Apocalyptic Ethics, End-Time Christians, and the Storming of the US Capitol

2021 ◽  
pp. 095394682110313
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Duff
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Foundation ◽  
The Cross ◽  
End Of The World

This article argues that an apocalyptic interpretation of divine revelation provides the theological foundation for discerning the appropriate space for human life to thrive. This apocalyptic theological ethic is contrasted with that of end-time Christians who have supported Donald Trump as God’s chosen one and who joined the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. It contrasts five features of apocalyptic thinking for both groups: (1) expectation of the end of the world, (2) ethics, (3) Christ, nation, and the first commandment (4) Christians and Jews, and (5) the cross. While the article seeks to give a fair description of the beliefs of end-time Christians, it argues that their beliefs have taken a heretical and dangerous turn.

scholarly journals Ukraine in the Focus of US Foreign Policy Priorities

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-79
Author(s):  
N. Gegelashvili ◽  
◽  
I. Modnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Radical Transformation

The article analyzes the US policy towards Ukraine dating back from the time before the reunification of Crimea with Russia and up to Donald Trump coming to power. The spectrum of Washington’s interests towards this country being of particular strategic interest to the United States are disclosed. It should be noted that since the disintegration of the Soviet Union Washington’s interest in this country on the whole has not been very much different from its stand on all post-Soviet states whose significance was defined by the U,S depending on their location on the world map as well as on the value of their natural resources. However, after the reunification of Crimea with Russia Washington’s stand on this country underwent significant changes, causing a radical transformation of the U,S attitude in their Ukrainian policy. During the presidency of Barack Obama the American policy towards Ukraine was carried out rather sluggishly being basically declarative in its nature. When President D. Trump took his office Washington’s policy towards Ukraine became increasingly more offensive and was characterized by a rather proactive stance not only because Ukraine became the principal arena of confrontation between the United States and the Russian Federation, but also because it became a part of the US domestic political context. Therefore, an outcome of the “battle” for Ukraine is currently very important for the United States in order to prove to the world its role of the main helmsman in the context of a diminishing US capability of maintaining their global superiority.

The Death of God

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Michalski
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Gospel Of Matthew ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Cross

This chapter turns to Plato's Phaedo as well as the Gospel of Matthew: two narratives about death, and two visions of human nature. Christ's cry on the cross, as told by Matthew, gives voice to an understanding of human life that is radically different from that of Socrates. For Phaedo's Socrates, the truly important things in life are ideas: the eternal order of the world, the understanding of which leads to unperturbed peace and serenity in the face of death. The Gospel is the complete opposite: it testifies to the incurable presence of the Unknown in every moment of life, a presence that rips apart every human certainty built on what is known, that disturbs all peace, all serenity—that severs the continuity of time, opening every moment of our lives to nothingness, thereby inscribing within them the possibility of an abrupt end and the chance at a new beginning.

US backsliding will drag on global climate progress

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Federal Support ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Climate Action

Subject The Paris Agreement and US withdrawal. Significance President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change on June 1, prompting criticism from around the world. While current pledges are unlikely to change and the agreement will not see flight or withdrawal by other countries, US withdrawal imperils the ability of the agreement’s structure to accelerate climate action to a scale necessary to meet its objective of limiting global warming to below 2 degrees centigrade by 2100. Impacts The US private sector and sub-national polities will increase their climate action, though the loss of federal support will still be felt. A future US administration could re-enter the agreement, but substantial momentum will be lost diplomatically in the intervening years. Calls for greater adaptation -- rather than mitigation -- funds from climate-vulnerable states will grow more strident.

Uncertain Times: The Reconstruction of China–US Relationship

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Weixing CHEN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
The Rise Of China ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Trump Administration

The rise of China has shaken, to some extent, the pillars sustaining the US dominance in the world. Facing structural challenges from China, the United States has responded on three levels: political, strategic and policy. The Donald Trump administration has adopted a hard-line approach while attempting to engage China at the structural level. The China–US relationship is entering uncertain times, and the reconstruction of the relationship could take a decade.

Trump, Sanders, and the Essential Contest Over “Populism”

2022 ◽  
pp. 49-72
Author(s):  
Matthew Charles Edwards
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Electoral Campaigns ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Right

Twenty-first century politics has been marked by breaks with tradition across large areas of the world. Allegiances have broken down, and surprising results have occurred: the Brexit vote; the rise of movements of the left in Greece and the right in France, Austria, and Germany; and the success or near-success of outsider candidates. Much of this has been labeled ‘populist'. But, by itself, this explains little. The term is complex, contested, and possibly confused. This dissertation sets out why this is so, clarifies some of the competing elements within the various conceptions, and explores some of the reasons that may underlie dispute. It applies these ideas to reports and assessments of the electoral campaigns waged by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders for the US presidency, concluding on the utility of different conceptualisations of ‘populism'.

An SFL Approach to Biden’s Inauguration Speech after Winning the Presidential Election: Compensation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Reza Abbaszadeh
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Democratic Administration ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa

The US election is an influential event, not just in the USA itself but in the world. The present study aims to analyze Joe Biden’s inauguration speech after winning the presidential election in January 2021 and becoming the 46th president of the United States. Moreover, this paper attempts to investigate the USA’s possible policies toward their own nation and, of course, the other countries. This analysis goes through predicting probable upcoming policies of Biden’s administration comparing to the previous president of the USA, Donald Trump, who breached several international agreements. To this end, Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) (Halliday, 1978; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014) has been employed in Biden’s first speech after winning the election and beginning of the democratic administration to observe his political intentions by means of a critical approach and using appraisal resources of Martin and White (2007) to clarify the attitude, graduation, and engagement of his speech. Overall, designating the number of vocabularies related to any of the mentioned appraisal resources, it is concluded that Biden’s tendency, based on his inauguration speech and the lexical and grammatical (‘lexicogrammar) choices, is to compensate Trump’s actions, such as breaching 2015 JCPOA agreement and breaking 2015 Paris Climate Accord, and make peace with whom Trump had fueled conflicts.

Performing the Passion: Strategies for Salvation in the Life of Stefana Quinzani (d. 1530)

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 218-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cordelia Warr
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cross ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Second Coming

In Italy, the years around 1500 were fraught for a number of reasons. There were renewed fears about the second coming of Christ and the end of the world. The expansion of the Ottoman Empire gave rise to a sense of instability and impending doom. In this climate many people became increasingly concerned about their fate in the afterlife and the need to be prepared for death and judgement. Central to this was the doctrine of purgatory. Yet, in the first decades of the sixteenth century, ideas surrounding purgatory were highly contested as heretical ideas from northern Europe began to filter into northern Italy. This paper investigates Catholic beliefs about the alleviation of purgatorial suffering through a case study of one holy woman from the north of Italy, the Dominican tertiary, Stefana Quinzani, who, according to a letter of 4 March 1500 written by Duke Ercole d’Este, endured every Friday ‘the whole of the Passion in her body, stage by stage, from the Flagellation to the Deposition from the Cross’.

scholarly journals Membangun Pengetahuan dan Kreativitas

Al-Risalah ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-144
Author(s):  
Abdul Hadi
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Abraham Maslow ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World

Science and creativity are essential matter in Islam, because the last message from the sky is not longer physical form, like Prophet Moses’ stick and the Prophet Isa’s effective medicines, but the message has formed in faith and sciences values that embodied in the Quran, and it will be maintained until the end of the world even the prophet Mohammad has gone. In the message of our last Prophet Mohammad (Peace be  upon him) put the sciences and creativity or ijtihad in Arabic term above of others, even both of them become the measure of someone devout to the Almighty. In Holey Qur’an verse of Fathir 28th Allah Said: “Verily the most afraid of Allah from His Servants are only scientists. According to Sir Najib Al Attas science divided into two parts: The first: The kind of science that is needed for the spiritual alive of Human Being, and studied it in Islamic law  as personal compulsory ( Fardu Ain). The second: The kind of science that be asset of human life to embodied the thing  that he wish to realize from his work. And studied it in Islamic law as personal complementary (Fardu Kifayah). In the view of Abraham Maslow: Creativity is the hidden common treasure, and every Human has potentials for get it. And It has become nature if the trees produce leaf, bird flies in the sky, and Human has capacity to create. We had known, that one of the characteristic of God is creator (albadi’). He is the most creator, this universe and all the contains are the results . So His glorious and  greatness  can be showed from His big creation. As same as creator, Human make creation or do ijtihad to produce beneficial things for goodness of human life , that make him the best servant of God. As Moslem who doesn’t have enough knowledge and creativities like body without soul, in the others main his existence in this world like nothings.

Israel, Guatemala, and the agricultural roots of an authoritarian internationalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 350-364
Author(s):  
Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Military Advisors ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Guatemalan Civil War

On Christmas Eve 2017, less than a month after President Donald Trump unilaterally announced his decision to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Guatemala announced that it would become the second country in the world to make the same move. This article locates the historical background to the recent embassy move in the building of model villages throughout Guatemala during the height of the Guatemalan Civil War. Throughout the early 1980s, Israeli agricultural and military advisors helped to militarize the Guatemalan highlands by training Guatemalan police and military to construct plantation-style model villages. Employing the language of rural development, these model villages became a core counterinsurgent tactic for former General Efrain Rios Montt’s infamous “scorched earth” policy. The article concludes by discussing how we practically cross our own mental barricades to refocus Palestine/Latinx solidarity movements toward agriculture. What possibilities are opened up when we stand from our grounded solidarities and commit to refuse exceptionalist narratives and single-issue organizing, particularly in our shared commitments to more effectively combat the ongoing practices of war-making and imperial violence?

scholarly journals SENGKETA YERUSALEM ANTARA PALESTINA DAN ISRAEL

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Galuh Lintang Talim
Keyword(s):  
Donald Trump ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
One Step ◽  
Palm Of The Hand ◽  
The City ◽  
Holy City

US Presidential Decree Donald Trump announces the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has sparked curses, criticism and opposition from various parties. The question arises as to what constitutes Trump's decision and what its impact on the world. What is the history behind the Jerusalem City dispute between Palestine and Israel. The question continues to emerge from various circles of people in the world. Why not? Donald Trump's statement unilaterally stated that Jerusalem became the capital of Israel, reaping many reactions. The final status of Jerusalem has always been one of the most difficult and instilling sensitive questions in the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. If the US declares Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, it seems to answer the question unilaterally. In fact, the issue will clash with the international consensus on the holy city. Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is also one step ahead to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem which further strengthens Israel's sovereignty over the city. The transfer of US Embassy to Jerusalem could have been easy because the US also placed its consulate in Jerusalem, while the embassy building was in Tel Aviv. However, it is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand. Keyword : Israel, Palestina, Sengketa

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