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What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Person’ With Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities? Presenting the Views of Family Members and Allies

British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities are at the centre of debates about what it means to be a person. These debates sometimes start from the position that a person is somebody who possesses mature cognitive abilities, such as intentional communication skills and self‐reflection (which individuals with ...
Ben Simmons, Stuart Read
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Reversing the Gaze: An Autoethnographic Critique of Transracial–Transnational Adoption to Australia

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we engage with rescue and saviour narratives surrounding transracial–transnational adoption (also known as intercountry adoption) as a provocation and as manufactured myths. These myths have erased the nuances and complexities of transracial–transnational adoption by commodifying adoptees as pitiful orphans in need of rescue ...
Samara Kim, Kathomi Gatwiri, Lynne McPherson   +2 more
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Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories by Matthew L. Potts [PDF]

, 2018
Mark Steven
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Introduction: Complex Situations

Journal of Moral Theology
The articles in the July 2024 issue of the _Journal of Moral Theology_ bring to the fore a series of anomalies for Catholic moral theology or, as one might call them, complex situations.
M. Therese Lysaught
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The character of Christ: the correlation of moral philosophy and Christology in Anglican theology 1830-1870 [PDF]

, 1982
The thesis argues that the influence of eighteenth-century moral philosophy on Victorian theology is seriously neglected. Its period is 1830-1870, but it looks back to Butler's work, and forward to the publication of Lux Mundi in 1889.
Sedgwick, Peter Humphrey
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Review Essay: Love and Recent Developments in Moral Theology

Journal of Moral Theology, 2012
Brady endeavors to survey how love has been treated in the landscape of Catholic moral theology in three moves: 1) reviewing the problems that arise in critical theological discussion of love, 2) examining the controversial question in moral theology of ...
Bernard V. Brady
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Social disharmony, inauthenticity and patriarchy: an Ubuntu perspective on the practice of female genital mutilation

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
Abstract Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a universal issue which affects girls in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America, and immigrant communities in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. FGM is a cultural practice in approximately 29 countries in Africa, affecting over 140 million girls.
Tauseef Ahmad Ally, Lizeka Amanda Tandwa
wiley   +1 more source

Agency and Virtues [PDF]

, 2019
In the philosophy of action, agency manifests the capacity of the agent to act. An agent is one who acts voluntarily, consciously and intentionally.
Khazaei, Zahra
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Fragments of Moral Theology in John Locke’s Notebooks

, 2021
Андрей Александрович Яковлев
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Servais Pinckaers and the Renewal of Catholic Moral Theology

Journal of Moral Theology, 2012
Servais Pinckaers stands as a prominent figure in ressourcement theology that contributed to a renewal in moral theology. Shifting the subdiscipline to a foundation rooted in Scripture, patristics, and magisterial sources via his use of the historical ...
Craig Steven Titus
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