John the Evangelist as the Forerunner of the Word

Philotheos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Andrej Jeftić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Maximus The Confessor ◽  
The Way

The paper deals with the Amb. 21 of St Maximus the Confessor in which he attempts to resolve the ambiguity posed by St Gregory the Theologian calling John the Evangelist ‘the forerunner of the Word’. Maximus’ solution is analysed in detail as it provides significant insights into not only his understanding of the iconic nature of the Gospel as it relates to the world to come, but also into the way he develops his theological reasoning, as well as his understanding of the authority of the patristic authors.

scholarly journals Truthmaking and the world-time parallel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gareth Leniston-Lee
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Parallel Argument ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
Structural Parallel ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

<p>There is a close structural parallel between the way we talk about time and the way we talk about modality (i.e. matters of possibility, necessity, actuality etc.). A consequence of this is that whenever we construct a metaphysical argument within one of these domains, there is a parallel argument to be made in the other. On the face of it, this parallel between possible worlds and moments in time seems to commit us to holding corresponding attitudes to the ontological status of non-present and non-actual entities.  In this thesis I assess a claim made by Sider (2001: 41-42) that truthmaking – the idea that truth is grounded in existence – provides a way to avoid the commitment to ontological symmetry that this world-time parallel seems to foist upon us. Truthmaking challenges presentists, who deny the existence of past entities and actualists, who deny the existence of merely possible entities, to come up with a way of grounding truths that are ostensively about the events and entities that they deny exist. Sider’s claim can be broken down into three propositions:  1. Truthmaking provides reason to reject presentism. 2. Truthmaking does not provide reason to reject actualism. 3. Truthmaking breaks the ontological symmetry between time and modality.  In this thesis I argue that while 1 is false, 3 remains true. While I am not a presentist myself I do not think that truthmaking provides a sound basis for rejecting the position. Much of this thesis is dedicated to defending presentism against the challenge truthmaking poses. I also don’t believe that truthmaking undermines actualism, but do not commit myself to any particular actualist response to the truthmaking challenge in this thesis. My central aim is to show that the presentist has a viable response to the truthmaking challenge and that this response does not have a viable parallel in the modal case. So while I think that both presentists and actualists can provide adequate responses to the challenge truthmaking poses, truthmaking still breaks the symmetry because the arguments made in defence of each position are very different. So one might rationally accept one argument but not the other.</p>

scholarly journals Truthmaking and the world-time parallel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gareth Leniston-Lee
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Parallel Argument ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
Structural Parallel ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

<p>There is a close structural parallel between the way we talk about time and the way we talk about modality (i.e. matters of possibility, necessity, actuality etc.). A consequence of this is that whenever we construct a metaphysical argument within one of these domains, there is a parallel argument to be made in the other. On the face of it, this parallel between possible worlds and moments in time seems to commit us to holding corresponding attitudes to the ontological status of non-present and non-actual entities.  In this thesis I assess a claim made by Sider (2001: 41-42) that truthmaking – the idea that truth is grounded in existence – provides a way to avoid the commitment to ontological symmetry that this world-time parallel seems to foist upon us. Truthmaking challenges presentists, who deny the existence of past entities and actualists, who deny the existence of merely possible entities, to come up with a way of grounding truths that are ostensively about the events and entities that they deny exist. Sider’s claim can be broken down into three propositions:  1. Truthmaking provides reason to reject presentism. 2. Truthmaking does not provide reason to reject actualism. 3. Truthmaking breaks the ontological symmetry between time and modality.  In this thesis I argue that while 1 is false, 3 remains true. While I am not a presentist myself I do not think that truthmaking provides a sound basis for rejecting the position. Much of this thesis is dedicated to defending presentism against the challenge truthmaking poses. I also don’t believe that truthmaking undermines actualism, but do not commit myself to any particular actualist response to the truthmaking challenge in this thesis. My central aim is to show that the presentist has a viable response to the truthmaking challenge and that this response does not have a viable parallel in the modal case. So while I think that both presentists and actualists can provide adequate responses to the challenge truthmaking poses, truthmaking still breaks the symmetry because the arguments made in defence of each position are very different. So one might rationally accept one argument but not the other.</p>

The Endorsement of Royal-Episcopal Collaboration in the FredegarChronica

Traditio ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Gregory I. Halfond
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Divine Judgment ◽  
Holy Places ◽  
To Come ◽  
End Times ◽  
The Way

The terse and politically oriented narrative of the seventh-century chronicle attributed to Fredegar often has been compared unfavorably to one of its principal sources, Gregory of Tours'sDecem Libri Historiarum, a complex and layered composition in which historical and theological programs converge. Although a superficial comparison with Gregory'sHistoriaewould seem to indicate Fredegar's own relative disengagement from ecclesiastical and spiritual concerns, a closer examination of theChronicareveals a programmatic effort to endorse royal-episcopal collaboration so that thepax ecclesiaemight be preserved and earthly governance perfected. Writing, as he believed, in the end times, Fredegar shared Gregory of Tours's eschatological conviction that such collaboration would help to prepare theregnum Francorumfor final judgment. A close examination of those twenty-one cases in which Fredegar refers explicitly to the involvement of bishops in court affairs suggests the chronicler's conviction that the professional, political, and spiritual obligations of Frankish bishops were not mutually exclusive. Furthermore, theChronica's ecclesiastical topography, while limited geographically and personalized according to Fredegar's attachment to specific cults and institutions, provides the setting for the author's collaborative ideal, with holy places providing both a context and an impetus for the integration of royal and clerical agendas. While Fredegar recognized signs of divine judgment everywhere, the chronicler's perspective ultimately was optimistic, envisioning aregnum Francorumcleansed of oppression by the judgment of God, preparing the way for the perfection of the world in the age to come.

scholarly journals 1968 and the “Long 1960s”: A Transregional Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
Claudia Derichs
Keyword(s):  
Vantage Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Violent Action ◽  
To Come ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Activist Movements ◽  
Special Meaning ◽  
The Way

Abstract The year 1968 has a special meaning in some parts of the world, but other regions do not attach as much importance to it. While the view from Europe tends to assert the existence of a “global 1968,” the timeline may look quite different from another vantage point. This chapter addresses “1968 and beyond” or the “long 1960s,” as the period is often referred to, as a time of global transformations, but with particular local manifestations in terms of ideological underpinnings and legitimations for (violent) action. Israel’s defeat of Arab armies and Indonesia’s tragic events of the 1960s paved the way for a gradual strengthening of various Islamic missionary and activist movements that spread across both regions and gained huge mobilizing momentum subsequently. This period had vast repercussions for decades to come (e.g. in terms of “Islamization” in many countries around the globe).

scholarly journals Walking as a Metaphor

Transfers ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Avishek Ray
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
City Space ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This article reflects on the dissenting act of mobility as articulated by migrant workers in India, who, during the nationwide lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, are walking back home, hundreds of miles away, in lieu of public transport. Their mobility—precisely, the act of walking—has thus acquired a metaphoric status, and laid bare the ideological practices of territorializing the city-space. This article argues that the migrant worker’s mobility, from within the axiomatic of the prevalent “mobility regime,” can be read as a powerful metaphor of our tensions within the global political-economic order that the pandemic has so starkly exposed. The article provokes less literal, but more literary, understandings of mobilities in general, in order to come to grips with the manifold contradictions, paradoxes, and counteractions in the way the world moves.

scholarly journals Psalm 1 jako zachęta do czytania i studiowania Pisma Świętego

2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Knut
Keyword(s):  
Word Of God ◽  
Moral Compass ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

The sapiential Psalm 1 contains a teaching on the two paths of the humanlife and the consequences of our choices. It contrasts the just man who is“happy” (v. 1) with the villains who are “lost” (v. 6). According to the psalmistthe man is fulfilled when he radically avoids the ways of the wickedand “delights in the Divine Precepts” which they “meditate tirelessly” (v. 2).The notion of the Law refers here to the books of the Bible – that is thewritten Word of God which the lives of the just are imbibed in and whichserves as the moral compass. God, in response to such a devoted attitude,watches over the life of the righteous and provides for his needs. Psalm 1serves as an encouragement to read the Bible and to meditate upon the willof God which is found on its pages. This is the way to achieve the ultimatehappiness which the man can be experienced in the intimate union withGod both on Earth and in the World to come.

Walking as a Metaphor

Transfers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
Avishek Ray
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
City Space ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This article reflects on the dissenting act of mobility as articulated by migrant workers in India, who, during the nationwide lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, are walking back home, hundreds of miles away, in lieu of public transport. Their mobility—precisely, the act of walking—has thus acquired a metaphoric status, and laid bare the ideological practices of territorializing the city-space. This article argues that the migrant worker’s mobility, from within the axiomatic of the prevalent “mobility regime,” can be read as a powerful metaphor of our tensions within the global political-economic order that the pandemic has so starkly exposed. The article provokes less literal, but more literary, understandings of mobilities in general, in order to come to grips with the manifold contradictions, paradoxes, and counteractions in the way the world moves.

scholarly journals Managing in a Crisis: American and Peruvian Professionals' Experiences During COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1785-1788
Author(s):  
Marlene B. Salas-Provance ◽  
Margot Escobedo Arriola ◽  
Patricia Michel Torres Arrunátegui
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Work Effort ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Common Observation ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

Purpose The COVID-19 global pandemic has caused significant disruptions in the way we live our lives. This virus has affected individuals worldwide in a similar fashion with few remaining untouched. The way we work also has been transformed and will continue to change in ways we cannot envision today. It was immediately evident that a new way of management was needed in this time of crisis. A framework of crisis management from Nichols et al. ( 2020 ) is presented to identify four essential behaviors required by leaders. Leaders must be able to (a) decide with speed over precision, (b) adapt boldly, (c) reliably deliver, and (d) engage for impact. The three authors, having worked closely as international partners for over 10 years in the care of children with cleft lip and palate, came together to discuss how individuals around the world have managed during this crisis. Conclusions A common observation among the authors was that many new relationships were forged throughout the pandemic while others strengthened. Relationships were tested daily, if not moment by moment. There was an intensity of work effort that ordinarily would not occur. The words “ we have never worked so hard ” were heard often. Although the journey was exhausting and resulted in a sense of fatigue for most people, it has brought people together to accomplish goals in unprecedent ways. The boundaries between work and home were erased with a work constancy that seemed relentless. There will be long-lasting unknown repercussions to our work as a result of the pandemic. To close in the way we began, life as we knew it will forever be changed. The ability to remain engaged and focused will allow professionals around the globe to grow and flourish during and after COVID-19. Across work settings, the authors observed a resiliency in the people that will serve as the foundation to propel a worldwide recovery from this pandemic in the years to come.

The Interpretation of Picturesque Elements in Wolf's Songs

Tempo ◽  
1958 ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Paul Hamburger
Keyword(s):  
Vocal Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Bird Call ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

An opera singer, except on those rare occasions when he relates the speech of others, maintains the identity of the character in which he is cast. The performer of epical and lyrical music, on the other hand, i.e., the oratorio and Lieder singer, can be a protagonist, i.e., claim his identity with the “acting subject”, only when and as long as the poet and composer demand it. One can almost recognise a good Evangelist by the way he sings the colon after the words “and he said unto them”. But apart from the singer's awareness of direct and indirect speech—a condensation, as it were, of dramatic explicitness into epical stylization—he has to come to terms with the world of inanimate objects, or rather their sensuous perception by poet and composer, that crowds the pages of concerted vocal music. One would think that a bird-call, heard or recollected by the poet, would find its exact, that is, stylistically truthful, representation in the poem; would be taken over and transplanted into the medium of sound by the composer without loss or change of meaning, and would, furthermore, find its exact equivalent when related by the acting subject. That this is at best an over-schematic view of things forms the glory of lyrical music and the despair of its interpreters.

On Mending the Peace of the World: Sir Francis Bacon’s Apocalyptic Irenicism

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Harris Sacks
Keyword(s):  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Book Of Daniel ◽  
Lord Chancellor ◽  
Christian Discourse ◽  
The Way ◽  
Second Coming

Abstract This essay is about irenicism and science, i.e. about the interrelationship between the quest for peace on earth and the quest for knowledge about the world. Both are global aspirations, the former focused on achieving concord among rival peoples and ideologies, nations, and religions; the latter on comprehending the earth and the heavens and the way the things in them are made. Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), Viscount St. Alban and sometime Lord Chancellor of England, who, citing in Latin the Biblical prophecy in Daniel 12:4 – “Many shall go to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” – linked together the increase of geographical knowledge in his own day with the prospect for new discoveries in all fields of learning. For Bacon, the advancement of all branches knowledge, fated to come together in the same age, would in time bring religious unity and with it this-worldly peace, thereby paving the way for the fulfillment of the apocalyptical prophecy in the Book of Daniel, which in Christian discourse was interpreted to mean the Second Coming of Christ. This essay explores Bacon’s discussions of his aims and the methods he advocated as addressed the consequences of “discovery” for mending world back to its wholeness.

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