Becoming Heterodox in 17th-Century Cambridge

2019 ◽  
pp. 301-394
Author(s):  
Dmitri Levitin ◽  
Scott Mandelbrote
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Orthodox Theology ◽  
The University ◽  
Theological Pedagogy ◽  
Regius Professor ◽  
The Way

This chapter charts Isaac Newton’s path to heterodoxy by contextualising a crucial, but previously unknown, piece of evidence: the ‘Determination’ upon Newton’s 1677 Cambridge theology disputation conducted by the Regius Professor of Divinity, Joseph Beaumont. This Determination provides the earliest secure evidence of Newton’s engagement with theology. The Determination (printed and translated as an Appendix) is important in itself, but its witness allows us to go further and to propose that the university context proved crucial for shaping the way in which Newton conducted his theological reading. The essay begins by charting the transformations in Cambridge theological pedagogy in the half century before Beaumont and during the period of his dominance after the Restoration. It emphasises in particular the rise of an obsession with ante-Nicene Christian antiquity at the University, partly in response to inter- and intra-confessional dispute. The second half of the essay shows that much of Newton’s early theological writing can be read as a response to these developments, and to the world of orthodox theology that existed around him.

Systems Thinking and the Internet

2005 ◽  
pp. 2719-2723
Author(s):  
Kambiz E. Maani
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Human Relation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Newtonian Physics ◽  
The World ◽  
Mechanistic View ◽  
The Way

Despite our most impressive advances in science and technology, our prevailing worldview and the way we work and relate are deeply rooted in the thinking that emerged during the Renaissance of the 17th century. This thinking was influenced by the sciences of that era and, in particular, by Newtonian physics. Newton viewed the world as a machine that was created to serve its master—God (Ackoff, 1993). The machine metaphor and the associated mechanistic (positivist) worldview, which was later extended to the economy, the society, and the organization, has persisted until today and is evident in our thinking and vocabulary. The mechanistic view of the enterprise became less tenable in the 20th century, partly due to the emergence of the corporation and the increasing prominence of human relation issues in the workplace. As the futurist Alvin Toffler (1991) declared, “the Age of the Machine is screeching to a halt” (Toffler, 1991).

Edwin Sherbon Hills, 31 August 1906 - 2 May 1986

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 289-323 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Attack ◽  
80Th Birthday ◽  
Average Height ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
High Sense ◽  
Very High ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

On the morning of 2 May 1986 Edwin Sherbon Hills set off from his home in Kew, Melbourne, farewelled at the gate by his wife, for the University of Melbourne. He died on the way, minutes later, alone, of a heart attack. On the previous day he had written helpful replies to letters from several geologists in connection with papers they were preparing for a symposium to honour him on his 80th birthday. Australia lost one of its most eminent scientists and most accomplished geologists, and his family their devoted husband and father. The manner of his passing seems to me to be characteristic, for he had a most independent spirit. He was of average height with an erect carriage, quick and deft and always neatly dressed; his hair was short and sandy, and he had a fresh complexion. Extremely independent and highly competent, he was bent on leading in his various chosen fields. He had the remarkable gift of proceeding straight to the heart of any problem, discarding irrelevancies and thinking in a well-organized way. As a geologist he was eclectic; he gave each branch of the science equal attention, saw how each was essential to the others, and invariably supported his arguments with evidence drawn from careful observations made in other branches. He strove relentlessly for perfection in his logical analyses of observations, then adhered to his formed opinion until he could convince himself that a different view was closer to the truth. He had a very high sense of duty. Born in 1906, his generation had tacit acceptance of Britain as the world leader; it was only in 1968 that he paid his first short visit to the U.S.A.

scholarly journals The Narrator's Search for Her Own Identity in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (124) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
امجد لطيف جبار ◽  
رنا مظهر دخيل
Keyword(s):  
Master's Degree ◽  
Bodily Harm ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Radcliffe College ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Master’S Degree ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

       Margaret Eleanor Atwood is born on November 18, 1939, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.        Atwood is a Canadian writer best known for her novels, which include: The Edible Woman (1969), Surfacing (1972), Lady Oracle (1976), Life Before Man (1979), Bodily Harm (1981), The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Cat's Eye (1988), The Robber Bride (1993), Alias Grace (1996) and The Blind Assassin (1998).        Atwood is a famous writer, and her novels are best sold all over the world. She has been labelled as a Canadian nationalist, feminist, and even a gothic writer. She is well known internationally in the USA, Europe, and Australia.  This research aims at showing throughout Surfacing, the way Atwood portraits the narrator as a woman searching for her own identity.

scholarly journals Editorial

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Basheer Nafi
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Human History ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Islamic View ◽  
The Way

This issue of AJISS provides a multidimensional perspective of today’sIslamic intellectual experience. What seems to contribute markedly to theshaping of this experience is the ongoing creative process of integrating thecontemporary with the historical and the particular with the universal. TheMuslims’ commitment to humanity’s persistent struggle for meaning andharmony is, in essence, deeply linked to their belonging to the social anddiscursive manifestations of the Islamic historical epoch.Similarly evident is that neither studying Islam nor seeking the constructionof an Islamic view of our times can be conducted coherently withoutinvoking human history and intellectual achievements located outsideof the traditionally defined boundaries of the Islamic intellectual venture.Examples abound. Western epistemological tools and concepts are nowused widely, with little hesitation, by an increasing number of Muslimsocial scientists. On another level, the emergence of world global systemshas left its imprint on the Muslims’ perceptions of universal justice. Theinfluences of non-Muslim suffering and struggle are becoming part of theMuslim consciousness. In a startling reflection of this development, thetragic history of Native Americans has recently been sought as an allegoricalwell-spring by Arab anti-imperialist poets. For Islam and the world,despite many pitfalls and dangers, this process of integration is ultimatelybound to transfer the Muslims’ worldview to an era that is fundamentallydisctinctive from the preceding “centuries of the Islamic experience.”Charles Hirschkind’s “Heresy or Hermeneutics: The Case of NasrHamid Abu Zayd” provides a lucid example of how modem Islamic intellectualismand its image, the discipline of Islamic studies, are predicated ona wide variety of sources, whether historical or contingent, traditional orotherwise. The case of Abu Zayd and his prolonged conflict with Islamiccircles in Egypt has been of particular interest to the western and Arab secularmedia alike. Emerging from the halls of the University of Cairo, thecontentious debate surrounding his ideas has marched all the way to theEgyptian judiciary. But Hirschkind is not a judge, and AJISS is not a courtroom.The focus here is on “the contrastive notions of reason and history,” ...

The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 57-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel van der Linden
Keyword(s):  
Labor History ◽  
Friedrich Schiller ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Connections ◽  
The University ◽  
German Historian ◽  
The Way

The idea that the histories of different regions in the world are interconnected is not particularly novel; it already existed several centuries ago. Thus, for example, when the German historian and playwright Friedrich Schiller was granted a chair at the University of Jena in 1789, he declared in his inaugural address that “the most remote regions of the world contribute to our luxury.” After all, he continued, “The clothes we wear, the spices in our food, and the price for which we buy them, many of our strongest medicines, and also many new tools of our destruction—do they not presuppose a Columbus who discovered America, a Vasco da Gama who circumnavigated the tip of Africa”?2Nevertheless it took quite some time before professional historians began to consider these global connections seriously in their research. Colonial and “imperial” historians led the way. They were joined by economic historians. Labor historians became interested in intercontinental perspectives only more recently; until the 1970s, they typically locked themselves into the framework of individual nation-states. Even great innovators in the discipline, such as E. P. Thompson, thought mostly in terms of “national” working classes.

The Rise and Fall of the “Third Weimar”: Harry Graf Kessler and the Aesthetic State in Wilhelmian Germany, 1902–1906

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-532
Author(s):  
Laird Easton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
German Culture ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Leipzig ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

In August 1891, shortly before his graduation from the University of Leipzig and his subsequent departure on a trip around the world, Harry Graf Kessler visited the city that had become an icon of German culture in the nineteenth century. Weimar, vegetating in the long twilight years of Carl Alexander's reign, made an unfavorable impression on the young aesthete. At the church cemetery, thinking no doubt of the way England and France honored their great writers, he remarked, “I do not find the idea that the coffins of our two greatest poets should serve as the antechamber for all the princely nullities of the house of Weimar especially worthy—it reminds one a little too strongly of the Geheimen Hofrat.”

scholarly journals Physicalism, Not Scientism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Ney
Keyword(s):  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Philosophical Community ◽  
Past Half ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

Although physicalism has been a received view in the philosophical community over the past half-century, scientism is by contrast a much more maligned position. And yet standard formulations of physicalism, as the view that the world is in totality the way physics says it is, can make physicalism look as if it is simply a reductionistic form of scientism. This chapter argues that attention to more subtle formulations of physicalism reveals the difference between these attitudes.

scholarly journals Habitat for Humanity: Florida’s Procurement Processes

10.28945/4128 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 001-024
Author(s):  
Sameer Mohammad
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Visualization Tool ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Habitat For Humanity ◽  
Home Building ◽  
The World ◽  
Management Professionals ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Habitat for Humanity (HFH) Florida is best known for their coordination of helping hand for the building of affordable homes in communities all across the world. Although effective at their mission, the organization had been procuring supplies the same way for decades, with no major analyses or innovations to their processes. HFH Florida’s CEO, Barbara Inman, decided to reach out to the University of South Florida’s (USF) Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) for an analysis of their current decentralized procurement methodology. The group was also tasked with providing recommendations to the way HFH procures home-building supplies. USF CSCMP gathered and analyzed available purchasing data from 11 HFH locations across Florida, using Tableau as a statistical visualization tool for HFH’s CEO.

scholarly journals Geliat dan Keterpengaruhan Tafsir Alquran dalam Dakwah di Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Zakirman Zakirman ◽  
Shafwatul Bary
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
The Way ◽  
Qur'anic Interpretation

The process of interpreting the Quran continues to evolve from Arabic to all corners of the world. Among other things, Malaysia. The Qur'anic interpretation in Malaysia dates back to the 17th century through oral para da'i. While the tradition of writing the Qur'anic interpretations only appeared in the 20th century. And as one way of transmitting Islamic values, the interpretation of the Quran in Malaysia took place in the da'i's preaching and under the influence of the previous interpreters. Recorded Abdurrauf as-Sinkily, Muhammad Abduh and Rasyid Ridha, and al-Maraghi were the most influential figures in interpreting the Quran and Islamic studies in Malaysia. This article will look at how the Qur'anic interpretations travel according to the way of transmission by the da'i, and how the influence of each character changes the order of interpretation in Malaysia. As a result, the process of interpreting the Quran in Malaysia was identified as growing through the hands of the da'is who were exposed to the ideology of their teachers, as well as the previous interpreters

scholarly journals L’activité géographique en France (Le maître Raoul Blanchard et le tome sixième de ses « Alpes occidentales »)

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Pardé
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
French Canada ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
The World ◽  
The Alps ◽  
The Way

Geographical research and production in France have known a remarkable development during the last half century. One of the leaders of this contemporary movement bas been Professor Raoul Blanchard who was not only a chef d'école, but also a leader for his students and colleagues. Professor Blanchard has shown the way himself in publishing numerous important works on several parts of the world, and, of special interest to Canadians, his collection of regional monographs about French Canada. Not so well known to Canadian geographers and readers are his works (12 volumes) on the Alpes occidentales. In this article, a prominent French geographer, Professor Maurice Parde, of Grenoble, studies the influence of Professor Blanchard on the contemporary geographical movement in France. He also analyses more especially the sixth and last part of this monumental work on the Alps. Mr. Blanchard, who is an honorary president of the Canadian Association of Geographers, has recently been awarded a golden medal by the American Geographical Society.

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