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How do various concepts of God impact the moral life? Is God
ultimately required for goodness? In this edited collection, an
international panel of contemporary philosophers and theologians
offer new avenues of exploration from a theist perspective for
these important questions. The book features several approaches to
address these questions. Common themes include philosophical and
theological conceptions of God with reference to human morality,
particular Trinitarian accounts of God and the resultant ethical
implications, and how communities are shaped, promoted, and
transformed by accounts of God. Bringing together philosophical and
theological insights on the relationship between God and our moral
lives, this book will be of keen interest to scholars of the
philosophy of religion, particularly those looking at ethics,
social justice and morality.
What is the relationship between the social performance of
companies and their financial performance? More colloquially, can a
firm effectively attend to both people and profits as it conducts
its business? This question has been investigated in no fewer than
95 empirical studies published since 1972. The authors have
assembled a compendium of this research to give researchers and
practitioners alike a broad overview of these 95 studies and a
systematic database detailing the content of each one. This book
provides a comprehensive portrait of this research literature. It
begins with a broad orientation to the literature, exploring why
the link between social and financial performance has been subject
to continual inquiry and often heated debate. The authors then
present an integrated overview of the 95 studies. Through the
charts and tables, the authors illuminate the nature of the studies
conducted; the data samples selected for investigation; the ways in
which financial and social performance have been measured; and the
overall tally of results.
What is the relationship between the social performance of
companies and their financial performance? More colloquially, can a
firm effectively attend to both people and profits as it conducts
its business? This question has been investigated in no fewer than
95 empirical studies published since 1972. The authors have
assembled a compendium of this research to give researchers and
practitioners alike a broad overview of these 95 studies and a
systematic database detailing the content of each one.
This book provides a comprehensive portrait of this research
literature. It begins with a broad orientation to the literature,
exploring why the link between social and financial performance has
been subject to continual inquiry and often heated debate. The
authors then present an integrated overview of the 95 studies.
Through the charts and tables, the authors illuminate the nature of
the studies conducted; the data samples selected for investigation;
the ways in which financial and social performance have been
measured; and the overall tally of results.
How do various concepts of God impact the moral life? Is God
ultimately required for goodness? In this edited collection, an
international panel of contemporary philosophers and theologians
offer new avenues of exploration from a theist perspective for
these important questions. The book features several approaches to
address these questions. Common themes include philosophical and
theological conceptions of God with reference to human morality,
particular Trinitarian accounts of God and the resultant ethical
implications, and how communities are shaped, promoted, and
transformed by accounts of God. Bringing together philosophical and
theological insights on the relationship between God and our moral
lives, this book will be of keen interest to scholars of the
philosophy of religion, particularly those looking at ethics,
social justice and morality.
John Cassian (360-435 CE) started his monastic career in Bethlehem.
He later traveled to the Egyptian desert, living there as a monk,
meeting the venerated Desert Fathers, and learning from them for
about fifteen years. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul
to help establish a monastery there by writing monastic manuals,
the Institutes and the Conferences. These seminal writings
represent the first known attempt to bring the idealized monastic
traditions from Egypt, long understood to be the cradle of
monasticism, to the West. In his Institutes, Cassian comments that
“a monk ought by all means to flee from women and bishops”
(Inst. 11.18). An odd comment from a monk, apparently casting
bishops as adversaries rather than models for the Christian life.
This book argues that Cassian, in both the Institutes and the
Conferences, advocated for a separation between monastics and the
institutional Church. In Cassian’s writings and the larger corpus
of monastic writings from his era, monks never referred to early
Church fathers such as Irenaeus or Tertullian as authorities;
instead, they cited quotes and stories exclusively from earlier,
venerated monks. In that sense, monastic discourse such as
Cassian’s formed a closed discursive system, consciously
excluding the hierarchical institutional Church. Furthermore,
Cassian argues for a separate monastic authority based not on
apostolic succession but on apostolic praxis, the notion that
monastic practices such as prayer and asceticism can be traced back
to the primitive church. This study of Cassian’s writings is
supplemented with Michel Foucault’s analysis of the creation of
subjects to examine Cassian’s formation of a specifically
Egyptian form of monastic subjectivity for his audience, the monks
of Gaul. Foucault’s concepts of disciplinary power and pastoral
power are also employed to demonstrate the effect Cassian’s
rhetoric would have upon his direct audience, as well as many other
monks throughout history.
This volume brings together established and rising scholars to
revitalize political theology by examining conceptions of power
that work beyond sovereign power. The hope is to reexamine the
character of authority by attending to the multiple, various, but
often under-appreciated ways that power is exercised in the
contemporary world.
“We must be actively against instead of passively for sexual
violence.” - "1,800 Miles"
Sexual violence is a cultural issue that will not go away just
because we ignore it. Three college friends understood this
and decided to do something. With few resources and little
funding, they headed to Miami in the summer of 2008 and were ready
to walk all the way to Boston in an effort to raise awareness about
sexual violence. Carry their only possessions on their backs and
never knowing where they would be sleeping at the end of each day,
they slowly made their way up the East Coast. However, they did
have their set backs as certain days included being chased by dogs
and walking numerous miles through the rain.
Despite these adversities, the three walkers continued forward for
three long, hot summer months. Along the way, they talked to the
media, met survivors, and even spent the night with a
Senator. "1,800 Miles" recounts those stories both humorous
and heartbreaking from the walk and is sure to be a story that
inspires other social activists to start moving forward – one step
at a time.
After suffering an ignoble end, one man endeavors to write the
first true and humble memoir in order to save humanity from
destruction and restore order to the universe. The only problem?
He's dead. Frustrated by a brief and confusing life, Joshua Cochran
(a nobody) investigates his existence in The Most Important Memoir
Ever Written, Ever. As he writes from the clarity of death, he is
unimpressed by the monotony of the afterlife, marked by endless
buffets and ice-cream socials and countless dead souls but not much
to do. In his memoir, moments of gritty reality-such as his life as
a firefighter or off-kilter college professor, his experiences with
women and the trumpet, travails over the implant placed in his neck
by the government, a sexual problem with Ivory Soap, his eventual
death... all meld into less-than-touching moments of self
realization even as the author is accosted by fellow dead souls who
oppose his tell-all memoir. Cochran tries to make sense of his
paltry life even as a collection of dead artists and philosophers
wage war against the shadowy Underground Coalition, a group of dead
ne'er do wells, to determine the fate of humanity and the order of
the universe.
Deep within a secret society controlling the world, twins with
extraordinary powers and dark prophecies are born. A mole, from a
once formidable rebellion, steals one of the children to hide far
away. Unaware of his destiny to save the world, Abrom has a chance
encounter which uncovers his "shadow" ability. A freak accident
forces him back into the underbelly of the secret society. Tempted
by new powers, Abrom is guided through an uncanny world of
unlimited credit cards, hidden night clubs and shadow controlled
sports, by a host of new characters. The divide between good and
evil deepens and Abrom must choose a side. To save the world, Abrom
Crow must find proof of mankind's origin while fending off constant
attacks from shadow assassins. Death and love harden Abrom's path
toward leading a revitalized rebellion against his evil twin
brother and an army of shadows.
John Cassian (360-435 CE) started his monastic career in Bethlehem.
He later traveled to the Egyptian desert, living there as a monk,
meeting the venerated Desert Fathers, and learning from them for
about fifteen years. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul
to help establish a monastery there by writing monastic manuals,
the Institutes and the Conferences. These seminal writings
represent the first known attempt to bring the idealized monastic
traditions from Egypt, long understood to be the cradle of
monasticism, to the West. In his Institutes, Cassian comments that
“a monk ought by all means to flee from women and bishops”
(Inst. 11.18). An odd comment from a monk, apparently casting
bishops as adversaries rather than models for the Christian life.
This book argues that Cassian, in both the Institutes and the
Conferences, advocated for a separation between monastics and the
institutional Church. In Cassian’s writings and the larger corpus
of monastic writings from his era, monks never referred to early
Church fathers such as Irenaeus or Tertullian as authorities;
instead, they cited quotes and stories exclusively from earlier,
venerated monks. In that sense, monastic discourse such as
Cassian’s formed a closed discursive system, consciously
excluding the hierarchical institutional Church. Furthermore,
Cassian argues for a separate monastic authority based not on
apostolic succession but on apostolic praxis, the notion that
monastic practices such as prayer and asceticism can be traced back
to the primitive church. This study of Cassian’s writings is
supplemented with Michel Foucault’s analysis of the creation of
subjects to examine Cassian’s formation of a specifically
Egyptian form of monastic subjectivity for his audience, the monks
of Gaul. Foucault’s concepts of disciplinary power and pastoral
power are also employed to demonstrate the effect Cassian’s
rhetoric would have upon his direct audience, as well as many other
monks throughout history.
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