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“The Defeat of Satan: Karl Barth’s Three-Agent Account of Salvation” by Declan Kelly
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Declan Kelly, The Defeat of Satan: Karl Barth’s Three-Agent Account of Salvation, Explorations in Reformed Theology 3 (London: T&T Clark, 2022), pp. ix + 162, ISBN 978-0567698810. £28.9
Inside and Outside: Government and Governance Experience of Syrian Refugees
Full text linkThis article locates the meaning of two oppositional entities, namely the Syrian Interim Government (SIG) and Local Councils (LCs), from the perspective of refugees living in Gaziantep Turkey. The deliberate and strategic labeling of an oppositional entity as ‘government’ may have been designed to present the Syrian and international audience with an alternative government even though, in many ways, the SIG lacked ‘governmental’ characteristics in its early beginnings. While the SIG was formed outside, LCs flourished inside Syria. Refugee voices indicate that people expect an alternative governing structure to emerge from inside Syria and don’t see an outsider entity as a legitimate power. The article builds on concepts of government, governmentality, and rhizomatic social theory. Through the experiences and perceptions of refugees, the article draws comparisons between LCs and the SIG to analyze how oppositional bodies may shape the progression of ongoing protracted conflicts.
Keywords: Civil Wars, Local councils, Syrian Interim Government, Refugees, Government, Governmentalit
Poem: Negative Capability
No full textAlluding to the thought of Julian of Norwich, this poem reflects on the significance of theopoetics as a form of engaging in social change, weaving in biblical, historical, and contemporary interdisciplinary insights
Editorial: When Theological Landscapes Shift: Reimagining Church and Society
Full text linkThis issue of Theology in Scotland begins with an article based on the 2024 D. W. D. Shaw Memorial Lecture delivered by Prof David Fergusson, examining the historical partnership between the church and universities in Scotland.The remainder of the issue reflects on the swiftly changing religious and cultural landscape of contemporary Scotland: ● How do we make sense of the dwindling number of people professing a Christian commitment in contemporary Scotland? ● How do structures enable or stifle creative organic developments?● What future shapes of the church can we discern from both our engagement with Scripture and recent experiments in church practice
“Philosophies of Liturgy: Explorations of Embodied Religious Practice” edited by J. Aaron Simmons, Bruce Ellis Benson and Neal DeRoo
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J. Aaron Simmons, Bruce Ellis Benson and Neal DeRoo, eds., Philosophies of Liturgy: Explorations of Embodied Religious Practice (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. xvi + 309, ISBN 978-1350349308. £39.9
What’s the ‘Puzzle about Belief’ ? Revisiting Kripke’s Challenge through a Fregean Lens
Full text linkIn “A Puzzle About Belief” (1979), Saul Kripke posits a thought experiment involvinga bilingual named Pierre, who comes to what seem like contradictory beliefs aboutthe city of London. On a popular reading, the upshot of how Kripke sets up Pierre’sproblem is that the challenges of ascribing propositional attitudes such as belief toanother person are more complex than suggested in previous philosophical analyses,particularly Gottlob Frege’s “Sense and Reference” (1948). In particular, Kripke aimsto show that a genuine paradox about belief ascription can arise without the needto presuppose that a thinker with different beliefs about the same object relates tothat object through different cognitive perspectives (i.e., what Frege called modes ofpresentation). In this essay, I take issue with how Kripke draws his conclusion thatPierre’s problem must go beyond Frege’s notions of sense and reference. I argue thatapplication of Fregean notions of sense indeed ‘solves’ Kripke’s puzzle about Pierreand that Kripke’s pre-emptive reply to such an objection does not suffice, castingdoubt only on how the Pierre paradox gets off the ground. In sum, I argue that acharitable understanding of Frege’s ideas and a closer interrogation of Kripke’s set-upreveals that Pierre’s ‘puzzle’ is not necessarily a puzzle
Mechanisms of Domination: State Violence, Threat of Greater Violence, and Local Intermediaries in Pre-2011 Syria
Full text linkI argue in this paper that prior to 2011, the Syrian regime relied on a well-established conflict management mechanism that encompassed limited levels of violence, the looming threat of more substantial violence with the invocation of its violent history, and the utilization of locally rooted intermediaries to mitigate social and political conflicts. At its core, this approach was not about reconciliation or justice; rather, it traded minimal state violence for reaccepting regime’s domination. Nevertheless, it was rather effective up until 2011. This study is a qualitative research based on four cases studies, including the Qamishli and Suwayda uprisings in 2004 and 2000, respectively. The paper adopts authoritarian conflict management (ACM) put forth by David Lewis et al. (2018) as the main conceptual framework. The paper attempts to contribute to Syria and conflict studies through new empirical material and a novel analytical perspective.
Keywords: Syria, Domination, Violence, Intermediarie
