The Prolegomena To Christian Missiology

Prolegomena to Any Future Prolegomena

The paper by Sacks and Doyle that is the focus of this debate resembles previous papers by Cheeseman and McDermott, leaping from the observation that a speciic application of some AI technology is unable to solve a problem to the conclusion that the technology itself is of limited value. We argue that claims such as this should be made more cautiously in the future, and make constructive sugges...

Prolegomena to the semiotic

Christian Wolff's prolegomena to empirical and rational psychology: translation and commentary.

Though not the first to use the term "psychology" (psychologia), 1 Christian Wolff did give it currency in the mid-eighteenth century. He was the first to mark off the discipline of empirical psychology and to distinguish it from rational, or theoretical, psychology. This distinction and his conception of the two corresponding methods of conducting psychological inquiry, especially his emphasis...

Prolegomena to the CBH Theorem

The mathematical formalisms for classical and quantum physics look nothing alike. This is surely one reason why physics students find it difficult to learn quantum mechanics. It is surely also one of the reasons why QM fascinates philosophers — because its formalism seems to resist comparison with the formalism of classical physics. Our goal: We want to overcome this situation of apparent Kuhni...

Post-Christian, Post-Christendom, and Post-Modern Europe: Towards the Interaction of Missiology and the Social Sciences

Three concepts are often used in missiological literature relating to the West. These are “postChristian,” “post-Christendom,” and “post-modern.” Often, they have been used as if they are more or less synonyms without much precision or reflection. By relating them to different strands in social theory around “secularization,” this article suggests how these terms can be defined more precisely. ...