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A Historical Approach to Source Criticism in Pentateuchal Study [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Theology, 2019
Traditional scholars on one hand did not want to reject this religious belief that Moses was the writer of Pentateuch and on the other hand they could not conceal the existing problems in that book.
Mojtaba Zurvani   +2 more
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Investigating the Similarities and Differences of Utopia in Zoroastrianism and Confucianism [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Theology, 2021
Extended Abstract Zoroaster was born in an era that Iran was experiencing political and social unrest. He brought a new religion based on several thousand years of history of thought and wisdom in ancient Iran.
Sayyed Saed Reza Montazeri   +1 more
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Mysticism and esotericism as contested taxonomical categories

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2020
Esotericism and mysticism are two notoriously elusive concepts. Both are based on referential corpora of works that are so internally diverse as to defy any simple characterization.
Olav Hammer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Modeling the Religious Field: Religion, Spirituality, Mysticism and Related World Views [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Streib H, Hood RW. Modeling the Religious Field: Religion, Spirituality, Mysticism and Related World Views. Implicit Religion. 2013;16(2):137-155.Mapping the religious field of present-day Western cultures such as America and Europe requires a synopsis ...
Streib, Heinz ; https://orcid.org/   +1 more
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THEOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN ISLAMIC MYSTICISM AND GNOSTICISM

open access: yesKanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, 2020
In this paper, the similarities between the Gnostic and Islamic mystic beliefs about “Knowledge” (Ma‘refat) will be considered. The aim is to answer the question of whether they share a common view of divine knowledge.
F. Jafari
semanticscholar   +1 more source

the criterion of truth in Epicureanism and Carvaka philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2020
The main challenge of present paper is analytical comparing the “Criterion of Valid Cognition” from viewpoints of Epicureanism and Charvaka (Lokayata) philosophy, the largest exponent of Indian materialism,. The new findings of the research show that the
Sajjad Dehghanzadeh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A symbolic reading of Ibn Arabi's Shatranj al-Ārifin and Sheikh A’lā al-Dowleh Semnāni 's Shatranjiya Treatise [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی
A symbol is one of the signs of expression with the help of which a person reveals the unknown, ambiguous and inexpressible content of his mind. Mystics have used symbolism to develop their mystical thoughts.
Elham Rezvani Moghadam   +1 more
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A Comparative Study of the Conception of Revelation in Mysticism of Ruzbihan Baqli and Hildegard of Bingen [PDF]

open access: yesادبیات عرفانی, 2020
According to phenomenologists of religion, revelation means the manifestation of the sacred based on divine grace to man, the output of which is a spiritual experience, unity, novel recognition, and rebirth.
Seyyedeh Sara Kashfi   +2 more
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'The Cloud of Unknowing': its inheritance and its inheritors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The thesis attempts a portrait of The Cloud in the context of its position in the history of Christian mysticism. That the anonymous work owed much to spiritual writers of the preceding twelve hundred years is not debatable; what it owed maybe ...
Hilditch, Janet
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