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International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2009 This article retrieves Kant’s imitatio Christi as a viable alternative to the recent construal of mimesis as a universal human desire, in particular to Ward’s reformulation of the imitatio Christi in such terms (in which the human condition is defined by an intrinsic desire for God as other).
Whistler, Daniel
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Saints' mobility and confinement: deconstructing Byzantine stories of (fe)male ascetics and monastics. [PDF]
Early Mediev Eur, 2023 This article investigates stories of holiness which have ascetics or monastics as their hero(in)es and which develop based on a careful interlocking of two concepts: wanderings in urban or desert environments and self‐confinement in enclosed or secluded spaces.
Papavarnavas C.
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The Imitatio Alexandri of Hannibal Barca [PDF]
Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2020 The following paper seeks to analyze the linkage of Hannibal Barca with the figure of Alexander the Great. To achieve that objective, the Macedonian model will be stratified in several stages in which he could represent a model of excellence.
Christian SAN JOSÉ CAMPOS
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Dark feet and dark wings: penetrating the depths of the Earth. [PDF]
J Anal Psychol, 2022 Abstract The author, although an analyst, is an initiate into the topic of environmental destruction. Following Wendell Berry, she enters the dark and begins a journey of dream‐like reflection, weaving images from her own dream and drawing on the work of Vaughan, Bernstein, Soloveitchik and Sacks.
Zeiger RB.
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, 2015 Unter dem Begriff der imitatio heroica lassen sich Formen des Auftretens und der Darstellung historischer Personen zusammenfassen, die sich heroische Figuren zum Vorbild nehmen. Seit der Antike gehört dies zu den häufigsten Formen vor allem, aber nicht nur der Bildnisrepräsentation politisch oder kulturell bedeutender Personen.
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Understanding Imitatio Dei in the Holiness Source [PDF]
, 2022 This essay concerns the vexed question of imitatio Dei in the Holiness Code (Lev 17–26) and, to a minor degree, other Holiness (H) traditions in the Pentateuch.
Hosle, Paul K., Paul K. Hosle
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Forgiveness and the Novelty of Christian Ethics
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 472-489, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Christian faith, and particularly Christian Ethics, must wrestle with the questions of novelty and continuity posed by Scripture's declaration that a new thing has occurred with the advent of Jesus Christ. The contrasting perspectives on the Law by Thomas Aquinas and Herman Bavinck focus these questions and suggest that forgiveness is an ...
Andrew Errington
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Holiness, in Particular: A Proposal for Understanding Qedushah
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 294-306, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Beginning from an intriguing essay by the mid‐twentieth century Jewish thinker Leon Roth, I offer here an account of what “holiness” might mean for Jews by moving between readings of specifically Jewish texts and a series of general desiderata for any account of holiness.
Samuel Fleischacker
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The devotional life : Catholic and Protestant translations of Thomas à Kempis' 'Imitatio Christi', c.1420-c.1620 [PDF]
, 2012 The incorporation of the Imitatio by Protestant and Catholic reform movements suggests important points of continuity between late medieval and early modem religion, especially within the realm of spirituality.
Habsburg, Max von
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 166-191, April 2023., 2023 Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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