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| Author | : Younhee Kim |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9783039107339 |
This book critically examines David Tracy's well-known methodology of fundamental theology, namely his revisionist model as developed in his Blessed Rage for Order (1975), together with his methodological shifts through the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. It explores how successful he has been in constructing a methodology for the public theological discourse that he deems so necessary. More particularly, this book asks how serviceable this methodology is for articulating Christian discourse in an intelligible and public way in the contemporary context of religious plurality.
| Author | : Marcel Danesi |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2020-09-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1487531036 |
Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a "technique" and a "science" that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its own right, semiotics uses signs, such as words and symbols, to think, communicate, reflect, transmit, and preserve knowledge. Since the initial publication of The Quest for Meaning in 2007, the world has changed dramatically with the advent of online culture, new technologies, and new ways of making signs and symbols. Updated to reflect these many changes, the second edition includes a comprehensive chapter on the use of semiotics in the Internet age. Written in a student-friendly style, featuring examples from everyday life, the book explains what semiotics is all about and why it is so important for gaining insights into our elusive and mysterious human nature.
| Author | : Martin Christopher Sexton |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2011-02-23 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0080551777 |
The aim of this book is to provide an objective vendor independent assessment of the Market Data Definition Language (MDDL), the eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) standard for market data. Assuming little previous knowledge of the standard, or of systems networking, the book identifies the challenges and significance of the standard, examines the business and market drivers and presents decision makers with a clear, concise and jargon free read. Technical material is set off so that Systems Analysts are provided with an explanation to the standard's business terms, context and deep hierarchical structure thus enabling them to create MDDL compliant interfaces. In this way, the book confers the knowledge to enable business and technology professionals to converse comfortably regarding financial systems integration. - First book to present the business case for MDDL adoption and implementation - Identifies the challenges and significance of the standard, examines the business and market drivers and presents decision makers with a clear, concise and jargon free read - Technical material is set off from the text for systems analysts and provides comprehensive explanations of terms, context and deep hierarchical structure, thus enabling them to create MDDL compliant interfaces
| Author | : David Catchpole |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2015-01-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1474231462 |
This book seeks to rehabilitate the Q hypothesis as the most satisfactory explanation of the so-called double tradition.
| Author | : Ulrike Griebel |
| Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2024-06-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 2832550339 |
Human language is unique among animals. We assume that complex cognitive capacities in general and language in particular evolved gradually and thus are manifest in different kinds and/or degrees in other animals demonstrating social communication. This assumption is supported by the fact that we can train social species from very different groups of animals (e.g. great apes, dolphins, dogs, parrots) to understand and in several cases even use abstract symbols for communication with humans and conspecifics. Even simple grammatical rules for sequences of 2-3 symbols can be trained to be understood by several species (e.g. great apes, dogs, dolphins). Even though human language training in these species takes considerable time and effort, it convinces us that cognitive foundations for language are present in other species, and, given the relevant selection pressures, symbolic communication could evolve in other species.
| Author | : Robert Hunter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1342 |
| Release | : 1894 |
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| Author | : Walter A. Elwell |
| Publisher | : Baker Academic |
| Total Pages | : 1312 |
| Release | : 2001-05-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1441200304 |
Fifteen years after its original publication comes a thoroughly revised edition of the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Every article from the original edition has been revisited. With some articles being removed, others revised, and many new articles added, the result is a completely new dictionary covering systematic, historical, and philosophical theology as well as theological ethics.
| Author | : Elisa Vitali |
| Publisher | : Sapienza Università Editrice |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2023-07-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 8893772833 |
Although fifty years passed since the boom of the theories on Japanese national character and considerable academic literature was produced to debunk its ideological tenets, the Nihonjinron still plays a significant role in the mainstream public discourse on Japanese identity. Intellectuals, journalists, policymakers routinely repropose the ever-lasting cliché of Japanese cultural, linguistic, racial uniqueness. In doing so, they adopt a primordialist stance in the narration of Japanese identity, that is a conception of Japanese nation as a primordial entity, located in an original fatherland since immemorial times. Drawing on the writings of Suzuki Takao and Watanabe Shoichi, the book analyses the rhetorical strategies and discursive features supporting essentialist ideas of Japaneseness. At the same time, it highlights the heuristic value of primordialism as an effective descriptor of the nationalist ideology, thus challenging its widespread usage as a category of analysis.
| Author | : Massimo La Torre |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1788971779 |
This discerning book explores the concept of human and fundamental rights, originating from the seminal work by the German legal scholar and constitutional lawyer Robert Alexy. Recognising the growing challenges to the idea of the universality of Human Rights, expert scholars consider time-independent conceptual questions which inevitably lie at the heart of any contemporary human rights discourse: What is the justification of balancing and/or trading off fundamental rights against other rights and collective goods? And are there utilitarian considerations that can limit the normative force of human rights?
| Author | : Thomas P. Nelligan |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 2015-07-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1625647166 |
The question of the relationship between the Gospel of Mark and letters of Paul has been ever-present in New Testament scholarship but has never been fully explored. This monograph seeks to probe further into this question through an examination of the literary relationship between sections of Mark and 1 Corinthians. Nelligan explores the context of these texts in Greco-Roman and Jewish literature, adopting the view that New Testament authors use imitation, with a sophisticated use of literary sources, as a major technique in their composition. He proposes a new set of criteria for judging literary dependence that builds upon and advances those already promoted by biblical scholars. Sections of Mark and 1 Corinthians are then compared and analyzed including the Eucharist accounts given in both texts. By analyzing and comparing sections of Mark and 1 Corinthians, most notably the account of the Eucharist in both texts, Nelligan argues Mark used 1 Corinthians as a literary source and that this was done using well-established literary techniques used in the wider Greco-Roman and Jewish literary world.
