Skip to content

Harvard Theological Review

ISSN 0017-8160

5 papers in the library · 158 citations · publishing 1947-2024

Papers

Sort Most recent Most cited

Psychedelic Futures and Altered States in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean

Harvard Theological Review October 1, 2024 Charles M. Stang 3 citations

An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness

Harvard Theological Review October 1, 2022 Isaac Portilla 3 citations

Abstract This article focuses on the meeting of faith traditions—interfaith dialogue—from the perspective of mystical consciousness. In doing so, it aims to understand the dynamics and potentialities of interfaith mysticism. The contribution of this article to religious studies, in combination with theological inquiry, is threefold: first, it illuminates how the Trinity is directly experienced...

Four Entered Paradise Revisited

Harvard Theological Review 1995 Alon Goshen Gottstein 5 citations

The story of the four who enteredpardes, or the orchard, is thecrux interpretumof the study of ancient Jewish mysticism. The answer to the question of how much mysticism existed in rabbinic Judaism depends on the interpretation of this story. In the history of scholarship of the past several decades, two major approaches have been taken. One approach, spearheaded by Gershom Scholem, although by...

The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter with Death

Harvard Theological Review 1969 Walter N. Pahnke 147 citations

This Spring I received a long distance telephone call from Dean Samuel Miller, who invited me to give this year's Ingersoll Lecture on human immortality. Three days later, Dean Miller was dead. When I heard the sad news, I, as many of you no doubt, began to think about the way he had influenced me, especially during my theological training here at Harvard Divinity School. One of my most vivid...

The Problem of Human Self-Transcendence in the Dialectical Theology

Harvard Theological Review 1947 Harold B. Kuhn

Man poses for himself his most tantalizing problems. He seeks to discover what he is, to foresee whither he goes, and to find what limits are imposed on his progress. He ponders his connections with the realm of matter, and seeks to locate himself within a larger sphere of an all-inclusive Reality. As a citizen of the world of space and time, man feels an essential homelessness, and reaches out...