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John B. Cobb Jr., a well-known theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist in the United States, has developed his own participatory ecological theology from process philosophy to process theology ... responsible creations, just as serving God. Keywords: Process Philosophy; Process Theology; Ecological Theology; Ecological Sustainability Introduction John B. Cobb, Jr. (born 1925) is an
This paper examines the current situation of land possession in the South African socio-political space. Land possession in South Africa is an emotive issue that receives different political ... that receives different political responses based on historical constitutional land laws and declarations, such as the Freedom Charter of 1954. African views on land are elaborated, together with South
Ephesians 5:22-23. It aims to explicate the political theology that underpins and informs Wiid's patriarchal hermeneutics by placing it within the cultural, political, racial, and gendered context of a
This paper explores how social media contributes to political polarization in the United States by addressing two of the most common effects that social media users encounter: the backfire effect and
In this contribution, the argument pits two cultural reflexes against one another. In modern democracies, religion is removed from the socio-political sphere; in ancient Israel, religion was inserted ... the perceived social validity of the positions that take dominance within that society. This is in modern political philosophy understood as the "social contract" - an inheritance from Hobbes, Locke and
office due to felony disenfranchisement laws. Thus, habitual offender laws target a formally disenfranchised group—people with felony convictions. That creates an archetypal political process problem. As ... he should raise that concern in the political arena, not the courts, and cast his vote accordingly. The problem for Brooker, and the one that animates this Article, is that he cannot vote. Because of
could prevent hate crimes from occurring in the first place. Those measures potentially include educational initiatives, conflict resolution programs, political reforms, social services, or other ... , political reforms, social services, or other proactive efforts aimed at the root causes of hate crimes. Focusing on the public conversation around anti-Asian hate crimes, this Essay argues that very
current political clamour for de-colonisation portrays the contribution of the missionaries as negative because, having arrived with colonialism, there is a perception that they colluded in the imperialist ... circumstances played into the outcome of the current cultural context in South Africa is necessarily eclectic. In no way is it intended to minimise the very important role that other personalities and political
The political nature of the NT documents is carefully hidden away in the folds of a centuries-long tradition of Christianising and spiritualising the NT (and the Bible overall). The depoliticisation ... in glove with a long history of its dejudaising and equally long ghettoising of the Bible through narrow spiritual interpretation, obscuring or blurring its socio-political nature. Key words
pluralisation. An important impulse of this approach lies in the concept of "trans-difference", anchored in Jewish philosophy. Dialogical Theology requires the counterbalance of analyses related to interreligious ... taken up not only by "insider" disciplines such as Theology or Religious Pedagogy but increasingly also by other disciplines, including Political Science, Philosophy and Sociology. To illustrate, we will
popular and political will to pass the reforms must extend beyond the passage of the law and must also create mechanisms to scrutinize, guide, and support the judiciary’s implementation of the law. ... . Although these reforms were democratic and popular, judges were not sufficiently incentivized to properly implement the changes. If reforms are to succeed, the popular and political will to pass the reforms
discontinuities between these political forms. Because neoliberalism characterizes the governmental and economic reason and practice of late-modernity, recalling Foucault’s erudite analysis prepares us to ... , Article 2. Available at: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gssr/vol4/iss1/2 Part of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons; Intellectual History Commons; Political - Economies of Security: Foucault and
Criminology by an authorized editor of Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons - THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENTRAPMENT RICHARD H. MCADAMS* INTRODUCTION By the time she was eighteen, Amy ... consider and critique the literature that seeks to justify the defense based on retributive theory, utilitarian theory, and political/institutional concerns. In each case, I do not claim that there is no
transnational political systems. Additional cross-temporal examination of citizens’ confidence in the EU and the roles of new media are warranted.
African philosophy is a recognised field both in the Old Testament and philosophy studies in Africa. Jacobus W Gericke argues that "methodological and conceptual debates in African philosophy are ... that biblical scholars can learn from when seeking to address the controversy regarding the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and philosophy". On the conceptual debates in African philosophy, Mogobe
His late 1932 first-time public positioning to the radical socio-political changes of his context provoked Bonhoeffer to express his personal turmoil in a literary fragment. In working through his ... : Person; Personality; Private law; Constitution; Incarnation Introduction Inserting in late 1932 for the first time into the public space his position on the evolving socio-political and
, INEQUALITY 247–48 (1993); G.A. Cohen, How to do Political Philosophy, in ON THE CURRENCY OF EGALITARIAN JUSTICE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 228–29 (Michael Otsuka ed., 2011). to be punished.162 ... grateful to participants at the Stanford Law and Philosophy workshop for feedback on an early draft of this paper. And I owe special thanks to Juliana Bidadanure, Jessica Eaglin, James Forman Jr., Aziz Huq
. This general anthropological trauma's impact is on political-socio-economic level as the trauma of "what we have", on religious-cultural-relational level as the trauma of "who we are", and on the ... resistance and faith-infused struggle against the wounds of postcolonialism. God's Victory Prayer is interwoven with the political, economic, and personal challenges of the Zambian populace. Its purpose is
The political nature of the NT documents is carefully hidden away in the folds of a centuries-long tradition of Christianising and spiritualising the NT (and the Bible overall). The depoliticisation ... in glove with a long history of its dejudaising and equally long ghettoising of the Bible through narrow spiritual interpretation, obscuring or blurring its socio-political nature. Key words
(history, philosophy, literature), or is there a qualitative difference? What about the role of technology in biblical research and biblical education? What is the future of the institutions of biblical ... scholarship serves to help non-specialists appreciate the Bible as they would appreciate other influential works of art, literature, history or philosophy. Third, biblical scholars speak to other specialists
