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Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004291695 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 583
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Protestant theology and culture are known for a reserved, at times skeptical, attitude to the use of art and aesthetic forms of expression in a religious context. In Transcendence and Sensoriness, this attitude is analysed and discussed both theoretically and through case studies considered in a broad theological and philosophical framework of religious aesthetics. Nordic scholars of theology, philosophy, art, music, and architecture, discuss questions of transcendence, the human senses, and the arts in order to challenge established perspectives within the aesthetics of religion and theology.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004291695 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 583
Book Description
Protestant theology and culture are known for a reserved, at times skeptical, attitude to the use of art and aesthetic forms of expression in a religious context. In Transcendence and Sensoriness, this attitude is analysed and discussed both theoretically and through case studies considered in a broad theological and philosophical framework of religious aesthetics. Nordic scholars of theology, philosophy, art, music, and architecture, discuss questions of transcendence, the human senses, and the arts in order to challenge established perspectives within the aesthetics of religion and theology.
Author: Phillip H. Wiebe Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198032120 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 278
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Many people believe in angels and evil spirits, and popular culture abounds in talk about encounters with such entities. Yet the question of the existence of such spirits is ignored in the academy. Even the Christian Church, which one might expect to show keen interest in transcendent realities, does not appear to be paying much attention. In this book Phillip Wiebe defends the plausibility of the traditional Christian claim that spirits are real. Wiebe examines descriptions of encounters with both good and evil transcendent beings in biblical times and in later Christian history, along with recent accounts of similar experiences. He argues that invisible beings can be postulated to explain events just as unobservable objects are postulated in many scientific theories. Beyond supporting claims for the existence of lesser spirits such as demons and angels, this empirical approach yields important results for assessing common arguments surrounding the existence of God - a question that has become artificially separated from the question of spirits as such. Grounding his argument in a wide range of phenomena - from near death experiences to demonic possession - Wiebe offers a sophisticated case for belief in God on philosophical and epistemological grounds.
Author: Robert Cowan Publisher: New Comparative Criticism ISBN: 9781789976694 Category : Immanence (Philosophy) Languages : en Pages : 220
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We live in an era of global anxiety, so it's no surprise that we also seek transcendence of our material circumstances. This book explores the immanence-transcendence problem in works of French, German, Italian, and Russian literature and philosophy, with the aim of helping us navigate our global future.
Author: Ferdia J. Stone-Davis Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317092228 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 309
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Music and Transcendence explores the ways in which music relates to transcendence by bringing together the disciplines of musicology, philosophy and theology, thereby uncovering congruencies between them that have often been obscured. Music has the capacity to take one outside of oneself and place one in relation to that which is ’other’. This ’other’ can be conceived in an ’absolute’ sense, insofar as music can be thought to place the self in relation to a divine ’other’ beyond the human frame of existence. However, the ’other’ can equally well be conceived in an ’immanent’ (or secular) sense, as music is a human activity that relates to other cultural practices. Music here places the self in relation to other people and to the world more generally, shaping how the world is understood, without any reference to a God or gods. The book examines how music has not only played a significant role in many philosophical and theological accounts of the nature of existence and the self, but also provides a valuable resource for the creation of meaning on a day-to-day basis.
Author: Jewel Lyles Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 44
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This is an interesting book. It describes the importance of Moksha and Transcendental Meditation to live a happy life. Moksha brings freedom from afflictions of the mind and body. It teaches the art of living. Transcendental Meditation (TM) teaches how to get relief from this busy and tense life. Coordination between mind and body, increasing the functioning capacity of the brain and making the world a better place for all the living creatures is possible from the regular practice of TM. Regular practice of TM helps us to feel the unified field of unbounded awareness. You will learn more transcendental meditation for your mind and body and know how to transcend the sensory surface reality and progress on the path to Moksha. This book includes: -Chapter 1: Moksha and Enlightenment -Chapter 2: Personal Development through Transcendence -Chapter 3: Vedas and Vedic Technologies -Chapter 4: Yoga Sutra -Chapter 5: Vedanta -Chapter 6: The Path Ahead
Author: Dr Chris Thornhill Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136454160 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 286
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This book sets out a new reading of the much-neglected philosophy of Karl Jaspers. By questioning the common perception of Jaspers either as a proponent of irrationalist cultural philosophy or as an early, peripheral disciple of Martin Heidegger, it re-establishes him as a central figure in modern European philosophy. Giving particular consideration to his position in epistemological, metaphysical and political debate, the author argues that Jaspers's work deserves renewed consideration in a number of important discussions, particularly in hermeneutics, anthropological reflections on religion, the critique of idealism, and debates on the end of metaphysics.
Author: Len Hansen Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA ISBN: 1928314481 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 346
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Paradoxes have become characteristic of the world we live in - poverty and privilege, empire and oppression, migration and enclaveseeking, war and peace, justice and injustice, reconciliation and revenge. During the 2016 Societas Homiletica annual conference held in South Africa, these paradoxes served as a rediscovery of the calling of preachers to deliver the promise that lies within life's contradictions. A divine promise brought forth by the grace of God and the gospel of Christ - embodied in and through us by the Spirit of Christ. This promise may take many forms and calls for discernment and often interrupts the status quos in surprising, shocking ways. It is a promise that interrupts, in order to comfort.
Author: Byung-Chul Han Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262354551 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 140
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A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety—infotainment, edutainment, servotainment—and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg. In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the notion of entertainment—its contemporary ubiquity, and its philosophical genealogy. Entertainment today, in all its totalizing variety, has an apparently infinite capacity for incorporation: infotainment, edutainment, servotainment, confrontainment. Entertainment is held up as a new paradigm, even a new credo for being—and yet, in the West, it has had inescapably negative connotations. Han traces Western ideas of entertainment, considering, among other things, the scandal that arose from the first performance of Bach's Saint Matthew's Passion (deemed too beautiful, not serious enough); Kant's idea of morality as duty and the entertainment value of moralistic literature; Heidegger's idea of the thinker as a man of pain; Kafka's hunger artist and the art of negativity, which takes pleasure in annihilation; and Robert Rauschenberg's refusal of the transcendent. The history of the West, Han tells us, is a passion narrative, and passion appears as a killjoy. Achievement is the new formula for passion, and play is subordinated to production, gamified. And yet, he argues, at their core, passion and entertainment are not entirely different. The pure meaninglessness of entertainment is adjacent to the pure meaning of passion. The fool's smile resembles the pain-racked visage of Homo doloris. In Good Entertainment, Han explores this paradox.
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Author: Phillip H. Wiebe
Author: Andrew Neher
Author: Robert Cowan
Author: Ferdia J. Stone-Davis
Author: Jewel Lyles
Author: Dr Chris Thornhill
Author: Robert E. Wood
Author: Len Hansen
Author: Byung-Chul Han