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Active repentance in criminal law [PDF]

, 2020
The thesis is focused on the issue of active repentance in criminal law. The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive view of the institute of active repentance and its importance in the area of extinction of criminal liability, and to verify ...
Kučerová, Karolína
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Forgiveness, Repentance, and Diachronic Blameworthiness [PDF]

, 2022
Many theorists have found the notion of forgiveness to be paradoxical, for it is thought that only the blameworthy can be appropriately forgiven but that the blameworthy are appropriately blamed not forgiven.
Khoury, Andrew C.
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Ontološka dimenzija (moralnoga) čina u svjetlu grijeha i krivnje

Diacovensia, 2019
Despite the widely held view that a metaphysical reflection on morality and fundamental principles does not help much, the goal of the article is to shed light on the source of moral discourse that necessarily begins with a metaphysical analysis of human
Stjepan Radić
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Nafsanalysis: The Problem of Refinement in Sufi Ethics

Ethos, EarlyView.
Abstract The nafs is the spirit in its ordeal of embodiment. It is the veil through which separation from God becomes the condition of relation to Him. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among practitioners of the Naqshbandia Awaisia Sufi order in Pakistan, this article approaches the nafs as the site of enjoyment that survives refinement ...
Muhammad Osama Imran
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The feasts of repentance from Luke-Acts to systematic and pastoral theology

, 2019
In gospel proclamation today, the critical New Testament element of repentance can be far too often ignored, minimalized or dismissed. Yet John the Baptist, Jesus himself and those he commissioned to spread his gospel all spoke of the urgent need to ...
Ovey, Michael 1958-2017
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Penal‐Reparative Atonement: A Synthesis of Penal Substitution and Satisfaction Models

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract I will argue that through Jesus Christ's life, death, resurrection, and ascension—considered as an organic whole—Christ presented his humanity before the Father as the visible instantiation of both God's condemnation of sin and God's delighted acceptation of the Son.
Sean Luke
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Terrorism and repentance : representation in Italian film [PDF]

, 2008
In this paper I will refer to power as in the power struggle between red terrorism and the Italian state in the 1970s, which saw the Italian state victorious thanks to the special legislation on repentance that was passed at the end of the 1970s (I will ...
Ferrero-Regis, Tiziana
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Enduring After God: An Anatheistic Reframing of Augustine on Suicide

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper proposes a retrieval of Augustine's argument on suicide in De Civitate Dei I.17–27, rearticulating its ethical core for a post‐theistic age through the hermeneutic lens of Richard Kearney's anatheism. Confronting the dual reality of persistent suicide and declining religiosity, I argue that Augustine's pastoral case against ending ...
Kornelius Lumbanbatu
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The Communicative Theory of Punishment and Repentance

, 2018
The paper argues that the repentance of an offender can make his punishment inappropriate and that courts must consider repentance as a sufficient reason not to inflict punishment at all or to reduce it.
Chitov, Alexander
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Adam’s Story in the Qur’ān

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica, 2014
The Qur’ān contains only fragments of Adam’s story in six different sūras, apart from several minor references. These may be arranged into five thematic chapters: (1) the creation of man; (2) adoration by angels; (3) Satan’s disobedience; (4) the fall of
Mlada Mikulicová
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