Rethinking sin and evil through the life of a child sex slave

This article rethinks (original) sin and evil through the life of a child called Engela who has been ‘sold’ into sex slavery. Focus is placed on the high value with which children should be regarded, especially children who have been sold as sex slaves. During this argument the emphasis is placed on ecclesiastical evolutionary perspectives on creation as well as relevantand contemporary understandings of sin and evil, and related to this, the devil and hell. Towards the end of the article theological consideration is given to fatherlessness, because Engela’s father was often absent in her life. According to literature, Jesus in all probability grew up without a father too. It seems as if Joseph played a minimal role in his life and education, whilst Jesus’ own experience of rejection laid the foundation for his compassion with the socially rejected, particularly children. Fatherlessness from a black African liberation perspective is also contextualised and applied.

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Arabs and Africans

Worldview ◽

10.1017/s0084255900018945 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 15 (12) ◽

pp. 25-28

Author(s):

Frederic Hunter

Keyword(s):

Third World ◽

Normal Pattern ◽

Black African ◽

Black Africa ◽

As If

A remarkable series of events in the first half of this year altered the customary pattern of relations between Africa's Arab nations and its black African states.Suddenly events suggested that the Arab nations might manage a resurgence of their influence in black Africa. They broke the normal pattern in which feelings of indifference, and sometimes distrust, are submerged in the name of continental unity and in the practice of a you-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratchyours kind of Third World solidarity. Even more, it appeared as if conditions south of the Sahara might favor this resurgence of Arab influence.

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O przeznaczeniu zła w myśli Leszka Kołakowskiego

Filozofia Chrześcijańska ◽

10.14746/fc.2021.18.4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 ◽

pp. 65-77

Author(s):

AGNIESZKA BIEGALSKA

Keyword(s):

Know How ◽

Human World ◽

The Devil ◽

As If

In Leszek Kołakowski’s thought, a devil is not abstract but real. What does he know about it? What do we know? How much of it do we know? It seems that Kołakowski knows it well – he speaks with it, discusses it, and defines it. As if they both were friends. ‘The devil by Kołakowski’ seems to be human-friendly and supportive. Thus, the article poses the following questions: What is the role of evil as defined by Kołakowski in human world and life? How does it work? What is its destiny?

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An Inspired Lobbyist / 255 and throughout the State there was the liveliest buzzing and humming and clicking of political wheels and cranks and cogs that had ever been known in those hitherto pastoral localities. The case of Fastburg against Slowburg was put in a hundred ways and proved as sure as it was put. It really seemed to the eager burghers as if they already heard the clink of hammers on a new State-House and beheld a perpetual legislature sitting on their fences and curbstones until the edifice should be finished. The great wire-puller and his gang of stipendiaries were the objects of popular gratitude and adoration. The landlord of the hotel which Mr. Pullwool patronized actually would not take pay for that gentleman’s board. “No, sir!” declared this simple Boniface, turning crimson with en thusiasm. “You are going to put thousands of dollars into my purse, and I’ll take nothing out of yours. And any little thing in the way of cigars and whiskey that you want, sir, why, call for it. It’s my treat, sir.” “Thank you, sir,” kindly smiled the great man. “That’s what I call the square thing. Mr. Boniface, you are a gentleman and a scholar; and I’ll mention your admirable house to my friends. By the way, I shall have to leave you for a few days.” “Going to leave us!” exclaimed Mr. Boniface, aghast. “I hope not till this job is put through.” “I must run about a bit,” muttered Pullwool, confidentially. “A little turn through the State, you understand, to stir up the country dis tricts. Some of the members ain’t as hot as they should be, and I want to set their constituents after them. Nothing like getting on a few deputations.” “ O, exactly!” chuckled Mr. Boniface, ramming his hands into his pockets and cheerfully jingling a bunch of keys and a penknife, for lack of silver. It was strange indeed that he should actually see the Devil in Mr. Pullwool’s eye and should not have a suspicion that he was in danger of being humbugged by him. “And your rooms?” he suggested. “How about them?” “I keep them,” replied the lobbyist, grandly, as if blaspheming the expense—to Boniface. “ Our friends must have a little hole to meet in. And while you are about it, Mr. Boniface, see that they get something to drink and smoke; and we’ll settle it between us.” “ Pre-cisely!” laughed the landlord, as much as to say, “My treat!” And so Mr. Pullwool, that Pericles and Lorenzo de’ Medici rolled in

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983) ◽

10.4324/9781351181563-37 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 271-274

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

The Devil ◽

As If ◽

The Way

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Imago diaboli? Luther’s Anthropological Holism

Pro Ecclesia ◽

10.1177/1063851220952319 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 449-471

Author(s):

Mickey L. Mattox

Keyword(s):

Deleterious Effect ◽

Thomas Aquinas ◽

Image Of God ◽

Original Sin ◽

Human Being ◽

Body And Soul ◽

Per Se ◽

Matthias Flacius Illyricus ◽

The Image Of God ◽

The Devil

The Flacian controversy in mid-16th century Lutheranism turned on the question whether as a consequence of original sin the image of God in humankind has been lost and replaced by the image of the devil. Is the fallen human being evil per se? Examining Martin Luther’s comments on the story of creation and fall in his Genesis Lectures (1535-1545), I argue that Luther’s insistence on the loss of the imago dei results in an anthropology closer to that of Thomas Aquinas than to Luther’s uncompromising disciple, Matthias Flacius Illyricus. For both Thomas and Luther, original sin is a holistic term that reflects the absence of original righteousness in the essence of the soul. Luther rejects any substantial reading of original sin that would ontologize it as the very substance of the human being. His anthropological holism means that sin has a deleterious effect on the whole human being, including all the powers of body and soul. Sin is privative, a spiritual leprosy that corrupts the whole human being.

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The devil and William Dabney. An epidemiological postscript

JAMA ◽

10.1001/jama.195.8.645 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 195 (8) ◽

pp. 645-648

Author(s):

F. J. Spencer

Keyword(s):

The Devil

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Improvement of an artificial test substrate technique for evaluation of em immunocytochemical labeling

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100128122 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 762-763

Author(s):

G. D. Gagne ◽

M. F. Miller

Keyword(s):

Bovine Serum Albumin ◽

Serum Albumin ◽

Bovine Serum ◽

Artificial Substrate ◽

Chemical Fixation ◽

As If

We recently described an artificial substrate system which could be used to optimize labeling parameters in EM immunocytochemistry (ICC). The system utilizes blocks of glutaraldehyde polymerized bovine serum albumin (BSA) into which an antigen is incorporated by a soaking procedure. The resulting antigen impregnated blocks can then be fixed and embedded as if they are pieces of tissue and the effects of fixation, embedding and other parameters on the ability of incorporated antigen to be immunocyto-chemically labeled can then be assessed. In developing this system further, we discovered that the BSA substrate can also be dried and then sectioned for immunolabeling with or without prior chemical fixation and without exposing the antigen to embedding reagents. The effects of fixation and embedding protocols can thus be evaluated separately.

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