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Imam Khomeini and Gnostic Adages: Narration and Acknowledgement [PDF]

حکمت معاصر, 2014
Most of laymen, and sometimes specials and intellectuals have missed the sight of Imam Khomeini's Gnostic aspect because of his significant political face and high rank of knowledge in Fiqh.
Davood Memari
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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From Christian Confession to “Speaking Your Truth”: A Genealogy of Lived Experience as Truth‐Telling

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a sociological genealogy of “lived experience” as a mode of truth‐telling. It asks how narrated life came to function as knowledge and why such speech now circulates as evidence in activism, academia, and social policy. Using a Foucauldian genealogy, the analysis traces the shifting conditions under which speech became ...
Jody Moore
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Topophilia and Chronophobia

Проект Байкал, 2014
In the article architectural ideas of space and time are connected with radical changes in the world views, historical and perpetual, transcendental and radical.
Alexander Rappaport
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Theology as a Christian Gnosis in the First Three Centuries

Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2020
During the second and third centuries A.D., challenges from various gnostic groups forced mainstream Christianity to deepen its understanding of its core message.
René Roux
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The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
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La prisión de lo real: la distopía de Platón y la gnosis en los juegos de rol. The prison of reality: gnostic and platonic dystopia in role-playing games. [PDF]

Distopía y Sociedad, 2022
Pese al firme vínculo de Platón con el pensamiento utópico –de manera central a través de República (385-370 a. de C./1941), Timeo (369-347 a. de C./2004b) y Critias (369-347 a.
Mario Ramos Vera
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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Finding the roots of the "prison and well" theme in mystical literature [PDF]

تاریخ ادبیات, 2010
Persian mystical literature is watered by the fountain of principles and foundations of Islam. However, some common themes in mystical texts are not compatible with the spirit of the original teachings of Islam.
محمّدرضا حسنی جلیلیان, قاسم صحرایی   +1 more
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