This article consists of three parts, excluding the Introduction and the Conclusion. The first part “What is it ‘to wait’?” is a lexicographical study on the word ‘waiting’, in various Indo-European ...languages. This lexicographical adventure that passes through some dense foliage will not only clarify the different connotations in the phenomenon of waiting, but will also lead us to the second part of the paper – “Waiting and Time Consciousness”. Here, the art of waiting is examined through the looking glass of Time as understood by the philosophers Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. The questions of how we wait and why we wait are addressed in this section. The third part looks at the presence-absence of the waiting spirit in the post-truth era that we are living in. Titled, “We, the Hollow People”, this section highlights what happens to us when we forget to wait, forget to stand and gaze. The Concluding part “Waiting for God Who Awaits Us” speaks of Christians as “waiters”, waiting with and for God, the other, and also on oneself, not on lofty mountain peaks, but right down on the “bathroom floor”.
Der kommende Gott Wallach, Steffen
Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie,
06/2023, Letnik:
65, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Der vorliegende Beitrag lädt zur Beschäftigung mit dem Advent ein. Er knüpft zum Einstieg bei einem für dieses Vorhaben geeigneten Advents- und Weihnachtslied an: bei
. Das Gedicht, das diesem ...populären Lied zugrunde liegt, entpuppt sich im Gegenlicht der religionsphilosophischen Einlassungen von Jean-Luc Nancy und Giorgio Agamben als kompaktes poetisches Pendant zu einer Theologie des Advents, die getragen wird von der Struktur eines dem Erscheinen zuvorkommenden (Heran-)Kommens und die in dieser prozessierenden Präsenz (man könnte auch sagen: dieser Ereignishaftigkeit) eine Grundfigur des (christlichen) Lebens erkennt.
This article explores how Christian heritage is engaged with, strengthened, and contested in and through Swedish newspapers and in the annual Swedish Christmas calendar. Although Sweden is perceived ...as highly secular and characterized by an increased distance between the former state church and the Swedish population, ideas about Swedish cultural heritage are still tied to notions of a Christian past. Previous research has highlighted Christmas as particularly salient for Swedes’ understanding of their cultural heritage and national identity, which includes perceptions of Christmas as ‘merely’ a tradition. Using theories of nostalgia and banal religion, this article addresses how Swedishness is constructed in the Christmas calendar, as well as through its framing in Swedish newspapers. While the narrative of the Calendar does not normally include overt references to Christian parables, it frequently uses Christian and folkloric symbolism to effect a backdrop of nostalgia. I argue that the Calendar and its framing in newspapers play on conceptions of Swedishness that are inextricably linked to ideas of ‘secularized’ Christianity, and by extension to constructions of what counts as national belonging in contemporary Sweden.
We develop the third-order adaptive Adams-Bashforth time integration and the second-order finite difference equation for variable time steps. We incorporate these schemes in the Celeris Advent ...software to discretize and solve the 2D extended Boussinesq equations. This software uses a hybrid finite volume – finite difference scheme and leverages the GPU to solve the equations faster than real-time while concurrently visualizing them. The newly added adaptive scheme significantly improves the robustness of the model while providing faster computational performance. We simulate several benchmarks using the adaptive time stepping scheme of Celeris Advent and demonstrate the capability of the software in modeling wave-breaking, wave runup, irregular waves, and rip currents.
Program title: Celeris Advent (v.1.3.4)
CPC Library link to program files:https://doi.org/10.17632/pwsjdsgz89.1
Licensing provisions: GNU General Public License 3
Programming language: C++, HLSL
Nature of problem: Celeris Advent started a new paradigm in nearshore wave simulations and enabled researchers and engineers to run a Boussinesq-type model, faster than real-time and in an interactive environment. For simplicity, we assumed a fixed time step in our first implementation of Celeris Advent. This fixed time step often needs to be chosen conservatively such that the model can resolve the most extreme cases during the experiment. In practical simulations, such as simulating coastal fields, the superposition of boundary and initial conditions may cause rare but extreme conditions, requiring a very small time step that is too conservative during most of the simulation.
Solution method: We developed adaptive third order Adams-Bashforth time integration to let Celeris Advent solve the extended Boussinesq equations with a variable time step, allowing it to decrease the time step only when necessary. The adaptive equations are presented in a generic format and therefore can be used for solving other equations as well.
Additional comments including restrictions and unusual features: The new version of the Celeris Advent with the adaptive time integration runs ∼3 times faster for the standard conical island benchmark, allowing Celeris Advent simulate this benchmark on a 200×200 grid an order of magnitude faster than real-time on a consumer-level gaming laptop. For a field simulation benchmark, with rare but extreme events, the new version runs ∼25 times faster.
Les pages suivantes proposent une traduction inédite, en italien, d’un poème intitulé Booz endormi, tiré de La Légende des siècles de Victor Hugo. La traduction est suivie d'une brève analyse dont le ...but est de souligner la relation très étroite entre l'interprétation générale du poème et les choix individuels du traducteur. Un accent particulier est mis sur la figure de Ruth comme noyau générateur à la fois du récit et des choix lexicaux, métriques et rhétoriques de Hugo.
This article discusses laughter as one of the structure-forming themes in Ksenia Buksha's novel
Advent
(2021). The novel consists of two parts, the retrospective one being graphically separated from ...the main narrative. The theme of laughter does not seem to be connected with the event part; however, it brings about several sidelines. Methodologically, the research relied on the theory of motif developed by I. V. Silantiev, where the motif is considered as part of the narrative. The variability of laughter in literature is complemented by its multifaceted character in philosophy and culture. The works by S. S. Averintsev, L. V. Karasev, and M. T. Ryumina made it possible to understand the semantics of laughter as a cultural and social phenomenon. In her novel, K. Buksha hardly ever links laughter with the category of comic: in fact, laughter almost never accompanies mockery. As a rule, laughter in
Advent
is involuntary and unmotivated. It is associated with the true, imaginary, or impossible liberation of the characters from eternal routine and malign infinity, be it their entire lives or just a depressing episode. The laughter moments belong both to the main and episodic characters, which indicates that laughter is a universal symbol of crisis. This interpretation contributes to a deeper philosophical and ontological understanding of the contemporary Russian literature.
Der kommende Gott Wallach, Steffen
Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie,
06/2023, Letnik:
65, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Zusammenfassung
Der vorliegende Beitrag lädt zur Beschäftigung mit dem Advent ein. Er knüpft zum Einstieg bei einem für dieses Vorhaben geeigneten Advents- und Weihnachtslied an: bei
Alle Jahre ...wieder
. Das Gedicht, das diesem populären Lied zugrunde liegt, entpuppt sich im Gegenlicht der religionsphilosophischen Einlassungen von Jean-Luc Nancy und Giorgio Agamben als kompaktes poetisches Pendant zu einer Theologie des Advents, die getragen wird von der Struktur eines dem Erscheinen zuvorkommenden (Heran-)Kommens und die in dieser prozessierenden Präsenz (man könnte auch sagen: dieser Ereignishaftigkeit) eine Grundfigur des (christlichen) Lebens erkennt.