Irish Theological Quarterly
September 29, 2011
Jeremy W. Blackwood
3 citations
Christian mystical writing expresses symbolically the complexities of conscious experience identified by Bernard Lonergan as ‘differentiations of consciousness.’ In order for the insights of such literature to penetrate theoretic systematic theology, there must be effected a theoretic account of conscious experience that is of sufficient depth to account for the differentiations witnessed to by...
Tattva - Journal of Philosophy
August 26, 2011
Patrick Menneteau
No Abstract
Kanz Philosophia : A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism
August 20, 2011
Abulfazel Kiashemshaki
One of the most elemental discussions in ‘irfân nadzâri (theoretical mysticism), in the section where its adherents discuss ontology, is the debate surrounding the degrees of God’s manifestation. The reason for this is that in the mystic’s view real existence, or the reality of existence, is the existence of the Truth (i.e. God) who manifests Himself in the degrees and mirrors that are the...
Journal of Islamic Studies
August 12, 2011
Arthur F. Buehler
This monograph is written by an experienced practitioner of a Malaysian ‘embodied war magic or warrior religion’ (p. vii) called silat. The author approaches the subject anthropologically, seeking to integrate theories of embodiment, magic, and performance with indigenous categories of Malay animism, shamanism, and ritual. ‘Performance of enchantment’ and ‘enchantment of performance’ are...
Tattva - Journal of Philosophy
July 8, 2011
Thomas Manikkam
Contemporary Sciences Offer Insights for a 'cosmo-theandric' Mysticism
Tattva - Journal of Philosophy
June 24, 2011
Jonathan Weidenbaum
"NO ABSTRACT"
Tattva - Journal of Philosophy
May 13, 2011
Bernard Mcginn
"NO ABSTRACT"
مجلة الآداب للعلوم الانسانية - جامعة تعز
May 11, 2011
Mohammed Ahmad Al-Shamiri
This paper is a humble attempt to describe elements of "Alienation" and "Mysticism" in two great creative works by two eminent poets and mystics, Gibran Kahlil Gibran's (1883-1931) A Tear and A Smile and Rabindranath Tagore's (1861-1941) Gitanjali. It is a comparative study of Kahlil Gibran's A Tear and A Smile and Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali. It is an appraisal of their sublime poetic...
Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations
April 21, 2011
Andrew Vogel Ettin, Ulrike Wiethaus
The essay presents a dialogic, co-authored reflection on the uses of Jewish and Christian mystical texts in exploring post-Shoah possibilities for Jewish-Christian encounter and dialogue, specifically in the context of the college classroom.The authors explore Buber’s thesis that the heart of each religion is to be found in its mystical dimension, and address the lack of scholarly attention to...
Shofar
March 1, 2011
Eliezer Lorne Segal
Reviewed by: The Origins of Jewish Mysticism Eliezer Segal The Origins of Jewish Mysticism, by Peter Schäfer. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. 398 pp. €99.00. The Mishnah (Hagigah 2:1) identified a number of topics in the rabbinic curriculum that could not be taught openly, among which the most secret was "the work of the chariot," the Ma'aseh Merkavah. It is clear that this esoteric discipline...