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Esotericism and the Scholastic Imagination [Elektronisk resurs] : The Origins of Esoteric Practice in Christian Kataphatic Spirituality

open access: yes, 2016
Scholars agree that the imagination is central to esoteric practice. While the esoteric vis imaginativa is usually attributed to the influx of Neoplatonism in the Italian Renaissance, this article argues that many of its key properties were already in ...
Asprem, Egil,
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Towards a Dialogue with Traditional Aboriginal Religion

open access: yes, 1996
To prepare ourselves as westerners for a dialogue with the traditional Aboriginal religion will demand an ability to “pass over” to what is clearly quite a different mentality. There are two obstacles to this “passing over”. First, where westerners have
Frank Fletcher
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Divine Greatness and Providence According to the Theology of Irenaeus of Lyons

open access: yes, 2018
У статті розглядається проблема онтологічного розрізнення між Божою трансцендентністю та іманентністю в богословській думці Іринея Ліонського, Отця Церкви II-III ст.
Zhukovskyy, Viktor   +1 more
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Berusad av Gud

open access: yes, 2002
This is an attempt to write a popular book on mysticism, as requested by one of the largest publishers in Sweden (Natur och Kultur). Twelve mystics, representing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, met in Andalusia (Córdoba) in order to discuss how ...
Geels, Antoon
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Learning to Discern the Voices of Gods, Spirits, Tulpas, and the Dead. [PDF]

open access: yesSchizophr Bull, 2023
Luhrmann TM   +10 more
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Double Affirmation: Medievalism as Christian Apologetic in the Arthurian Poetry of Charles Williams

open access: yes, 2013
In his unfinished cycle of Arthurian poems, Charles Williams developed a totalizing mythology in which he fictionalized the Medieval. First, he employed chronological conflation, juxtaposing events and cultural references from a millennium of European ...
Sørina Higgins
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Varieties of Spiritual Sense: Cusanus and John Smith [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This chapter offers a window into the theologies of Cusanus and the Cambridge Platonist John Smith (1618–52) by illuminating their contrasting appropriations of Origen’s concept of the spiritual senses.
Michaud, Derek A, Michaud, Derek
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Projection and Time in Proclus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This chapter is an examination of certain parts of the philosophy of Proclus. Its aim is to clarify in what manner Proclus is a systematic thinker. The notion of philosophical system which comes to mind from a contemporary standpoint is not the notion ...
MacIsaac, D. Gregory
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Methods of speaking about God according to John Eriugena with regard to their origin in the works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite [PDF]

open access: yes
This bachelor's thesis is concerned with the methods of speaking about God according to John Eriugena. These methods are primarily kataphatic and apophatic approaches to theology, but also speech using terms such as super-essential, generally called plus-
Šmejkal, Jan
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The Cloud of Unknowing and Related Texts

open access: yes, 2018
The Cloud of Unknowing and the other works in the Cloud corpus, The Book of Privy Counseling and The Epistle of Prayer, are unique in the late-medieval mystical canon, as they emphasize an apophatic, or describing what God is not, approach to divine ...

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