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Causation - An Essay [Bok / Häftad]

On Incompability - In and Between Scientific Research Programmes [Bok / Häftad]

Animal Ethics - A Crash Course [Bok / Häftad]

Regarded by believers as the foundation stone of their faith, and as a stumbling block by those who struggle to believe, the resurrection of Jesus lies at the heart of the Christian gospel. James D. G. Dunn sets out clearly and fairly the arguments for and against Jesus' resurrection, and explains why most biblical scholars believe the weight of historical evidence points in its favour.

"In truth there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross," declares Nietzsche in this famous attack on Christianity and organized religion. One of philosophy's most accessible and easily understood works, the polemic consists of 62 brief chapters, each an aphorism that advances the philosopher's argument. Fast-paced, concise, and brimming with conviction, Nietzsche's final work is essential to a grasp of his complete oeuvre.

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the theopolitical character of the Church of Sweden as it is expressed in its practices, and to contribute with empirically grounded and conceptual resources for ecclesiological reflections on the church's political role and identity. The overarching research question guiding this thesis is: How is the theopolitical character of the Church of Sweden enacted and negotiated in diaconal and liturgical practices in two congregations in deprived areas, and what insights does a theological analysis of these practices offer for a constructive understanding of the church's political identity and role? The thesis understands politics not primarily in terms of statecraft, but as the practices through which a common life is forged, shaped, and sustained. Methodologically, the study is a theological-ethnographic single-case study based on participant observation, shadowing, and semi-structured qualitative interviews. Practice theory is employed within an overarching ecclesiological framework, and the analysis proceeds through three movements: articulation, disturbance, and expansion. The study shows that the church's theopolitical character is enacted through roles and relationships constituted in diaconal and liturgical practices. Through these practices, the church appears as a provider of care and support, facilitator of trust, collaborative partner in the wider society, and a liturgical community in which social relationships are renegotiated. At the same time, these practices are marked by tensions of asymmetry, individualisation, segregation, and the reduction of difference to sameness. To deepen this analysis, the thesis develops the concept of iconic relationships, understood as relationships in which the meaning of the other is not fixed in advance but remains open and inexhaustible in the light of God's presence. The thesis concludes that the church's betrayal of politics occurs not primarily when it fails to enter public debate, but when it loses this iconic frame of reference.

<strong>What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?</strong> <br/><br/>Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbour-cities, that way of thinking began to change. Men (and some women) decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own worrying and thinking minds to the conundrums of life. <br/><br/>These great innovators shaped the beginnings of philosophy. Through the questioning voyager Odysseus, Homer explored how we might navigate our way through the world. Heraclitus in Ephesus was the first to consider the interrelatedness of things. Xenophanes of Colophon was the first champion of civility. In Lesbos, the Aegean island of Sappho and Alcaeus, the early lyric poets asked themselves 'How can I be true to myself?' In Samos, Pythagoras imagined an everlasting soul and took his ideas to Italy where they flowered again in surprising and radical forms. <br/><br/>Prize-winning and bestselling writer Adam Nicolson travels through this transforming world and asks what light these ancient thinkers can throw on our deepest preconceptions. Sparkling with maps, photographs and artwork, How to Be is a journey into the origins of Western thought. <br/><br/>Hugely formative ideas emerged in these harbour-cities: fluidity of mind, the search for coherence, a need for the just city, a recognition of the mutability of things, a belief in the reality of the ideal - all became the Greeks' legacy to the world. <br/><br/>Born out of a rough, dynamic-and often cruel- moment in human history, it was the dawn of enquiry, where these fundamental questions about self, city and cosmos, asked for the first time, became, as they remain, the unlikely bedrock of understanding.