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... In the historical context of the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Mediterranean basin, specifically in Italy, mystical visions routinely engaged doctrine. Kenneth Pennington and James Heft have shown that the late medieval papacy viewed any issue regarding doctrine not solely as a matter of faith or a way...

... I am a historian of philosophy and theology, which is to say that the authors I work on are almost exclusively those who make doctrine. Moreover, a great deal of my work has been focused on Thomas Aquinas, the doctrine maker extraordinaire of the later Middle Ages. From that vantage point...

... ruling in Mabo and Others v. Queensland (2) (1992), a landmark case that challenged the legal doctrine of terra nullius , on which claims to British sovereignty were founded, and on comparisons of Anglo-Saxon and Indigenous law in the post- Mabo era. Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University...

... with the doctrine of predestination. Works Cited Anderson Gary . “ The Exaltation of Adam and the Fall of Satan .” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy , no. 6 ( 1997 ): 105 – 34 . al-Ashʿarī Abū ʾl-Hasan ʿAlī b. Ismāʿīl . Al-Maqālāt al-islāmiyyīn wa-khtilāf al-muṣallīn ( The Teachings...

...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...

... commonplace that friars manipulate the doctrine of charity to serve their own temporal, not spiritual, interests. This criticism is as old as the historical controversy between the secular clergy and the fraternal orders. Dating back to the m id-thirteenth century, this animated conflict, engen­ dered...

... begin by introducing each document, and then briefly explain the term "deuterocanonicity" and its relevance to thinking about these M orm on documents as queer artifacts. The first docum ent was in a book of the M orm on canon of scripture known as the Doctrine and Covenants, often abbreviated as "D&C...

... to proclaim "the m onstrous doctrine that the colored people ought to defend themselves and each other" (192). In The Clansman, the lynching of an African American is portrayed as a justifiable response to the rape of a white wom an by a beastly anim al.The most exciting chapter in A Fool's Errand is "A Race...

... profoundly misunderstands the neighborly fide lity it seeks to protect. Waldeby's exemplum is a fascinating example of the frequent overlap of doctrinal precept and legal requirem ent in the later Middle Ages. Indeed, medieval preachers often used the law to instruct the laity in Church doctrine, drawing...

... to the Sistine C hapel or the world o f Castiglione s U rbino for models of the m ost aristo­ cratic, aesthetic, and pagan type of society ever to appear in the West.4 Moreover, Yeats and Nietzsche have m ore in com m on than a com m on value system. W hat makes Nietzsche unique for Yeats is his doctrine...

... by Eugen Herrigel the German philosopher who wrote on Zen and his experience ofJapanese archery has somehow escaped the attention of critics. Yet Herrigel s account of what he calls the Great Doctrine of Japanese archery offers substantial insight into The Catcher in the Rye, for the novel...

...Michelle M. Hamilton Copyright © 2018 Regents of the University of Colorado 2018 Mystical imagery and belief provided Iberian intellectuals a shared discursive space beyond the political and cultural specificities (including doctrines) that often divided them into discrete faith groups...

... standing o f theology and cultural transform ation as concepts not strictly bound by the limits of text, doctrine, and historical time. On the whole, Watson's study is especially valuable for exposing the capaciousness of im portant conceptual and cultural categories often approached as narrowly defined...

...Aun Hasan Ali Copyright © 2018 Regents of the University of Colorado 2018 Al-Kahf (18, vv. 60–82) is often cited as the locus classicus for Muslim discussions about the relationship between mysticism and doctrine. This passage in the Qur’an tells the story of an encounter between...

... Sharpe has recently put it, religion in the early modern period "was not just about doctrine, litu rgy or ecclesiastical governm ent [but] was a language, an aesthetic, a struc­ turing of meaning, an identity, a politics," then recent scholarship has responded to the challenges posed by the complex...

... of the term , after citing Azo, goes on to distinguish four concessions o f ordinary jurisdiction: First is inanimate law or sacred w riting (lex inanimata vel canon); the second is animate law made by the Pope or the Emperor.Then he refers to custom and lastly to what we would term doctrine, the universally...

... of transmission. Mysticism and esotericism are often found together. This is certainly the case for Jewish mystics for whom Kabbalah is literally “that which is received.” Kabbalists regard their doctrine as one that originates with revelation, often associated with the theophany at Sinai, or with supernatural...

... life. Even B ernard H uppé, in his book about St. A ugustine s influence in O ld English poetry, Doctrine and Poetry, writes th at the p o et of The Wanderer is picturing the heroic, pagan figure of the exile. More recently and more broadly, K atherine O Brien O Keefe opens h er chapter in the Cam...

... accompanying the work of Russian-born medium Madame Flelena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), who became a U.S. citizen at the age o f forty-seven. Blavatsky, or H. P B. as she was known, published her epic tw o-volum e tom e The Secret Doctrine in 1888, the same year that the Nicaraguan M odernist figurehead...

... doctrine, accessible rhetoric, or familiar institutional expressions, such as the church, synagogue, or mosque, mysticism seems to offer a largely self-similar panoply of goals and beliefs devoid of culturally specific markers. In fact, the tendency to explain mysticism by revealing comparisons among them...