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Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2020 Theurgy was a system of magical practices in the late Roman Empire. It was applied Neoplatonism. The theurgists aimed to enable human bodies to assume divine attributes, that is, to become deities.
Eric Steinhart
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Non-Theurgy: Iamblichus and Laruelle
Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2018 Mysticism, theurgy, non-philosophy: this text will experiment with the three in an attempt to perform a non-philosophical hijacking of so-called theurgy (theurgia).
Stanimir Panayotov
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Solovyov’s Metaphysics between Gnosis and Theurgy [PDF]
Religions, 2018 This article provides a reading of Vladimir Solovyov’s philosophy as expressed in his ‘Lectures on Divine Humanity’ and ‘The Meaning of Love’.
Aleksandr Gaisin
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Theurgy in Dionysius the Areopagite 1 [PDF]
, 2019 The present chapter aims at offering insights into Dionysius the Areopagite’s notion of theurgy, both with respect to the metaphysical principles that connect with “θεουργία” and the particular sacramental reality that emerges from it. Pavlos argues that
Pavlos, Panagiotis G.
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“Theurgic creativity” in philosophical conceptions of F. Nietzsche, Vl. Solovyov, and N. Berdyaev [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The article presents a comparative analysis of theurgic activity in the works of three thinkers from the point of the generic understanding of theurgy as a “complete transformation of reality”. Despite the literal meaning of the term “theurgy”, according
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RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2022 The paper is devoted to the analysis of theurgic aesthetics in relation to the concept of utopia that initiates a different understanding of the philosophy of the Russian diaspora representatives through the prism of utopian theurgy of beauty and art ...
Galina G. Kolomiets, Pavel V. Lyashenko
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The science of talismans today
History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3-4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance.
Benjamin Anderson
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Theurgical project of Silver Age: from origins to problem statement [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2017 Two turning points in the history of theurgy are examined in the present article. Those points had a considerable influence on the conceptualization of that phenomenon in the very beginning of the XX century, especially in the researches of the Russian ...
Nina Penyaflor Rastorgueva
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On the Structure and Significance of Augustine’s Moral Grammar
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 715-738, December 2021., 2021 Abstract This essay traces Augustine’s understanding of the structuring elements that give shape to human becoming. It presents this understanding as a distinctive form of maximalism in thinking about happiness, justice, and power, and as standing apart from classical and modern alternatives in its approach to desire, power, and mediation.
Martin Westerholm
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Métamorphoses du thème du retour de l’âme du De Regressu de Porphyre au livre X du De civitate Dei
Études Platoniciennes, 2022 Book 10 of the City of God is the main source about Porphyry’s On the return of the soul, but it can also be read as an Augustinian treatise On the return of the soul in which discussing with Porphyry gives Augustine the opportunity to take hold on the ...
Pauline Rates
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