Persons, Powers, and Pluralities
Title | Persons, Powers, and Pluralities PDF eBook |
Author | Eric G Flett |
Publisher | James Clarke & Company |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2012-05-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0227900596 |
Through an intimate conversation with the writings of Thomas F. Torrance, Flett articulates a Trinitarian theology of culture. Torrance's work suggests that Christian assumptions in the areas of God, creation, and humanity had an important influenceupon the development of Western scientific culture. This book develops each of these areas of Torrance's thought in order to articulate a theology of culture rooted in a Christian understanding of God as triune, creation as contingent, and human persons as stewards created in the image of God. Drawn together, these three areas of Torrance's thought suggest that human culture and cultural plurality ultimately originate in the creative action of a triune God, mediated through the creative activity of the human creature as it engages a contingent created order in its attempts to foster human flourishing and to bear embodied witness to its Creator. The result is not only a unique contribution to the emerging secondary material on Torrance's work, but also a contribution to the field of theology of culture as a systematic locus in its own right.
Media Power and Plurality
Title | Media Power and Plurality PDF eBook |
Author | S. Barnett |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 189 |
Release | 2015-05-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137522844 |
While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging. This book assesses the current state of policy-making on media plurality and explores novel policy ideas for funding, regulatory and structural interventions.
Phenomenology of Plurality
Title | Phenomenology of Plurality PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Loidolt |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2017-09-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1351804022 |
Winner of the 2018 Edwin Ballard Prize awarded by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology This book develops a unique phenomenology of plurality by introducing Hannah Arendt’s work into current debates taking place in the phenomenological tradition. Loidolt offers a systematic treatment of plurality that unites the fields of phenomenology, political theory, social ontology, and Arendt studies to offer new perspectives on key concepts such as intersubjectivity, selfhood, personhood, sociality, community, and conceptions of the "we." Phenomenology of Plurality is an in-depth, phenomenological analysis of Arendt that represents a viable third way between the "modernist" and "postmodernist" camps in Arendt scholarship. It also introduces a number of political and ethical insights that can be drawn from a phenomenology of plurality. This book will appeal to scholars interested in the topics of plurality and intersubjectivity within phenomenology, existentialism, political philosophy, ethics, and feminist philosophy.
Obligation in Exile
Title | Obligation in Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Ilan Zvi Baron |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2014-12-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0748692312 |
Combining political theory and sociological interviews spanning four countries, Israel, the USA, Canada and the UK, Ilan Zvi Baron explores the Jewish Diaspora/Israel relationship and suggests that instead of looking at Diaspora Jews' relationship with Israel as a matter of loyalty, it is one of obligation. Baron develops an outline for a theory of transnational political obligation and, in the process, provides an alternative way to understand and explore the Diaspora/Israel relationship than one mired in partisan debates about whether or not being a good Jew means supporting Israel. He concludes by arguing that critique of Israel is not just about Israeli policy, but about what it means to be a Diaspora Jew.
The Power of God
Title | The Power of God PDF eBook |
Author | Saint Thomas (Aquinas) |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 349 |
Release | 2012-07-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199914621 |
On Power (De Potentia) is one of Aquinas's ''Disputed Questions'' (a systematic series of discussions of specific theological topics). It is a text which anyone with a serious interest in Aquinas's thinking will need to read. There is, however, no English translation of the De Potentia currently in print. Fr. Richard Regan has produced this abridgement, which passes over some of the full text while retaining what seems most important when it comes to following the flow of Aquinas's thought.
The plurality of the human race, tr. and ed. by H.J.C. Beavan. (Publ., Anthrop. soc. of Lond.).
Title | The plurality of the human race, tr. and ed. by H.J.C. Beavan. (Publ., Anthrop. soc. of Lond.). PDF eBook |
Author | Henri Charles Georges Pouchet |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Enemy Combatants, Terrorism, and Armed Conflict Law
Title | Enemy Combatants, Terrorism, and Armed Conflict Law PDF eBook |
Author | David K. Linnan |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 407 |
Release | 2008-01-30 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0275998150 |
With a renewed emphasis on national and homeland security, the United States is once again seeking to balance the needs of the state with both the rights of its citizens as well as those of other nations. This book represents an interdisciplinary approach to the legal dilemmas borne out by the war on terror-against the specific background of Afghanistan, Iraq, and this new kind of conflict. It is a strong contribution to a broader debate visible since 9/11, which will remain in the public eye for the foreseeable future. It addresses the overlap between religion, ethics, armed conflict, and law, within the context of the current conflict. While many issues in areas such as intelligence, reconciliation of civil liberties, dealing with terrorist threats, and the permissible bounds of interrogation, treatment of prisoners and laws governing armed conflict have long standing precedents under domestic and international law, this war has challenged even long standing legal interpretations. The contributors to this volume explore those precedents and contemporary challenges to them. Now that traditional wars between nation states are no longer the rule, the terrorist threat has gained credence (popularly, terrorism and its claimed breeding ground in failed states), linked in practice to issues of intervention on the territory of states harboring such groups. In military circles the idea of armed struggle between modern military forces and what were formerly called guerillas has now largely been replaced by asymmetric warfare and the concept of intelligence and preventive action interchangeably within U.S. borders and overseas. Opposing views contemplate that different-and presumably lower-legal standards may apply in internal armed conflicts. Such legal issues are visible under current circumstances of asymmetric warfare in conjunction with questions about prisoner status and detentions, including the permissible bounds of interrogation versus torture following the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq but also the treatment at the Guantanamo Bay facility of alleged Al Q'aeda captives from Afghanistan. All of the contributors in this book explore the changing circumstances against which these contentious new legal issues now unfold. The experts strike no consensus. Indeed, one of the work's many strengths can be attributed to the fact that the many facets of the ongoing debate are represented herein.