II. The Question of God in the Struggle for Racial Justice

Horizons ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-194
Author(s):  
Christopher Pramuk
Keyword(s):  
Human Freedom ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face

In March 1943, having narrowly escaped Europe three years earlier, Abraham Joshua Heschel published “The Meaning of This War,” his first essay in an American publication. The essay shows, quite remarkably, his full command of literary English. It also shows, as biographer Edward Kaplan remarks, that Heschel “had found his militant voice.” “Emblazoned over the gates of the world in which we live,” the essay begins, “is the escutcheon of the demons. The mark of Cain in the face of man has come to overshadow the likeness of God. There have never been so much guilt and distress, agony and terror. At no time has the earth been so soaked with blood.” Heschel's extraordinary life's witness, his whole body of work, traverses precisely this anthropological and theological knife's edge: The mark of Cain in the face of man has come to overshadow the likeness of God. Where is God? Or better, Who is God? in relation to the rapacious misuse and idolatrous distortion of human freedom? Or simply, Is God?

scholarly journals Idea Miłosierdzia Bożego wobec egzystencjalnych niepokojów współczesnego świata

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Joanna Kogut ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Human History ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Central Value ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Right

The need of the present times speaks for bringing the face of a merciful God once again. The concept of ”mercy” is often neglected today, and it even hinders modern man, who, through the previously unknown development of science and technology, more than ever in the human history, has subdued the earth and became its master. The awareness of man’s loneliness, his alienation from the community of the world, tradition and religion, and the conviction that he – man – is the creator of his own humanity, have become dominant. Life itself becomes the central value for him, not the immortality of life. The only content he has left are his whims and desires devoid of permanent and certain measures – doomed to variables determined by the condition and social situation – values. His existence was revealed to him in all its nakedness and fragility, arousing fear and concern with regard to loneliness, illness and death. And yet, through her life, Saint Faustine Kowalska showed unlimited trust in God’s mercy, thus opening herself to the action of grace, which allowed her to give her life the right purpose. This purpose of life is determined by faith, which for many followers of Christ became the foundation of their lives.

Introduction

Al-Qaeda 2.0 ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Cerwyn Moore
Keyword(s):  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Osama Bin Laden

Osama bin Laden, may God have mercy on him, went to his Lord after he achieved what he desired. He was aiming to incite the ummah [nation or community] to Jihad, and his message reached from East to West and all over the world. The Muslims answered it, as did all the oppressed on the face of the earth....

William Webb Ellis and the Origins of Rugby Football: The Life and Death of a Victorian Myth

1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Four Corners ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Foreign Competitors

In the sense that myth is a reordering of various random elements into an intelligible, useful pattern, a structuring of the past in terms of present priorities, nineteenth-century Englishmen were inveterate myth-makers. As liberal and scientific thought shook the foundations of belief, the Victorians erected gothic spires as monuments to a medieval order of supposedly simple, strong faith. While their industrial masses languished, they extolled the virtues of self-made men. Confronted with foreign competitors and rebellious colonials, they instinctively asserted the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race. In classic myth-making style, the Victorians set about “reorganizing traditional components in the face of new circumstances or, correlatively, in reorganizing new, imported components in the light of tradition.”Myth not only serves self-validating ends; it also provides a cohesive rationale, a fulcrum propelling people towards great achievements. If the Victorians were confident and self-congratulatory, they had cause to be: their material, intellectual, and political accomplishments were many. Not the least of their successes was in the sphere of sports and games, a subject often ignored by historians. Especially in the development of ball games—Association and Rugby football, cricket, lawn tennis, and golf—the Victorians modernized old games, created new ones, and exported them all to the four corners of the earth. Stereotyped as overly-serious folk, they in fact “taught the world to play.”Since sport, more than most forms of human activity, lends itself to myth-making, it is not surprising to find a myth emerging among the late-Victorians having to do with the origins of Rugby football. Like baseball's Doubleday myth, the tale of William Webb Ellis inspiring the distinctive game of rugby is a period piece, reflecting more of the era which gave it birth than of the event to which it referred.

Agriculture and Land Transformation. 1. Temporal and Spatial Dimensions

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoinette M. Mannion
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
World Population ◽  
Land Transformation ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

Ever since it began 10,000 years ago, agriculture has been a major cause of land transformation. It has been the basis on which civilizations have waxed and waned, it has allowed the world population to reach 5 × 109 and it has profoundly influenced cultural and scientific development. While its inception was itself momentous in terms of environmental and cultural history, the changes in agriculture caused by the expansion of Europe between 1500 and 1900 had equally profound ramifications. These developments literally changed the face of the earth. This paper surveys the changes that have taken place so far, while Part 2, to appear in the next issue, looks at likely future patterns.

Epilogue: Ad Astra Per Aspera

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-200
Author(s):  
Adam Pryor
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Imago Dei ◽  
World Today ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Existential Concerns

What happens when the Anthropocene and the imago Dei become corroborative symbols in the astrobiological contexts that shape our engagement with the world today? My argument has been that, in the face of various instances of ecological crises, the Anthropocene symbolizes the existential concerns at stake in this devastation so that we better understand that our way of meaningfully orienting our existence toward the natural world is askew. To remember that we are the imago Dei can give us courage to stay with the trouble of this disorientation a moment longer and imaginatively play out new realities that confront the inevitable ecological devastations that have been wrought upon the earth.

From Tribal Society to National Church

1968 ◽  
Vol os-15 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-111
Author(s):  
Jacob A. Loewen
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Aid ◽  
The Face ◽  
Tribal Society ◽  
Run Up

“For sheer and pervasive fervor, the love of nationhood has no equal among contemporary political passions. Independence is the fetish, fad, and totem of our times. Everybody who can muster a quorum in a colony wants Freedom Now—and such is the temper of the age that they can usually have it. Roughly one third of the world, some one billion people, have run up their own flags in the great dismantlement of empires since World War II, creating sixty new nations over the face of the earth. In the process they have also created, for themselves and for the world, a congeries of unstable and uneasy entities that are usually kept alive only by economic aid and stand constantly on the verge of erupting into turmoil. Nationhood is not an easy art to master as Ghana, Nigeria, and Indonesia have painfully learned in recent weeks.”1

The Unbearable Truth or How the World Changed and Nearly Left Anthropology Behind

1984 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Author(s):  
Kirk Gray
Keyword(s):  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Universe

IN THE BEGINNING … the earth was without form and void, with darkness over the face of knowledge of those who could neither read nor write, and a mighty wind called Anthropology swept over the surface of the waters of knowledge and understanding. Anthropology said let there be light on cultures not well understood by mere man and soon there was light. And Anthropology saw that the light was good, and we separated light from darkness. For a long while the light shone brightly, illuminating the corridors and halls and libraries of our learning. The sons and daughters of Anthropology were spread across the universe recording, documenting, theorizing.

The original sin in Arabic poetics

1992 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Amidu Sanni
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Standard Rule ◽  
Image Position

Scholarly assemblies in the Arabic intellectual tradition served as forums not only for entertainment butalso for spectacular events of both literary and historical significance. Al-Sīrāfī (d. 368/979) related how at one such literary seance, which was organized at the instance of Ibn Durayd (d. 321/933), a participant read these verses, attributed to Adam, the progenitor of mankind, lamenting the murder of Abel by Cain:The land and all those on it have altered the face of the earth has turned dusty and vile. Anything of beautyand splendour has altered and the smile of the lovely face has waned.The observation that the rhyme letter carries, in breach of the standard rule, different desinential vowels, namely, ḍamma in one line and kasra in the other, provoked a reaction from Ibn Durayd who said ‘This is a poem said at the beginning of the world, yet iqwā' was committed in it.’But of course in Arabic historical lore, Ishmael, the son of Abraham, is said to have been the first to speak Arabic; and Adam is believed to have spoken Syriac. Factors which encouraged false ascriptions and the outright forgery of poetry have been discussed in various published works and the subject need not detain us here: suffice it to say that the foisting of these lines on Adam, and indeed the entire anecdote, might well be seen in terms of myth, in the sense defined by Jolles (Wahrsage), invented for the sake of a historical perspective.

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