Unclean stream: Representing selfhood in Joyce and Lewis

Clean and Unclean Meats

The Theology of Unclean Food

The problem of unclean foods was at the heart of the first great controversy in the early church (Acts 15). Did Gentile believers have to be circumcised and keep the laws of Moses about food? The conclusions of the council of Jerusalem are recorded in Acts, but there is little explanation of the theological reasoning behind the decisions. Commentators therefore tend to regard the decree (Acts 1...

Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles

Representing RDF Stream Processing Queries in RSP-SPIN

A number of RDF Stream Processing (RSP) systems have been developed to support processing of streaming Linked Data, however, due to the lack of a standard query language they all provide different extensions. The RSP Community Group is in the process of standardizing the RSP query language (RSP-QL), which incorporates many features from existing RSP languages. In this paper we present a demo sh...

Reflections on Selfhood and Embodiment

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST FRIGHTENING CONDITION that faces the aging population in the twenty-first century, a much-feared stigmatizing label that carries with it a sentence of social death. The lay media are replete with descriptions of Alzheimer’s such as a “living death,” “unbecoming” a self, and a “drifting towards the threshold of unbeing.” Even the US federal govern...