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Author : Bronwen Neil,Doru Costache,Kevin Wagner (Theologian)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Alexandrian school, Christian
ISBN : 110874043X
Author : Bronwen Neil,Doru Costache,Kevin Wagner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481182
Explores the significance of dreams in early Christian Egypt, using sources from Philo and Origen to Athanasius and early monks.
Author : Jesse Keskiaho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107082137
A comprehensive overview of ideas about dreams and visions in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages.
Author : Doru Costache
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004468344
In this volume, Costache endeavours to map the world as it was understood and experienced by the early Christians. Progressing from initial fears, they came to adopt a more positive view of the world through successive shifts of perception. This did not happen overnight. Tracing these shifts, Costache considers the world of the early Christians through an interdisciplinary lens, revealing its meaningful complexity. He demonstrates that the early Christian worldview developed at the nexus of several perspectives. What facilitated this process was above all the experience of contemplating nature. When accompanied by genuine personal transformation, natural contemplation fostered the theological interpretation of the world as it had been known to the ancients.
Author : JONATHAN L. ZECHER
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198854135
What expectations did the women and men living in early monastic communities carry into relationships of obedience and advice? What did they hope to achieve through confession and discipline? To explore these questions, this study shows how several early Christian writers applied the logic, knowledge, and practices of Galenic medicine to develop their own practices of spiritual direction. Evagrius reads dream images as diagnostic indicators of the soul's state. John Cassian crafts a nosology of the soul using lists of passions while diagnosing the causes of wet dreams. Basil of Caesarea pits the spiritual director against the physician in a competition over diagnostic expertise. John Climacus crafts pathologies of passions through demonic family trees, while equipping his spiritual director with a physician's toolkit and imagining the monastic space as a vast clinic. These different appropriations of medical logic and metaphors not only show us the thought-world of late antique monasticism, but they would also have decisive consequences for generations of Christian subjects who would learn to see themselves as sick or well, patients or healers, within monastic communities.
Author : Amira Mittermaier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520258501
"This brilliant study presents contemporary anthropology at its best. Whether one's goal is understanding the permeability of traditions and modernities or the changing shape of religious imagination and thought in one of the most pivotal countries of the Middle East, this book is an outstanding point of departure."—Dale F. Eickelman, author of The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach, 4th ed. "Dreams That Matter is an insightful and well-crafted study of the practice of dreaming in contemporary Egypt. Mittermaier provides a superb analysis of the imaginative repertoires of Islamic traditions and shows how the dream has remained not only a site of Muslim scholarly interest, but an important part of the way ordinary Muslims encounter and engage with the divine."—Charles Hirschkind, author of Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors "Amira Mittermaier has given us the most complete anthropological study of dream culture in the Middle East—perhaps in any culture. It is a sensitive, intellectually challenging, indeed a courageous, investigation of the psychological, ontological, and ethical assumptions that lie behind dreams, visions, and dream-visitations in contemporary Egypt—where the dream is a vibrant site of political, religious, and interpretive contest. Dreams That Matter will rank among the most important contributions to the anthropology of the imagination for years to come."—Vincent Crapanzano, author of The Harkis: The Wound That Never Heals
Author : Bronwen Neil,Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004375710
This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium reveals the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond
Author : Donald A. Russell,Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161524195
Synesius' essay De insomniis ('On Dreams') inquires into the meaning and importance of dreams for human beings and treats themes - most of all the relationship of humans to higher spheres -, which for religiously- and philosophically-minded people are still important today.
Author : Pauline Allen,Bronwen Neil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316510131
Introduction to the nature, function, production and dissemination of Late Antique literary letters and their importance for their society.
Author : Matthias Heiduk,Klaus Herbers,Hans-Christian Lehner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110499773
Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of the world and therefore had no concept of the future. According to the other opinion, the expectation of the near end created a drive to change the world for the better and thus for innovation. Close inspection of the history of prognostication reveals the continuous attempts and multifold methods to recognize and interpret God’s will, the prodigies of nature, and the patterns of time. That proves, on the one hand, the constant human uncertainty facing the contingencies of the future. On the other hand, it demonstrates the firm believe during the Middle Ages in a future which could be shaped and even manipulated. The handbook provides the first overview of current historical research on medieval prognostication. It considers the entangled influences and transmissions between Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and non-monotheistic societies during the period from a wide range of perspectives. An international team of 63 renowned authors from about a dozen different academic disciplines contributed to this comprehensive overview.
Author : Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438455839
Explores the paradoxical symmetry between the divine and demonic in early Jewish mystical texts. Divine Scapegoats is a wide-ranging exploration of the parallels between the heavenly and the demonic in early Jewish apocalyptical accounts. In these materials, antagonists often mirror features of angelic figures, and even those of the Deity himself, an inverse correspondence that implies a belief that the demonic realm is maintained by imitating divine reality. Andrei A. Orlov examines the sacerdotal, messianic, and creational aspects of this mimetic imagery, focusing primarily on two texts from the Slavonic pseudepigrapha: 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Abraham. These two works are part of a very special cluster of Jewish apocalyptic texts that exhibit features not only of the apocalyptic worldview but also of the symbolic universe of early Jewish mysticism. The Yom Kippur ritual in the Apocalypse of Abraham, the divine light and darkness of 2 Enoch, and the similarity of mimetic motifs to later developments in the Zohar are of particular importance in Orlovs consideration.
Author : Frances Young,Lewis Ayres,Andrew Louth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521460832
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004429567
The essays in Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy provide valuable insights into the central role of philosophical ideas in a period when paganism was in decline and Eastern Christians were forging their community identities.
Author : Doru Costache
Publisher : Vigiliae Christianae, Suppleme
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004465952
"In this volume, Costache endeavours to map the world as it was understood and experienced by the early Christians. Progressing from initial fears, they came to adopt a more positive view of the world through successive shifts of perception. This did not happen overnight. Tracing these shifts, Costache considers the world of the early Christians through an interdisciplinary lens, revealing its meaningful complexity. He demonstrates that the early Christian worldview developed at the nexus of several perspectives. What facilitated this process was above all the experience of contemplating nature. When accompanied by genuine personal transformation, natural contemplation fostered the theological interpretation of the world as it had been known to the ancients"--
Author : James Corke-Webster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474078
Presents a radical new reading of how Christian history was rewritten in the fourth century to suit its circumstances under Rome.