Medieval Mystical Theology
January 2, 2018
A. Dupont
1 citation
The current article addresses the question concerning Augustine’s mysticism from two perspectives: practice and theory. In the Confessiones, Augustine recounts how he reached an experience of God – the ‘Ostia-ecstasy’, shortly after his baptism. After an extensive state of the art on the debate of Augustine’s mysticism, the first part of this article studies Confessiones IX, 23–6, in which...
Journal of Religion and Theology
2018
Ali Reza Khajegir, Mohammad Reza Afroogh
Abstract In the mystical worldview, the word “love” has a broad and multi-layered concept. Most of the mystics of different nations regard love as one of the basic principles and teachings in the world of mysticism. Many of them have pledged underlying conditions in the path of conduct and achievement to the position of knowledge and certainty of majesty of God to elixir of love. In the school...
Harvard Theological Review
2018
Marianne Moyaert
12 citations
Abstract Comparative theology generally begins from a study of texts, scriptural texts that have been canonized, and commentaries on these texts—as well as philosophical, theological and mystical treatises. Though this textual focus gives us access to some of the most subtle and nuanced reasonings developed in various traditions, I am concerned that this textual focus may limit our...
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
2018
David Martin, Charles D. Nichols
The classic serotonergic hallucinogens, or psychedelics, have the ability to profoundly alter perception and behavior. These can include visual distortions, hallucinations, detachment from reality, and mystical experiences. Some psychedelics, like LSD, are able to produce these effects with remarkably low doses of drug. Others, like psilocybin, have recently been demonstrated to have...
2018
Lytton N. McDonnell
This dissertation investigates the different ways that musical Americans interpreted self-transcendent experiences—that is to say, experiences that involved a merger between subjective identity and forces, agents, or spaces that transcended the individual. Conventional histories of secularization suggest that the elevation of rational thought in modern Western culture inexorably invalidated...
Journal of Religion and Theology
2018
Ali Reza Khajegir, Ai Reza Fahim, Mohammad Reza Afroogh
1 citation
Abstract The mystics always have a special interest in human beings. They think about both human being and his ideas, that is, in their thinking anthropology is of great importance from various dimensions especially epistemological, ethical and social. Therefore, the drawing and explanation of the features of the mystical man is a concern. They are for the sake of man and his greatness. Of...
Study of Religion
2018
Tatiana Sergeevna Samarina
The article deals with the theory of levels of religiosity proposed by one of the classics of the phenomenology of religion F. Heiler. In his works he offered a system of levels of religiosity structured from primitive to higher - mystical and prophetic - types. The article presents Heiler’s theory and summarizes the main features of the two higher types of religiosity, showing their...
Journal of Religion and Theology
2018
Szabolcs Kéri
1 citation
The relationship between religion and psychosis is one of the most important and unanswered questions in pastoral psychology, theology, and psychiatry.Several studies suggested that psychotic states, such as schizophrenia,are associated with enhanced religiousness and spirituality.In a dominantly Christian, Eastern-European population, however, this is not the case.The data clearly show...
Studia Religiologica
2018
Emilia Wieliczko-Paprota
This article demonstrates the importance of alchemical symbolism in Victorian fairy tales. Contrary to Jungian analysts who conceived alchemy as forgotten knowledge, this study shows the vivid tradition of alchemical symbolism in Victorian literature. This work takes the readers through the first stage of the alchemical opus reflected in fairy tale symbols, explains the psychological and...
ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ Journal of Visual Semiotics
2018
Andrew Simsky
2 citations
Image-paradigms are non-pictorial mental images of the sacred. They are engendered in the viewer’s imagination by means of organized ensembles of iconic, symbolic and typological elements of sacred spaces and emerge from a manifold of interrelating associations. In this paper I elucidate this complex notion by studying the example of one image-paradigm of fundamental importance, namely, the...