...n eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology. 1 and TIum' is to be understood in the context of Buber's 'prev... ...d in the context of Buber's 'previous intensive study, chiefly of Jewish mystical writings. It is not an isolated phenomenon among hls works, but r... ...osophical; but it is not an academic work of discursive philosophy. It is mystical, but it belongs to what' Pringle-Pattison has termed the "higher... ...iters, has a weighty retort in the present work. For an indubitably real mystical experience is h~e set forth, not with contempt v for the means ... ...lng has given way before the pressure of a new conviction. , In dogmatic theology, too, the same new tend.encies are at work. Objects are in the pa... ... are in the past, b~t the relation of the I to the Thou ~ in the present. Theology, with its fresh insight into the significance of the present mome... ...nal nature of God's relation to men and of men's relation to one another. Theology has taken on a new note of crisis, and is rediscovering the neces... ...ing must strike him as absurd. The appearances to which he ascribes the "mystical power" are all elementary incidents that are relational in charac... ...lemental the reversal. This does not mean a giving up of, say, the I, as mystical writings usually suppose: the I is as indispensable to this, the ...

...ank &8 one of the epoch-making books 9f our generation. It has hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology....

...n identified as Isidoro Isolani, a Dominican hailing from Milan, who taught theology in various Italian cities, wrote a number of controversial works... ...ardinal, general of the Dominican order and foremost authority on Thomistic theology, found himself unequal to the task of testing and refuting Luthe... ...s called the sacramentum (Vulgate). Cf. PE 2, 177 n. 5: Julius Köstlin, The Theology of Luther, trans. Charles E. Hay. (Philadelphia, 1897), I, 403; ... ...ke new articles of faith. Some time ago, when I was drinking in scholastic theology, the learned Cardinal of Cambrai 59 gave me food for thought i... ... sententiarum, quest. 6, E; folio cclxiv a. 60 Famous medieval textbook of theology, compiled circa 1150 by Peter Lombard (d. 1160), and containing ... ...cy and very much like a dream? But in his Theology, which is rightly called Mystical, of which certain very ignorant theologians make so much, he is... ...ritings, Of the Celestial Hierarchy, Of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, and of Mystical Theology. J. P. Migne (ed.), Patrologiae, Series Graeca, vol. 3... ...ts into theology? 198 And Gerson even converted the smaller Donatus into a mystical theologian. 199 It would not be difficult for me to compose a ... ...1363–1429), published a Donatus moralisatus seu per allegoriam traductus, a mystical grammar, in which the noun was compared to man, the pronoun to m...

...s day, and in which also to express the spiritual thraldom of the Gentile church to the mystical Babylon. So much, also, do I affirm of the deliveran... ...ere is amongst them, and the promises all applicable to the coming of the Lord, and the mystical import of the number seven be disposed to regard th... ... the first application of them answered by the event. And even this captivity under the mystical Babylon, which occupies the fifth seal and the secon... ...y fulfilled of the personal Antichrist, which have been emblematically fulfilled of the mystical Babylon. Certainly, the infinite ingenuity and appa... ...Christ in power and majesty, and the resurrection from the grave of every member of his mystical body, the casting of Satan out of the earth, and the... ...g system, it will be necessary to line off a certain portion of the principal ground of theology, within which this weightiest dispute may be brought... ...is is the first defect which I have observed both in the circulating and in the written theology of our churches, the omission, I mean, of Christ’s o... ...ngle eye, and a delicate hand, requiring me to make a continual estimate of the current theology, and bringing me into the midst of the prejudices of... ... I have now to treat and enlarge upon the two other provinces thereof, which our modern theology, though making such a parade of the written word, a...

...lia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) P... ...mistry Is Mysticism Truly Religious? Psychological Factors The Function Of Mystical Experience The Mystical Journey The Psychological Mechanism In Mys... ...philosophy seemed to me an obvious alternative to the churches. After all, theology had started as part of philosophy and the separation between the t... ...in what I would be expected to preach. The required courses in traditional theology brought home to me the problem of linking church doctrines with pe... ...d now call “religious.” What I experienced I later realized was typical in mystical religious movements, and Quakers are historically a part of the ma... ...s because of statements such as this that Jung has frequently been called “mystical” in a pejorative way, because in modern Western scientific civiliz... ...se the whole of life is, so to THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 4 speak, religion. Theology and beliefs in general play little role in this aspect of religion... ... are names used to personify the activities of this Supreme Godhead. Hindu theology and tradition have been elaborated in countless writings by Indian... ...g of pure ecstasy. 73 Probably no other words have been more misused than “mystical” and “mysticism.” Mystical has almost become a 73. Author’s dream ...

... ancient atheism is in contrast not to the divineness, but to the idylic, mystical image of the world. The ancient philosophers, including Democritu... .... This evolution is outlined explicitly in the lecture ″Phenomenology and Theology″ where Heidegger make the distinction (dissemination) between ″ont... ...focusing of the minds of all participants using as an unfailing method the mystical sign of the cross. As regards the so-called ″pyramid effect*″ - ... ...n is their description as ravings or on the contrary, as mythical, if not mystical, occultism. Both the relegation to derision, and the turning to m... ... be unacceptable if they hand′t generated tactical malformations such as: mystical religiosity based on paranoid fear, the need to punish heretics in... ... of God is responsible, to a great extent, of either the proliferation of mystical conceptions or, with more serious effects, of the aggressive mani...

...ectrical or chemical reason for some people to think that they have had a mystical experience? Some work in Canada strongly indicates a psychologica... ...work in Canada strongly indicates a psychological basis for the religious mystical experience. ―Still, with the absence of scientific evidenc... ... experienced it? The holiest adherents to most religions have had similar mystical experiences--the Hindu who has united with the Brahman through ye... ...These saints are close brothers in their beliefs--all near the top of the mystical mountain, but all arriving by different means of travel. ―It ... ...ople can never be certain unless they somehow directly experience God in a mystical experience, and even then, others would argue that it was merely ... ... and thus brought us new insights. Remember that Pope Benedict had been a theology professor. He reminded us that pure reason allows us to go beyond... ...ccur through purely random selection. He assumes it is a conflict between theology and science and that theology wins. But he doesn‘t really underst... ...et to heaven? Dan Paden, a researcher with PETA, has a master‘s degree in theology from Boston College, a Jesuit University. He said that ‗I think i... ...theologians who can add such questions to the other enduring questions of theology, like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.‖ -...

... or the Christian either having the same experience or a different type of mystical feeling--a reaching out and experiencing God, as did Theresa of A... ...both written 2500 to 2700 years ago. They illustrate the evolution in our theology and how we can best attain a union with the Oversoul, the panthei...

...ical encroachment in religious guise. The southern Slav churches rejected both the theology and the secular teachings of the "Hellenics" and the "R... ...ase in the Balkan. What started as a debate - however fervent - about abstract theology became an all out argument about derided customs and ce... ...scribe to the same ideas, adhere to the same transcendental rules, observe the same mystical rituals, and claim to go through the same experiences. ...

...ly look at the various sects of every religion to see how the spectrum of holiness varies from an individual union with the Almighty through a mystic... ...ignorant, are you?‖ —―Certainly not. But you would have to admit that a huge number of believers in every religion haven‘t studied the theolo...

.... Without proper ex- planations, we would be lost and think that Kabbalah is a mystical teaching of wizardry and miracles. There are others who relat... ...ming clear that its wisdom governs the rest of the sciences. Sciences such as theology, philosophy and mathematics re- ceive their principles and roo...

...School des Quatre Nations, the celebrated Sigier, the most noted Doctor of Mystical Theology of the University of Paris, was mounting his pul- pit in ... ...s Quatre Nations, the celebrated Sigier, the most noted Doctor of Mystical Theology of the University of Paris, was mounting his pul- pit in a spaciou... ...of Paris and the extraor- dinary scheme of instruction that then obtained. Theology was taught under two faculties—that of Theology properly so called... ...that of Theology properly so called, and that of Canon Law. The faculty of Theology, again, had three sections—Scholastic, Canonical, and Mys- tic. It... ...e science, since one only, namely, Mys- tic, is the subject of this Etude. Mystical Theology included the whole of Divine Revela- tion and the elucida... ..., since one only, namely, Mys- tic, is the subject of this Etude. Mystical Theology included the whole of Divine Revela- tion and the elucidation of t... ...ight rise, from globe to globe, to the very Fount of eternal life. Jacob’s mystical ladder was both the religious formula and the traditional proof of... ...ndamental notions set forth in Doctor Sigier’s address, all wrapped in the mystical language and strange school Latin of the time. He had made a speci... ... from globe to globe, soar through space! Thought, love, and faith are its mystical keys. T raverse the circles, reach the throne! God is more mer- ci...

...ontinue to regard the relations of the Father to the Son as being simply a mystical metaphor. Presently some material- istic bias swings them in a mom... ...the present writer believes that the discussions that shaped the Christian theology we know were dominated by such natural and fundamental thoughts. T... ...onist. This was the idea of the poet Shelley. And passing beyond Christian theology altogether a clue can still be found to many problems in comparati... ...ology altogether a clue can still be found to many problems in comparative theology in this distinction between the Being of Nature (cf. Kant’s “starr... ... be found that these two ideas are, so to speak, the basal elements of all theology in the world. The writer is chary of assertion or denial in these ... ...ome, catching at a phrase of Huxley’s, speak of it as Christianity without Theology. They do not know the creed they are carrying. It has, as a matter... ... this day the representative Christian churches still make marriage into a mystical sacrament, and, with some excep- tions, the Roman communion exacts... ...as unfortunate children, but as children 38 God The Invisible King with a mystical and an incurable taint of SIN. Kindly easy- going Christians may r... ...xcellent reasons for a certain amount of deliberate rep- etition…. All the mystical relations of chastity, virginity, and the like with religion, thos...

...sently he is making his God a Great White Throne and fitting him up with a mystical family. Essentially we have to train our minds to think anew, if w... ...is pen with which I write. Let me point out that this is no sentimental or mystical statement. It is hard fact as any hard fact we know. We, you and I... ...contribute to this greater Being; and at once I confess I become vague and mystical. I do not wish to pass glibly over this point. I call your attenti... ...s point. I call your attention to the fact 47 H. G . Wells that here I am mystical and arbitrary. I am what I am, an individual in this present phase... ...quence of my metaphysical prelimi- naries that I should find the Christian theology Aristotelian, over defined and excessively personified. The painte... ...annot bring myself back to them … But the psychological experience and the theology of Chris- tianity are only a ground-work for its essential feature... ... which is the conception of a relationship of the individual believer to a mystical being at once human and divine, the Risen Christ. This being prese... ...te effect of personality. After we have cleared off all the definitions of theology, He re- mains, mystically suffering for humanity, mystically asser...

... large diocese of books, and yet not remove, but keep his other cure too, a mystical pluralist. He who but of late cried down the sole ordination o... ... all her body is homogeneal and proportional), this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic,and makes up the best harmony in a Chu...

... the immorality of Ovid, Horace, Anacreon, and the rest, and the dangerous theology of Æschylus and others—where will one find views so injurious to h... ...with little surprise, apparently , though with much contemplativeness of a mystical sort, and pres- ently said: “When charmed by the beauty of that vi... ... is that?” “A—— is what Proclus, in a little note to his third book on the theology of Plato, defines as————” coming out with a sentence of Greek. Hol... ...ver, while an expression of keen Yankee cuteness, now replacing his former mystical one, lent added icicles to his aspect. His whole air said: “Nothin... ...,” with friendly decision, “let us change the subject.” CHAPTER XXVII. The Mystical Master Introduces the Practical Disciple “BOTH, the subject and th... ... profundity in you, and also from your allusions to a profound work on the theology of Plato, it would seem but natural to surmise that, if you are th...

... hockey. She had never seen her sitting on tables nor heard her discussing theology, and had failed to observe that the graceful figure was a natural ... ...f their dis- cussion about beauty. “I think,” he said, “I was a little too mystical about beauty the other day.” “I like the mystical way,” she said. ... ...pain; intensity of perception without any tissue destruction.” “I like the mystical way better,” said Ann Veronica, and thought. “A number of beautifu... ...me and what you mean to me! I suppose 215 H. G . Wells there is something mystical and wonderful about all women.” “There is something mystical and w...

... Leaving at last not much besides chronology, Excepting the post obits of theology. ‘T was on the sixth of June, about the hour Of half past ... ... never vanish) The basquina and the mantilla, they Seem at the same time mystical and gay. But with our damsel this was not the case: Her dr... ... drawn from their spouses, you conceive. Some persons say that Dante meant theology By Beatrice, and not a mistress—I, Although my opinion may... ... hollow, when the wind Walks o’er it, was she shaken by the dream, The mystical usurper of the mind — O’erpowering us to be whate’er may seem ... ... For them in saving such a desperate foe— He hew’d away, like doctors of theology When they dispute with sceptics; and with curses Struck at h... ...nity (But that I never doubted, nor the Devil); The next, the Virgin’s mystical virginity; The third, the usual Origin of Evil; The fourth... ... a genius turn’d for fits. But whether fits, or wits, or harpsichords, Theology, fine arts, or finer stays, May be the baits for gentlemen or ... ...f life’s hackney coach, I for one venerate a petticoat— A garment of a mystical sublimity, No matter whether russet, silk, or dimity. Byron’s ...

...e corners for Greek, He- brew, Sanscrit, philology, archaeology, Christian theology, and so on, and so on; nevertheless, for that great mass of sound ... ...ed to get, like Joan of Arc, into masculine attire, and the school of the “mystical darlings.” There have always been the women who wanted to share me... ...iffering only in her sex; the latter consist of a long rhap- sody upon the mystical superiorities of women and the mar- vellous benefits mankind will ...

...cs I was anx- ious to evade. I had developed my own view about low- Church theology long before my father’s death, and my meditation upon that event h... ...h an assumption of exhaustive knowledge. We certainly had no shyness about theology. We marked the emancipation of our spirits from the frightful teac... ...onsequence but failure, no promise but pain… . But while I was fearless of theology I must confess it was comparatively late before I faced and dared ... ... kept us to it. The curate was a Selwyn man and had taken a pass degree in theology, but Margaret had come to Gaylord’s lecturers in Trinity for a ter... ...Hear, hear!” from Dayton, cough, nodding of the head, and an expression of mystical profundity. “They’ve lit up a civilisation and vanished, to give p... ...ibraries, and declared that dissent- ers were people who pretended to take theology seriously with the express purpose of upsetting the entirely satis... ...themselves, restricted and unilluminating. From a boyish disposition to be mystical and worshipping towards women I had passed into a disregardful att...

...impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale’s heart.” Paley’s Theology. “The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind feet.” 10 Extrac... ...ea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of s... ... did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul. A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab’s quenchless feud seemed mi... ... at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting i... ... sacrifice of the sacred White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that spotless, faithful creature being held the purest envoy they... ...o possibility could Coleridge’s wild Rhyme have had aught to do with those mystical impressions which were mine, when I saw that bird upon our deck. F... ... further, and consider Chapter 42 The Whiteness of the Whale 191 that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great princi p...