doing good” (Act 10, 38), Jesus was accused of „casting out demons by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons” (Mt 12, 24).
Agnieszka Bastit-Kalinowska
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, 2018 I address the questions of whether or not the very existence of heaven provides a motivation for killing. If universalism is true, then anyone killed will end up there, as will the killer.
Cushing, Simon
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Moral Dilemmas and Christian Ethics
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 45-71, March 2025.ABSTRACT We take moral dilemmas to be situations where no fully “moral” resolution is possible. Even an action that is, on the whole, justified may involve an injustice against someone affected. Some philosophers and theologians rule out such dilemmas on the basis of logical incoherence, or incompatibility with the nature of a good and all‐powerful God.
Kate Jackson‐Meyer, Lisa Sowle Cahill
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The «Lernaean Hydra» and the Problem of the Origin of Gnosticism [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2011 In the second century A.D. the Mediterranean world underwent a profound change in ethical attitude towards the сosmos and human society, and the change is especially well reflected in one of the most controversial intellectual movement of the Late ...
Eugene Afonasin
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On the Nature of Reciprocity: Evidence from the Ultimatum Reciprocity Measure [PDF]
We experimentally show that current models of reciprocity are in- complete in a systematic way using a new variant of the ultimatum game that provides second-movers with a marginal-cost-free punish- ment option.
Andreas Nicklisch, Irenaeus Wolff
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Seeing Otherwise: ‘The Least of These’ and Revelation in Jean‐Luc Marion
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 54-71, January 2025.Abstract In his familiar essay in Phenomenology and the ‘Theological Turn’, Jean‐François Courtine writes that the ‘cardinal experience’ of revelatory phenomena would undoubtedly be the incarnation. But in its singularity, this experience, he admits, seems to elude phenomenological thought.
Thomas Breedlove
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International Review of Mission, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 280-296, November 2024.Abstract This article aims to propose a “two‐way” decolonial reading of the trinitarian approaches within the Latin American liberation theologies: as a critique and as a framework to enhance some of its assumptions. Hence, the article will develop some of the most recognized approaches to this issue within these liberation theologies to identify ...
Nicolás Panotto
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