Hasil untuk "Moral theology"

Nansook Park, C. Peterson

A. Vucinich

"Darwin in Russian Thought" represents the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Darwin's influence on Russian thought from the early 1860s to the 'October Revolution'. While concentrating on the role of Darwin's theory in the development of Russian science and philosophy, Vucinich also explores the dominant ideological and sociological interpretations of evolutionary thought, providing a deft analysis of the views held by the leaders of Russian nihilism, populism, anarchism, and marxism. Darwin's thinking profoundly influenced intellectual discourse in Russia: it effected the emergence of 'theoretical theology', a modern effort to provide theological responses to the revolutionary changes in the natural sciences, contributed to the evolution of a modern scientific community, and spurred the rapidly growing concern with the epistemological and ethical foundations of science in general. Scholarly battles were waged among the critics of Darwin - Karl von Baer, Nikolai Iakovlevich Danilevskii and Sergei Ivanovich Korzhinskii, and others - and the defenders of the faith. Vucinich is able to delineate the distinctive national characteristics of Russian Darwinism: the strong influence of Lamarckian thought, the delayed recognition of the contributions of genetics, the near-universal rejection of Social Darwinism, the early anticipation of the triumph of 'evolutionary synthesis', and the heavy concentration on the social and moral aspects of evolutionary thought. Vividly argued and rich in detail, "Darwin in Russian Thought" provides a unique glimpse into the Russian psyche.

Thomas Ryan

Review of Eric Patterson and J. Daryl Charles, eds., _Just War and Christian Traditions_

Sławomir Ropiak

Esra Eraydin, Gamze Özbayrak, Ömer Miraç Yaman

Bu çalışma, cin çarpması, nazar değmesi ve okuma konularında uzmanlaşmış şifacıların ruh sağlığı uzmanlarına yönelik bakış açılarını ve ruh sağlığı uzmanlarıyla iş birliği yapıp yapmadıklarını incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Nitel araştırma yöntemi kullanılarak derinlemesine mülakat ve gözlem teknikleriyle 20 şifacıdan veri toplanmıştır. Elde edilen veriler Maxqda 2022 Nitel Veri Analiz Programı’nda betimsel analiz yöntemiyle analiz edilmiştir. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre, katılımcıların ruhsal ve manevi temelli sorunlar için gelen bireyler ile ilgilendikleri, uyguladıkları manevi tedavi yöntemlerinin etkilerinin ne olduğu, başvuran kişileri geri takip süreçlerinin nasıl ilerlediği belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca katılımcıların genellikle ruh sağlığı uzmanlarına olumlu bir tutum içinde oldukları ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda elde edilen veriler doğrultusunda, ruh sağlığı çalışmalarına manevi uygulamaların dahil edilebileceği düşünülmektedir. Ayrıca, araştırma manevi destek hizmetlerinin tarihsel olarak uzun bir geçmişe sahip olduğunu, günümüzde Batı'da "pastoral care" ve "pastoral counseling" ülkemizde ise manevi rehberlik adı altında gelişen bir alan olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Bu klinik-dini danışmanlık hareketinin ülkemizdeki çeşitli kesimleri kapsadığı göz önüne alındığında, alanın daha fazla gelişmeye ihtiyaç duyduğu ve daha fazla araştırmaya gereksinim olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır. Araştırmanın bulguları, manevi destek hizmetlerinin önemini vurgulayarak ruh sağlığı alanında yapılan çalışmalara katkıda bulunmaktadır.

Dolat Khan

There is an unending critical chasm regarding the roots of Lawrence’s strange theology of ‘dark gods. His fiction such as Women in Love reveals a pretentious and dull world of extended symbols. Most prominent symbols are associated with sexual contents where characters are acutely aware of each other’s sexuality. Therefore, it is evident that many readers are unable to grasp Lawrence’s world, apparently because of his literary sensibility of rich religious symbolism. Furthermore, Lawrence’s ideas and symbols can be seen in the critical tradition of psychoanalysis and in post-modern fashion. This paper argues that symbols in Lawrence’s fiction, particularly in his Woman in Love have a religious and mystical connotation. This aspect of Lawrence’s symbolism can be appreciated profitably with some parallel analysis of Rumi’s mystical poetry. The paper has taken most prominent themes of love, ecstasy and union and their symbolic delineation in Woman in Love, analyzing them with Rumi’s handling of the aforementioned themes. Lawrence’s religious vision is clear in his use of biblical symbols in his fiction, however, his world is not based on Biblical world alone, for he calls Bible the Jewish moral book and a stick to beat an immoral dog, however, he was very much fascinated by the symbols and fantasies in the Apocalypse. He says that symbols in the Apocalypse lead us to the Chaldean and to Persian. There is a deep connection between Lawrence`s appreciation of ancient eastern myths and his use of symbolism, as this paper has argued, reveals a connection between Lawrence`s symbolism and the ancient Persian religions and medieval Sufism of Rumi and others, which has influenced Lawrence’s imaginations. Keywords: love, mystical, symbolism

Marie-Élise Zovko

The hypothetical approach to the supersensible developed by Kant in his three Critiques, exemplified by his analysis of the aesthetic and reflective judgment in his third Critique, with their principle fortuitous purposiveness, can be considered as the basis for a new foundation of metaphysics. According to Kant’s limitation of cognition to the realm of sense intuition, theoretical knowledge of God, the subject, things-in-themselves, transcendental ideas is impossible. This leads to a kind of “negative theology” of the highest principle and the supersensible as a whole. The reasons are rooted in the character of propositional thought, which can only circumscribe a singular, supersensible reality by means of predicative sentences and discursive thought. Taking Kant’s lead, but in contrast to his terminology, I call really existent singularities, including the thinking, knowing, desiring, feeling unique individuals we know as human beings, spontaneities, in order to distinguish them from descriptive characteristics attributed to them by predicative thought. Kant’s “practico-dogmatic” account of the postulates of God and immortality of the soul, based on the “fact of freedom” and its connection to the moral imperative, ensure the possibility of the “highest good” as final aim of moral behaviour — but cannot satisfy our need for knowledge of the supersensible. To “lay the groundwork” for experience of our own self-conscious reality, the reality of others like ourselves, of things which transcend the boundaries of sense intuition, and of true reciprocity, a different method is needed, one which leads us “beyond being and thought” to the unconditional beginning of conditional reality.

Michael Rozier

The author shows how resources that inform the Roman Catholic ethical tradition are valuable for global public health by helping to cultivate a sense of vocation among public health professionals, similar to the awareness of vocational commitments enjoyed in other healing professions. Moreover, Catholic social teaching–particularly the preferential option for the poor–promotes a more just distribution of global resources. Finally, dignity and solidarity foster capacity building in low-resource settings, promote changes within the Church, empower communities in the Global South, and facilitate living lives nourished by joy and purpose. Hence, a more intentional relationship between global public health and the Catholic Church would benefit both, and particularly the people they aim to serve.

David Cloutier, Robert Koerpel

Amoris Laetitia invites Catholic moral theology to go beyond a law-conscience binary. In this essay, we offer a historical narrative of the law-conscience binary, showing in particular how its preoccupation with authority (whether of the Church's interpretation of the law or of the individual conscience) distracts from the central question of the good. Development of teaching becomes a jurisdictional battle, rather than a reflection and refinement of pursuing the good in the particular case. Constructively, we elaborate the suggestion of Cardinal Christoph Schonborn that Pope Francis instead offers a principles-prudence framework, and via a comparison with development of teaching on usury (a development prior to the law-conscience binary), we offer a possibility for how this framework might explain Amoris Laetitia's "target case."

Karen Mason

Given the increasing numbers of U.S. lives lost to suicide, it is imperative to identify factors that can help protect against suicide. While regular religious service attendance has been found to be protective against suicide, faith communities have taboos against suicide which may be associated with stigma. Nine Christian faith leaders and congregants and one moral psychologist completed interviews on suicide stigma in Christian faith communities. Themes that emerged included internal, interpersonal, and theological components and group differences related to suicide stigma in Christian faith communities. Participants proposed seven barriers and seven corresponding ways to address suicide stigma in Christian faith communities: talk about suicide, address skill deficits, practice vulnerability, get leadership on board, address the theology of suicide, appreciate that faith communities have a unique contribution to make to suicide prevention, and address cultural/systemic issues.

Irving Hexham

Originally published as Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico. Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critic. Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2002. German edition, Nietzsche, der aristokratische Rebell. Berlin, Argument Verlag, 2009. https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.85.1.2492

Anna Zellma

Postęp technologiczny sprawia, że Internet staje się narzędziem, które służy realizacji różnych celów badawczych prowadzonych nie tylko w obszarze nauk humanistycznych i społecznych, ale także teologicznych. W związku z powyższym, zasadniczym celem niniejszego opracowania było ukazanie badań internetowych jako nowego sposobu pozyskiwania danych empirycznych, który obok tradycyjnych metod badawczych, zasługuje na uwagę polskich katechetyków. Jako punkt wyjścia w badaniach internetowych należy przyjąć paradygmat analizy pastoralnoteologicznej wypracowanej w środowisku Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II. Tego rodzaju paradygmat postępowania badawczego gwarantuje zarówno skuteczność, jak i rzetelność w realizacji postawionych celów badawczych. Pozwala poprawnie zbadać i ocenić aktualny stan rzeczy w interesującym badacza obszarze oraz wyprowadzić wnioski znaczące dla  praktyki katechetycznej, związanej z jej doskonaleniem. Wymaga zastosowania narzędzi badawczych typowych dla badań ilościowych i jakościowych prowadzonych w naukach społecznych. Najczęściej są to kwestionariusze ankiety rozsyłane w formie e-mailowej lub udostępniane na stronie WWW. Za istotne uznaje się również analizy blogów, czatów i forów dyskusyjnych. Zawsze towarzyszyć temu powinna rzetelność badawcza.

Morne Diedericks

The one-sided focus of Christian higher education in South Africa on the field of theology and the lack of integrating faith and learning in other subjects emphasizes the need for a Christian university in South Africa. The question addressed in this article is whether a Christian university can also be for-profit, considering the fact that all Christian private higher education institutions in South Africa are non-profit. There are numerous criticisms against for-profit higher education institutions. The greatest of these are that for-profit private higher education institutions miss the purpose of what it means to be a university and that profitable higher education institutions exploit students. The church also has numerous criticisms of the profit motive, but from the Bible it is clear that there are two lines of thought regarding profit. The one is that profit is dangerous and that it easily becomes an idol; the other is that people are called to be profitable. This article concludes that there is room for a for-profit Christian higher education institution in South Africa. This for-profit Christian higher education institution should be imagined in terms of its understanding of profit regarding its mission, students, faculty and governance.   https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.84.1.2449

Tyler S. Greenway, Sarah A. Schnitker, A. Shepherd

Nancy J. Ramsay

Paul A. Djupe, Amanda Friesen

Patrick Todd

Angela Roothaan, P. Nullens, Steven C. van den Heuvel

Thomas Ahnert

Thomas Ahnert’s The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment is an unusual work. Little more than an extended essay, its brevity and lucidity belie the complexity and force of its central thesis. Whilst there is no doubt that the book represents an important historiographical intervention, it is rather harder to explain why or where it does so. As a contribution to our understanding of the moderate and predominantly clerical Enlightenment in Scotland – its ostensible purpose – it advances few claims which current scholars in the field would find particularly startling. It is, instead, as a contribution to the historiography of 17thand 18thcentury Protestant European intellectual culture more broadly that the real ambition and importance of Moral Culture come into focus. The Scottish Enlightenment is, in this regard, offered as a case-study, and made to serve a considerably larger objective: to illustrate ‘the continuing importance of theological languages in Enlightenment thought’, without which ‘the wider intellectual history of the eighteenth century’ cannot be understood adequately (p. 3).

J. Ramstein, Joshua A. Halpern, A. Gadzinski et al.