Journal of Analytic Theology
May 6, 2016
Olli-Pekka Vainio
2 citations
In this article, I will examine St. Edith Stein’s theory of religious language. Stein, who was both a professional philosopher and a mystic, and deeply rooted both in the tradition of negative theology and early phenomenology, held a peculiar version of univocity with regard to religious language. On the one hand, our concepts have something objectively in common with the thing they signify. On...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
March 31, 2016
Richard M. Gale
Throughout history, in almost every society, persons have claimed to experience God or some ultimate reality in the same sort of immediate way that they experience physical objects through their senses. Their experiences have been quite diverse, running the gamut from extrovertive and introvertive mystical experiences of some underlying unity into which the experient is totally or partially...
March 25, 2016
Bani Narula
This paper provides an analysis of meditation as a new way of managing stress, tension and crisis. Contemporary psychology of mediation has gained worldwide significance and acceptance to seek solace and solutions for modern problems. Originally mediation was meant to help deepen understanding of the mystical and sacred forces of life. But, these days, it is commonly used for relaxation and...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
March 20, 2016
علیرضا خواجه گیر, لیلا حیدری
Knowledge and its hierarchy with blights of every degree is one of the fundamental principles of mystical systems. Each mystical system seeks to show superior knowledge and transcendental in order to seek greater depth of truth to its followers. So the fundamental question in this study is about what is knowledge, and how we may achieve transcendent knowledge? To answer these questions, we have...
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February 19, 2016
Shariati Ehsan
Henry Corbin was among those spiritual philosophers of the contemporary world who deserve novel and serious investigations, particularly in the realm of comparative 1 philosophy (and mysticism) with a phenomenological-hermeneutic vein serving as a connective bridge between the contemporary western philosophy (in the continental Europe) and the oriental philosophy (in Iran and in the Islamic...
Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings
February 5, 2016
Emilija Babich
In the seventeenth century, the supremacy of the Catholic Church was being threatened both by science and by the growth of Protestantism. Rome, as the only remaining centre for Catholicism, needed to reassert its authority and reclaim those who had lost their faith. As a result, religious artistic production of the seventeenth century took on a spectacular and theatrical character that sought...
January 28, 2016
Władysław Stróżewski
In this article the author reconstructs and compares two concepts of man in thoughts of two great phenomenologists – Edith Stein and Roman Ingarden – connectedjoint not only by the intellectual bond but also by great friendship. The paper consists of two parts. First, the author presents Stein’s and Ingarden’s philosophy of man. Suchnotions as: subject, soul, spirit and body, experience,...
Mäetagused
January 25, 2016
Ülle Sillasoo
Medieval and Early Modern sources were researched for the depictions of mushroom species and their uses. Mushroom depictions in four paintings – the Wilton Diptych, the Madonna of Carinthian provenance, and two examples of the Crucifixion of Christ of Nuremberg provenance – were identified and discussed. The species shown in these works include Amanita muscaria, Clitocybe odora, Lactarius cf....
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
January 4, 2016
Michael P. Bogenschutz, Matthew W Johnson
Addictive disorders are very common and have devastating individual and social consequences. Currently available treatment is moderately effective at best. After many years of neglect, there is renewed interest in potential clinical uses for classic hallucinogens in the treatment of addictions and other behavioral health conditions. In this paper we provide a comprehensive review of both...
Religion and the Arts
2016
Rina Arya
3 citations
Much has been made of the metaphysical aspects of Mark Rothko’s abstract art, especially his classic works of the 1950s and the Seagram murals. The claims for the spirituality of Rothko’s work are by no means unique either to his art or to art in general. Indeed there are many people who probe cultural forms, such as art, in order to reflect on life and broader questions that can be classed as...