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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)
Journal Article
Milbank, A. (2023). “What a tale we have been in”: Emplotment and the Exemplar Characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series. Educational Theory, 73(5), 782-796. https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12601

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)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Lanfranco, R. C., Kausel, L., Yu, Z., Boncompte, G., …Derrfuss, J. (2023). Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication. Perception, 52(11-12), 812-843. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066231204180

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.

Richard Wagner (2023)
Book Chapter
Bell, R. (2023). Richard Wagner. In M. Grebe, & J. Grössl (Eds.), T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil. T & T Clark

The article considers what Richard Wagner contributed to the understanding of suffering and the problem of evil in the ten stage works of his 'canon' (The Flying Dutchman to Parsifal).

Proximate and Ultimate Concerns in Christian Ethical Responses to Artificial Intelligence (2023)
Journal Article
Burdett, M. S. (2023). Proximate and Ultimate Concerns in Christian Ethical Responses to Artificial Intelligence. Studies in Christian Ethics, 36(3), 620–641. https://doi.org/10.1177/09539468231180135

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.

“The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness (2023)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Yu, Z., Karlis, A. K., Tong, E. M. W., Milbank, A., …Madan, C. (2023). “The many faces of sorrow”: An empirical exploration of the psychological plurality of sadness. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04518-z

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)
Journal Article
Burdett, M., & Leung, K. H. (2023). The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology of Information. Zygon, 58(3), 714-731. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12886

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)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2023). God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya's Refutation of Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Ašarī Incorporealism. Arabica, 69(6), 626-674. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341641

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)
Journal Article
Burdett, M., & Burdett, E. (2122). Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, 9(1), 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1628/ptsc-2022-0009

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)
Journal Article
Loumagne Ulishney, M. (2022). E Open Access THE EVOLUTION OF HOMO LUDENS: SEXUAL SELECTION AND A THEOLOGY OF PLAY. Zygon, 57(3), 564-575. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12802

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)
Journal Article
Kocsenda, K. G. (2022). Shīʿī Readings of Human Evolution: Ṭabāṭabāʾī to Ḥaydarī. Zygon, 57(2), 418-442. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12781

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.

The Muslim Theologian Ibn Taymiyyah on God, Creation, and Time (2022)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2022). The Muslim Theologian Ibn Taymiyyah on God, Creation, and Time. In M. Schmücker, M. T. Williams, & F. Fischer (Eds.), Temporality and Eternity: Nine Perspectives on God and Time (89-104). Berlin: De Gruyter

Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah (2022)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2022). Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah. Entangled Religions, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.46586/er.13.2022.9466

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)
Journal Article
Hutchings, T., Benoit, C., & Shillitoe, R. (2021). Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice. Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, 23, 8-28. https://doi.org/10.18792/jbasr.v23i0.54

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.

Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20 (2021)
Book Chapter
O'Loughlin, T. (2021). Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20. In Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019. Volume 22: Liturgica, Tractatus symboli; Orientalia; Critica et Philologica (31-38). Peeters

If our paradigm of the early churches is one of variety in practice preceding uniform ‘accepted’ forms, then we need to look again at many instances where early evidence for practice was by-passed as aberrant or sectarian. The sequence of eucharistic... Read More about Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
Journal Article
Tsikandilakis, M., Yu, Z., Kausel, L., Boncompte, G., Lanfranco, R. C., Oxner, M., …Chapman, P. (2021). “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures. Perception, 50(12), 1027-1055. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211055983

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)
Journal Article
Quine, C. (2021). Victory as Defeat: Narrative Subversion of Omride Strength in 1 Kings 20. Journal of Theological Studies, 72(2), 620-633. https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flab061

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)
Journal Article
Chu, C. (2021). The Social Functionality of Multiple Religious Belonging in Modern China. Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 9(1), 27-43. https://doi.org/10.1163/22143955-08020001

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)
Journal Article
Burdett, M. S. (2022). Incarnation, Posthumanism and Performative Anthropology: The Body of Technology and the Body of Christ. Christian Bioethics, 28(3), 207-216. https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbab009

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.