Download or read book Spirituality and Dialectics written by Anthony E. Mansueto and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirituality and Dialectics is a passionate and rigorous argument against nihilism and a manifesto for the party of meaning and hope. It demonstrates how we can ground principles of meaning and value, against the aesthetic and intellectual hegemony of the enlightenment--culminating most currently through postmodernity, as a basis for the critique of all present injustice. What emerges is a vision of a new social order that permits the full development of human social capacities.
Download or read book Spiritual Dialectics written by Swami Mukundananda and published by Jagadguru Kripaluji Yog. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Destiny? What is Karma Yog? Why do bad things happen to good people? What does the soul look like? Dialectics is a method of investigating into the nature of the Truth, through discussions in the form of questions and answers. Many a times, resolution of the doubt creates an experience that is nothing short of an epiphany, a sudden enlightenment, or an intuitive leap of realization. The satisfaction of having a troubling question answered after many years of intellectual discomfort is much like the gratification of taking off a tight shoe after wearing it all day, except that the latter is a physical relief while the former is an intellectual deliverance. Over the last 25 years, Swami Mukundananda has been asked hundreds of thousands of questions from people across the world, on diverse topics related to religion, spirituality and God. These discussions with devotees, seekers and learners are now available as a source of guidance for sincere seekers worldwide. The book is a compilation of answers to some of the most challenging questions regarding spirituality, the goal of life, philosophy, the holy scriptures, and more.
Download or read book Living Christianly written by Sylvia Walsh and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pseudonymous works Kierkegaard wrote during the period 1843–46 have been responsible for establishing his reputation as an important philosophical thinker, but for Kierkegaard himself, they were merely preparatory for what he saw as the primary task of his authorship: to elucidate the meaning of what it is to live as a Christian and thus to show his readers how they could become truly Christian. The more overtly religious and specifically Christian works Kierkegaard produced in the period 1847–51 were devoted to this task. In this book Sylvia Walsh focuses on the writings of this later period and locates the key to Kierkegaard’s understanding of Christianity in the “inverse dialectic” that is involved in “living Christianly.” In the book’s four main chapters, Walsh examines in detail how this inverse dialectic operates in the complementary relationship of the negative qualifications of Christian existence—sin, the possibility of offense, self-denial, and suffering—to the positive qualifications—faith, forgiveness, new life/love/hope, and joy and consolation. It was Kierkegaard’s aim, she argues, “to bring the negative qualifications, which he believed had been virtually eliminated in Christendom, once again into view, to provide them with conceptual clarity, and to show their essential relation to, and necessity in, securing a correct understanding and expression of the positive qualifications of Christian existence.”
Download or read book Dialectic Spiritualism written by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda and published by Palace Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psycho Spiritual Dialectics Therapy written by Constantin Portelli and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in intelligent projected universe, guided by means of information, by Cosmic Intelligence and Divine Spirit. The antagonist forces, principles and mechanisms, which interfered in creation, have been only the tools, manipulated by Creator Intelligence to achieve His project. Human intelligence and psychic phenomena appear by the interaction of soul with the neuronal computer of brain. A new image of divine creation, based on matter, meta-information and Divine Spirit arises. Materialist Dialectics must be replaced by Psycho-Spiritual Dialectics.
Download or read book Religion and Dialectics written by Anthony E. Mansueto and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Dialectics carries to a new level, the critical dialogue between religious belief, dialectical thinking, and socialist practice, which has given birth, among other things, to the theology of liberation and to a new Marxist sociology of religion. On the one hand, Anthony Mansueto argues that, contrary to the claims of Marx and the dialectical materialist tradition, religion is fundamentally a force for human development and social progress and that atheism, far from being integral to the socialist project, in fact helps to legitimate the market order. On the other hand, Mansueto sharpens considerably the dialectical critique of Christianity, asking just what elements of this tradition are conducive to human development and social progress, and which are not.
Download or read book The Monstrosity of Christ written by Slavoj Zizek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A militant Marxist atheist and a “Radical Orthodox” Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia. “What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian belief.”—John Milbank “To put it even more bluntly, my claim is that it is Milbank who is effectively guilty of heterodoxy, ultimately of a regression to paganism: in my atheism, I am more Christian than Milbank.”—Slavoj Žižek In this corner, philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a militant atheist who represents the critical-materialist stance against religion's illusions; in the other corner, “Radical Orthodox” theologian John Milbank, an influential and provocative thinker who argues that theology is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can stand. In The Monstrosity of Christ, Žižek and Milbank go head to head for three rounds, employing an impressive arsenal of moves to advance their positions and press their respective advantages. By the closing bell, they have not only proven themselves worthy adversaries, they have shown that faith and reason are not simply and intractably opposed. Žižek has long been interested in the emancipatory potential offered by Christian theology. And Milbank, seeing global capitalism as the new century's greatest ethical challenge, has pushed his own ontology in more political and materialist directions. Their debate in The Monstrosity of Christ concerns the future of religion, secularity, and political hope in light of a monsterful event—God becoming human. For the first time since Žižek's turn toward theology, we have a true debate between an atheist and a theologian about the very meaning of theology, Christ, the Church, the Holy Ghost, Universality, and the foundations of logic. The result goes far beyond the popularized atheist/theist point/counterpoint of recent books by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and others. Žižek begins, and Milbank answers, countering dialectics with “paradox.” The debate centers on the nature of and relation between paradox and parallax, between analogy and dialectics, between transcendent glory and liberation. Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher and cultural critic. He has published over thirty books, including Looking Awry, The Puppet and the Dwarf, and The Parallax View (these three published by the MIT Press). John Milbank is an influential Christian theologian and the author of Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason and other books. Creston Davis, who conceived of this encounter, studied under both Žižek and Milbank.
Download or read book Psyche and Spirit written by William W. Meissner and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psyche and Spirit involves a series of interdisciplinary studies of the psychology of religious experience from the vantage point of psychoanalysis, psychology of religion, literary study, philosophy and theology. Individual essays converge on the subject of transformative processes occurring in the mutual interaction of psychic and spiritual experience as an integral aspect of religious experience. Each contributor brings a unique and refreshing set of insights to bear on a given aspect of this overall central concern. The resulting variation and diversity of opinion and perspective are enriching, challenging, and bring to bear a set of refreshing approaches that converge on the central issues of spiritual and psychic transformation.
Download or read book The Revolution of the Dialectic written by Samael Aun Weor and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolution of the Dialectic by Samael Aun Weor is a philosophical and esoteric work that delves into the transformative power of dialectical thinking within the context of spiritual evolution. Samael Aun Weor, a prominent figure in the Gnostic tradition, presents a synthesis of mystical teachings, psychology, and philosophy aimed at guiding individuals on a path of inner awakening.
Download or read book Spirit Dialectic written by Donald Macphie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work says something revolutionary about the nature of the human mind or, more accurately about the nature of human being, in relation to Being...The complexity and unity of the whole in turn expresses a wholeness and inclusiveness, from an anthropological range of awareness, to concrete physiological experience...This crystal structure was a transpersonal creation: the miracle of this work is precisely, through blind groping, the discovery of such an amazing structure for the process of resolving subjective consciousness in relation to Being; as beautifully ordered, intricate, and subjectively and objectively inclusive. Rather than mathematical, this felt more like a frontiersman exploring the hardships and rewards of uncharted territory... The actual creation of this landscape was of a wholly different order of reality, and definitely beyond the wit or wisdom of the author; the engineer was not.In this work, existential and dialectical thought are progressed to a new spiritual level.
Download or read book The Dialectic of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola written by Gaston Fessard S.J. and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaston Fessard employs Hegel’s dialectical logic to clarify how St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises envisage and prepare the decisions and choices between contrasting options or major turning points in spiritual life, in moments of what Ignatius would call Election.
Download or read book Report on Spiritualism of the Committee of the London Dialectical Society written by London Dialectical Society and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report of a committee made up of prominent individuals from religious, medical and scientific fields, appointed n 1869 to investigate spiritual phenomena in Europe and America. Members included Thomas Huxley, Alfred Wallace, Anna Blackwell, George Henry Lewes and T. Adolphus Trollope
Download or read book The Revolution of the Dialectic written by Samael Aun Samael Aun Weor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolution of the Dialectic, Practical Methods for Intense Spiritual Transformation, is a book that gives details about how we can resist the evils of this world and turn to higher goals.
Download or read book Phenomenology of Spirit written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: wide criticism both from Western and Eastern scholars.
Download or read book The Convergent Spirit written by Robert Charles Zaehner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Rebellion The State of Our World and How to Change It Through Practical Spirituality written by Samael Aun Weor and published by Glorian Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of our technology, each day our problems seem to become more complex. Suffering still dominates the daily news, and it wearies the heart and mind. Humanity longs for change, for practical solutions. Society is but an extension of the individual. If we long to change the world, we must begin by changing ourselves. In order to free ourselves from the chains that bind us to suffering and spiritual darkness, we must first learn how and why we are chained. Those who are brave enough to face the dire reality of these moments require methods that result in personal change, psychological insight, and internal revolution. Free of the dogma of religion and the jargon of modern psychology, The Great Rebellion provides spiritual and psychological tools for the regeneration of the human being and society. Through the effort of the individual to redeem himself from the ties that bind his mind, the whole world can be saved from an unthinkable end.
Download or read book The Revolution of the Dialectic written by Samael Aun Weor and published by Glorian Pub. This book was released on 2007-01-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts." The Revolution of the Dialectic is a profound and direct explanation of Esoteric Psychology; in it the reader finds a practical and clearly outlined synthesis of the universal psychological teachings found in ancient religions and esoteric traditions. The application of the esoteric psychology found in this book gives the means by which we can grow and develop not just psychologically, but spiritually as well: without psychological work, there is no spiritual growth. With the tools given in this book, any spiritual aspirant will energize and revitalize their efforts to awaken their Consciousness and thereby enter into the direct knowledge of the Superior and Inferior Worlds.
