https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36036 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:09:09 GMT 2026-04-28T12:09:09Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36146 Title: The individuation of actions Abstract: There are three passages, the first in 'A Plea for Excuses~ the second in How to Do Things with Words, and the third in 'Three Ways of Spilling Ink', which have obvious affinities of content and purpose and which I would like to consider together. In them Austin raises the important philosophical problem of the individuation of actions. The passages themselves, however, while containing useful hints as to what Austin's intuitions were about the subject, do not provide any definite, well worked out solution. It is important, therefore, to try to understand the nature of the problem raised by Austin and to examine critically the various solutions which have been suggested. Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36146 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36100 Title: Mathetai (autou) and Luke's concern for the sound of his Gospel Abstract: The purpose of this note is to affirm the importance of "sound" to the study of Luke. As is common knowledge, the purely quantitative rhythm of Hellenistic Greek gradually declined after the first century, and was replaced by the Bysantine system of stress and meter similar to our own language rhythm. Because of this change, we have no natural understanding of Hellenistic Greek as it actually sounded, and can only form a mental notion of its recitation. But in practical terms, such a rational reconstruction is only useful in the case of poetic recitation, where the same metric units are regularly repeated - something, by the way, looked upon unfavourably for prose writing by Aristotle. Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36100 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36099 Title: Outlines of the Christology of St. Augustine Abstract: The number of studies on the christology of St. Augustine is surprisingly small, compared with the total amount of works on his life, person and writings, which is already immense. The reason for this discrepancy seems to be that his life and person, philosophy, doctrines on trinity and grace were considered as of original interest. His christology, however, was regarded as rather "traditional", i.e. of no new impact on the development of the christological doctrine and therefore of little interest for research. Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36099 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36098 Title: Prayer as a lived relationship : a psychological study Abstract: Questions about the contents and the various dimensions of a relationship lived with God in prayer can be asked and indeed they ought to be asked, even from the psychological point of view. How, indeed, is prayer structured? Does prayer vary from one sex to the other? Or from one culture to another? Questions such as these shaped my investigation into the phenomenon of prayer. I My empirical project had a two-fold objective. The first was the development of a research instrument to be used in such an investigation.2 Tl}e second was an application of this tool to religious experience and the phenomenon of prayer. The first objective was necessary because the science of the psychology of religion has been notably lacking in studies on prayer. The few studies that do exist have, for the most part, been merely descriptive and they have been relatively deficient in the use of scientific methodology. These few studies have tended to concentrate on children and adolescents. Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36098 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z