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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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The Spiritual Path of Transformation1 [PDF]
J Anal PsycholAbstract Transformation is an essential component of individuation; it is not a linear but a circular process, encompassing experiences of standstill and deadlock where no longitudinal continuation is visible. Jung describes transformation in alchemical terms as a shared dialectical “reaction” between patient and analyst.
Eckhard Frick
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Chalcedon on the Road to Justice and Peace
The Ecumenical Review, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 261-280, April 2021., 2021 Abstract In the context of the bilateral dialogue between the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht, the question of Christology – and with that the joint reception of the conciliar tradition of the early church – played an important role, given the “families” of churches that both traditions belong to: “Western ...
Peter‐Ben Smit, Adrian Suter
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Prayer as Inner Sense Cultivation: An Attentional Learning Theory of Spiritual Experience [PDF]
, 2016 How does prayer change the person who prays? In this article, we report on a randomized controlled trial developed to test an ethnographic hypothesis.
Luhrmann, Tanya Marie, Morgain, Rachel
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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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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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Religionless Christianity and the political implications of theological speech: What Bonhoeffer’s theology yields to a world of fundamentalisms [PDF]
, 2009 This is the author's PDF preprint of an article published in International Journal of Systematic Theology© 2009. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.comThis article seeks to utilise Bonhoeffer’s religionless Christianity in a ...
Greggs, Tom
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Christian Apophaticism in Jean-Luc Marion’s early works [PDF]
, 2023 In this article, I investigate Jean-Luc Marion’s early interpretation of Christian apophaticism with special reference to his reading of Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Zachhuber, Johannes
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Explaining the Esoteric Imagination
Aries, 2017 The imagination is central to esoteric practices, but so far scholars have shown little interest in exploring cognitive theories of how the imagination works.
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Burrell's Critical Thomism: Aquinas and Kant Revisited
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 347-372, April 2024.Abstract David Burrell's version of Aquinas was written with Kantian parallels in mind. This is the accusation of John Milbank that was questioned by Nicholas Lash and Paul DeHart in a series of articles. ‘Burrell's Critical Thomism’ shows beyond doubt that Milbank's claim is correct: Burrell cites Kant throughout his oeuvre and finds parallels between
Jack E. V. Norman
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