The Covenant with Noah in Genesis 9

2021 ◽  
pp. 014610792110401
Author(s):  
Robert Gnuse
Keyword(s):  
Ancient World ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Animal Life ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Good For

God made a covenant with Noah and thus with all of humanity in Genesis 9, but so often we do not observe that this covenant was also made with the animals. We need to respect the animals as co-venanters with us. In this modern age wherein humanity has caused so much destruction to the environment and the animal realm, it is good for us to focus upon the message of these texts. Additionally, in this covenant people are given permission to eat animals. This concession to human need does not give us the privilege to kill animals without restraint, as we too often have done. Other laws in the First Testament designed to protect animals tells us that even in that ancient world when no ecological crisis existed, people still understood the need to steward and protect animal life.

Psalm 104: The Panorama of Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-14
Author(s):  
Robert Gnuse
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The World ◽  
Formal Presentation ◽  
Genesis 1 ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Insight Into

Psalm 104 is a majestic hymn to creation, a dynamic corollary to the more formal presentation of the creation of the world in Genesis 1. Reflection upon some of the passages provides us with insight into the biblical author’s appreciation for nature, an attitude that needs to inspire us in this age of ecological crisis. Though the biblical text is unaware of such an ecological crisis; nonetheless, passages shine forth that can speak to us in our modern age of global warming and environmental collapse.

scholarly journals The Sum of the People: How the Census has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Tom Adamich
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Location ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The People

When I first received a gracious invitation to examine The Sum of the People: How the Census has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age, I have to admit I was a bit skeptical as to author Andrew Whitby’s intent to talk about the census as both a concept and an historical narrative spanning a timeline, as the subtitle indicates, “from the Ancient World to the Modern age.” Would the work be just another brief commentary on our current US 2020 Census, or would it digress into a study of enumeration as a tool used by statisticians to merely count human bodies and their geographic location—lacking a human narrative or historic context?

scholarly journals Existential challenges of modernity and vector for their solution

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Vadim Markovich Rozin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Entire Society ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

This article reviews the challenges and problems of modernity, as well as discusses the ideas and vectors for their solution. The first problem is demotes as the crisis of modern culture and the need to preserve life on the planet. It is associated with the nature and development of European sociality, which generated the ecological crisis, pandemic, and other problems. The author argues that the culture of modernity ceases and is about to be replaced by another culture (future culture). The second problem delineates “social theodicy”, i.e. development of attitude towards increasing evil. The main aspects of this phenomenon are discussed. The third problem pointed by the author, is the problem of salvation and righteous life. In this regard are examined two different models that determine cultural life: semantic view of life of the entire society, and scenarios of individual life. Comparison is conducted on the scenarios of individual life of the Middle Ages and Modern Age; the uncertainty of the latter is underlined (if not readiness for Parousia, then what: engagement in implementation of the project of modernity, but pursuing which purpose – enrichment, success, happiness, fulfillment of duty?). The pattern of the individual scenario of future culture is outlined. Within its framework, a person must solve the following dilemma –on the one hand, human is finite and mortal, while on the other, as a human of history and culture – infinite and immortal. The solution to this dilemma is offered. In conclusion, the author discusses the anchors that the person of the transitional era can rely on: critical and reflexive thinking, family ties, identity, creativity and art.

Forsvar for evnen til at være ensom

2018 ◽  
pp. 121-131
Author(s):  
Odo Marquard
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Human Need

The essay “Forsvar for evnen til at være ensom” (Defense of the capability of being alone) is a critical examination of the growing solitude in modern society. On basis of the assumption that modern age is the age of loneliness, Marquard claims that the problem for modern man is not loneliness in itself, but rather the decreasing capability of being alone. What haunts human beings in modern society is not the increase of solitude but the fact that they become still more unable to experience loneliness in a positive way. Marquard in his essay suggests different forms of such positive experience of loneliness and defends the claim that loneliness is not first and foremost a burden, but rather a fundamental human need.

scholarly journals The need for Shelter Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
José António Bandeirinha ◽  
Rui Aristides Lebre
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Human Need

The scope of this text is to think about how the human need for shelter began to appear as a foundational allegory for the discipline of architecture in the early modern age (XVIII - XIX), particularly in Laugier’s “Primitive Hut” of 1753 and Ledoux’s “L’Abri du Pauvre” of 1804. At roughly the same periods as these architects were investing the discipline with a new existential calling, new European visions of society, its organization and constraints were exploding the imaginary and concrete limits of the European polity which, at the time, was a planetary polity. Between Rousseau’s social contract, Kant’s Republic, Hegel’s “state,” among many other visions spanning from 1753 to 1804, Europe’s subjects, government and power, and their respective relationships, were structurally changed. Assembled in the same picture, these allegories and visions give us many possibilities of reflection about architecture’s new position and role within the political in the modern age. On the other hand, it may help us reflect on what architecture articulates in the outbreak of new social contexts. Heeding Walter Benjamin, we propose to take control of these memories, disparate and synchronic as they might “really have been,” to ask in a moment of danger: why doesn’t architecture shelter today? How can we read that foundational calling today?

scholarly journals The Enchanted self: Individual identity change in fiction and film

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-174
Author(s):  
Vladislava Gordić-Petković
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Computer Operating System ◽  
Human Need

The paper will focus on the representations of identity, self, fantasy and transformation in seemingly incomparable novels and films. The theoretical background of the analysis is partly based on Laura Mulvey's theory of "male gaze", along with various critical analyses of other processes that radically change the concept of identity, love, emotion, and desire in the modern world. The novel The Enchanted April and the film Her show that the gap dividing the imaginary self and the real world narrows as the protagonists tread into beautiful landscapes as imaginary territories that bring miraculous change of personalities and relationships. In this paper, Theodore Twombly and Lady Caroline Dester are seen primarily as fugitives from their respective realities of the year 2025 and the 1920's: while Theodore seeks solace in connecting to a computer operating system designed to function as a flawless emotional partner, Caroline retreats to a garden of a fascinating mansion San Salvatore in order to find her priorities and define her own identity, with the firm intention to become more than a beautiful object of male gaze and desire. The paper will explore the examples of hunger for intimacy in the modern age, as well as the human need to form romantic obsessive attachments to inanimate objects, places and landscapes.

Relocalization for Sustainable Communities: Participatory Ecological Practices and Theoretical Foundations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Good For ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Not only does the return to localism make ecological sense on its own terms—given the shortages of energy, food, and many other resources—it also makes sense because small face-to-face groups have always been considered the basis for authentic participatory democracy. Indeed, independent of ecological crisis, a return to the local is good for democracy generally. What is more, there is an emerging and vibrant “relocalization” movement that can and should be built upon. Although it mostly flies under the radar, this movement not only seeks to develop a sustainable way of life, but it also constitutes an important anchor for holding on to and extending participatory democratic governance. After detailing the practices of relocalization, the chapter turns to theories that support it in the face of environmental crisis, in particular the theoretical contributions of Sale, Bookchin, and Bahro.

English Deism and the Development of Romantic Mythological Syncretism

PMLA ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 1094-1116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert J. Kuhn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Focal Event ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Widespread Interest ◽  
New System ◽  
Sir William Jones

One of the characteristic features of English and of continental Romanticism was a widespread interest in the origins, nature, and meaning of the myths of the ancient world. Especially in England among classical scholars, antiquarians, and learned churchmen there was a zealous desire to resurrect divinities long forgotten and to find in them and their exploits a relevance for the modern age. One of the most characteristic and influential treatises on myth in the period was the Reverend Jacob Bryant's A New System, or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology (1774–76), an ambitious project whose purpose was “to rectify what time has impaired: to divest mythology of every foreign and unmeaning ornament, and to display the truth in its native simplicity.” He hoped thereby to give a “new turn to antient history, and to place it upon a surer foundation.” By hypothesizing that the Noachian Deluge was the focal event in ancient history and by seeking to show that its symbolism explained or elucidated the bulk of universal mythology, Bryant was confident that he was not only doing a service to knowledge but also that he was strengthening the premises of Christian truth. On similar diluvian hypotheses Thomas Maurice's Indian Antiquities (1793–1800), Edward Davies' The Mythology and the Rites of the British Druids (1809), and George Stanley Faber's The Origin of Pagan Idolatry (1816) attempted to achieve the same ends. Other notable researches in myth at the turn of the nineteenth century in England were those of Sir William Jones, the Orientalist, Sir William Drummond, the skeptic philosopher, and Richard Payne Knight, the art connoisseur. Well known also in learned circles was the more radically speculative mythologizing of such Frenchmen as Pierre Hugues (D'Hancarville), Jean Sylvain Bailly, and Charles François Dupuis.

scholarly journals Verso i diritti degli animali. Riflessioni e dibattiti nella storia del pensiero

Relations ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilma Baricalla
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich

In our cultural tradition, a conception has prevailed that has supported the inferiority of animals, justifying their exploitation and their exclusion from the moral sphere. This vision, however, at various moments in history has been the subject of criticism and disputes. There are alternative voices and strands that departed from the traditional anthropocentric paradigm, rehabilitating animals and elaborating different models of interpretation of the world. This paper presents an overview of authors who – from the ancient world to the modern age up to almost the present day – made their voice heard in defence of animals, to whom they recognized value and dignity. The picture that emerges is varied and articulated and represents the rich background of contemporary theories of respect for animals and animal rights.

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