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Esotericism and the Scholastic Imagination: The Origins of Esoteric Practice in Christian Kataphatic Spirituality

Correspondences, 2016
Scholars agree that the imagination is central to esoteric practice. While the esoteric vis imaginativa is usually attributed to the infux of Neoplatonism in the Italian Renaissance, this article argues that many of its key properties were already in ...
Egil Asprem
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Cosmological aspects of unity of the affirmative (kataphatic) and negative (apophatic) theological perspective [PDF]

Sabornost, 2020
Expressions of an affirmative and negative semantic determination are the basis of human linguistic communication. In order to communicate with one another, we must use true statements. We call true statements all those statements whose meaning is agreed upon by a large number of people.
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Apophatic and Kataphatic Theology from the Viewpoint of Eckhart [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2013
Any discussion of apophatic and kataphatic theologies as two opposite trends which have, throughout the history of philosophical though on God, attracted great thinkers, sheds light on one of the most important aspects of God-human epistemological ...
seyyed zia-adin hosseini, seyyed hamid talebzadeh   +1 more
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The Potential of the Bi-Directional Gaze: A Call for Neuroscientific Research on the Simultaneous Activation of the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems through Tantric Practice

Religions, 2016
This paper is a call for the development of a neuroscientific research protocol for the study of the impact of Tantric practice on the autonomic nervous system.
Jeffrey S. Lidke
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The Unity, Power and Energy of the Holy Trinity in the Theology of Gregory of Nyssa

Studia Ceranea, 2023
The article discusses the problem of the ontological distinction between God’s transcendence and immanence in the theological thought of Gregory of Nyssa, a Church Father of the 4th century.
Viktor Zhukovskyy
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What Would ‘Indianness’ of New Testament Theology Mean? Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on Anthony De Mello, ‘Via Negativa’ and beyond the Accepted Routes in Catholic Theology

Religions, 2022
This article focuses on one specific theological controversy, which pertains to the kataphatic—apophatic debates as a framework for New Testament theology.
Martin Fárek
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No Thing Refers to Nothing. On Showing the False [PDF]

KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry, 2015
This discussion tries to explicate some epistemological problems in connection with negation and the so-called godelian sentences. The paper examines some methods of generating negative formulas from positive bases, an proposes alternative methods ...
Marton Demeter
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Participatory eschatology: A challenge for dualistic and non-dualistic thinking

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
In the modern era, much optimism, other than biblical hope, dominates both secular and religious consciousness. Whilst critics scorn the apocalyptic hope of the Bible as an indication of ignorance and fear, the dualistic mind does not possess an ...
Danie J. Dreyer
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Spiritual Practices and the Language Problem

Консультативная психология и психотерапия, 2016
In this article a new approach to the interpretation of religious-mystical experience, which bases on a notion of “mystical practice” as specific underclass of spiritual practices, is being tried out. An analysis of anthropological concepts, in which the
Vasilyev P.S.
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"The Myth of the Cave" in the Space and Time of the Exegetical Midrash [PDF]

Hypothekai
The article explores the interpretation of Plato’s Myth of the Cave within the context of the Jewish religious tradition. The author analyzes this philosophical text—one of the key constants of European cultural tradition for over two millennia—through ...
Alexander G. BERMUS
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