ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year’s general election. But it was the ballot signature verification …
John Finnis’s Natural Law and Natural Rights’ is a remarkable book.Finnis offers a robust exposition and defence of natural law-but in termsthat differ significantly from the way in which this tradition is oftenunderstood today, not least by its defenders. He does so by means ofstriking and powerful arguments; arguments that owe little, however, tothe major …
A core fnding of public opinion research is that most voters do not know much about thepolicy debates that occur among academic experts, Congress, and the bureaucracy and arecovered in the press. Their knowledge is thin, ofen confused, and sometimes mistaken(Delli Carpini and Keeter 1996; Lupia 2015). To some extent, this is inevitable, because individual …
Introduction This book is an introduction to the major theoretical approaches currently utilized by Marxist scholars as frameworks for the conduct ofempirical or historical research on public policy and political development. The book is not intended as a comprehensive survey ofthe entirefield of state theory, but is focused on plain Marxist, neo-Marxist,and post-Marxist theories of …
Traditionally, faith and reason have each been considered to be sources of justification for religious belief. Because both can purportedly serve this same epistemic function, it has been a matter of much interest to philosophers and theologians how the two are related and thus how the rational agent should treat claims derived from either source. …
If you think you understand the politics of ‘church and state’ relations, then you don’t understand the nature of Christianity in ancient Rome. Late Roman and Christian relationships were at an intercultural turning point by the conclusion of the reign of Diocletian. Relations between Church and State developed as a product of political and social tensions evolving from certain ‘secular’ aspects of …
Abstract: How do concepts and practicesofChristian faith changewhen it becomes possiblefor Christians to live openlyand interact materiallywith the cities of the later Roman empire? How do Christian understandingsofpistis/fideschangethe social or spatial order of late antique cities?This paper will investigatehow physical spaceand movement in late antiquecities are described asfosteringorshapingfaith, and explore the competition between Christian andnon-Christian …
In the mid-2nd century CE, Christianity began a gradual process of identity-formation that would lead to the creation of a separate, independent religion from Judaism. Initially, Christians were one of many groups of Jews found throughout the Roman Empire. The 2nd century CE experienced a change in the demographics, the introduction of institutional hierarchy, and the creation of Christian dogma. Christianity …
PEEFACE..“Whoever has liad an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the mental condition of the intelligentclasses in Europe and America, must have perceivedthat there is a great and rapidly-increasing departurefrom the public religious faith, and that, while amongthe more frank this divergence is not concealed, thereis a far more extensive and far more dangerous secession, private …
IntroductionInteracting with the divine is outside of the realm of normal human experience. Thesupernatural is, by definition, outside the limits of what can be quantified, measured, examinedscientifically, or understood from coldly academic foundations. That does not make it any lessreal or vital to the human experience. Augustine points out “Thou awakest us to delight in …