Why Scripture matters: reading the Bible in a time of church conflict

Burgess, John P. Why Scripture matters: reading the Bible in a time of church conflict. Louisville, Ky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1998

Love and the need for comprehension

The question of how well we need to be known, to be loved, is considered. A ‘second-person’ model is argued for, on which love requires that the beloved’s demands to be known be respected. This puts pressure on the idea that lovers need to make a beloved’s interests their own, taking that to require comprehension of the beloved’s interests: a lover would have to appreciate the normative intelligibility and motivating force of an interest. The possibility of love with failure of comprehension is defended, using illustrations from Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead

Affirmations and admonitions: Lutheran decisions and dialogue with Reformed, Episcopal, and Roman Catholic churches

Fackre, Gabriel J. Affirmations and admonitions: Lutheran decisions and dialogue with Reformed, Episcopal, and Roman Catholic churches. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998

Testimony of Eileen Appelbaum Before the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations

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Durability and change in state gender systems: Ireland in the 1950s

This study of Ireland's gender contract at the end of the 1950s is a country-specific analysis of gender regime change at the level of the state. It is based primarily on Irish parliamentary debates for the years 1957 and 1958, the point at which Ireland embarked on a process of economic modernization. In describing the detail of this gender system, it provides a benchmark against which the reforms of the late 1960s and 1970s can be measured. It also points to two salient features of a state's gender regime that may be applicable in other situations: first, the comparative 'stickiness' of the gender contract once it has been established and second the episodic or crisis-based nature of gender regime negotiation