The paper deals with three similar tales - Of too much Pride, the story about Emperor Jovinian from Gesta Romanorum (Oesterley, 1872), Story of Tsar Aggey and how he Suf?fered for Pride (Afanasev, Narodnye russkie legendy, 1859), Asa (Danicic, Three Old Tales, 1872). Asa, third king Kingdom Judah (2 Chronicles 14-16), is preserved in only one Serbian-Slavonic manuscript end 16th century (now Pa...

The reasons ecosystems should be restored are numerous, disparate, generally understated, and commonly underappreciated. We offer a typology in which these reasons--or motivations--are ordered among five rationales: technocratic, biotic, heuristic, idealistic, and pragmatic. The technocratic rationale encompasses restoration that is conducted by government agencies or other large organizations ...

A frequently cited argument against the use of market-based instruments like emission permit trading systems is that they diminish our sense of moral responsibility to be good environmental citizens. By changing pollution from a sin against nature remedied only by personal atonement into a commodity that can be bought and sold with no special social consequences, market-based instruments may we...

This article surveys the beliefs concerning the supernatural characteristics and powers of sacred trees in Israel; it is based on a field study as well as a survey of the literature and includes 118 interviews with Muslims and Druze. Both the Muslims and Druze in this study attribute supernatural dimensions to sacred trees which are directly related to ancient, deep-rooted pagan traditions. The...

In this essay, we marshal resources from a range of biblical, trinitarian and soteriological commitments, set within broadly Barthian framework, to offer doctrinal proposal for the Spirit’s role in triune God’s work at-one-ment. We argue that Spirit plays vital atoning God, as is love God directed toward incarnate Son two-fold manner: (1) mode wrath against our sin born by Christ representative...

Abomination does not appear in the earliest legal collection (Covenant Code) but Deuteronomy and Deuteronomistic literature, it refers to what is incompatible with YHWH both cultically ethically order maintain uniqueness of holy cult Israel amongst its neighbours. also used priestly literature only youngest collections (Holiness Code). The prohibition male-male sexual intercourse Lev 18:22 20:1...

The attacks of September 11, 2001 are a spectacular reminder that the struggle between religion and politics is alive well in twenty-first century. Eugene England's life, which ended just weeks before those attacks, was very much engaged struggle. Although England not politician or even especially political his opinions, he sought life committed to Christian discipleship as intellectual freedom...

The contemporary Qur’anic studies have been marked by amazing development. Various methods and approaches to understand the Qur’an are offered scholars. One of prominent figures in this field is Nashr Hamid Abu Zayd. Nasr Zayd (1943–2010 M) a highly controversial thinker. He an Egyptian scholar who accused being apostate, because his theory qur’anic hermeneutic (the textual Qur’an). This reflec...