July 24, 2018
Наталья Сергеевна Жиртуева, Natal'ya Zhirtueva
The monograph studies the mystical phenomenon as the essential core of religion and its universal principle. The comparative analysis of mystical traditions formed on the basis of world and national religions is realized. They have common features as the endeavor to "unite" with the reality of Absolute, which contributes to the transformation of the consciousness and personality of a person...
July 23, 2018
Giuliana di Biase
The paper aims to investigate Iris Murdoch’s Platonic mysticism, setting it in the context of the contemporary debate between perennialists and constructivists. Like many perennialists, Murdoch believed in the existence of an essential link between mysticism and morality: this clarifies why she was fascinated by Plato’s philosophy. She conceived of mysticism and morality as having the same...
Medieval Mystical Theology
July 3, 2018
B. McGinn
ABSTRACT In the Prologue to his Ascent of Mount Carmel John of the Cross mentions the three sources of his mystical teaching–experience, theological science, and scripture – noting that scripture is his fundamental guide. Perhaps because he did not write formal biblical commentaries, it has not been sufficiently recognized that John’s mysticism is fundamentally mystical. This article presents...
Journal of Islamic Educational Research.
June 30, 2018
Avad Fakhkhar Toosi, Asyraf Isyraqi Jamil, Zulkifli Mohd Yusoff
The current article seeks to demonstrate the possibility of modernizing Islamic moral education in a special part of Muslim lands namely South East Asia by adapting to the theory of autonomy (moral independence) based on the unique capacity of Islamic mysticism. The method of this research is qualitative. The purpose of the article is to prove that due to the wide mysticism found in the South...
Lumen et Vita
June 1, 2018
Ann-Catherine Wilkening
Against recent moves to exoticize Moravian sexual practices, this project is an attempt to understand how sexuality and religion intersect and relate to each other in Moravian piety and theology. In the mid-18th century, Moravians practiced a deeply sensual and erotic form of bridal mysticism. Christ, the bridegroom and lover of the believer, became uniquely tangible to the Moravian in their...
Lumen et Vita
June 1, 2018
A. Holmes
By virtue of his insistence on the once and for all revelation of God in Jesus Christ, Karl Barth’s theology has sometimes been perceived as hostile to mysticism and contemplative spirituality. Allegedly, the significance of ongoing encounters with God is lost under the weight of the proclamation of Jesus Christ as the decisive moment of God’s dealing with humankind. A closer reading of Barth,...
Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine
May 22, 2018
L. Nikfarid, N. Hekmat, Arash Vedad et al.
Metaparadigm concepts comprise the central issues in a discipline. Fawcett has named person, health, environment and nursing as the four main concepts of nursing that need to be comprehensively defined. The Human Caring Theory is significant because of its focus on the spiritual dimension of human beings. The aim of this study was to comparatively explain three of the main metaparadigm concepts...
International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science
May 12, 2018
Alexandru-Corneliu Arion
1 citation
Mysticism is about knowing and unifying man with God (unio mystica), in a process that involves concerted cognitive and ascetic efforts. Mysticism does not follow, according to the classic pattern, the moralizing of man, but reach at the direct and immediate knowledge of God. Thus, mysticism is not, firstly, a matter of ethics, but a theoretical or, rather, an epistemological one. For what is...
Medjugorje and the Supernatural
April 19, 2018
Daniel Maria Klimek
The chapter considers influential definitions of terms like “mysticism,” “mystical,” or “mystical experiences” as formulated by two of the most prominent scholars of mysticism of the twentieth century. The influence of William James to the study of mysticism and his famous four marks of a mystical state is observed. The influence of Evelyn Underhill to the study of mysticism and her defining...
English language notes
April 1, 2018
Robert O. Pasnau
I am a historian of philosophy and theology, which is to say that the authors I work on are almost exclusively those who make doctrine. Moreover, a great deal of my work has been focused on Thomas Aquinas, the doctrine maker extraordinaire of the later Middle Ages. From that vantage point, it is interesting to consider the question of whether mysticism, by its nature, must necessarily conflict...