Despite the triumphant rhetoric of mechanistic materialism, current biology has no shortage of unsolved fundamental problems. In 1981, seeking a way forward, Rupert Sheldrake proposed the hypothesis ...of “formative causation” as a unifying organizing principle of life. Expanding the concept of morphogenetic fields, Sheldrake posited a spatio‐temporal connection termed “morphic resonance” whereby the more often a self‐organizing process takes place, the easier it will be for it to take place in the future. After initial acclaim, his project was quickly met with dogmatic skepticism, dismissed as scientific heresy, and ultimately ignored. Forty years later, the experimental implications of his ideas remain largely untested. Visionary or not, Sheldrake's case illustrates the conceptual resistance of the scientific enterprise to revise its own deepest theoretical commitments. Beyond career‐building selection pressures, young researchers need to be presented with the major questions in their field and encouraged to entertain radically alternative points of view. Science is what scientists make of it.
Die Buchreihe Frühe Neuzeit - begründet 1987 von Jörg Jochen Berns, Gotthard Frühsorge, Klaus Garber, Wilhelm Kühlmann und Jan-Dirk Müller - dient der Grundlagenforschung in Editionen, Monographien ...und Sammelbänden. Dabei strebt sie nicht die großräumige Überschau an, die vorschnelle Synthese oder prätentiöse Konstruktion, sondern nimmt den Umweg über die Arbeit am Detail und die Erkundung verschütteter Traditionszusammenhänge.
The Thomistic Response to the Nouvelle Théologie: Concerning
the Truth of Dogma and the Nature of Theology retrieves the
most important and largely forgotten exchanges in the
mid-20th-century debate ...surrounding ressourcement thinkers. It
makes available new translations of works by the leading Thomists
in the exchange: Dominican Fathers Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange,
Michel Labourdette, Marie-Joseph Nicolas, and Raymond Bruckberger.
In addition to a lengthy historical and theological introduction,
the volume contains sixteen articles, thirteen of which have never
appeared in English. All the major critical responses of the
Dominican Thomists to the nouvelle théologie are here presented
chronologically according to the primary debates carried on,
respectively, in the journals Revue Thomiste and
Angelicum . A lengthy introduction describes the unfolding
of the entire debate, article by article, and explains and
references the ressourcement interventions. Unfortunately, the
history of this important debate is largely surrounded by polemics,
half-truths, caricatures, and journalistic soundbites. In the
articles gathered in this volume, along with the accompanying
introduction, the Toulouse and Roman Dominicans speak in their own
voice. The central theses that define the two sides of the debate
are sympathetically set forth. However, the texts gathered here
show the immense lengths to which the Thomists went to initiate an
authentic and fraternal theological dialogue with the nouveaux
théologiens. Frs. Labourdette and Nicolas repeatedly argued for the
importance of ressourcement work: they applauded its historical
efforts, and they were generally sympathetic and complementary
(although always pointed and persistent in gently expressing their
concerns). Even Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange-whose infamous intervention
is remembered as being a theological "atomic bomb"-is revealed as
being no more guilty of escalation than the Dominicans'
interlocutors in their own responses to him and Fr. Labourdette.
This volume will greatly aid in the task of theological and
historical reconstruction and will, undoubtedly, assist in a
certain rapprochement between the two sides, as the essential
texts, concerns, and theological arguments are made available in
their entirety to professional and lay anglophone readers.
Gaetano Scherillo fu uno studioso di diritto romano, ma anche un attento conoscitore del diritto positivo. Il suo metodo di ricerca e di insegnamento, così come risulta da tutto l’arco della sua ...produzione scientifica e didattica, risentì di questa duplice inclinazione. In occasione dell’approssimarsi del Centenario della Statale, nel contributo si analizzano le linee portanti dei numerosi corsi che Egli scrisse per gli studenti (le cose, la successione, il processo, le obbligazioni, il testamento): in essi è possibile individuare numerose testimonianze di un uso del diritto romano non solo come materia storica, ma anche – e, a volte, soprattutto – come veicolo per una migliore comprensione del presente. Ci si sofferma, poi, sul ruolo dello Studioso come precursore del dibattito, oggi ancora vivo, sui contenuti e sulla funzione del diritto romano quale radice degli ordinamenti europei.
Resumen El objetivo del trabajo es estudiar la peligrosidad desde publicacionescriminológicas, categoría que se encuadró dentro de la impregnación delpositivismo criminológico en ámbitos ...psiquiátricos y penitenciarios, así como,de la recepción de posturas disímilescomo la dogmática penal. Para ellorevisaremos el acervo de publicaciones especializadas que fueron unareferencia para profesionales y expertos, en particular, la Revista deCriminología, Psiquiatría y Medicina Legal y los Anales de la SociedadArgentina de Criminología entre 1933 y 1946, ambas dirigidas por el psiquiatraOsvaldo Loudet y editadas desde los Talleres Gráficos de la PenitenciaríaNacional. Desde estas se realizó un aporte a los debates e intercambiosacadémicos entre países de la región sobre la peligrosidad con el predominiode una perspectiva psiquiátrica. La peligrosidad fue utilizada en índices dehistorias clínicas de gabinetes criminológicos de prisiones, estudios sobrepeligrosidad sin delito y propuestas para una formación científica de los jueces.
Sanctioning Law, conceived in general terms, comprises legal categories within which the State imposes a sanction on individuals for conduct that violates the legal system. Disciplinary Law is one of ...its aspects which, together with Criminal Law, shares dogmatic categories given their relationship of species to species.However, Disciplinary Law has been recognized jurisprudentially as an autonomous and independent right with differential characteristics. Thus, despite being one more expression of ius puniendi, disciplinary law cannot be understood as dependent on the dogmatic systems of other expressions of the right to sanction.
El Derecho Sancionador, concebido en térmi-nos generales, comprende categorías jurídicas mediante las cuales el Estado sanciona a las personas frente a conductas que violan el or-denamiento jurídico. El Derecho Disciplinario es una vertiente que junto con el Derecho Penal comparte categorías dogmáticas dada su rela-ción de especie a especie.Sin embargo, el Derecho Disciplinario ha sido reconocido jurisprudencialmente como au-tónomo e independiente con características diferenciales. A pesar de tratarse de una expre-sión más del ius puniendi no puede entenderse el Derecho Disciplinario como dependiente a los sistemas dogmáticos de otras expresionesdel derecho de sanción.
Progress is a structural and systematic concept in the thought of Origen of Alexandria, which represents one of the most advanced syntheses of the Christian reading of the Old and the New Testaments’ ...legacy and the classical paideia, as well as a rational critique towards every kind of static objectification of the religious. Origen’s legacy was capable of radiating its influence through Western theology and philosophy, thus shaping its idea of theological, moral, intellectual, social and political progress. The volume follows the intellectual dynamism generated by the reception of Origen’s thought through seventeen articles, which span through the centuries, from the analysis of Origen’s thought to its reception history in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Modern Age, up until the 20th century.
In this article, we suggest that dogmatic beliefs, manifested as strong beliefs that there is no God (i.e., dogmatic atheism) as well as strong beliefs in God (i.e., religious orthodoxy), can serve ...as a cognitive response to uncertainty. Moreover, we claim that people who dogmatically do not believe in religion and those who dogmatically believe in religion are equally prone to intolerance and prejudice towards groups that violate their important values. That is because prejudice towards these groups may be an efficient strategy to protect the certainty that strong beliefs provide. We tested these assumptions in two studies. In Study 1 and Study 2, we demonstrated that dogmatic beliefs mediate the relationship between intolerance to uncertainty and both, religious orthodoxy and dogmatic atheism. In addition, in Study 2 we showed that both the religiously orthodox and dogmatic atheists become prejudiced towards groups that violate their values and that these effects are especially strong under experimentally induced uncertainty. In this study, we focused on atheists and homosexuals as groups that pose a threat to Christian's religious worldviews, and Catholics and pro‐life supporters as groups that pose a threat to the values of atheists. The results are discussed in relation to past research on dogmatism and religion, as well as with reference to what this means for the study of prejudice.
Law Beyond Israel Zellentin, Holger M
2022, 2022-09-05, 2022-08-08
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The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile “residents” living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur’an argues that these ...biblical laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur’anic law. The study corroborates its central claim by assessing laws for gentiles in late antique Jewish and especially in Christian legal discourse, pointing to previously underappreciated legal continuity from the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament and from late antique Christianity to nascent Islam. This volume first sketches the legal obligations that the Hebrew Bible imposes on humanity more broadly and, more specifically, on the non-Israelite residents of the Holy Land. It then traces these laws through Second Temple Judaism to the early Jesus movement, illustrating how the biblical laws for residents inform those formulated in the Acts of the Apostles. Building on this legal continuity, the study employs detailed historical and literary analyses of legal narratives in order to make three propositions. First, rabbinic laws for gentiles, the so-called Noahide Laws, while offering a more lenient interpretation than the one we find in Acts, are equally based on the biblical laws for gentile residents of the Holy Land. Second, Christians generally appreciated and even expanded the gentile laws of Acts. Third, the Qur’an remakes traditional Arabian religious practice by formulating its own distinctive approach to the biblical laws for gentiles, in close continuity with—and at times in critical distance from—late antique Jewish and especially Christian gentile law.
There is broad support today for the idea that biblical scholarship
ought to be informed by the faith of the Church and serve the life
of the Church. In a word, it should be ecclesial. There is far ...less
agreement, however, when one asks how this goal is to be achieved
and what ecclesial exegesis ought to look like. In 1988, Joseph
Ratzinger put forth his "Method C" proposal, calling for the
development of a new exegetical and hermeneutical synthesis. This
would be neither a retreat to the patristic-medieval approach
(Method A) nor the continued hegemony of the historical-critical
approach (Method B). The latter must be purified of its positivism
through a transformational encounter with the former, so that the
gifts of both might be released for the life of the Church. Such a
synthesis, Ratzinger claimed, would require the philosophical,
theological, exegetical, and hermeneutical work of "at least a
whole generation" of scholars. Gregory Vall has devoted over thirty
years to the development of ecclesial exegesis, and the present
volume represents the mature fruit of his labor. Over against those
who treat Dei Verbum as Vatican II's endorsement of the
historical-critical method, he demonstrates that the dogmatic
constitution actually points to something very much like
Ratzinger's Method C. Employing a dialogic movement between the
inductive-exegetical and the deductive-dogmatic, Vall offers nine
studies that bring to the surface issues such as the relationship
between Old Testament and New Testament, literal sense and
spiritual sense, and Scripture and Tradition. While Vall brings
theological knowledge and hermeneutical skill to the quest for
Method C, he also provides a great deal of valuable exegesis of
both testaments. Ecclesial Exegesis is not simply another
book of theory. It demonstrates how Method C can be done.
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