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Retrieving Your Concepts: Iris Murdoch on Original Sin

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch argues that our moral thinking will be impoverished until it possesses a secular conception of original sin. Such a notion would need to remove unacceptable Christian baggage while retaining a genuine claim to be a descendant of the original Christian concept.
Samuel Filby
wiley   +1 more source

From misprision to travesty. Harold Bloom's use of rabbinic sources

Nordisk Judaistik, 2003
Jewish thought is assigned a privileged place in Harold Bloom’s agonistic theory of literary production and allegedly provides a model for the concepts for which he is best known: the anxiety of influence and creative misprision.
Inge Siegumfeldt
doaj   +1 more source

The spiritual guide in late antiquity and the middle ages: a comparative study [PDF]

, 1999
This thesis analyses the idea of the spiritual guide in the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The guides are found in both human/earthly and divine/celestial forms and are treated in the following sequence: living, deceased ...
Bates, Sandra Annette
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Action in Unison: A Phenomenological Account of Collective Agency in Group Flow States

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, there has been a burgeoning interest in the so‐called group flow state both in positive psychology and in the phenomenology of collective agency. Group flow is a form of collective agency in which agents experience a sense of intensified efficacy coupled with diminished individual ownership of action and heightened shared ownership ...
Elena Holmgren
wiley   +1 more source

‘Theological Metaphysics’ and the Christological Determination of the Principle of Analogy: A Response to John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
wiley   +1 more source

gender & Judaism: in three popular texts [PDF]

, 2018
gender & Judaism in A Serious Man [Coen Bros, 2009], An American Dream [Norman Mailer, 1965] and the Pericope ...
paul bali
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Narrating the Dark Night of the Soul: The Psychosocial Study of Low Point Stories

Journal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Psychologists have long studied people's responses to adverse life events. Certain ways of telling a story of suffering, favored by a person's culture, may be more adaptive than others. The present study explores the culturally sanctioned script for how to tell the story of the lowest point in one's life.
Sarah C. Jennings, Nathan P. Siskel, Dan P. McAdams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reincarnation

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Reincarnation (metempsychosis, transmigration, referring to the same Hebrew concepts ha’atakah, gilgul) is a belief that has been historically present in Jewish culture since at least the tenth century, with written kabbalistic traditions circulating ...
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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Collected traditions and scattered secrets. Eclecticism and esotericism in the works of the 14th century ashkenazi kabbalist Menahem Ziyyoni of Cologne

Nordisk Judaistik, 1999
There are many examples of authors of mystical works who consciously chose to retreat the role of copyists and collectors of already existing traditions.
Heidi Laura
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Simone Weil et les dimensions mystiques de la nourriture

Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics
This article aims to examine the mystical meanings of food in the texts Gravity and Grace, Waiting for God, and First and Last Notebooks by the French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943).
Nejra Salihbegovic
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