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Kinds of Doctrine Selected AbstractsTHE DOCTRINE OF FILIAL PIETY: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEALMENT CASEJOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 4 2004LIJUN BI [source] RELIGION, PACIFISM, AND THE DOCTRINE OF RESTRAINTJOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS, Issue 2 2006Christopher J. Eberle ABSTRACT The doctrine of restraint is the claim that citizens and legislators ought to restrain themselves from making political decisions solely on religious grounds. That doctrine is normally construed as a general constraint on religious arguments: an exclusively religious rationale as such is an inappropriate basis for a political decision, particularly a coercive political decision. However, the most common arguments for the doctrine of restraint fail to show that citizens and legislators ought to obey the doctrine of restraint, as we can see by reflecting on those arguments as they bear on the Agapic Pacifist's rationale for denying that even legitimate political authorities may use lethal military force. [source] THE DOCTRINE OF UNIVOCITY IS TRUE AND SALUTARYMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2005THOMAS WILLIAMS After clearing up some misunderstandings of Scotus's doctrine of univocity, I argue that the doctrine of univocity is true. All predications about God must be reducible to univocity if they are to be intelligible at all. So even if the doctrine has unwelcome consequences, we ought to affirm it anyway; it is not the job of the theologian or philosopher to shrink from uncomfortable truths. I then argue that the doctrine of univocity in fact has no unwelcome consequences. Moreover, it has at least two salutary logical consequences of the highest importance. I conclude that the polemic against univocity, and against Scotus as its defender, is misplaced. [source] EMPLOYMENT-AT-WILL: THE IMPENDING DEATH OF A DOCTRINEAMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL, Issue 4 2000DEBORAH A. BALLAM First page of article [source] FELIX CULPA: THE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN AS DOCTRINE OF HOPE IN AQUINAS'S SUMMA CONTRA GENTILESTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 5 2009SEAN A. OTTOArticle first published online: 15 APR 200 First page of article [source] THE DOCTRINE OF CREATIONTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 4 2008WILLIAM CHARLTON Synopsis: We are often told that the doctrine of creation has not been refuted by modern science, but we cannot judge whether that is true unless we know exactly what the doctrine is, and that is seldom explained. I first offer an interpretation of the doctrine, then defend this as an interpretation, and finally argue that we should use not scientific but forensic methods to decide whether the doctrine, so interpreted, is true. [source] The Congressional Debate over U.S. Participation in the Congress of Panama, 1825,1826: Washington's Farewell Address, Monroe's Doctrine, and the Fundamental Principles of U.S. Foreign PolicyDIPLOMATIC HISTORY, Issue 5 2006Jeffrey J. Malanson First page of article [source] The ,Checks and Balances' Doctrine in Member States as a Rule of EC Law: The Cases of France and GermanyEUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL, Issue 5 2003Theodore Georgopoulos The paper argues that the mutation of the Judiciary and the Executive role vis-à-vis the Legislature appears to be an application of an emerging doctrine in EC public law that conspicuously resembles the ,Checks and Balances' theory of American constitutionalism. The action of one public authority is,or must be,countered by the reaction of another for the benefit of EC law. Apart from identifying the features of this ,principle' in comparison to its equivalent American doctrine, the paper deals with the question of a possible coexistence of this new model of governance with the traditional one. The comparative perspective is necessary here. Whereas in Germany the constitutional model appears to cope with European demands, in France it seems largely opposed to such a dynamic conception of the separation of powers. [source] The Discursive Origins of a DoctrineFOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS, Issue 3 2007George W. Bush, Identity, Norms, Securitization under Harry S. Truman Previous research on the Bush Doctrine has tended to largely focus on its contents, more or less automatically assuming 9/11 to be the sole factor for the doctrine coming into existence. This article argues, on the contrary, that such a focus gives us an insufficient understanding of U.S. foreign policy since it underproblematizes how a doctrine comes into existence and why it takes a particular form. Instead, this article analyzes the political and societal discourses that are inextricably interlinked to doctrines, exploring how actors' views both are reflections of discourses and also serve to reinforce them. Focusing on specific discursive mechanisms,securitization process, settled norms, and identity constructions,facilitates the explanation of both the origins of a doctrine and its contents. This article analyzes the discourses of the 3-month time period preceding the Bush and the Truman Doctrines. Comparing the Bush Doctrine with the Truman Doctrine, this article finds that the discourses of these two cases are very similar. In both cases the same central mechanisms are prominent, constructing a certain discursive linkage between the two. Finally, this article argues that a constructivist approach that employs a structured design is able to present more persuasive arguments than the traditional inductive-style narrative favored by many constructivist studies. [source] Hermeneutics and the Doctrine of Scripture: Why They Need Each OtherINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2010FRANCIS WATSON Current attempts to understand Scripture theologically typically appeal either to modern hermeneutics or to more traditional doctrines of Scripture , but not to both together. It is argued here that hermeneutics can help to identify and resolve certain problems bequeathed to posterity by the characteristic sixteenth-century equation of Scripture with ,Word of God'. The problems in question relate to the past and present modes of divine speech, the relation of text to community and the fundamental significance of the ,Word of God' concept itself. [source] Development of Doctrine, or Denial?INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2009Balthasar's Holy Saturday, Newman's Essay Edward Oakes generalized Newman's seven tests for doctrinal development as ,internal logic' and ,developmental consistency'. Using this reduction, he claimed Newman's support for Balthasar's theology of Christ's descent into hell. In fairness to Newman and for a more adequate evaluation of Balthasar, I let Newman speak for himself. His norms are applied to both the traditional doctrine and Balthasar's. Since Balthasar's lacks all seven, it follows it is not a development of doctrine, but a corruption. Oakes' other arguments insufficiently counterbalance this deduction, while the traditional doctrine offers insights into the questions of pluralism and the salvation of the non-baptized. [source] Barth's ,Other' Doctrine of Election in the Church DogmaticsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2007SUZANNE McDONALD This article contends that more consideration needs to be given to the presence of this earlier understanding of election in CD I/1 and 2, both with regard to its influence on the presentation of key loci within these volumes and to the tensions created in the unfolding of major themes before and after his christological reorientation of the doctrine. [source] Religious Diversity, Christian Doctrine and Karl BarthINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2006GEOFF THOMPSON In this article J.A. DiNoia's proposals for the recognition of subordinate and non-oppositional truths in the other religions, and his more recent defence of Barth's account of the religions in Church Dogmatics§17, are brought into dialogue with Karl Barth's account of truth extra muros ecclesiae in CD§69. It is argued that the latter raises a number of crucial doctrinal questions for DiNoia's own proposal for the recognition of subordinate and non-oppositional truth, and that it is a more important resource for contemporary discussions than is the controversial CD§17. [source] Analogia non Entis sed Entitatis: The Ontological Consequences of the Doctrine of AnalogyINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2004Laurence Paul Hemming However, a close examination of the doctrine of analogy present in the work of St Thomas Aquinas, his precursors and interpreters, demonstrates that analogy was not being used to do the work it is now called to do, and cannot in fact bear that weight. [source] John Wesley's Doctrine of Grace in Light of the Christian TraditionINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2002Ralph Del Colle This ecumenically minded article explores Wesley's understanding of grace both in its relation to experience , inward religion , and in relation to his doctrines of justification and sanctification. Wesley's treatments of justification and sanctification are compared to those of Luther, Calvin and Trent. His unique and ecumenical blending of traditions allowed Wesley to develop a doctrine of grace which offers significant resources to contemporary understandings of Christian life and practice. [source] "Official" Doctrine and "Unofficial" Practices: The Negotiation of Catholicism in a Netherlands CommunityJOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 4 2001Tony Watling This article examines the Dutch Catholic Church. It is based on a qualitative ethnographic analysis of a particular Dutch Catholic community. It seeks to demonstrate that despite a decline in the church since the 1960s many Dutch parishioners are becoming active in redefining the church and attempting to revitalize Catholicism, creating democratically organized local communities where laity and local clergy, women and men, work together as equals in negotiating change, but argues that this may involve "unofficial" practices, possibly at odds with "official" church hierarchy controlled doctrine, which may resist acknowledging them and resist change. By examining these issues, the article aims to understand the dialectic and tension between what could be termed "popular" and "orthodox", "private" and "public", beliefs and to examine the constraints or possibilities this may place on the church. In this sense, the article also aims to explore how religion, thought to be vulnerable to recent change encouraging individual independence from social institutions, may negotiate (or reject) new developments. Although challenged, Catholic identity may still be valued and provide individuals with resources for negotiating new developments. However, the success or failure of this may depend on the nature of the struggle for authority and influence between "official" and "unofficial" versions of Catholicism. [source] Efficient and Practical Approaches to Ground-Water Right Transfers Under the Prior Appropriation Doctrine and the Snake River Example,JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION, Issue 1 2008Gary S. Johnson Abstract:, Water right transfers are one of the basic means of implementing changes in water use in the highly appropriated water resource systems of the western United States. Many of these systems are governed by the Prior Appropriation Doctrine, which was not originally intended for application to ground-water pumping and the conjunctive management of ground water and surface water, and thus creates an administrative challenge. That challenge results from the fact that ground-water pumping can affect all interconnected surface-water bodies and the effects may be immeasurably small relative to surface water discharge and greatly attenuated in time. Although we may have the ability to calculate the effects of ground-water pumping and transfers of pumping location on surface-water bodies, mitigating for all the impacts of each individual transfer is sufficiently inefficient that it impedes the transfer process, frustrates water users, and consequently inhibits economic development. A more holistic approach to ground-water right transfers, such as a ground-water accounting or banking scheme, may adequately control transfer third-party effects while reducing mitigation requirements on individual transfers. Acceptance of an accounting scheme can accelerate the transfer process, and possibly reduce the administrative burden. [source] Doctrine and fairness in the law of contract*LEGAL STUDIES, Issue 4 2009Andrew Phang This paper explores, through illustrations from the law of contract, the important central theme to the effect that the rules and principles, which constitute the doctrine of the law, are not ends in themselves but are, rather, the means through which the courts arrive at substantively fair outcomes in the cases before them. The paper focuses on the concept of ,radicalism', which relates to the point at which the courts decide that it is legally permissible to hold that a contract should come to an end because a radical or fundamental ,legal tipping point' has not only been arrived at but has, in fact, been crossed. It explores the role of this concept as embodied in the doctrines of frustration, common mistake, discharge by breach, as well as fundamental breach in the context of exception clauses , in particular, how ,radicalism' with regard to these doctrines can be viewed from the (integrated) perspectives of structure, linkage and fairness. The paper also touches briefly on linkages amongst the doctrines of economic duress, undue influence and unconscionability, as well as the ultimate aim these doctrines share of achieving fair outcomes in the cases concerned. [source] CHRISTIAN ORTHODOXY AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISMMODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2006TERRENCE W. TILLEY The paper argues that it can be demonstrated that the position of Jacques Dupuis, S.J., a pluralist, is compatible with that of the syllabus on religious pluralism produced by the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominius Iesus. This demonstration provides good reason to believe that at least one form of de jure pluralism, labeled "inclusivist pluralism", is a theological theory compatible with orthodox Christian belief. [source] Performing the Same Score: Repentance, Truth and Doctrine in Ecumenical TheologyNEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 1020 2008Jeffrey McCurry Abstract This article develops the fruitful metaphor of musical performance to think about church-dividing conflicts over doctrine. In particular, I show that just as there is more than one way for a score of music to be faithfully performed, so there can be more than one way for shared fundamental dogma to be faithfully articulated in different confessional or doctrinal traditions. When the disagreements between the Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian churches over christological doctrine are reframed as contrasting but not contradictory "performances" of one shared scriptural and Nicene dogma, possibilities for ecumenical reconciliation are strenghthened. Indeed, while not articulating its practice by means of the metaphor of a musical performance, the Roman Catholic magisterium is already approaching doctrinal reconciliation in just this way. [source] The Demands of Sacred Doctrine on ,Beginners'NEW BLACKFRIARS, Issue 993 2003Anthony Keaty First page of article [source] "New Political Economies" Then and Now: Economic Theory and the Mutation of Political DoctrineAMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2002A.M.C. Waterman [source] External Freedom in Kant's Rechtslehre: Political, Metaphysical,PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2004JENNIFER K. ULEMAN External freedom is the central good protected in Kant's legal and political philosophy. But external freedom is perplexing, being at once freedom of spatio-temporal movement and a form of noumenal or ,intelligible'freedom. Moreover, it turns out that identifying impairments to external freedom nearly always involves recourse to an elaborated system of positive law, which seems to compromise external freedom's status as a prior, organizing good. Drawing heavily on Kant's understanding of the role of empirical ,anthropological'information in constructing a Doctrine of Right, or Rechtslehre, this essay offers an interpretation of external freedom that makes sense of its simultaneous spatio-temporality, dependence on positive law, intelligibility (or ,noumenality'), and a priority. The essay suggests that this account of Kantian external freedom has implications both for politics and for the metaphysics of everyday objects and institutions. [source] The Monroe Doctrine: Meanings and ImplicationsPRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2006MARK T. GILDERHUS This article presents a brief history of the Monroe Doctrine since its articulation in 1823. First conceived as a statement in opposition to European intrusions in the Americas, it became under President Theodore Roosevelt a justification for U.S. intervention. To cultivate Latin American trade and goodwill during the Great Depression and the Second World War, Franklin Roosevelt's administration accepted the principle of nonintervention. Later with the onset of the Cold War, perceived international imperatives led to a series of new interventions in countries such as Guatemala, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Chile. Though typically couched in idealistic rhetoric emphasizing Pan-American commitments to solidarity and democracy, the various versions of the Monroe Doctrine consistently served U.S. policy makers as a means for advancing what they understood as national strategic and economic interests. [source] Hans Kelsen's Doctrine of ImputationRATIO JURIS, Issue 1 2001Stanley L. Paulson First, the author examines the traditional doctrine of imputation. A look at the traditional doctrine is useful for establishing a point of departure in comparing Kelsen's doctrines of central and peripheral imputation. Second, the author turns to central imputation. Here Kelsen's doctrine follows the traditional doctrine in attributing liability or responsibility to the subject. Kelsen's legal subject, however, has been depersonalized and thus requires radical qualification. Third, the author takes up peripheral imputation, which is the main focus of the paper. It is argued that with respect to the basic form of the law, exhibited by the linking of legal condition with legal consequence, peripheral imputation counts as an austere doctrine, shorn as it is of all references to legal personality or the legal subject. If Kelsen's reconstructed legal norms are empowerments, then the austere doctrine of peripheral imputation captures the rudiments of their form, exactly what would be expected if peripheral imputation does indeed serve as the category of legal cognition. Finally, the author develops the puzzle surrounding the legal "ought" in this context. Although Kelsen talks at one point as though the legal "ought" were the peculiarly legal category, the author submits that this is not the best reading of Kelsen's texts. [source] Reconsidering the Doctrine of God , Charles E. GutensonRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 3 2006John C. Shelley No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology.THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 5 2007By Kevin J. Vanhoozer No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Doctrine of Triple Effect and Why a Rational Agent Need not Intend the Means to His End: Frances M. KammARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, Issue 1 2000Frances M. Kamm In this article I am concerned with whether it could be morally significant to distinguish between doing something ,in order to bring about an effect' as opposed to ,doing something because we will bring about an effect'. For example, the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE) tells us that we should not act in order to bring about evil, but even if this is true is it perhaps permissible to act only because an evil will thus occur? I discuss these questions in connection with a version of the so-called Trolley Problem known as the Loop Case. I also consider how these questions may bear on whether a rational agent must aim at an event which he believes is causally necessary to achieve an end he pursues. [source] The Discursive Origins of a DoctrineFOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS, Issue 3 2007George W. Bush, Identity, Norms, Securitization under Harry S. Truman Previous research on the Bush Doctrine has tended to largely focus on its contents, more or less automatically assuming 9/11 to be the sole factor for the doctrine coming into existence. This article argues, on the contrary, that such a focus gives us an insufficient understanding of U.S. foreign policy since it underproblematizes how a doctrine comes into existence and why it takes a particular form. Instead, this article analyzes the political and societal discourses that are inextricably interlinked to doctrines, exploring how actors' views both are reflections of discourses and also serve to reinforce them. Focusing on specific discursive mechanisms,securitization process, settled norms, and identity constructions,facilitates the explanation of both the origins of a doctrine and its contents. This article analyzes the discourses of the 3-month time period preceding the Bush and the Truman Doctrines. Comparing the Bush Doctrine with the Truman Doctrine, this article finds that the discourses of these two cases are very similar. In both cases the same central mechanisms are prominent, constructing a certain discursive linkage between the two. Finally, this article argues that a constructivist approach that employs a structured design is able to present more persuasive arguments than the traditional inductive-style narrative favored by many constructivist studies. [source] Catholic, Calvinist, and Lutheran Doctrines of Eucharistic Presence: A Brief Note towards a RapprochementINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 3 2002Richard Cross This article explores Schlatter's doctrine of the Trinity in the light of the contemporary debate, focusing on the relation of the economic and the ontological Trinity. It is shown that Schlatter relates God's triune being and God's trinitarian action through the notion of love , where God's love ad extra as well as ad intra is oriented toward the particular in such a way as to enable true otherness. It will be argued, moreover, that Schlatter's contribution to the contemporary trinitarian debate lies in propounding an applied trinitarian theology which is faithful to its object. When God in himself and in relation to creation is oriented toward and actively seeks the other, then theology cannot talk about God's being apart from the actuality of his actions in this world. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||