Divine Will and Human Experience of Evil in Contemporary Nigerian Society:A Theological Reflection

Nature of Land

All Nations University Journal of Applied Thought ◽

10.47987/rnil8890 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 500-520

Author(s):

kofi Anan

Keyword(s):

Human Experience ◽

Analytic Method ◽

Divine Will

Contemporary happenings in Nigeria especially in the areas of governance, security and religious interactions call for deep reflections and basic questions. There are concerns about religious insurgency, kidnappings for ransoms, ritual killings and so on. How does one reconcile the happenings with God’s divine will and love for humans? Using critical analytic method, the paper tries to bring the problem of God and human experience of evil in Nigeria into dialogue with the science of anthropology. The paper concludes that lawlessness and human arrogance and choices escalates most of the challenges in Nigeria.

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Descartes on the immutability of the divine will

Religious Studies ◽

10.1017/s0034412502006261 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 79-92 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

DAVID CUNNING

Keyword(s):

Analytic Method ◽

God's Will ◽

Divine Will

Descartes holds that God's will is immutable. It cannot be changed by God and, because He is supremely independent, it cannot be changed by anything else. Descartes' God acts by a single immutable will for all eternity, and there is no sense in which it is possible for Him to will or to have willed anything other than what He in fact wills. Passages in which Descartes might appear to be suggesting a different view are simply manifestations of his analytic method.

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Amoris Laetitia a Turning Point: Cohabitation Revisited

Irish Theological Quarterly ◽

10.1177/0021140019849413 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 84 (3) ◽

pp. 268-286

Author(s):

Michael G. Lawler ◽

Todd A. Salzman

Keyword(s):

Turning Point ◽

Human Experience ◽

Theological Reflection ◽

Moral Reflection ◽

The Third ◽

Cohabiting Couples ◽

Historical Tradition ◽

Catholic Tradition ◽

Amoris Laetitia

Cohabitation is an ever-increasing phenomenon in our human experience and human experience is a long-established source of knowledge for Catholic moral reflection and judgment. In this essay, inspired by Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, we reflect on that phenomenon and seek to make faith-sense of it, that is, we come to the experience of cohabitation with a faith nourished in the Catholic tradition and attempt to allow that faith to enter into dialogue with the experience of cohabitation and the effect it has on the Christian lives of cohabiting couples. The essay develops in four cumulative sections. The first section considers the contemporary phenomenon of cohabitation; the second considers Pope Francis’s treatment of cohabitation in Amoris Laetitia; the third unfolds the Western and Christian historical tradition as it relates to cohabitation and marriage; the fourth formulates a Church response to cohabitation based on our theological reflection on it and advances a plea, similar to Adrian Thatcher’s proposal, for the establishment of a Marriage Catechumenate for cohabiting couples.

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Jung’s Red Book, improvisation, and the mētic spirit

International Journal of Jungian Studies ◽

10.1080/19409052.2017.1304007 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 108-123

Author(s):

Randy Fertel

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Paradigm Shift ◽

Leading Edge ◽

Human Experience ◽

The Self ◽

Active Imagination ◽

Analytic Method ◽

The Unconscious ◽

New Approach ◽

And Control

ABSTRACTUnderstandingThe Red Book as an improvisation and Jung as an improviser offers a new approach to understanding the active imagination and the analytic method that emerged from it. Such an approach uncovers the mētic spirit – the spirit of polytropic intelligence – that informsThe Red Bookand the archetypal figure of Hermes/Mercurius/Trickster that informs all improvisations and will come to dominate Jung’s career. The rhetoric of improvisation inThe Red Bookconveys that, uncontaminated by the directed consciousness or ego, personae and imagoes arise spontaneously from his unconscious and control him, not he them. Such gestures privilege non-rational ways of making art and knowing the self and world, part and parcel of the paradigm shift that characterizes the 20th century. Jung’s Red Book is on the leading edge of that effort to shift from objective rationality to a rationality that can embrace subjective elements: the unconscious and the irrational, not just the “broad highways” but also the “back alleys” of human experience.

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