Will and Grace

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hune Margulies
Keyword(s):  
Will And Grace

Erasmus versus Luther: A Contemporary Analysis of the Debate on Free Will

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-335
Author(s):  
Aku Visala ◽  
Olli-Pekka Vainio
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Will And Grace ◽  
To Come

SummaryIn this article, we will use contemporary analytic tools to make sense of the main arguments in the classic debate on free will between Erasmus of Rotterdam and the Reformer Martin Luther. Instead of offering another exegesis of these texts, we put forward an analysis that links this historical debate with contemporary discussions on free will and grace in philosophical theology. We argue that the debate was ultimately about how three theological core claims are related to one another: the Anti-Pelagian Constraint (humans are incapable of willing any good, in order to come to faith), the Responsibility Principle (humans are morally responsible in the eyes of God) and human free will. Erasmus attacks Luther by arguing that the Responsibility Principle cannot be maintained without free will, while Luther responds by arguing that Erasmus must reject free will, because it is in conflict with the Anti-Pelagian Constraint. Luther is then left with the dilemma of justifying the Responsibility Principle without free will – a task, which in our estimation, fails. In the concluding section of the article, we point out some continuities and discontinuities between the contemporary debate and that of Luther and Erasmus.

Meeting the Opposition: Buber's “Will” and “Grace” in Sport

Quest ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Scott Kretchmar
Keyword(s):  
Will And Grace

"Ah yes, I remember it well": Memory and Queer Culture in Will and Grace

2004 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Castiglia ◽  
Christopher Reed
Keyword(s):  
Queer Culture ◽  
Will And Grace

Television and Domesticity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Pullen
Keyword(s):  
Female Identity ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Will And Grace ◽  
Queer As Folk ◽  
The City

This chapter considers the representation of the straight girl and queer guy within television form, framing the notion of the glance rather than the gaze, relative to domesticity and female identity. Considering early and developing television representations within sit-com such as those within Love Sidney (Warner Bros 1981–83, US), Tales of the City (Channel 4 1993, UK and US), Ellen (ABC 1994–98, US), Will and Grace (NBC 1998–2006, US) and Gimme Gimme Gimme – (Channel 4, 1999–2001, UK), the notion of union and alliance is foregrounded, whilst also focusing on leisure and consumption. Besides this, the queer guy and straight girl are considered separately as minorities, within Sex in the City (HBO 1998–2004, US) and Girls (HBO 2012 to present, US), where the queer guy is minority to the main straight female cast, and in Queer as Folk (Showtime 2000–5, US) and Looking (HBO 2014–15, US), where the straight girl is minority to the main queer male cast. At the same time the context of bisexuality is explored in Russell T. Davies’s Bob and Rose (ITV 2001, UK) and Torchwood (BBC 2006–11, UK), highlighting the transformation of the queer male as vulnerable to the advances of the straight girl.

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