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Author: Margaret Lewis Furse Publisher: ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 238
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"What is the meaning of mysticism in Western religious experience and thought? This balanced introduction provides an overall view of many ideas, interpretations, and suggestions that are part of the often neglected "mysticism of the West." Margaret Furse sees mysticism more as a philosophy or world view than as an experience. From this vantage point she analyzes the personal vs. the mystical and the ethical vs. the mystical. Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish thinkers are represented in her study. A background is sketched in the Eastern mysticism (Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Zen Buddhism), against which the outlines of Christian mysticism become clear. Sources of Christian mysticism are sought in biblical literature, the mystery religions, and Greek philosophy. Modern interpretations, in particular those of Evelyn Underhill, William Ralph Inge, and Friedrich von Hügel, are stressed. Dr. Furse's conclusions led her to assert that "Mysticism had better not be the whole of one's religion, but the one who knows of his embarkation and sense the presence of his destination will have within his religion an element of the mystical."-Publisher.
Author: Margaret Lewis Furse Publisher: ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
"What is the meaning of mysticism in Western religious experience and thought? This balanced introduction provides an overall view of many ideas, interpretations, and suggestions that are part of the often neglected "mysticism of the West." Margaret Furse sees mysticism more as a philosophy or world view than as an experience. From this vantage point she analyzes the personal vs. the mystical and the ethical vs. the mystical. Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish thinkers are represented in her study. A background is sketched in the Eastern mysticism (Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Zen Buddhism), against which the outlines of Christian mysticism become clear. Sources of Christian mysticism are sought in biblical literature, the mystery religions, and Greek philosophy. Modern interpretations, in particular those of Evelyn Underhill, William Ralph Inge, and Friedrich von Hügel, are stressed. Dr. Furse's conclusions led her to assert that "Mysticism had better not be the whole of one's religion, but the one who knows of his embarkation and sense the presence of his destination will have within his religion an element of the mystical."-Publisher.
Author: Patrick Grim Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 9781438404981 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 408
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This book both introduces the philosophy of science through examination of the occult and examines the occult rigorously enough to raise central issues in the philosophy of science. Placed in the context of the occult, philosophy of science issues become immediately understandable and forcefully compelling. Divergent views on astrology, parapsychology, and quantum mechanics mysticism emphasize topics standard to the philosophy of science. Such issues as confirmation and selection for testing, causality and time, explanation and the nature of scientific laws, the status of theoretical entities, the problem of demarcation, theory and observation, and science and values are discussed. Significantly revised, this second edition presents an entirely new section of quantum mechanics and mysticism including instructions from N. David Mermin for constructing a device which dramatically illustrates the genuinely puzzling phenomena of quantum mechanics. A more complete and current review of research on astrology has been included in this new edition, and the section on the problem of demarcation has been broadened.
Author: John Peter Kenney Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134442726 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 177
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Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians. This book explores Augustine's account of his experience as set down in the Confessions and considers his mysticism in relation to his classical Platonist philosophy. John Peter Kenney argues that while the Christian contemplative mysticism created by Augustine is in many ways founded on Platonic thought, Platonism ultimately fails Augustine in that it cannot retain the truths that it anticipates. The Confessions offer a response to this impasse by generating two critical ideas in medieval and modern religious thought: firstly, the conception of contemplation as a purely epistemic event, in contrast to classical Platonism; secondly, the tenet that salvation is absolutely distinct from enlightenment.
Author: Ian B. Bell Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9781433100727 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 238
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In The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan's Notion of Self-Appropriation to a Mystical-Political Theology, Ian Bell takes on the issue of the separation of the interior and exterior lives that has come to dominate mystical theology over the years. The mystical life, he claims, is necessarily involved in the establishment of social structures and institutions that govern human living, and the work of Bernard Lonergan on the human subject provides a means by which the connection between the interior and exterior lives may be established. Because human persons operate in a consistent pattern regardless of a given moment's particularities, mystical experience is no longer relegated to so-called spiritual matters, and the insights of mystics may be applied to the Christian call to live as agents of love. With this connection in place, mystical theology and political theology come together in a theology that is both mystical and political.
Author: James R. Horne Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press ISBN: 0889207690 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 145
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Mysticism is condemned as often as it is praised. Much of the condemnation comes from mysticism’s apparent disregard of morality and ethics. For mystics, the experience of “union” transcends all moral concern. In this careful examination of the works of such practitioners or examiners of mysticism as Paul Tillich, Thomas Merton, Evelyn Underhill, and Martin Buber, the author posits a spectrum of uneasy relationships between mysticism and morality. Horne explores the polarities of apophatic (imageless) and imaginative mysticism, the contemplative and the active life, and morality and amorality. He stresses the importance of the distinction between “proper-name” (entirely personal) morality and “social” morality, for the history of Christian mysticism is a mix of minimal moral concern, proper-name morality, and social morality. The volume will be of interest to students of religious experience, ethics, and the recent history of mysticism. Carefully reasoned and documented, the argument is couched in clear prose, easily accessible to lay readers as well as to scholars.
Author: Douglas J Davies Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 100057959X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 104
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Worldview Religious Studies brings the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life under the overarching scheme of worldview studies. This book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a framework specific to religious studies. The drive for meaning-making is explored through ritual-symbolic activities, ideas of ‘play’, and the power of emotions to transform simple ideas into values and beliefs that frame identity and signpost destiny. Identity and its sacralisation are discussed alongside gift/reciprocity theory in their relation to ideas of merit, karma, and salvation in Eastern and Western traditions. This theoretical background is used to introduce a new classification of worldviews - natural, scientific, ancestral, karmic, prophetic-sectarian, mystical, and ideological. Organised thematically by chapter, this book brings together familiar and unfamiliar authors, theories, and sources to challenge students and teachers of Religious Studies, Theology, and Ethics. It introduces worldview religious studies as a framework through which to re-think human endeavours to identify, cope and even transcend life’s flaws and perils.
Author: Nagueyalti Warren Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538123983 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 221
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Catapulted to fame in 1982 with the publication of her third novel—the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Color Purple—Alice Walker has become one of America’s most celebrated and divisive authors. With books such as Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Walker’s writing has frequently been cited for messages in support of civil rights and feminism. Above all, however, Walker is a spiritual seeker. Her works are dominated by the search for truth, wholeness, and the spirit that connects everyone and everything. In Alice Walker’s Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit, Nagueyalti Warren examines the philosophy and worldview present in all of Walker’s writing. Warren contends that Walker is a literary theologian, citing the transformative changes that take place in the author’s fictional characters. Warren also points to Walker’s bravery in approaching taboo subjects, her generosity of spirit, and her love for humanity, which are represented throughout her poems, novels, short stories, children’s books, and essays. This analysis is further supplemented by primary sources from Walker’s unpublished material, including notes and scrapbooks. By exploring the spirituality evident throughout the author’s work, this volume shows how Walker challenges readers to recognize and understand their responsibility to the earth—and to one another. Providing a fresh, accessible look at one of the twentieth century’s most prolific women writers, Alice Walker’s Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit will appeal to both academics and fans of the author’s varied literature.
Author: Ericjon Thomas PhD Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1469166593 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 134
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The Point of Origin investigates the evolution of religious consciousness as an integral reality in the human person. The evolution of religious consciousness is an experience found throughout human history beginning with the earliest known human species, the Cro-Magnon. In this work Dr. Thomas identifies empirical data that lends itself to his theory that spirituality is not a bi-product of the human phenomena but an essential characteristic of being human. The author delves into conscious acknowledgement of the natural law as a universal norm guiding human activity in the wake of the plurality of religious expressions (Atheism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, etc.). In a crescendo effect of his work Dr. Thomas illustrates how mysticism becomes the ultimate expression of religious consciousness in the human experience.
Author: Margaret Lewis Furse
Author: Margaret Lewis Furse
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Author: Patrick Grim
Author: John Peter Kenney
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Author: Nagueyalti Warren
Author: Ericjon Thomas PhD