“Let no one delude you”: The apostle as moralist in the letter to Colossians

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-420
Author(s):  
Tarris Rosell
Keyword(s):  
Moral Sense ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Moral Teachings ◽  
Ethics Reflection ◽  
Universal Application

The letter to Colossian Christians depicts the apostle as moralist, a teacher of what is good and right, while warning against immorality as he understands it. Some in Colossae have become disoriented or even deluded by teachings contrary to those of the apostles, prompting a moralistic response from Paul. The letter prompts ethics reflection for a contemporary Christian context of potential moral disorientation and delusion on issues such as honesty in government, immigration, and ownership of handguns. Discernment of moral matters is enhanced by tools such as Rosell’s “FARM Box” and a typology of moral situations. Some matters raised by Paul give reason to question the apostle’s moral teachings, such as those pertaining to wives and slaves. Mostly, his letter to Colossians makes good moral sense, arguably with universal application of rules such as, “Above all . . . walk in love.”

Making Moral Sense

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Logi Gunnarsson
Keyword(s):  
Moral Sense

Retrieving the moral sense of nature.

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-208
Author(s):  
Phillip L. Friesen
Keyword(s):  
Moral Sense

Maisie's Moral Sense: Finding Out for Herself

1979 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-172
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Jeffers
Keyword(s):  
Moral Sense

What Maisie Knew: The Evolution of a "Moral Sense"

1961 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
James W. Gargano
Keyword(s):  
Moral Sense

THE CHARACTERISATIONS OF PISCINE MOLITOR PATEL IN YAN MARTELL’S THE LIFE OF PI

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Ni Komang Arie Suwastini ◽  
Ni Wayan Desy Prema Asri ◽  
Luh Gede Eka Wahyuni ◽  
Kadek Ayu Dewi Prastika
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Moral Teachings

Literature like novels can contain many moral teachings, including how a human being develops into a better person because of certain events experienced during the plot development. The present study focuses on the character development of Piscine Molitor Patel in Yan Martell's The Life of Pi as he had to survive the Pacific Ocean for 227 days on a lifeboat with a hungry tiger. By employing close reading, it is revealed that Piscine Molitor Patel was revealed as a curious, smart, competitive, empathetic, obedient, loving, and humble character. These characterizations were revealed directly through the author's description and indirectly through thought, speech, and action. From these character revelations, it can be concluded that the development of Pi’s curious, smart, competitive, empathetic, obedient, loving, and humble character had help Pi survive the Pacific Ocean and continued living as a better person. By employing Freud’s psychoanalysis, Pi’s characterizations were then classified as reflections of his id, ego, and superego. The present study concludes that Pi’s characterizations reflect the development of the balance between his id, ego, and superego, which allowed him to survive the shipwreck and grow into a better person.

Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianne F. Conty
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Human Exceptionalism ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Genesis 1 ◽  
Forms Of Life

Though responses to the Anthropocene have largely come from the natural and social sciences, religious responses to the Anthropocene have also been gaining momentum and many scholars have been calling for a religious response to complement scientific responses to climate change. Yet because Genesis 1:28 does indeed tell human beings to ‘subdue the earth’ monotheistic religions have often been understood as complicit in the human exceptionalism that is thought to have created the conditions for the Anthropocene. In distinction to such Biblical traditions, indigenous animistic cultures have typically respected all forms of life as ‘persons’ and such traditions have thus become a source of inspiration for ecological movements. After discussing contemporary Christian efforts to integrate the natural sciences and the environment into their responses to the Anthropocene, this article will turn to animism and seek to evaluate the risks and benefits that could ensue from a postmodern form of animism that could provide a necessary postsecular response to the Anthropocene.

A generic method of design of on-site stormwater detention storages

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Ian Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Design Theory ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Entire Length ◽  
Community Assets ◽  
Drainage Design ◽  
Urban Consolidation ◽  
Universal Application ◽  
Method Of Design

On-site stormwater detention is widely used in Australia as a means of controlling the increased storm discharges from urban consolidation projects. However, unless the maximum permissible site discharge is correctly determined, the local piped drainage system may be overloaded. This paper presents a generic methodology that integrates detention storage behaviour with drainage design theory in such a manner as to protect the entire length of the downstream drainage system. Its generic nature facilitates its universal application to all systems, protecting these valuable community assets throughout their service lives.

Contemporary Christian Travel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos S. Ron ◽  
Dallen J. Timothy
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Christian
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