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Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Though Eriugena's affinities with several Hindu traditions are clear, this article offers to my knowledge the first detailed discussion of Eriugena's theology in relation to any Indic theological school, here, the nondualist Śaiva tradition known as the Pratyabhijñā (“Recognition”) lineage.
Matthew Z. Vale
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Metaphor and Apophatic Discourse: Putting Sells in Dialogue with Lakoff and Johnson [PDF]

, 2012
In the book, Mystical Languages of Unsaying, Michael A. Sells presents a performative theory of apophatic discourse. His idea is that apophatic discourse functions as a semantic analogue to mystical experience through \"meaning events.\" Although he ...
Carroll, Thomas D.
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To Desire What Is Nothing: Simone Weil, Asceticism and Psychoanalysis

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Georgie Newson
wiley   +1 more source

The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
wiley   +1 more source

The Antecedents of the Experience of Light in Dreams

Religions
The experience of inner light and ecstasy is widely accepted as a universal mystical experience, regardless of cultural or religious context. While one can read first-hand accounts in the historical record, the direct experience of light remains elusive ...
Gregory S. Sparrow, Ryan Hurd
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A Study of Perennial Philosophy and Psychedelic Experience, with a Proposal to Revise W. T. Stace’s Core Characteristics of Mystical Experience [PDF]

A Study of Perennial Philosophy and Psychedelic Experience, with a Proposal to Revise W. T. Stace’s Core Characteristics of Mystical Experience ©Ed D’Angelo 2018 Abstract According to the prevailing ...
D'Angelo, Ed
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
wiley   +1 more source

Trust in Regulation in a Time of Revolution

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines trust in regulation as a core value and precondition of the modern liberal democratic regulatory state. It develops a concept of justified trust in regulation, grounded in regulatory trustworthiness—honesty, competence, and reliability—rather than in proxies such as partisan loyalty, blind faith, obedience, or resignation.
Cristie Ford
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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