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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
doaj  

Faith Believes, Hope Expects: The Impact of Calvin's Theology on the Mathematics of Chance [PDF]

arXiv
This paper attributes the sudden emergence of mathematical probability and statistics in the second half of the seventeenth century to Calvin's Reformed theology. Calvin accommodated Epicurean chance with Stoic determinism and synthesised \emph{phronesis/prudentia}, founded personal experience and employed to deal with \emph{tyche/fortuna}, and \emph ...
arxiv  

Fragments of Moral Theology in John Locke’s Notebooks

, 2021
Андрей Александрович Яковлев
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Poetic Licentiousness and the Destitutions of High Culture

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Rick de Villiers
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Making moral selves through comparison: Narratives of moral decline and the modern virtuous self among middle‐class older adults in Nepal

Ethos, EarlyView.
Abstract During fieldwork among older adults in middle‐class families in the city of Bhaktapur (2018–2019), I recurrently came across comparative narratives of moral decline, depicting a stark contrast between the present time and a mythical past where ageing parents were treated “as gods.” In this paper, I analyze how, through acts of comparisons ...
Paola Tinè
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The room where it happened: How evangelical leaders used a Closed‐Door meeting to change sentiment for Donald J. Trump

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 349-359, December 2022., 2022
The embrace of Donald J. Trump as a presidential candidate in 2016 was not a given for evangelical voters. The thrice married, one‐time advocate for abortion, who prided himself on his ability to attract beautiful women did not seem like someone for whom evangelicals would enthusiastically show up to vote.
J. Derrick Lemons
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Seeds for an Encounter Ethics: The Fruit of Reading Veritatis Splendor Beyond a Post-Conciliar Binary Narrative

Journal of Moral Theology
Two of the more recent methodological narratives about twentieth-century moral theology, written by James Keenan and Matthew Levering, argue that an intractable methodological division over law and conscience emerges in the wake of Vatican II.
Catherine Moon
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The Luminous Excess of the Acting Person: Assessing the Impact of Pope John Paul II on American Catholic Moral Theology

Journal of Moral Theology, 2012
Pope St. John Paul II’s influence on the field of Catholic moral theology has been highly contested. By examining at two of the late pontiff’s major projects – Theology on the Body and Veritatis Splendor – this influence is seen to be centered around an ...
John S. Grabowski
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Hoping on insufficient evidence: how epistemically rational can action‐centred faith be?

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Daniel McKaughan has recently argued that conceiving faith as an ‘action‐centred’ attitude whose cognitive component falls short of outright belief can play a central role in explaining how people who regard the truth of Christianity as significantly less probable than naturalism can respond with faith to the gospel proclamation without ...
Giorgio Volpe
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After rupture: Visions of history, African spirituality and theological repair in Nigerian Pentecostalism

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 383-395, December 2022., 2022
Abstract How do Pentecostal Christians seek repair and renewal in their lives, after their efforts to rupture with the past and become born again? In this article, I wish to consider the ways that a group of Nigerian Pentecostals who belong to a deliverance church re‐narrativise their lives by constructing and entering into new timelines of history ...
Naomi Richman
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