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The dilemma in Nigeria's socio-political development over the decades has been widespread religious affinities and spirituality. In the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious environment ... socio-rhetorical lenses to assess Nigeria's socio-political dilemma based on Jer. 30:7. Its findings include a dissonance between religious piety and theo-praxis which crystallises into a complacency
); Life (philosophy of religion). ... supervening folk-philosophical concept, concern and category in contemporary OT scholarship. Keywords: Old Testament scholarship, Life (ordinary language), Life (Old Testament scholarship), Life (philosophy
); Life (philosophy of religion). ... supervening folk-philosophical concept, concern and category in contemporary OT scholarship. Keywords: Old Testament scholarship, Life (ordinary language), Life (Old Testament scholarship), Life (philosophy
); Life (philosophy of religion). ... supervening folk-philosophical concept, concern and category in contemporary OT scholarship. Keywords: Old Testament scholarship, Life (ordinary language), Life (Old Testament scholarship), Life (philosophy
This Remonstrance presents a counter-cultural narrative and analysis of Maine’s legal, political, economic, and social interactions with the Wabanaki people. Although contemporary indicia of abuses ... historico-legal perspective. Presenting its analysis through an historic, legal, political, economic, and social nexus, this Remonstrance traces the ontogeny of control exerted by the State of Maine over the
Can the Bible, specifically, the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, contribute to cultural and socio-political issues prevalent in South Africa today? The struggle today can be linked to the inability of ... situation in South Africa? How, in other words, did they navigate some of their cultural and socio-political differences, and what can we learn or gain from their wisdom and practices? This contribution
, provides an analysis of political decolonisation in post-apartheid South Africa, in which he identifies two areas of failure within the significant gains made during South Africa' s transition from apartheid ... democracy-socio-economic justice and tribalisation. These two areas are the unfinished business of our substantive decolonisation of the political. In this article, I use Mamdani' s analysis as an exegetical
). Curiously, no overview exclusively devoted to describing relations to philosophy of religion has ever been written. In this paper, the first such account is provided by way of a purely descriptive ... ] Pangle, Thomas L. Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2003. [ Links ] Parry, Robin, ed., The Bible and Epistemology. Biblical Soundings on the
future federal laws benefiting tribes and native peoples. And, it did so without the consent of the tribes located within Maine. In addition to recognizing how economic and political realities influenced ... 1970s negotiations, as well as useful understandings into the larger political, social, legal, and economic context of the time.20 This Article seeks to build upon these reports, studies, books, hearings
the Psalm's associated religious language. As counterpart, the so-called "Logical Problem of Evil" (LPE) in analytic philosophy of religion was identified. Conceptual and correlation-relations in Psalm ... certain states of affairs in the world of the text are the way they are, or why they are at all. Keywords: Psalm 89, Suffering, Divine Attributes, Comparative Philosophy (of Religion), Problem Of Evil
the Psalm's associated religious language. As counterpart, the so-called "Logical Problem of Evil" (LPE) in analytic philosophy of religion was identified. Conceptual and correlation-relations in Psalm ... certain states of affairs in the world of the text are the way they are, or why they are at all. Keywords: Psalm 89, Suffering, Divine Attributes, Comparative Philosophy (of Religion), Problem Of Evil
This article seeks to clarify the concept of "philosophy" as it appeared within popular overviews of South African Old Testament scholarship published in the post-apartheid era. After providing a ... the African scholars mentioned in this study, albeit from the perspective of African philosophy and in the context of the political turn in cultural studies. The findings of this article hope to
and Gomorrah may need further reflections outside sexual frontlines but from the perspectives of political dynamics of the ANE. This paper explores Sodom and Gomorrah as a political and military story ... : at what points would the military or political afterlife of Sodom and Gomorrah meet with the ideological interests of the Bible writer? What interests does the writer have in Sodom and Gomorrah that he
inform responses to Africa's poverty? In this study, the assumptions are that poverty in Africa is the result of both socio-economic and political injustices of the West and Africans themselves. Africans ... case, mishpat is theorised as an ethic, principle, ideology and philosophy that can guide strategies for combatting poverty in Africa. Emphatically, mishpat, which is often ignored, should be an
analytic philosophy of properties can be used to update, refine and expand the explanatory framework for discussing related texts in the Book of Psalms on their own terms, even if not in them.Keywords : OT ... of justice in philosophy is not so much discussed in the context of properties as one of the concepts in philosophical ethics, philosophy of law, social philosophy and political philosophy since (and
?” Is there a hidden political dynamic? But “hidden” means hard to find. So maybe we should look for the answer in a related jurisdiction that keeps more extensive records of its government’s
Contemporary debates over the appropriate allocation of war powers between the political branches overemphasize the rigidity of the Constitution’s framework. This style of academic discussion ... presidential supremacy, we should instead look to text, history, and structure for guidance on how the political branches can legitimately and affirmatively negotiate their emergent responsibilities. This
In this article the author takes a closer look at the turn to philosophy in the writings of some scholars associated with so-called historical minimalism (Thomas L. Thompson & Philip R. Davies ... are myriad but include occasional references to the "metaphysics," "epistemology," "ethics," "logic," "philosophy of history," "political philosophy" and "philosophy of life" of the individual biblical
-poses of letting the text dialogue with Malawi socio-economic and political context, which are both products of internal politics and external forms of imperialism. The theoretical framework relevant to ... and the Malawi context, both of which are substan-tially shaped by social, economic and political conditions, liberation and postcolonial biblical hermeneutics will ser\׳e as the sub-theo-retical
This article seeks to clarify the concept of "philosophy" as it appeared within popular overviews of South African Old Testament scholarship published in the post-apartheid era. After providing a ... the African scholars mentioned in this study, albeit from the perspective of African philosophy and in the context of the political turn in cultural studies. The findings of this article hope to