My task in this presentation is to offer a theoretical framework for considering a practical Christian response to poverty as an integral part of the Church’s calling or mission, an inescapable element of its very raison d’etre. From the outset, we should remind ourselves that we are speaking of the poor, who are real people living in concrete situations all over the globe, not just about pover...

A fundamental tool in the analysis of Ricci flow is a compactness result of Hamilton in the spirit of the work of Cheeger, Gromov and others. Roughly speaking it allows one to take a sequence of Ricci flows with uniformly bounded curvature and uniformly controlled injectivity radius, and extract a subsequence that converges to a complete limiting Ricci flow. A widely quoted extension of this re...

§1. The justificatory question What makes it the case that a thinker has justification for a given belief? Call this the justificatory question. I will not attempt to define “justification.” I doubt that a noncircular definition is possible. Roughly speaking, one has justification for a belief just in case one is “epistemically licensed” in forming the belief. As Pryor puts it, “you have justif...