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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Union with God"”.
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The Influence of Saint Augustine Upon Pope Saint Gregory the Great in his Regula Pastoralis
… was permitted to live in seclusion in close union with God. In the lives of these two Pastors of souls, we find that, although each desired to remain in a monastery, circumstance« necessitated their return to active life.
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Analysis and Evaluation of Vladimir Lossky's Doctrine of Theosis
… Lossky's understanding of theosis in agreement with the tradition he belongs to.</p> <p>The method of study is historical-analytical. First, the development of the idea of theosis is traced in the Greek Fathers, in the Byzantine tradition (mainly Gregory Palamas), and in Lossky's immediate …
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The distinctive relationship between sexual ecstasy and spiritual ecstasy for heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered clergy of the Church of England: Integrating Transpersonal Awareness with an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.
… employed incorporated Transpersonal Awareness with an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. After several levels of analysis the following superordinate themes emerged: (a) twenty of these participants organised their sexuality and spirituality in a dialectical or unified relationship; (b) …
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Theology of Arcavatara and the Eucharist: A Comparative Study
… in each religious system cannot be sustained without factoring the implications and impacts of this claim on the well-being of humanity and reality hermeneutics. The postmodern world favors pluralism and encourages mutual respect for particular opinion, praxis, faith, theology and all forms of …
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Salvation and the Will: Human and Divine Cooperation in the Theologies of Martin Luther and Maximus the Confessor
… of ontological transformation culminating in union with God. These distinctive perspectives represent theological developments and divergences between Eastern and Western Christianity over several centuries. Recently, an attempt at rapprochement between the doctrines of justification and …
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Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion on the (im)possibility of negative theology.
… that lead to a hyper-theology affirming God as hyperousious. “Mystical theology” embodies this hyper-movement and, so, is no longer apophatic. For Marion, negative theology is not self-sufficient but ushers the hyperbolic and pragmatic mode of knowing God by unknowing or “denominating” …
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Theoria versus Praxis : a view based on the final end of humanity according to Aquinas.
… contemplative gaining of knowledge and love of God, came first. Liberation theologians have insisted instead that theology must be rooted in praxis in order to achieve social change that is an irruption of the Kingdom of God into history. To them, understanding of neighbor and of God follows …
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Discrimination and Desire: Gregory of Nyssa’s Hagiographical Writing and the Holy Life
… Christian stands on the threshold of mystical union with God. Here, the hagiographer can once again use rhetoric to further enflame the ἐπιθυμία for contemplation. When this happens, the ἐπιθυμία drags the mind across the threshold into mystical union with God. Throughout the life of the …
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From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge
… ascent up the Ladder of Humility, beginning with proper fear of God and culminating in “that perfect love of God which casts out fear (1 John 4:18)” (RB 7:67). This overarching goal of monastic life was conceptualised by theologians, including Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Aquinas, as …
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Power, language, and culture: Teresa de la Parra in Latin American feminism
… patriarchy, wherein man is seen as a supreme God figure and woman as the believer. Parra also criticizes the family-arranged marriage which is based on this pattern of paternal authority and female submission. The complex discourse of her novelistic protagonist, Maria Eugenia Alonso, can be …
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Sacrament of Deification: The Eucharistic Vision of Alexander Schmemann in Light of the Doctrine of Theosis
… the world, the Church and the Kingdom of God in an interdependent and harmonic balance. The study begins by tracing theosis to its roots in the doctrine of perichoresis, through the theology of creation, and the theological contributions of Theophilus of Antioch, St. Irenaeus of Lyons, St. …
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The Biblical Concept of Man and its Implications for Christian Religious Instruction
… perspectives; man as he was initially created by God; man in his present condition as a sinner; and man as redeemed in Christ. The second section (ch. 5) deals with the implications of the biblical concept of man to Christian religious instruction. The methodology has four general aspects: …
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Dante Poeticus/ Dante Mystics : Dante's Mysticism from his time through the sixteenth century.
… beginning of the call to continued thirst for union with the divine. Scholars who address the question of the mystics who influenced Dante are attempting to answer a fundamental and important question about Dante's relationship to mysticism. But the same body of work also raises other …
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THEOLOGIA AND OIKONOMIA: THE SOTERIOLOGICAL GROUND OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS’S TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY.
… trends thus demonstrating the context within which he elaborated his main theological concepts as well as their novelty. Although Gregory drew heavily on the heritage of his intellectual master Origen, he significantly changed his perspective from cosmological speculations to …
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Spinoza's Neoplatonism: The Metaphysics of the Unitive Knowledge and Love of God
… a tradition originating in the 3rd century AD with the philosopher and rational mystic Plotinus. This neglect is partly due to the mediated and indirect nature of Neoplatonism’s impact on Spinoza. Yet Plotinus and his successors deeply influenced mediaeval and renaissance philosophy on the …
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"Cronica der Turckey" Sebastian Franck's Translation of the "Tractatus de Moribus, Condicionibus et Nequitia Turcorum" by Georgius de Hungaria
… went further: replacing Georgius' commentary with his own, he used the text to attack institutional religion as a whole and to promote his concept of a non-dogmatic, spiritual Church of individuals united with each other only through their union with God -a Church which was not closed to …
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The indistinguishability between God and man in the thoughts of Meister Eckhart.
… 14th century Dominican known as Meister Eckhart, with a particular focus on how Eckhart presents the indistinguishability between God and man. I have chosen to use the term indistinguishability because, although union with God involves identity and indistinction, the idea of indistinguishability …
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The Trinitarian Doctrine of Grace in Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will
… how his argumentation developed in his dispute with Erasmus. The task of this study is to expose the fundamental systematic theological idea and structure in Luther's The Bondage of the Will. The method employed in the present study is a comprehensive systematic analysis of Luther’s thought in …
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The Philokalia and Mental Wellbeing
… is an anthology of texts which are concerned with finding God within the human soul. It is founded upon a philosophical tradition which draws upon Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, and a Christian tradition which, beginning with the New Testament authors, continued through Clement, Origen and …