Overcoming the World: Bavinck on Faith and Knowledge

After A Short Biographical Introduction, This Article Argues That Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Theology Displays His Appreciation For The Catholicity Of The Church. This Attitude Appears Most Strongly In His Interest In Epistemology. For Bavinck, Faith And Knowledge Form An Essential Unity. He Intends To Avoid Subjectivity While Incorporating The Modern Epistemological Turn To The Human Subject. This Is His Most Original And Most Important Contribution To Theology. According To Bavinck, Faith Overcomes The World By Viewing It As God’s Fallen Creation On Its Way To Final Restoration Through Christ’s Redemption. The Appendix Offers The First English Translation Of Thus Far Unnoticed Theses On Faith And Knowledge. KEYWORDS: Herman Bavinck, Neo-Calvinism, Theological Catholicity, Christian Epistemology, General Revelation, Subjectivity

Explicit Teaching and Incidental Learning of Vocabulary: Where Is the Pendulum Swinging to?

The research at hand compared two conditions of L2 vocabulary exposures, i.e. incidental exposure and a mixture of incidental and explicit exposures to words. Forty-five female participants, majoring in English at Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn-Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia participated in this research. They were divided into two groups: Reading Only (RO) and Reading Extra (RE). In the RO group, the target words were exposed only through a reading passage that they read twice, while the same target words for the RE group were inserted in the same reading passage, then explained directly by the teacher. Three levels of vocabulary knowledge (form recall, meaning recall, and meaning recognition) were assessed. The results showed that both conditions cater for vocabulary learning, however the RE group had significantly outperformed their RO counterparts. Moreover, the results showed that vocabulary learning in this study followed the general tendency starting from a receptive level to a productive level.

DZIKIR DAN FIKIR SEBAGAI KONSEP PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER: TELAAH PEMIKIRAN KH. MUNAWWAR KHOLIL AL-JAWI

This research is motivated the dimension of dhikr which is oriented to form a clean heart, the dimension of thinking forms a human with high intellectual (perfect reason). The implications of the integration of dhikr and thought will form an integral concept of education without dichotomy. From the moral knowing, moral feeling and moral action components which are combined with tazkiyatun nafs, it is expected that students can practice the values ​​embodied in the goals of character education. Purpose of this study aims to describe and analyze the dhikr and fikir according to KH Munawwar Kholil Gresik in the book of Faidhul Illah and its implications with the character dedication. Design/methodology/approach-of this research uses library research from the data of books that have been collected relevant to the theme.The results shows that he integration of dhikr and fikir as the concept of non-dichotomic character education. Dzikir continuously and systematically thinking will bring out the character of the learner is integral. Originality/value-Dhikr (tazkiyatun nafs) and fikir (knowledge) form the whole human character (ulul albab) as the concept of integralistic character education. Character is not only in form through cognitive learning but also necessary habituation of religious activities. When the dimension of dhikr which is oriented to form a clean heart, the dimension of thinking forms a human with high intellectual (perfect reason). The implications of the integration of dhikr and thought will form an integral concept of education without dichotomy. From the moral knowing, moral feeling and moral action components which are combined with tazkiyatun nafs, it is expected that students can practice the values ​​embodied in the goals of character education.

The Ethics of Resistance

The issues of sovereignty and territory can be discussed through ethics. Foucault's College de France lectures (1970-1984) cover such concepts as governmentality and biopolitics that influenced sovereign states, especially in regards to modernity of the eighteenth century. Foucault performs analyses of how discourses through power-knowledge form structures that define an 'Other' in terms of madness, reason and sexuality. This paper shall argue that these 'molar' questions of states are underpinned by a 'molecular' question of ethics, in which Foucault attempts to practice a new form of ethics, thereby subverting the sovereignty in the lecture hall in which he lectured in, and the scholars writing years later. Foucault argues that modernity has changed the nature of sovereignty and territory. Therefore, these questions are not only a question of ethics, but one bound up by the question of modernity and how it has transformed the eighteenth-century conception. The idea that Foucault uses is the definition of ethics, and thus he uses this as an analogy to describe how sovereignties and territories interact. In conclusion, Foucault views sovereignty and territory as philosophical spaces instead of physical or geographical ones, and that a new ethics of resistance is needed to combat neo-liberal bureaucracy.

Uncertainty and the Development of Evidence-Based Guidelines

This article explores how developers address uncertainty in the creation of an evidence-based guideline (EBG). As the aim of an EBG is to assist healthcare practitioners in situations of doubt, it is easy to assume that uncertainty has no place in guidelines. However, as we discovered, guideline development does not ignore uncertainty but seeks to accept it while establishing credible recommendations for healthcare. Dealing with omissions in knowledge, ignorance, or challenges in valuating different sorts of knowledge form the core of the work of guideline developers. Interviewing guideline developers, we found three types of valuation work: classifying studies, grading types of knowledge, and involving expertise and clinical practice. These methods have consequences for the credibility, and amount and kind of uncertainty EBGs can include.