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December 30, 2024

Territory, State and Nation The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén

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Free Download Ragnar Björk, "Territory, State and Nation: The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén "
English | ISBN: 1800730721 | 2021 | 320 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Rudolf Kjellén, regularly referred to as "the father of geopolitics," developed in the first decade of the twentieth century an analytical model for calculating the capabilities of great-power states and promoting their interests in the international arena. It was an ambitious intellectual project that sought to bring politics into the sphere of social science. Bringing together experts on Kjellén from across the disciplines, Territory, State and Nation explores the century-long international impact, analytical model, and historical theories of a figure immensely influential in his time who is curiously little-known today.

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January 8, 2024

The Mission of Demythologizing Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology

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Free Download The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology By David W. Congdon
2015 | 988 Pages | ISBN: 1451487924 | EPUB | 3 MB
Rudolf Bultmann’s controversial program of demythologizing has been the subject of constant debate since it was first announced in 1941. It is widely held that this program indicates Bultmann’s departure from the dialectical theology he once shared with Karl Barth. In the 1950s, Barth thus referred to their relationship as that of a whale and an elephant: incapable of meaningful communication. This study proposes a contrary reading of demythologizing as the hermeneutical fulfillment of dialectical theology on the basis of a reinterpretation of Barth’s theological project.

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