Download or read book The Structure of Being written by International Society for Neoplatonic Studies and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoplatonism has sometimes been seen as a species of mysticism. This volume shows that Neoplatonism has, on the contrary, a characteristic and definable structure. It presents the logic of Neoplatonism and carefully distinguishes it from the logic of other forms of philosophy.

Download or read book Drawing the Soul written by Bernard Burgoyne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents essays that consider the status and significance of the 'pictures of the mind', in Freud, and also in the work of the major psychoanalytic thinkers. It offers an unparalleled chance to compare and contrast the fundamental ideas and assumptions of key figures in psychoanalysis.

Download or read book Schema of a Soul written by Kimberlye Berg and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of love is stronger than death? What are your most profound stories of life and death and love? Where is God in the middle of such heart-wrenching-we-can-barely-breathe pain and grief? "Schema of a Soul" is a layered love story in the midst of the relational aftermath of tragedy. Rather than minimizing pain in a dismissive effort to get over it and move on, could there be so much more meaning to be discovered regarding the relational reality of God if we were to delve deeper into the devastating places as He invites us? The beautiful truth is: there is a love stronger than death, boundless enough to break through our fearful, tightly held assumptions and illusions regarding pain and grief and relationships and life and death and God, and that changes everything.

Download or read book The Pursuit of the Soul written by Peter Tyler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most striking features of contemporary psychology is the return of language of the 'soul' in contemporary discourse. In this original analysis Dr Peter Tyler investigates the origins and use of 'soul-language' in the Christian tradition before turning his attention to the evolution and preoccupations of modern psychoanalysis. In his forensic examination he explores the dynamics of psychoanalysis as a 'tool to rediscover the soul' of the 21st century seeker. Central to his book is the perceived clash between analysis and the spiritual tradition. His uncompromising conclusion is that the dialogue of the two in our present time will have far-reaching repercussions for church, society and future human well-being. Read more about his work on http://insoulpursuit.blogspot.co.uk

Download or read book Genesis and Structure of Hegel s Phenomenology of Spirit written by Jean Hyppolite and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Hyppolite produced the first French translation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. His major works—the translation, his commentary, and Logique et existence (1953)—coincided with an upsurge of interest in Hegel following World War II. Yet Hyppolite's influence was as much due to his role as a teacher as it was to his translation or commentary: Foucault and Deleuze were introduced to Hegel in Hyppolite's classes, and Derrida studied under him. More than fifty years after its original publication, Hyppolite's analysis of Hegel continues to offer fresh insights to the reader.

Download or read book A Companion to Plato written by Hugh H. Benson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad-ranging Companion comprises original contributions from leading Platonic scholars and reflects the different ways in which they are dealing with Plato’s legacy. Covers an exceptionally broad range of subjects from diverse perspectives Contributions are devoted to topics, ranging from perception and knowledge to politics and cosmology Allows readers to see how a position advocated in one of Plato’s dialogues compares with positions advocated in others Permits readers to engage the debate concerning Plato’s philosophical development on particular topics Also includes overviews of Plato’s life, works and philosophical method

Download or read book Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus The Enneads Commentary written by Stephen Gersh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first ever systematic philosophical study of Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on Plotinus’ ‘Enneads’ (first published in Florence, 1492), this work of Ficino being arguably as definitive for the Florentine thinker’s later work as the Platonic Theology was for his earlier. Publication of the present study uniquely illuminates the extent to which Plotinus had always been the crucial influence over Ficino’s revolutionary projects of introducing Platonic thought based on original Greek sources to western Europe, correcting certain features of late medieval and Renaissance Aristotelianism, and laying the foundations of a new Christian Platonism. The study can be read both as an independent introduction to Ficino’s later philosophy and as the complement to the first modern edition and translation of the Commentary on the 'Enneads' itself also by Stephen Gersh (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 2017-).

Download or read book The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle written by Jakob L. Fink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering collection of essays contributing to the history of philosophy and also to the contemporary debate about what philosophy is.

Download or read book Spiritual World About the xistence of God About the Existence of Incorporeal Forces written by Protopriest Grigory Dyachenko and published by Vladimir Djambov. This book was released on with total page 1003 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Stories and Reflections Leading to the Recognition of the Existence of the Spiritual World Content Foreword About the spirit of our time Chapter one. God in Nature 1. There is no case in the world 2. Wise instruction 3. Traces of the wisdom and goodness of God, or expediency in the structure of the Earth 4. Traces of the wisdom and goodness of God, or expediency in the arrangement of the water element Appendix. A. Beneficial properties of water B. A phenomenon inexplicable according to the laws of nature 5. Traces of the wisdom and goodness of God, or expediency in the arrangement of the air element 6. Traces of the wisdom and goodness of God, or expediency in the arrangement of light 7. Traces of the wisdom and goodness of God, or expediency in the arrangement of plants Appendix. An example of expediency (Neptune's cup - sponge) 8. Traces of the wisdom and goodness of God, or expediency in the arrangement of the stellar world Appendix. A. Elements of the Universe B. A remarkable fact from the field of geology C. The property of the phenomena and laws of the universe requires the recognition of the existence of God D. Force exists independently of the matter it controls. E. The world did not exist forever: it was created by God in time E. Several examples of natural phenomena that testify to the wise Creator of the world G. There is no spontaneous generation in the world H. Biogenesis. (Life comes from life) I. Resolving objections to expediency in the world 9. Facts of expediency in the field of living beings and especially in the structure of the human body a) Bodies and functions b) instincts 10. Expediency in the structure of the human body, adapted to self-defense from harmful internal and external influences Methods of self-defense of the body a) Thermal environment b) Injuries c) Microbes d) External poisons f) Internal poisons Chapter two. God in the human soul 1. How is God revealed in the human soul? 2. The doctrine of the being of God St. fathers, presented in the form of questions and answers Appendix. A. Testimonies of philosophers, scientists and writers about the existence of God B. Evidence for the Existence of God C. The best proof of the existence of God D. Criticism of pantheism and materialism as systems of atheism, the most common in our time. A. CRITIQUE OF PANTHEISM B. Criticism of materialism Refutation of materialistic false doctrine 1) Materialism is contrary to sound thinking 2) The materialistic view does not explain the appearance of the organism 3) The assertion of the materialists that the Christian world view falls down in the face of the facts of astronomy and geology has no scientific basis. Chapter three. God in the private and world-historical life of the human race A. Providence of God in the private life of people as separate, independent individuals 1. Stories confirming the idea that the ways of Divine Providence are inscrutable 2. About how we can recognize His holy will from the incomprehensible judgments of God 3. Like St. Ephraim the Syrian came to the conviction of the existence of the Providence of God? 4. Stories about the providential care of God for the people of the saints 5. Stories about the obvious traces of God's Providence in the lives of ordinary people a) Miraculous rescue from fire b) God is merciful not only to the righteous, but also to repentant sinners c) The Lord saves people from obvious danger, if their life is useful, then by a mysterious voice, then by other means d) God's care for orphans e) Providence of God in the daily life of a person f) Someone's participation in our life g) Escape from apparent danger h) Saving warning i) A remarkable case from the life of the peasant poet Surikov j) From the Memoirs of Countess A.D. Fornication" k) The Lord Himself preserves children 6. Ways of God's providence in the conversion of sinners 7. Providence of God in the punishment of criminals 8. The wondrous ways of the Providence of God in the conversion of pagans to Christianity 9. Mysterious admonitions and conversions to the faith of unbelievers Appendix. A. God's providence for man, and especially for pious people B. Is it fair to say that what is to be cannot be avoided? C. Conditions under which traces of Divine Providence may be observed B. Divine Providence in the World History of the Human Race 1. Traces of God's providence in the ancient history of peoples 2. Traces of Divine Providence in the fate of modern mankind Appendix. A. Divine Providence and Science B. Divine Providence and Human Freedom Chapter Four. God in the historical fate of the Christian Church A. The deity of Jesus Christ. Supernatural Testimonies of the Deity of Jesus Christ Appendix. A. Are there miracles now? B. Beneficial Influence of Christianity on Humanity C. The Essence of the Gospel Teaching (Content of the Testimony of Christ) D. Proofs of the divinity of Christ's doctrineE. Refutation of False Views of the Christian Religion: a) as if she was guilty of a fanatical fratricidal war in the Middle Ages and b) as if she had outlived her life and should give way to science B. Significance of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ in Proving the Divinity of the Christian Religion Appendix. Analysis of objections to the fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, borrowing their pseudo-scientific support from telepathy C. Miraculous Signs of the Truth of Christ's Church1. Church-historica l examples proving that the Orthodox Church is the one true Church 2. Heavenly executions of the persecutors of the Church of God 3. Punishments for blasphemy against St. Orthodox Church 4. Miracles from St. icons as evidence of the truth of icon veneration 5. Stories about the miraculous help of the Mother of God and the saints 1. The miracle of the Mother of God healing the severed hand of St. John of Damascus 2. Salvation from inevitable death by the intercession of the Mother of God 3. The Mother of God as the guardian of the true teaching of the Church 4. Testimony of Russian history about the power of prayer to the Mother of God 5. Chosen Governor 6. Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos for a wife offended by her husband 6. Stories about miracles from the relics and other remains of saints 7. Miracles that happened during the performance of St. sacraments 1. The uniqueness of baptism 2. Stories about the miraculous change produced in people by the regenerating power of St. baptism 3. Miraculous signs performed at the sacrament of baptism 4. Stories from the lives of the saints, proving that in the Sacrament of Communion (Eucharist) the true body of Christ is given under the guise of bread and the true blood of the Lord under the guise of wine 5. Miracles that took place during the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ 6. Examples of God's punishment for unworthy communion of the Holy Mysteries or blasphemous treatment of them 7. Stories about the healing power of the Holy Mysteries of Christ 8. Stories about the power and meaning of the sacrament of repentance 9. Examples of miraculous election and calling to the bishopric 10. Stories about God's punishment for insulting the servants of the Lord's altar 11. Stories about hearing prayers drawn from church history and the lives of saints Appendix. Miracles and nature Chapter five. God in revelation

Download or read book The Human Intellect with an Introduction Upon Psychology and the Soul written by Noah PORTER (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bible in Christian North Africa written by Jonathan P. Yates and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume delves into the intricate dynamics that surrounded the use of Scripture by North African Christians from the late-fourth to the mid-seventh century CE. It focuses on the multivalent ways in which Scripture was incorporated into the fabric of ecclesial existence and theological reflection, as well as on Scripture’s role in informing and supporting these Christians’ decision-making processes. This volume also highlights the intricate theological and philosophical deliberations that were carried out between and among influential North African Christian leaders and scholars—in diverse cultural and geopolitical settings—while paying attention to the complex manner in which these Scripture-laden discourses intersected the wide variety of religious opinions and ecclesiastical and/or theological movements that so clearly marked this region in this era.

Download or read book Between Death and Resurrection written by Stephen Yates and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians look with hope to the resurrection of the dead and the restoration of all things. But what of those who have already died? Do they also await these things, or have they in some sense already happened for them? Within the Catholic theological community, this question has traditionally been answered in terms of the disembodied souls of human beings awaiting bodily resurrection. Since the 1960s, Catholic theologians have proposed two alternatives: resurrection at death into the Last Day and the consummation of all things, or resurrection in death into an interim state in which the embodied dead await, with us, the final consummation of all things. This book critically examines the Scriptural, philosophical and theological reasons for these alternatives and, on the basis of this analysis, offers an account of the traditional schema which makes clear that in spite of these challenges it remains the preferable option.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Origen written by Ronald E. Heine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interrogation of Origen's legacy for the 21st Century returns to old questions built upon each other over eighteen centuries of Origen scholarship-problems of translation and transmission, positioning Origen in the histories of philosophy, theology, and orthodoxy, and defining his philological and exegetical programmes. The essays probe the more reliable sources for Origen's thought by those who received his legacy and built on it. They focus on understanding how Origen's legacy was adopted, transformed and transmitted looking at key figures from the fourth century through the Reformation. A section on modern contributions to the understanding of Origen embraces the foundational contributions of Huet, the twentieth century movement to rehabilitate Origen from his status as a heterodox teacher, and finally, the identification in 2012 of twenty-nine anonymous homilies on the Psalms in a codex in Munich as homilies of Origen. Equally important has been the investigation of Origen's historical, cultural, and intellectual context. These studies track the processes of appropriation, assimilation and transformation in the formation and transmission of Origen's legacy. Origen worked at interpreting Scripture throughout his life. There are essays addressing general issues of hermeneutics and his treatment of groups of books from the Biblical canon in commentaries and homilies. Key points of his theology are also addressed in essays that give attention to the fluid environment in which Origen developed his theology. These essays open important paths for students of Origen in the 21st century.

Download or read book The Fruit of the Spirit written by Al L. Holloway and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the schism of valuing spirituality with respect to social work practice has lessened over the years, there continues to be a gap in our understanding as to exactly what spirituality is and how one might incorporate it within social work practice? It is my contention that social workers should not only be incorporating spirituality within their practice, but also, they should become spiritual exemplars themselves. Fruit of the Spirit: A Primer for Spiritually-minded Social Workers provides some provocative notions that will spur the reader forward on his/her spiritual development. It introduces to the reader the notion of spiritual differentiation from the animalistic notion of self (which I describe as the "indifferent-heart realm"), to the development of humanistic principles ("craving-heart realm") to the ultimate experience of our purposeful journey of being fully cognizant of our spiritual selves ("pure-heart realm"). This process is exemplified with a gardening metaphor, which the reader can progress from "seeding" (awareness of one's spiritual self and the sowing of spiritual seeds), "weeding" (the structure and care of developing our spiritual selves) and the "harvesting" (the ingesting and granting of spiritual "fruits" that has been produced). Traditional knowledge of social work practice helps to elucidate the student; whereas, embracing spiritual principles is about transforming and transcending the student to higher levels. The "fruits" that are gathered are the attributes of God (e.g., love, peace, goodness, etc.). There are exercises at the end of each chapter that will assist the reader in developing his/her spirituality.

Download or read book Michelangelo s Christian Mysticism written by Sarah Rolfe Prodan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Sarah Rolfe Prodan examines the spiritual poetry of Michelangelo in light of three contexts: the Catholic Reformation movement, Renaissance Augustinianism, and the tradition of Italian religious devotion. Prodan combines a literary, historical, and biographical approach to analyze the mystical constructs and conceits in Michelangelo's poems, thereby deepening our understanding of the artist's spiritual life in the context of Catholic Reform in the mid-sixteenth century. Prodan also demonstrates how Michelangelo's poetry is part of an Augustinian tradition that emphasizes mystical and moral evolution of the self. Examining such elements of early modern devotion as prayer, lauda singing, and the contemplation of religious images, Prodan provides a unique perspective on the subtleties of Michelangelo's approach to life and to art. Throughout, Prodan argues that Michelangelo's art can be more deeply understood when considered together with his poetry, which points to a spirituality that deeply informed all of his production.

Download or read book Emotions and Spirituality in Religions and Spiritual Movements written by Erika Wilson and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying recent psychological and neuropsychological studies of emotions, Erika Wilson explores the role of emotions in major Eastern, Western, and primal religions, as well as in some contemporary spiritual movements. The book tries to answer the following questions: What kinds of emotions and spiritual experiences arise in individuals and groups during prayer, conversions, rituals, meditations, and other spiritual practices? Which positive emotions are valued most in a particular religion or spiritual movement? How do these attitudes relate to their respective historical context? And finally, how does each religious or spiritual teaching recommend handling negative emotions?

Download or read book Buddhism and Cultural Studies written by Edwin Ng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the reciprocity between Buddhist, Derridean, and Foucauldian understandings about ethics, subjectivity, and ontological contingency, to investigate the ethical and political potential of insight meditation practice. The book is narrated from the perspective of a postcolonial ‘Western Buddhist’ convert who, despite growing up in Singapore where Buddhism was a part of his disaporic ‘Chinese’ ancestral heritage, only embraced Buddhism when he migrated to Australia and discovered Western translations of Buddhist teachings. Through an autoethnography of the author’s Buddhist-inspired pursuit of an academic profession, the book develops and professes a non-doctrinal understanding of faith that may be pertinent to ‘believers’ and ‘non-believers’ alike, inviting the academic reader in particular to consider the (unacknowledged) role of faith in supporting scholarly practice. Striking a careful balance between critical analysis and self-reflexive inquiry, the book performs in all senses of the word, a profession of faith.