Saint Sophrony Sakharov’s Vade Mecum towards the Divine Light
Religions, 2023 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
Religions, 2020 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]
Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art, 2021 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]
سیاست متعالیه, 2021 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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Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2021 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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Eye of the Heart, Eye of Insight, Eye of Certainty in Mohī al-Dīn Ibn Arabī’s Writings [PDF]
ادبیات عرفانی, 2011 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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A Glance at the Nature and Concept of Tradition and Art Education [PDF]
پیکره, 2012 Tradition refers to Pre-Modern era in which moral concepts and religious knowledge had penetrated everywhere around the world. In such a world, sci-ence and technology gained credibility under the flag of teachings of divine re-ligions.
Ahad Ravanjou
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Mystical Theology of St. Simeon New Theologian [PDF]
, 2015 The article deals with the problem of the divine light in the mystical works of St Symeon the New Theologian in the context of the Eastern Christian ascetical tradition.
Volokolamsk, Metropolitan Hilarion of
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IF GOD IS EVERYWHERE, IS GOD IN A BLACK HOLE? A THEOLOGY-SCIENCE DISCUSSION ON OMNIPRESENCE
Acta Theologica, 2020 This article explores the question of divine omnipresence in light of the recent visual representations of a black hole. It explores the notion of God’s omnipresence by considering world views, scientific theory, and the notions of embodiment and ...
W. Bentley
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St. Gregory Palamas, Divine energies, uncreated light, Tabor light, Palamism, mystical experience, vision of God (theophany), knowledge of God, deification, palamite vs. hesychast controversy [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философияThis article examines one of the least studied aspects of the theological and philosophical thought of St. Gregory Palamas, viz. his doctrine of the Divine selfcontemplation.
Vadim Elimanov
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