The sisyphean task of biblical transformation

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 501-521
Author(s):  
R. P. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Bible ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Independent Entity ◽  
The Given

The task of interpreting the Bible has two main phases— the understanding of the text and the transformation or making relevant of its meaning for modern readers. The steady decline of monolithic religious structures and the growth of pluralism in modern society have produced multivariant forms of intellectual activity embracing the Bible as part of their subject matter. Thus the Bible is embedded in the given of European culture and functions as part of the hermeneutical processes of Jewish, Christian, Muslim and secular traditions. The quest for understanding may be common to all the traditions but the task of transformation can take one of two forms. From within the religious tradition transformation is the attempt to reinterpret the text so as to make it meaningful in contemporary terms but always controlled by the tradition. This form may simply be termed transformation from within or controlled transformation. The alternative form is transformation without limits or control. In this form fidelity to a tradition is not paramount and the real concern is to see how far the material may be transformed so as to constitute an independent entity itself.

ПАТОЛОГИЯ ЛИЧНОСТИ В ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИХ ПОСТРОЕНИЯХ ПРЕДСТАВИТЕЛЕЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ МЕТАФИЗИЧЕСКОЙ ТРАДИЦИИ В ПСИХОЛОГИИ

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-215
Author(s):  
Александр Бреусенко-Кузнецов
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
History Of Psychology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Metaphysical Tradition ◽  
The Given

Статья посвящена проблеме восстановления искусственно прерванной метафизической традиции в отечественной персонологии. Данная проблема принадлежит областям истории психологии и психологии личности, но имеет выходы и в предметные области многих других психологических наук, в частности – клинической психологии. Указана важность соотнесения персонологических концептуализаций учёных-метафизиков с клинической практикой в процессе их опытной верификации. Проведена реконструкция и анализ взглядов на психопатологию и психотерапию представителей метафизической традиции в отечественной психологии личности. Согласно данным взглядам, суть патологии личности – в её уклонении от своего назначения, от подлинного бытия ради неподлинных, онтологически неоправданных форм жизнедеятельности. The article is devoted to the problem of restoration of artificialy interrupted metaphysical tradition in domestic personology. The given problem belongs to the areas of history of psychology and psychology of personality, but provides outcomes in subject matter of many other psychological sciences, in clinical psychology in particular. Importance of correlation between personological conceptualizations of scientists-metaphysicists and clinical practice in the process of their skilled verification is pointed out. The reconstruction and analysis of views at psychopathology and psychotherapy by representatives of metaphysical tradition in domestic psychology of personality have been made. According to the mentioned views, the essence of pathology of personality is in its evasion from the purpose, from original life for the sake of not original, ontologically unjustified forms of ability to live.

Kleinian characterization of asymptotic symmetries of real general relativity

1993 ◽  
Vol 441 (1913) ◽  
pp. 465-471 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Group Action ◽  
Radon Transform ◽  
Symmetry Groups ◽  
Asymptotic Symmetry ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Given ◽  
Asymptotic Symmetries

According to Klein’s Erlanger programme, one may (indirectly) specify a geometry by giving a group action. Conversely, given a group action, one may ask for the corresponding geometry. Recently, I showed that the real asymptotic symmetry groups of general relativity (in any signature) have natural ‘projective’ classical actions on suitable ‘Radon transform’ spaces of affine 3-planes in flat 4-space. In this paper, I give concrete models for these groups and actions. Also, for the ‘atomic’ cases, I give geometric structures for the spaces of affine 3-planes for which the given actions are the automorphism group.

EL JUEZ COMPETENTE PARA CONOCER DEL PROCEDIMIENTO MONITORIO: CUESTIONES PRÁCTICAS

2010 ◽  
pp. 493-519
Author(s):  
AINHOA GUTIÉRREZ BARRENENGOA
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Territorial Jurisdiction ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Given

El procedimiento monitorio se concibe en la Ley 1/2000, de Enjuiciamiento Civil como un procedimiento de tutela privilegiada de determinados créditos. Sin embargo, estos postulados se contradicen con los problemas que, en la práctica forense, se han suscitado, en muchos casos, por la determinación de la competencia del órgano que debe conocer del procedimiento. En el presente estudio, se analizan las principales cuestiones que se han suscitado en relación con la determinación de la competencia objetiva y territorial en el procedimiento monitorio, con un repaso crítico de las distintas soluciones doctrinales aportadas, y una revisión de la última doctrina jurisprudencial en la materia. Prozedura monitorioa Prozedura Zibilaren 1/2000 Legeak taxutu zuen, zenbait kredituren tutoretza pribilejiatua izateko prozedura moduan. Hala eta guztiz ere, postulatu horiek ez datoz bat praktika forentsean sortu diren arazoekin; izan ere, maiz, prozedura ezagutu behar duen organoaren eskumena nork duen jakitea ez da gauza argia. Lan honetan, prozedura monitorioaren inguruan eskumen objektiboa eta lurraldekoa zehaztu beharraz sortu diren eztabaida nagusiak aztertzen dira, horri buruz agertu izan diren konponbide doktrinalen azterketa kritikoa eginez, eta gaiari buruzko azken jurisprudentzia-doktrina ere lantzen da. The payment procedure is envisaged by Act 1/2000 on the Civil Procedural Code as a procedure for a privileged guarantee of some debts. However, theses propositions conflict with the problems which arose in practice when deciding the subject-matter and territorial jurisdiction in payments procedures. By this study, main questions regarding the subject-matter and territorial jurisdiction within the payment procedure are analyzed with a critical review of the given different doctrinal solutions and a revision of the last case law doctrine on the topic.

A Preliminary Study of Relationship between Chinese Elegant Ideology and Environmental Mobilization

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-55
Author(s):  
Yuxi YI
Keyword(s):  
Song Dynasty ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
Tang And Song Dynasties ◽  
Cultural Ideology ◽  
Environmental Mobilization ◽  
The Given ◽  
Tang And Song Dynasty

This study investigated the relationship between “Chinese elegant ideology" and environmental mobilization to explore a new possibility of consciousness awakening for environmental protection. The author considered the life posture of scholar-emits in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It conveyed a demand for the inheritance of ideas and civilizations as well as elegant and sustainable life orientation. The study will further identify the ideological and spiritual guidance and practical demonstration of cultural ideology for environmental movements by considering the causes and influential factors of environmental mobilization in modern society. It is supposed to get a trade-off between natural integration and social integration. The given elegant life dynamics of the Tang and Song Dynasty will construct an interaction between nature and mainstream human social behavior, which dramatically reduces the segregation and contradiction between social and natural integration. This study will advocate a sustainable and contracted "new form" that appeals to human spirits by studying the selection of the scholar-emits in the Tang and Song dynasties.

scholarly journals On Certain Approximation Problem Connected with the Sums of Subseries

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Roman Wituła ◽  
Konrad Kaczmarek ◽  
Edyta Hetmaniok ◽  
Damian Słota
Keyword(s):  
Approximation Problem ◽  
Real Numbers ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Given

Abstract In this paper a problem of approximating the real numbers by using the series of real numbers is considered. It is proven that if the given family of sequences of real numbers satisfies some conditions of set-theoretical nature, like being closed under initial subsequences and (additionally) possessing properties of adding and removing elements, then it automatically possesses some approximating properties, like, for example, reaching supremum of the set of sums of subseries.

scholarly journals LATIN APHORISMS AS A COMPONENT OF SOCIO-CULTURAL TRAINING OF MEDICAL STUDENTS

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
O. D. Kolodnytska ◽  
H. B. Palasiuk
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Cultural Training ◽  
Science Culture ◽  
The Bible ◽  
European Languages ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The People ◽  
Intellectual Level

The article summarizes the experience of learning Latin aphorisms, quotes, sayings and proverbs at Latin lessons by medical students, and represents their samples, and their corresponding national equivalents in English and Ukrainian. Nowadays, it is difficult to name the branch of human activity where Latin phrases would not sound. Latin as a unifying link between antiquity and modern European culture promotes the formation of “homo moralis” (pure morality). Latin aphorisms absorbed the most valuable experience gained from the knowledge of man, natural phenomena, customs of the people, cultural life or history. They develop the intellectual level of the person, his/her outlook and give the opportunity to distinguish good from evil, unmistakably feel the truth and falsehood. Many biblical sayings (the Bible was translated into Latin in the IV century AD) are used in modern Ukrainian, English, French, Russian and other European languages. Wise and concise Latin proverbs (which express the precepts for descendants about interpersonal relationships), apt and witty aphorisms have taken the place of honor in the international multilingual phraseological foundation. This is certainly due to the great historical importance of Latin in the development of European civilization, science, culture, and education. In Latin lessons, we encourage medical students to study aphorisms on a variety of topics, including those that promote healthy lifestyles and condemn habits adversely affecting human health, such as alcohol abuse. The efficient implementation of Latin aphorisms as a component of socio-cultural training in medical schools provides the highest quality of the educational process.

The Artist as Reader of the Bible. Visual Exegesis and the Adoration of the Magi

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin O'Kane
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
Image Viewer ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Visual Exegesis ◽  
Textual Meaning

AbstractThe article explores the processes at work in a painting's engagement of its viewer in biblical subject matter. It accentuates the role of the artist as an active reader of the Bible and not merely an illustrator of biblical scenes, the dynamic that occurs in the text-reader process as paradigmatic for the image-viewer relationship and the important role of the developing tradition that felt the need to change or rewrite the biblical story. The processes are explored in terms of hermeneutics and exegesis: hermeneutics defined as 'the interweaving of language and life within the horizon of the text and within the horizons of traditions and the modern reader' (Gadamer) and exegesis as 'the dialectic between textual meaning and the reader's existence' (Berdini). Applied to the visualization of biblical subject matter, the approaches of Gadamer and Berdini illumine the key role given to the viewer in the visual hermeneutical process. The biblical story of the adoration of the Magi (Matt. 2: 1-12), the first public and universal seeing of Christ and one of the most frequently depicted themes in the entire history of biblical art, is used to illustrate their approach. The emphasis in the biblical narrative on revealing the Christ child to the reader parallels a key concept in Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics, namely Darstellung, the way in which a painting facilitates its subject matter in coming forth, in becoming an existential event in the life of the viewer.

Efficiency Analysis of Food Processing Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 097084642110451
Author(s):  
Seema Shrivastava
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Efficiency Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Food Processing Industry ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Efficiency And Productivity

Food processing industry (FPI) is at a nascent stage and is tagged as a sunshine industry. The efficiency and productivity of the inputs for the aforesaid industries have to be measured to not only find out if the potential is achieved or not, but also to identify the grey areas. Against such a backdrop, it is obvious that industries like FPI would grow and become the subject matter for further investigation. The research revealed that the majority of cases have been consistent with the real facts and the underlying principles, and the structure of the economy provide valid reasons for it. However, in some cases, the results have not been consistent with the movement of the economy and there are no valid economic reasons for the performance of the state.

Silent Springs: Groundwater Resources Under Threat

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. M. Edmunds
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Hydrological Cycle ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Tap Water ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Pure Water ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Creation Myths ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Spring Flow

Springs are symbolic of the sustainability of life on earth. Since the earliest times flowing springs have been held as sacred and as a subject of awe and fascination. Subterranean water is identified in the creation myths on Babylonian tablets, where waters above the earth are separated from the ‘water of the deep’. The persistence of these creation myths is still reflected in the Arabic word ain or ayun, which has the double meaning of spring and eye (Issar 1991). Springs were the eyes of the gods. Springs (or fountains) were the focal point of many events in the Bible and other religious texts, and were the subject of veneration, as in Psalm 104: 10, ‘He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills Modern scientific understanding of the origins of spring flow dates from the seventeenth century. The earliest explanations of the hydrological cycle, often termed the reversed hydrological cycle, probably stem from biblical sources (Ecclesiastes 1: 7). The unexplained constancy of the ocean volume was accounted for by the return of seawater through the rocks, which then purified them and returned the water to the surface as freshwater rivers and springs. This interpretation of the hydrological cycle persisted through the writings of ancient Greece and Rome as in Seneca’s Quaestiones Naturales and into the Middle Ages (Tuan 1968) until correctly explained by Edmond Halley(Halley 1691). In modern society spring waters are valued highly because they still embody an element of mystery and bring us face to face with the subsurface expression of the hydrological cycle or ‘groundwater’. There is also traditional belief that spring waters represent a source of perennial pure water. The properties of pure spring water command a high market value and in a world where tap water is (often wrongly) perceived as something less pure, the bottled water image-makers seek after evidence of the purity, longevity, and healing properties of the spring, with a zeal that echoes the reverence accorded to spring waters by early philosophers. The objective of this chapter is to explore the reasons for the decline of natural springs and the fragility of groundwater resources in general.

Creation and the Transcategorial Phenomenal

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
David Cheetham
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Account ◽  
Phenomenological Tradition ◽  
The Real ◽  
Analytic Tradition ◽  
The Given ◽  
Formal Category ◽  
Religious Differences

This chapter considers the concept of ineffability. Has this concept been monopolized by pluralists who use it to provide an object that is sufficiently mystical and unfathomable to accommodate religious differences? Does the ineffable do any work in their systems other than provide a formal category of ultimacy? The chapter seeks to investigate this by evaluating the use of ineffability, or the transcategorial, by advocates of the pluralist view of religions. In the second part, the chapter seeks to bring the analytic tradition into dialogue with the phenomenological tradition and particularly with the work of Jean-Luc Marion. Marion highlights the given-ness or excess of experiences that do not rely on metaphysical grounds. The chapter suggests an alternative account of ‘the Real’ as an experience of excess (the ‘transcategorial phenomenal’) that takes place in the midst of the event of interreligious encounter. ‘The Real’ from the ground-up.

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