Oikonomia-Terms in Paul in comparison with Lucan Heilsgeschichte

1967 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Reumann
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
The State ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Technical Term ◽  
The Bible ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
State Of Affairs

The term ‘Heilsgeschichte’ reminds one a little of the state of affairs in Israel when there was no king: everyone understands it ‘as seems right in his own eyes’. In part this variety of understandings arises because the Bible itself has varied views and emphases about history and salvation, but also in part because scholars have a variety of emotional responses and intellectual understandings with regard to the term ‘Heilsgeschichte’, itself a word which has been with us as a technical term for roughly a century and a half—that is, during the whole period of modern critical Bible study. To complicate matters, there are related concepts which often colour our understandings of the term—for example, ‘stewardship’ and ‘dispensationalism’, particularly in the English-speaking world; and the notion of an ‘economy of God’, wherever the patristic tradition weighs heavily in biblical studies.

scholarly journals Book Review Hospitality Marketing: Principles and Practice (2nd ed.)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bowie ◽  
Francis A. Buttle
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Ideal Person ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Marketing Principles ◽  
The Ideal

The ideal person to write a review of books is definitely someone who has written a textbook himself. Bowie and Buttle indeed have made a promising effort to disseminate an important perspective on a subject related to hospitality. One might be quick to conclude that this text is just a dime a dozen and a window dressing of the first edition since not much space is dedicated to reflect on marketing theory and practice to the level of the state of the art. But this sort of unfair review is best left to those scholars who had experienced writing a textbook which is celebrated throughout the English speaking world, like Kotler or Drucker. The review here is a modest attempt to guide those who seek some idea and facts about the book before purchasing it.  

scholarly journals Babel

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 52-76
Author(s):  
Nina Gładziuk ◽  
Paweł Janowski
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public Order ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

What interests us here is the fact that Babel as a figure of confusion became almost the self-named epithet of 17th-century England. All the participants of the debate that took place during the revolution or the postbellum associated Babel with the conceptual chaos of the civil war. The lively “pamphlet war” then brought a pluralistic forum for public opinion in which all the confused languages of politics were equal. When all could read the Bible, everyone could read the story of Babel in their own way. But nothing could reconcile those who read the divine right of kings in it with those who read the divine right of the people in it. In the 17th century, Babel was seen as a figure of discursive confusion, as the confusion was experienced in the form of fanatical languages of arguing sects. Liberalism, if the English-speaking world is acknowledged to be its cradle, constitutes an attempt to escape the impasse of the discursive Babel via the legalistic means of the state of law. According to Hobbes, the irreversible multitude of languages makes one ask what public order can reconcile nominalism in the sphere of political opinion with the social Diaspora of individuals released from the bonds of status or corporation. How to build a state while one Christian faith is disintegrating into many sects fighting each other? How to build a state in the chronic pluralism of the social world and multifaceted dissociation of the traditional community? This is why Babel as a figure of confusion provides the primary conceptual capacity for the liberal organization of the world.

For the mind's eye only: puritans, images and ‘the golden mines of Scripture’

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Hardman Moore
Keyword(s):  
Bible Study ◽  
Reformed Theology ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Clean Break ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Mind's Eye ◽  
Hearts And Minds

Seventeenth-century puritans had the habit of speaking visually, talking pictures. Sermons and tracts from the English-speaking Reformed tradition made lavish use of vivid verbal images drawn from the Bible. Yet zealous Protestants wanted to strip images out of churches and books – and, some would say, even from the mind – in an ‘inner iconoclasm’ to match the outer. So why fill the mind's eye with pictures?It is often thought that Protestantism, particularly of the Reformed variety, saw a decisive shift from the visual to the verbal. However, the move was by no means a clean break. Visual elements survived aplenty, though often transposed into new forms. The complexity of these changes has been well recognised by recent scholars, but the focus has been more on outward and material aspects of Protestant culture than on words (or, more accurately, the Word) as image-makers for the mind.To understand the drive for verbal imaging in puritanism with more precision, this paper considers the experience of readers in a culture where print was new; aspects of Reformed theology that paved the way, in particular the stress on the unity of scripture that promoted interest in typology; the boost that new printed aids to Bible study – specifically, concordances – gave to drawing ‘mental pictures’ from scripture; and the relation of all this to making the Bible both easy to handle and memorable, which was a key element in the strategy to drive the Protestant message into the hearts and minds of the people.

Lefebvre, Henri (1901–91)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Shields
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The State ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

Henri Lefebvre was a Marxist and existential philosopher, a sociologist and a theorist of the state. His humanistic neo-Marxism has been influential throughout Europe. In the English-speaking world he is best known for his analyses of ‘everyday life’, his work in the sociology of urban and rural life, and his theory of social space. Lefebvre was one of the most prominent early critics of structuralism, and is considered by some to be the first post-structuralist. He was a relentless critic of academic philosophy’s metaphysical tendencies.

An Ambiguous Institution: Slavery, the State, and the Law in Colonial Massachusetts

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 154-180
Author(s):  
Jared Ross Hardesty
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The State ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Southern Colonies ◽  
Effective Path

This essay examines the impact the state had in shaping slavery in colonial Massachusetts. Like other parts of the early modern English-speaking world, there was no legal precedent for slavery, meaning that positive law had to enforce and define the institution. Even more problematic for Massachusetts, however, the colonial assembly passed few statutes regarding slavery, leaving it to the courts and town selectmen to govern slavery on an ad hoc and informal basis. As opposed to strict slave codes in the Southern colonies, the legally ambiguous status of slavery in Massachusetts allowed slaves to make use of a legal system that granted them the right to a fair trial and full legal recourse. By using the courts, then, African-Americans created an innovative and effective path to freedom by the late colonial period.

Bauman in China

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 159 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-127
Author(s):  
Jiayang Qin ◽  
Peter Beilharz
Keyword(s):  
Current Situation ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The One

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most influential sociologists in the English-speaking world. His work is translated into many languages. Chinese studies of Bauman started later than in the English-speaking world but have their own characteristics. In China, the interest is in sociology, culture, Marxism and aesthetics. This article surveys the current situation of Chinese Bauman studies and establishes the state of Chinese translations and studies of Bauman, and examines Chinese reception and interpretation of Bauman’s thought, especially theories of modernity and postmodernity. Its purpose is to display the state of Chinese Bauman studies on the one hand, and to take Bauman’s thought as a lesson in the construction of Chinese sociology on the other, leaving open the question of what studies of modernity might have to learn from Chinese experience and theory.

scholarly journals Schizophrenia and theory of mind

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. FRITH
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
The State ◽  
Actual State ◽  
False Beliefs ◽  
Seminal Paper ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

We suspect that people have an everyday theory of mind because they explain and frequently talk about the behaviour of others and themselves in terms of beliefs and desires. Having a theory of mind means that we believe that other people have minds like ours and that we understand the behaviour of these others in terms of the contents of their minds: their knowledge, beliefs and desires. But how can we demonstrate experimentally that people are using their theory of mind to predict the behaviour of others. This problem is particularly acute in the case of animals or young human children when they do not have language. Dennett (1978) discussing Premack & Woodruff's (1978) seminal paper ‘Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?’, suggested that the use of false beliefs to explain behaviour would provide convincing evidence. When their belief is true (i.e. corresponds to the actual state of the world) we can explain peoples' behaviour on the basis of the state of the world without needing to know about their beliefs. This ambiguity does not arise when the belief is false. The first experiment to use this approach was published by Wimmer & Perner (1983). They showed that at around 4 years of age a child knows that Maxi will look for his chocolates where Maxi believes them to be, even though the child knows that this belief is false because he has seen Maxi's mother moving the chocolates. In the English-speaking world the task involving Maxi and the chocolates has become the Sally-Anne task (see this issue, Lee et al. 2004).

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