March 1, 2013
Patricia Ciner
In this article, we shall call ‘spirituality of the desert’ the experience that urges the human being to leave the safety and comfort of the known world in order to follow the inner voice that leads them to the encounter with the divine. This decision involves very great risks and uncertainties, because in the desert there is only silence and solitude and nothing guarantees success in the...
Der Nervenarzt
March 1, 2013
Torsten Passie, J Warncke, T Peschel et al.
3 citations
Religions are evolutionary selected social and cultural phenomena. They represent today belief and normative systems on which the main parts of our culture are based. For a long time religions have been seen as mainly originating from a spectrum of religious experiences. These include a broad spectrum of experiences and are astonishingly widespread in the population. The most consistent and...
Les études philosophiques
February 18, 2013
Willemien Otten, Geneviève Lachance
2 citations
Résumé L’article propose une analyse comparative de la pensée mystique de Jean Scot Érigène (810-877) et de Maître Eckhart (1260-1328). Nuançant les critiques contemporaines relatives au rôle joué par l’expérience dans le mysticisme médiéval, il défend la position selon laquelle il est préférable d’instaurer une comparaison sémantique détaillée de la pensée de ces deux auteurs plutôt que de...
Handbook of Jewish Literature from Late Antiquity, 135–700 CE
January 10, 2013
Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, Yehudah Cohn, Fergus Millar
This chapter describes the following texts: Sefer Hekhalot (Third Enoch; Hebrew Enoch); Hekhalot Rabbati; Hekhalot Zutarti; Shiur Qomah; Ḥarba DeMoshe; Sefer HaRazim; and Sefer Yetsirah. For each of these texts, the contents, dating, language, printed editions, translations, commentaries, bibliography, electronic resources and manuscripts are provided.
TEOLITERARIA - Revista de Literaturas e Teologias
2013
Alalite Argentina, Cecilia Inés Avenatti de Palumbo, Pedro Bayá Casal
Maximiliano Herraiz Garcia OCD, Carmelite saints founders specialist and writer career and international recognition, Spanish by birth lived for ten years in Africa, and has traveled five continents evangelizing through the Carmelite mystics in dialogue with universal mysticism, now convinced of experiential dimension of faith. In this interview he reflects on the relationship between mystical...
Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience
2013
Sebastian Dieguez
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is well known for his penetrating observations and descriptions of the burgeoning social life and emerging modernity of 19th century France. This chapter focuses on the novel Louis Lambert, first published in 1832. It is argued that its main character provides the first complete and convincing description of schizophrenia - 69 years before Kraepelin fully developed...
2013
Pascale Amiot
Composed by Seamus Heaney in 1991, Seeing Things is devoted to sight and vision in their physical, mental, imaginary, hallucinatory and mystical dimensions. A new creative energy is at play in the work of the artist, who transcends the perception of material realities in order to unveil the invisible. Indeed, in this collection, transparency both enables the viewer to peer through materiality...
2013
Suneetha Kundi
Mystical experiences have always been studied with a sense of awe and mystery both by the laypersons as well as the scientists. Today due to advancements in Spiritual Psychology, Consciousness studies and Meditation studies, they are being explored from a scientific perspective. As a result several features, identifying criteria, and unique characteristic of these experiences have surfaced in...
2013
Shannon Bingeman
Homer Watson believed that the greatest message a painting could convey was the mystical relationship between man, nature and the spirit world.Imbued with a strong missionary drive, the artist spent his life attempting to express this connection through his landscapes of rural southern Ontario.Building on numerous letters that indicate the artist's spiritual artistic intention, this thesis...
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)
2013
William David Soud
This thesis examines the traces of theological and broader religious discourses in selected works of three major twentieth-century poets. Each of the texts examined in this thesis encodes within its poetics a distinct, theologically derived conception of the ontological status of the self in relation to the Absolute. Yeats primarily envisions the relation as one of essential identity, Jones...