Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
John Behr
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Michel Henry ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Loss Of Coherence ◽  
The Way ◽  
Effective History

The introduction explores the various methodological problems involved in studying the Gospel of John and the idea of Incarnation, and introduces the various readers of the Gospel engaged in this study: early Christian writers (the ‘School of John’ as they were called by J.B. Lightfoot), modern exegetes, and Michel Henry. The methodological issues are addressed by way of Quentin Skinner’s ‘mythology of doctrine’, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s ‘effective history’, and Herbert McCabe’s questioning of the coherence of the idea of ‘pre-existence’ as it relates to ‘incarnation’. Of particular concern is the way in which systematic theological reflection has become detached from the exegetical practices in which theology developed, to be combined with a very different practice of reading Scripture, resulting in a loss of coherence and a different understanding of key ideas, such as Incarnation and the Passion (meaning the Crucifixion and Resurrection) and the relationship between them. Finally, the introduction argues for the need to bring together the different readers engaged in this volume so as to undertake the task of theology.

METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES OF MEGALOPOLIS MANAGEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
SERGEY POPKOV ◽  
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KIRILL PURTOV ◽  
VLADIMIR SMIRNOV ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Interdisciplinary Science ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article is of theoretical and methodological nature and allows you to look at the methodological problems of managing a modern metropolis from various theoretical-economic and conceptual-philosophical perspectives. The authors consider various approaches to understanding the specifics of the urban environment and global social shifts connected with an increase of the concentration of the population of various countries within large megalopolises and a shrinkage of economic space; they also analyze the socio-economic, cultural and worldview aspects predetermined by these tendencies. A distinctive feature is a systematic view of the processes taking place in megalopolises under the influence of modern trends in informatization and digitalization of social development. The article considers the megalopolis as an object of scientific knowledge, assesses the relationship of urban studies, as an extremely important modern interdisciplinary science with other sciences, which makes it possible to understand the internal laws of the development of large cities, and presents the current trends and contradictions of their development.

Stressful Life Events and Schizophrenia II: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

1993 ◽  
Vol 162 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross M. G. Norman ◽  
Ashok K. Malla
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Reciprocal Influences ◽  
The Relationship

Research on the relationship between stress and schizophrenia is fraught with conceptual and methodological problems. These problems include issues related to the nature and measurement of stress, the likelihood of reciprocal influences between stress and symptoms, and the adequate assessment of symptoms. Several recommendations are made regarding future research in this area. These include using multiple and broadly based measures of different types of stressors and symptoms, greater use of truly prospective research designs, and the evaluation of the effects of interventions specifically designed to reduce stress in patients who suffer from schizophrenia.

Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Research on Aging in Rural Versus Urban Environments

1986 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Martin Matthews ◽  
Audrey Vanden Heuvel
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environments ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Rural Environments ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Patterns Of Aging ◽  
Residential Experience ◽  
Canadian Research ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThis paper examines three conceptual and methodological problems characteristic of research on patterns of aging in rural versus urban environments. These are: lack of consistency and clarity in definitions of rurality and in the application of those definitions; inconsistency in the way in which rural-urban comparisons are made and representative communities selected; and problems arising from inattention to the issue of duration of residential experience. Our analyses show how these problems also characterize the emerging body of Canadian research on aging in rural environments.

‘The Temple of His Body’

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-193
Author(s):  
John Behr
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of John ◽  
John 1 ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Way

Chapter Three opens Part Two of this work, which looks at what it is that is ‘finished’, as Christ affirms with his last word from the Cross in the Gospel of John. This chapter focuses on Christ as the true Temple, erected when his body is lifted up upon the Cross, Building upon the work of Mary Coloe and others, this chapter explores how Christ is presented in the six feasts which structure the narrative of this Gospel, culminating in the Passion and the appearances of the Risen Christ on the first and eighth day. In addition, this chapter also examines the way in which imagery drawn from the Tabernacle and Temple are used to explain Christ’s flesh (John 1:14 and 6), the relationship of this flesh, his glorified body, to the Eucharist and martyrdom, broadening in this way what is meant by ‘incarnation’.

John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Behr
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Intimate Connection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Michel Henry ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So ◽  
And Task

This is an inter-disciplinary work, bringing together historical scholarship (regarding the earliest readers of the Gospel of John), contemporary scriptural scholarship on John, and philosophy, specifically Michel Henry, a French Phenomenologist and another reader of John, to explore how the Incarnation relates to the Passion of Christ, and how we understand and speak of revelation, that is, the relationship between scriptural exegesis and theological discourse. In particular, the work shows how ‘incarnation’ is not an event now in the past, but rather the continuing embodiment of God in those who follow Christ in the present. Those who do so, moreover, are born into life as human beings, giving their assent to the project of God initiated in the opening verses of Scripture, ‘Let us make a human being in our image’. The intimate connection between theology and anthropology, centered in Christology, as this work demonstrates, illumines the nature and task of theology itself, bringing together the various disciplines drawn upon in this study.

Hit or Myth? Methodological Considerations in Comparing Dionysos with the Johannine Jesus

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-100
Author(s):  
Fergus J. King
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between Dionysiac and emerging Christian traditions has long exercised biblical and classical scholars. Dionysianism is complex because of both its constituent mythologies and the fluidity and variety of its rituals. Emerging Christianity similarly defies a single metanarrative. This essay notes the difficulties of comparing Dionysiac tradition with just one early Christian text: the Gospel of John. The variety of Dionysiac material, the particular issues raised by critical readings of the Gospel (content and composition), the difficulty of overarching theological terminology (like “sacramentalism”), intertextuality, and mimesis criticism are all problematic when comparing the two traditions and their texts.

The Type of Temperament, Mood, and Strategies of Categorization

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Wytykowska
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Processing Capacity ◽  
Affective Value ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

In Strelau’s theory of temperament (RTT), there are four types of temperament, differentiated according to low vs. high stimulation processing capacity and to the level of their internal harmonization. The type of temperament is considered harmonized when the constellation of all temperamental traits is internally matched to the need for stimulation, which is related to effectiveness of stimulation processing. In nonharmonized temperamental structure, an internal mismatch is observed which is linked to ineffectiveness of stimulation processing. The three studies presented here investigated the relationship between temperamental structures and the strategies of categorization. Results revealed that subjects with harmonized structures efficiently control the level of stimulation stemming from the cognitive activity, independent of the affective value of situation. The pattern of results attained for subjects with nonharmonized structures was more ambiguous: They were as good as subjects with harmonized structures at adjusting the way of information processing to their stimulation processing capacities, but they also proved to be more responsive to the affective character of stimulation (positive or negative mood).

Understanding prescription in language. A corpus-based approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Kibbee ◽  
Alan Craig
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
French Tradition ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

We define prescription as any intervention in the way another person speaks. Long excluded from linguistics as unscientific, prescription is in fact a natural part of linguistic behavior. We seek to understand the logic and method of prescriptivism through the study of usage manuals: their authors, sources and audience; their social context; the categories of “errors” targeted; the justification for correction; the phrasing of prescription; the relationship between demonstrated usage and the usage prescribed; the effect of the prescription. Our corpus is a collection of about 30 usage manuals in the French tradition. Eventually we hope to create a database permitting easy comparison of these features.

On (Not) Translating Lacan: Barbara Cassin's Sophistico-Analytical Performances

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2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-113
Author(s):  
Michael Syrotinski
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Barbara Cassin's Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis, recently translated into English, constitutes an important rereading of Lacan, and a sustained commentary not only on his interpretation of Greek philosophers, notably the Sophists, but more broadly the relationship between psychoanalysis and sophistry. In her study, Cassin draws out the sophistic elements of Lacan's own language, or the way that Lacan ‘philosophistizes’, as she puts it. This article focuses on the relation between Cassin's text and her better-known Dictionary of Untranslatables, and aims to show how and why both ‘untranslatability’ and ‘performativity’ become keys to understanding what this book is not only saying, but also doing. It ends with a series of reflections on machine translation, and how the intersubjective dynamic as theorized by Lacan might open up the possibility of what is here termed a ‘translatorly’ mode of reading and writing.

Klein with Lacan: A Study on the Reception of Lacanian Ideas in Uruguay and Its Effects on Clinical Practices (1955–82)

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-361
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Grau-Pérez ◽  
J. Guillermo Milán
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Material ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Discursive Approach ◽  
The Way ◽  
Clinical Cases

In Uruguay, Lacanian ideas arrived in the 1960s, into a context of Kleinian hegemony. Adopting a discursive approach, this study researched the initial reception of these ideas and its effects on clinical practices. We gathered a corpus of discursive data from clinical cases and theoretical-doctrinal articles (from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s). In order to examine the effects of Lacanian ideas, we analysed the difference in the way of interpreting the clinical material before and after Lacan's reception. The results of this research illuminate some epistemological problems of psychoanalysis, especially the relationship between theory and clinical practice.

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