History, providence and the apocalyptic Paul

Panoramic Lutheranism and apocalyptic ambivalence: an appreciative critique of N. T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God

The basic agenda and resulting architecture of N. T. Wright’s reconstruction of Paul’s theology in Paul and the Faithfulness of God are a dramatic and brilliant break with most previous analyses and an important step forward. But closer analysis suggests that his project also contains some serious problems. First, it is not well executed: there are basic problems of method and exegesis with Wri...

romantic education:reading william wordsworths the prelude in the light of the history of ideas

عصر روشنگری زمان شکل گیری ایده های مدرن تربیتی- آموزشی بود اما تاکید بیش از اندازه ی دوشاخه مهم فلسفی زمان یعنی عقل گرایی و حس گرایی بر دقت و وضوح، انسان عصر روشنگری را نسبت به دیگر تواناییهایش نابینا کرده و موجب به وجود آمدن افرادی تک بعدی شد که افتخارعقلانیتشان، تاکید شان بر تجربه فردی، به مبارزه طلبیدن منطق نیاکانشان وافسون زدایی شان از دنیا وتمام آنچه با حواس پنجگانه قابل درک نبوده و یا در ...

"Eric Voegelin and Paul Ricoeur on Memory and History"

Paul Ricoeur, Critique and Conviction We are not equal within language. There are inabilities. Take now the ability to act. It is greater among people with power. . . . There are degrees of ability, therefore. For example--and we may have to reconcile ourselves with this, including with Hayden White--this marvelous ability to narrate. Because it is universal: everybody has narrated. We are tryi...

Beauty, Providence and the Biophilia Hypothesis

In recent years, there has been a renewal of interest in the spiritual significance of the natural world. This development is evident for instance in certain strands of the environmental movement, and in the growing interest in the religions of indigenous peoples. In this article, I consider one important attempt to give the natural world such significance in terms of the framework of tradition...

HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF FORENSIC DNA TESTING BY: Paul Couenhoven