scholarly journals God and Individual Persons

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 966-977
Author(s):  
Pavel Butakov
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Single Person

The atheistic Hiddenness Argument contains a controversial premise that a perfectly loving God would love every single person. J. L. Schellenberg, the author of the Argument, claims that this premise is necessarily true. However, many ancient theologians would disagree with the truth of this premise. In this paper, I provide evidence of the variety of alternative theological views from antiquity concerning the proper object of perfect divine love. The list of alternatives includes 1) the whole humanity as a collective subject, 2) humanity as a universal, 3) divine image reflected in human beings, 4) the community of the faithful, 5) a chosen people. Based on the disagreement between Schellenberg and the ancient theologians concerning the proper object of perfect divine love, I argue that the aforementioned premise of the hiddenness argument, even if true, is not necessarily true. Therefore, the key premise of the hiddenness argument turns out to be without support, and the Argument turns out to be unsound.

The Goodness of Home

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Marandiuc
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Middle Term ◽  
Human Love ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Theological Argument

The question of what home means and how it relates to subjectivity has fresh urgency in light of pervasive contemporary migration, which ruptures the human self, and painful relational poverty, which characterizes much of modern life. Yet the Augustinian heritage that situates true home and right attachment outside this world has clouded theological conceptualizations of earthly belonging. This book engages this neglected topic and argues for the goodness of home, which it construes relationally rather than spatially. In dialogue with research in the neuroscience of attachment theory and contemporary constructions of the self, the book advances a theological argument for the function of love attachments as sources of subjectivity and enablers of human freedom. The book shows that paradoxically the depth of human belonging—thus, dependence—is directly proportional to the strength of human agency—hence, independence. Building on Søren Kierkegaard’s imagery alongside other sources, the book depicts human love as interwoven with the infinite streams of divine love, forming a sacramental site for God’s presence, and playing a constitutive role in the making of the self. The book portrays the self both as gifted from God in inchoate form and as engaged in continuous, albeit nonlinear becoming via experiences of human love. The Holy Spirit indwells the attachment space between human beings as a middle term preventing its implosion or dissolution and conferring a stability that befits the concept of home. The interstitial space between loving human persons subsists both anthropologically and pneumatologically and generates the self’s home.

Love Divine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Wessling
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Systematic Account ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The Creation ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Wrath Of God

This book provides a systematic account of the deep and rich love that God has for humans. Within this vast theological territory, the objective is to contend for a unified paradigm regarding fundamental issues pertaining to the God of love who deigns to share His life of love with any human willing to receive it. Realizing this objective includes clarifying and defending theological accounts of the following: • how the doctrine of divine love should be constructed; • what God’s love is; • what role love plays in motivating God’s creation and subsequent governance of humans; • how God’s love for humans factors into His emotional life; • which humans it is that God loves in a saving manner; • what the punitive wrath of God is and how it relates to God’s redemptive love for humans; • and how God might share His intra-trinitarian love with human beings. As the book unfolds, a network of nodal issues are examined related to God’s love as it begins in Him and then overflows into the creation, redemption, and glorification of humanity. The result is an exitus-reditus structure driven by God’s unyielding love.

El parecer de Agustín del amor como gracia, en la controversia con Juliano de Eclana

Augustinus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-142
Author(s):  
Mathijs Lamberigts ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Pelagian Controversy

During the Pelagian controversy, the precise relation between grace and free will was an important issue. Augustine emphasized the priority of grace over human beings’ free will after the Fall. Pelagians such as Julian of Aeclanum were of the opinion that such view annihilated human beings’ free will. Throughout history, time and again, scholars belonging to different schools and denomina­tions have discussed this issue at length. In this article, we concentrate on Augustine’s view on love as grace during his debate with Julian. We argue that one should broaden the scope of this question and pay attention to the role of divine love as an important and decisive factor with regard to the proper activity of grace in the redemption and liberation of human beings. Thinking the relation between human beings and God in terms of love is a help in order to overcome the unfruitful grace-freewill antinomy. In fact, such approach does justice to both the Scriptural sources of Augustine’s position and the bishop’s spiritual view on the topic under consideration.

“All Will Be Well”: Julian of Norwich's Counter-Apocalyptic Revelations

Horizons ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
Christopher Denny
Keyword(s):  
Julian Of Norwich ◽  
Process Theology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Divine Power ◽  
Divine Omnipotence ◽  
Catherine Keller ◽  
The Church

To resolve the impasse between various competing apocalypticisms, I suggest the writings of Julian of Norwich exemplify an eschatology that incorporates features of what Catherine Keller calls counter-apocalyptic while avoiding the risks of deconstructionist theology. Julian faced an impasse as she struggled to reconcile the traditional apocalyptic claim of the church that some human beings were damned with her own revelatory experience that “all would be well.” According to the long text of the Revelation of Divine Love, in facing this crisis Julian did not abandon the belief in divine omnipotence. Like Keller's position, Julian's apophatic counter-apocalyptices chews understandings of Christiane eschatology as the simple disclosure of divine power and justice. Instead, Julian's counter-apocalyptic is founded upon the vulnerability of Christ's body. Julian's vision of Christ's kenotic love transcends the impasse between eschatological determinism and Keller's process theology, and his love establishes a stronger foundation for a truly liberating eschatology.

Divine Love in Classical Judaism

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Jacob Neusner
Keyword(s):  
Character Traits ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Human Emotion ◽  
Measure For Measure ◽  
Resurrection Of The Dead ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Human Kind

Classical Judaism depicts God in human terms. The human emotion of love is therefore imputed to God. Classical Judaism sees God and man as consubstantial, sharing in particular the same emotional traits. God has three major character traits, power, love, and justice. Power pertains to God’s creation, control of history, and imposition of morality on human kind. Love invokes the imagery of family. Justice means God metes out measure for measure. What happens to human beings responds to the actions of the person who is subject to judgment, and fairness governs. All relationships come to their final resolution in the resurrection of the dead and the judgment of humanity for eternal life or eternal death.

Trust and Aspiration

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-186
Author(s):  
Hillary Kaell
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Christian Organizations ◽  
Audit Culture ◽  
Participatory Techniques ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Successful Outcomes ◽  
Short Section

This chapter traces how Christian sponsorship organizations adapt secular audit culture. It begins by exploring how sponsors frame aspirations for foreign children's futures. The chapter then turns to modes of verification. Since sponsors cannot personally verify the results of their giving, they expect detailed facsimiles in the form of audits, graphs, and Better Business Bureau or Charity Navigator reports. Yet very few sponsors actually consult these documents. Instead, they and the organizations they support cultivate multifaceted modes of trust-creation using measures of success that might at first seem divergent, such as financial audits, answered prayers, and children's smiles. Sponsors also rely on aspirational talk and on affective participatory techniques. The chapter concludes with a short section about sponsors' hopes and fears for the world as a whole. Throughout, it underlines God's bridging power: U.S. Christians view the (Holy) Spirit and (divine) Love as the forces that keep Christian organizations honest, animate sponsor–child relationships, and move human beings toward successful outcomes.

Economic Oppression as an International Wrong or as Crime against Humanity

2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Davidsson
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Criminal Penalties

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established to secure the punishment of persons who have committed the most serious crimes which ‘deeply shock the conscience of humanity’.1 Yet what shocks the ‘conscience of humanity’ and what leaves people yawning, depends to a large extent on how mass media select and present facts. While millions of innocent human beings have been killed and maimed over the last century in armed conflict and by mass killing, the overwhelming majority of those who fall victim to adverse human agency are not injured by proximate violence but as a result of being compelled to live in subhuman conditions. Many more die silently each year of preventable hunger and disease than from widely reported direct violence. These silent deaths are mostly the result of decisions made, without malice, by individuals pursuing political or economic interests. Yet, intentionally or recklessly depriving even a single person of basic necessities may give rise to criminal penalties. Failing by gross negligence to ensure basic necessities to a dependent person may also give rise to criminal penalties. Causing death by deprivation of air, water, food, shelter or medicines may amount to murder. Compelling a person to live in inhumane or degrading conditions amounts to inhumane treatment, a violation of customary international law. Such conditions are defined herein as those which do not fulfil minimal humanitarian standards applicable to prisoners of war. The present article examines the conditions under which measures which subject a civilian population to inhumane or degrading conditions of life or perpetuate such conditions, constitute an international wrongful act2 that may reach the level of a crime against humanity under customary and conventional law.3

scholarly journals Dreams and Demography

1972 ◽  
Vol 17 (6_suppl2) ◽  
pp. 203-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Winget ◽  
Milton Kramer ◽  
Roy M. Whitman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Blacks And Whites

This survey makes two contributions to the study of man. The first deals with the subject of dreams per se and the careful examination of these dreams leading to establishing norms pertinent for a generalized population. This can be seen as complementary to the earlier studies of Hall and Van de Castle which established norms for a limited population. The second contribution concerns the insights into current societal preoccupations which the dream reveals. Making a direct translation of manifest dream content into sociological factors is fraught with difficulty. Nevertheless, it is tempting to describe this middle city of the United States as reflecting the larger situation of America and perhaps of western urban culture. In this respect, human beings are seen as coping with death anxiety as they grow older, accentuated by such conditions as widowhood. Blacks and whites are seen as essentially similar in their preoccupations, aggressions and good fortunes. We see a reaffirmation that anatomy is destiny, for the single most important factor in determining dream themes is the sex into which one is born. How much this difference is biological and how much cultural is unknown. At the present time in the United States and as exemplified by a recent book (37), being a woman involves less striving for achievement, more involvement with interpersonal relations and in general a more passive role in the aggressive themes of life. Attention to inner processes and inner space would seem to be biologically based although certainly reinforced by the cultural substrate in which the woman operates. This study deals with two of the three great themes of life — birth, marriage and death. In terms of marriage it can be observed that the single person seems happier but suffers the greatest misfortunes. Women are preoccupied with marriage and personal relationships and men with work. Death overshadows both men and women and age and death are partners.

scholarly journals Universal Oneness as the Ulterior Motive of the Incarnation of Radha and Krishna

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Anjana V C ◽  
Ms. R. Kavitha
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Ulterior Motive ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

My Affair with Radha, the debut work of Kunal Desai is the dedication to his readers who firmly believe in the divine couple Radha and Krishna. The intention of the author was to spread the awareness of the significance of divine love to the world through the example of Radha and Krishna who remain to be the epitome of transcendental oneness. The human life that has been influenced in multiple ways throughout the life time, fails to overcome the temptations and eventually ends up in misery. A solution to all the misery in the world is to experience the feeling of oneness from within, which uplifts the individual from selfishness to selflessness and eventually the individual feels empathy towards all things. A world with such human beings with the feeling of oneness, will obviously be in harmony and without any miseries.  

Nursing’s professional respect as experienced by hospital and community nurses

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 665-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Stievano ◽  
Sue Bellass ◽  
Gennaro Rocco ◽  
Douglas Olsen ◽  
Laura Sabatino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Recognition Respect ◽  
Time To Build ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Qualitative Focus Groups

Background: There is growing awareness that patient care suffers when nurses are not respected. Therefore, to improve outcomes for patients, it is crucial that nurses operate in a moral work environment that involves both recognition respect, a form of respect that ought to be accorded to every single person, and appraisal respect, a recognition of the relative and contingent value of respect modulated by the relationships of the healthcare professionals in a determined context. Research question/aim: The purpose of this study was to develop better understandings of perceptions of nursing’s professional respect in community and hospital settings in England. Research design: The research design was qualitative. Focus groups were chosen as the most appropriate method for eliciting discussion about nursing’s professional respect. Participants and research context: A total of 62 nurses who had been qualified for at least a year and were working in two localities in England participated in this study. Methods: Data were collected using 11 focus group sessions. The data were analysed by means of an inductive content analysis, extracting meaning units from the information retrieved and classifying the arising phenomena into conceptually meaningful categories and themes. Ethical considerations: To conduct the research, permission was obtained from the selected universities. Results: Recognition respect of human beings was perceived as ingrained in the innermost part of nurses. Regarding appraisal respect, a great importance was placed on: the interactions among healthcare professionals, the time to build trust in these relationships, the influences of the workplace characteristics and nurses’ professional autonomy and decision-making. Conclusion: Recognition respect of persons was embedded in the inmost part of nurses as individuals. Concerning appraisal respect, it was thought to be deeply enshrined in the inter- and intra-healthcare professional interactions. The forging of trusting relationships over time was deemed to be strongly associated with good quality interactions with other healthcare professionals.

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