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Daniel and Revelation: Blasphemy in the Cosmic Conflict
Studies of blasphemy in the book of Revelation are usually discussed in isolation from the book of Daniel, which provides an incomplete picture of this topic. This article investigates the meaning of blasphemy in the books of Daniel and Revelation.
Kuryliak Bohdan, Kuryliak Ihor
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WORLD ESCHATOLOGY IN THE NOVEL «CASSANDRA’S BRAND» BY CHINGIZ AITMATOV
World eschatology in Aitmatov’s late fiction “Cassandra’s Brand” (1996) addresses the problem of death expectation of mankind at the genetic level in the context of a worldwide catastrophe.
M. A. Filkina
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Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding
Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
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Analysis of the Components and Concepts of Bakhtin's Carnival in the Image of Dajjal of Tahmasbi Falnama [PDF]
Bakhtin believes that human life in the middle centuries were in two ways; one was a completely formal life under a hierarchical system and combined with fear, dogmatism and submission formed in piety, and the other was life in a carnival and social ...
farzaneh vahed dehkordi, Zohreh Khavari
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Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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The Myth of Belovodie, Oponskoe [Japan] Kingdom of the Old Believers, and the Mystery of the Second Volume of Gogol’s Dead Souls [PDF]
There is a hypothesis that Gogol was planning to move the setting of the second volume of Dead Souls to Siberia. The paper offers one more explanation of this design.
Ekaterina E. Dmitrieva
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The Antichrist and His Plot Against Russia: Conspiracy Theories and Eschatology
In post-Soviet Russia, there is a relatively widespread conviction that events such as the Bolshevik Revolution, World War II, and the collapse of the Soviet Union were not the results of historical contingency but of a complex vicious plot exercised by
Magda Dolińska-Rydzek
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Nietzsche's Critique of Truth [PDF]
Nietzsche has made many paradoxical remarks about truth, including the claim that truth does not exist. Philosophers have attempted to tease out various theories of truth from his scattered remarks.
Gemes, Ken
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“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate
Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
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