This essay will explore Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Christology as performance from below. It begin by introducing theodramatic project presented in his five-volume work Theo-drama. Here, it be shown how Balthasar engages with and uses the conceptual resources of drama theatre to develop a theological dramatic theory Christ at its very centre. followed an investigation into what he saw re-performa...

This paper describes implementation research of an intervention in a complex HIV prevention randomised trial in southern Africa. Researchers collected stories of change attributed by 106 community members to an audio-drama edutainment intervention in 41 sites in Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland. The team analysed themes in the stories following a behaviour change model of conscious knowledge, at...

There are very real limitations to any discussion of Jacques Lacan’s complex and voluminous commentary on Plato’s Symposium, not least in a paper of this length. The sheer number of connections that Lacan makes cannot be fully dealt with, nor can any particular point of interest be exhaustively discovered without drawing other issues into the fold. Nevertheless, what I have presented in this di...

This paper reformulates and decides a certain conjecture in Dunn’s ‘Relevant Predication 1: The Formal Theory’ (Journal of Philosophical Logic 16, 347-381, 1987). This conjecture of Dunn’s relates his object-language characterisation of a property’s being relevant in a variable x to certain grammatical characterisations of relevance, analogous to some given by Helman, in ‘Relevant Implication a...

The truth exerts a powerful attraction. Reading the newspaper over breakfast a few months ago, I came across the following quote from Ricky Williams, a running back for the Miami Dolphins who was in the process of walking away from his million-dollar salary to pursue a career in holistic medicine. ‘‘I’m going to search for the truth,’’ Williams said. ‘‘Everything I’m doing in my life is about f...

muhammad al-maqut is considered as one of the most important pioneers of blank verse in arab world. his literary works include different forms such as novel, drama, blank verse, movie script and diary. simplicity, pragmatism and sadness are characteristics of his works. this article attempts to study the language used by al-maqut in “badvi al-ahmar”. the simplicity of the terminology applied by...

Numenius is one of the most important authors who, in Imperial Age, deal with figure Socrates. Socrates Platon­ic tradition, particular sceptical when Socratic dubitative “spirit” first Platonic dialogues became to justify “suspension judgement.” criticises whole Academic tradition by saying that Academics (particularly sceptics) betrayed original doctrine Plato and formulated a new image For N...

Introduction Roger Reynolds subtitled his composition Odyssey (1989-93) "an opera in the mind". However, form, time, and space are present in his works to such extent, that the "opera in the mind" epithet could be applied to all his compositions. Although this dramatic aspect can be expressed in an outward form onstage (for example JUSTICE, 1999), it is nevertheless more an inner affair than an...

In “The Socratic Method and Psychoanalysis,” Jonathan Lear argues that Socrates' conversations seek to draw out an irony exists within human virtue. this commentary, I suggest should identify with aporia align his interpretation Plato’s texts capture the epistemic dimension of method. The dialogue is a form inquiry encourages interlocutor carry on inquiry. grasps life’s principle by recognising...

-the term “ta’ziyeh” refers to an iranian dramatic genre which might be compared to the western passion play and is the only indigenous drama of the entire islamic world. this ritual drama has both an islamic and a persian heritage, the central theme of which is the tragic and heroic martyrdom of imam husayn, the grandson of the prophet mohammed and the third imam of shi’ite in the desert of ka...