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Towards a Christian Philosophy
No full textAuthor did not sign the LAC Non-Exclusive License form.The relationship between philosophy and Christianity has, of course, a long history, as do the discussions of that relationship. My own position is not dissimilar to that of many of the early Church Fathers, though of course that position must be elaborated differently for various historical and personal reasons, and hopefully enriched by attention to the history of Western philosophy. As with all such relations, one's understanding of this relation has a lot to do with one's understanding of the terms involved. To promote the possibility of "Christian philosophy" is also to comment on that "and" which might be understood to relate two otherwise distinct and irreconcilable terms. In the end I claim this "and" must be understood as that "love" which defines philosophy as the "love of wisdom" (and finally, the wisdom of love), and does so in terms which (almost) merge-with the surprising assistance of such thinkers as Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Paul Ricoeur-with those of the Church Fathers cited. On the one hand, I intend nothing but the historical, orthodox, and catholic understanding of Christianity, especially with regard to the central figure of Jesus the Christ, the Trinitarian God whom He embodies, represents, and reveals, and the Scriptures given as The Bible. On the other hand, I present the specifically philosophical pertinence of this unique Person as such emerges from the texts of the "philosophers" considered, and in a manner which I claim does not force the issue by reading into their texts what is not there. Attending to a (Christian) philosophical reflection on (Christian) philosophy also offers elaborations of inherited doctrines, both Christian and philosophical, including a way to read and think unique to the outcome. Such is the adventure of this current work
The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century
No full textThe thesis discusses the role of the Christian Right in the US foreign policy decision making process. The research revealed that the Christian Right has long been fascinated with some international issues in general and US foreign policy in particular. The Christian Right’s interest in international issues increased markedly during years of the George W. Bush presidency. It successfully widened its activities from domestic social conservative issues to foreign policy issues by participating in, articulating and lobbying for its religious version of American foreign policy. In assessing the role of the Christian Right in US foreign policy making, this dissertation examines three aspects of US foreign policy, namely Israel, international religious freedom and global humanitarianism. Based on these aspects, the Christian Right is seen as skilled in framing and defining issues. The Christian Right seems effective in selecting and prioritizing international issues that have a reasonable chance of being selected by foreign policy decision makers, especially in Congress. Moreover, the Christian Right has shown its maturity in seeking engagement and cooperation with other organizations, secular and religious, in order to advance its international goals. Finally, in pursuing and conveying its international agenda, the Christian Right has adopted a more moderate and less overtly religious approach. Instead of using its traditional religious rhetoric, the Christian Right has successfully projected its foreign policy preferences into the conventional realist discourse of American foreign policy that is largely based on the objective of national interest and national security. Nevertheless, this study does not, in any way, conclude that the Christian Right was able to influence or determine the direction of US foreign policy and its outcomes; however, it does suggest that the Christian Right did contribute and have an impact on the formulation of some US foreign policy. As such, the research contends that the role of the Christian Right is similar to other interest group lobbies and that its perceived influence on US foreign policy should not be exaggerated. Finally, the research suggests that the emergence of the Christian Right as an actor in asserting its global agenda through US foreign policy can possibly provide an example of how religious beliefs and values can become a potential source of “soft power”. Together with the “climate of opinion” of the American public during the Bush administration, the “soft power” at domestic level could serve as a valuable new explanatory variable in understanding how the US foreign policy was formulated in the early 21st century
Sabbath, Psalms and Eucharist: Christopher Southgate considers Christian perspectives on the climate emergency
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Green Christian via the URL in this record In this brief article I want to explore what resources Christian thought might offer the
climate emergency, and those challenged by the slowness with which the generation
with the power (my own) are addressing the huge challenges that are ever more
evidently unfolding on our planet
Dare We Call it a Christian Business Division?
No full textThe author in this article explores the question: What, if anything, distinguishes a Christian business program from a secular program? The author answers the question by suggesting some areas he believes should be distinctive. His purpose is to open up a dialogue that has not occurred at the program level, not to claim all that could be said about this topic. Most discussion has focused on the macro picture of Christian colleges or the micro picture of how one’s faith might impact how one teaches a certain discipline. The article looks at themes or emphases in business programs that aspire to describe themselves as Christian
"In the Embrace of Absolute Life": A Reading of Christology and Selfhood in Michel Henry's "Christian Trilogy"
No full textMichel Henry (1922-2002) was a leading 20th century French philosopher in the school of phenomenology. The final three books of his career focus on explicitly Christian themes and texts, and these books are now known as his “Christian trilogy”. This essay focuses on this trilogy in an exposition of Henry’s Christology, his concept of the Self, and how Christology and selfhood relate to each other. The exposition of Henry’s thought on this issue is stated in the following thesis, broken into three sections: 1) God always reveals himself as Christ 2) who reveals the Truth of the Self, 3) this revelation being identical with salvation. Said again, 1) God’s Revelation is always God’s self-revelation in Christ, and is never separate from 2) the human condition of the Self as a Son of God, and this condition is never separate from 3) salvation. Revelation, selfhood, and salvation. This essay is largely expository but several constructive attempts are made to apply Henry’s philosophy of Christianity to key theological themes, namely atonement, pneumatology, and ecclesiology.Acknowledgements -- Abstract -- Introduction: Christology and Selfhood After Individualism -- Henry's Concept of Revelation -- Henry's Approach to Self-Knowledge in Christ -- Henry's Path(s) of Salvation -- Conclusion: Henry, Christian Theology, and Spirituality -- Works Cite
The Christian movement in Japan.
No full text"Missionary directory--1907": p. [343]-398.Title-page in Japanese at end.1913-1914: "Including Korea and Formosa."Mode of access: Internet.Imprint varies: 1906-1910, The Standing Committee of Cooperating Christian Missions (Japan); 1911-1914, The Conference of Federated Missions
Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 6, no. 4
No full textA publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: Tributes to Andrew Walls and Benedict Ssettuuma (Uganda); Samuel T. O. Akande (Nigeria).
This issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography honors the memory of "Prof." Andrew Finlay Walls and Fr. Benedict Ssettuuma, Jr. It also celebrates the contribution of Dr. Michael Adeleke Ogunewu to the work of the DACB both as an author and a mentor-teacher. One of his biographies, that of Samuel T. O. Akande, is included. The issue also includes a serialized chapter from African Christian Biography by Roger Levine and a new section, "Teaching with the DACB," featuring the reflections of a North American student on what the DACB has taught her
Le support sonore comme instrument de musique chez Christian Marclay
No full textÉTAT DE L’ART (PRATIQUE MUSICALE)
Christian Marclay est un plasticien, performeur, improvisateur et compositeur né aux États-Unis en
1955. Son oeuvre se situe à la frontière de la performance et des arts plastiques. Il s’est particulièrement intéressé aux relations entre les sons et les images (Marclay, 2000). Depuis la fin des années soixante-dix, une grande partie de son travail explore le détournement des platines et des disques vinyles, qu’il transforme en instruments d’expression musicale. Sa démarche, très différente des pratiques populaires, l’a
conduit à s’investir dans l’improvisation collective avec des instrumentistes d’origines diverses. Sa reconnaissance et son influence internationales n’ont cessé de se développer depuis de nombreuses années.
ÉTAT DE L’ART (MUSICOLOGIE)
La plupart des nombreux ouvrages généraux ou catalogues mentionnant ou se concentrant sur le travail artistique de Christian Marclay ont été écrits par des spécialistes des arts plastiques (Criqui, 2007 ; Ferguson, 2003 ; Gonzáles et al., 2005). L’artiste lui-même a collaboré à des textes parus dans divers ouvrages ou revues (Marclay, 2000). Cependant, l’engagement de l’artiste dans la sphère musicale a suscité, ces dernières années, l’intérêt des musicologues. Jean-Yves Bosseur a publié un important article sur Marclay dans son dernier livre (Bosseur, 2008). Enfin, un ouvrage important sur l’artiste est sur le point de paraître, faisant suite à la journée d’étude Phonophilia : l’art à l’épreuve des sons qui s’est tenue à l’Université Rennes 2 en 2008. Cette publication comprendra un article consacré à la diversité des pratiques musicales de Marclay (Bossis, Dufeu, 2009). Cependant, aucune étude ne s’est précisément attachée à
l’instrumentalisation du support sonore chez Marclay.
OBJECTIFS
Le but de notre proposition est l’examen de la pratique instrumentale de Christian Marclay, centrée sur les relations entre disque, platine, son enregistré et production musicale. L’étude des utilisations remarquables des supports de son et particulièrement des disques vinyles comme instruments à part entière peut s’appuyer sur l’analyse de l’enregistrement des performances de l’artiste. Elle mettra en évidence l’originalité des détournements de ces objets, des gestes instrumentaux qui leur sont associés et de
l’esthétique qui en résulte. Le travail sur le timbre, la préparation de l’objet lui-même et les techniques instrumentales de Marclay sont très éloignés des utilisations habituellement opérées par les DJs. Cet article montrera comment l’artiste a développé une pratique musicale très personnelle, fortement influencée par Fluxus et les oeuvres de Nam June Paik ou de John Cage. La performance artistique se nourrit d’une
instrumentalité renouvelée au travers d’une large expérience de l’improvisation.
CONTRIBUTION PRINCIPALE
Le contributeur central de cette recherche est sans conteste Christian Marclay lui-même, dont le regard permet de témoigner directement de ses intentions artistiques. Les musicologues associés à l’artiste pour cet article appartiennent aux laboratoires MIAC (Musique et Image : Analyse et Création) de l’Université Rennes 2 et MINT (Musique, Informatique et Nouvelles Technologies) de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne. Le premier centre de recherche interroge les relations entre arts visuels et pratiques musicales au sein de la
création contemporaine ; le second étudie l’intervention des technologies dans la musique, notamment l’histoire de la lutherie électronique et ses conséquences esthétiques.
RETOMBÉES
Dans cette recherche, production artistique, performance et musicologie sont étroitement liées. Ce travail à la croisée de différents domaines permet non seulement d’éclairer une instrumentalité encore trop peu étudiée en profondeur, celle qui agit à même le son enregistré par l’intermédiaire d’interfaces gestuelles détournées, mais aussi de poser la question de la méthodologie à adopter lorsque l’interdisciplinarité est mise en jeu. Tout en complétant des réflexions théoriques sur l’improvisation (Levaillant, 1996 ; Rivest,
2003 ; Siron, 2007), cet article pourra ainsi montrer l’avancée des recherches en musicologie sur l’art de la performance à partir des productions, du vécu et de la pensée de l’un des grands plasticiens-performeurs de notre temps.
Christian Marclay is an artist and musician whose work explores the intersection between visual art and sound. He is well known for his work in a wide range of media, including sculpture, video, collage, photography, and music. For almost 30 years, Marclay has been engaged in an exploration of the visual and the audible, and creates
work in which these two distinct sensibilities enrich and challenge each other. Marclay has pioneered an experimental use of records and turntables in performances since the late 1970s, while engaged in collective improvisation with many instrumentalists from very diverse backgrounds.
Most of the writing on Marclay is by visual arts historians (Criqui, 2007; Ferguson 2003, Gonzáles et al., 2005).
The artist’s own writing is rare and mostly published in the form of interviews published in various journals or books (Marclay, 2000, 2003). Lately the interest of musicologists for Marclay has been growing (Bosseur, 2008 ; Bossis, Dufeu, 2009). However, until now, no study has specifically focused on Marclay’s sound production. The aim of our proposal is to focus on Christian Marclay’s instrumental practice, especially his relationship to vinyl records, turntable manipulations, and recording. This study will highlight the originality of Marclay’s
misappropriation of the recording medium, the instrumental gestures associated with it, and the aesthetic results. This study will show how the artist has developed a very personal music, strongly influenced by Fluxus and Cage, if less so by pop deejays, and how influential his practice has been.
At the center of this study will undoubtedly be Christian Marclay himself, who will describe his artistic practice, while assisted by musicologists from MIAC (Music and Image: Analysis and Creation) from Rennes, and MINT
(Music, Computer Science and New Technologies) from Paris-Sorbonne, two laboratories of musicology researches. In this study, artistic production, performance and music are closely linked, highlighting a new sort of instrumentality and questioning the methodology of this approach
Transforming hearts and minds: the contribution of Christian values to the curriculum
No full textIn this article the author explores how Christian education can make a 'value-added' contribution to the curriculum. The author considers the day-to-day work of the classroom teacher by asking the questions: how can classroom teaching contribute to ensuring that schools and society does not produce 'clever devils' - such as those produced in the Holocaust? For a Christian school, how can reflection on Christian values be systematically promoted through classroom teaching? How can schools capitalise on the potential offered by 'values moments' - those time when questions of value and meaning force themselves through the academic content of the lesson to become the focal point of the pupils' attention? In order to illustrate how to develop an effective Christian value-added curriculum, the author discusses the Charis Project, which was set up in the wake of legislation in the UK that required schools to promote the spiritual and moral development of their pupils through the curriculum. He then suggests five practical actions for implementing a values-added approach to the curriculum in the Anglican school: (1) develop and capitalise on informal values moments; (2) be strategic in the values that are promoted; (3) plan the curriculum as a biblical 'fifth act' enterprise, which means being aware of the bigger story that the subject is promoting; (4) design teaching methods that promote reflection and response; (5) develop specific topics with a strong values base
The Wake of 2020: Heroes, Saviors & Problems with Power with Kristin Kobes Du Mez
No full textHow can Christians learn to acknowledge abuses of power? Kristin Kobes Du Mez joins Andrew and ICS Junior Member cohost Abbi Hofstede for the next installment in our series on some of the challenges facing philosophy and Christian faith in the wake of 2020. Kristin is the author of the provocative book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Liveright, 2020). In this episode, she reflects on her experience writing the book, traces the thread of militant masculinity and racism in evangelicalism's recent history; and invites alternative visions of Christian culture, politics, and power
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