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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
Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw Installation
No full textExpanded installation as interpretation of Deviant: The Possession of Christian shaw as part of the ALT-W Retrospective, group show held in The Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow
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
Perspective (Institute for Christian Studies)
No full textCalvin Seerveld and 13 students graduate from ICS [Convocation / Exaugral address: Philosophical Aesthetics at home with the Lord], From the President: The Sign of Immanuel, Retirement dinner honours Seerveld, Future directions probed in ICS discussions, Institute for Christian Studies. Annual Report 1994/95: Making a difference together, Thank you Ross Mortimer, Meiboom promoted to vice president, Alumni [Barbara van Koot & Steve Martin & Hubert Budding & Samson Makhado & Gary Shahinian & Steve Shaw
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
Vulnerability: An affliction of the powerless: A Nyoongar Story
No full textThis thesis analyses and investigates the issue of vulnerability among Australian Aboriginal people, as exemplified through the Nyoongar Shaw family and in particular myself. The Shaw family is from southwest Western Australia, more specifically the area belonging to the Yued nation. This thesis examines events in the lives of ancestors and descendants of the Nyoongar Shaw family. It specifically reconstructs the personal stories of our Aboriginal great-grandmother, Mary Ann Chuberan, our Aboriginal great-grandfather (in law), Frederick John Blurton, our Aboriginal grandfather George Shaw, Charles Fitzgerald (our Aboriginal grandfather in law), our Aboriginal aunties, Lilly, Jane and Margaret Shaw, and our Aboriginal mother, Ruby Shaw. By examining these lives, this thesis offers a way of understanding past Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships in a West Australian context. It does this by drawing on government records, personal interviews, and the telling of my story as a member of the ‘Stolen Generations’. Using the post-modern concept of auto-ethnography as a literary tool, it combines the genres of biography and autobiography. Through the telling of my story, I explicate my experience of being raised to be vulnerable, manifesting itself through inadequate emotional care in childhood, thereby setting me up for failure in dealing appropriately with relationships in adult life. This provides a personal account of the effects of removal. Through recording the stories of both ancestors and descendants, I demonstrate the vulnerability of Aboriginal people, the result of living under government legislation during the years 1920-1959. These stories will show how, over time, this legislation disempowered and dispossessed them, and are intended to facilitate further discussion on what the effects of vulnerability mean for the lives of Aboriginal people and the community more broadly
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
Enrique Shaw: christian humanism made life
No full textResumen: La vida de Enrique Ernesto Shaw (1921-1962) estuvo cruzada por los destinos
más significativos de la historia argentina y mundial del siglo XX. En este estudio se
intentará presentar la acción de Shaw como protagonista apasionado de un itinerario
personal y colectivo que se inscribe sin dudas dentro del destino de la Argentina, ya que
Enrique Shaw desde su entorno familiar y sus redes sociales (como parte de una élite
empresarial) estaba llamado a tener influencia en el devenir nacional. Y si bien la cuna no
marca el horizonte posible en la vida de un hombre, Shaw se supo responsable desde joven
de una vocación, de un “deber ser” del cual nunca renegó. Dividiremos esta presentación
en tres partes: en el apartado primero titulado El mundo y la Argentina transitados por
Enrique Shaw se explicarán aquellas situaciones del contexto mundial y argentino que
marcaron la vida y la gestión empresarial de Shaw, desde el golpe de Estado de 1930, la
irrupción del peronismo y los desafíos del desarrollismo. En el segundo apartado, La
historia empresarial surcada por la gestión de Enrique Shaw se ponderará – a la luz de
los estudios académicos sobre historia de empresas y de empresarios en Argentina – la
impronta de Shaw como entrepreneur, especialmente desde su puesto como
Administrador Delegado de Cristalerías Rigolleau. En un tercer momento se analizará el
devenir de la Iglesia Católica y el accionar de los católicos, marcado por la complejidad en
torno a definir “lo católico”, en un contexto donde se yuxtaponían la tradición
socialcristiana nacida de la encíclica papal Rerum Novarum, las disputas surgidas con la
identificación de la denominada “nación católica”, la desconfianza a ciertas posiciones
liberales y a la democracia de masas y los “los nuevos signos de los tiempos” en los albores
del Concilio Vaticano II.Abstract: The life of Enrique Ernesto Shaw (1921-1962) was crossed by the most
significant destinies in Argentine and world history of the 20th century. This study will
try to present Shaw's action as a passionate protagonist of a personal and collective
itinerary that is undoubtedly part of the destiny of Argentina, since Enrique Shaw from
his family environment and his social networks (as part of a business elite) was called to influence the national future. And although the cradle does not mark the possible horizon
in a man's life, Shaw knew he was responsible from a young age for a vocation, for a
“must be” which he never denied. We will divide this presentation into three parts: in the
first section entitled The world and Argentina traveled by Enrique Shaw, we will explain
those situations in the world and Argentine context that marked Shaw's life and business
management, since the coup d'état of 1930, the irruption of Peronism and the challenges
of developmentalism In the second section, The business history furrowed by the
management of Enrique Shaw will be pondered – in light of academic studies on the
history of companies and entrepreneurs in Argentina – Shaw's imprint as an
entrepreneur, especially from his position as Managing Director of Rigolleau
glassworks. In a third moment, the Catholic Church and the actions of Catholics will be
analyzed, marked by the complexity around defining "the Catholic", in a context where
the Social-Christian tradition born from the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum, the
disputes arising from the identification of the so-called "Catholic nation", the distrust of
certain liberal positions and mass democracy and the "new signs of the times" at the
dawn of the Vatican Council II
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
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