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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 203–207.
Published: 01 April 2018
... established Christian doctrine. As a consequence, some mystical experiences, such as those experienced by Guglielma’s followers and transmitted to others like Taria, were viewed as a threat and became the focus of inquisitorial inquiries. In this article I use the definitions of doctrine , mystical...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 48–59.
Published: 01 September 2005
.... YOUNG S NIG HT THOUGHTS: CHRISTIAN RATIONALISM OR FIDEISM? In The Tnumph ofAugustan Poetics, Blanford Parker asserts that Scholasticism and its Neoplatonic cousin were, in fact, living ele­ ments in the writings of [John] Norris and the Cambridge Platonists,. . . and even Edward Young, of whom...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 35–46.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Henry Summerfield Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 Decem ber 2005 35 VIRTUES AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUES, VICES AND GROSS VICES: SOME ACCUSATIONS AGAINST BERNARD MANDEVILLE RECONSIDERED For close to three centuries, there has been controversy about the moral stance...
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... International Christian University Yasuyo Moriya NOTES This is a revised version o f the p ap e r delivered at the an n u al m eeting of th e Rocky M ountain Medieval an d Renaissance Association, May 1997. My appreciation is due to Professor T horlac Turville-Petre for his valuable com ­ ments on the earlier...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 145–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Christopher Vecsey Abstract This article explores how Native Americans have received the Bible. Over the centuries some Indians have been inspired by the Bible, and some have been repelled by its long-standing place in colonization. The Christian invaders in the New World carried the Bible...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 139–152.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Sarah Pessin Abstract Thinking with the Christian mystery of kenosis (the self-emptying of God) in relation to divine motions of charity and love, this article sets out to recover a kenotic-mystical element in Greco-Judeo-Islamic Neoplatonisms. After rehearsing the postmetaphysical parameters...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 53–66.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Bernard McGinn Abstract Teresa of Ávila has long been noted as one of the most influential Christian mystical teachers for her doctrine on contemplative prayer, mystical graces, and union with God. Her writings, especially the Life and The Interior Castle , have been widely read from the later...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 83–96.
Published: 01 April 2018
... that dominated Anatolia. Finally, the most important patriarch for Jews, Christians, and Muslims—Abraham—proved the ideal subject in an empire that included members of all three monotheistic religions. Copyright © 2018 Regents of the University of Colorado 2018 Isra’iliyyat Sufism Jewish mysticism...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 67–81.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Jose Cree Abstract This article explores the formation and characterization of early modern addiction through the interactions of mind, body, and will, focusing particularly on the work of the sixteenth-century Christian philosopher Pierre de La Primaudaye. In La Primaudaye’s writings addiction...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and Al-Andalus, was meant for Christian domination and economic looting. Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University of Colorado 2020 41 Lewis, “History, Mission, and Crusade,” 375 . 42 Other important models of research include Kim, “Introduction” ; and Miyashiro, “Our Deeper Past...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 89–101.
Published: 01 September 2015
...' accounts o f the W andering Jew m ore closely, focusing specifically on his temporality. I w ill attem pt to tie the particular and paradoxical tem porality of the Wandering Jew story to the tem poral dynamics associated w ith Christian relics, the way that a holy relic brings a m aterial piece o f...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 43–57.
Published: 01 June 2005
... conversion to Christianity, we have the foregrounding of Islamic religious prac­ tices.2Yet, despite a recent interest in recovering the lost Islamic past of African Americans as evident in the scholarship of Allan D. Austin, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ronald A. T. Judy, and others there has been little interest...
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (2): 61–71.
Published: 01 December 2000
... Companion to Milton, ed. D ennis D anielson (New York: C am bridge UP, 1989) 156. YEATS S ROUGH BEAST: THE GOD FOR THE SLAVES In Yeats s The Second Com ing, two opposed visions of the A ntichrist clash: N ietzsche s vision, and that o f the Christian sect now known as Jehovah Witnesses b u t called M...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 269–271.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., and Christians. In particular, I focus on what I call the economics of spiritual exchange. To show what I mean, I center on the Renaissance of the twelfth century, a period of highly active spiritual exchange and comparison, a period also defined by the commercial revolution. 1 The mystical experience...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 7–20.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., to be capable of theorizing or of thinking philosophically. That’s the Aristotelian background, broadly understood (and likely misunderstood), which Christianity picks up. In Christianity, even though people like Origen of Alexandria very early on use the distinction between action and contemplation...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 77–88.
Published: 01 September 2012
... this history, I think, is through examples, case studies, collecting and analyzing data inductively, piece by piece. In this paper I introduce three examples, which are presented consecutively from sim pler to more com plex.The first focuses on Jewish vs. Christian readings of one verse: Genesis 1:26...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 253–257.
Published: 01 March 2006
... ents (1923, 1956) and The Green Pastures (1936), Jews are am biguously typological: more or less benign préfigurations of Christ. In contrast, the extrem ity of the special effects in TPOTChrist helps to characterize the Jews as anti-Christian iconoclasts palpably destroying the Image of Christ...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 259–261.
Published: 01 April 2018
...David John Williams Copyright © 2018 Regents of the University of Colorado 2018 Since we do not find a religion identified as Mediterranean alongside Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, we might want to conclude that it does not exist independently. Mediterranean religion is found...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 253–257.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II . 2nd ed., translated by Reynolds Siân . 2 vols. Berkeley : University of California Press , 1995 . Constable Olivia Remie , ed. Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources . 2nd ed. Philadelphia : University...
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (2): 79–82.
Published: 01 December 2001
... between Christianity and classical culture (168) and thus should be viewed as the superior poem . The Two Poets makes a com pelling argum ent for the sepa­ rate identity of M ilton s Bard, and it offers a com prehensive reading of Paradise Lost as a narrative o f the B ard s growth as both a poet...