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The african theology as practical theology
Studia Pelplińskie, 2020 The purpose of this article is to show that African theology is both a practical theology as well as a speculative theology. It is a theology which was born from the perspective of finding a proper method of evangelization on the African continent. To do this, this theology went through different stages which led it to its scientific maturity.
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The King's Evil Without the King: The Royal Touch during the Interregnum
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how far, and in what ways, the traditional belief that English monarchs could cure scrofula (the “King's Evil”) by royal touch survived during the eleven years of the Interregnum (1649–1660). Charles I had been executed and the monarchy abolished, and Charles II was in exile for the vast majority of this period. It might seem that
David L. Smith
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Freedom‐amelioration, transformative change, and emancipatory orders
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1378-1392, December 2022., 2022 Abstract “Freedom” is a fundamental political concept: contestations or endorsements of freedom‐conceptions concern the fundamental normative orientation of sociopolitical orders. Focusing on “freedom,” this article argues that the project of bringing about emancipatory sociopolitical orders is both aided by efforts at engineering fundamental political
Lukas Schmid
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The True (?) Story of Hilbert's Infinite Hotel [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 What is known as "Hilbert's hotel" is a story of an imaginary hotel with infinitely many rooms that illustrates the bizarre consequences of assuming an actual infinity of objects or events. Since the 1970s it has been used in a variety of arguments, some of them relating to cosmology and others to philosophy and theology.
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement ...
Peter Denney
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Cosmology and the Origin of the Universe: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 From a modern perspective cosmology is a historical science in so far that it deals with the development of the universe since its origin some 14 billion years ago. The origin itself may not be subject to scientific analysis and explanation. Nonetheless, there are theories that claim to explain the ultimate origin or "creation" of the universe.
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The Aesthetics of Democratic Power: Sensibility, Normativity, and the Sublime
Constellations, EarlyView.
Stephen K. White
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Philosophy of Science and Educational Research: Strategies for Scientific Effectiveness and Improvement of the Education [PDF]
European Journal of Science and Theology, 2017, Vol. 13, No. 3,
137-147 ISSN 1842-8517, 2018 This article is a theoretical study on the effectiveness of educational research in the context of Philosophy of science. This topic of discussion, in the area of educational research, has been the subject of intellectual debate and arises again at the beginning of the 21st century.
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