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Looking Beyond Jerusalem: A Fifteenth‐Century Exercise in Image Comparison
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 640-666, September 2023., 2023 Critical image comparison is a widespread art‐historical practice. This essay explores why a Brabantine artist encouraged viewers to exercise it in the late fifteenth century. At the time, northern European artists tested out how images could be means of transcending the visible world while simultaneously showcasing their very constructedness. The self‐
Hanna Vorholt
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HUGO BALL'S RELIGIOUS CONVERSION
German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 376-391, July 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This essay investigates the German ex‐Dadaist Hugo Ball (1886–1927) and his 1920s work on religious conversion from Paul, Augustine and Francis to writers and poets in modernity. This intense engagement was rooted in Ball's own radical conversion, or ‘re‐conversion’, to an austere form of the Catholicism of his childhood in 1920, just a few ...
Deborah Lewer
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On Sanctitatis nova signa: A provisional case against Celano's authorship
New Blackfriars, Volume 103, Issue 1108, Page 745-760, November 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper advances a provisional case denying the attribution of the medieval liturgical sequence Sanctitatis nova signa, written in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, to Thomas of Celano (died c. 1260), who is best known for writing the earliest biography of the saint.
Jose Isidro Belleza
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Ascetic Practices in Interfaith Dialogue
The Ecumenical Review, Volume 73, Issue 5, Page 804-820, December 2021., 2021 Abstract This article explores the fundamental theological and philosophical propositions on which ascetic teachings and mystical experiences within Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Jainism are based. In particular, it examines spirituality, purification, and psychophysical techniques, including bodily postures, breath control, and inner exploration ...
Nataliia Pavlyk
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Good men gone bad? Resistance to monastic reform in the tenth and eleventh centuries
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 366-393, August 2021., 2021 Conservative opponents of monastic reform in the tenth and eleventh centuries have traditionally been portrayed as principally reluctant to change and unwilling to abandon privileges and preferential treatment. This article performs a close, comparative reading of the poem Carmen ad Rotbertum regem by Adalbero of Laon (c.950–1031) and the monastic ...
Magnus Borg
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The Image of Light in the “Ekphrasis of the Hagia Sophia” by Paul the Silentiary [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2023 The paper explores the imagery of light in a poem by Paul the Silentiary (6th century) “Ekphrasis of the Hagia Sophia” (and in an adjoining poem “Ekphrasis of the Ambo”) written by order of the Emperor Justinian in 562 on the occasion of the re ...
Tatiana L. Aleksandrova
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German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 2, Page 183-202, April 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT This article contends that the image is a central trope in Paul Celan's poetry. It suggests that Celan's rejection of metaphor and his opposition to readings of his poetry as mere imagery constitute only one side of his understanding of the image.
Julian Johannes Immanuel Koch
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A Commentary on One of Gregory Palamas’ “Chapters” Preserved in Antipalamite Sources [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2020 This article analyzes a chapter contained in a collection of antipalamite extracts taken from the works of St Gregory of Palamas, which after being read at the Council of 1351 caused such agitation that the controversy around the Palamite and his ...
Alexey Dunayev
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Neoplatonic Origins of Evil in Pseudo-Dionysius's View [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2012 Pseudo-Dionysius's view on evil was influenced by Neoplatonic tradition. Like Neoplatonic philosophers, he believed evil to be the absence of good and of no actual existence as all creatures were good and shared this quality.
amir nasri
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Normative Political Theology as Intensified Critique [PDF]
, 2018 Some theorists are suspicious of normative political theology because they believe it undermines critical rationality. In my view, these theorists neglect theological traditions that resist dogmatism through intensified critique.
Newheiser, David
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