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The Neoplatonic Roots of Apophatic Theology in Medieval Islam on the Example of Maqāmāt aṭ-ṭuyūr/Manṭiq aṭ-ṭayr (The Conference of the Birds) by ʿAṭṭār Nīšāpūrī (ca. 1145–1221)

Verbum Vitae, 2023
This study will focus on the metaphysical and theological thought of Farīd ad-dīn ʿAṭṭār Nīšāpūrī, i.e. Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (ca. 1145/6–1221).
Krzysztof Kościelniak
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The apophatic theology in the philosophical studies of Jacques Derrida: the experience of pure prayer and the analogic language of the hymn [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2021
This article examines the image of negative theology in the works of Jacques Derrida using the example of the theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Liubov Petrova
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It is impossible not to “trust” Frank... Semyon Frank and George Florovsky [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2021
The article examines the life and creative connections of two prominent Russian thinkers of the 20th century, S. L. Frank and Revd. Georgy Florovsky. It fi rst looks the biographical aspects of their relationship and then analyses Revd.
Teresa Obolevitch
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An Exploration of Hierarchy as Fractal in the Theology of Dionysios the Areopagite [PDF]

, 2010
Eric Perl, in his provocatively titled book, Theophany: The Neo-Platonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite, argues not only that Dionysios’ thought is thoroughly Neo-Platonic and fully compatible with Christianity, but that “the Dionysian doctrine ...
Williams, Georgia J.
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Drones and Eucharist

Religions, 2019
In the post-9/11 world, the use of drone strikes has become a critical aspect of U.S. Military strategy in the War on Terror. While the ethics of drones have been argued from a theological perspective, this essay argues that a deeper, more theoretical ...
Jason M. Smith
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Allameh Hilli and Thomas Aquinas on semantics of divine attributes [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2014
One of the major issues in the names and attributes of God, is the semantic interpretation of how to interpret and apply the concepts and predicates that talk about God.
hasan abasi hossein Abadi
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Buddhism as Teaching of the “Axial Age” in the Work of Alexander Men

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2022
The article analyzes the interpretation of Fr. Alexander Men (1935-1990) of Buddhism as teaching of the “Axial Age”. It is based on his seven-volume work “History of Religion: In Search of the Way, Truth and Life” (1970-1983).
Sergei A. Nizhnikov, Hong Phuong Le Thi
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The Problem of the Actual Infinity and the Path of the New European Classical Epistemology: from Genesis to the Modern Crisis

Дискурс, 2023
Introduction. The purpose of the paper is to show the prospects of the problem of actual infinity for understanding the ways of New European classical epistemology. The relevance of the work is due to the need to fill a gap in the history of New European
M. I. Philatova
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The Philosophical Aspects of the Dialogue between Modern Cosmology and Theology

Дискурс, 2021
Introduction. The paper deals with the philosophical problems of the modern dialogue between cosmology and theology. It is argued that no existential contradiction is possible between them as originating in one and the same human condition.
A. V. Nesteruk, A. V. Soldatov
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Ontology of a metaphor: the way from apophaticism to cataphaticism in the cognitive path to God

, 2020
This work reasonably substitutes the literary and aesthetic understanding of metaphor as a poetic technique of expressiveness with the epistemological understanding of metaphor as an instrument for expanding the semantic possibilities of perception ...
M. Strigin
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