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Learning to Discern the Voices of Gods, Spirits, Tulpas, and the Dead. [PDF]
Schizophr Bull, 2023 AbstractThere are communities in which hearing voices frequently is common and expected, and in which participants are not expected to have a need for care. This paper compares the ideas and practices of these communities. We observe that these communities utilize cultural models to identify and to explain voice-like events—and that there are some ...
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Pope Francis: Master of Imaginative Discernment through Storytelling, Metaphors, and Symbols
Religions, 2023 This paper attempts to deal with an essential dimension of the process of discernment as Francis develops it, namely, the narrative. The paper treats the imaginative discernment exemplified in his use of storytelling, metaphors, and symbols to open a ...
Young Hoon Kim, Paul Rolphy Pinto
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Verbum Vitae, 2023 Man was created to fulfill God’s will by following Jesus Christ. St. Ignatius of Loyola (1591–1556), through his famous Spiritual Exercises, proposes a path of spiritual development in which the retreatant comes to know oneself, comes to deeply know ...
Wacław Królikowski
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Polonia Sacra, 2020 Saint Teresa of Ávila intrinsically connects discernment of the spirits with her principal theme of inner prayer. The main constituents of her doctrine of prayer (obedience, humility, charity, detachment) also represent key motifs in her view on ...
Filip De Rycke
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Ontologische Voraussetzungen der geistlichen Begleitung in gemeinschaftlicher Spiritualität
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica, 2022 In the history of spirituality, a way to search for the wisdom facilitating the imitation of wise people’s lives has been developed. This sort of spiritual guidance had been developed by the desert fathers and mothers, in the cloisters, and through the ...
Peter Volek
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Pneumatological communal discernment and a possibility of including unheard voices in decision-making [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyCommunal discernment is the idea of involving the group in decision-making as opposed to decisions by individuals. Previous studies worked within the ecclesiological perspectives and highlighted the key principles of communal discernment such as the ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Le fantôme et l’anthropologue : retour sur une scène primitive
Socio-anthropologie, 2016 This article ventures to demonstrate that the beliefs in ghosts and the debates around their existence went along with the birth of anthropology, before the latter came to be recognised as a discipline in the 16th cent. More specifically, more remains to
Caroline Callard
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Władza złych duchów nad człowiekiem według Jana Kasjana
Vox Patrum, 2013 Much of the literary activity of John Cassian, that supreme master of the spiritual life, concentrates on the struggle with the devil, the discernment of his strategies, and the search for effective defense mechanisms against his attacks. The question
Arkadiusz Nocoń
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Antiguos Jesuitas en Iberoamérica, 2016 The article explores cases of nullity of profession of vows in the Society of Jesus in the Peruvian 17th Century. The aim is to analyze how the conflicts of subjectiv-ity in the spiritual paradigm of that time, were interpreted from the perspective ...
Juan Miguel Dejo Bendezu
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El discernimento espiritual teresiano entre el charisma paulino y el paradigma Gersoniano [PDF]
Via Spiritus, 2016 This work aims to show how to the barefoot nun Teresa of Ávila, wrapped in the need to know her own inner development, to maintain intraconventual serenity, and insinuating a potential reading to her spiritual directors for the approval of their related ...
Facundo Sebastián Macías
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