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Ardour: Mystical Meanings of the Fire Imagery in Augustine’s Confessions. A Comparison to Expressions of Eastern and Byzantine Spirituality

, 2022
Due to their intensity, fire and burning are preferred expressions for the mystical experience. This essay investigates the paradigm of ardour in the Confessions of Augustine of Hippo, and analyses its connections with the purification of the heart, the ...
Huian, Georgiana
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The body in the works of Gejza Vámoš [PDF]

Slovenska Literatura
The body can be seen as a point of intersection between Gejza Vámoš’s (1901-1956) areas of interest, encompassing medicine, philosophy and literature. Vámoš transferred knowledge and insights from medicine and philosophy into the field of literature. His
Dagmar Kročanová Garay
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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The Path to Perfection in Pseudo-Macarius and John Wesley

, 1998
John Wesley read Macarius' Homilies no later than 30 July 1736. He probably read them in a German translation provided by one of his pietist friends. Wesley was deeply impressed.
John C. English
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Theatres of Indirectness: Passive Aggression and Failure

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Sara Crangle, Sam Ladkin
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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
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Soul Recreation: Spiritual Marriage and Ravishment in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambrose [PDF]

, 2009
Tom Schwanda Soul Recreation: Spiritual Marriage and Ravishment in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambrose This thesis examines the theology and piety of Isaac Ambrose (1604-1664), a moderate Lancashire Puritan minister.
SCHWANDA, TOM
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ISLAM IN THE JAVANESE CULTURAL PLURALISM AND THE KERATON PERFORMING ARTS

Al-Albab, 2013
The religion of Islam as new religion in the 15th century managed to internalize in the religious and cultural field of Javanese society peacefully. The religion was easily accepted because all its teachings are based on a search of “sangkan paraning ...
K.R.T. Sunaryadi Maharsiworo
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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