HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
February 23, 2023
S. Supriyanto
8 citations
closer to God by cleansing the heart and purifying the soul, with the aim of achieving true happiness by dealing directly with God. This theory is called al-Hulul [unity with God]. (Takahashi 2019). Sufism is considered to be more friendly to local culture, and the majority of Javanese people have direct contact with religion and culture. Religion symbolises the value of obedience to God, while...
The Journal of Theological Studies
February 10, 2023
Ruth M Gornandt
The dialectic of the cataphatic and the apophatic is vital for honouring the transcendent within the rational endeavour of theology. The medieval Armenian theologian Gregory of Tatev presents a theological approach that is strongly logical and analytical, discussing the mystical only in a few places. For this reason, he has been accused of abandoning the apophatic altogether. However, it can be...
Global Intellectual History
February 2, 2023
Matthew Melvin-Koushki
2 citations
ABSTRACT This comparative case study takes up the examples of two Twelver lettrists, who together became two of the most important occultist authorities of the high Safavid period: al-Ḥāfiẓ Rajab al-Bursī (d. after 1410) and Maḥmūd Dihdār Shīrāzī (fl. 1576). Their projects are intimately connected, and can only be historiographically explained in tandem. Yet the first has been celebrated in the...
January 26, 2023
Andrew Prevot
Abstract The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism presents a new vision of Christian mystical theology. It offers critical interpretations of Catholic theologians, postmodern philosophers, and intersectional feminists who draw on mystical traditions to affirm ordinary life. It raises questions about normativity, gender, and race, while arguing that the everyday...
NaUKMA Research Papers in Philosophy and Religious Studies
January 20, 2023
Taras Lyuty
The main purpose of this article is to establish links between the teachings of Hryhorii Skovoroda and the leading trends in Western philosophy of his time. Since the anticipated influences, similarities and parallels are mostly implicit, the main purpose of the study is to identify common motives for thinking, rather than direct dependence. Nevertheless, the biggest difficulty of this analysis...
Vestiges of a Philosophy
January 15, 2023
John Ó Maoilearca
Abstract The concept of the “supernormal” is introduced as a means to exit from a substantive duality between natural and supernatural, or between the normal and the paranormal, by thinking in terms of differences of degree rather than of kind, of (heterogeneous) continuities: extracting the supernatural by natural means. It is opposed to the hyperbolic stance that views the supernatural in...
Edinburgh University Press eBooks
January 10, 2023
Graham Jensen
This chapter contends that the language of religious experience is in many ways indistinguishable from the language of epiphanies so central to literary modernism. Against critics who regard the Romantic epiphany as a secular form of revelation, it posits that modernist epiphanies cannot be fully understood in secular terms; they remind us, instead, of modernism’s religious and Romantic...
Princeton University Press eBooks
January 10, 2023
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Vestnik of Samara State Technical University Series Philosophy
January 8, 2023
Vladimir P. Baryshkov
In L. Wittgensteins philosophy, the concept of life and the concept of the world as sides of the man science dichotomy differ and correlate, despite the fact that the position of the thinker is traditionally considered in line with the philosophy of analysis and the positivist methodology of science. The conducted critical analysis of the literature and the proposed interpretation of the...
2023
Bruce Stephen Naschak
Mysticism is an element of religion or spirituality which emphasizes direct apprehension of the divine, whether the divine is understood from a theistic or non-theistic perspective. The author argues that such "mystical" experiences can be gained through the practice of specialized techniques of spiritual transformation, techniques which have been passed down through the ages by Traditions of...