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“Me and God, We're Good”: Abortion Morality and Protestant Women Having Abortions in the South

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how 84 Protestant women in the South understand the morality of their abortion decisions, offering a nuanced perspective on the complex relationship between religion and abortion and revealing that many women navigate abortion decisions with theological depth, moral reasoning, and a profound sense of responsibility.
Rebecca Todd Peters
wiley   +1 more source

Testamentary capacityand disinheritance [PDF]

, 2021
Testamentary capacity and disinheritance Abstract Disinheritance is an institute of law, which gives the testator opportunity to shorten, or not to leave the forced share to the forced heir for which he is entitled by law.
Aleksić, Jovana
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Real and Apparent Deviations From Rational Choice

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper offers a taxonomy of real and apparent deviations from rationality. The taxonomy is based on three axes of divides—whereas the axes are successive refinements. The outermost‐axis divide delineates “anxiety‐based choices” from “anxiety‐free choices.” Anxiety‐based choices are real deviations such as the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes ...
Elias L. Khalil
wiley   +1 more source

From testamentary freedom to testamentary duty: Finding the balance [PDF]

, 2008
In recent years legal challenges to charitable bequests by testators' family members have become more common in Australia. Many charities faced with the prospect of a disputed bequest have been reluctant to pursue the matter in the courts.
Hannah, Frances M., McGregor-Lowndes, Myles   +1 more
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Duplicitous Remembrance: Confessing Self‐Deception with Augustine

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract While self‐deception has long been a topic of interest in psychology and analytic philosophy—and increasingly in the academic study of theology and religion—direct engagement with Augustine on self‐deception remains underexplored in contemporary scholarship.
Abraham S‐C Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Judaism, Philo, and Hegel's Theology

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel displays consistent interest in Judaism, but his presentation seems to differ widely between his earlier and later writings. Contemporary scholarly interpretations of this apparent change also differ widely. In this article, I present the interpretive problem as one of continuity‐discontinuity, and place the major scholarly treatments ...
Reed Frey, C.O.
wiley   +1 more source

Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
wiley   +1 more source

The Disposition of Human Remains and Organ Donation: Increasing Testamentary Freedom while Upholding the No Property Rule

, 2017
In terms of real and personal property, Canadian law grants individuals substantial testamentary freedom in the disposition of their estate. However, in regards to human remains, Ontario has upheld the common law’s longstanding “No Property Rule,” which ...
Mimnagh, Louise M
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