Steven Weinberg
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195310726
- eISBN:
- 9780199785179
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310726.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Steven Weinberg is a public intellectual and the best-selling author of The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist’s Search for the ...
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Steven Weinberg is a public intellectual and the best-selling author of The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist’s Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature, Glory and Terror: The Coming Nuclear Danger, and many other books. Weinberg is known for being an atheist and anti-religious, and for winning the Nobel Prize in physics for his electroweak interaction theory, showing how the weak nuclear interaction related to electromagnetism in 1979. Weinberg joined the small scientific army waging war on religion. His book, Dreams of a Final Theory, written to rally support for the supercollider, contains a powerful assault on God and religion, making one wonder about the connection.Less
Steven Weinberg is a public intellectual and the best-selling author of The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist’s Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature, Glory and Terror: The Coming Nuclear Danger, and many other books. Weinberg is known for being an atheist and anti-religious, and for winning the Nobel Prize in physics for his electroweak interaction theory, showing how the weak nuclear interaction related to electromagnetism in 1979. Weinberg joined the small scientific army waging war on religion. His book, Dreams of a Final Theory, written to rally support for the supercollider, contains a powerful assault on God and religion, making one wonder about the connection.
A. A. Long
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199279128
- eISBN:
- 9780191706769
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279128.003.0015
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
TheDe officiis(henceforthOff.) is one of the ‘great books’, but no one today perhaps can read it with fresh eyes. Less obvious aboutOff. is the work's radical nature in its effort to reform Roman ...
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TheDe officiis(henceforthOff.) is one of the ‘great books’, but no one today perhaps can read it with fresh eyes. Less obvious aboutOff. is the work's radical nature in its effort to reform Roman ideology. ApproachingOff., as Cicero encourages us to do via his adaptation of Panaetius, interpreters are tempted to read it as Greek philosophy in Roman dress, or — to cite Miriam Griffin — as ‘a fusion of Greek philosophical precepts with the traditional values of the great Roman statesmen of the past’. It is argued that this temptation should be resisted. It is too bland to represent Cicero's existential situation, at the time when he wrote. It is also too bland to register the problems Roman ideology had generated and Cicero's proposed solutions to them.Less
TheDe officiis(henceforthOff.) is one of the ‘great books’, but no one today perhaps can read it with fresh eyes. Less obvious aboutOff. is the work's radical nature in its effort to reform Roman ideology. ApproachingOff., as Cicero encourages us to do via his adaptation of Panaetius, interpreters are tempted to read it as Greek philosophy in Roman dress, or — to cite Miriam Griffin — as ‘a fusion of Greek philosophical precepts with the traditional values of the great Roman statesmen of the past’. It is argued that this temptation should be resisted. It is too bland to represent Cicero's existential situation, at the time when he wrote. It is also too bland to register the problems Roman ideology had generated and Cicero's proposed solutions to them.
Carey C. Newman
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198269854
- eISBN:
- 9780191600517
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198269854.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Christianity's break with Judaism—the mutual ‘parting of the ways’—still baffles those who study it. Was the rupture early and driven by a ‘high’ Christology or was the split late and to be explained ...
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Christianity's break with Judaism—the mutual ‘parting of the ways’—still baffles those who study it. Was the rupture early and driven by a ‘high’ Christology or was the split late and to be explained sociologically (e.g. differences over temple and law)? This paper makes a contribution to this large and vexing question by investigating the narrative, historical, and theological logic standing behind the NT's (New Testament) identification of Jesus as ‘Glory’.Part I of this study briefly outlines the different ways the Glory tradition signs the visible, movable divine presence within the Hebrew Bible. Part II plots how Glory came to define the age of eschatological blessing in (1) the prophets, (2) the writings of second temple Judaism, and (3) within Jesus’ own vision for the future. Part III isolates the resurrection as the narrative, historical, and theological trigger for the equation Jesus = Glory. Part IV sketches the profound sociological implications of such an equation.On the basis of this study, three major conclusions are reached. (1) Christians’ use of Glory language signals that the eschatological age of blessing—the events hoped for by prophets—had broken‐in upon this world in the resurrection of Jesus. (2) The NT's provocative use of Glory language clearly opened a theological breach in the wall of Jewish monotheism by scandalously identifying Jesus as the divine presence. (3) The sociological implications of (1) and (2) as stated above were twofold: Glory language created internal cohesiveness and growth within the Christian community and at the same time clearly marked the boundary lines between Christianity and Judaism. In short, the NT's use of Glory language as a sign of God's power and presence in the resurrection of Jesus indicates that the parting of ways between Christianity and Judaism occurred quite early and did so because of a high Christology.Less
Christianity's break with Judaism—the mutual ‘parting of the ways’—still baffles those who study it. Was the rupture early and driven by a ‘high’ Christology or was the split late and to be explained sociologically (e.g. differences over temple and law)? This paper makes a contribution to this large and vexing question by investigating the narrative, historical, and theological logic standing behind the NT's (New Testament) identification of Jesus as ‘Glory’.
Part I of this study briefly outlines the different ways the Glory tradition signs the visible, movable divine presence within the Hebrew Bible. Part II plots how Glory came to define the age of eschatological blessing in (1) the prophets, (2) the writings of second temple Judaism, and (3) within Jesus’ own vision for the future. Part III isolates the resurrection as the narrative, historical, and theological trigger for the equation Jesus = Glory. Part IV sketches the profound sociological implications of such an equation.
On the basis of this study, three major conclusions are reached. (1) Christians’ use of Glory language signals that the eschatological age of blessing—the events hoped for by prophets—had broken‐in upon this world in the resurrection of Jesus. (2) The NT's provocative use of Glory language clearly opened a theological breach in the wall of Jewish monotheism by scandalously identifying Jesus as the divine presence. (3) The sociological implications of (1) and (2) as stated above were twofold: Glory language created internal cohesiveness and growth within the Christian community and at the same time clearly marked the boundary lines between Christianity and Judaism. In short, the NT's use of Glory language as a sign of God's power and presence in the resurrection of Jesus indicates that the parting of ways between Christianity and Judaism occurred quite early and did so because of a high Christology.
Michael Patrick Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195333527
- eISBN:
- 9780199868896
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333527.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 3 focuses on Balthasar's theological aesthetics as a well‐articulated critical methodology. Balthasar's fusion of aesthetics with history forges both a Christology and an analogy of being ...
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Chapter 3 focuses on Balthasar's theological aesthetics as a well‐articulated critical methodology. Balthasar's fusion of aesthetics with history forges both a Christology and an analogy of being that is developed in light of that Christology. Balthasar urges us to “see the form [of Christ]” in all manner of being and experience—human activities, natural phenomena, and especially human works of art. “Seeing the form” becomes a central critical and theological hermeneutic; and the chapter cultivates a parallel between “seeing the form” and interpreting, broadly, the “word(s)” of narrative art. The first three sections of the chapter develop an aesthetics of a representative word (in this case, the term “hierarchy”); the last section is an application of what is gleaned from the first three upon Flannery O'Connor's “Revelation.” While a close reading of O'Connor's text serves as a literary exemplum of a Catholic imagination, other poets and authors who demonstrate a similar theological aesthetic are considered in order round out the discussion.Less
Chapter 3 focuses on Balthasar's theological aesthetics as a well‐articulated critical methodology. Balthasar's fusion of aesthetics with history forges both a Christology and an analogy of being that is developed in light of that Christology. Balthasar urges us to “see the form [of Christ]” in all manner of being and experience—human activities, natural phenomena, and especially human works of art. “Seeing the form” becomes a central critical and theological hermeneutic; and the chapter cultivates a parallel between “seeing the form” and interpreting, broadly, the “word(s)” of narrative art. The first three sections of the chapter develop an aesthetics of a representative word (in this case, the term “hierarchy”); the last section is an application of what is gleaned from the first three upon Flannery O'Connor's “Revelation.” While a close reading of O'Connor's text serves as a literary exemplum of a Catholic imagination, other poets and authors who demonstrate a similar theological aesthetic are considered in order round out the discussion.
Earl Mulderink, III
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823243341
- eISBN:
- 9780823243389
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823243341.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This book examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront from 1861 to 1865 and on the ...
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This book examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront from 1861 to 1865 and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans. It contributes to the growing body of Civil War studies that analyzes the “war at home” by focusing on the bustling center of the world's whaling industry in the nineteenth century. Using a broad chronological framework of the 1840s through the 1890s, the book contextualizes the rise and fall of New Bedford's whaling enterprise and details the war's multifaceted impacts between 1861 and 1865. One of its major goals is to explore the war's social history by examining how the conflict touched the city's residents—both white and black. Known before the war for both its wealth and its antislavery fervor, New Bedford offered a congenial home for a sizeable black community that experienced a “different Civil War” than did native-born whites. Drawing upon military pension files, published accounts, and welfare records, the book pays particular attention to soldiers and families connected with the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the “brave black regiment” (made famous by the Academy Award-winning 1989 film Glory) that helped shape national debates over black military enlistment, equal pay, and notions of citizenship. New Bedford's enlightened white leaders, many of them wealthy whaling merchants with Quaker roots, actively promoted the military enlistment that pulled 2,000 local citizen-soldiers into the Union ranks.Less
This book examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront from 1861 to 1865 and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans. It contributes to the growing body of Civil War studies that analyzes the “war at home” by focusing on the bustling center of the world's whaling industry in the nineteenth century. Using a broad chronological framework of the 1840s through the 1890s, the book contextualizes the rise and fall of New Bedford's whaling enterprise and details the war's multifaceted impacts between 1861 and 1865. One of its major goals is to explore the war's social history by examining how the conflict touched the city's residents—both white and black. Known before the war for both its wealth and its antislavery fervor, New Bedford offered a congenial home for a sizeable black community that experienced a “different Civil War” than did native-born whites. Drawing upon military pension files, published accounts, and welfare records, the book pays particular attention to soldiers and families connected with the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the “brave black regiment” (made famous by the Academy Award-winning 1989 film Glory) that helped shape national debates over black military enlistment, equal pay, and notions of citizenship. New Bedford's enlightened white leaders, many of them wealthy whaling merchants with Quaker roots, actively promoted the military enlistment that pulled 2,000 local citizen-soldiers into the Union ranks.
Ryosuke Hayama
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195335903
- eISBN:
- 9780199775446
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335903.003.0003
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
This chapter introduces a mechanism of photoperiodic flowering response in Pharbitis, drawing on the physiological and molecular genetic studies carried out to date. In Pharbitis, a circadian system ...
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This chapter introduces a mechanism of photoperiodic flowering response in Pharbitis, drawing on the physiological and molecular genetic studies carried out to date. In Pharbitis, a circadian system whose phase is set by lights off through the action of red, far-red, and/or blue light during the light period, controls the photoperiodic flowering response. This circadian system may be distinct from that which controls other circadian rhythms, such as CAB gene expression. This circadian clock determines the phase of one or more clock-controlled genes, which generate a dusk-set activity rhythm in the dark and induce PnFT expression if the dark period is sufficiently long. In this model, one or more clock-controlled genes may be activated specifically in the dark, while red light may directly inhibit such activity during the light period. This mechanism is in contrast to that proposed for Arabidopsis and rice, both of which possess a mechanism for measuring the length of the day in which a clock-controlled gene, whose phase is mainly set by lights on at dawn, is directly activated by light posttranscriptionally.Less
This chapter introduces a mechanism of photoperiodic flowering response in Pharbitis, drawing on the physiological and molecular genetic studies carried out to date. In Pharbitis, a circadian system whose phase is set by lights off through the action of red, far-red, and/or blue light during the light period, controls the photoperiodic flowering response. This circadian system may be distinct from that which controls other circadian rhythms, such as CAB gene expression. This circadian clock determines the phase of one or more clock-controlled genes, which generate a dusk-set activity rhythm in the dark and induce PnFT expression if the dark period is sufficiently long. In this model, one or more clock-controlled genes may be activated specifically in the dark, while red light may directly inhibit such activity during the light period. This mechanism is in contrast to that proposed for Arabidopsis and rice, both of which possess a mechanism for measuring the length of the day in which a clock-controlled gene, whose phase is mainly set by lights on at dawn, is directly activated by light posttranscriptionally.
Jerome Murphy‐O'Connor
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199592104
- eISBN:
- 9780191595608
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199592104.003.0012
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies, Early Christian Studies
In all instances in the Corinthian correspondence when ‘Jesus’ is used alone, without any qualification, it carries the connotation of an earthly existence marked by weakness, humiliation, and ...
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In all instances in the Corinthian correspondence when ‘Jesus’ is used alone, without any qualification, it carries the connotation of an earthly existence marked by weakness, humiliation, and suffering. ‘Another Jesus’ in consequence should be the antithesis, namely, ‘the lord of glory’ preached by Paul's opponents at Corinth.Less
In all instances in the Corinthian correspondence when ‘Jesus’ is used alone, without any qualification, it carries the connotation of an earthly existence marked by weakness, humiliation, and suffering. ‘Another Jesus’ in consequence should be the antithesis, namely, ‘the lord of glory’ preached by Paul's opponents at Corinth.
Ingo Gildenhard
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199291557
- eISBN:
- 9780191594885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199291557.003.0013
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The chapter begins by setting out the terms of traditional aristocratic immortality in Rome, which consisted in the acquisition of praise (laus) and glory (gloria) during life and the survival in the ...
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The chapter begins by setting out the terms of traditional aristocratic immortality in Rome, which consisted in the acquisition of praise (laus) and glory (gloria) during life and the survival in the memory of the family and the larger civic community after death; in contrast to philosophical belief in the immortality of the soul and the hubristic desire for deification, it was thus grounded in practices of commemoration. The chapter shows how Cicero nevertheless flirted with the radical possibility of continued existence after death through deification or the immortality of the soul, conceiving of the hereafter as a realm of reward and/ or punishment. The discussion thus illustrates how he strategically endorsed the popular, but also Platonic idea of the afterlife as a site of reckoning where mechanisms of distributive and retributive justice balance open accounts.Less
The chapter begins by setting out the terms of traditional aristocratic immortality in Rome, which consisted in the acquisition of praise (laus) and glory (gloria) during life and the survival in the memory of the family and the larger civic community after death; in contrast to philosophical belief in the immortality of the soul and the hubristic desire for deification, it was thus grounded in practices of commemoration. The chapter shows how Cicero nevertheless flirted with the radical possibility of continued existence after death through deification or the immortality of the soul, conceiving of the hereafter as a realm of reward and/ or punishment. The discussion thus illustrates how he strategically endorsed the popular, but also Platonic idea of the afterlife as a site of reckoning where mechanisms of distributive and retributive justice balance open accounts.
Sean M. McDonough
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199576470
- eISBN:
- 9780191722585
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199576470.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
While the memories of Jesus' re-creative work could provide a powerful impetus towards speculation about his role in primal creation, a theological framework was needed if these primal insights were ...
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While the memories of Jesus' re-creative work could provide a powerful impetus towards speculation about his role in primal creation, a theological framework was needed if these primal insights were to reach concrete expression in phrases like ‘in him all things were created’, and if they were to be defended in debate with Jewish and pagan interlocutors. Most commentators assert that Wisdom provides this framework. But a careful reading of the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish texts shows that God's act of creation could be depicted in a number of ways: the world could be seen as the product of God's Word, God's Spirit, God's image, or God's glory, not only of God's Wisdom. A close reflection on the relevant New Testament texts shows that messianic dominion provides a more suitable point of departure. Creation is the beginning of messianic dominion; the Messiah rules the world he made.Less
While the memories of Jesus' re-creative work could provide a powerful impetus towards speculation about his role in primal creation, a theological framework was needed if these primal insights were to reach concrete expression in phrases like ‘in him all things were created’, and if they were to be defended in debate with Jewish and pagan interlocutors. Most commentators assert that Wisdom provides this framework. But a careful reading of the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish texts shows that God's act of creation could be depicted in a number of ways: the world could be seen as the product of God's Word, God's Spirit, God's image, or God's glory, not only of God's Wisdom. A close reflection on the relevant New Testament texts shows that messianic dominion provides a more suitable point of departure. Creation is the beginning of messianic dominion; the Messiah rules the world he made.
Rushmir Mahmutćehajić
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823227518
- eISBN:
- 9780823237029
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823227518.003.0026
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Praise is the relationship between the Praiser and the Praised. And there is nothing in the horizons and the selves without it. The totality of creation is its widespread revelation. Man gathers it ...
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Praise is the relationship between the Praiser and the Praised. And there is nothing in the horizons and the selves without it. The totality of creation is its widespread revelation. Man gathers it together and it is his uncreated core, so that there is no praise other than Praise. Honor, glory, and Praise belong to the Praised. Praise belongs only to God and, as His revelation in every phenomenon, it is made inseparable from the question of the relationship between life and death. The denial of life apart from Life is the condition for overcoming death. It is only through the return of all things to oneness and the recognition of it in the whole dispersal of creation that the Praiser recognizes the infinite closeness of the Praised in his love. As the image of the Praised, the self receives or reflects the properties of the Praised, thus becoming a witness of the Praiser as its model. And the Praiser is the most submissive, and as such is the most beautiful example in the manifestation of the Praised.Less
Praise is the relationship between the Praiser and the Praised. And there is nothing in the horizons and the selves without it. The totality of creation is its widespread revelation. Man gathers it together and it is his uncreated core, so that there is no praise other than Praise. Honor, glory, and Praise belong to the Praised. Praise belongs only to God and, as His revelation in every phenomenon, it is made inseparable from the question of the relationship between life and death. The denial of life apart from Life is the condition for overcoming death. It is only through the return of all things to oneness and the recognition of it in the whole dispersal of creation that the Praiser recognizes the infinite closeness of the Praised in his love. As the image of the Praised, the self receives or reflects the properties of the Praised, thus becoming a witness of the Praiser as its model. And the Praiser is the most submissive, and as such is the most beautiful example in the manifestation of the Praised.
Vincent Azoulay
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691154596
- eISBN:
- 9781400851171
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691154596.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter examines one of the bases of Pericles' political power: as military leader, which rests upon the office of a stratēgos. It first considers the institutional and military mainsprings of ...
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This chapter examines one of the bases of Pericles' political power: as military leader, which rests upon the office of a stratēgos. It first considers the institutional and military mainsprings of Pericles' authority before discussing the function of a stratēgos and the reasons why the role played by this office was so crucial in Athens. It then explores how Pericles set up a veritable policy for glory, even to the point of singing the praises of his own successes. It also analyzes Pericles' military strategy in the Peloponnesian War and concludes with the argument that Pericles' success rested on military glory—as head of the Athenian armies and navies. The chapter shows that, as a stratēgos in warfare, well accustomed to military command, Pericles dominated Athenian political life for twenty or so years.Less
This chapter examines one of the bases of Pericles' political power: as military leader, which rests upon the office of a stratēgos. It first considers the institutional and military mainsprings of Pericles' authority before discussing the function of a stratēgos and the reasons why the role played by this office was so crucial in Athens. It then explores how Pericles set up a veritable policy for glory, even to the point of singing the praises of his own successes. It also analyzes Pericles' military strategy in the Peloponnesian War and concludes with the argument that Pericles' success rested on military glory—as head of the Athenian armies and navies. The chapter shows that, as a stratēgos in warfare, well accustomed to military command, Pericles dominated Athenian political life for twenty or so years.
L. D. Hurst
- Published in print:
- 1987
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198263265
- eISBN:
- 9780191682452
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263265.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter presents an essay on the Christology of the first and second chapters of the Book of Hebrews. It analyses the book's Christology using the deductive reasoning employed by Sir Arthur ...
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This chapter presents an essay on the Christology of the first and second chapters of the Book of Hebrews. It analyses the book's Christology using the deductive reasoning employed by Sir Arthur Conan Coyle in his books about Sherlock Holmes and examines the parallel between Hebrews and the Books of Psalms and Samuel. It concludes that the first chapter of Hebrews is concerned with the status of one appointed to a glory greater than that of his comrades of angels and that the point of the extravaganza of chapter 1 leads readers of the epistle to the glory of mankind foretold in Psalm 8 and explored in chapter 2.Less
This chapter presents an essay on the Christology of the first and second chapters of the Book of Hebrews. It analyses the book's Christology using the deductive reasoning employed by Sir Arthur Conan Coyle in his books about Sherlock Holmes and examines the parallel between Hebrews and the Books of Psalms and Samuel. It concludes that the first chapter of Hebrews is concerned with the status of one appointed to a glory greater than that of his comrades of angels and that the point of the extravaganza of chapter 1 leads readers of the epistle to the glory of mankind foretold in Psalm 8 and explored in chapter 2.
Geoffrey Brennan and Philip Pettit
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- November 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199246489
- eISBN:
- 9780191601460
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199246483.003.0012
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Microeconomics
Although esteem cannot readily be the object of direct exchange, something rather like exchange can be secured in the economy of esteem via associations. By being ‘associated’ with B, A can earn ...
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Although esteem cannot readily be the object of direct exchange, something rather like exchange can be secured in the economy of esteem via associations. By being ‘associated’ with B, A can earn ‘borrowed glory’ from B–and vice versa. The associations that so form may be very loose: all that is required is for the individuals to be associated in some esteem relevant way. The set of all Nobel Laureates is an association in this sense. An important feature of the advantages of association here is the presence of ‘economies of scale’ in publicity. One such scale effect relates to the ‘teleological paradox’: blowing the trumpet of a group of which I am a member is much less disestimable than blowing one’s own trumpet! But stronger forms of association–what we call ‘groups’–can serve the additional function of creating superior audiences for members. If the esteem of those highly esteemed is worth more, then high esteem individuals will tend to coalesce in ‘mutual admiration societies’. We discuss the optimal size and composition of groups and associations–emphasizing the hierarchical tendencies of the structure, that is, the most esteemed will tend to band together; then the next most esteemed; and so on. We suggest reasons why esteem groups and associations may be especially good at solving natural free-rider problems.Less
Although esteem cannot readily be the object of direct exchange, something rather like exchange can be secured in the economy of esteem via associations. By being ‘associated’ with B, A can earn ‘borrowed glory’ from B–and vice versa. The associations that so form may be very loose: all that is required is for the individuals to be associated in some esteem relevant way. The set of all Nobel Laureates is an association in this sense. An important feature of the advantages of association here is the presence of ‘economies of scale’ in publicity. One such scale effect relates to the ‘teleological paradox’: blowing the trumpet of a group of which I am a member is much less disestimable than blowing one’s own trumpet! But stronger forms of association–what we call ‘groups’–can serve the additional function of creating superior audiences for members. If the esteem of those highly esteemed is worth more, then high esteem individuals will tend to coalesce in ‘mutual admiration societies’. We discuss the optimal size and composition of groups and associations–emphasizing the hierarchical tendencies of the structure, that is, the most esteemed will tend to band together; then the next most esteemed; and so on. We suggest reasons why esteem groups and associations may be especially good at solving natural free-rider problems.
Alastair Fowler
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198183402
- eISBN:
- 9780191674037
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183402.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter looks at the use of pyramids and obelisks as imagery in Renaissance English literature. It examines Michel de Montaigne's distrust of ...
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This chapter looks at the use of pyramids and obelisks as imagery in Renaissance English literature. It examines Michel de Montaigne's distrust of glory and his separation of virtue from the fame of it. John Milton writes that William Shakespeare's glory is too great to need a ‘star y-pointing pyramid’. The pyramid Milton probably means would not be the squat modern type, but rather a steep finial-like obelisk, like those fashionable in sepulchres of the time. Notable examples include the tomb of William the Silent at Delft and Hubert le Sueur's fine monument to the Duke of Buckingham in Westminster Abbey, each surmounted by four obelisks. The Pope might erect a few very large obelisks in Rome, but all over Britain churches and houses bristled with countless smaller ones.Less
This chapter looks at the use of pyramids and obelisks as imagery in Renaissance English literature. It examines Michel de Montaigne's distrust of glory and his separation of virtue from the fame of it. John Milton writes that William Shakespeare's glory is too great to need a ‘star y-pointing pyramid’. The pyramid Milton probably means would not be the squat modern type, but rather a steep finial-like obelisk, like those fashionable in sepulchres of the time. Notable examples include the tomb of William the Silent at Delft and Hubert le Sueur's fine monument to the Duke of Buckingham in Westminster Abbey, each surmounted by four obelisks. The Pope might erect a few very large obelisks in Rome, but all over Britain churches and houses bristled with countless smaller ones.
Veronica Makowsky
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195078664
- eISBN:
- 9780199855117
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195078664.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama
Glaspell’s second novel, The Visioning (1911), is a marked exit from the somewhat convention-bound The Glory of the Conquered (1909). If Glaspell hypothetically questions the cult of domesticity in ...
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Glaspell’s second novel, The Visioning (1911), is a marked exit from the somewhat convention-bound The Glory of the Conquered (1909). If Glaspell hypothetically questions the cult of domesticity in her first novel, in her second she dynamically challenges society in its many aspects: religion, war, the class structure, capitalism, inherited wealth, tradition, and the double standard of gender roles. The Visioning stunned reviewers, friends, and family who had greatly enjoyed her more standard newcomer effort. As if to ask her religious, respectable mother for understanding, Glaspell dedicated The Visioning to her. Glaspell and The Visioning’s heroine, like many of the American women writers of that era, challenged what Elizabeth Ammons describes as “the need to find union and reunion with the world of one’s mother, particularly as one journeyed farther and farther from that world into territory traditionally marked off as forbidden.”Less
Glaspell’s second novel, The Visioning (1911), is a marked exit from the somewhat convention-bound The Glory of the Conquered (1909). If Glaspell hypothetically questions the cult of domesticity in her first novel, in her second she dynamically challenges society in its many aspects: religion, war, the class structure, capitalism, inherited wealth, tradition, and the double standard of gender roles. The Visioning stunned reviewers, friends, and family who had greatly enjoyed her more standard newcomer effort. As if to ask her religious, respectable mother for understanding, Glaspell dedicated The Visioning to her. Glaspell and The Visioning’s heroine, like many of the American women writers of that era, challenged what Elizabeth Ammons describes as “the need to find union and reunion with the world of one’s mother, particularly as one journeyed farther and farther from that world into territory traditionally marked off as forbidden.”
John Beer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199574018
- eISBN:
- 9780191723100
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574018.003.0015
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Coleridge's lifelong interest in light and illumination in all their guises is focused particularly on the phenomenon of the ‘glory’. He is also attracted to individuals such as Charles Lamb and his ...
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Coleridge's lifelong interest in light and illumination in all their guises is focused particularly on the phenomenon of the ‘glory’. He is also attracted to individuals such as Charles Lamb and his own son Hartley, who seem at times to be illuminated from within. This delight is complemented by his conviction of the innocence inherent in all vegetable growth—especially flowers—and his particular pleasure in all phenomena allowing vegetation to be transfigured by light shining through it. Above all he enjoys any indications that the body is inhabited by a soul, of which the bodily translucence, or shining through, which is sometimes experienced, seems to be a signification.Less
Coleridge's lifelong interest in light and illumination in all their guises is focused particularly on the phenomenon of the ‘glory’. He is also attracted to individuals such as Charles Lamb and his own son Hartley, who seem at times to be illuminated from within. This delight is complemented by his conviction of the innocence inherent in all vegetable growth—especially flowers—and his particular pleasure in all phenomena allowing vegetation to be transfigured by light shining through it. Above all he enjoys any indications that the body is inhabited by a soul, of which the bodily translucence, or shining through, which is sometimes experienced, seems to be a signification.
Jacob Stromberg
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199593910
- eISBN:
- 9780191595707
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199593910.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
To further illuminate the author of Third Isaiah as a reader of the book, this chapter analyzes allusion and influence in Isaiah 65–66, finding these examples: the offer made in Isaiah 55:6–9 is seen ...
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To further illuminate the author of Third Isaiah as a reader of the book, this chapter analyzes allusion and influence in Isaiah 65–66, finding these examples: the offer made in Isaiah 55:6–9 is seen as rejected by 65; the ‘former’ and ‘new things’ of Isaiah 40–55 are transformed by 65 into a ‘new heavens and earth’; Hezekiah's cry of distress and ‘sign’ of salvation in Isaiah 36–39 serve as a basis for salvation in 65–66; the royal reign in 11:6–9 is taken up by 65 in a description of the new world; the promise of children to barren Zion in 54 is reaffirmed by 66; the divine ‘glory’ in 40 is drawn upon by 66; those passages promising return from exile (Isaiah 11, 49, 62) influenced 66:18–24. From these examples it again emerges that the author of Third Isaiah reaffirmed the older Isaianic promises, but redefined who would enjoy them.Less
To further illuminate the author of Third Isaiah as a reader of the book, this chapter analyzes allusion and influence in Isaiah 65–66, finding these examples: the offer made in Isaiah 55:6–9 is seen as rejected by 65; the ‘former’ and ‘new things’ of Isaiah 40–55 are transformed by 65 into a ‘new heavens and earth’; Hezekiah's cry of distress and ‘sign’ of salvation in Isaiah 36–39 serve as a basis for salvation in 65–66; the royal reign in 11:6–9 is taken up by 65 in a description of the new world; the promise of children to barren Zion in 54 is reaffirmed by 66; the divine ‘glory’ in 40 is drawn upon by 66; those passages promising return from exile (Isaiah 11, 49, 62) influenced 66:18–24. From these examples it again emerges that the author of Third Isaiah reaffirmed the older Isaianic promises, but redefined who would enjoy them.
Gabor S. Boritt
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195089110
- eISBN:
- 9780199853830
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195089110.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter explores Lincoln's childhood years and his growing aberration to war. The War of 1812 coincided with Lincoln's early childhood. Patriotic and pro-war sentiments surrounded his youth. ...
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This chapter explores Lincoln's childhood years and his growing aberration to war. The War of 1812 coincided with Lincoln's early childhood. Patriotic and pro-war sentiments surrounded his youth. Hunting was a way of life and the means of survival on the frontier, which Lincoln admits he did not do much of. Striking evidences suggest that Lincoln harbored anti-military and anti-violence sentiments in the midst of a nation which was prized in military glory. His faith in liberty, combined with political self-interest and abomination of violence, could explain his pacifist approach to the impending civil war in America. Whether or not a nation deserved such a president or his love of peace and dislike of war is a matter for conjecture.Less
This chapter explores Lincoln's childhood years and his growing aberration to war. The War of 1812 coincided with Lincoln's early childhood. Patriotic and pro-war sentiments surrounded his youth. Hunting was a way of life and the means of survival on the frontier, which Lincoln admits he did not do much of. Striking evidences suggest that Lincoln harbored anti-military and anti-violence sentiments in the midst of a nation which was prized in military glory. His faith in liberty, combined with political self-interest and abomination of violence, could explain his pacifist approach to the impending civil war in America. Whether or not a nation deserved such a president or his love of peace and dislike of war is a matter for conjecture.
Belden C. Lane
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199755080
- eISBN:
- 9780199894956
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199755080.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter introduces the forgotten importance of nature in the history of Reformed spirituality, showing how a delight in the manifestations of God's glory in the natural world puts beauty and ...
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This chapter introduces the forgotten importance of nature in the history of Reformed spirituality, showing how a delight in the manifestations of God's glory in the natural world puts beauty and desire at the heart of the tradition. We do not usually think of Reformed thought as marked by a spirituality of desire or a focus on creation. In describing the “double irony” of Reformed piety, the chapter suggests that Calvinists, often pictured as dour Puritans, have also been marked by a sensuous spirituality of desire. Similarly, Reformed Christians who have celebrated a God who is “wholly other,” have also discerned God's glory everywhere in the natural world. The chapter distinguishes two parallel strains of thought in Reformed practice—the one beginning with a sense of awe at God's majesty, the other with a delight in God's beauty.Less
This chapter introduces the forgotten importance of nature in the history of Reformed spirituality, showing how a delight in the manifestations of God's glory in the natural world puts beauty and desire at the heart of the tradition. We do not usually think of Reformed thought as marked by a spirituality of desire or a focus on creation. In describing the “double irony” of Reformed piety, the chapter suggests that Calvinists, often pictured as dour Puritans, have also been marked by a sensuous spirituality of desire. Similarly, Reformed Christians who have celebrated a God who is “wholly other,” have also discerned God's glory everywhere in the natural world. The chapter distinguishes two parallel strains of thought in Reformed practice—the one beginning with a sense of awe at God's majesty, the other with a delight in God's beauty.
W. P. Stephens
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198263630
- eISBN:
- 9780191682629
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263630.003.0014
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, History of Christianity
This chapter discusses some of the characteristics in Zwingli's work as a reformer and some of the emphases in his thought. Two of the most notable characteristics of his theology are that it is ...
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This chapter discusses some of the characteristics in Zwingli's work as a reformer and some of the emphases in his thought. Two of the most notable characteristics of his theology are that it is biblical and centred in God. The discussion here looks at him as a biblical theologian and social, political, practical, and pastoral reformer. His theology was biblical, yet open to truth wherever it is found. It was centred in the God who has revealed himself in Christ and who is active through the Spirit. The chapter concludes that his theology and ministry embraced society as well as the individual, but its source and goal was the glory of God.Less
This chapter discusses some of the characteristics in Zwingli's work as a reformer and some of the emphases in his thought. Two of the most notable characteristics of his theology are that it is biblical and centred in God. The discussion here looks at him as a biblical theologian and social, political, practical, and pastoral reformer. His theology was biblical, yet open to truth wherever it is found. It was centred in the God who has revealed himself in Christ and who is active through the Spirit. The chapter concludes that his theology and ministry embraced society as well as the individual, but its source and goal was the glory of God.
