The Texture Of The Divine

Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253110879

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The Texture of the Divine by Aaron W. Hughes Pdf

The Texture of the Divine explores the central role of the imagination in the shared symbolic worlds of medieval Islam and Judaism. Aaron W. Hughes looks closely at three interrelated texts known as the Hayy ibn Yaqzan cycle (dating roughly from 1000--1200 CE) to reveal the interconnections not only between Muslims and Jews, but also between philosophy, mysticism, and literature. Each of the texts is an initiatory tale, recounting a journey through the ascending layers of the universe. These narratives culminate in the imaginative apprehension of God, in which the traveler gazes into the divine presence. The tales are beautiful and poetic literary works as well as probing philosophical treatises on how the individual can know the unknowable. In this groundbreaking work, Hughes reveals the literary, initiatory, ritualistic, and mystical dimensions of medieval Neoplatonism. The Texture of the Divine also includes the first complete English translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz.

Author : Vernon K. Robbins
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563381834

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Exploring the Texture of Texts by Vernon K. Robbins Pdf

In this book Vernon K. Robbins provides an accessible introduction to socio-rhetorical criticism, illustrating the method by guiding the reader through the study of specific New Testament texts and stories. An opening chapter outlines this new approach and its focus on values, convictions, and beliefs both in the text we read and in the world in which we live. Then follow studies and exercises dealing with specific textural features: inner texture, intertexture, social and cultural texture, ideological texture, and sacred texture.

Author : Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030294229

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Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought by Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer Pdf

This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstrates how these medieval Jewish thinkers engaged with Arabic-Aristotelian psychology, specifically with regard to imagination and its role in cognition. Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer reconstructs the process by which metaphoric language is taken up by the imagination and the role of imagination in rational thought. If imagination is a necessary component of thinking, how is Maimonides’ idea of pure intellectual thought possible? An examination of select passages in the Guide, in both Judeo-Arabic and translation, shows how Maimonides’ attitude towards imagination develops, and how translations contribute to a bifurcation of reason and imagination that does not acknowledge the nuances of the original text. Finally, the author shows how Falaquera’s poetics forges a new direction for thinking about imagination.

Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190684464

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Shared Identities by Aaron W. Hughes Pdf

1. Symbiosis: rethinking a paradigm -- 2. Origins -- 3. Messianism in the shadows -- 4. The manufacture of Orthodoxy -- 5. Et in Arcadia ego -- 6. Re-frame -- Conclusion: Two solitudes

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781580234597

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The Sabbath Soul by Anonim Pdf

Enrich your spiritual experience of Shabbat by exploring the writings of mystical masters of Hasidism. Drawing from some of the earliest teachings in the family of the Ba'al Shem Tov through late 19th-century Poland and the homilies of the Sefat 'Emet, Eitan Fishbane evokes the Sabbath experience, from candle lighting and donning white clothing to the Friday night Kiddush and the act of sacred eating.

Author : Tilo Schabert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226185156

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The Second Birth by Tilo Schabert Pdf

Most scholars link the origin of politics to the formation of human societies, but in this innovative work, Tilo Schabert takes it even further back: to our very births. Drawing on mythical, philosophical, religious, and political thought from around the globe—including America, Europe, the Middle East, and China—The Second Birth proposes a transhistorical and transcultural theory of politics rooted in political cosmology. With impressive erudition, Schabert explores the physical fundamentals of political life, unveiling a profound new insight: our bodies actually teach us politics. Schabert traces different figurations of power inherent to our singular existence, things such as numbers, time, thought, and desire, showing how they render our lives political ones—and, thus, how politics exists in us individually, long before it plays a role in the establishment of societies and institutions. Through these figurations of power, Schabert argues, we learn how to institute our own government within the political forces that already surround us—to create our own world within the one into which we have been born. In a stunning vision of human agency, this book ultimately sketches a political cosmos in which we are all builders, in which we can be at once political and free.

Author : Kazuyo Murata
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438462806

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Beauty in Sufism by Kazuyo Murata Pdf

Analyzes the place of beauty in the Sufi understanding of God, the world, and the human being through the writings of Sufi scholar and saint Rūzbihān Baqlī. According to Muhammad, “God is beautiful and He loves beauty.” Yet, Islam is rarely associated with beauty, and today, a politicized Islam dominates many perceptions. This work tells a forgotten story of beauty in Islam through the writings of celebrated but little-studied Sufi scholar and saint Rūzbihān Baqlī (1128–1209). Rūzbihān argued that the pursuit of beauty in the world and in oneself was the goal of Muslim life. One should become beautiful in imitation of God and reclaim the innate human nature created in God’s beautiful image. Rūzbihān’s theory of beauty is little known, largely because of his convoluted style and eccentric terminology in both Persian and Arabic. In this book, Kazuyo Murata revives Rūzbihān’s ideas for modern readers. She provides an overview of Muslim discourse on beauty before Rūzbihān’s time; an analysis of key terms related to beauty in the Qur’ān, Ḥadīth, and in Rūzbihān’s writings; a reconstruction of Rūzbihān’s understanding of divine, cosmic, and human beauty; and a discussion of what he regards as the pinnacle of beauty in creation, the prophets, especially Adam, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, and Muhammad. Kazuyo Murata is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at King’s College London and coeditor (with Mohammed Rustom and Atif Khalil) of In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought by William C. Chittick, also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Victoria Kennick Urubshurow
Publisher : JBE Online Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780980163308

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Introducing World Religions by Victoria Kennick Urubshurow Pdf

Author : Ursula Renz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190630553

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Self-Knowledge by Ursula Renz Pdf

The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry. At the same time, some sort of self-knowledge is often regarded as a necessary condition of our being a human agent or human subject. Thus self-knowledge is taken to constitute both the beginning and the end of humans' search for wisdom, and as such it is intricately bound up with the very idea of philosophy. Not surprisingly therefore, the Delphic injunction 'Know thyself' has fascinated philosophers of different times, backgrounds, and tempers. But how can we make sense of this imperative? What is self-knowledge and how is it achieved? What are the structural features that distinguish self-knowledge from other types of knowledge? What role do external, second- and third-personal, sources of knowledge play in the acquisition of self-knowledge? How can we account for the moral impact ascribed to self-knowledge? Is it just a form of anthropological knowledge that allows agents to act in accordance with their aims? Or, does self-knowledge ultimately ennoble the self of the subjects having it? Finally, is self-knowledge, or its completion, a goal that may be reached at all? The book addresses these questions in fifteen chapters covering approaches of many philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Edmund Husserl or Elisabeth Anscombe. The short reflections inserted between the chapters show that the search for self-knowledge is an important theme in literature, poetry, painting and self-portraiture from Homer.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368824945

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The Christian's Friend by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : William Burns
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031404863

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Astrology and Western Society from the First World War to Covid-19 by William Burns Pdf

This book gathers contributions on the topic of astrology in the West during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from 1914–2022. It is the first collection exclusively devoted to a period that has been mostly neglected by historians of astrology, who have mostly devoted themselves to the ancient, medieval and early modern periods. Uninterested in vindicating or debunking astrology, contributors consider its cultural impact, its relation to historical events, and the ways in which it has changed in the last century. The broad range of subjects on modern Europe and the US include the relation of astrology with indigenous thought, interwar Polish astrology, and the relation of American astrologers to COVID. A bibliography of studies of modern astrology on a global basis is also included. This collection is a thoughtful contribution to the history of astrology and the sociology of belief as well as carrying significant implications for twentieth and twenty-first century history broadly.

Author : Ruth Christa Mathieson
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628373318

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Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast by Ruth Christa Mathieson Pdf

Ruth Christa Mathieson’s unique reading of Matthew’s parable of the royal wedding feast (Matt 22:1–14), which concludes with the king’s demand that one of the guests be bound and cast out into the outer darkness, focuses on the means of the underdressed guest’s expulsion. Using sociorhetorical interpretation, Mathieson draws the parable into conversation with early Jewish narratives of the angel Raphael binding hands and feet (1 Enoch; Tobit) and the protocol for expelling individuals from the community in Matt 18. She asserts that readers are invited to consider if the person who is bound and cast out is a danger to the little ones of the community of faith unless removed and restrained.

Author : Kent Eilers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567135650

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Faithful to Save by Kent Eilers Pdf

Faithful to Save is an exposition and analysis of Pannenberg's doctrine of reconciliation as it appears in his three-volume Systematic Theology. It suggests that this doctrine is best approached by bearing in mind its three most salient characteristics, all of which are inter-dependent, and when kept in view make the essential tenets of Pannenberg's account transparent: God acts freely and immediately in and for creation; history is a function of the faithfulness of God to his creation; reconciliation is an expression of this faithfulness towards sinful creation - God's 'holding fast' to creation despite its self-destructive self-assertion. On the basis of a detailed examination of the central texts, it argues that Pannenberg's doctrine of reconciliation at once marks out God's action in the world as the true Infinite and issues an invitation to consider how such a God extends himself in reconciling love to his creatures so that their finite creatureliness is at every turn affirmed and found to be in the end 'good'.

Author : Riku P. Tuppurainen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532619847

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Reading St. Luke's Text and Theology: Pentecostal Voices by Riku P. Tuppurainen Pdf

Lukan narrative takes its readers into God’s story: how his salvation plan in Jesus began on the slopes of Judea and at the Sea of Galilee, ending on the hill of Calvary and the Mount of Olives, yet moving on and telling how the Spirit descended onto the Temple Mount empowering God’s people, who then began to fulfill the given mandate in the presence of the Spirit. Yet, readers of Luke-Acts, throughout the centuries, have had a meandering journey as they have tried to understand the narrative’s persuasion and Spirit-references. This book seeks to bring awareness to these challenges by some of the most respected Pentecostal biblical scholars and systematicians. Here their vigorous labor with the questions of hermeneutics and theology in relation to Lukan writings have come to fruition. These contributions have been collected as a Festschrift in honor and celebration of the career of Roger Stronstad, a Pentecostal biblical scholar whose contribution to Lukan studies have moved Pentecostal scholarship from shadows into daylight. The editor of this volume invites the readers of Lukan narrative to journey together on the road to Emmaus, as we continue to ponder the events in the past, the present, and the future.

Author : Joseph E. David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108499682

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Kinship, Law and Politics by Joseph E. David Pdf

An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.