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Author | : Gregory Schufreider |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : God |
ISBN | : 9781557530356 |
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Confessions of a Rational Mystic exposes both aspects of this transitional thinker through a multidimensional interpretation of his Pioslogion. It treats Anselm's famous proof for the existence of God as both a rational argument and an exercise in mystical theology, analyzing the logic of its reasoning while providing a phenomenological account of the vision of God that is embedded within it. Through a deconstructive reading of the cycle of prayer and proof that forms the overall structure of the text, not only is the argument returned to its place in the Proslogion as a whole, but the historic relationship that it attempts to establish between faith and reason is examined. In this way, the critical role that Anselm played in the history of philosophy is seen in a new light.
Author | : John Peter Kenney |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2005-09-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1134442718 |
Download The Mysticism of Saint Augustine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Robert McMahon |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813214378 |
Download Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Confessions, Proslogion, and Consolation of philosophy, like the Divine comedy, all enact Platonist accents. [These accents] generate implied meditative meanings, which scholars have explored only in part. Each work calls us to read forward, on its journey to understanding, and to meditate backwards on the stages of the ascent and the relations between them. Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, and Dante wrote for readers experienced in meditating on the Bible, adept at exploring relations between far distant passages They designed these works as spiritual exercises for the same kind of reading and meditations. This book uses literary analysis to discover new philosophical meaning in these works. --Book jacket.
Author | : Jannel T. Glennie |
Publisher | : Greenleaf Book Group Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2000-08 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780966531978 |
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Author | : Martin Buber |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1996-11-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780815604228 |
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Ecstatic Confessions is Martin Buber's unique, personal gathering of the testimonies of mystics throughout the centuries expressing their encounters with the divine. It features the author's seminal introduction to mysticism, "Ecstasy and Confession," which probes the nature of what Buber terms the "most inward of all experiences. . . . God's highest gift." Buber sifted through texts from oriental, pagan, Gnostic, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim sources down the centuries to cull those moving records that manage to convey some quality of an experience that is essentially beyond the power of words to capture. Ecstatic Confessions orchestrates these reports from the edge of human experience into a revealing look at the nature of the ecstatic experience itself and the tension arising from the mystic's compelling need to give witness to an event that can never truly be verbalized. Ecstatic Confessions illuminates the intellectual development of its author even as it probes the almost insurmountable barrier between language and authentic mystical experience, which is, in essence, beyond the grasp of rational constructs.
Author | : Tim Mulgan |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191066567 |
Download Purpose in the Universe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan explores a third way. Ananthropocentric Purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. Purpose in the Universe develops a philosophical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism that it is at least as strong as the case for either theism or atheism. The book borrows traditional theist arguments to defend a cosmic purpose. These include cosmological, teleological, ontological, meta-ethical, and mystical arguments. It then borrows traditional atheist arguments to reject a human-centred purpose. These include arguments based on evil, diversity, and the scale of the universe. Mulgan also highlights connections between morality and metaphysics, arguing that evaluative premises play a crucial and underappreciated role in metaphysical debates about the existence of God, and Ananthropocentric Purposivism mutually supports an austere consequentialist morality based on objective values. He concludes that, by drawing on a range of secular and religious ethical traditions, a non-human-centred cosmic purpose can ground a distinctive human morality. Our moral practices, our view of the moral universe, and our moral theory are all transformed if we shift from the familiar choice between a universe without meaning and a universe where humans matter to the less self-aggrandising thought that, while it is about something, the universe is not about us.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Watkins Media Limited |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 178028442X |
Download Confessions of St. Augustine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the most valued books in Christian literature, St. Augustine of Hippo's Confessions are an intensely revealing picture of the saint's difficult search for the truth. Translated by Bishop Pusey.
Author | : Mark Craig |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2017-12-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781982005597 |
Download Silent Mystery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Profound spiritual and philosophical ideas on ultimate purpose and meaning are presented in a series of bite sized easy to grasp reflections for the everyday person.
Author | : Erwin Fahlbusch |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1132 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780802824134 |
Download The Encyclopedia of Christianity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This multifaceted and up-to-date encyclopedia is sure to be of interest to pastors and church workers of all confessions, equally so to students, scholars, and researchers around the world who are interested in any aspect of Christianity or religion in general. The first volume contains 465 articles that address a comprehensive list of topics.
Author | : Richard Campbell |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004184619 |
Download A Cosmological Reformulation of Anselm’s Proof That God Exists Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book, Richard Campbell reformulates Anselm’s proof to show that factual evidence confirmed by modern cosmology validly implies that God exists. Anselm’s proof, which was never the “ontological argument” attributed to him, emerges as engaging with current philosophical issues concerning existence and scientific explanation.