The Story - Shaped World: Fiction and Metaphysics - Some Variations on a Theme

Literature & Fiction

Wicker, Brian

History & Criticism

University of Notre Dame Press

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The Story-Shaped World: Fiction and Metaphysics : Some Variations on a Theme

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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First the Political Kingdom: A Personal Appraisal of the Catholic Left in Britain (Stagbooks)

Religion & Spirituality

Sheed Ward

Just War on Terror?

Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared war on terror. In the succeeding years, Western governments have struggled to find the right way to respond to the new and deadly threat posed by terrorism. With the election of President Obama the rhetoric has softened and policies have been adjusted but the underlying problems and challenges remain the same. Meanwhile, the war on terrorism in Afghanistan has been intensified. Drawing on just war teaching as developed within both Christian and Muslim traditions, this book examines whether, and how, liberal democracies can combat the new global terrorism both effectively and justly. The authors, including distinguished academics from both sides of the Atlantic, Christian and Muslim theologians, former senior civil servants and a General, deploy a wide range of experience and expertise to address one of the most difficult and pressing ethical challenges to contemporary society.

Christian Books & Bibles

Routledge

<p>Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared war on terror. In the succeeding years, Western governments have struggled to find the right way to respond to the new and deadly threat posed by terrorism. With the election of President Obama the rhetoric has softened and policies have been adjusted but the underlying problems and challenges remain the same. Meanwhile, the war on terrorism in Afghanistan has been intensified. Drawing on just war teaching as developed within both Christian and Muslim traditions, this book examines whether, and how, liberal democracies can combat the new global terrorism both effectively and justly. The authors, including distinguished academics from both sides of the Atlantic, Christian and Muslim theologians, former senior civil servants and a General, deploy a wide range of experience and expertise to address one of the most difficult and pressing ethical challenges to contemporary society.</p>

Story-telling, since its earliest beginnings, has drawn its power not simply from the intrinsic fascination of a skilful narrative but from the fact that human beings are compelled to make ‘fictions' if they are to explain and come to terms with the world they experience. This holds true, as Mr Wicker shows in the course of a profound and wide-ranging enquiry, for the complex and often sophisticated novels and anti-novels of our own day just as much as for such traditional forms as myth and fairy-tale. The world remains ‘story-shaped'.

The Story-Shaped World: Fiction and Metaphysics: Some Variations on a Theme (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism)

British & Irish

Bloomsbury Academic

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The Story - Shaped World: Fiction and Metaphysics - Some Variations on a Theme

The Story-Shaped World: Fiction and Metaphysics : Some Variations on a Theme

First the Political Kingdom: A Personal Appraisal of the Catholic Left in Britain (Stagbooks)

Just War on Terror?

Just War on Terror?

The Story-Shaped World: Fiction and Metaphysics: Some Variations on a Theme (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism)