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The Torrance dogmatics lectures
Get PDFThe recent publication of Torrance’s dogmatics lectures, given to students at New College in the University of Edinburgh from 1952 to 1978, have provided us with a way into his theology that is both accessible and profound. This paper outlines the nature, aim and character of the lectures and picks out some of the main themes from them in order to give a wider overview of some of their most fundamental and distinctive concepts
The legacy of Professor Thomas F. Torrance
Get PDFAs a former student of T. F. Torrance, John Miller is able to give a personal insight into the profoundly rich theological legacy left by Torrance to those who studied under him. While the day-to-day realities of ministry in a deprived urban parish in Glasgow meant that Dr Miller found it necessary to supplement what he had learned in Torrance\u27s Dogmatics class with a new theological language informed by Liberation Theology, his paper considers various ways in which the rich grounding he had been provided with nevertheless remained at the core of his theological thinking
Syria’s Contrasting Neighbourhoods: Gentrification and Informal Settlements Juxtaposed
Get PDFSyria\u27s neoliberal public policies have encouraged stark inequalities between the privileged centers and deprived peripheries of its cities. The authors of Syria\u27s Contrasting Neighbourhoods compare and contrast the settlements around Syria\u27s largest city, Aleppo, with the newly developed chic neighborhoods in the old city of Damascus
Syria During the Cold War: The East European Connection
No full textAlong with its close ties with the Soviet Union, Syria maintained important relations with several smaller Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War. The authors of Syria During the Cold War draw on local archival material to illuminate the motivations, developments, and difficulties of the relationships between the regime in Damascus and the governments of Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia in this formative era
WESTERMARCK, MORAL BEHAVIOUR AND ETHICAL RELATIVITY
Get PDFEdward Westermarck is known but scantily in the modern anthropological consciousness. His name appears, if it does at all, usually in a passing comment or perhaps a footnote, often rather disparagingly. This, I would argue is quite wrong, all the more so as he fits in precisely with the topic of our conference. He is, I would say, an unheralded bridge between the Scottish Enlightenment and modern anthropology, a person whose work far from being played out, deserves to be at the absolute centre of our understanding of the development of our discipline. Who then, was this Westermarck
Development of Social Structures within a changing Museum Frame
Get PDFThis paper looks at how social and epistemological structures have developed within museums. It focuses on the definitions of Michel Foucault´s discourses and Niklas Luhmann’s definitions of social systems and seeks to identify how the work of these to theorists can shape new structures under which museums themselves can form new social frames of future development. As museums experience greater responsibilities and the curator\u27s role especially is under significant change, the historical, cultural and epistemological development of museums are under debate too. This calls for new ways of understanding social structures and systems within changing frames of museum theory and practice. As the works of Foucault and Luhmann have rarely been put together they can form new ways of looking at the development and shape of already existing structures within museums. Interestingly, their works suggest that museums themselves, as social systems, have the best opportunities to define future development structures of social inclusion and definition
