Pronunciation future in the twenty-first-century English-speaking world

Author(s):  
Ivor Timmis
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-199
Author(s):  
TIMOTHY BLOEDOW

Pierre Viret was a Swiss Reformation leader who worked alongside John Calvin, William Farel, and Theodore Beza, but he is less well known in the English-speaking world. Viret brought his distinctive contributions to the Protestant Reformation as a pastor and an ethicist. These contributions in life and doctrine need to be rediscovered for a more robust reformational church today. This article considers Viret’s credentials as a Reformer. It then explores various areas in which Viret applied his distinctively biblical ethic, particularly respecting the role of the magistrate and the relation between church and state. His biblical worldview is comprehensive in breadth and depth. His example is very accessible to Christians wanting to follow in his footsteps.


This volume provides the first detailed analyses of the ‘Anglosphere’ – a re-imagined transnational community of the English-speaking peoples – which came to international prominence in the wake of Brexit. It brings together leading international experts to examine the Anglosphere’s historical links to the British Empire. It interprets the shifting political and economic fortunes of this contested idea, the locations where it is enacted and how it continues to inform transnational identities and politics across the English-speaking world today. The volume reveals that although the Anglosphere is founded on a common view of the past, its advocates seek a shared future which is never fully attained. The volume examines the claims of its proponents regarding the Anglosphere's continuities and commonalities, and argues that its post-Brexit potential is in fact undermined by very real historical and contemporary differences. Ultimately, the Anglosphere is an unsuitable vehicle for ‘Global Britain’ and for a reordering of the West in international relations. This book will appeal to those interested in the causes and consequences of Brexit, right-wing politics in the UK, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the shifting international relations of the twenty-first century.


Author(s):  
К. Рид

Образы Сталина и упоминания о нем, а также худшие стороны его правления использовались правыми силами в англоязычных средствах массовой информации, включая социальные сети, чтобы создать впечатление, что даже умеренные левые политики являются поклонниками или подражателями Сталина. Кроме того, таким образом они хотели дискредитировать концепцию социализма посредством создания ассоциаций с советским диктатором. В то же время авторы академических исследований о Сталине с 2000 года отошли от таких клише, как «психопат», «монстр» и т. д., которые заранее искажают подлинный анализ и восприятие, в пользу более глубокого с аналитической точки зрения и основанного на фактических данных рассказа о Сталине и его влиянии. Центральное место в нем занимает тенденция видеть в Сталине убежденного революционера, который считал, что исполняет волю Ленина, а не просто диктатора, одержимого только личной властью и карьерой. Эта тенденция помогает пролить свет на самые сложные аспекты анализа личности Сталина и его эпохи, в частности на сопоставление трагедии и ужаса ГУЛАГа и голода, который можно было предотвратить, с его социальными и политическими достижениями, включая победу во Второй мировой войне, решительный переход Советской России от традиционного общества к индустриальному и общую урбанизацию. Статья посвящена прогрессивному подходу к рассмотрению этих двух взаимосвязанных вопросов. The images of and references to Stalin and the worst features of his rule have been used by right-wing forces in the English-speaking media, including social media, to suggest that even moderately left-wing politicians are admirers or imitators of Stalin. They have also used it to discredit the concept of socialism by association with the Soviet dictator. At the same time, academic studies of Stalin since 2000 has moved away from cliches, such as 'psychopath', 'monster' and so on, which pre-empt real analysis and understanding, infavorof a more deeply analytical and evidence-based account of Stalin and his influence. Central to this is a tendency to see Stalin as a convinced revolutionary who believed he was carrying out the wishes of Lenin rather simply to see him as a dictator obsessed only with his personal power and career. This helps to throw light on one of the most complex aspects of analyzing Stalin and his era, notably the juxtaposition of the tragedy and horror of the gulag and avoidable famines with the social and political achievements, including victory in the second World War and the decisive transition of Soviet Russia from a rural agricultural society to an urban and industrial one. The article focuses on cutting-edge thinking on these two interrelated questions.


2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 1241-1249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay M. Cattin ◽  
Paulo S. Pinheiro ◽  
Karen E. Callahan ◽  
Robert Hage

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