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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"eternity"”.
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Against Eternity: A Critical Reading of Transhumanism
Amid ongoing global political and ecological crises, transhumanists proselytize visions of a more equitable, healthy future made possible by advanced computation. Beyond the curative potential of technoscience, transhumanism seeks to transcend the biological limits of the human body, including …
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Time and Eternity: A Study of the ‘Accidental Temporalist’ View
I explicate the model of divine eternality developed by William Lane Craig—<br/>‘accidental temporalism’—and defend its plausibility. In chapter one I provide an overview of several foundational issues relevant to the development of my thesis (e.g., methodology, the relevant biblical data, and key …
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The Temporal Conatus and the Problem of Motion from Eternity
… From this claim and Spinoza’s conception of eternity, the problem arises. I explain this as a contradiction between Natura naturata and Natura naturans. Section II features an evaluation of the potential acosmist solution and reveals how it contradicts other Spinozistic commitments. I …
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The concept of eternity in Kierkegaard's philosophical anthropology.
… provides a critical analysis of the meaning of eternity as it relates to the human being in Kierkegaard's psychological work, The Concept of Anxiety. First, the eternal signifies the divine image implanted in human beings from the beginning of creation, making us spiritual, embodied beings with …
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Fiction as History: James Jones, <em>From Here to Eternity</em>.
… one of James Jones's novels, <em>From Here to Eternity</em>,as more than a fictionalization of historic events. Juxtaposing the correspondence between the author and his brother, begun when James Jones enlisted in 1939, and the novel allows an understanding of the extent that the novel was a …
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For many are called, and few are chosen: eternity and peoplehood amongst Orthodox Christians in Serbia
… collectivity. It argues that, for vernici, ‘eternity’ (večnost) – perceived as being proximate, not chronologically distant – drives everyday life, imbuing it with coherence and direction. However, it also suggests that such eschatological claims are made within the framework of an …
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"Eternity in an hour ...": exploring the role of mindfulness with patients receiving palliative care : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Background: Rates of psychological distress in patients facing end-of-life and receiving palliative care are significant. The prevalence rate for all mood disorders in one meta-analytic study was 29% (Mitchell et al., 2011). Interest in mindfulness meditation has increased exponentially over the …
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Divine Freedom and Revelation in Christ: The Doctrine of Eternity with Special Reference to the Theology of Karl Barth
… is ultimately undermined by the doctrine of eternity within which it is framed, building on this conclusion to argue that the doctrine of eternity plays a much more decisive role in the debate than has hitherto been recognized. The thesis thus sets out to transform the epistemology-freedom …
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Michael Tippett's Philosophy of Musical and Eschatological Time and Its Implications for Christian Theology
… to the theology of eschatological time and eternity. This dissertation argues for the capability of modernist and postmodernist music through the use of various compositional approaches to musical time to convey a robust, biblical understanding of God’s temporality, i.e., the mysterious …
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The Christian eschatological epistemology of Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758
… in a consciously epistemological way from eternity to eternity, raises the locus of the epistemology far above Perry Miller's comment that Edwards was extrapolating Lockean psychology into the Godhead. The reverse was true, the vision of God in His eternal sovereignty, omnipotent, …
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The Disagreement between Avicenna and al-Ghazali on the Issue of the Pre-eternity of the Universe, how their Arguments Originated from Greek Philosophers and their Effect on Muslim Philosophers
… are found in three parochial topics: (I) pre-eternity of matter and temporal nature of the world (II) God’s knowledge of particulars and universals, (III) the relationship between the resurrection of the body and the soul. The focus of this thesis will be on the issue of presenting the …
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Solving the World's Problems: Walker Percy's Cultural Critique in Love in the Ruins
… can reflectively contemplate the concept of eternity, a major component of the existential authenticity he prescribes. The reader's recognition of the tension between the two modes of time, immediacy and eternity, is crucial to identifying the solution Percy indirectly communicates.</p>
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The status of the world : rochdian creationism and peripatetic eternalism
… No one would deny that the doctrine of the eternity of the world is a complex doctrine, as there is a sort of overlap between all the subjects discussed within it. In other words, these subjects are themselves doctrines inside the main doctrine, which is the eternity of the world. This …
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Theatre : the art of human being : locating the cultural value of theatre in the Age of Broadcast Media and a retrospective paper on the process leading towards the 2000 performance Involving Eternity
… 2000 performance of a play entitled Involving Eternity, a video of which is available through the Drama Department of the University of Cape Town. Thus the essay is a research document and ideological treatise supporting and grounding my recent work as a theatre maker and actor. I begin by …
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An analysis of thematics, poetics, and aesthetics in Ivan Bunin's prose narratives
… of freedom and necessity, body and spirit, the eternity of nature and the limited fate of human being on the earth. Throughout his literary career, Bunin endeavors to achieve this literary goal with authentic creativity."
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The eschatological garden : sacred space, time and experience in the monastic cloister garden
… Mary, which both offer the monk a gateway to eternity in Paradise. Physically the enclosed garden becomes the very center of the monastic precinct, offering through a ritual-sensory experience of its spatial qualities an experience which allows the monk a moment of spiritual transcendence. It …
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The eschatological garden: sacred space, time and experience in the monastic cloister garden
… Mary, which both offer the monk a gateway to eternity in Paradise. Physically the enclosed garden becomes the very center of the monastic precinct, offering through a ritual-sensory experience of its spatial qualities an experience which allows the monk a moment of spiritual transcendence. It …
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