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Ontologies for Sustainability: Theoretical Challenges

open access: yesSustainable 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Christian discipleship and interreligious dialogue: A theological exploration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
What is the relationship between Christian mission and inter-faith engagement? What has interreligious dialogue got to do with Christian discipleship? Is one in competition with the other? Is one subsumed within the other?
Pratt, Douglas
core   +1 more source

Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

A Spiritual Theology of Dialogue: Levinas, Burggraeve, and Catholic Theology

open access: yesReligions
Dialogue needs provocative interlocutors. Instilling a grave and shuddering awakening to the conscience, Emmanuel Levinas has provided a corpus of writings unveiling an immemorial horizon and divine calling of infinite responsibility before the other ...
Glenn Morrison
doaj   +1 more source

The how of ethical decision making [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
In the process of ethical decision making, moral judgment is as important as moral commitment; thus ethical decision making calls for thoughtful consideration.
Kleiner, John W.
core   +1 more source

The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Implications of ‘Religious Experience’ for Catholic-Pentecosotal Dialogue: A Catholic Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Pentecostals consider the experience of the Holy Spirit to be at the heart of their movement. In dialogue with Pentecostals, Catholics are challenged to probe the resources of Christian experience for the theological enterprise. After examining different
Del Colle, Ralph
core   +1 more source

Epistemological dialogue as prophetic : a black theological perspective on the land issue

open access: yes, 2016
Land is life and land is our mother. The absence of the content of liberation for the dispossessed in theologies that seek to address the question of land is the ‘original’ sin of the debate about land in South Africa.
V. Vellem
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing the Trinity in doing practical theology

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2022
Tracing and reflecting on God should be an integral aspect of practical theological reflection. This article focuses on the Trinity as a way of speaking about the identity of God and how tracing it would inform doing practical theology.
Willem J. Schoeman
doaj   +1 more source

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