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Comparative analysis of Aquinas and Ibn sina’s viewpoints about the knowledge of angels [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Theology, 2016
In this article, we will analyze the viewpoints of Aquinas and Ibn Sina about the knowledge of angels, then will show their similarities and differences regarding this topic.
Ali Sanaee, Azim Hamzeian
doaj  

Self-Knowledge, Abnegation, and Ful llment in Medieval Mysticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Self-knowledge is a persistent—and paradoxical—theme in medieval mysticism, which portrays our ultimate goal as union with the divine. Union with God is often taken to involve a cognitive and/or volitional merging that requires the loss of a sense of ...
Van Dyke, Christina
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Beyond Climate Security: Reframing the Climate‐War Nexus Through Bataille's General Economy

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract The spectre of resource scarcity as a cause of war is dominant in discussions about potential links between climate change and armed conflict. Via engagement with Georges Bataille's theory of a general economy of the biosphere, this article conceptualises the relationship between climate change and war by focusing on resource excess as a ...
Gitte du Plessis
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparative Study of Saint Paul and Fakhri Razi on Faith

open access: yesComparative Theology, 2014
Faith has a central place in Abrahamic religions. Jewish, Christian and Moslem thinkers have conducted several studies of the notion of faith and offered different ideas.
Ghorban Elmi, Hamed Nazarpour najafabadi
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“Not Your Grandmother’s Bible”—A Comparative Study of the Biblical Deluge Myth in Film

open access: yesReligions, 2019
The biblical story of the Flood, which portrays a humanity worthy of annihilation, is the fundamental myth used by generations of interpreters as they radically criticized the society and culture in which they lived.
Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Lila Moore
doaj   +1 more source

3. Bonaventura and Medieval Mysticism

open access: yes, 1958
Throughout the whole history of religious experience there have been two supplementary emphases, the rational and the non-rational, which have vied with each other for men\u27s allegiance. The Thomistic synthesis, with its stress on reason and how reason
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
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Evangelicals and Roman Catholic Spirituality

open access: yes, 2020
After almost twenty-five years of teaching at an evangelical seminary in the Pacific Northwest I am seeing an emerging interest in and hunger for Catholic spirituality and mysticism among many of our students, both at the master’s and doctor of ministry ...
Brunner, Daniel L.
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Mystical Theology of St. Simeon New Theologian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The article deals with the problem of the divine light in the mystical works of St Symeon the New Theologian in the context of the Eastern Christian ascetical tradition.
Volokolamsk, Metropolitan Hilarion of
core   +1 more source

Psychedelics, entactogens and psychoplastogens for depression and related disorders

open access: yesBritish Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Currently, the most actively investigated rapidly acting antidepressants, anxiolytics and/or anti PTSD agents, include psychedelics e.g. psilocybin, LSD, N,N‐dimethyltryptamine, ayahuasca; non‐hallucinogenic entactogens, e.g. MDMA; psychoplastogens which rapidly promote neuroplasticity, e.g.
Daniel Hoyer
wiley   +1 more source

Behind the Veil: Mysticism and the Reply to Hiddenness in the Work of Travis Dumsday [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Ever since J. L. Schellenberg formulated his infamous atheistic argument from hiddenness in his 1993 book Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason, the problem of divine hiddenness--the question of why a good God would hide Himself, even from those actively ...
McCrary, Catherine
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