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“What a tale we have been in”: Emplotment and the Exemplar Characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series (2023)
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Linda Zagzebski's theory of moral exemplarity emphasizes the importance of admiration in developing ethical behavior. This essay argues that admiration involves wonder and distance and is best evoked by mixed or flawed characters; it demonstrates thi... Read More about “What a tale we have been in”: Emplotment and the Exemplar Characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series.

Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication (2023)
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The aim of the current research was to explore whether we can improve the recognition of cross-cultural freely-expressed emotional faces in British participants. We tested several methods for improving the recognition of freely-expressed emotional fa... Read More about Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication.

Proximate and Ultimate Concerns in Christian Ethical Responses to Artificial Intelligence (2023)
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I argue here that Christian ethical responses to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ought to take on, largely, two different approaches. The first considers proximate ethical concerns related to AI. This ethical approach most often considers more immediate... Read More about Proximate and Ultimate Concerns in Christian Ethical Responses to Artificial Intelligence.

Unbiased individual unconsciousness: Rationale, replication and developing applications (2023)
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“The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness (2023)
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Sadness has typically been associated with failure, defeat and loss, but it has also been suggested that sadness facilitates positive and restructuring emotional changes. This suggests that sadness is a multi-faceted emotion. This supports the idea t... Read More about “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness.

The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology of Information (2023)
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An ontology of information belies our common intuitions about reality today and animates and governs both explicit scholarly study in philosophy and the sciences as well as the ideologies that are growing out of them. Transhumanism is one such techno... Read More about The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology of Information.

God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya's Refutation of Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Ašarī Incorporealism (2022)
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Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) wrote his tome Bayān talbīs al-ǧahmiyya to refute Ašarī kalām theologian Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's (d. 606/1210) argument in Tasīs al-taqdīs that God is not corporeal, located, or spatially extended. Bayān talbīs al-ǧahmiyya is... Read More about God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya's Refutation of Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Ašarī Incorporealism.

Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude (2022)
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This article considers the social evolutionary research on gratitude and reciprocity and focuses on two mechanisms, upstream reciprocity and increased gratitude to strangers, that have strong consonance with various theological accounts of gift-givin... Read More about Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude.

E Open Access THE EVOLUTION OF HOMO LUDENS: SEXUAL SELECTION AND A THEOLOGY OF PLAY (2022)
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This essay argues that reflection on sexual selection can be theologically generative, and that it presents needed counteremphases to some of the discussions about theological anthropology that have been fueled by theological reflection on natural se... Read More about E Open Access THE EVOLUTION OF HOMO LUDENS: SEXUAL SELECTION AND A THEOLOGY OF PLAY.

Shīʿī Readings of Human Evolution: Ṭabāṭabāʾī to Ḥaydarī (2022)
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Within the context of Islamic discourse about evolution, this is the first study that focuses exclusively on the views of Kamāl al-Ḥaydarī (b. 1957), a prominent Shīʿī thinker of the contemporary period. Ḥaydarī develops his views from Muḥammad Ḥusay... Read More about Shīʿī Readings of Human Evolution: Ṭabāṭabāʾī to Ḥaydarī.

Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah (2022)
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Early and medieval Muslim anti-Christian polemicists do not present a uniform account of the Gospel's relation to the Torah, and polemical concerns drive the positions they adopt. This article focuses on how Damascene theologian Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328... Read More about Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah.

Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice (2021)
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This article builds on Worldview-A Multidisciplinary Report (Benoit, Hutchings and Shillitoe, 2020), a publication commissioned by the RE Council of England and Wales to outline the academic history of the study of worldviews. We focus on three parti... Read More about Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
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The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements that enable human communic... Read More about “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.

Victory as Defeat: Narrative Subversion of Omride Strength in 1 Kings 20 (2021)
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This paper argues that 1 Kings 20 is a literary composition that creates an idealized picture of kingship and military victory wherein the king combines with the elders, prophets, and deity to reject the impositions of vassalage and defeat their enem... Read More about Victory as Defeat: Narrative Subversion of Omride Strength in 1 Kings 20.

The Social Functionality of Multiple Religious Belonging in Modern China (2021)
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Multiple religious belonging refers to the idea that individuals can belong to more than one religious tradition. This article aims to explore the concept of multiple religious belonging in modern China, focusing on its pattern as well as the social... Read More about The Social Functionality of Multiple Religious Belonging in Modern China.

Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ (2021)
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This essay argues that a Christian incarnational response to posthumanism must recognize that what is at stake isn't just whether belief systems align. It seeks to relocate the interaction between the church and posthumanism to how the practices of p... Read More about Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ.

Josephus' Adaptation of the Athaliah Narratives (2021)
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Athaliah in Josephus is rarely studied. This paper thus seeks to build on Christopher Begg’s text-critical work by discussing the literary effect of Josephus’ embellishments to the Athaliah narratives. Athaliah in Josephus is shown to be more explic... Read More about Josephus' Adaptation of the Athaliah Narratives.

“Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness, and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality (2021)
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Psychological theory and research suggest that religious individuals could have differences in the appraisal of immoral behaviours and cognitions compared to non-religious individuals. This effect could occur due to adherence to prescriptive and invi... Read More about “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness, and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality.

Pharaoh’s Daughter: The Adoptive Mother’s Sacrifice (2021)
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In Exodus 2 Moses has two mothers; his Hebrew mother, who nurses him, and the daughter of Pharaoh, who financially supports his Hebrew mother, adopts him, and names him. Pharaoh's daughter appears in scholarly discussions, yet little attention is giv... Read More about Pharaoh’s Daughter: The Adoptive Mother’s Sacrifice.

Theology of the pain of God in the era of COVID-19: the reflections on sufferings by three Hong Kong churches through online services (2021)
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Suffering is probably a suitable word to describe the experiences of Hong Kong Christians in 2020, who endure the continuous impact of anti-extradition law protests, the imposition of the national security law, and the COVID-19 outbreak. Employing di... Read More about Theology of the pain of God in the era of COVID-19: the reflections on sufferings by three Hong Kong churches through online services.