To Be or Not To Be: The Existential Issue for National Governance Bundles

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla C.J.M. Millar
Keyword(s):  
Existential Issue

scholarly journals Can politically oriented interventions in built heritage contribute to its authenticity? Erbil Citadel’s Babylonian Gate as a case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Awadh Jasim ◽  
Laura Hanks ◽  
Katharina Borsi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Value ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Projection Screen ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
Existential Issue ◽  
Over Time

AbstractToday, the concept of built heritage authenticity is a projection screen for conflicting demands and thus a ‘contested field’. Short-sighted readings started to drag the concept behind different ill-considered treatises, in which some heritage aspects loosely outweighed other aspects. Archaeological perspectives that tend to freeze heritage structures in time, such as those that are privileged upon other contemporary socio-cultural issues, while political takes also overshadowed other epistemological prospects, and vice versa. Repercussions have made inclusion of what is regarded as ‘inevitable changes’ within the built context problematic as to the re-interpretation and thus assessment of its authenticity. Despite their possible momentary threat to the latter, these changes may add to the cultural value of the context over time, granting new potential that may instead boost its authenticity. This paper investigates the potential continuity of Erbil Citadel’s Babylonian Gate as an inevitable change within the site’s built context by studying the Gate’s controversial political impacts on the context’s authenticity. This study affirms that authenticity is a transcendental value of an open-ended progressive nature, which cannot be reduced to a specific period or properties within the historical chronology of built heritage. Hence, authenticity should be approached as a meaningful existential issue, while revelation of its essence and thus its dimension entails precise scrutiny of both the tangibles and intangibles of the context. However, to be part of its authenticity, any change in the context should be adaptable and possibly incorporated as a new value within its cultural strata, thus enabling progressive support for site authenticity.

The existential issue

2011 ◽  
Vol 211 (2822) ◽  
pp. 27
Keyword(s):  
Existential Issue

Aufbruch ins Ungewisse. Migration und Integration als Themen theologischer Ethik

2017 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
Philipp David
Keyword(s):  
Life Histories ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Human Vulnerability ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
Existential Issue ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
To Come ◽  
Future Topics

Abstract This contribution analyses how theological ethics deal with migration and integration as future topics of global relevance. It points out that it is prudent for society, theology and the churches to come to terms with these topics, and also shows their anthropological implications. Migration is considered an existential issue and visible manifestation of human vulnerability. Noting the abundance of motifs of migration in biblical texts, this essay suggests that in view of the social challenges ethics adopt a self-critical and modest attitude which respects individual life histories.

scholarly journals Finding Meaning Amidst COVID-19: An Existential Positive Psychology Model of Suffering

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daryl R. Van Tongeren ◽  
Sara A. Showalter Van Tongeren
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Existential Anxiety ◽  
Finding Meaning ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Existential Issue ◽  
Existential Concerns

The global COVID-19 pandemic has created a crisis of suffering. We conceptualize suffering as a deeply existential issue that fundamentally changes people indelible ways and for which there are no easy solutions. To better understand its effects and how people can flourish in the midst of this crisis, we formally introduce and elaborate on an Existential Positive Psychology Model of Suffering (EPPMS) and apply that to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Our model has three core propositions: (a) suffering reveals existential concerns, (b) existential anxiety impairs one's ability to find meaning, and (c) cultivating meaning is the primary way to address suffering and allay existential anxiety, eventually leading to flourishing (and potentially growth). We apply this model to the COVID-19 pandemic, including how to build meaning, and discuss clinical implications.

scholarly journals Preaching as topical communication: The case of Calvin

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. F. Schulze
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Topical Issue ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Existential Issue

Because of the enmity and even persecution of Protestants by the Roman Church and Roman states during the Reformation, the conduct of Protestants in Roman countries became a topical issue - indeed an existential issue of life or death. In these circumstances many Protestants tried to compromise their faith by partaking externally in the Roman rites, especially the Mass and parochial Mass, in order to safeguard their existence. The first of the Four Sermons (Quatre sermons, 1552), addressing this existential question, is presented as an example of the topicality of Calvin's preaching. Having analysed some key words in Calvin’s exposition and application of his text (Ps. 16:4-6) it is concluded (a) that Calvin puts the Gospel squarely in the midst of the daily life of his congregation, (b) that his accent on the body contradicts the popular notion of Calvin's “spiritual tendency” and (c) his rejection of the Mass rests on the biblical message of the unique atonement of Christ, once and for all.

scholarly journals Heidegger’s Analysis of Dasein from the Perspective of Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia I. Ishchenko
Keyword(s):  
Existential Issue ◽  
Epistemological Issue

Having considered in the context of educational subject, Heidegger's «existential analytic of Dasein» indicates that the epistemological issue of explanation is changing to the existential issue of understanding in Heidegger's ontology. Therefore Heidegger considers «education» in the sense of existential relation as the ability of Dasein to reach own being in its genuineness and entirety, which Dasein always anticipates in understanding. On this basis Heidegger defines education as transcending being, which he names «openness», similarly to Scheler.

scholarly journals Exploring the Theology of Selected Hymns: Towards an African Christian Theology of Mission

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Isaac Boaheng
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
African Society ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Theology Of Mission ◽  
Existential Issue ◽  
Theological Message ◽  
The Church

This paper explores the theological message embedded in the hymns: “The incarnate God appeared” and “Come Holy Spirit, come now”. Theological findings from these hymns are used to formulate an African Christian theology of mission based on thematic areas such as the trinitarian dimension of mission, the centrality of the cross in mission, mission as the core mandate of the Church and mission as incarnational agapaō. By this, the paper makes the message of the selected hymns accessible to the global Christian community, promotes the development of hymnody in the African church and at the same time provides a paradigm for Christian mission in the 21st century African society. This is a literature research that uses data from books, theses, journal articles, among others. The findings indicate that hymns constitute a great tool for the missionary enterprise of the church, therefore Christian hymns should be developed and promoted. It is recommended that, for Christian mission in Africa to be meaningful and relevant to Africans, it must endeavor to address the existential issue in African societies. Key Words: Africa, Hymns, Christology, Mission, Pneumatology, Theology

Need to Teach

2019 ◽  
pp. 86-115
Author(s):  
Juliane Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Existential Issue ◽  
The One ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Taking Action

This chapter examines interviews conducted with Muslim advocates whose work against domestic violence (DV) focuses on awareness and prevention. There is a shared story arch among many of the advocates that supports the primacy of an experienced and embodied ethic on non-abuse that is then translated into active work in the community and in a later step a search for religious discourse in order to further effective activism. Advocates often first recognized domestic abuse as wrong, then became critical of the ways in which Muslim communities address or do not address this issue, and responded by taking action and developing or finding religious arguments. It is in this last part of the story that religious authority, and with that status and authority in communities, became an existential issue for the effectiveness of anti-DV work. The chapter then reflects on the connection between feminist ideas about patriarchy and DV on the one hand and acceptance/rejection of such ideas in Muslim communities on the other.

Transcendence and Dissatisfaction in Jaspers’ Idea of the Self

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronny Miron
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Karl Jaspers ◽  
Search For Self ◽  
The Status ◽  
Existential Issue ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Present Understanding

This paper deals with the idea of the search for self, mainly in the thinking of Karl Jaspers. The discussion will focus on the very nature of this search and the power that motivates it. For this purpose, it will employ a phenomenological viewpoint that will follow Jaspers’ course from its first point of departure, in which the self appeared. As an object of observation, up to the point where the self acquired the status of the subject, i.e., appeared as a personal and existential issue. The positively achieved insights about the self and the frustrations involved in this search will be clarified systematically. The author argues that Jaspers’ search was inspired by a constant experience of dissatisfaction, which directed the self to transcend every present understanding of the self and to look for an improved one. Lastly, the search for the self will appear as leading to another search, i.e. that for Being and transcendence.

scholarly journals A participatory student workshop on climate change and sustainability: A comparative case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Larose ◽  
Eleanor Burke ◽  
Christine Blaisot
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
Existential Issue ◽  
Experiential Workshop

Abstract Climate change is an environmental and existential issue of great urgency, especially for today’s youth. Until recently, the French national school curriculum had not given students much opportunity to learn about climate change (CC), its causes and repercussions, and mitigating measures to reach sustainable climate conditions. This article describes a six-week participatory, experiential workshop that brought together two groups of French students (one age 10 and the other age 16) to learn and teach each other about CC. Older students learned about the Conference of the Parties, COP21 Paris agreement and the IPCC climate findings and recommendations. Together the two groups developed greater understanding about CC, and proposed concrete environmental actions that they could undertake at home and in their local district to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We examine four products of their collaboration:● slide presentations that they created jointly, ● students’ written reflections on learning about sustainability and CC, ● the group’s list of proposed personal and family actions to decrease their carbon footprint, and ● notes from a meeting with local governmental officials. We draw inferences from these sources, and extract two recurrent themes in the students’ learning. These themes highlight a mismatch between youth’s sense of urgency to respond to the climate emergency and the older generation’s sluggish pace of addressing it. This article is a qualitative case study of a successful attempt to raise students’ awareness of sustainability and climatic issues, and to involve them in thinking collaboratively with others about the tasks ahead to address the problem of climate change from a local perspective.

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