scholarly journals Asymmetric symmetry of Christology: The question of the number and unity of wills in Christ according to the 'Discussion with Pyrrhus'

Sabornost ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Jevtić
Keyword(s):  
Central Place ◽  
The Future ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Maximus The Confessor ◽  
Great Step

The doctrine of will or wills in Christ was a great challenge for theology in the 7th century. Understanding the dogmas that were formulated in previous centuries, but also the future of theology, depended on the outcome of the disputes between monothelites and diotelites. This work seeks to present the overall complexity that Saint Maximus the Confessor faced when formulating the doctrine of the two wills in Christ, as shown in the book Discussions with Pyrrhus. The extremes of Monophysitism and Nestorianism, skillfully used by the Monothelites, were a constant threat but also an incentive for a great step forward that highlighted the person of Christ as a central place for understanding controversial theological issues. Christological asymmetric symmetry is the result of the above.

Feminist multimodality—A retrospective account of an exhibition on speculative urbanism

2021 ◽  
pp. 263497952110276
Author(s):  
Hemangini Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Object Perception ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Future ◽  
Retrospective Account ◽  
Forward Looking

This essay offers a retrospective account of a multimodal public exhibit at the end of a multi-year research project on speculative urbanism. While the registers of speculation are invariably forward-looking, our research presented us with the central place of memory as a frame through which urban residents in Bengaluru, India, negotiate their present and imagine the possibilities of the future. This essay examines four ways in which we created space for memory in our exhibit, understanding our approach as situating an archive-optic, drawing on approaches of critical fabulation, object perception, and submerged perspectives. I suggest that these forms of engagement are multimodal and that they offer feminist and decolonial ways to unmaster linear narratives and situate our research affectively.

African Ephemeral Material

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (02) ◽  
pp. 39-53
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Central Place ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Nationalist Movements ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
The Future ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein

During 1963 and 1964 the Africana Newsletter published regularly surveys of ephemeral material (party pamphlets, rare newspapers, constitutions, reports of congresses, trade-union literature, hard-to-find government documents) on Portuguese African nationalist movements, the Camerouns, Nigeria, and the Congo. This material was then filmed and deposited in the Center for Research Libraries (formerly the Mid-West Inter-Library Center), Chicago, Illinois, for use by members of the Cooperative African Microfilm Project (CAMP). The Editors of the African Studies Bulletin would like to continue this program of locating, listing, and collating rare African ephemeral materials. Please send inventories of your collection to the Editors. The original plea by Immanuel Wallerstein to cooperate in this program is reprinted from the Africana Newsletter: All of us when we go to Africa acquire, sometimes systematically, more often haphazardly, mimeographed and printed documents which we store, often unused, hopefully to be used in the future. Scattered issues of journals, when added together, can make nearly complete collections. I have certainly collected many odd items which are of little immediate use to me but which might be invaluable to someone doing particular pieces of research. I would hope that photostats of all these items could be collected in a central place and thus be available to all scholars.

Presence and absence of προαίρεσις in Christ and saints according to Maximus the Confessor and parallels in Neoplatonism

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Grigory Benevich
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Gregory Of Nyssa ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
Natural Will ◽  
Maximus The Confessor

Abstract The article shows that prior to the debate with the Monothelites, Maximus the Confessor followed the Christian tradition going back to Gregory of Nyssa in recognizing the presence of προαίρεσις in Christ and the saints. Later during the debate, Maximus declined to apply προαίρεσις to Christ and started to speak about the deactivation of προαίρεσις in the saints in the state of deification. Maximus was the first Orthodox author who distinguished deliberate choice (προαίρεσις) and natural will (θέλημα), and defended the presence of natural will in Christ according to His humanity. At the same time, the opposition of desire (βούλησις) and deliberate choice (προαίρεσις) can be found in some Neoplatonists, such as Iamblichus, Proclus, and Philoponus. Iamblichus and Proclus rejected the presence of προαίρεσις in the gods and god-like humans, admitting only the presence of βούλησις - the desire for the Good. Thus, the evolution of the doctrine of Maximus the Confessor, regarding the application of προαίρε- σις to Christ and the saints, finds a parallel doctrine (and even possibly a source) in Neoplatonism.

Training costs fall by 80 percent at Northumberland County Council

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-20 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Learning Management System ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
County Council ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Training Costs ◽  
The Future ◽  
Learning Management

Purpose – Explains how Northumberland County Council in England cut its training costs by 80 percent. Design/methodology/approach – Describes how a new learning-management system has improved efficiency, access and course quality and opened up new opportunities for the future. Findings – Charts the benefits as: a new online-appraisal process that will link individual performance objectives with individual and team learning and development plans; the future development of 360-degree feedback tools that will provide employees with the ability to seek and receive objective feedback on their performance and how their managers, peers and customers feel that they demonstrate the competencies and behavioral-success factors espoused by the council; having one central place for learning and improving consistency of delivery that will meet the needs of the council and its partners; savings in time and money from delivering training more quickly than with a traditional classroom approach; effective management of programs and the ability to avoid costly licensing fees; swift updates to learning, saving time and money; and extensive support offered by Learning Pool, the team that installed the learning-management system. Practical implications – Demonstrates how savings have been achieved through a combination of: online training in place of more than 10,000 hours of classroom delivery; self-service functionality for course bookings, which has saved more than 1,200 hours of administration time; the creation of more than 20 hours of bespoke content; and a reduction in CO2 omissions and fuel savings, all while improving consistency and scalability. Originality/value – Provides the inside story of how a 6,000-plus employee council revolutionized its training delivery and made significant savings into the bargain.

scholarly journals Christ: a Solution to Suffering in First Peter

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-400
Author(s):  
P.F. Steenberg
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
In Christ

Christ is presented as a solution to suffering in first Peter. This is achieved by way of three main arguments. Firstly, a new identity is developed of which Christ forms the center. Secondly, the author provides hope, which includes eschatological hope that can be theirs only through Christ. Lastly, Christ is offered as the rational for endurance. His example is presented for the believers to follow. If the readers accepted the new identity in Christ, grasped onto the hope and followed the example of Christ, their suffering would become bearable in the present and be solved in the future.

Dialogic remedies

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 860-883
Author(s):  
Kent Roach
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Abstract Remedies have in the past and should in the future occupy a central place in constitutional theory. It is a sign of its maturity that dialogic theories of judicial review have produced new remedies such as suspended declarations of invalidity and declarations of incompatibility. Dialogic remedies, like dialogic theories in general, are vulnerable to critiques from judicial constitutionalists that they weaken the role of courts. This article responds by outlining a two-track approach to remedies inspired in part by Alexander Bickel. In the first track, successful litigants should generally receive some tangible remedy from a court, but in the second track, courts should generally defer to the superior ability of legislatures and the executive to select among a range of systemic remedies to produce better compliance with rights in the future. Such an approach follows the aspirations of dialogic theories in drawing on the distinctive and complementary strengths of judicial and political constitutionalism. The two-track approach is applied to remedial decisions involving both laws and executive actions. Examples include a Canadian decision that employed a suspended declaration of invalidity but also allowed judicial exemptions from an assisted suicide offense and South African cases that prevent evictions and provide remedies for individual students while ordering engagement to achieve systemic housing and educational remedies.

scholarly journals Die sosiaal-wetenskaplike begrip change agent toegepas op die Efesiërbrief: ’n toepassing tot kerklike welwese

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry J. Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Change Agency ◽  
Scientific Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Theological Debate ◽  
The Church

This article gives a short reflection on the background and origin of the social-scientific model change agent in relation to change agency, a relationship that causes an alternate state of consciousness for the change agent. Arguing from the seven-point explanation of Malina and Pilch of how a change agent operates, this article applies the model to the letter to the Ephesians. The conclusion is that this social-scientific model is helpful for the recent church to realise how narrow the relation is between Jesus Christ and the church, in view of the future of the church as a future in Christ. A choice is made to find alternate words in the Afrikaans language suitable for the theological debate, namely  opdraggewer [change agency],  meningsvormer [change agent] and alternatiewe staat van bewussyn [alternate state of consciousness].

A New Look at the Reformation: Aristocratic Women and Nunneries, 1450–1540

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Positive View ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Church

Ever since the first flowering of scholarship on women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, convents have occupied a central place in historians' estimate of the position of women in medieval and early modern Europe. In 1910, Emily James Putnam, the future dean and president of Barnard College, wrote enthusiastically in The Lady, her path-breaking study of medieval and renaissance aristocratic women, “No institution in Europe has ever won for the lady the freedom of development that she enjoyed in the convent in the early days. The modern college for women only feebly reproduces it.” In equally pioneering works published in the same period, both Lena Eckenstein and Eileen Power recognized the significance of the nunnery in providing a socially acceptable place for independent single women.Many contemporary historians share this positive view of convents. In Becoming Visible, one of the most widely read surveys of European women's history, for example, William Monter wrote approvingly of convents as “socially prestigious communities of unmarried women.” Similarly, Jane Douglass praised nunneries for their importance in providing women with the only “visible, official role” allotted to them in the church, while Merry Wiesner, sharing Eckenstein and Power's perspective, has observed that, unlike other women, nuns were “used to expressing themselves on religious matters and thinking of themselves as members of a spiritual group. In her recently published study of early modern Seville, to give a final example, Mary Perry criticized the assumption that nuns were oppressed by the patriarchal order that controlled their institutions; instead, she emphasized the ways in which religious women “empowered themselves through community, chastity, enclosure and mystical experiences.”

Believers' Struggle and Triumph in Christ

1988 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
Sebastian Karotemprel
Keyword(s):  
Right Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
The Right

AbstractWhat, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died - more than that, who was raised to life - is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: 'For your sake we face death all day long we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.' No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor debth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 8: 31-39)

The Resurrection of Jesus and Spiritual (Trans)Formation

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony C. Thornhill
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Pauline Epistles ◽  
In Christ ◽  
And Behaviors

What does Paul envision as the basis for the spiritual (transformation of the believer? Several key passages in the Pauline epistles reveal that Paul envisions a vibrant connection between the resurrection of Jesus and the expected character qualities and behaviors of those who are in Christ. In examining this connection between resurrection and Christian maturation, three distinct, though interrelated, emphases may be identified: 1) identification with Jesus in his resurrection, 2) submission to the lordship of Jesus and the expectations of his kingdom, and 3) hope in the future resurrection of those who are “in Christ.” While these form the “ground” for spiritual (trans)formation, Paul further offers a model for applying this resurrection identification in the “here and now” life of the believer.

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