China review international
September 1, 1998
Sor‐hoon Tan
1 citation
FEATURES Julia Ching. Mysticism and Kingship in China: The Heart ofChinese Wisdom . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxi, 302 pp. Hardcover $64.95, ISBN 0-521-46293-2. Paperback $22.95, 1SBN 0-521-46828-0. Mysticism and Kingship in China approaches Chinese intellectual history from the central thesis that mysticism—the ecstatic communion between man and the cosmos —lies at the center...
Experimental gerontology
1998
A T De Nicolas
New discoveries in perceptual psychology, brain chemistry, brain evolution, brain development, ethology, cultural anthropology, the more recent work of MacLean on the structure of the brains and the discovery by Gazzaniga of the role of the, so-called, "interpreter module," are the foundations of a new paradigm on human cortical information processing, called by its discoverer, Dr. M. Colavito,...
The Innate Capacity
December 4, 1997
Lloyd W. Pflueger
3 citations
Abstract I have never had any revelations through anesthetics, but a kind of waking trance-this for lack of a better wordI have frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I have been all alone. This has come upon me through repeating my own name to myself silently, till all at once, as it were out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality, individuality itself seemed to dissolve...
The Innate Capacity
December 4, 1997
James Robertson Price
Abstract DURING THE PAST fifty years, philosophers of mysticism have been actively intrigued by the meaning and epistemological status of quotations such as this one by John Ruusbroec, the fourteenth-century mystic from Flanders. An intense and fruitful debate has emerged, one marked by three discernible and on going philosophic moments. By briefly sketching this debate, I will clarify my own...
The Innate Capacity
December 4, 1997
R L Franklin
3 citations
Abstract The classic approach to mysticism emphasizes its unity. It points to striking parallels in the language used by mystics from different cultures who were unknown to each other and concludes that they describe the same experience. Hence, it presents mysticism as involving a state of consciousness found in virtually all religions, recog-nizably the same in each, and acknowledged by those...
Historical Papers
August 7, 1996
Joanna Dean
1 citation
JOANNA DEAN "The religions of authority are tottering to their fall," the Dean of St. Paul's, W.R. Inge, said in 1905, "but the religion of Spirit is still near the beginning of that triumphant course which Christ foretold for it . .." 1 Three decades later, slightly chastened about the "triumphant course," he continued to distinguish between the faltering religion of authority and the...
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
July 1, 1996
L. E. J. Brouwer
35 citations
A translation by Walter P. van Stigt
Church History
June 1, 1996
Bernard Mcginn
64 citations
The historical development of explicit forms of Christian mysticism can be sketched according to a model of gradually accumulating and interactive layers of tradition. The monastic ideal of flight from the world in order to lead a specialized life of penance and prayer, either as a hermit or within a community, formed the institutional context for most forms of Christian mysticism down to the...
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
June 1, 1996
Robert K. C. Forman
Professor Janz (SR, 24, 1 [1995]: 77) proposes an explanation of mystical experience based on an analogy with the hermeneutical process of reading a book. While this model has its advantages, it represents an attempt to analyze non-intentional mysticism on the basis of intentional experiences. Such mysticism, an experience of our own consciousness, is very different from thinking and sensing;...
diacritics
June 1, 1996
Amy Hollywood
3 citations
Bataille and Mysticism: A “Dazzling Dissolution” Amy Hollywood (bio) Within Georges Bataille’s texts of the late 1930s and 1940s, in particular those later brought together in the tripartite Atheological Summa, he repeatedly suggests that his primary models for writing and experience are the texts of the Christian and non-Western mystical traditions (often represented, in Bataille, by women’s...