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Revisiting the Literal Sense of Scripture, in Dialogue With Thomas Aquinas

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Brevard Childs suggests that ‘one of the burning issues in theology lies in a search to recover a new understanding of the sensus literalis’. In this article, I retrieve and commend Thomas Aquinas's account of the literal sense, using Peter's Pentecost speech in Acts 2 as a way of testing Thomas's mettle.
Christopher R. J. Holmes
wiley   +1 more source

No Right to an Open Future

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Liberals writing about the family frequently cite the child's ‘right to an open future’ in discussions of the ethics of parental decision‐making for young children. This purported right grounds certain claims on behalf of children in considerations related to their future autonomy.
Joseph Millum
wiley   +1 more source

Housing Justice, Basic Capabilities, and Self‐Respect

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing studies often draw on what we will refer to as the capabilitarian assumption. However, the assumption that the capability approach offers the right framework for analysing housing injustice has received little to no philosophical scrutiny. In this article we aim to fill this lacuna.
Niklas Dummer, Christian Neuhäuser
wiley   +1 more source

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