A Revelation of Purgatory

Christmas in purgatory: a retrospective look.

A Protestant Purgatory: Theological Origins of the Penitentiary Act, 1779

25 years ago, in a provocative reconsideration of English political and social history, English Society 1688–1832, J. C. D. Clark advanced the then contentious claim that until the end of the long 18th century England remained what he styled a ‘confessional state’.(1) Missing from the wave of prior work by social and political historians of 18th-century England, Clark argued, was a close attent...

A Protestant Purgatory: Theological Origins of the Penitentiary Act, 1779

25 years ago, in a provocative reconsideration of English political and social history, English Society 1688–1832, J. C. D. Clark advanced the then contentious claim that until the end of the long 18th century England remained what he styled a ‘confessional state’.(1) Missing from the wave of prior work by social and political historians of 18th-century England, Clark argued, was a close attent...

on Its Order of Revelation

Among the issues in Quranic fields, interpretation of Quran based on the order of revelation has attracted the attention of many practitioners of this field. This group believes that this style of interpretation has a unique role in discovering psychological, educational, ethical, social and political aspects of Quran verses among which are gradual progresses against polytheists and unbelievers...

A logic of revelation and concealment

The last decade has been witness to a rapid growth of interest in logics intended to support reasoning about the interactions between knowledge and action. Typically, logics combining dynamic and epistemic components contain ontic actions (which change the state of the world, e.g., switching a light on) or epistemic actions (which affect the information possessed by agents, e.g., making an anno...