Prolegomena to Any “Metaphysics of the Future”: A Critical Appraisal of John Haught's Evolutionary Theology

Horizons ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-295
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Hohman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Bernard Lonergan ◽  
Process Thought ◽  
The Future

This article examines John Haught's proposal for a “metaphysics of the future” within his program for an evolutionary theology. After offering an overview of Haught's metaphysics and its roots in process thought, it argues that Haught's account undermines his larger goal of dialogue between science and religion by making all knowledge of reality dependent on a prior and explicitly religious experience. This critique is brought into greater relief through a comparison with the thought of Bernard Lonergan, whose epistemology and metaphysics Haught has engaged numerous times throughout his career. The final section suggests one way of reframing Haught's project that avoids these serious issues without jettisoning his important core insights.

Religious Experience in Lonergan and Whitehead

1980 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Kathleen Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Bernard Lonergan ◽  
Process Thought ◽  
Classical Theism ◽  
The Common

This comparison of some aspects of the treatment of religious experience in the writings of Bernard Lonergan and Alfred North Whitehead is intended to be a contribution to the continuing dialogue between process thought and classical theism, especially as the latter is represented in proponents of a newer or renewed Thomism. Continued exchange will hopefully be fruitful for the common theistic task, as well as a source of insight on the problems and limitations faced by each approach.

scholarly journals Adopting standard variable labels solves many of the problems with sharing and reusing data

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 205979912110266
Author(s):  
Brett Buttliere
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Meta Data ◽  
Question Wording ◽  
Variable Label ◽  
The Future ◽  
Simple Step

Datasets and analysis scripts are becoming more available online, but most datasets are still unclear and difficult to use due to poor meta-data. Adopting standard variable label solves most of these problems and is easily implemented if we set the labels at the time of publication, that is, for authors to also establish standard variable labels when they establish for example, question wording. This simple step involves little effort but facilitates the sharing of datasets and analysis scripts enormously. Current initiatives to improve meta-data rely on users spending much time creating new meta-data for each variable, which is time consuming, unenjoyable, and hinders adoption. Some suggestions are made on how brief, unique, and clear variable labels can be developed, especially using the last two digits of the year the scale was published in. Standards for dataset and analysis script etiquette are the future, and the final section of the manuscript examines other easy places simple standards can save time and frustration for (re)users.

Bataille’s Prehistoric Turn: The Case for Heterology

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 155-173
Author(s):  
Michèle Richman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Maurice Blanchot ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Continuum

The contribution of this study to existing scholarship is threefold. First, it extends heterology’s timeline beyond the late 1930s to encompass the final phase of Bataille’s career (1955–62) devoted to prehistory. It argues that heterology’s keyword – the wholly other – furnished an entry point into the prehistoric past marginalized by traditional historiography. Second, it demonstrates that the exemplar of prehistory’s otherness is silence. Along with Maurice Blanchot, Bataille forged a modernist aesthetics that promotes silence as an interruption of speech. It therefore concludes that interruption – frequently dismissed as a sign of Bataille’s deficiencies or in contradiction with his goal of continuity – recaptures the continuum lost when archaic humans invented work, language, and a deferral to the future. With sections on religious experience, markings, eroticism, and the rupture between animals and humans, this study offers an introduction to prehistory in Bataille for specialists and general readers willing to plunge into what scholars now describe as deep history.

what is the future of TV antiquity?

TV antiquity ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 194-204
Author(s):  
Sylvie Magerstädt
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Aspects

To conclude the exploration of sixty years of TV antiquity, this final section draws out some of the key aspects that run through the shows discussed in the book, such as the importance of serialisation and later syndication and collaboration in the development of TV antiquity; the new heroic ideal developed in these shows, combining domesticity and politics; and the marginalisation of religious practice in many of the programmes discussed. In addition, the conclusion also briefly examines the most recent shows such as Olympus (2015), Britannia (2017) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018) and suggests some of the possible directions for TV antiquity. Here, the most notable developments are a greater blend of history, myth and fantasy as well as the blurring of boundaries between documentary and fictional drama.

Does This Bring Us Back to God?

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-192
Author(s):  
Bruce Ledewitz
Keyword(s):  
Causal Structure ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Process Thought ◽  
Traditional Theism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
The Universe

The book returns to the question of God within the world of the yes. The reader is given tools to continue the investigation, but no final conclusion is reached on the question of God. David Griffin’s process thought is naturalistic and panentheistic. This view of God shares attributes of traditional theism. But in process thought, God does not create ex nihilo, does not coerce, and remains within the causal structure of nature. Griffin argues that God is a necessary feature of process thought and its endorsement of enduring meaning. Donald Sherburne offers a different view, called “Whitehead Without God.” The book concludes that process thought without God can still renew public life. It remains for us in the future to investigate the mystery of holiness in the universe.

scholarly journals Domination, Authority, and the Forms of Chinese Power

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A Lake
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
The Other ◽  
China’S Rise ◽  
The Future ◽  
China's Rise ◽  
International Power ◽  
China Today

Abstract The debate about China’s rise and future United States–China relations has focused on the purpose to which China’s growing international power will be put. This article focuses on the form of China’s power, distinguishing between domination and authority. Different great powers have, at different times, chosen one, the other, or more commonly differing mixes of the two forms. How China chooses now and in the future will have a significant effect on its relationships with other states, and through them on its relationship with the United States. The first section explores the differences between domination and authority as strategies for the exercise of international power. The second section summarizes a theory of authority with particular relevance to China today. Though necessarily speculative, this section identifies where China is most likely to choose one strategy over the other as its international influence expands. The final section examines the domestic impediments in China to the choice of authority. While both China and the United States might be better off in a world in which the former constructs an international hierarchy to parallel the latter’s, the conclusion draws a relatively pessimistic assessment of the prospects for cooperation between the two emerging superpowers.

Re-Visiting the Implications of Contemporary Epistemological Models for the Understanding of Religious Experience: an Overview

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 278-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Veldsman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Theology And Science ◽  
The One ◽  
Culturally Embedded

AbstractThe more recently proposed epistemological models (cf Gregersen & Van Huyssteen, eds., Rethinking Theology and Science: Six Models for the Current Dialogue) within the context of the science and religion debate, have opened up galaxie,s of meanirzg on the interface of the debates which are inviting for exploralive, theological travelling. But how are we epistemologically to judge not only oui journets but also the rethinking of the implications of these epistemological models for our understanding of religious experience and our experience of transcendence? The interdisciplinary space that has been opened up in an exciting post-foundational manner zuithirz these very debates, leaves us as rational persons, embedded in a very specific social and historical context, with the haunting cognitive pluralist question on how to reach beyond the limits of our own epistemic traditions (Wentzel van Huyssteen). This question is pursued as an effort on the one hand to unmask epistemic arrogance and, on the other hand, not to take refuge in the insular comfort of internally closed language-systems. It is an effort to address relativism and a 'twentieth-century despair of any knozuledye of reality' (Polkinghorne). It is finally an effort to conceptually revisit the implications of tltese models for our understanding of our culturally embedded religious experience.

scholarly journals The Future of Research in Paediatric Surgical Training

2012 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
IE Yardley ◽  
CM Rees ◽  
PD Losty
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Training ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
Surgical Practice ◽  
Academic Activity ◽  
Time Out ◽  
The Future ◽  
Surgical Career ◽  
Systematic Thinking

Traditionally, in UK-based surgical training, the majority of trainees spend a period of time out of clinical training undertaking research, usually leading to the award of a postgraduate degree or thesis (MD or PhD). The intention of this was to supplement clinical with academic training that developed skills such as critical appraisal, independent working and systematic thinking to enrich future surgical practice. The opportunity for academic activity is a significant factor in choosing a surgical career for many trainees.

Limits to Welfare

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 113-123
Author(s):  
Jon Eivind Kolberg
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relative Decline ◽  
The Welfare State

Some questions are raised regarding the future of the welfare state. For example: How are fundamental socio-political constellations affected by the pronounced, relative decline of labour force participants and corresponding significant welfare expansion? Changes in the top echelons of social structure, as well as the ‘bottom’ end of it, are discussed. The existence of welfare backlash sentiments in a Scandinavian welfare state (Norway) is indicated. Various counter-strategies to save the welfare state are presented. The final section focuses on the stamina of political systems. The main elements of Wilensky's model, and some of his results, are presented and criticized.

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