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Work-related psychological health and psychological type among lead elders within the Newfrontiers network of churches in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2012
Building on a series of recent studies concerned with assessing work-related psychological health and psychological type among various groups of church leaders, this study reports new data provided by 134 Lead Elders within the Newfrontiers network of ...
Bradburn N. M., Evers W., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Francis L. J., Golden J., Jung C. G., Kay W. K., Lemkau J. P., Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Maslach C., Myers I. B., Reid J., Robbins M., Robbins M., Rutledge C. J. F., Rutledge C. J. F., Sean Gubb, Strümpfer D. J. W., Warner J.   +23 more
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Ontologies for Sustainability: Theoretical Challenges

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of sustainable practices in key sectors of human societies is a global concern, posing threats for the whole planet. This paper provides the first review of ontologies for sustainability efforts, outlining their roles in assessing and advancing such efforts. Section 2 outlines three major challenges associated with sustainability: (1)
Giorgio A. Ubbiali, Matthew C. Lange, Andrea Borghini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are clergy serving yoked congregations more vulnerable to burnout? : a study among clergy serving in the Presbyterian church (USA) [PDF]

, 2013
Pressures generated by increasing secularization and decreasing vocations to ordained ministry are resulting across denominations in a growing number of clergy serving more than one congregation.
Bradburn, Brewster, Costa, DeVellis, Eysenck, Eysenck, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Joseph, Jung, Keirsey, Maslach, Miner, Myers, Robbins, Rodgerson, Rutledge, Turton   +27 more
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Negatio non cognoscitur nisi per affirmationem: Some Remarks on Negation Parasitism in John Duns Scotus’s Writings

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2021
The aim of this paper is to detect and assess some parasitic aspects that characterize John Duns Scotus’s account of negation, with a major focus on epistemology and theology.
Matteo Maserati
doaj   +1 more source

Analogy as Higher-Order Metaphor in Aquinas [PDF]

, 2009
At a Thomas Instituut conference in 2000, Otto-Hermann Pesch suggested somewhat enigmatically that the sharp distinction in scholastic Thomism between analogy and metaphor can no longer be maintained since on closer examination analogous statements are ...
Masson, Robert
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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Afterlife: The Inadequacies of Heaven and Hell [PDF]

, 2015
This paper deals with some of the ambiguities that are associated with the intermediate and final states after death. Whereas many in the church have dismissed these concepts as myths of the ancients, this discussion shows how the grounding of such ...
Davis, Christopher P
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The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
wiley   +1 more source

RELIGIOUS HYPOTHESES AND THE APOPHATIC, RELATIONAL THEOLOGY OF CATHERINE KELLER

Zygon, 2016
In one of its most urgent folds, Catherine Keller's Cloud of the Impossible juxtaposes negative theology with relational theology for the sake of thinking constructively about today's global climate of religious conflict and ecological upheaval.
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source