scholarly journals Human Dignity and Rights in the Context of Gender and the Sacramental Priesthood

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-157
Author(s):  
Tina Beattie
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Model ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Women's Ordination ◽  
Universal Dignity ◽  
Catholic Tradition ◽  
Modern Form ◽  
Made In ◽  
Innovative Concept

Abstract This paper considers the question of women’s ordination to the sacramental priesthood in the context of human dignity and rights. Differentiating between two forms of ontological or intrinsic dignity – the universal dignity of the human being made in the imago Dei, and the particular dignity of those baptised into the imago Trinitatis – it argues that the refusal of ordination to women is a violation of baptismal dignity that constitutes a refusal of women’s rights. It analyses the arguments against women’s ordination and shows them to be based on a misreading of Thomas Aquinas, on the innovative concept of sexual complementarity which has replaced the earlier hierarchical model of sexual difference, and on appeals to mystery that might be better described as mystification. It concludes that the refusal to allow women to respond to the call to ordination is based on a modern form of essentialised sexual difference that is alien to the Catholic tradition and that violates Christological orthodoxy, insofar as it suggests that women are not able to image Christ.

Secondary-Cause Autonomy and Divine Motivation

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Christian Schröer
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Moral Autonomy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Theoretical View ◽  
Human Autonomy ◽  
The Voice

An act-theoretical view on the profile of responsibility discourse shows in what sense not only all kinds of technical, pragmatic and moral reason, but also all kinds of religious motivation cannot justify a human action sufficiently without acknowledgment to three basic principles of human autonomy as supreme limiting conditions that are human dignity, sense, and justifiability. According to Thomas Aquinas human beings ultimately owe their moral autonomy to a divine creator. So this autonomy can be considered as an expression of secondary-cause autonomy and as the voice of God in the enlightened conscience.

Thomas Aquinas on Sexual Difference: The Metaphysical Biology and Moral Significance of Human Sexuality

Pro Ecclesia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-215
Author(s):  
Paul Gondreau
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Moral Significance ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Biological Design ◽  
Moral Excellence ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
The Mean ◽  
And Gender

Thomas Aquinas offers for his time a novel take on human sexual difference, in that he grounds human sexuality in what we might term a metaphysical biology and accords it a privileged role in the moral life. Though his biology is drawn from Aristotle, which leads Aquinas to make problematic statements on sexual difference, he nonetheless offers a perspective that remains deeply relevant and significant for today. His method or approach of tethering sexual difference first and foremost to our animal-like biological design remains perennial, particularly at a time when many seek to dismiss biology as irrelevant to sexual identity and gender difference. The latest findings of the emerging field of neurobiology, which have uncovered structural differences between the male and female brains, offer key support to Aquinas’s approach. Even more important, he holds, in an unprecedented move, that sexual design and inclination provide a veritable source of moral excellence. He goes so far as to locate the mean of virtue in our sexual design and appetites.

scholarly journals On the Application of Fourier Decomposition Parameters

1993 ◽  
Vol 134 ◽  
pp. 157-158
Author(s):  
J. O. Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Fourier Analysis ◽  
Light Curves ◽  
Amplitude Ratios ◽  
Fourier Decomposition ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Convincing Argument ◽  
Lee Form ◽  
Modern Form ◽  
Made In ◽  
Phase Differences

The application of Fourier decomposition parameters has revolutionized important areas of investigations of Cepheid type variables since the introduction of Fourier analysis in its modern form by Simon and Lee (1981).In the literature several different representations of the results of Fourier analysis have been utilized. In view of the growing interest for applications of Fourier decomposition it is important to use and publish Fourier data in an optimal way. Most studies until now have used amplitude ratios and phase differences derived from traditional light curves giving the light variation in magnitudes, following the original recipe of Simon and Lee (1981). However, Stellingwerf and Donohoe (1986) advocated the use of phases rather than phase differences. Recently, Buchler et al. (1990) argued that the standard Simon & Lee form contains all relevant physics, and suggested analysis of flux-values rather than of magnitudes, because this removes the distorting effects of constant, false light. Thus there are many choices to be made in practical applications of Fourier analysis, and there is at present no convincing argument for preferring one specific representation.

From Violated Girl to Revolutionary Woman

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-657
Author(s):  
Suzy Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Sex Difference ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Top Down ◽  
State Feminism ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Made In

Feminism, both as theory and praxis, has long grappled with the dilemma of sex difference—whether to celebrate women’s “difference” from men as offering a more emancipatory potential or to challenge those differences as man-made in the process of delineating modern sexed subjects. While this debate may be familiar within contemporary feminist discourses, communist feminisms that stretched across the Cold War divide were no less conflicted about what to do with sex difference, most explicitly represented by sexual violence and biological motherhood. Even as communist states implemented top-down, often paternalistic measures, such policies were carried out ostensibly to elevate women’s status as a form of state feminism professing equality for the sexes. Comparing North Korea with China, this article explores how communist feminisms attempted to tackle the dilemma of sexual difference. Through an intertextual reading of two of the most popular revolutionary operas in 1970s communist East Asia—The Flower Girl from North Korea and The White-Haired Girl from China—it attends to the diverse strategies in addressing the “woman question” and the possibilities as well as limits opened up by communist feminisms.

scholarly journals Erzya chastushka – vanishing or changing oral tradition?

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (92) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riho Grünthal
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Second World War ◽  
European Part ◽  
World War ◽  
Living Tradition ◽  
European Part Of Russia ◽  
Second World ◽  
Modern Form ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Made In

The current paper presents a short overview and selection of Erzya chastushkas that were recorded in Erzya villages during expeditions that were made in the 1990’s. Chastushkas are known from the 20th century folklore tradition of other Finno-Ugric peoples living in the European part of Russia as well and the first examples werepublished before the Second World War.   The publishing of the following data thus serves three aims. Firstly, it introduces a modern form of oral tradition that historically, in a way, fills the gap of several lost genres. Secondly, it presents chastushkas as a genre that was originally adopted from Russian culture but was transferred to the Erzya as it did among other groups. Thirdly, it seeks to promote the interest of folklorists towards living tradition of Finno-Ugric peoples.

scholarly journals Human dignity and biomedical ethics from a Christian theological perspective

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich H.J. Körtner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Modern Idea ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Catholic Tradition ◽  
Theological Challenge ◽  
Theological Understanding

The argument of human dignity plays an important role in current debates on human rights and their relevance in modern biomedicine. When discussing the contribution of Christian theology to current debates on human dignity and human rights the thesis is not that the modern idea of human dignity depends on a theological grounding. Also, it is not the task of theology to legitimate rights as Christian a posteriori. We do not need to deduce modern human rights from theological doctrines. The theological challenge is to find an access for Christians from their belief to the modern idea of human rights and human dignity and to discuss the contribution which theology and the churches can make to further development of human rights. The Christian image of man, which serves as the foundation for the church position on bioethical topics in the German-speaking context, is a mix of biblical motives, a Kantian interpretation of the concept of human dignity and an interpretation of the German constitutional law inspired by the Catholic tradition of natural law. The following presented theological understanding of human dignity, in contrast, was inspired by the insights of the Pauline doctrine of justification and its Protestant reinterpretation.

Naturrecht und Gebot

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Christofer Frey
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Naturalistic Fallacy ◽  
Ethical Thought ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Medieval Christianity

Abstract This interpretation of the conditions of the reception of the Decalogue in medieval Christianity and the Reformation period supports the hypothesis that the leading perspectives of ethics are formed by basic assumptions of the reality of human life. This hypothesis is contrary to G.E. Moore’s socalled ›naturalistic fallacy‹, because the ›natural law‹ as an important basic assumption implies a view of nature different from modern times. It is either founded in the eternal divine law (Thomas Aquinas) or in a flexible conception close to history and change (supported by Luther). The Melanchthonian conception, however, relies more or less on a nonhistoric view which implies the notion of human dignity combined with the construction of practical principles appealing to all human persons. In contrast to the Anglosaxon mainstream of ethical thought we find here first indicators of an ethics which combines a transcendental (›transzendental‹ in the Kantian sense) foundation and an examination of everyday’s norms. Thus the Decalogue inspires the search for the conceptions of reality in the background of norms.

John Paul II in the Light of Thomas Aquinas

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-51
Author(s):  
Mary Christine Ugobi-Onyemere ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Human Being ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Human Worth

In the quest to understand the meaning of existence, the human being is torn between many choices, exposed to individualism of all forms, especially atheistic perspectives. John Paul II’s personalism in the light of Thomas Aquinas’ personalistic notion of mercy suggests an alternative of meaningful living, co-existence, and holistic transcendence. John Paul’s search for the basis on which individual and social rights may grow and enhance human dignity demonstrate the ontological human worth. Following Aquinas’ model, John Paul shows that human dignity takes precedence over all options and needs preservation. Similarly, Aquinas’ classification of the human person as “rational subsistent” portrays this dignity in “effective mercy” that allows one to thrive in all kinds of existential vicissitudes. This essay explores John Paul’s personalist notion of mercy reflecting Aquinas’ model in the contemporary milieu in view of holistic existence.

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