Love’s Wisdom: The Authority of Scripture’s Form and Content for Faith’s Understanding and Theological Judgment

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cognitive Strategy ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Biblical Authority ◽  
Biblical Literature ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Pedagogical Function ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This essay asks whether the Bible’s authority is a matter of (propositional) content as well as (poetic) form. It extends Martha Nussbaum’s work on the importance of literature for ethics by examining the effect of the “ancient quarrel” between philosophers and poets on the relationship of biblical literature to theology. Biblical authority involves not only revealed information but also large-scale patterns of information processing, like narrative, a cognitive strategy for grasping meaningful wholes. Scripture’s literary forms perform a pedagogical function, helping disciples to make right judgments about the theodrama, and hence serve as a means of sapiential formation.

scholarly journals The power of materialism among young adults: exploring the effects of values on impulsiveness and responsible financial behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Lučić ◽  
Marija Uzelac ◽  
Andrea Previšić
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Brand Management ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Financial Behavior ◽  
Purchase Decisions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Financial Behaviour ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of values of materialism on cognitive and affective impulsiveness and responsible financial behavior among young adults. Design/methodology/approach A large-scale study (n = 483) was conducted on a sample of young adults 18 to 25 years of age in Croatia. Findings The research found that materialism has no direct effect on responsible financial behaviour (RFB), however, cognitive impulsiveness fully mediates the relationship of all three there three elements of materialism, centrality, success and happiness and RFB. Affective impulsiveness has no effect on the relationship. Furthermore, only materialism as centrality strongly and positively influences cognitive and affective impulsiveness. Practical implications Presented conclusions could be used by policymakers as guidelines for developing educational plans and curriculum to build financial capability and consumer protection among young adults and could be helpful for brand management activities targeting young people purchase decisions. Originality/value This paper’s ultimate purpose is to uncover the mechanism and the power of materialism on impulsiveness and responsible financial behavior. The paper’s originality is established by the focus on the investigation of materialism as an antecedent factor of impulsiveness and by questioning the nature of the relationship between materialism and responsible financial behavior through the mediating effect of impulsiveness.

scholarly journals Governance and Financial Difficulties of Conventional Banks

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
La Ode Sumail
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Lagrange Multiplier Test ◽  
Fixed Effects Model ◽  
Insider Ownership ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Private Banks ◽  
Conventional Banks ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the connection between governance, financial performance, and financial difficulties of 27 conventional private banks during the pe3riod of 2015-2018. In order to meet the accuracy of the model in the regression analysis, the Lagrange Multiplier test was previously performed so that the Fixed Effects model was chosen. The relationship of insider ownership with ROA tends to be in the shape of inversed-U and the relationship between institutional ownership and ROA is significantly positive. The relationship between ROA and financial difficulties is significantly negative. Older or established large scale banks tend to have high ROA. This happens because the greater the assets, the healthier the cash flow of the bank, so that the potential for return of asset is quite high and financial difficulties tend to be low or avoidable.

CREATING KIN: NEW FAMILY ASSOCIATIONS AS WELFARE PROVIDERS IN LIBERALIZING JORDAN

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Baylouny
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
National Politics ◽  
New Family ◽  
Traditional Elite ◽  
Family Associations ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Social Provisioning ◽  
The Relationship

In the decade and a half since economic liberalization began in Jordan, a little noticed but large-scale organizing trend has taken over the formal provision of social welfare, redefining the institutional conception of familial identity in the process. For over one third of the population, kin solidarities have been reorganized, formalized, and registered as nongovernmental organizations in an attempt to cope with the removal of basic social provisioning by the state. Although kinship clearly has been a major element in Jordan's history, the present phenomena alter traditional familial institutions, change kin lineages, and institutionalize the economic salience of family relations. In turn, the relationship of the populace to the state has changed, marginalizing previously regime-supporting groups and facilitating the implementation of economic neoliberalism without significant protest. Repackaged as charitable elements of civil society, these family associations are sanctioned and encouraged by the state and international community. Although they are not regime creations, family associations reinforce the Jordanian regime's efforts at political deliberalization. The new elites who head the organizations have been placated through indirect incorporation into the regime; they now wield significant economic power over fellow kin and have enhanced social status backed by the new group. Furthermore, the trend mainly consists of families without immediate ambitions of entering national politics. These are not the traditional elite families.

Normative Sexual Behavior in Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
William N. Friedrich ◽  
Patricia Grambsch ◽  
Daniel Broughton ◽  
James Kuiper ◽  
Robert L. Beilke
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Community Based ◽  
History Of ◽  
Family Variables ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

A large-scale, community-based survey was done to assess the frequency of a wide variety of sexual behaviors in normal preadolescent children and to measure the relationship of these behaviors to age, gender, and socioeconomic and family variables. A sample of 880 2-through 12-year-old children screened to exclude those with a history of sexual abuse were rated by their mothers using several questionnaire measures. The frequency of different behaviors varied widely, with more aggressive sexual behaviors and behaviors imitative of adults being rare. Older children (both boys and girls) were less sexual than younger children. Sexuality was found to be related to the level of general behavior problems, as measured by the Achenbach Internalizing and Externalizing T scores and to a measure of family nudity. It was not related to socioeconomic variables.

Gold–copper–bismuth mineralization in hedenbergitic skarn, Tombstone Mountains, Yukon

1987 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 2362-2372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isobel J. Brown ◽  
Bruce E. Nesbitt
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Volume ◽  
Gold Mineralization ◽  
Rock Interaction ◽  
The North ◽  
Mineral Assemblages ◽  
Intrusive Rocks ◽  
Porosity And Permeability ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Gold mineralization on the Marn property, Yukon, occurs in two pyroxene skarn bodies, which are adjacent to the Mount Brenner Stock in the Ogilvie Mountains. The skarns are separated by a 600 m wide monzonite intrusion and show contrasting mineralogical and geochemical characteristics in addition to quite different metal values. Significant but uneconomic Au, Ag, W, and Cu mineralization is found in skarn on the north side of the intrusion, while very low Au grades (0.052 g/t) occur at the southern contact. The mineral assemblages of both skarns are dominated by iron-rich pyroxenes. The iron content of the pyroxenes varies between Hd40 and Hd80 in the northern location and Hd80 and Hd100 in the southern skarn. A well-developed sequence of retrograde alteration affected only the northern skarn. This was probably the result of porosity and permeability differences in the early, high-temperature pyroxene skarn, which permitted greater fluid–rock interaction in the northern skarn during cooling. A small volume of diopsidic, aluminous, wollastonite-bearing skarn occurs in both the northern and southern localities. The relationship of this type of skarn to the hedenbergitic skarn is ambiguous, since there is no large-scale mineralogical zoning. The Marn is similar to hedenbergitic, auriferous skarns of Japan, where the oxidation state of the intrusive rocks is believed to be the controlling factor in the development of skarn mineralogy.

The Cultural Affiliations and Chronological Position of the Clear Fork Focus

1947 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Charles Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Projectile Points ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Central Texas ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

The importance of the Clear Fork Focus as a pre-pottery archaeological complex of north-central Texas has become generally known to archaeologists through the industry of its discoverer and principal proponent, Dr. Cyrus N. Ray, of Abilene, Texas. Unfortunately, the relationship of this complex to other and comparable archaeological cultures of Texas has been largely neglected and some regrettable misinformation in regard to its chronological position has been widely disseminated. In this paper the cultural affiliations and age of the Clear Fork Focus will be discussed in terms of the evidence presented by its discoverers and from the standpoint of new data derived from large scale excavations completed by the University of Texas in the terraces of the Colorado River near Austin, Texas. Additional information obtained by the writer through study of some twelve thousand projectile points from central, south, and western Texas, and their geographic and temporal distribution also is used.

Metopes and architecture: the Hephaisteion and the Parthenon

1998 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 401-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Yeroulanou
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Working Out

The relationship of the metopes to the architecture of the peristasis of the Hephaisteion and the Parthenon is examined in order to ascertain the extent of planning which took place before the erection of a Classical Greek temple. All relevant published measurements are taken into consideration and critically compared. On the basis of the discrepancies of the corresponding architectural and sculptural members, it is argued that the working-out of the details of the plan was not the result of large-scale drawings, but was affected after the commencement of construction. While the Hephaisteion is built largely in accordance with the conventions of a Classical Doric temple, the Parthenon, due to its unique plan, provides indications of experimentation inferred from the extensive inconsistencies at its eastern end.

Differentially Talented Females: Some Critical Methodological Issues for the 1980s

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-376
Author(s):  
S. Viterbo McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Hemispheric Processing ◽  
Personality Correlates ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Psychometric Studies ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Usually psychometric studies have searched for the personality correlates associated with L (high linguistic and low quantitative ability) and Q (low linguistic and high quantitative ability) patterns. Neuropsychological studies, on the other hand, have searched for the cortical processes associated with L and Q patterns or for the psychological functions (presumably linguistic and visuospatial) associated with left- and right-hemispheric processing, respectively. To further our understanding of the relationship of L and Q patterns to personality correlates and modes of information processing and to clarify conflicting interpretations attributed to sex and sex-role factors, a cohort-sequential methodology and a convergence of psychometry with neuropsychology are recommended; three critical methodological issues are explored.

The nature of the black–white difference on various psychometric tests: Spearman's hypothesis

1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur R. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Population Variation ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Iq Tests ◽  
Mental Tests

AbstractAlthough the black and white populations in the United States differ, on average, by about one standard deviation (equivalent to 15 IQ points) on current IQ tests, they differ by various amounts on different tests. The present study examines the nature of the highly variable black–white difference across diverse tests and indicates the major systematic source of this between-population variation, namely, Spearman's g. Charles Spearman originally suggested in 1927 that the varying magnitude of the mean difference between black and white populations on a variety of mental tests is directly related to the size of the test's loading on g, the general factor common to all complex tests of mental ability. Eleven large-scale studies, each comprising anywhere from 6 to 13 diverse tests, show a significant and substantial correlation between tests' g loadings and the mean black–white difference (expressed in standard score units) on the various tests. Hence, in accord with Spearman's hypothesis, the average black–white difference on diverse mental tests may be interpreted as chiefly a difference in g, rather than as a difference in the more specific sources of test score variance associated with any particular informational content, scholastic knowledge, specific acquired skill, or type of test. The results of recent chronometric studies of relatively simple cognitive tasks suggest that the g factor is related, at least in part, to the speed and efficiency of certain basic information-processing capacities. The consistent relationship of these processing variables to g and to Spearman's hypothesis suggests the hypothesis that the differences between black and white populations in the rate of information processing may account for a part of the average black–white difference on standard IQ tests and their educational and occupational correlates.

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