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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that may be morally dubious because of their benign consequences, while the latter enables victims in the present to gain a measure of relief by ...
MARTIN JAY
wiley   +1 more source

Doubting Thomas: Aquinas on Doubt and the Act of Faith

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Several modern theologians affirm that doubt is compatible with faith, even as authoritative voices from the Christian tradition deny this. While Thomas Aquinas is often seen as an exemplar of the traditional view, few scholars have devoted serious attention to the nature of doubt in Thomas’ thought.
Patrick X. Gardner
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Karl Barth's Anti‐Ideological Theology: A Reconsideration of Barth's Approach to Philosophy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Barth's approach to borrowing from philosophical figures and schools is underwritten by several convictions that made such an approach intelligible. These convictions entailed that (1) Barth had no firm commitment to a philosophical school; (2) Barth's use of philosophy and philosophical terminology displays a pragmatic though principled ...
Kimlyn J. Bender
wiley   +1 more source

Students' attitudes toward euthanasia and abortion: a cross-cultural study in three Mediterranean countries. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Med Ethics
Tutić Grokša I   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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