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Saint Sophrony Sakharov’s Vade Mecum towards the Divine Light
The present study aims to capitalise on Saint Sophrony Sakharov’s theological/mystical view of experiencing the divine Light, which the Essex Abbot construes as an aspiration to be pursued by any Christian, not only by spiritual elites.
Ioan Chirilă, Stelian Pașca-Tușa
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Divine Love as the Reason for Creation in Islam—An Exploration of Nursi’s Epistles of Light
This paper aims to answer the question “why did God create the world” by examining Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s magnum opus, the The Epistles of Light (Risale-i Nur), to demonstrate that, from a Nursian perspective, divine love is the raison d’etre for the ...
Nasrin Rouzati
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The Category of Light in Ukrainian Art. From Byzantium to Baroque [PDF]
The article is dedicated to the concept of divine light, which has always been a matter of particular attention in the Orthodox religion. Since the earliest monuments of the 11th century, it has been clearly remarked in Ukrainian art, both in mosaics and
Liudmila Miliaeva, Oleksandra Shevliuga
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Divine Law; the Rationale of Social Life From the View of Political Words of Āyatullāh Khāminiyī [PDF]
The purpose of the present study is to explore the role of divine law in the political life of humans based on the political words of Āyatullāh Khāminiyī.
Mohsen Mohajernia
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This article analyzes the chapter on ethics from Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede’s (d.1702) commentary Sharḥ al-Akhlāq al-‘Aḍuḍ, a practical philosophy of ethics, household management, and politics. Müneccimbaşı lived from the mid-17th to the beginning of the 18
İlker Kömbe
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ST. SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN AND HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF SEEING THE DIVINE LIGHT
Saint Symeon is one of the most representative Eastern theologians and mystics. His speech on God and the knowledge of heavenly realities through direct, unmitigated experience would gain him the title of “the New Theologian”, which, until him, had only ...
Fr. PhD. Ioan Chirilă
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Answering Divine Love: Human Distinctiveness in the Light of Islam and Artificial Superintelligence
In the Qur’an, human distinctiveness was first questioned by angels. These established denizens of the cosmos could not understand why God would create a seemingly pernicious human when immaculate devotees of God such as themselves existed.
Yusuf Çelik
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The Japanese “new religions” (Shin Shūkyō) active in Kinshasa (DR Congo) nearly all perform healing through the channeling of invisible divine light.
P. Lambertz
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Light and Divine Wisdom: An Alternative Interpretation of the Iconography of the Fuller Brooch
The Fuller Brooch is considered the earliest English representation of the five senses. The central character, representing sight, is thought to also hold one or more figurative meanings, linked to ideas and concepts that were current in King Alfred’s ...
L. Teresi
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Eye of the Heart, Eye of Insight, Eye of Certainty in Mohī al-Dīn Ibn Arabī’s Writings [PDF]
Mohī al-Dīn ibn Arabī in line with the emphasis of the Islamic gnosis tradition on the immediate and intuitive knowledge, bases his mystical viewpoint upon a kind of immediate knowledge to which he refers as ‘intuition’.
Mahdi Zamani, Mohammad Javad Ghasemi
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