The Mediated Immediacy : João Batista Libanio and the Question of Latin American Liberation Theology

This study is a systematic analysis of mediated immediacy in the production of the Brazilian professor of theology João Batista Libanio. He stresses both ethical mediation and the immediate character of the faith. Libanio has sought an answer to the problem of science and faith. He makes use of the neo-scholastic distinction between matter and form. According to St. Thomas Aquinas, God cannot be known as a scientific object, but it is possible to predicate a formal theological content of other subject matter with the help of revelation. This viewpoint was emphasized in neo-Thomism and supported by the liberation theologians. For them, the material starting point was social science. It becomes a theologizable or revealable (revelabile) reality. This social science has its roots in Latin American Marxism which was influenced by the school of Louis Althusser and considered Marxism a science of history . The synthesis of Thomism and Marxism is a challenge Libanio faced, especially in his Teologia da libertação from 1987. He emphasized the need for a genuinely spiritual and ethical discernment, and was particularly critical of the ethical implications of class struggle. Libanio s thinking has a strong hermeneutic flavor. It is more important to understand than to explain. He does not deny the need for social scientific data, but that they cannot be the exclusive starting point of theology. There are different readings of the world, both scientific and theological. A holistic understanding of the nature of religious experience is needed. Libanio follows the interpretation given by H. C. de Lima Vaz, according to whom the Hegelian dialectic is a rational circulation between the totality and its parts. He also recalls Oscar Cullmann s idea of God s Kingdom that is already and not yet . In other words, there is a continuous mediation of grace into the natural world. This dialectic is reflected in ethics. Faith must be verified in good works. Libanio uses the Thomist fides caritate formata principle and the modern orthopraxis thinking represented by Edward Schillebeeckx. One needs both the ortho of good faith and the praxis of the right action. The mediation of praxis is the mediation of human and divine love. Libanio s theology has strong roots in the Jesuit spirituality that places the emphasis on contemplation in action.

A question of identity - wiring in the human

This paper discusses the RFID implants for identification via a sensor network. Brain-computer implants linked in to a wireless network. Biometric identification via body sensors is also discussed. The use of a network as a means for remote and distance monitoring of humans opens up a range of potential uses. Where implanted identification is concerned this immediately offers high security access to specific areas by means of only an RFID device. If a neural implant is employed then clearly the information exchanged with a network can take on a much richer form, allowing for identification and response to an individual's needs based on the signals apparent on their nervous system.

The Rueter-Hess Dam and Reservoir Project: A Question of Sustainable Water

Water in sufficient quantities throughout the Colorado Front Range is becoming increasingly limited. This paper examines the consequences for continued unsustainable use of water for communities of the Denver metropolitan area. This paper also looks at the effect that water law in the West has for otherwise optimum distributions of water. In addition, four regional and state water studies are reviewed for their contribution to sustainable water. Finally, the Final Environmental Impact Statement of the Rueter-Hess dam and reservoir project in Parker, Colorado is explored. Key findings conclude that the Rueter-Hess project may not, by itself, provide sustainable water for Parker; but the project will create incentive and opportunity for communities throughout the region to address the question of sustainable water.

Whose oil is it? The question of subsoil rights in Mexico.

"This booklet ... is the second in the series."--Foreword.

Soybeans and the world market [microform] : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices and the Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, second session, on the question of whether the marketing loan program should be expanded to include soybeans, March 18, 1988.

Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. Item 1032-C, 1032-D (microfiche)

Bulgarian horrors, and the question of the East. A letter addressed to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M. P.,

Mode of access: Internet.

Report, proceedings and evidence of the Select Standing Committee on Industrial and International relations upon the question of insurance against unemployment, sickness and invalidity as ordered by the House on the 14th of February, 1929 : Third session of the sixteenth Parliament of Canada.

Includes index.

Arbitration between Peru and Chile. The case of Peru in the matter of the controversy arising out of the question of the Pacific, before the President of the United States of America, arbitrator, under the protocol and supplementary act between the Republic of Chile, signed July 20, 1922, at Washington, D.C., ratified January 15, 1923.

Includes documents in Spanish and English.

Arbitration between Peru and Chile. The counter case of Peru in the matter of the controversy arising out of the question of the Pacific, before the President of the United States of America, arbitrator, under the protocol and supplementary act between the Republic of Peru and the Republic of Chile, signed July 20, 1922 at Washington, D.C. ratified January 15, 1923.

Binder's title: Peruvian-Chilean arbitration. Appendix to the counter case of Peru.

An address to the people of Maine, on the question of separation.

Mode of access: Internet.

A question of damages,

Pub. advts. (6 p.) at end, and 1 p. at front.

A question of instinct; an analytical study...

Mode of access: Internet.

Copy of report, with certain appendices, on the question of narrow-gauge railways.

At head of title: Cape of Good Hope.

An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library /

Cover title: A second address.

The burning question of trades unionism. A lecture delivered at Newark, N.J., April 21, 1904.

Mode of access: Internet.