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A misinterpreted psychoanalyst: Herbert Silberer and his theory of symbol‐formation

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 2024.
Abstract The primary aim of this article is to give a more detailed exposition of the cultural, personal, and theoretical contexts in which the Viennese psychoanalyst, Herbert Silberer's theories were born. When assessing the broader picture that this approach offers, it can be concluded that Silberer was an innovative thinker who inspired several of ...
Júlia Gyimesi
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Medieval Neoplatonism in Borges

Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 2007
This paper is divided into three parts. In the first part, the A. describes Borges’ particular concern about medieval philosophy as a reader. In the second and larger part, she refers to medieval neoplatonism main notes and claims that the argentine ...
Silvia Magnavacca
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Christianity and Graeco-Roman Paganism

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022
Through the efforts of Peter, Paul, and the other apostles, the gospel of Jesus Christ was transmitted to those who worshipped the many gods of the Greeks, Romans, and other Mediterranean peoples.
Mattias Gassman
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Via activa a via contemplativa vo vybraných interpretáciách renesančných diel Erwinom Panofskym

Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philosophica et Historica, 2020
The paper deals with the processing of the theme of active and contemplative life in three selected examples of Renaissance art, namely in Dürer’s engravings Knight, Death and the Devil and Saint Jerome in His Study and Titian’s painting Sacred and ...
Stanislava Kustrová
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The Doctrine of the Trinity: Intellectual Construct or Ontological Reality? Reflections from the Philosophy of Science

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 70-90, January 2024.
Abstract This article draws on the distinction between instrumentalism and realism in the philosophy of science to consider the merits of two possible approaches to the doctrine of the Trinity. One considers this doctrine to be an intellectual construct, which coordinates multiple insights about the nature and action of God; the other considers it to ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Surprise, Hope and Gift: A Pneumatological Account of the Unexpected Nature of Vocation

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 91-110, January 2024.
Abstract God's call can be surprising and unexpected. This article evaluates theologies of vocation in light of this potential for surprise. Contemporary Protestant theological interpretations of vocation are critiqued as incomplete due to their tendency to present vocation as the expression and utilisation of innate abilities without giving sufficient
Cara F. Lovell
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The Concept of Matter in the Typology of Philosophical Worldviews

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The study defines the typology of philosophical worldviews, from naturalistic (various types of materialism and positivism) to pantheistic (naturalistic and mystical or panentheistic) and transcendent, underlying world religions and the corresponding ...
Sergei A. Nizhnikov, Anna V. Martseva
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.
Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Creation and Divine Providence in Plotinus [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper, we argue that Plotinus denies deliberative forethought about the physical cosmos to the demiurge on the basis of certain basic and widely shared Platonic and Aristotelian assumptions about the character of divine thought.
Noble, Christopher, Powers, Nathan
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Two models of catharsis in the cultural tradition of Europe

Дискурс, 2019
Introduction. The modern western socio-cultural space differs from the preceding historical eras by the absence of institutionalized practices of catharsis.
V. A. Lapatin
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