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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"confessor"”.
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The Fortunes of a King: Images of Edward the Confessor in 12th to 14th Century England
… an iconographic study of Saint-King Edward the Confessor. It focuses on the political and devotional functions of his images in twelfth to fourteenth century England. The images are not concerned with the historical Anglo-Saxon King, but rather depict an idealized and simplified version of …
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Salvation and the Will: Human and Divine Cooperation in the Theologies of Martin Luther and Maximus the Confessor
… into a critical conversation with Maximus the Confessor as a significant figure in the development of the Orthodox understanding of theosis and of the will. Comparing Luther and Maximus on the will as central to these two figures’ construal both of the human situation after the fall and of …
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Becoming God, Becoming the Buddha: The Relation of Identity and Praxis in the Thought of Maximus the Confessor and Kūkai
… religious-philosophical traditions, Maximus the Confessor (580-662 CE) and Kukai (774-835 CE). I use this as a means of comparing the relationship between understandings of identity and praxis advocated by these two thinkers. Maximus was a Christian monk who lived during a period of great …
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Whole-Earth consciousness in Maximus the Confessor, Nicholas of Cusa, and Teilhard de Chardin: seeds for a 21st century sacramental creation spirituality and ecological ethics
… writings. This dissertation looks at Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662 CE), Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464 CE), and Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955 CE). Teilhard attests to an experience of natural sacrament in perceiving an increasingly transfigured creation, meaning the glory of God is ever more …
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The Development and Curricular Organization of Nebraska Schools Conducted by the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kansas
… God, who hast deigned to fill thy most blessed Confessor Benedict with the spirit of all the just. Then follows a challenge to the gigantic work of Benedictine armies— past, present and future— "Grant to us thy servants who celebrate his solemnity, that filled with the same spirit, we may …
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Η ΘΕΟΤΟΚΟΣ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΚΥΡΙΛΛΟ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ
… THE SUCCEEDING BYZANTINES, SUCHAS MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR AND JOHN OF DAMASCUS. THE ABSENCE OF A DETAILED STUDYON THE WORK OF THE GREAT ALEXANDRINE THEOLOGIAN, CYRILLE OF ALEXANDRIA, WAS VERY OBVIOUS. SAINT CYRILLE, ARCHBISHOP OF ALEXANDRIA, IS CONSIDERED TO BE-AND HEINDEED IS- THE ORIGINAL …
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Revisioning transformation : towards a systematic proto-evangelical paradigm of the Christian life.
… he is brought into dialogue with Maximus Confessor. This critical conversation between two “theologians of the Christian life” allows exploration into the scope and diversity of a distinctly Christian view of transformation, and the seeking out of common characteristics in its nature and …
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Blinking Icons: Letters to Saint Augustine
… projects on him various roles: lover, confidant, confessor, muse, judge, scapegoat. To paraphrase Foucault, she uses Augustine to think with, in order to untwist the patriarchal legacy of Catholic misogyny from spiritual matters in the Confessions. The narrator's intellectual and spiritual crisis …
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Piety and Politics in the Kingship of Henry III
… particularly focused on the cult of Edward the Confessor, Henry’s relationship with and construction of Westminster Abbey, and his magnificent almsgiving. There has also been an appreciation that the political and the pious overlapped in a way our secular world does not fully appreciate. This …
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A Literary and Critical Study of the Natalicia Composed by Saint Paulinus of Lola
… Saint Felix, we intend to depict this martyr and confessor through the analysis of the "Natalicia." They show forth at considerable length the admirable virtues, activities, and also the martyrdom of this saint. |The "Natalicia" are also the subject of our choice in the field of Paulinus' poetry …
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The Changing Uses and Developments of Affectivity in the Practice of Confession (12th-13th centuries)
… by studying Latin pastoral sources, such as confessors’ manuals and compilations of *exempla*, in order to evaluate the application and interpretation, in confession, of the emotional teachings developed by scholastics; lastly, by using vernacular literature in order to determine how and in …
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Maps to get lost by
… on a dark Joburg highway. She becomes his confessor, as he relates fragments of his life, hoping to seduce her. He is driving a shipment to Port Elizabeth, where he grew up, but does not want to return home with the news of being HIV positive. He would rather drive forever. Sooner or later …
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Labyrinthum capellae. Le "Annotationes in Marcianum" di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena e la fortuna del neoplatonismo cristiano
… Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor. He had a neoplatonic view of Christianity and tried to harmonize the impossibility to know God to man's intellectual capability to get a glimpse of God through the study of the nature. According to this point of view, Eriugena's comment …
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Untimely meditations: female mysticism in medieval culture and modern scholarship
… twentieth-century models of the medieval devotee/confessor relationship (Adrienne von Speyr and Hans URs von Balthasar) before juxtaposing the writing of Simone Weil and Anne Carson, which resonate with the removal or 'decreation' of self that form the foundation of the apophatic genre. Concluding …
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The Future of the Sacrament of Penance: An African Reconciliatory Paradigm in the Light of Karl Rahner's Theology of Penance
… suggesting critical moves that might assist both confessor and penitent to deepen their understanding and use of the sacrament. These include reclaiming the sense of sin, greater integration and cooperation, deep catechesis, the institutional church’s asking for forgiveness as well as the blending …
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Literary Activity and Ecclesiastical Authority in Medieval Iceland: The Old Norse Reception of St Ambrose of Milan and his Exemplary Role in Bishops’ Sagas
… is moulded on the exemplary role of the mighty confessor, who is often mentioned as a direct parallel. This comparative analysis demonstrates that, like other ecclesiastical authors on the Continent before them, saga authors referred to the episcopal model elaborated in *Ambrósíuss saga* in …
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Archetypes and the unthought: The projection of the King’s Court in New Zealand television media
… in an inquisition between the examiner and the confessor. The archetypes of the King’s Court are projected through the rituals of inquisition in television media. In the analysis all of the archetypes of the King’s Court are seen except for the Magician. Television it is argued represents the …
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