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Theurgy in Dionysius the Areopagite [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Cure, healing, magic, superstition: the symbolism of the mandrake in Antiquity and the Middle Ages from the point of view of Hugo Rahner

open access: yesРоссийский журнал истории Церкви, 2022
The article reviews the idea of cure or healing in Late antiquity, which was accepted by Christian tradition. According to this tradition, the healing effect is emerging simultaneously both in body and soul, and the very idea of cure or healing falls ...
I. N. Buzykina
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The Creative Nature of Human Life in the Light of the Ideas of the Russian Philosophers

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2018
The article analyzes the understanding of the nature of creativity in the works of Russian religious philosophers. The fundamental importance of this topic for philosophical anthropology is derived from the obvious to the religious thinker circumstance ...
Vladimir Borisovich Aleksandrov
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La figura del filosofo nel IV secolo d.C.

open access: yesAitia, 2015
Building on Julian the Emperor’s Letter to Themistius, the present contribution seeks to interpret the debate between Julian and Themistius on the relation between philosophy and kingship within the philosophical context of the 4th century AD.
Riccardo Chiaradonna
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The Immaterial Theurgy of Boethius

open access: yes, 2012
This thesis is an attempt to understand the efficacy of prayer in Boethius’ 'Consolation of Philosophy.' Prayer is man’s commercium with the divine realm, and so prayer is higher than human thought.
Curran, Martin H.
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Aesthetic Experience as a Spiritual Support of Homo Post-Secularis

open access: yesReligions, 2019
The essay begins with an analysis of the cultural situation of humanity after its transition to secular mentality and a gradual disenchantment with secularism, which leads to the formation of post-secular mentality.
Victor Bychkov
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DAMASCIUS AND THE PRACTICE OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE: ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF COMMUNICATION ABOUT AND COMMUNION WITH THE FIRST PRINCIPLES [PDF]

open access: yesSCHOLE, 2014
This paper is an overview and introduction to the key elements of Damascius’ philosophy. I examine the attributes and the relationship between the Ineffable, the One, and the All as the cornerstones of his theoretical system.
Kalogiratou, Androniki
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Cabalistic theurgy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Marek Dluhoš Kabalistická teurgie Cabalistic theurgy Cabalistic theurgy is a composition of the Hebrew word cabala (meaning 'tradition') and the Greek word theurgy (involving deities and processes, which transpire in God). The thesis is based on the most
Dluhoš, Marek
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Virtues in Iamblichus and the Shift of Paradigm [PDF]

open access: yesSCHOLE, 2010
This paper aims at pointing out differences between the perception of virtues in Plato’s Protagoras and especially the Symposium and in Iamblichus. The argument is focused on the fact that, although both philosophers agree that virtues can be taught and ...
Magoulas, Ch.
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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