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The Health and Perfection of Man
Diogenes, 1960What is health? What is it to be healthy? Our first answer must inevitably be the answer of St. Augustine, when confronted with the theoretical problem of time: “If no one asks me, I know the answer; if I want to explain it to the one who asks me, I do not know it.” In both cases the first sensation of one who aspires to theorizing is that of ...
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“Faith in the Only Perfect Man”
2022Abstract Chapter 9 turns to the second sense of Scripture’s twofold mystery. Building upon the unity of Father–Son, Clement found it was the goal of the Christian life to believe in the Son and thus “become unitary.” For Clement, this goal of God’s action in the divine economy is most clearly expressed in Ephesians 4, where Paul ...
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THE PATTERN OF THE �PERFECT MAN� IN SUFISM
SWS International Scientific Conferences on ART and HUMANITIES - ISCAHIn the history of culture, one of the most important periods in the study of the problem of the nature and formation of the perfect man was the historical stratum of medieval Islamic culture, in which the Sufi discourse played an important role. Sufism as a religious and mystical direction in Islam is actualized in the light of the study of the ...
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Man and Cosmos: The Quest for Perfection
1983This chapter discusses Judah Loew's views on perfection. In developing his notion of the centrality of man, Loew drew from the anthropocentric views of his predecessors in the history of Jewish thought; his ideas seem rooted in Jewish mystical speculation. Man's perfection is essential for the realization of the cosmos.
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The Hindu Quest for the Perfection of Man
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1971Royce Gordon Gruenler, Troy Wilson Organ
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