Reconciling Complexity Theory in Organizations and Christian Spirituality

Chaos/Complexity Theory and Education

Sciences exist to demonstrate the fundamental order underlying nature. Chaos/complexity theory is a novel and amazing field of scientific inquiry. Notions of our everyday experiences are somehow in connection to the laws of nature through chaos/complexity theory’s concerns with the relationships between simplicity and complexity, between orderliness and randomness (Retrieved from http://www.inc...

CHRISTIAN COUNCIL ON AGEING DEMENTIA GROUP Dementia and Spirituality

This list is based upon a reading list produced from its holdings by the Library and Information Service at the Stirling Dementia Services Development Centre. The Christian Council on Ageing Dementia Group has now added further material to the list which includes material on spirituality, on dementia and on the links between the two. Items are listed under types of material in chronological ord...

Marginal Christian Spirituality: An Example from a Dutch Meditation Group

Spirituality is one of the forms of religion that seems to thrive in secularised Western societies. It has become an umbrella term for a variety of experience-oriented religious practices in Western societies. The popularity of spirituality is clearly visible within Christian settings, both inside and outside churches. This paper explores the nature of ‘marginal’ Christian spirituality, i.e. Ch...

Complexity and Organizations

Moral complexity in organizations

Business ethics is applied ethics, says Velasquez (1992, p. 2). The application of ethics to organizational contexts can take two forms, which are both ‘practical’, but in different ways. The first type of application aims at analysing specific ethical problem types in organizations, in order to provide normative clarification and guidance. Examples of this are advertizing ethics, the ethics of...