God’s Gift in Ephesians: Dwelling in the Space of Divine Transcendence in the Face of Hopelessness and Dislocation

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-223
Author(s):  
Margaret Y. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Divine Transcendence ◽  
The Face ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Divine Mercy

Abstract With a focus on Eph 4:7-16, the article highlights the significance of the concept of “gift” in Ephesians. John Barclay’s work helps to situate the Paul of Ephesians among Jewish theologians of grace, especially the perspective of the Qumran Hodayot with respect to the incongruity of divine mercy. Moreover, the results of recent analyses of Ephesians within the Roman Imperial context, including civic and familial concepts, are pushed to a new level of understanding. The study includes an examination of the link between ancient ideologies and practices related to gift giving and the delineation of social bonds and communal obligations where the depiction of the role of Christ as the giver of ministerial gifts plays a crucial role. Ultimately, the essay goes some way to close the perceived gap between the undisputed letters and Ephesians in term of a theology of grace.

Origins, substance, and persistence of Romance morphomic patterns

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Maiden
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Inherent Property ◽  
Sound Changes ◽  
The Face ◽  
Functional Motivations

This chapter reviews the evidence for the origins of morphomic patterns in the effects of defunct sound changes or extinct functional motivations and reflects on their substance and on the types of alternation involved, concluding that morphomic patterns exist independently of their phonological substance and that it is possible that any kind of formal difference (suppletion, defectiveness, heteroclisis, periphrastic structure, internal allomorphy) is liable to morphomic distribution. The chapter reasserts the crucial role of lexical identity in explaining morphomic structures in the face of formal difference. It invokes the principle of synonymy avoidance to explain speakers’ exploitation of morphomic patterns in the distribution of such differences. Finally, it considers the role of intraparadigmatic predictability in morphomic structure. Contrary to some current views, it argues that predictability is not an inherent property of morphomic patterns but an acquired property that favours the diachronic survival of morphomic patterns.

Opening the black box of a sports-based programme for vulnerable youth: the crucial role of social bonds

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Moreau ◽  
Julien Thibault Lévesque ◽  
Marc Molgat ◽  
Annie Jaimes ◽  
Luc Parlavecchio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Vulnerable Youth

scholarly journals Bürgerliche Revolution, Staatsbildung und die Abwesenheit des Internationalen

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (141) ◽  
pp. 575-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benno Teschke
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
The Face ◽  
Anglo American

This article traces the Marxist debate on the concept of ‘bourgeois revolution’ and criticises attempts within orthodox Marxism to salvage the concept in the face of the historiographical revisionist critique. It then introduces into the Anglo-American tradition of Political Marxism and argues that while scholars of this orientation have presented a powerful renewal of Marxism and re-interpretation of late medieval and early modern history, they have failed to systematically incorporate international relations into their reconstructions of early modern revolutions and state-formations. The article demonstrates how the international played a crucial role in shaping the respective trajectories of national developments, exemplified with reference to England and France, and concludes by arguing the case for a theoretical re-integration of the role of international relations into Marxist Historical Sociology.

scholarly journals Conflict as a Category of Literary Studies: Analytical Research Strategies

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-510
Author(s):  
Olga R. Khomyakova
Keyword(s):  
Special Kind ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Structural Principle ◽  
Analytical Strategies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Semantic Aspect

The substantiation of the methodological viability and hermeneutic potential of the category conflict is given. The role of conflict as a category of world modeling in fiction is pointed out. Consideration of the conflict in the aspect of dialogism is suggested. Conflict in fiction is a special kind of communicative act arising from the antagonism of misunderstanding of the opposing sides, but providing a new level of understanding to the perceiving consciousness of the reader, making it intellectually armed (R. Jacobson) in the face of conflicting structures. Analytical strategies for the study of conflict are presented in the semantic aspect (conflict as an object of artistic depiction) and the aspect of structure (conflict as a fundamental structural principle). It is proved that the dual nature of the conflict presupposes taking into account in research practice the possibilities of textocentric and anthropological approaches to the study of conflict, understood as antagonistic relations of oppositional units. The development of epistemology, axiology and poetics of conflict in fiction is seen in the way of studying all levels of conflict dialogue.

scholarly journals The semiotics of the face in digital dating & A research direction

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 18-40
Author(s):  
Massimo Leone
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Biological Features ◽  
Digital Picture ◽  
Realistic Representation ◽  
The Face

The article investigates the socio-cultural meaning of the face in relation to its natural and biological features, focusing on the particular domain ofmating habits. After surveying the role of the ‘face’ in the sexual behaviors of several non-human animals, and especially of primates, the article ponders on the crucial role that the face plays in the seductive discourse which precedes and accompany mating in all human cultures and also in many primates’ behaviors. It, then, deals with the transformation that these seductive patterns of signification and communication undergo in the passage from face-to-face intercourse to digital dating. Here, the gap between the necessarily realistic representation of one’s bodily face and the idealized version of it allowed by digital picture editing widens, to the point that new epistemic parameters start to circulate throughout the digital semiosphere.

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