Origen and Prophecy

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1093/oso/9780192846648.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Claire Hall

Keyword(s):

Human Nature ◽

Classical Antiquity ◽

Early Christian ◽

Origen Of Alexandria ◽

The Future

Origen and Prophecy presents a new reading of the concept of prophecy in the work of Origen of Alexandria (c.185-22 AD). While prophecy in classical antiquity was focused primarily on telling the future, Jewish and early Christian writers began to discuss prophets as moral leaders and sages, understanding their prophecies as moral and mystical proclamations as well as predictions. In this book, I show how Origen developed this model of prophecy using his own principles for reading scripture. The chapters move through several centuries of Greek, Jewish, and Christian thinking about prophecy, divination, time, human nature, autonomy and freedom, allegory and metaphor, and the role of the divine in the order and structure of the cosmos.

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The role of education in human nature and future human design according to Edgar Morin

New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.18844/prosoc.v6i6.4464 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 18-29

Author(s):

Funda Demirel

Keyword(s):

Human Nature ◽

21St Century ◽

Philosophy Of Education ◽

Integrated Education ◽

Science Culture ◽

Contemporary Philosopher ◽

The Future ◽

Recent Developments ◽

The Subject

Understanding the structure of human nature is an important element in determining educational practices. Recent developments in the field of science, culture and technology today require us to reconsider the developments and changes in human nature. Therefore, while determining the qualifications and principles that should play a role in the education of the future, it is necessary to first evaluate how human that is both the subject and object of education in perceived in the 21st century. While all the disciplines are essentially examining human being from different perspectives and trying to understand its nature, Edgar Morin, a contemporary philosopher and sociologist, considers the issue from a different perspective and thinks that the reality of human nature can be reached only when the disciplines are considered as a whole. Morin, who thinks that uncertainties will be clarified with an integrated education, has suggestions for the education of the future. Keywords: Edgar Morin, philosophy of education, education of future, human nature.

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Commentaries

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198718390.013.9 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 169-186

Author(s):

Josef Lössl

Keyword(s):

Late Antique ◽

Augustine Of Hippo ◽

Christian Philosophy ◽

Early Christian ◽

Biblical Commentary ◽

Origen Of Alexandria ◽

History Of ◽

Commentary Tradition

This chapter offers an introduction to the origins, main characteristics, and some main representatives of the early Christian biblical commentary. It outlines the emergence of the biblical and Late Antique philosophical commentary from the context of the late Hellenistic and early post-Hellenistic study of grammar and rhetoric (e.g. in Homeric scholarship), and discusses the role of Origen of Alexandria as the main theorist and practitioner of the early Christian biblical commentary, including Origen’s treatment of commentary topics (topoi) and his conceptualization of his commentarial activity as a form of Christian philosophy, or science. It then continues with an overview of the history of the early Christian biblical commentary after Origen, touching upon the history of the Antiochene school of exegesis and upon the Latin commentary tradition culminating in Jerome of Stridon and Augustine of Hippo.

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Challenges of Fear Conditioning Research in the Age of RDoC

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000303 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 225 (3) ◽

pp. 189-199 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Tina B. Lonsdorf ◽

Jan Richter

Keyword(s):

Fear Conditioning ◽

Clinical Diagnosis ◽

Research Domain Criteria ◽

Major Focus ◽

The Future ◽

Definition Of ◽

Methodological Considerations ◽

Research Domain

Abstract. As the criticism of the definition of the phenotype (i.e., clinical diagnosis) represents the major focus of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative, it is somewhat surprising that discussions have not yet focused more on specific conceptual and procedural considerations of the suggested RDoC constructs, sub-constructs, and associated paradigms. We argue that we need more precise thinking as well as a conceptual and methodological discussion of RDoC domains and constructs, their interrelationships as well as their experimental operationalization and nomenclature. The present work is intended to start such a debate using fear conditioning as an example. Thereby, we aim to provide thought-provoking impulses on the role of fear conditioning in the age of RDoC as well as conceptual and methodological considerations and suggestions to guide RDoC-based fear conditioning research in the future.

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