Towards a Spiritual Empire: Christian Exegesis of the Universal Census at the Time of Jesus's Birth

This article focuses on the exegetical interpretation of Luke's narrative of the census (or registration) carried out at the time of Jesus's birth (Luke 2: 1–5). After some brief remarks on the juridical institution of the census (the so-calledprofessio census) in ancient Rome, a selection of the exegetical interpretations of this pericope developed by various ancient and medieval authors is presented. Origen, Ambrose, Orosius, Bede and Bonaventure are discussed, among others. A number of medieval authors, including Dante Alighieri and Bartolus of Saxoferrato, are also considered. The analysis argues, on the one hand, that a spiritualization of the institution of the census occurred and led to the spiritual empire of Christ being seen as replacing the temporal empire of Augustus; on the other, that reference to this institution was used to legitimize political authority in the eyes of believers. This interpretative tradition is thus shown to offer a vivid example of the close intertwining of theological and juridical concepts and practices which has characterized the relationship between the Church and empire from the former's very beginning.

The relationship between body weight and exterior measurements in domestic ostriches during the first four months after hatching

Biotechnology in Animal Husbandry ◽

10.2298/bah0702013k ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 23 (1-2) ◽

pp. 13-20

Author(s):

Andrey Kurtenkov

Keyword(s):

Body Weight ◽

Detailed Analysis ◽

The Body ◽

The Other ◽

Phenotypic Correlation ◽

Other Hand ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship ◽

It is related leg problems to the realization of the necessity of doing a detailed analysis of the phenotype correlations between body weight and exterior measurements. As a result of the study, lower coefficients have been obtained of the correlation between the girth of the tarso metatarsus on one hand, and the body weight and the girth behind the wings, on the other hand (respectively 0.563 and 0.608), compared with the one between the body weight and the girth behind the wings (0.898). It is advisable in the selection of ostriches to take into consideration the necessity of a higher phenotypic correlation between the girth of the tarso metatarsus on the one hand, and the body weight and the girth behind the wings on the other hand, with a view to preventing leg problems.

I Doria e la chiesa di San Matteo a Genova nella seconda metà del Duecento

10.36253/978-88-5518-423-6.10 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 163-188

Author(s):

Paola Guglielmotti

Keyword(s):

Large Family ◽

Urban Families ◽

The Other ◽

Small Church ◽

Other Hand ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship ◽

The essay addresses the problem of the relationship between large aristocratic families and “noble parishes” in Genoa, by considering the case of the Doria and the church of San Matteo, founded in 1125 and whose reconstruction was planned in 1278. On the one hand, three qualifying aspects of the Doria kinship are examined in order to understand the role of the small church in enhancing the coordination of the group: i.e., positions of leadership and command in the maritime city and in its government; dispersion and presence outside Genoa; numerical strength, residence and leadership. On the other hand, the article considers the insertion of San Matteo in the monastic network (not only in Liguria) headed by the abbey of San Fruttuoso, and how its reconstruction allowed for the diversification of the large family internal and external relevance. The conclusion, thanks to the comparison with the experiences of other important urban families, shows the uniqueness of this case study and how broader and more systematic comparisons should be made, even outside the Genoese context.

Trans* Politics and the Feminist Project: Revisiting the Politics of Recognition to Resolve Impasses

Politics and Governance ◽

10.17645/pag.v8i3.2825 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 312-320

Author(s):

Zara Saeidzadeh ◽

Sofia Strid

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Politics Of Recognition ◽

Feminist Politics ◽

Common Interests ◽

Identity Based ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship ◽

The debates on, in, and between feminist and trans* movements have been politically intense at best and aggressively hostile at worst. The key contestations have revolved around three issues: First, the question of who constitutes a woman; second, what constitute feminist interests; and third, how trans* politics intersects with feminist politics. Despite decades of debates and scholarship, these impasses remain unbroken. In this article, our aim is to work out a way through these impasses. We argue that all three types of contestations are deeply invested in notions of identity, and therefore dealt with in an identitarian way. This has not been constructive in resolving the antagonistic relationship between the trans* movement and feminism. We aim to disentangle the antagonism within anti-trans* feminist politics on the one hand, and trans* politics’ responses to that antagonism on the other. In so doing, we argue for a politics of<em> </em>status-based recognition (drawing on Fraser, 2000a, 2000b) instead of identity-based recognition, highlighting individuals’ specific needs in society rather than women’s common interests (drawing on Jónasdóttir, 1991), and conceptualising the intersections of the trans* movement and feminism as mutually shaping rather than as trans* as additive to the feminist project (drawing on Walby, 2007, and Walby, Armstrong, and Strid, 2012). We do this by analysing the main contemporary scholarly debates on the relationship between the trans* movement and feminism within feminist and trans* politics. Unafraid of a polemic approach, our selection of material is strategic and illuminates the specific arguments put forward in the article.

Eco Valley or New Vraja Dham? Competing Emic Interpretations of the Hungarian Krishna Valley

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel12080622 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (8) ◽

pp. 622

Author(s):

Judit Farkas

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Current Paper ◽

Ecological Aspect ◽

Sacred Place ◽

Sustainable Lifestyle ◽

The One ◽

Eco Village ◽

The Village ◽

The Relationship ◽

One of the reasons for the spread of the Western Hare Krishna movement is that it offers several alternatives for the practice of religion: devotees can be full-fledged members of the church in congregations located in complex urban or in simple rural contexts. An example of the latter is Krishna Valley, where approximately 130 Krishna-devotees live austere lives. My paper presents the interpretations of this settlement concentrating on (multiple) internal (emic) views: On the one hand, I will show how the leadership of the church contextualizes and interprets Krishna Valley and how they wish the inhabitants to conceptualize it. On the other hand, I will also show what Krishna Valley means for its ordinary inhabitants and what interpretations those living there attach to it. When I was gathering material for the current paper, Krishna Valley was in flux. The settlement has always favored following a sustainable lifestyle but—due in part to the strengthening of the Hungarian eco-village movement—it was at this time that the conceptualization of Krishna Valley as an eco-village gained momentum. This was the heyday of the Eco Valley Foundation, which was to strengthen the eco-village aspect of the Valley, and in the communication of Krishna Valley the ecological aspect became paramount, drowning out all other interpretations. Not all inhabitants of the village welcomed this change and in response some began to emphasize the interpretation of Krishna Valley as a sacred place. In the current paper, I will present these two processes and the relationship between them through the lens of the interpretations of the members of the community.

Fallible Authority

Ecclesiology ◽

10.1163/17455316-01302003 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 161-178

Author(s):

Adrian Suter

Keyword(s):

Church Leaders ◽

The Other ◽

Other Hand ◽

Papal Authority ◽

The One ◽

Deontic Authority ◽

The Relationship ◽

Old Catholic theologians have often underlined the relationship between papal supremacy and infallibility and the priority of the former: the pope has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, therefore he must be obeyed; but at the same time, he may be obeyed, because he will not mislead the Church due to his infallibility. This article analyses this relationship, applying differentiations on two axes: on the one hand, Bocheński’s typology of epistemic and deontic authority; on the other hand, the notions of personal, formal and constitutional authority. The fact that the infallibility dogma of Vatican i considers papal authority at the same time as epistemic and constitutional authority, is identified as a major weakness of the dogma. The article will then approach the question how church leaders should practise their deontic authority in a context where their (and everybody else’s) epistemic authority is considered to be fallible.

Concerning the Right Time: καιρός in Plato’s Statesman

Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy ◽

10.5840/wcp232018221298 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 145-151

Author(s):

Chelsea Harry

Keyword(s):

Political Authority ◽

The Other ◽

Apparent Contradiction ◽

Other Hand ◽

Universal Truth ◽

The One ◽

The Right ◽

The Stranger ◽

The Relationship

In her book, Method and politics in Plato’s Statesman (1998), Melissa Lane discusses the relationship between political authority and time. Namely, she asks what the source of political authority could be when, in the Statesman, the Stranger tells us that law cannot be applicable in all situations, for all people, in all times (294b2-6, 295a1-5). In this paper I agree with Lane that the apparent contradiction in the dialogue between, on the one hand, the temporal laws and, on the other hand, the contingency of everyday situations can be explained only in coming to understand the statesman as a master of kairos, or “right timing”. A mastery of kairos, I suggest, does not mean simply that one is able to recognize when it is the right time to do or say something, but rather it must mean that one is able to create the right time, which involves foreknowledge of universal truth and proficiency in the art of putting things together.

Theologians and the Magisterium: A Proposal for a Complementarity of Charisms through Dialogue

Horizons ◽

10.1017/s0360966900005958 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 7-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Todd A. Salzman ◽

Michael G. Lawler

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

People Of God ◽

Other Hand ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship ◽

ABSTRACTArchbishop Bernardin recommended that, in the relationship between magisterium and theologians, two extremes are to be avoided. On the one hand, there should be no imperialism on the part of the magisterium, co-opting theologians merely as mouthpieces for magisterial teachings. On the part of theologians, on the other hand, there should be no secession from the magisterium that would give theologians absolute autonomy and freedom from accountability. This essay analyzes the diverse charisms of magisterium and theologians and argues that they are complementary and that both parties should relate in the dialogue of charity recommended for ecumenical discussions in Pope John Paul II's Ut Unum Sint. This dialogue of charity, the essay further argues, should not be restricted to only magisterium and theologians but should embrace also, for upbuilding the Church, the entire People of God journeying together to the Holy Mystery.

Karol Wojtyła’s Philosophy on the Issue of Modernity

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Litteraria Polonica ◽

10.18778/1505-9057.54.10 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 54 (3) ◽

pp. 173-185

Author(s):

Alfred Marek Wierzbicki

Keyword(s):

Basic Property ◽

Human Freedom ◽

The Other ◽

Ethical Dimension ◽

Turn On ◽

John Paul Ii ◽

Modern Thought ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship ◽

Karol Wojtyła’s anthropology is characterised by a synthesis of objectivity and subjectivity, and his combination of aletheic and agapic notions. By accepting the modern anthropological turn, on the one hand, he attempted in his works a synthesis of the classic philosophy of being with the philosophy of awareness, and, on the other, he strived to correct the extreme anthropocentrism of modern thought. The author of the article analysed the relationship between Wojtyła’s concept of awareness and subjectivity with the personalistic style of John Paul II’s ministry of “man as the basic path of the Church.” The other pillar of the analysis is the question about the meaning of human freedom. In Wojtyła’s thought and in the teachings of John Paul II, any discussion of freedom as the basic property of a personal being was combined with a reflection on its ethical dimension.

Administrative Power

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198799986.013.25 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 379-395

Author(s):

Sarah Biddulph

Keyword(s):

Drug Use ◽

Political System ◽

The Other ◽

Administrative Power ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

The Subject ◽

Governmental Institutions ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship ◽

This chapter compares the respective roles of administrative institutions and administrative power on the one hand, and other governmental institutions and powers on the other, in dealing with drug use, possession, and trafficking in China and Victoria (Australia). Comparison of these two jurisdictions provides both opportunities and challenges. Though one is a nation-state, the other a sub-national state within a federation, both have jurisdiction to regulate drug use-related harms and offending. There is thus comparability in terms of jurisdiction. More importantly, the opportunities and challenges for comparison stem from the divergence in fundamental political system; one authoritarian and one liberal democratic, and the nature of the relationship between state and citizen that flows from this. This divergence has implications for selection of both comparative methodology and the subject matter of comparison.

Analysis similarity index of link prediction based on multivariate statistics

International Journal of Modern Physics B ◽

10.1142/s0217979218503162 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (28) ◽

pp. 1850316

Author(s):

Minghu Tang ◽

Wenjun Wang

Keyword(s):

Link Prediction ◽

Great Influence ◽

Similarity Index ◽

The Other ◽

Multivariate Statistical ◽

Network Properties ◽

Evaluation Mechanism ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship ◽

Link prediction attracts the attention of a large number of researchers due to the extensive application in social and economic fields. Many algorithms have been proposed in recent years. They show good performance because of having own particularly selected networks. However, on the other networks, they do not necessarily have good universality. Moreover, there are no other methods to evaluate the performance of new algorithm except AUC and precision. Therefore, we cannot help questioning this phenomenon. Can it really reflect the performance of an algorithm? Which attributes of a network have great influence on the prediction effect? In this paper, we analyze 21 real networks by multivariate statistical analysis. On the one hand, we find that the heterogeneity of network plays a significant role in the result of link prediction. On the other hand, the selection of network is very essential when verifying the performance of new algorithm. In addition, a nonlinear regression model is produced by analyzing the relationship between network properties and similarity methods. Furthermore, 16 similarity methods are analyzed by means of the AUC. The results show that it is of great significance for the performance of a new algorithm to design the evaluation mechanism of classification.