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‘Though the earth gives way’: An autoethnographic account of autistic grief
Full text linkThrough an autoethnographic account of my mother’s death, I reveal how grief and the desolation it brings the autistic person is vastly different to neurotypical models of grief (such as the Kübler-Ross model) determining when, where and how I was permitted to feel my emotions. Grief takes those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) a greater amount of time to work through, often resulting in periods of meltdown and shutdown (heightened anger and fear) as well as an unawareness of the emotion they are feeling. However, I will also show how parental death can also be transformative, providing a powerful reason to persevere
Kant on Space and Objectivity
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Gareth Evans attributes to Kant the following thesis: “space is a necessary condition for objective experience”. However, Kant does not seem to argue directly for this thesis anywhere in the Critique of Pure Reason. In this essay, limiting myself to the Transcendental Aesthetic and assuming that Evans’s attribution is correct, I attempt to reconstruct Kant’s implicit ar- gument for the thesis, finding it as a corollary of the main conclusion of the Transcendental Aesthetic, that space is a form of experience
Religious Patronage and Clientelism: Russia’s Soft Power and Networks of Influence in Syria
Full text linkIn parallel to its military aid to the Assad Regime since 2011, Russia’s ‘soft power’ tools and forms started with the inflow of humanitarian aid to the Syrian Government and Syria Arab Red Crescent. Additionally, Russian efforts have been integrated and mobilised through religious, diaspora, political, and civil society delegations, whose communications and outreach efforts developed with visits from the Russian Orthodox Church to Syria in 2011, including the humanitarian assistance and relief initiatives that were launched to support Orthodox, displaced Christian communities and affected populations in Syria. Then, in the wake of Russia’s 2015 intervention and Russian-led inflow of relief assistance, Moscow developed a networking strategy that integrates tools with aid, cultural, development, and religious dimensions. In coordination with the Hmeimim-based Russian Reconciliation Centre (RRC) in Syria, Russian Muslim communities, diaspora networks, Caucasian states (former-Soviet Islamic states), Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and Imperial Palestinian Orthodox Society, and other charities from the Russia federation have started to operate in Syria. This article explores and analyses their contribution to Russian soft power in Syria, and how the wider instrumentalization of humanitarian aid, diaspora networks, and religious diplomacy for military and long-term political goals have been escalated to promote the Russian position in Syria. The research also argues that Russia\u27s soft power in Syria is targeting micro-audiences and communities who are either favourable to Russia or disconnected and disenfranchised from liberal values
Assert What You Know: The Problem With Bald-Faced Lies
Full text linkIn “Bald-Faced Lies! Lying Without the Intent to Deceive,” Roy Sorensen argues that the existence of bald-faced lies, or lies that do not involve deceit, challenge conventional definitions of lying. As part of his argu- ment, he claims that bald-faced lies are not in themselves bad, as most ethical condemnations of lying target deceit and not the lie itself. In this paper, I chal- lenge this aspect of Sorensen’s claim by using Timothy Williamson’s distinction from “Knowing and Asserting” between conventional and constitutive rules. I argue that bald-faced lies are in themselves bad because they place too much emphasis on conventional rules of assertion at the expense of the constitutive rule of assertion: assert only what one knows. Ultimately, Sorensen is wrong to say that bald-faced lies are morally neutral, as bald-faced lies devalue the constitutive rule of assertion and therefore the practice of assertion itself, which plays a critical role in the sharing of knowledge
"T&T Clark Handbook of Sacraments and Sacramentality" edited by Martha Moore-Keish and James W. Farwell
No full textReview ofMartha Moore-Keish & James W. Farwell, eds., T&T Clark Handbook of Sacraments and Sacramentality (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 584, ISBN 978-0567687647. £150.0
Faith in Romans
Full text linkMost scholars agree that the congregation Paul addresses in his letter to the Romans was composed of a Gentile majority and a Jewish minority, pointing to the letters’ internal evidence and the Jews’ eviction from Rome in c. 49 CE. Scholars suggest that the Roman congregation was therefore predominantly Gentile. In Rom 16:17–19, Paul warns the Romans to be wary of false teachers. Campbell argues that Paul wrote Romans in response to these false teachers who Campbell connects to the false gospel teachers described in Galatians. Paul’s message in Romans is influenced by this other gospel, which appears connected to the question of the Jerusalem Council concerning Gentile circumcision. Paul’s use of faith in Romans, which encompasses the idea of faithfulness, is likewise shaped by the need to respond to and refute a gospel that insisted Gentiles needed to follow the Torah to be saved (e.g. Gal 2; Rom 3:21–23) and the wider conflict of whether Gentiles needed to ‘become’ Jewish in religious practice (Acts 15)
"Women in John’s Gospel" by Susan Miller
No full textReview ofSusan Miller, Women in John’s Gospel, LNTS 676 (London: T&T Clark, 2023), pp. ix + 179, ISBN 978-0567708229. £85.0
Poem: The Band & the Promise
Full text linkIn a fascinating commentary on his approach to making sense – of texts, of art, and of life itself – the author describes the process whereby this poem came into being: ‘In my classically Autistic sensory experience, I encounter texts (trends, places, people) as a collage of individual pieces, which are then assembled together, mutually transforming each other into the pre-constructed whole that Neurotypical people are commonly gifted to see straight-off.’ He asserts that for autistic people, ‘our gifted advantage is an innate ability to construct that world-of-the-text for ourselves; to go on our own journey of meaning just to arrive at a “basic” definition.