scholarly journals Korupsi sebagai Musuh Bersama: Merekonstruksi Spiritualitas Anti Korupsi dalam Konteks Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-219
Author(s):  
Bestian Simangunsong
Keyword(s):  
Social Concern ◽  
Common Enemy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church

Abstract: Indonesian goverment established corruption as an extra ordinary crime. Government produced some policies as a manifestasion to prove that they are serious to overcome the practices of corruption and all of the impact in society. Not only government, church as an institution of religion which rich of moral and ethics views can play their role even to show their responsibilities  to construct some formulas to solve some problems related to corruption that occur in the life of nation, society and church. Actually, the synergy between all alements of nation is needed, including the church as an agent of change to raise awareness to understand about corruption and the latent danger of it’s impact. Corruption is the common enemy. It’s also a social concern in Indonesia. So, church as a symbol of a salt and light of the world, has a calling to play the role reconstructing anti-corruption spirituality based on theological dialog and tradition about distributing parjambaran in the context of Batak society.Abstrak: Pemerintah Indonesia menetapkan korupsi sebagai extra ordinary crime. Kebijakan ini sebagai salah satu wujud keseriusan pemerintah mengatasi praktek korupsi dan segala dampak yang ditimbulkannya di tengah masyarakat. Tidak hanya pemerintah, gereja sebagai lembaga agama yang kaya akan ajaran-ajaran moral juga bertanggungjawab untuk menemukan sebuah formula yang dapat mendorong percepatan penyelesaian persoalan-persoalan terkait korupsi yang terjadi di tengah kehidupan bangsa, masyarakat, dan gereja. Dibutuhkan sinergi antara seluruh elemen bangsa, termasuk gereja sebagai agen perubahan untuk menumbuhkan kesadaran di tengah masyarakat akan pentingnya memahami korupsi dan bahaya laten yang ditimbulkannya. Korupsi merupakan musuh bersama dan keprihatinan sosial di tengah Indonesia. Upaya merekonstruksi spiritualitas anti korupsi yang didasarkan pada penekanan integritas dengan mendialogkannya dengan kearifan lokal pembagian parjambaran pada masyarakat Batak merupakan sumbang pikir teologis terhadap perlawanan korupsi.

"China's Chernobyl": COVID-19 Narratives of Collapse and Global Domination

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-706
Author(s):  
Barry Sautman
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Common Enemy ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Biological Pollution ◽  
The Common ◽  
Wish Fulfillment ◽  
Party State

In COVID-19's first months, US politicians and media forecast that a contrast between Chinese deception and incapability and Western success against the pandemic might fatally sink internal confidence in China's party-state. They also predicted that it would diminish China externally, as it came to be seen as endangering the world by spreading biological pollution. A "China's Chernobyl" prediction became the latest "China collapse" wish-fulfillment. This speculation rests on two contradictory yet co-existing Yellow Peril tropes: "deceit and incompetence" and "world domination." However, no empirical basis exists for either notion: China prevailed against the pandemic and lacks the capacity for global hegemony. "China's Chernobyl" is most relevant then as a wish that creates a belief, that China should and could collapse. That in turn bolsters the US-led mobilization to counter China as a "strong competitor" and frames China as the common enemy, thereby promoting Western transnational and US internal cohesion.

William of Auvergne and the Manichees

Traditio ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland J. Teske
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Latin West ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Church ◽  
Scholarly Attention

William of Auvergne became a master of theology in the University of Paris in 1223 and was appointed bishop of Paris by Gregory IX in 1228. William governed the church of Paris until his death in 1249, while continuing to write the works which constitute his immense Magisterium divinale et sapientiale. Despite the fact that he was the first of the thirteenth-century theologians to appreciate the value of the Aristotelian philosophy that poured into the Latin West during the last half of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century, his writings have not received the scholarly attention they deserve. Étienne Gilson has sketched well the impact of the influx of Greek and Arabian philosophical works into the Christian West: Up to the last years of the twelfth century, when the Christian world unexpectedly discovered the existence of non-Christian interpretations of the universe, Christian theology never had to concern itself with the fact that a non-Christian interpretation of the world as a whole, including man and his destiny, was still an open possibility.

scholarly journals The impact on education of Astronomical Olympiads and the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics

2019 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Greg Stachowski ◽  
Aniket Sule
Keyword(s):  
Common Goal ◽  
School Students ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Valuable Element ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Astronomy And Astrophysics ◽  
International Events ◽  
Global Reach

Astronomical Olympiads and similar competitions for highschool students have been run in some countries for more than half a century, and last year marked the tenth anniversary of the largest such competition with global reach, the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics. The effect of these has been to reach out to a large number of school students who might not otherwise have considered astronomy as a subject; help maintain a high, guided standard of astronomy education even in countries where astronomy is not (or no longer) on the curriculum; and to encourage those students who participate to strive harder and pursue astronomy further by giving them goals to aim for, rewarding their efforts with medals, recognition and participation in the international events in interesting locations and, above all, showing them that there are many other students just like them both in their own country and around the world. Many of the students go on to careers in astronomy education or research. We believe that Astronomy Olympiads are a very valuable element in the astronomy education framework which can be used to further the common goal of sustaining and growing the astronomical community.

scholarly journals Special Features of the Spiritual Leadership of St. Theofan the Recluse

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Михаил Степанович Иванов
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Common Misconception ◽  
The World ◽  
Spiritual Tradition ◽  
The Common ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Church ◽  
True Relationship

Статья посвящена специфике аскетической практики известного русского подвижника благочестия епископа Феофана (Говорова). В начале статьи даётся историческое обоснование диалектическому противостоянию между миром и монастырём, которое разрешается в одну из благодатных форм христианской жизни. Далее проводится различение между понятиями «мир Божий», как сотворённая Богом Вселенная, и «мир греха», как господство зла, вторгшегося в окружающий мир по вине человека. Это различение помогает снять распространённое заблуждение относительно монашеского отречения от мира и выявить подлинные отношения, которые рождает человек, ставший на монашеский путь духовного возрождения. Развивая эти отношения, монах входит в целостное, органическое, духовное и благодатное единство с миром Божиим, что позволяет ему установить основанное на любви ко всему божественному творению подлинное отношение ко всем обитателям тварного мира. На этом основополагающем принципе монашеской жизни, как пишет епископ Феофан, Затворник Вышенский, как раз и нужно строить архипастырское руководство всеми членами Церкви - не только монашеским братством, но и мирскими людьми, тем самым продолжая духовную традицию русского старчества. The article is devoted to the specifics of the ascetic practice of the famous Russian devotee of piety, Bishop Theofan (Govorov). At the beginning of the article, a historical basis is given for the dialectical confrontation between the world and the monastery, which is resolved into one of the blessed forms of Christian life. Further, a distinction is made between the concepts of «the world of God», as the universe created by God, and the «world of sin», as the rule of evil that invaded the surrounding world through the fault of man. This distinction helps to remove the common misconception about monastic renunciation of the world and to reveal the true relationship that a person gives birth to when he embarks on the monastic path of spiritual rebirth. Developing these relationships, the monk enters into an integral, organic, spiritual and grace-filled unity with the world of God, which allows him to establish a genuine relationship based on love for the entire divine creation with all the inhabitants of the created world. On this fundamental principle of monastic life, as Bishop Theofan, the Recluse of Vyshensky writes, it is precisely necessary to build the archpastoral leadership of all members of the Church - not only the monastic brotherhood, but also the secular people, thereby continuing the spiritual tradition of the Russian eldership.

Church as Sacrament: Gutiérrez and Sobrino as Interpreters ofLumen Gentium

Horizons ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-95
Author(s):  
Todd Walatka
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Basic Point ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
The World ◽  
Effective Instrument ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Jon Sobrino ◽  
The Church

Vatican II'sGaudium et Spes(GS) has had an unmistakable and demonstrable impact on Latin American liberation theology. Likewise, any sufficient account of the impact of GS on the wider church would need to attend to liberation theology. This article affirms this basic point, then explores the often-underappreciated relationship between liberation theology andLumen Gentium(LG).In particular, it investigates how Gustavo Gutiérrez and Jon Sobrino interpret a fundamental ecclesiological affirmation of LG: the church as a sacrament of salvation and unity. Gutiérrez's early work provides, and Sobrino deepens, the basic point that the church's work as a sacrament inherently demands an option for the poor. Rather than being simply part of its social teaching, this option is at the heart of the churchquachurch. It is essential both for an adequate interpretation of LG and for a church seeking to be a credible sign and effective instrument of salvation and unity in the world.

The Mountain and the Flower: The Power and Potential of Nature in the World of Victorian Evangelicalism

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 307-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
High Church ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Tradition

In the middle decades of the nineteenth century a new wind could be felt rustling in the branches of the Church of England. The transforming effect of the Oxford Movement on the High Church tradition is the most prominent example of this phenomenon but also well established in the literature are the transformations in contemporary Anglican Evangelicalism. David Bebbington in particular has stressed the impact of Romanticism as a cultural mood within the movement, tracing its effects in a heightened supernaturalism, a preoccupation with the Second Advent and with holiness which converged at Keswick, and also an emphasis on the discernment of spiritual significance in nature. But how did this emphasis play out in the lives of Evangelicals in the second half of the century and how might it have served their mission to society? This paper seeks to address the evangelical understanding of both the power and potential of nature through the example of one prominent Anglican clergyman, William Pennefather, and one little-known evangelical initiative, the Bible Flower Mission.

scholarly journals Insights into rainfall undercatch for differing raingauge rim heights

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 1564-1576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Muchan ◽  
Harry Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Ground Surface ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Operational Practices ◽  
South East England ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The measurement of rainfall has a long history, but despite its apparent simplicity it is difficult to quantify accurately. The common installation of raingauges with rims above the ground surface results in a difference between the rainfall caught and the amount reaching ground level, termed undercatch. The UK standard installation of raingauges is for their rim to be sited at 0.305 m above the ground; however, the use of weighing gauges installed at a minimum rim height of 1 m has increased in recent years. The installation of these weighing raingauges raises complex questions of homogeneity in rainfall data across space and time. Here, we investigate the impact of these changes using field trials of commonly deployed UK raingauges at a site in south-east England. This paper discusses the results of the trial, exploring the variation in and potential drivers of undercatch with differing gauge sitings. With varying standards for gauge heights around the world and new rainfall measurement technologies coming to the market all the time, improved understanding of undercatch is needed to inform evolving operational practices and explore the possibility of developing catch correction algorithms to remove arising inhomogeneity in precipitation datasets.

Knowledge Management Initiatives in Indian Public Sector

2014 ◽  
pp. 53-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Km Strategy ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

Today, knowledge management has come to be accepted and recognized as a source of competitive advantage in the private sector. Although Knowledge Management (KM) has been gaining attention all over the world, KM as a discipline is still in its infancy, and adoption of KM is still at its nascent stage when it comes to the Public Sector. It is vital for any organization to understand the concept of KM so as to align its KM strategy with the organization’s strategy. This is all the more important when it is the Public Sector because the impact of Public Sector organizations directly affects the common man. Knowledge creation, generation, and application are a continuous process. Without thorough understanding and awareness of KM, the Public Sector may not be able to reap true and full benefits. This chapter aims to bring a comprehensive understanding of KM application to the Public Sector and through cases recognizes the initiatives of KM in the Indian Public Sector.

scholarly journals Truth or Diplomacy? For the Life of the World, Islam and the Patristic Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
Serafim Seppälä
Keyword(s):  
Human Values ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Church

Abstract In their writings on Islam, John Damascene and Theodore Abu Qurrah, both authoritative patristic saints of the Orthodox Church, took an apologetic and polemic stand in defence of the Christian truth. In the modern interreligious discourse, however, the approach to Islam is rather diplomatic, concentrating on universal human values and common aspects of religions. How does the document For the Life of the World operate in this tension? In general, it aims to build on patristic argumentation, but the approach to Islam is most positive and all-embracing, welcoming the “beauty and truths” of Islam and stressing the “common roots,” while the patristic views on Islam are silenced. The discrepancy may arouse questions on the sincerity and coherence of the modern approach in relation to the patristic tradition. This reflects wider challenges in the modern theology of the Church: how to find a discursive position in the tension between the defence of truth, characteristic for the patristic thought, and the “diplomatic” language of the modern interreligious encounters.

scholarly journals On the impact of publicly available news and information transfer to financial markets

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 202321
Author(s):  
Metod Jazbec ◽  
Barna Pàsztor ◽  
Felix Faltings ◽  
Nino Antulov-Fantulin ◽  
Petter N. Kolm
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

We quantify the propagation and absorption of large-scale publicly available news articles from the World Wide Web to financial markets. To extract publicly available information, we use the news archives from the Common Crawl, a non-profit organization that crawls a large part of the web. We develop a processing pipeline to identify news articles associated with the constituent companies in the S&P 500 index, an equity market index that measures the stock performance of US companies. Using machine learning techniques, we extract sentiment scores from the Common Crawl News data and employ tools from information theory to quantify the information transfer from public news articles to the US stock market. Furthermore, we analyse and quantify the economic significance of the news-based information with a simple sentiment-based portfolio trading strategy. Our findings provide support for that information in publicly available news on the World Wide Web has a statistically and economically significant impact on events in financial markets.

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