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Review: Markus Friedrich’s The Jesuits: A History, translated by John Noel Dillon
No full textReview: Markus Friedrich’s The Jesuits: A History, translated by John Noel Dillo
Antiquity as authority: Jesus and the patriarchs in the Gospel of John
No full textTwice in John’s Gospel, Jesus is asked whether he is greater than the patriarchs Jacob and Abraham (μὴ σὺ μείζων εἶ …; John 4:12; 8:53). In each instance, the challenge directed to Jesus is contextually linked with his authority to offer eternal life (John 4:10, 13-14; 8:51-52). This study uses historical-critical exegesis to assess the Johannine author’s use of synkrisis to portray the authority of Jesus as greater than the authority of the patriarchs Jacob and Abraham. It is argued that the Johannine author adapts ancient aspects of authority, expressed through the re-articulation and transformation of patriarchal history, both in defence of Jesus and to determine the principal characteristics of Christ-followers and the boundaries of their communities.
An assessment of the pervasiveness of two rhetorical arguments (the argument from antiquity alongside the argument from divine revelation) and three Hellenistic topoi (laudable ancestry/origins, great deeds, and communication with the divine realm) in Greco-Roman, late Second Temple and early Christian literature establishes the study’s conceptual foundation. A further evaluation of the authority of Jacob and Abraham in late Second Temple and post-Temple Jewish literature as well as early Christian literature determines the study’s contextual parameters.
The Gospel’s depiction of Jesus as the pre-existent divine λόγος undergirds his depiction as one possessing authority superior to that of the patriarchs. The Gospel’s prologue and the testimony of John deliberately correlate the pre-existent divine identity of Jesus with his authority to grant eternal life. Three subsequent narratorial comparisons of Jesus with the patriarchs (John 1:1-51; 4:4-42; 8:31-59) establish his authority as one whose pre-existent divine origin surpasses the ancestral antiquity of Israel’s and Samaria’s ancestors, whose great deed of spiritual progeneration (John 1:12) surpasses the patriarchs’ progeneration of Israel, and whose revelation of God (John 1:18) surpasses their mediatorial roles
Quantitative modelling of the human–Earth System a new kind of science?
No full textThe five grand challenges set out for Earth System Science by the International Council for Science in 2010 require a true fusion of social science, economics and natural science—a fusion that has not yet been achieved. In this paper we propose that constructing quantitative models of the dynamics of the human–Earth system can serve as a catalyst for this fusion. We confront well-known objections to modelling societal dynamics by drawing lessons from the development of natural science over the last four centuries and applying them to social and economic science. First, we pose three questions that require real integration of the three fields of science. They concern the coupling of physical planetary boundaries via social processes; the extension of the concept of planetary boundaries to the human–Earth System; and the possibly self-defeating nature of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. Second, we ask whether there are regularities or ‘attractors’ in the human–Earth System analogous to those that prompted the search for laws of nature. We nominate some candidates and discuss why we should observe them given that human actors with foresight and intentionality play a fundamental role in the human–Earth System. We conclude that, at sufficiently large time and space scales, social processes are predictable in some sense. Third, we canvass some essential mathematical techniques that this research fusion must incorporate, and we ask what kind of data would be needed to validate or falsify our models. Finally, we briefly review the state of the art in quantitative modelling of the human–Earth System today and highlight a gap between so-called integrated assessment models applied at regional and global scale, which could be filled by a new scale of model
The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
Full text linkContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
Supplemental material for Facial Identification at a Virtual Reality Airport
No full textSupplemental Material for Facial Identification at a Virtual Reality Airport by Hannah M. Tummon, John Allen and Markus Bindemann in i-Perception</p
Evidence based leadership
No full textAuthor Markus PodduikinMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 2024Arbeit gesperr
Wolfgang U. Dressler–Oskar E. Pfeiffer–Markus Pöchträger–John R. Rennison (eds): Morphological analysis in comparison. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Vol. 201
No full textWolfgang U. Dressler - Oskar E. Pfeiffer - Markus Pöchträger - John R. Rennison(eds): Morphological analysis in comparison. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Vol.201.John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2000, 253 pp. ;
Stephen C. Levinson : Presumptive meanings. The theory of generalized conversational implicature. The MIT Press, Cambridge MA&London, 2000, 480 pp. ;
István Kenesei(ed.): Crossing boundaries. Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 1999, 301 pp
Improving the search for monitoring tools using recommender technology
No full textAuthor Markus Eisl BSc.Masterarbeit Universität Linz 2023Arbeit gesperr
Improving the search for monitoring tools using recommender technology
No full textAuthor Markus Eisl BSc.Masterarbeit Universität Linz 2023Arbeit gesperr
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