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Ascetic Practices in Interfaith Dialogue
The Ecumenical Review, Volume 73, Issue 5, Page 804-820, December 2021., 2021 Abstract This article explores the fundamental theological and philosophical propositions on which ascetic teachings and mystical experiences within Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Jainism are based. In particular, it examines spirituality, purification, and psychophysical techniques, including bodily postures, breath control, and inner exploration ...
Nataliia Pavlyk
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Two methods of contemplation: Yoga and hesychast prayer: An exercise in comparative religion [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2008 Using Arvind Sharmas's comparative method of reciprocal illumination, this essay examines two contemplative methods, the Hindu yogic, as de fined in Patafijali's Yoga-sutra, and the hesychast, as developed primarily within the Eastern Christian monastic ...
Bakić-Hayden Milica
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ANTHROPOCENTRIC INTENTION OF HESYCHAST AND SUFISTIC PRACTICES OF FREEDOM PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2015 The Purpose is to analyse problems of individual freedom in mystical currents of Hesychasm and Sufism comprehensively in the territory of Ukraine. It deals with issues of Hesychasm and Sufism origin, mystical practices features and their overflowing ...
Yurii Y. Semchuk
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Aisthetics of Religion and embodied spiritual perception: hermeneutic approaches in Hesychasm, Christian Platonism, and Aesthetics of Idealism, to ‘divine light’ and ‘mystical flight’ [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023 In this essay I show developments in Aisthetics of Religion, a new discipline of Science of Religion, towards the inclusion of the body, and the senses, departing from an approach of naturalistic reductionism towards the integration of the category or ...
Ullrich Kleinhempel
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Starets and Spiritual Guide in the Russian Orthodox Church [PDF]
Edinost in Dialog, 2023 The paper outlines the historical background of the phenomena of starets (starchestvo) in monasticism, which has its roots in the early days of monastic life in Egypt and is primarily linked to the education of young monks under the guide of an ...
Alenka Arko
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BETWEEN THE DIVINE AND THE CARNAL – THE EROTIC DISCOURSE IN “ANTICHRIST” [PDF]
Езиков святThis article explores the erotic and amorous discourse in Emiliyan Stanev’s The Antichrist as a key element of its ethical and religious framework. Love and eroticism are viewed not only as personal experiences but also as cultural categories that ...
Velika Gyulemerova
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Vox Patrum, 2018 The influence of hesychasm on representation on Christ’s baptism isn’t so obvious as in the case of transfiguration, anastasis or koimesis. On the contrary to the mentioned above, it hasn’t had its own study.
Agnieszka Piórecka
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Imagination in the spiritual practices of East and West: a comparison of approaches [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2020 The article presents a comparison between two opposite approaches regarding the role of imagination in prayer. The positive approach is illustrated by the method of contemplation of Gospel passages, which is contained in “Spiritual Exercises” of St ...
Fr Victor Zhuk
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Hesychasm as a Mystical Path to Deification in the Context of Ukrainian Medieval Thought
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen'Purpose. The main purpose of this research is to analyse the anthropology of hesychasm in medieval Ukraine in its relationship with spiritual values, to identify the role of hesychasm in shaping the spiritual outlook of Ukrainian society of that time ...
O. G. Hudzenko, O. V. Dobrodum
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Визуальная теология, 2021 The article is written on the basis of the author’s report at the International Symposium “Visual Theology. Themes and Horizons”, held in Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University on September 29–30, 2021.
Daniil Dorofeev / Даниил Юрьевич Дорофеев
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