The Contribution of Professor Howison to Christian Thought

1916 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-312
Author(s):  
John Wright Buckham
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
Christian Thought

In a previous article in The Harvard Theological Review the writer presented an estimate of the contribution of Professor Royce to Christian thought. In the present article he endeavors to do the same with respect to another American philosopher of great significance to Christian theology, George Holmes Howison.

Including Multiculturalism, Social Justice, and Peace within the Integration of Psychology and Theology: Barriers and a Call to Action

2020 ◽  
pp. 009164712097498
Author(s):  
John M. McConnell ◽  
Vincent Bacote ◽  
Edward B. Davis ◽  
Eric M. Brown ◽  
Christin J. Fort ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Education Training

Multiculturalism, social justice, and peace are important aspects of the Christian faith. However, scholars in the literature seeking to integrate psychology and Christian theology have underrepresented them. In this present article, we review barriers to including them in our psychology–theology integration literature. Thereafter, we provide a trinitarian theology of multiculturalism, social justice, and peace with a hope that theological knowledge will help Christian psychologists begin to overcome barriers and to move this body of literature forward. We also offer implications for scholarship/research, education/training, and clinical work.

scholarly journals Guardianship and Parental Connections: Connections and Departures in Jeremy Bentham’s Account

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian E Cox
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The Other ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Special Relations ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Personal Perspectives ◽  
The One

This article follows an earlier assessment of Bentham’s views on guardianship 1 that touched on but did not explore connections or departures between guardian-ward and parent-offspring relations, about which Bentham was not as precise as he might have been. Further, he added complexity to the issue by describing parents as occupying dual roles: guardians and ‘masters’ (employers) of their own offspring. These relations are now considered, on the one hand, in the wider context of ‘special relations’ and ‘duties’ and, on the other hand, alongside some appreciation of Bentham’s personal perspectives. However, the main object of the present article is to assess similarities and differences between parents and guardians in legal, status and functional terms. It uses the profile of guardian-ward relations provided by the previous article 2 as a benchmark. The article concludes by affirming that ‘being a parent’ and ‘being a guardian’ have quite different meanings.

More Than a Feeling: A Queer Notion of Survivance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel C. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Thought

This essay explores, in part, queer theory's queerness in relation to the religious (Christian) and ethnic (European) frame that largely produced it. Although affect and temporality theories offer important possibilities—finally—for queering Christian theology, I suggest that even these may not escape the ossifying tendencies of conceptual closure so dominant in the trajectories of European and Christian thought. Gerald Vizenor's (Anishinaabe) theory of survivance, developed out of a Native American "postindian" philosophical context, opposes settler colonial closures of "the Indian" and may help illuminate and break through queer theory's (and theology's) entrapping reliance on ethnic European concepts to work through persistent problems of identity, eschatology, and ontology.

The Tenth Leper

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Lehmann Sorenson
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
Pilgrim's Progress

I (Sorenson, 1996c) took inspiration from John Bunyan's (1678/1969) The Pilgrim's Progress and imagined the ten lepers in Luke 17 as invented, allegorical characters who represent different but common responses to the notion that integration is something indivisbly, irreducibly, and fundamentally personal. I have organized the lepers into four “colonies,” addressing in a previous article the first two, which I named “No Need” and “No Good.” In the present article I address the remaining two colonies, which I have named “No Way” and “No Other Way.” In conclusion I offer five recommendations for graduate and undergraduate curricula at Christian seminaries and universities which seek to integrate psychology into their programs.

Men and mental ill health: specific mental health issues

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Christopher Francis Barber
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Mental Health Issues

A previous article explored the links between men and mental ill health in general and it suggested that men had a higher prevalence of experiencing certain forms of mental ill health than women. This present article will continue the exploration of men's mental health and will focus on a small number of mental health issues, some of which may have the perception of being more a female rather than a male issue.

Methodological Traps, Pitfalls, and Fallacies in the Study of Intellectual Silence

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 225-237
Author(s):  
Donald Ostrowski
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Peter Abelard ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
Church Curriculum

This article is a response to four responses to my book Europe, Byzantium, and the “Intellectual Silence” of Rus’. That book in turn responded to the question posed by Francis Thompson, “Where was the Russian Peter Abelard?” It began with two premises − that theology was “the crown jewel of disciplined thought” in both the Eastern and Western Churches during the medieval period and that medieval Christian theology represented an amalgamation of prior Christian thought with Neoplatonism. The literature of early Rus’ was little more than what would have been contained in a large Byzantine monastic library, because those in charge of educating the newly baptized pagan Rus’ on the basic principles of Christianity felt compelled to provide them only necessary information to save their souls. But why did the package not include the seven liberal arts (including dialectic), which were the basis of the Western Church curriculum?

The Science of Life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donovan O. Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
William James ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Christian Thought

This chapter examines broad transformations in Christian thought that came to pass over the course of the nineteenth century through exposure to new developments in the life sciences. Taking William Paley’s Natural Theology (1802) as a starting point, it shows how a conception of an unchanging God that could be demonstrated through rational proof was affected by the new emphasis on change in the biological sciences, especially in the aftermath of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859. Rather than suggesting that these new themes weakened Christian faith, however, a close examination of Christian thought in the latter half of the nineteenth century shows that encounters with science energized Christian theology, philosophy, and practice. This trajectory culminated with the development of the psychology of religion, as exhibited by the American pragmatists William James and Charles S. Peirce. George Eliot’s Middlemarch serves as a guide to the complexity of these transformations.

Recent Advances in Glass Transitions in Polymers

1970 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Eisenberg ◽  
M. Shen
Keyword(s):  
Glass Transition ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
Glass Transitions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Made In

Abstract Since the publication of our review “Glass Transition in Polymers” in 1966, a number of interesting advances have been made in this field. The present article is intended to be an addendum to this review, reporting the progress that has been made by various workers during the past three years. In addition, a number of topics were not covered in the previous article due to the relatively incomplete understanding at that time. These will now be discussed. This is not because these topics are at present fully understood. Rather, we hope it will serve as a progress report to stimulate further interest in areas where further work is needed. The numbering systems and notations in this paper will follow those in the previous article for the sake of continuity.

The Divine Ideas Tradition in Christianity

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-40
Author(s):  
Mark A. McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christian Thought

We can understand the multiple roles that the divine ideas tradition played in the history of Christian thought by beginning with an analogy: as a great author draws upon her own consciousness and self-understanding to give life to all the realities within the world of her novels, in an analogous way, the divine ideas teaching holds, God’s eternal and infinite knowing and loving of Godself is the creative exemplar or archetype for the existence of every creature in time, and also the intelligible form or idea by which the truth of every creature may be known. Intensifying the transformation of Plato’s forms by the Middle Platonists, Augustine grounds the divine ideas firmly within Trinitarian theology. We can trace the role of the divine ideas across the full range of Christian doctrines as well as in its influence upon the mystical or contemplative dimension of Christian theology.

The Divine Ideas Tradition in Christian Mystical Theology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
The Mind

By the time of early modernity, a widely deployed tenet of Christian thought had begun to vanish. The divine ideas tradition, the teaching that all beings have an eternal existence as aspects of God’s mind, had functioned across a wide range of central Christian doctrines, providing Christian thinkers and mystical teachers with a powerful theological capacity: to illuminate the Trinitarian ground of all creatures, and to renew the divine truth of all creatures through human contemplation. Already by the time of the Middle Platonists, Plato’s forms had been reinterpreted as ideas in the mind of God. Yet that was only the beginning of the transformation of the divine ideas, for Christian belief in God as Trinity and in the incarnation of the Word imbued the divine ideas tradition with a remarkable conceptual agility. The divine ideas teaching allowed mystical theologians to conceive the hidden presence of God in all creatures, and the power of every creature’s truth in God to consummate the full dynamic of every creature’s calling. This book takes the form of a theological essay that brings to life the striking role of the divine ideas tradition in the teaching of its central exponents, and also suggests how the divine ideas might constructively inform Christian theology and spirituality today. Especially in an age of global crises, when the truth of the natural environment, of racial injustice, and of public health is denied and disputed for political ends, the divine ideas tradition affords contemporary thinkers a creative and contemplative vision that reveres the deep truth of all beings and seeks their mending and fulfillment.

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