The power of hierarchical institutions and figures of authority to influence individuals and command compliance has been the focus of considerable controversy. Yet unjust authority and undue power also stir dissent and social change. The military, especially, presents an institu…
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Problem. In Ezek 36:27, God foretells that he will put his Spirit within his people and he will "do" so that Israel will obey his laws. Ezekiel 36:27 indicates a close relationship between the Spirit of God and Israel in observing the statutes and judgments of God in the Babylon…
I examine the way in which, in his work of the 1840s, Ruskin uses methods and assumptions derived from eighteenth-century Materialist, Mechanist and Vitalist Natural Philosophy, especially his assertion that the meanings which he reads into natural phenomena are objectively pres…
On March 26, 1553, Ignatius of Loyola, founder and Superior General of the Roman Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus, addressed a letter of exhortation to the Fathers and Brothers of the Portuguese province. Having heard about the insubordination of its members, Ign…
“And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.” Simply, this thesis is on the humility and obedience of Jesus Christ according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. First, according to St. Thomas Aquinas and the Monastic Tradition, hu…
Most contemporary scholarship affirms that the Christian and Islamic medieval political imperative was about the preservation of order and stability. We considered this characterization insufficient, given the treatment of the concept of religious and political justice by mediev…
This thesis develops an Islamic legislative drafting methodology that is meant to serve a basis for bringing the family law of Islamic countries into line with current conceptions of gender equality found not only in the West but in Islamic law (the shari'a ) as well. Contrary t…