By Januarius Asongu, PhD
Saint Monica University, Buea, Cameroon
I — From Fracture to Reconstruction
Civilizations decline when they lose the capacity to correct themselves. They...
I — Democracy as an Epistemic Order
Democracy is not merely a constitutional arrangement; it is an epistemic order....
I — From Institutional Mediation to Algorithmic Reality
Civilizations do not merely inhabit reality; they mediate...
I — The Transformation of the Epistemic Environment
Every civilization exists within an epistemic environment: a...
By Januarius Asongu, PhDSaint Monica University, Buea, Cameroon
I — Civilizations Beyond the Logic of Expansion
Civilizational theory has long been written from the vantage point...
I — Civilizations Interrupted
The history of the Americas presents one of the most dramatic examples of...
I — Civilizations That Did Not Break
One of the central claims of this book has been that civilizations rise and...
I — Civilizational Greatness and the Question of Decline
Among the great civilizations of human history, Islamic...
I — The Civilization That Relearned How to Know
Europe occupies a paradoxical position in global civilizational...
I — The Question That Gave Birth to the Theory
Every philosophical theory begins with a question that refuses to...
I — The Possibility of Renewal After Epistemic Fracture
Civilizations rarely disappear suddenly. Even when...
I — The Destruction of Knowledge as Civilizational Violence
Civilizations do not decline merely because they lose wars, suffer economic collapse, or...
I — The Problem Civilizational Theory Has Never Solved
Civilizations rise. Civilizations flourish. Civilizations decline.
This pattern is universally...
By Januarius Asongu
I — Religion as an Epistemic Institution
Civilizations do not arise solely through material organization or technological capability. They emerge first...
I — The Concept of Epistemic Sovereignty
Chapter 1 established that civilizations survive only insofar as they preserve reliable mediation between belief...
I — Civilization and the Problem of Truth
Human civilizations have traditionally been interpreted through their visible achievements: political...
I. The Oldest Question
One of the oldest questions in human reflection concerns the rise and fall of civilizations. Across centuries, historians,...
By Januarius Jingwa (JJ) Asongu, PhD
Abstract
This article argues that Synthetic Theological Realism (STR), a recently completed manuscript, provides the systematic and...
By George Chrysostom Nchumbonga Lekelefac
Twentieth-century Christian theology was shaped decisively by the tension between Christian realism, exemplified by Reinhold...
By Januarius J. Asongu, PhD
Contemporary research methodology remains fragmented across quantitative, qualitative, critical, and pragmatic paradigms. While methodological...