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The rhetoric of love in religious peacebuilding
2020
Religious leaders involved in peacebuilding initiatives often refer to the religious value of love to encourage groups in conflict to live peacefully together. In this article, I suggest that references to love as a religious value might contribute to bridging social capital, meaning social bonds between groups who have experienced conflict. However, without simultaneously addressing questions of justice, which is often necessary in violent conflicts, creating social bonds through references to love constitutes a weak contribution to peace. The article uses the study of a religious peacebuilding project in Ethiopia as an example and illustrates how religious leaders failed to make a substan…
TRANSFORMING THEOLOGICAL SYMBOLS
2010
. In this essay I explore the need for transforming the Christian theological symbols of the Trinity, Incarnation, and Redemption, which arose in the context of neo-Platonic metaphysics, in light of late modern, especially Peircean, metaphysics and categories. I engage and attempt to complement the proposal by Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate (in this issue of Zygon) with insights from the Peircean-inspired philosophical theology of Robert Neville. I argue that their proposal can be strengthened by acknowledging the way in which theological symbols themselves have a transformative (pragmatic) effect as they are “taken” in context and “break” on the Infinite.
The Question of Providence and the Problem of Evil in Suhrawardī
2021
Abstract Šihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī’s philosophical works seem to contain two conflicting views on providence: in the Talwīḥāt and the Mašāriʿ, he endorses the Avicennian view, only to deny providence altogether in the Ḥikmat al-išrāq. This contribution aims to explain the seeming inconsistency by investigating it in light of the underlying question of God’s knowledge of particular things. I will also argue that despite his qualms concerning providence, Suhrawardī accepts the closely related Avicennian answer to the problem of evil.
From the Worship of God to the Worship of Beauty? The Reception of Italian Catholic Religious Paintings in the Private Chapels of English Country Hou…
2010
This study discusses the shifting reception of Italian Catholic religious paintings in the private chapels of English country houses. It first investigates how the practice of art collecting and patronage informs the strategies deployed by the English aristocracy to expunge from these pictures all Catholic overtones. It moves on to assess the impact of this ideological reinterpretation on works of art, whose original religious message was thus gradually displaced. The article concludes that these paintings came, effectively, to extol a religiosity of splendour, representative of a desire to glorify both the host's good taste and God's greatness.
Hors du cloître et dans le monde : Des Sœurs catholiques comme actrices transnationales
2012
Resume Cet article etudie les reseaux missionnaires catholiques entre l’Europe et l’Afrique, en particulier deux congregations africaines basees au Burkina Faso travaillant en Afrique et en Europe. L’analyse de cette forme specifique de la transnationalisation du religieux permet de saisir certaines tendances du processus de globalisation. Les religieuses africaines sont de plus en plus impliquees dans la pastorale en Europe tout en continuant leurs activites apostoliques dans leur continent d’origine. Les religieuses europeennes sont pour leur part de moins en moins presentes en Afrique ou elles operent au travers de reseaux transfrontaliers. Ce renversement des roles missionnaires traditi…
Steven Paas, Johannes Rebmann: A Servant of God in Africa before the Rise of Western Colonialism (edition afem – mission academics 32). Bonn: VTR and…
2013
Book Review: Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow
2010
Review of the monograph: Pierre Englebert (2009), Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow , Boulder, Co. & London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-58826-646-0 (Hardcover) / 978-1-58826-623-1 (Paperback), 310 pages.
WISING UP: THE EVOLUTION OF NATURAL THEOLOGY
2012
This essay is in response to Professor Celia Deane-Drummond's 2012 Boyle lectures. The first part calls attention to the value and significance of her “sophianic theo-drama hypothesis” for the contemporary engagement between Christian theology and evolutionary science. In a sense, her proposal itself is a religious “adaptation” to changes within an international, interdisciplinary academic environment. The second part of the essay explores the rapidly shrinking “niche” of Christian natural theology and briefly summarizes an alternative set of hypotheses from the biocultural sciences of religion.
When Ethics and Aesthetics Are One and the Same: A Wittgensteinian Perspective on Natural Value
2015
Many environmental philosophers have held naturalness to be a primary source of nature’s value. Seen this way, the nature that is most valuable is wild nature, and ‘wild’ is that which is unmodiled by human activity. However, accounts of our attributions of value to the wild often have an aura of elusiveness to them, as if what really matters about nature being wild could not ultimately be captured by words. In an attempt to account for what really matters, I relate our fascination with wild nature to a famous Wittgensteinian quote—‘Ethics and Aesthetics are one and the same’ (Tractatus 2006a: 28, §6.421)—and inspect the ways in which important dimensions of our attributions of value to wil…
Las repercusiones de la crisis triguera de 1629-1631 sobre las finanzas de la ciudad de Valencia
2005
La incidencia de la crisis triguera de 1629-1631 obligó a la ciudad de Valencia a desarrollar diversos sistemas de avituallamiento. Pero ello no pudo impedir que se produjera un excepcional aumento de los precios del cereal, frente al cual el Municipio desarrolló una arriesgada política que abocó en la falta de numerario de la Taula de Canvis. La búsqueda de soluciones ante el déficit se tradujo en la elaboración, desde diferentes instancias políticas, de numerosos memoriales proponiendo múltiples y variados arbitrios frente a la crisis, cuyo análisis constituye el objetivo primordial de este artículo. The effect of the wheat crisis of 1629-1631 forced the city of Valencia to develop variou…