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Northern Ireland has suffered consistently from the effects of political violence since the late 1960s. It is argued that the attempts by Republicans & Loyalists in Northern Ireland to legitimate their violence consist of arguments drawn from a wide range of theoretical traditions by no means confined to Northern Ireland. Republicans draw on nationalism, Catholicism, & Marxism, while Loyalists make use of contractarian ideas & Protestant theology. Both sides have been relatively successful in persuading potential supporters of the legitimacy of their activities. Weaknesses in each attempt at legitimation are analyzed, & it is indicated that the diversity of the rival packages may prove counterproductive. The capacity of each group to generate the additional support needed to achieve its ends is seriously doubted. 27 References. Modified HA

"Vatican II opened new pathways to engagement with societies shaped by modernity. Its project could be read as an attempt to interpret the stance of the church in relation to the whole project of modernity. The fundamental presumption of this collection of essays is that it is timely, indeed imperative, to keep alive the question of the church's self-understanding in its journey alongside "the complex, often rebellious, always restless mind of the modern world." Cornelius J. Casey and Fáinche Ryan have assembled some of the most prominent commentators on ecclesiastical and social-political engagements from the fields of theology, political philosophy, social theory, and cultural criticism. The contributors present differing perspectives on the role of the church. Some argue that pluralism is here to stay. Others point out that the liberal pluralism of contemporary society is aggressively powered by global corporate consumerism. This book, with its variety of voices, explores these issues largely from within the Catholic tradition. The role of the church in a pluralist society is a narrative that is being written by many people at many different levels of the church"--

The article analyzes the role played by liberation theology in shaping the emerging paradigm of "another world possible". Focusing on the case of Brazil, it presents the way in which the utopian postulates of building a new society have transcended religious frameworks, actively configuring the axiological, methodological and organizational foundations of social and political movements in many countries of the Global South. The work concludes that, far from being an anachronism, at the beginning of the 21st century, liberation theology, revisited from the perspective of postcoloniality and transmodernity, is experiencing a true renaissance, entering the mainstream of social and political thought. ; El artículo analiza el papel desempeñado por la teología de la liberación en la configuración del emergente paradigma del "otro mundo posible". Centrándose en el caso de Brasil, presenta la forma en que los postulados utópicos de construir una nueva sociedad han trascendido los marcos religiosos, configurando activamente los fundamentos axiológicos, metodológicos y organizativos de los movimientos sociales y políticos en muchos países del Sur Global. El trabajo concluye que, lejos de ser un anacronismo, a principios del siglo XXI, la teología de la liberación, revisitada desde la perspectiva de la poscolonialidad y la transmodernidad, está experimentando un verdadero renacimiento, entrando en la corriente principal del pensamiento social y político.

This volume documents two international conferences held as part of the global theological research program "A Kairos for Catholic Theology: Serving the Church – Serving the World" of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology (INSeCT). The 2019 intercontinental conference in Manila was dedicated to European-Asian dialogue and gathered contributions on peace, justice, democracy and political culture, ecology, family and gender justice. The 2020 European Conference in Vienna was dedicated to the contribution of multicultural and multi-religious experienced Europe to the solution of the current global challenges in church and society.

The relationship between theological liberalism or conservatism & pol'al att's & behavior is probed in a study based on a ET mailed to 264 ministers in the Baptist Convention of Ontario & Quebec. The relationship between denominationaiism & voting preference has long been noted in studies of Canadian voting behavior & it was hoped that this religious factor could be studied, in more depth by grouping the ministers of one denomination according to their theological beliefs. Signif associations between theological conservatism, pol'al conservatism & preference for the Progressive Conservative Party were found. While youthfulness & liberal theological views were apparently sufficient to move some ministers in the Baptist Convention of Ontario & Quebec to adopt liberal pol'al & soc ideas & to support parties other than the Progressive Conservative Party, the residual conservatism of the Convention has nevertheless served to restrain this tendency. Thus, while theological position was found to be a fairly accurate indicator of pol'al act's & behavior, any generalizations about the relationship between these variables must take into account the modal att's of denominations. IPSA.

There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature within the humanities and social sciences is increasingly concerned to chart not only the underlying trends in recorded levels of happiness, but to consider what factors, if any, contribute to positive and sustainable experiences of well-being and quality of life. Increasingly, such research is focusing on the importance of values and beliefs in human satisfaction or quality of life; but the specific contribution of religion to these trends is relatively under-examined. This unique collection of essays seeks to rectify that omission, by identifying the nature and role of the religious contribution to wellbeing. A unique collection of nineteen leading scholars from the field of economics, psychology, public theology and social policy have been brought together in this volume to explore the religious contribution to the debate about happiness and well-being. These essays explore the religious dimensions to a number of key features of well-being, including marriage, crime and rehabilitation, work, inequality, mental health, environment, participation, institutional theory, business and trade. They engage particularly closely with current trends in economics in identifying alternative models of economic growth which focus on its qualitative as well as quantitative dimensions. This distinctive volume brings to public notice the nature and role of religion's contribution to wellbeing, including new ways of measurement and evaluation. As such, it represents a valuable and unprecedented resource for the development of a broad-based religious contribution to the field. It will be of particular relevance for those who are concerned about the continuing debate about personal and societal well-being, as well as those who are interested in the continuing significance of religion for the future of public policy.Introductory essay: developing an overview as context and future John Atherton Part 1: Political Economy 1. Economic theory and happiness Ian Steedman 2. Happiness, welfare and capabilities Carl-Henric Grenholm 3. Happiness through thrift: The contribution of business to human wellbeing Peter Heslam 4. Happiness, work and Christian theology Peter Sedgwick 5. Happiness .

Spinoza's ontology and epistemology as background to his political theory / Wolfgang Bartuschat -- Political philosophy as theory of praxis / Stephan Kirste and Manfred Walther -- Natural and state right, or, Spinoza's foundation of practical reason / Gunnar Hindrichs -- Spinoza's theory of sovereignty / Oliver W. Lembcke -- Spinoza's theory of international relations / Tilmann Altwicker -- Right and reason in Spinoza's political philosophy on the tasks and limits of state authority / Tobias Herbst -- Theory of the best state / Martin Leiner -- Institutional design to stabilize the state : theory of the (constitutional) monarchy / Manfred Walther -- Theory of the aristocracy / Wolfgang Bartuschat -- Spinoza's theory of absolute democracy / Rainer Keil -- The political treatise in present discussion / Tilman Reitz

1. Introduction -- 2. Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo, Rome and the Education of Mercy in Augustine's City of God -- 3. Michelle Kundmueller and Jeremy Castle, When a Law is No Law At All: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Use of Augustine and Aquinas in the Battle Against Segregation -- 4. Jonathan Price and Bede Mullens, O.P., Augustine's "Inner Self" and Identity Politics -- 5. Veronica Roberts Ogle, Cultus Hominum: Political Reflections on Augustine's Theological Anthropology -- 6. Greg Forster, In Rome but Not of It: Augustine between Eusebius and Donatus -- 7. Wei Hua, Augustine, Political Obedience and Chinese House Churches -- 8. Gladden Pappin, Augustine and Gallicanism -- 9. Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist, Spiritual Ends and Temporal Power: An Integralist Reading of The City of God -- 10. Paul Miller, Augustinian Liberalism -- 11. Kody Cooper, Existential Humility and the Critique of Civil Religion in Augustine's Political Theology -- 12. Peter Busch, Augustine's Call to Citizenship -- 13. Mary Keys, Elitism and Secularism, Old and New: Augustine on Humility, Pride, and Philosophy in The City of God VIII-X -- 14. Paul Weithman, Pride in a Time of Crisis -- 15. Michael Lamb, Augustine and Contemporary Political Theory: Toward an Augustinian Republicanism -- 16. Boleslaw Z. Kabala and Caleb Morefield, Speech and Silence: Republican Toleration in Augustine -- 17. Elżbieta Ciżewska-Martyńska, Augustine and Polish Republicans on the Fragility of Liberty: Questions for Today -- 18. Matthew Hallgarth, Augustine's Principled Realism -- 19. Douglas Kries, Augustine and the Flexibility of True Justice -- 20. Eric Gregory, Beyond Critique: Just War as Theological Political Theology -- 21. Nathan Pinkoski, "Love, but Be Careful What You Love": Arendt's Augustinian Fragments on Thinking -- 22. Daniel Strand, Augustine's Privation, Arendt's Banality -- 23. Conclusions.

Introduction. Socio-political disciplines are an important component of the Humanities of the Soviet period of Russian history. Scientific communism, introduced as a compulsory subject in all Higher education institutions of the USSR in the last 30 years of the state's existence, was considered as the final expression of all the theoretical propositions of Marxism-Leninism. The article attempts to consider Scientific communism as a speculative speculative construction that, on the one hand, reproduces the terminological, logical, semantic and operational regulations of classical philosophical systems, and on the other hand, is a privileged mechanism of discursive production. As a typical example of how and through what tools the doctrine is legitimized, the texts of the work of A. K. Belykh, who for almost 30 years headed the Department of the theory of scientific communism at the faculty of philosophy of LSU (now SPBU).Methodology and sources. Methodologically, the work is based on a philosophical analysis of texts representative of the epoch (D. de Tracy, grammar of Port Royal, Soviet Russian philosophers who worked in the Marxist-Leninist tradition, monographs by A. K. Belykh), included in the approved canonical corpus of Marxism-Leninism.Results and discussion. Scientific communism, now virtually removed from historical memory, was an interesting example of how social thought evolved during the Soviet period of Russian history. The corpus of socio-political disciplines, which included Marxist-Leninist philosophy (dialectical materialism and historical materialism), political economy, history of the Communist party of the Soviet Union, and scientific communism, was a single complex of speculative doctrine. All these disciplines, positioned as scientific knowledge, can be fully evaluated only in the context of the main trends in the development of social and philosophical knowledge of the New time, set by the Enlightenment era. Symbolic points of reference here can be considered projects of "universal grammar" (Port Royal) and "ideology" (Destute de Tracy).Conclusion. Scientific communism is not an accidental, but characteristic of Russian thought, intellectual construct. Collective, i. e. a large number of people are involved in its implementation, which means it can be considered as a well-formed direction of social thought. Among the historical analogs that use the same strategic and tactical Arsenal of means of expression and discursive fixation, it can be compared and likened to the wellknown speculative constructs of a theological nature: high scholasticism. ; Введение. Общественно-политические дисциплины – важная составляющая гуманитарного знания советского периода российской истории. Научный коммунизм, введенный в качестве обязательного предмета во всех вузах СССР в последние 30 лет существования государства, рассматривался как завершающее выражение всех теоретических положений марксизма-ленинизма. В статье предпринята попытка рассмотреть научный коммунизм как умозрительную спекулятивную конструкцию, которая, с одной стороны, воспроизводит терминологические, логические, смысловые и операционные регламенты классических философских систем, с другой – является привилегированным механизмом дискурсивного производства. В качестве характерного примера того, как и посредством какого инструментария легитимируется доктрина, приводятся тексты работ А. К. Белыха, на протяжении почти 30 лет возглавлявшего кафедру теории научного коммунизма на философском факультете ЛГУ (ныне – СПбГУ).Методология и источники. Методологически работа базируется на философском анализе репрезентативных для эпохи текстов (Д. де Траси, «Грамматика Пор-Рояля», работы советских российских философов в русле марксистко-ленинской традиции, монографии А. К. Белыха), включенных в утвержденный канонический корпус марксизма-ленинизма.Результаты и обсуждение. Научный коммунизм, сегодня практически изъятый из исторической памяти, являлся интереснейшим примером того, как происходила эволюция общественной мысли в советский период российской истории. Корпус общественно-политических дисциплин, в который входили марксистско-ленинская философия (диалектический и исторический материализм), политическая экономия, история КПСС и научный коммунизм, являлись единым комплексом умозрительной спекулятивной доктрины. В полной мере все эти дисциплины, позиционируемые в качестве научного знания, могут быть оценены лишь в контексте магистральных тенденций развития социально-философского знания Нового времени, заданных эпохой Просвещения. Символическими точками отсчета здесь могут считаться проекты «универсальной грамматики» (Пор-Рояль) и «идеологии» (Дестют де Траси).Заключение. Научный коммунизм – неслучайный, но характерный для отечественной мысли, интеллектуальный конструкт. Коллективный, т. е. в его реализации задействовано большое количество людей, а значит, его можно рассматривать как сформировавшееся направление общественной мысли. Среди исторических аналогов, использующих тот же самый стратегически-тактический арсенал средств выражения и дискурсивной фиксации, его можно и сравнить, и уподобить с известными спекулятивными конструктами теологического характера: высокой схоластикой.

This paper discusses the medieval theological and political history, and the difference between blue and red blood. The popular phrase blue blood had a special significance during the Middle Ages, and its echo has been present in our culture ever since. One might think that such an abstract concept is only an insignificant legend that emerged from the oral folk tradition without any roots in theory and literature. The author's intention is to present the concept of blue and red blood as a part of fictional genre theory. The fictional genre discourse becomes especially evident when the king's simultaneously natural and supernatural bodies, or more simply, the notion that the king possesses a superbody, are discussed. In the given period the concept of blue blood, which referred to the king's dignity, was coined. Thomas Hobbes, in his famous work Leviathan, develops the social contract theory, which is used to explain the development of the modern political community. Blue blood becomes red when an ordinary citizen becomes involved in politics, as this paper confirms. ; Ovaj rad tematizira srednjovjekovnu teološku i političku povijest, kao i razliku između plave i crvene krvi. Poznati izraz plava krv bio je posebno važan u srednjemu vijeku, a njegov odjek prisutan je u kulturi sve do danas. Mogli bismo pomisliti da je tako apstraktan koncept tek beznačajna legenda, proizašla iz usmene predaje bez ikakvih začetaka u teoriji i književnosti. Namjera je autora predstaviti koncept plave i crvene krvi kao dio teorije fikcijskoga žanra. Diskurs fikcijskoga žanra postaje vidljiv u razmatranju kraljeva istovremenog posjedovanja prirodna i natprirodna tijela, odnosno ideje da kralj posjeduje supertijelo. U danome razdoblju stvoren je koncept plave krvi koji se odnosio na kraljevo dostojanstvo. Thomas Hobbes u svojemu slavnom djelu Levijatan razvija teoriju društvenoga ugovora kojom objašnjava razvoj moderne političke zajednice. Kao što prikazuje ovaj rad, plava krv postaje crvena kada običan građanin postane aktivan ...

Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I:In Defense of the Religious Turn -- 1. The New Perspective on Locke: The Religious (Re)Turn in Locke Scholarship -- 2. Life in the Areopagus: Secular Echoes, Religious Refrain -- 3. Locke and the Latitudinarians: Locke's Religious Experience and Theological Influences in the Context of Seventeenth-Century England -- Part II: From A "Religious" to a "Theological" Turn: Tracing Locke's Theological Argumentation -- 4. The God of Christianity and the Foundations of Morality -- 5. Natural Law, the Law of Nature and a Theology of Creation -- 6. Revelation, Reason and Scripture -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

When Canon Andrew White, popularly known as the 'Vicar of Baghdad,' reported that Islamic State had cut a five-year-old child he baptized in half, the Church of England got behind the #WeAreN Twitter hashtag and Facebook profile picture campaign. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has changed his Facebook page's picture to the Arabic letter 'N' in solidarity with Christians whose Mosul homes were marked with the letter in orders to either convert to IS's version of Islam or face the sword. I want to argue that whatever one might believe about the incoherence of Anglican theology, the Vicar of Baghdad and the Archbishop of Canterbury resist the Islamic State through a coherent Anglican political theology. I want to argue, moreover, that that vision can be found in the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

The author analyzes the contribution of Aristotle's Politics to the process of separation between theology and politics, in which the predominance of political theology concludes. He emphasizes specially three aspects of Aristotelian thought and their influence on this process: Aristotle answers the question about the origins of state authority; he considers the human community as a genuine dimension of the reality; his practical philosophy offers elements to distinguish between politics and ethics. Finally, the author studies the autonomy of politics in the political thought of Aquinas and Marsilius of Padua. ; Este trabajo analiza la contribución de la Política de Aristóteles al proceso de separación entre la teología y la política, que le da fin a la predominancia de la teología política. Se enfaniza centralmente en tres aspectos del pensamiento aristotélico y su influencia en este proceso: la respuesta de Aristóteles a la cuestión acerca de los orígenes de la autoridad estatal; la comunidad humana como una dimensión genuina de la realidad y su filosofía práctica que brinda elementos para distinguir entre la política y la ética. Finalmente, se estudia la autonomía de la política en el pensamiento político de Tomás de Aquino y Marsilio de Padua.

The author analyzes the contribution of Aristotle's Politics to the process of separation between theology and politics, in which the predominance of political theology concludes. He emphasizes specially three aspects of Aristotelian thought and their influence on this process: Aristotle answers the question about the origins of state authority; he considers the human community as a genuine dimension of the reality; his practical philosophy offers elements to distinguish between politics and ethics. Finally, the author studies the autonomy of politics in the political thought of Aquinas and Marsilius of Padua. ; Este trabajo analiza la contribución de la Política de Aristóteles al proceso de separación entre la teología y la política, que le da fin a la predominancia de la teología política. Se enfaniza centralmente en tres aspectos del pensamiento aristotélico y su influencia en este proceso: la respuesta de Aristóteles a la cuestión acerca de los orígenes de la autoridad estatal; la comunidad humana como una dimensión genuina de la realidad y su filosofía práctica que brinda elementos para distinguir entre la política y la ética. Finalmente, se estudia la autonomía de la política en el pensamiento político de Tomás de Aquino y Marsilio de Padua.