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Wilson, Victoria: A Life (Hutchinson, 2014)
No full textReview of A.N. Wilson, Victoria: A Life (London: Hutchinson, 2014)
Wilson, Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy (Atlantic Books, 2019)
No full textReview of A.N. Wilson, Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy (London: Atlantic Books, 2019)
Divine revelation and the infallible church: Newman, Vatican II and Arcic
No full textThe intention of this thesis is twofold: firstly, to define precisely the degree to which John Henry Newman anticipated the teaching of Vatican II on the nature and transmission of Revelation and on the Church’s theological understanding of herself; and secondly, to assess the significance of this for contemporary ecumenical discussions between Roman Catholics and Anglicans on authority in the Church. The first section of this thesis, then, is an exploration of Newman’s thought on Revelation and ecclesiology. This includes an analysis of some unpublished and hitherto unconsidered material from the Birmingham Oratory Archives, which reveals that Newman had formulated an organic theory of development by 1840; three years before this is generally reckoned to have been the case. This discussion is set within the historical context of Newman's life, and the relevant scholarly material is also surveyed. The second section compares Newman's views, as set out above, with the teaching of the Second Vatican Council in the appropriate sections of its two Dogmatic Constitutions, Dei Verbum (on Revelation) and Lumen Gentium (on the Church).The third section begins with a discussion of the principles upon which Roman Catholics conduct ecumenical dialogue. These are found primarily in the Vatican II document Unitatis Redintegratio, but also in the new Ecumenical Directory; scholarly opinion is also reviewed. There then follows an analysis of the two ARCIC documents on 'Authority in the Church', and the major criticisms of them are considered in detail. Many of these are irreconcilable not only with the documents, but also with one another. It is therefore suggested in the conclusion, that a possible way to overcome some of these divisions is through a discussion of theological method. A brief outline of a potentially helpful method, the seeds of which were sown by Newman, is then provided
Transient Deep Ocean Cooling in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean at the Eocene‐Oligocene Transition
No full textAt the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT), approximately 34 million years ago, Earth abruptly transitioned to a climate state sufficiently cool for Antarctica to sustain large ice sheets for the first time in tens to hundreds of millions of years. Oxygen isotope records from deep-sea benthic foraminifera (δ18Ob) provide the foundation of our understanding of this pivot point in Cenozoic climate history. A deeper insight, however, is hindered by the paucity of independent deep-sea temperature reconstructions and the ongoing challenge of deconvolving the temperature and continental ice volume signals embedded in δ18Ob records. Here we present records of deep-sea temperature change from the eastern equatorial Pacific for the EOT using clumped isotope thermometry, which permits explicit temperature reconstructions independent of seawater chemistry and continental ice volume. Our records suggest that the deep Pacific Ocean cooled markedly at the EOT by 4.7 ± 0.9°C. This decrease in temperature represents the first direct and robust evidence of deep-sea cooling associated with the inception of major Cenozoic glaciation. However, our data also indicate that this major cooling of the deep Pacific Ocean at the EOT was short-lived (∼200 kyrs), with temperatures rebounding to values close to pre-EOT levels by 33.6 Ma. Our calculated record of seawater δ18O suggests that this rebound in ocean temperature occurred despite the continued presence of a large-scale Antarctic ice sheet. This finding suggests a degree of decoupling between deep ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and the behavior of the newly established Antarctic ice sheet
Golden Horde History in the Works of A.N. Kurat
No full textThe article examines main works of the famous Turkish historian A.N. Kurat, his views and assessments of the Golden Horde history. It is known that A.N. Kurat introduced into scholarly circulation yarlyks-letters of the Golden Horde khans, which he found in the archives of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. A number of his works and articles are devoted to the Golden Horde and its rulers. The article discusses the works of A.N. Kurat that are dedicated to the Golden Horde, as well as his main ideas, sources of the author. The works of A.N. Kurat still have not lost their significance. His works on the Golden Horde topics are mainly devoted to the source study, his reconstruction of events is based on primary sources of the Golden Horde origin. Kurat also noted the special importance of his own sources. In his works, he explored the following three Golden Horde documents: Bitik of Ulugh Muhammad Murad II, letter of Mahmud Khan bin Muhammad Khan bin Timur Khan to Fatih Sultan Mehmed, and letter of Ahmad Khan ibn Muhammad ibn Timur Khan to Fatih Sultan Mehmed. Kurat studied yarlyks and bitiks at a high scholarly level of source studies. They still are the basis for the study of the Golden Horde documents. Thanks to the good knowledge of the Ottoman, Russian, European sources, and historiography A.N. Kurat analyzed in detail the political situation in the Golden Horde; especially valuable are his works on the 15th century. His works on the period of Ulug Muhammad are still among the most important works devoted to this outstanding personage of the late Golden Horde. In his works Kurat asked himself: why the Golden Horde disintegrated? In search of answers to this question he put to the first place the confrontation between Tokhtamysh Khan and Timur Aksak. His conclusions about relationship between the Golden Horde and the Ottoman Empire are confirmed by the latest works on this topic
Author Correction: New perspectives on Neanderthal dispersal and turnover from Stajnia Cave (Poland)
No full textThe Author contributions section now reads:“W.N., A.N. and S.T. designed research; A.P., M.H., W.N., S.B., M.U., A.M., H.F., M.D.B., P.S., K.S., M.Ż., A.W., A.N. and S.T. performed research; A.P., M.H., W.N., S.B., M.U., A.M., H.F., M.D.B., P.S., K.S., M.Ż., A.W., A.N. and S.T. analysed data; A.P., M.H., S.T., W.N. and S.B. wrote the paper with the collaboration of all the co-authors.
Esperienza ed evento della verità. Pratica filosofica e astrazione scientifica nel pensiero di A.N. Whitehead
No full textIl presente articolo analizza il rapporto tra filosofia, esperienza ed evento nel pensiero di A.N. Whitehead. L’autrice ripercorre e descrive, a partire dalla critica al concetto di oggetto, la peculiare dialettica di astratto e concreto al centro dalle indagini whiteheadiane sull’esperienza percettiva. Successivamente, viene mostrato come la pratica filosofica differisca da ogni genere di scienza, pur necessitandone in virtù della co-implicazione di oggetto ed evento, astrazione e riconoscimento.
Experience and event of truth. Philosophical practice and scientific abstraction in A.N. Whitehead's thought
This article analyzes the relationship between philosophy, experience and event in A.N. Whitehead’s thought. From the critic of the concept of object, the author retraces and describes the peculiar “abstract-concrete dialectic”, at the center of the researches concerning the perceptual experience.
Furthermore, according to Whitehead’s later works, she demonstrates how the philosophical practice is different from all other kinds of science, although it requires science itself because of the co-implication of object and event, abstraction and recognition
The Conceptosphere of A.N. Tolstoy’s Prose (Literary Aspect)
No full textThe article deals with A.N. Tolstoy’s conceptosphere, which has found a vivid artistic embodiment in his work. The research focuses on the literary understanding of the concept and determines its semantic scope. The author proceeds from the interpretation of the concept as a complex synthetic formation that combines an image and a concept, an ideologeme and a mythologeme. The article focuses on the universalism of the concept. The study of the conceptosphere helps to identify the characteristic signs of the writer’s world as an artistic system. The article gives the classification of the main concepts in the prose of A.N. Tolstoy. We are talking about such concepts as “childishness,” “objectivity of vision,” “everyday dimension,” “fabric of everyday life,” “physicality,” “thing,” “game,” “adventures” (“escapades”), “amazement” (“surprise”), “dynamics / statics,” “backwoods,” “city and civilization,” “time” (and its gradations), “turmoil,” “power,” “laughter,” and “happiness in love.” The combination of these interconnected and Tolstoy-like unique universals allows us to get closer to understanding the author’s code and reveal their connection with the fundamental life / death opposition. The article traces the formation of the Tolstoy conceptosphere and its movement from the direct discovery children’s primary principles of life to the complex multidimensional comprehension of the deep foundations of human existence in its space-time coordinates. The article provides an idea about the influence of A.N. Tolstoy’s conceptual sphere on the macro- and micropoetics of the writer’s prose and particular nuances of the narrative manner of the great word artist
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