Any given prophet may be both predictive and missionary, ecstatic as well as reformative.
Although retributive theorists do not base their justification of punishment on its possible deterrent or reformative effects, many of them agree that punishment can perform a salutary educational function.
Another type of prophet is of the reformative or revolutionary kind (looking to the past and the future), closely related to the restorative or purificatory type (looking to the past as the ideal).
God never coerces, though with reformative intention he may punish.
He likes the Cardinal, but he likes the third-person historic present better, a reformative take on the stream of consciousness that is making the Pope spit blood, though no more than the King's ongoing petition to have his marriage to Katherine annulled.
"There's this attitude right now that bitcoin is just this investment, or a superior way to do payments, or something that's going to make it more efficient to do commerce," says Taaki. "It's the idea that bitcoin isn't something that's fundamentally different, but something reformative, to paper over the cracks in the system.
Nirbhaya's family has been outraged by the judgment, feeling cheated by the fact that the underage rapist, now 18, has been sentenced to just three years in a reformative institution.
"African literature suffered from some kind of ideological spasm in which the younger generation was bombarded by a sense of ideological duty, in other words it was bombarded with a very simplistic notion by leftist radical writers, very reformative revolutionary thinkers, that all literature is ideological and therefore writers must ensure that their writing illustrates progressive ideologies".
A purely reformative system treats those subjected to it not as rational, self-determining agents, but as objects to be re-formed by whatever efficient (and humane) techniques we can find.
