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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Cultus"”.
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Substitution in the Hebrew Cultus and in Cultic-Related Texts
… idea of sacrificial substitution in the Hebrew cultus. The interpretation of the OT sacrifices in terms of sacrificial substitution has been questioned and rejected by a great number of scholars. They have argued that such an understanding cannot be supported by the biblical text or by ancient …
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Reanimalizing religion: Hegel, habit, and the nature of spirit
… conversion from nature to spirit, through the cultus – a form of religious practice akin to a habit as skill. In the cultus, the human subject undergoes a conversion and becomes aware of herself as a spiritual rather than a natural being. When performed continuously, this cultus becomes the …
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Head Studies by Balthasar Denner
… evolved in practice to mean "cujus regio ejus cultus," for given this political diffusion, the development of a distinctive national culture in Germany was unthinkable.</p>
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Ambivalence and penetration of boundaries in the worship of Dionysos: Analysing the enacting of psychical conflicts in religious ritual and myth, with reference to societal structure
… is that prior psychoanalytic engagements with cultus scholarship have suffered from being either insufficiently thorough or diffused in attempts to be comparative. A more holistic and detailed approach allows us to ground a psychoanalytic interpretation in the realities of said culture, …
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Environmental Change in Ovid's Poetry
… Ovid requires thinking of "cultivation" (Latin, "cultus") as an emergent and unstable process of negotiation with nonhumans (plants, animals, minerals, the land, and the gods). The thesis shows that, throughout his career, Ovid displays a persistent fascination with the liminal spaces of art’s …
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Cultic Allusions In The Suffering Servant Poem (Isaiah 52:13-53:12)
… Servant Poem is to be found in the Hebrew cultus. Thus the nature or meaning of the Servant's suffering is determined by a penetrating as well as comprehensive study of the text, specifically from the Hebrew cultic perspective. However, there has never been any careful, comprehensive study …
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"Clothes Make the (One Like a Son of) Man": Dress Imagery in Revelation 1 as an Indicator of High Priestly Status
… his status and role within the Israelite cultus. This is true despite questions about and difficulty in cataloging, describing, and interpreting the specific ritual dresselements of the high priest. Fluidity in sartorial descriptions of the high priest suggests that metonymy and synecdoche …
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The Dust Dwellers: The Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Jack London
In this paper, I explore the environmental philosophy of three Californian modernists, who I have collectively named the Dust Dwellers: John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Jack London. I argue that these writers participated in a broader modernist response to the ascendancy of the Enlightenment …