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Education for Human Flourishing

A Christian Perspective

By: Paul D. Spears,Steven R. Loomis

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Education for Human Flourishing

A Christian Perspective

By: Paul D. Spears,Steven R. Loomis

Far from offering a thin patina of "niceness" spread over standard educational philosophy, Steven Loomis and Paul Spears set forth a vigorous Christian philosophy of education that seeks to transform the practice of education. Beginning with a robust view of human nature, they build a case for a decidedly Christian view of education that still rightfully takes its place within the marketplace of public education.

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252

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InterVarsity Press

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0830828125

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9780830828128

Authentic Cosmopolitanism

Love, Sin, and Grace in the Christian University

By: Steven D Cone,R J Snell

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Authentic Cosmopolitanism

Love, Sin, and Grace in the Christian University

By: Steven D Cone,R J Snell

Humans are lovers, and yet a good deal of pedagogical theory, Christian or otherwise, assumes an anthropology at odds with human nature, fixed in a model of humans as thinking things. Turning to Augustine, or at least Augustine in conversation with Aquinas, Martin Heidegger, the overlooked Jesuit thinker Bernard Lonergan, and the important contemporary Charles Taylor, this book provides a normative vision for Christian higher education. A phenomenological reappropriation of human subjectivityreveals an authentic order to love, even when damaged by sin, and loves, made authentic by grace, allow the intellectually, morally, and religiously converted person to attain an integral unity. Properly understanding the integral relation between love and the fullness of human life overcomes the split between intellectual and moral formation, allowing transformed subjects -authentic lovers - to live, seek, and work towards the values of a certain kind of cosmopolitanism. Christian universitiesexist to make cosmopolitans, properly understood, namely, those persons capable of living authentically. In other words, this text gives a full-orbed account of human flourishing, rooted in a phenomenological account of the human as basis for the mission of the university.

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196

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James Clarke & Company

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0227901800

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9780227901809

Cooperative Commonwealth

Co-ops in Rural Minnesota, 1859-1939

By: Steven James Keillor

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Cooperative Commonwealth

Co-ops in Rural Minnesota, 1859-1939

By: Steven James Keillor

By 1940, Minnesota was known as one the most cooperative-minded states in the Union. More than 600 cooperative creameries, 150 township mutual fire insurance companies, hundreds of rural telephone associations, and 270 farmers' elevators were proof of the power of economic cooperation, and they made Minnesota into a "cooperative commonwealth.

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480

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Minnesota Historical Society Press

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0873513770

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9780873513777

Legitimacy and Drones

Investigating the Legality, Morality and Efficacy of UCAVs

By: Steven J. Barela

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Legitimacy and Drones

Investigating the Legality, Morality and Efficacy of UCAVs

By: Steven J. Barela

Unmanned combat air vehicles, or in common parlance 'drones', have become a prominent instrument in US efforts to counter an objective (and subjective) cross-border terrorist threat with lethal force. As a result, critical questions abound on the legitimacy of their use. In a series of multidisciplinary essays by scholars with an extensive knowledge of international norms, this book explores the question of legitimacy through the conceptual lenses of legality, morality and efficacy, it then closes with the consideration of a policy proposal aimed at incorporating all three indispensable elements. The importance of this inquiry cannot be overstated. Non-state actors fully understand that attacking the much more powerful state requires moving the conflict away from the traditional battlefield where they are at an enormous disadvantage. Those engaging in terrorism seek to goad the ruling government into an overreaction, or abuse of power, to trigger a destabilization via an erosion of its legitimacy. Thus defending the target of legitimacy”in this case, insuring the use of deadly force is constrained by valid limiting principles”represents an essential strategic interest. This book seeks to come to grips with the new reality of drone warfare by exploring if it can be used to preserve, rather than eat away at, legitimacy. After an extensive analysis of the three key parameters in twelve chapters, the practical proposition of establishing a 'Drone Court' is put forward and examined as a way of pursuing the goal of integrating these essential components to defend the citizenry and the legitimacy of the government at the same time.

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461

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Routledge

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1317105877

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9781317105879

The Age of Reform, 1250-1550

An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

By: Steven Ozment

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The Age of Reform, 1250-1550

An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

By: Steven Ozment

Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittges The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the Reformations—both Protestant and Catholic—of the sixteenth century. He elucidates with great clarity the complex philosophical and theological issues that inspired antagonistic schools, traditions, and movements from Aquinas to Calvin. This masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period illuminates the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society. With a new foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittgers, this modern classic is ripe for rediscovery by a new generation of students and scholars.

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Yale University Press

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0300256183

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9780300256185

Book's by Steven R. Loomis

Education for Human Flourishing

Education for Human Flourishing

Authentic Cosmopolitanism

Authentic Cosmopolitanism

Cooperative Commonwealth

Cooperative Commonwealth

Legitimacy and Drones

Legitimacy and Drones

The Age of Reform, 1250-1550

The Age of Reform, 1250-1550

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