Smith – A Constitutional fudge and the worst of both worlds?

Smith – A Constitutional fudge 

and the worst of both worlds?

Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp (30/11/2014)

Anyone passing through the Glasgow underground, or any train station, or even looking at the back end of a bus, will know it’s pantomime season.  My favourite one just launched yesterday, written by a new scriptwriter called Lord Smith, it is called “Devolution to never never land”. The grand old dames are played by the London centric unionist press, the bad guys are the Unionist Westminster MPs who will attempt to derail any real devolution, and the audience who might soon regret buying a ticket (by voting No) are the people of Scotland.  It’s got a complicated plot but it all revolves around the unionists shouting “it’s devo max, and effective home rule, everything we promised” to which the audience shout “Oh no it’s not”.

Vow max or pantomime politics taken to the max?
First we have the Daily Record, the original publisher of the VOW, desperate to avoid a circulation drop to match the Scottish Labour parties poll ratings, saying the Smith Commission report was the vow delivered.  We also have Mr No Tuition Fees himself, deputy PM Nick Clegg, getting so excited about the Smith Commission that he seems to have lost the ability to speak in normal English and just uses a dialect called spin, when he said “We’ve not only delivered on that vow, on the timetable that we said, we’ve over-delivered on it – it’s ‘Vow Max’, if you like.”

Vow max? That really is pantomime politics taken to the max.  You would expect me or the SNP / SSP and Greens to be fairly disappointed with some (if not all) of the Smith Commission suggestions, but its worthwhile taking a moment to figure out who is shouting “Oh no it’s not” the loudest.

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G.A. Ponsonby: How The BBC Stole The Referendum

How The BBC Stole The Referendum is a book currently being written by GA Ponsonby.  The book will chronicle the role played by the corporation in the independence referendum and its influence on the final vote. Below is a draft of the first chapter, which may be subject to minor changes.  It is published here with a view to attracting funding to help with publishing and promoting the book when it is complete.  The provisional completion date is April 2015 ... in time for the UK general election.

Chapter 1 - Turning Yes into No

     The 2014 independence referendum was an historic event.  The SNP landslide victory in May 2011 meant that for almost three years it captivated a nation, dominated the news agenda and influenced almost every aspect of Scottish and UK politics.  Ordinary people who had never before engaged in the democratic process discovered an unknown thirst for information.  The referendum seeped into the Scottish psyche and gave rebirth to real democracy.  A nation went through a political re-awakening.
     Our media should have reflected this inspirational period.  Newspapers should have thrived, broadcasters should have excelled and journalists should have become heroes.  But that didn't happen.  Instead agendas were pursued, news was manipulated and old allegiances maintained.
     At the helm of what I consider to be the media corruption that poisoned the independence debate was the BBC.  At the eleventh hour, when Yes appeared to be on course for victory, the broadcaster pulled out all the stops to prevent a Yes triumph.

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Smith Commission: 'The Consolation Prize' (Chris Cairns cartoon)

Image by Chris Cairns

Ian Rankin: Taghadh de Sgeulachdan Inspeactair Rebus

Fiosrachadh bho chùlaibh an leabhair:

     

Thàinig an taghadh seo de sgeulachdan eucoir Ian Rankin às na cruinnichidhean aige A GOOD HANGING (1992) agus BEGGARS BANQUET (2002). Clàradh, Mallachd Dean, A’ faicinn Rudan, Auld Lang Syne agus Club nam Fear-uasal – agus Freagairt Ceàrr, Balla-ciùil, Uinneag a’ Chothruim, Bitheamaid Geanach agus Thadhail Cuideigin air Eddie. Ann an naoi de na sgeulachdan tha rannsachadh le Inspeactair John Rebus. An aon sgeulachd anns nach eil Rebus ’s e ‘Thadhail Cuideigin air Eddie’. A rèir Ian Rankin, tha an sgeulachd sin mu mhodh-obrach nam poileas: “Tha murtair innte, chaidh cuideigin a mhurt agus tha car san deireadh.”

Tha Tormod MacGill-Eain ainmeil fad is farsaing mar-thà na sgrìobhadair ealanta ann am Beurla is ann an Gàidhlig. ’S e fianais ùr nodha air a bhuadhan a tha san eadar-theangachadh seo air obair sgrìobhadair barraichte eile. A thuilleadh air sin fhuair e coingheall o Ruaraidh Mac an t-Saoir, duine òg a tha an geall air an aon cheann-uidhe ris fhèin a ruigheachd. Tha a’ Ghàidhlig aca dìleas do bhrìgh na Beurla bheothail aig Ian Rankin: fad na h-ùine a’ seachnadh cruth doilleir. Tha Tormod MacGill-Eain gu mòr ri mholadh; dà chànan a tha cho eadar-dhealaichte is a tha a’ Beurla is a’ Ghàidhlig agus an tionndadh cho soirbheachail. Tha sinn uile fada na chomain (Iain MacAonghais)

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Evolution's Achilles' Heels

15 Ph.D. scientists present devastating critiques of evolution. 

Find out more: 

HERE

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Scottish Premier, East Kilbride  
9.15am-5.00pm, Sat 6 Dec 2014 

Family Creation Discovery Day,  
Murray Owen Centre, 
East Kilbride, 
South Lanarkshire, 
G75 9AD, 

Incl Kids Activities / £5 ech £12

Speakers: Philip Bell, Dominic Statham, Phil Robinson

10.00 am - Life’s Origin? Evidence for Creation
11.30 am - Different Races or one human family?
2.00 pm - Dinosaurs and the Bible
3.20 pm - Evolution’s Achilles Heel’s Film Screening
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More info:
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Cén Ghaeilge ar ‘right-hand man’ ach ‘giolla gualainne’?

Cén Ghaeilge ar ‘right-hand man’ ach ‘giolla gualainne’?

FRIOTAL: Tá neart le foghlaim ó fhoinsí ar ligeadh dóibh dul as cló, a deir ár gcolúnaí.

Antain Mac Lochlainn 

(Dé Céadaoin, Samhain 26 2014)

Guím borradh agus bua ar an eagraíocht nuabhunaithe, Aontas na Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge. Dá mba fúmsa a bheadh sé cnuasainm a chumadh ar scata scríbhneoirí, ní hé ‘aontas’ is túisce a rithfeadh liom, ach cé a shéanfadh go gcaithfimid, anois nó riamh, an fód a sheasamh don teanga scríofa? Ar cheann de mholtaí an Aontais tá ‘aistritheoirí agus eagarthóirí a oiliúint chun ábhar atá as cló le fada, bunleabhair agus aistriúcháin, a sholáthar sa nualitriú ar líne.’

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Smith Commission falls short of devolution vow

Smith Commission falls short of devolution vow

by Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp (27/11/2014)

     The Smith Commission report out today contains some positive measures that can be used by the Scottish Government to the betterment of Scotland.  It is also true to say that it is the largest movement of power from Westminster to Scotland since the formation of the parliament, but it falls well short of the vow made by the leaders of three of the four main Westminster Unionist parties.  It falls even further behind the promise of the No campaign’s official spokesperson Gordon Brown that Scotland would be as close as possible to a federal state within one or two years, or Danny Alexander who told us to expect  “effective Home Rule”. Federalism and effective home rule it isn’t, but that hasn’t stopped The Times from screaming from its front page “Fears of a federal UK as Scots get new powers”. 

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Smith Commission: And now for the truth

And now for the truth

by Rev. Stuart Campbell (November 27, 2014)

     It’ll be a brave Yes voter who buys a newspaper (other than The National) or switches on their TV or radio today, because Scotland is already enduring an outpouring of concentrated spin and outright deception that perhaps even exceeds that seen in the last few weeks before the independence referendum.

     Blood pressures will be soaring across the land as people are told things about the final report of the Smith Commission that are flatly at odds with the reality, by journalists and broadcasters who either know perfectly well that what they’re saying is false or haven’t bothered to try to find out.

     Below, you’ll find the facts.

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Au ciel, qui me viendra en aide, sinon Toi?

Image: Copyright Bell Photos. All rights reserved

"Au ciel, qui me viendra en aide, sinon Toi?
Et ici-bas, que désirer, puisque je T'ai ? 

Mon corps peut s'épuiser, mon cœur aussi, 

mais mon appui, mon bien le plus personnel, 

c'est Toi, Dieu, pour toujours.  

Ceux qui s'éloignent de Toi succombent, 

et Tu réduis à rien ceux qui T'abandonnent. 

Mais mon bonheur à moi, c'est d'être près de Toi. 

J'ai mis ma confiance en Toi, Seigneur, 

pour proclamer tout ce que Tu as fait."  

(Psaume 73 : 25-28)

["In heaven, who will come to my aid, except You?
And down here, what to wish for, since I have You?
My body may become exhausted, my heart also,
but my support, my most personal good,
is You, God, for always.

Those who withdraw/move away from You become defeated,
and You reduce to nothing those who abandon You.
But my especial blessing is to be close to You.
I have put my confidence in You, Lord,
to proclaim all that You have done/made"]
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BBC Scotland holds its breath on Holyrood accountability

BBC Scotland holds its breath on Holyrood accountability

Pacific Quay insider considers what the Smith Commission might say about Scottish broadcasting (26 Nov 2014)

Here in BBC Scotland very close attention will be paid to Lord Smith’s report this week.

The rest of the world may be rightly concerned about the high politics, and the detail of fiscal and welfare devolution. Our news department and its hangers-on will be telling the story in their usual way. The audience will have no problem discerning the Labour line, plus whatever the SNP government spinners have told Brian Taylor.

But here in the heart of Pacific Quay, and at BBC HQ in West One, all-knowing eyes will be searching furiously for a single little paragraph: Will there be any sort of devolution of broadcasting?

[...] I’ll tell you more about this all later, but the key point ahead of the Smith report is that Boothman, and possibly his boss, were allegedly kept in place by the BBC’s “big bosses” because of their Labour connections, and the value of that to the No campaign.

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Dooyeweerd: Law and Gospel in Luther

Martin Luther 1533 (by Lucas Cranach the Elder)

Law and Gospel in Luther

by Herman Dooyeweerd

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     The religious ground motive of nature and grace held the Christian mind in a polar tension. Near the end of the Middle Ages this tension ultimately led to Ockham's complete separation of natural life from the Christian life of grace. Practically speaking, the school of Ockham drove a wedge between creation and redemption in Jesus Christ. This had happened earlier, in the first centuries of the Christian church, when the Greek and near-Eastern dualistic ground motives began to influence the Christian motive. One could detect this not only in gnosticism but also in Marcion [second century A.D.] as well as in the Greek church fathers. Although understood in the Greek sense, "natural life" within the framework of nature and grace did refer to God's work of creation. The creation ordinances thus belonged to the realm of nature. As we saw above, Ockham deprived these ordinances of their intrinsic worth. For him the law proceeded from a divine arbitrariness that could change its demands at any moment.

     Luther [1483-1546], the great reformer, had been educated in Ockham's circle during his stay at the Erfurt monastery. He himself declared: "I am of Ockham's school." Under Ockham's influence the religious ground motive of nature and grace permeated Luther's life and thought, although certainly not in the Roman Catholic sense. The Church of Rome rejected a division of nature and grace, considering the former a lower portal to the latter. Luther, however, was influenced by Ockham's dualism which established a deep rift between natural life and the supranatural Christian life. In Luther's case this conflict expressed itself as the opposition between law and gospel.

     To understand this polarity in Luther's thought, which today plays a central role in Karl Barth and his followers, we must note that Luther returned to a confession which had been rejected by Roman Catholicism: the confession of the radicality of the fall. But within the nature-grace ground-motive, Luther could not do justice to this truly Scriptural teaching. The moment it became embedded in an internally split religious framework, it could not do justice to the meaning of Creation. In Luther's thought this shortcoming manifested itself in his view of the law. He depreciated law as the order for "sinful nature" and thus began to view "law" in terms of a religious antithesis to "evangelical grace." It might seem that this contrast is identical with the contrast made by the apostle Paul in his teaching on the relation of law to grace in Jesus Christ. Paul expressly proclaimed that man is justified by faith alone, not by the works of the law. Actually, however, Paul's statements do not harmonize in the least with Luther's opposition between law and gospel. Paul always calls God's law holy and good. But he wants to emphasize strongly that fallen man cannot fulfil the law and thus can live only by the grace of God.

     Under Ockham's influence, Luther robbed the law as the creational ordinance of its value. For him the law was harsh and rigid and as such in inner contradiction to the love commandment of the gospel. He maintained that the Christian, in his life of love that flows from grace, has nothing to do with the demands of the law. The Christian stood above the law. However, as long as the Christian still existed in this "vale of tears" he was required to adjust himself to the rigid frame of law, seeking to soften it by permeating it as much as possible with Christian love in his relation to his fellowman.

     However, the antagonism between law and gospel remains in this line of thought. It is true that Luther spoke of the law as the "taskmaster of Christ" and that he thus granted it some value, but in truly Christian life the law remained the counterforce to Christian love. It needed to be broken from within. For Luther the Christian was free not only from the judgment of the law, which sin brought upon us; in the life of grace the Christian was free from the law itself. He stands entirely above the law. This view of law was certainly not Scriptural. In Luther's thought the Scriptural creation-motive recedes behind the motive of fall and redemption. This led to serious consequences. Luther did not acknowledge a single link between nature, taken with its lawful ordinances, and the grace of the gospel. Nature, which was "radically depraved," had to make way for grace. Redemption signified the death of nature rather than its fundamental rebirth. From the perspective of Roman Catholicism Luther allowed grace to "swallow up" nature.

     But because of his dualism, Luther could not conclude that the Christian ought to flee from the world. He believed that it was God's will that Christians subject themselves to the ordinances of earthly life. Christians had to serve God also in their worldly calling and office. No one opposed monastic life more vehemently than Luther. Still, nowhere in Luther do we find an intrinsic point of contact between the Christian religion and earthly life. Both stood within an acute dialectical tension between the realm of evangelical freedom and the realm of the law. Luther even contrasted God's will as the Creator, who places humankind amidst the natural ordinances, and God's will as the Redeemer, who frees man from the law. His view of temporal reality was not intrinsically reformed by the Scriptural ground-motive of the Christian religion. When in our day Karl Barth denies every point of contact between nature and grace, we face the impact of Luther's opposition between law and gospel.

(Extract from "Roots of Western Culture: Pagan, Secular, and Christian Options" pp 138-139, by Herman Dooyeweerd).

Free PDF of entire book (older edition) downloadable
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Info regarding new paperback edition of book 2012 (revised translation)

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Kay Ulrich, Alan Roden on The Hydro, RIC - and 'The National'

Gordon Brewer interviews Kay Ulrich and Alan Roden on Nicola Sturgeon's pack-out at Glasgow's Hydro and Radical Independence Campaign's gathering at the Armadillo. (BBC Politics Show)

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Tariq Ali - Radical Independence Conference 2014

Publiée le 2014-11-22
"What happened in Scotland over the last two years was, and still is, astounding. So astounding that most people in the rest of the UK do not fully comprehend it."

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Thomas Nagel: Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

Thomas Nagel

Mind and Cosmos: 

Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

Oxford University Press, 2012

Review by John Woodmorappe

     This short book is not an easy read. To comprehend fully, the reader must have a good background in the language and concepts of philosophy, and well as that of philosophers such as Descartes and Wittgenstein. The author is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He shows a deep knowledge of evolutionary concepts, and those who disagree with him cannot reject his contentions based on his lack of sufficient understanding of the subject. 

     Nagel is no ‘religious apologist’. He openly identifies himself as an atheist (p. 95), and states that his skepticism of certain aspects of evolutionistic thinking is not driven either by religious considerations or by preference of any definite alternative (p. 7). He appreciates theism insofar as it raises questions about the legitimacy of certain evolutionary premises, while rejecting theism as having no more credibility than materialism as a comprehensive worldview (p. 22). He also praises Intelligent Design (ID) thinkers, by name, such as Michael Behe, Steven Meyer, and David Berlinski, because, regardless of any other beliefs they may or may not have, they have raised valid and important questions about such things as the origin of life (p. 10).

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How modern journalism works

Jim Murphy MP

How modern journalism works

 by Rev. Stuart Campbell (November 25, 2014)

It is, in fairness, a fairly slow time for politics news at the moment. But it’s striking all the same to open this morning’s papers and see almost all of them running what’s not only basically the exact same story, but also the exact same groundless spin on it.

THE SCOTSMAN: “Jim Murphy tells Scots Labour to back tax powers”

DAILY RECORD: “Labour leadership frontrunner Jim Murphy set to back full income tax-raising powers for Holyrood”

THE GUARDIAN: “Scotland [is] to be offered total control over income tax after Labour U-turn. Labour’s policy shift will be confirmed on Tuesday by Jim Murphy, the favourite to become the next Scottish Labour leader.”

THE HERALD: “Murphy to support handing full income tax powers to Holyrood”

THE TIMES: “Murphy calls for full income tax devolution”

BBC NEWS: “Scottish Labour leadership candidate Jim Murphy is calling on his party to support the full devolution of income tax to Holyrood.”

STV NEWS: “Labour candidate Murphy calls for ‘full devolution of income tax'”

EVENING TIMES: “Murphy in call for full devolution of income tax”

There’s only one thing conspicuously missing from all of the stories – a quote from Jim Murphy saying he backs the devolution of full income tax powers to Holyrood [...] It’s almost as if, cynical readers might be forgiven for thinking, Murphy’s press team had sent out an identical press release to all of the media’s most sympathetic Labour hacks – Magnus Gardham, Torcuil Crichton, Severin Carrell, Andrew Whitaker – and they’d all printed it with only the most superficial of edits.

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See also:
All things to all men

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Review: 'Without Excuse' by Werner Gitt

Without Excuse by Werner Gitt,
in cooperation with Bob Compton and Jorge Fernandez
Creation Book Publishers, 2011

Clearly perceived

Review by Rachael Denhollander 

“For God’s invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So that men are without excuse” (Romans 1:20).

     Perhaps more than any other verse in Scripture, Romans 1:20 has formed the backdrop for Christian apologetics in the realm of creation science. It has long been maintained by creationists that the deeper one delves into the physical universe, the more the glory and nature of God is revealed. From astronomers plumbing the vastness of the galaxies to biologists discovering seemingly infinite levels of organized biological complexity, the study of natural science proclaims truth. Information theorists in particular have focused on the reality that the design and information contained in the universe must necessarily give testament to an all-powerful creator, forming an integral and vital part of Christian apologetics today.

     Despite the crucial contribution that the arguments from information and design have made to apologetics, few have deeply explored the foundational questions these arguments raised. What is information? Is information material or is it non-material? What implications would the answers to these questions have on the assumptions of materialism? Can it be demonstrated with reasonable certainty that an eternal being has sent us information? If so, is there any scientifically valid evidence that the existence of information leads us specifically to the God of the Bible? Delving into these primary questions is vital to a scholarly and truly irrefutable apologetic, yet, to a large degree, these questions have remained unanswered. It is precisely this void that the authors, Werner Gitt, Bob Compton, and Jorge Fernandez intended to fill in their book, Without Excuse. 

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FÍSEÁN – Alan Titley faoi agallamh

Labhraíonn Alan Titley ar a leabhar nua ‘An Bhean Feasa’, scéal ‘Goody Glover’, bean Éireannach a crochadh chun báis ar chúis asarlaíochta sa seachtú haois déag agus nár labhair ach Gaeilge le linn a trialach, an chéad tagairt atá againn don teanga i Meiriceá thuaidh.

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Angela Haggerty interview: Radical Independence Campaign, Clyde Auditorium

Cat Boyd interview: Radical Independence Campaign, Clyde Auditorium

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The National's first deadline: Editor Richard Walker on launch of Scotland's new paper

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Dooyeweerd: William of Ockham, Herald of a New Age

William of Ockham: 

Herald of a New Age

by Herman Dooyeweerd

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See also: Occam & Duns Scotus

     During the latter part of the Middle Ages (the fourteenth century), when the dominant position of the church in culture began to erode on all sides, a movement arose within scholasticism that broke radically with the ecclesiastical synthesis. This turn of events announced the beginning of the "modern period." The leader of this movement was the British Franciscan William of Ockham [c. 1280-1349]. Ockham, a brilliant monk, mercilessly laid bare the inner dualism of the Roman Catholic ground-motive, denying that any point of contact existed between the realm of nature and the realm of grace [see note]. He was keenly aware that the Greek view of nature flagrantly contradicted the Scriptural motive of creation.

      Thomas Aquinas had maintained that the natural ordinances were grounded in divine "reason." For him they were eternal "forms" in the mind of God, in accordance with which God had shaped "matter." Ockham, however, rejected this entire position. Intuitively he knew that Thomas's essentially Greek picture could not be reconciled with the confession of a sovereign Creator. However, in order to break with the Greek deification of reason he ended up in another extreme. He interpreted the will of the divine creator as despotic arbitrariness, or potestas absoluta (absolute, free power).

     In Greek fashion Thomas had identified the decalogue with a natural, moral law rooted immutably in the rational nature of man and in divine reason. For this reason Thomas held that the decalogue could be known apart from revelation by means of the natural light of reason. But for Ockham, the decalogue did not have a rational basis. It was the gift of an arbitrary God, a God who was bound to nothing. God could easily have ordered the opposite. Ockham believed that the Christian must obey the laws of God for the simple reason that God established these laws and not others. The Christian could not "calculate" God's sovereign will, for the law was merely the result of God's unlimited arbitrariness. In the realm of "nature" the Christian must blindly obey; in the realm of the supranatural truths of grace he must, without question, accept the dogma of the Church.

     Ockham abandoned every thought of a "natural preparation" for ecclesiastical faith through "natural knowledge." Likewise, he rejected the idea that the Church is competent to give supranatural guidance in natural life. He did not acknowledge, for instance, [the view of Aquinas] that science is subordinate to ecclesiastical belief. Neither did he believe that the temporal authorities are subordinate to the Pope with respect to the explication of natural morality. In principle he rejected the Roman Catholic view of a "Christian society"; standing entirely independent of the Church, secular government in his view was indeed "sovereign."

     In short, we may say that Ockham deprived the law of its intrinsic value. Founded in an incalculable, arbitrary God who is bound to nothing, the law only held for the sinful realm of nature. For Ockham, humankind is never certain that God's will would not change under different circumstances. Radically denying that any point of contact between nature and grace existed, he rejected the official Roman Catholic view of human society, together with its subordination of the natural to the supranatural and of the State to the Church.

     The attempts of Pope John XXII to stifle the spiritual movement led by Ockham were in vain. The Pope's position was very weak; having been forced to flee from Rome, he depended greatly on the King of France during his exile at Avignon. But above all, a new period in history announced itself at this time — a period that signified the end of medieval, ecclesiastical culture. Ockham's critique convinced many that the Roman Catholic synthesis between the Greek view of nature and the Christian religion had been permanently destroyed. 

     The future presented only two options: one could either return to the Scriptural ground-motive of the Christian religion or, in line with the new motive of nature severed from the faith of the Church, establish a modern view of life concentrated on the religion of human personality. The first path led to the Reformation; the second path led to modern humanism. In both movements, after-effects of the Roman Catholic motive of nature and grace continued to be felt for a long time.

     In order to gain a proper insight into the spiritual situation of contemporary Protestantism, it is extremely important to trace the after-effects of the Roman Catholic ground-motive. In doing this, we will focus our attention especially on the various conceptions concerning the relation between "church" and "world" in Protestant circles. We will be especially interested in "Barthianism," so widely influential today.

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(Extract from "Roots of Western Culture: Pagan, Secular, and Christian Options" pp 136-138, by Herman Dooyeweerd).

Free PDF of entire book (older edition) downloadable
HERE.

Info regarding new paperback edition of book 2012 (revised translation)

HERE.

Gregory Campbell DUP: Acht Teanga curtha ar ‘pháipéar leithris’

Gregory Cambell ón DUP

Acht Teanga curtha ar ‘pháipéar leithris’ ag Campbell

Ní ghéillfidh an DUP ‘go deo’ don éileamh ar Acht Teanga ó thuaidh, a deir Gregory Campbell, a thosaigh a óráid agus pota iógairt ina lámh aige mar fhrapa

Seán Tadhg Ó Gairbhí, Samhain 22 2014

Níl san Acht Teanga don Tuaisceart atá á lorg le fada ag pobal na Gaeilge ach éileamh ar ‘liosta aislingeach’ arb ionann é agus ‘páipéar leithris’, dar le Gregory Campbell ón DUP.

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The National: New (pro-independence) daily

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Nicola Sturgeon: Hydro Glasgow 22 Nov 2014

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Nicola Sturgeon - Scotland's First Minister: Holyrood speech following election 19 Nov 2014

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FRIOTAL: Ar chaill tú do chiall, literally?

Ba cheart aitheantas a thabhairt do na bríonna nua a ghreamaíonn d’fhocail sa teanga bheo.

Antain Mac Lochlainn

Dé Céadaoin, Samhain 19 2014

‘Bíonn craoltóirí cumasacha Gaeltachta ag caint ar ‘coinníollacha aimsire’ agus ‘coinníollacha imeartha’ san áit a mbeadh ‘weather conditions’ agus ‘playing conditions’.’ Pictiúr: Photocall Ireland

Ceist: má tá focal á úsáid ‘go mícheart’ ag pobal teanga, an féidir a mhaíomh go bhfuil sé mícheart níos mó?

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Dooyeweerd’s Philosophy of Economics

Dooyeweerd’s Philosophy of Economics

Joost W. Hengstmengel MA MSc

Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Journal of Markets & Morality

Volume 15, Number 2 (Fall 2012): 415–429

Copyright © 2012

Abraham Kuyper repeatedly stressed the desirability of an independent Calvinist science of economics. At the Free University of Amsterdam, economists with such ideals would indeed appear, but their normative approach to economics was overshadowed by the rise of economic positivism. As a pupil of Kuyper, Herman Dooyeweerd provided Calvinist economics with a philosophical foundation. In this article, Dooyeweerd’s philosophy of economics based on his “philosophy of the cosmonomic idea” is summarized and placed into a historical context. Also explained is how his philosophical interpretation of Kuyper’s principle of sphere sovereignty results in (the necessity of) an “intrinsically Christian economic theory.” Dooyeweerd appears to be an outspoken advocate of normative economics, both in science and in practice.

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‘Béarla amháin’ ó Aer Lingus

‘Béarla amháin’ ó Aer Lingus

- Freagra sa deireadh tar éis cúig lá de cheisteanna ó Ghaeilgeoirí ar Twitter faoin easpa seirbhíse Gaeilge ar shuíomh idirlín an aerlíne náisiúnta.

Maitiú Ó Coimín, Dé Máirt, Samhain 18 2014

Níl aon phlean ag Aer Lingus an Ghaeilge a chur leis an rogha teangacha ar a suíomh idirlín.

Thug an aerlíne an méid sin le fios inné tar éis cúig lá de cheisteanna ó Ghaeilgeoirí ar Twitter faoin easpa seirbhíse Gaeilge ar a suíomh.

Leigh an chuid eile den alt seo

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Dr Jonathan Chaplin: Politics Seminar: 'Forming a Christian Mind' Conference 2014

Publiée le 2014-06-09
Dr Jonathan Chaplin is the Director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (KLICE), based at Tyndale House, Cambridge.

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Craig Murray: 'After the Referendum. Constitution.' 15 Nov 2014

Craig Murray speaks at 'After the Referendum. Constitution.', Perth 15th Nov 2014

Mícheál Ó Ruairc faoi agallamh

DAMBATHEANGA agus ‘scríbhneoireacht na Gaeilge gan treoir’

Mícheál Ó Ruairc faoi agallamh ag Tuairsic.ie agus blaisín dá shaothar á léamh aige as a chnuasach filíochta ‘Dambatheanga’, a bhuaigh an chéad duais i gCómórtas Filíochta an Oireachtais 2014. Cnuasach dátheangach atá sa bhailiúchán dánta ‘Dambatheanga’, foilsithe ag Arlen House, a dhíríonn ar staid na teangan sa lá atá inniu, chomh maith le dánta pearsanta. Seo an chéad chnuasach ag an fhile, gearrscéalaí agus úrscéalaí ó cheantar an Leitriúigh i gCiarraí ó 2001 ann.

Méabh Ní Thuathaláin (Samhain 16 2014)

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Nicola Sturgeon at SNP Conference Nov 2014

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Lesley Riddoch: Blossom at Wordplay

Lesley Riddoch: Blossom at Wordplay from arts-news on Vimeo.

Lesley Riddoch: Blossom at Wordplay

Broadcaster and author Lesley Riddoch, brings her book 'Blossom: What Scotland Needs to Flourish', to Shetland's literary festival, Wordplay. Covering such topics as the grassroots efforts involved in the Scottish Independence Referendum, youth engagement in politics, and the impact of the BBC's coverage of the Referendum, Shetland correspondent, Dave Hammond explores the current political climate with Riddoch.

Shetland Arts’ annual book festival has been running since 2001. Welcoming writers of local, national and international renown, Wordplay features a mix of readings, writing workshops, children’s events, and book signings.

Find out more about Blossom at 

at lesleyriddoch.com/ 

and shetlandarts.org/whats-on/festivals/wordplay/

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Alex Salmond: 'Farewell' Speech at SNP Conference Perth 14th Nov 2014

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