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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Ultimate reality"”.
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Bhāviveka’s Jewel in the Hand Treatise: Elucidating a Path to Awakening Utilizing Formal Inference
… of transforming cognition from conventional reality to ultimate reality. Hence, the diverse understandings of these two realities certainly influence different Mādhyamikans’ soteriology. Based on his unique theory of two realities, Bhāviveka elucidates a path to awakening utilizing formal …
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The Mind of Winter: Poetic Theories of Yeats and Stevens
… more closely define each poet's comprehension of ultimate reality, in other words, unity of being and nothingness, and to show how Yeats and Stevens used related imagery of cold, ice, and stone in the service of their poetic imagination.</p> <p>In Part I I am chiefly concerned with the genesis of …
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The epistemic status of religious symbols in the thought of Wilbur M. Urban
… attempt to express the axiological character of reality. That is, religious language is referential and cognitive in that it expresses true or false judgments of reality. Religious language is also expressive of the intuition of God in human experience. Thus, the religious statement "God is a …
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The Hindu concept of pure consciousness in the poetry of pure consciousness in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rabindranath Tagore, and W. B. Yeats: a comparative study
… of consciousness by distinguishing between the ultimate Reality or the Absolute (<em>Brahman</em>) and the cosmic illusion or the phenomenal flux (<em>Maya</em>). Central to Vedanta psychology is the state of pure consciousness, which is defined as <em>Turiya</em>, the all-pervading unity …
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The illusion theme in nine plays by Eugene O'Neill.
… and that they perhaps represent a higher reality than the reality of appearance. The plays selected to represent the climactic period of O'Neill's career display a gradually increasing tendency to the rejection of the values of dreamers, this rejection reaching a high point in Lavinia's …
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Buddhist Philosophy and the Ideals of Environmentalism
… seen as impermanent and insubstantial, while the ultimate spiritual goal is often viewed, in early Buddhism, as involving a deep renunciation of the world. Therefore, the discussion focuses mostly on the Mahāyāna vehicle, which, I suggest has better resources for environmentalism because …
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Uncertainty Before and After Faith: The Dynamics of Belief in Theology and Literature
… the believer towards an imaginative vision of ultimate reality lived with hope and trust in Divine Mystery.</p>
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Authoring Authority: The Apostle Paul and the Prophet Joseph Smith--A Critical Comparison of Texts and Power in the Generation of Religious Community
… performances offered a contingent construal of reality as ultimate reality--which served the power needs of their authors and the existential needs of their communities of subscribers.</p> <p>The dissertation begins with the articulation of an analytical framework appropriate for the critical …
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A jungle of shadows : interpenetrations of the anagogical and the grotesque in the short stories of Flannery O'Connor
… to represent a vision highly conscious of both ultimate reality and the deficiency of a sinful, evil-inflicted world. These modes can be envisaged as antitheses: the anagogical, in its traditional medieval sense, implies a positive means to God via the created, sacramental world; the grotesque, …
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Church and secondary societies in Korean ecclesiology and the Christocentric perspective of Karl Barth.
… difference model. This theology holds that the ultimate reality of Christianity already exists everywhere; salvation can be found outside the Church, and thus there exists an essential identity between Church and society. Third, the harmony model is an alternative position between the difference …
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An Analysis of the Pedagogical Methods of Hindu Gurus
… their direct and total experiences with God—the Ultimate Reality, Hindu gurus used a variety of techniques within these two methods to teach learners how to also experience God. The direct pedagogies were face-to-face instructional methods that used specific techniques such as analogies, …
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The Concept of God and Sacred Music Style : an Intercultural Exploration of Divine Transcendence/Immanence as a Stylistic Determinant for Worship Music with Paradigmatic Implications for the Contemporary Christian Context
… aspect of worldview concerning the nature of ultimate reality--the concept of divine transcendence/immanence--as a transcultural determinant of sacred music style. The focus was the music rather than associated lyrics.</p> <p><em> Methodology and Sources</em>. This interdisciplinary study …
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A Comparative Study of the Concept of Atonement in the Aboakyer Festival of the Effutu Tribe in Ghana and the Yom Kippur Festival of the Old Testament: Implications for Adventist Mission Among the Effutu
… with its typological meaning (pointing to ultimate reality), was done to find (a) similarities between them that reveal points of contact and that will make Yom Kippur comprehensible to the Effutu; and also (b) differences that reveal inadequacies in their understanding of atonement that …
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The demise of the dialectic: historical consciousness and the American experience
… investigation that seeks to convey the ultimate meaning of the history that it studies.</p> <p>The thesis itself is divided into two parts. In part One, I present what might be described as a preface to a philosophy of historical movement. Here, I attempt to demonstrate the following: …
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Conversations about chaos and order: making the world in the Book of Job
… just described. Job’s epilogue-world denies the ultimate reality of God’s whirlwind-world, but God’s whirlwind-world casts doubt upon the reality of Job’s epilogue-world. In this way, the book ends ambiguously; it curves back on itself, and the discussion about the nature of chaos and order …
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Reshaping The Theology and Praxis of Inculturation through Interreligious Dialogue Between The Catholic Church and African Traditional Religion in Igboland, Nigeria
… with the living. Thus, the concept of God as ultimate reality is a dynamic existential aspect of Igbo world-view. Categorically speaking, it was short-sighted for the European missionaries to claim that Igbo people had no knowledge of God or lacked religion before the introduction of …
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Waugh revisited : destabilizing language and structure in Vile bodies, A handful of dust, and Brideshead revisited by Jabe Ziino.
… that an immanent, transcendent Deity is the ultimate reality. Waugh's enunciation of this positive credo marks a conscious turning away from philosophical irony-with its essentially skeptical vision-as the underlying world view for his fiction. The conclusion of Brideshead Revisited thus …