... our salvation as a species and global ecosystem actually depends. And yet, playing devil’s advocate, I’d like to argue that there is a deep dimension to Rand’s philosophy that is very compelling and even spiritual: It’s the worship of motive power, the kinetic, driving, impelling, propelling...

...The Devil gossips, “Be more concerned that men talk of you, than how they talk of you.” Creative Commons ...

... of crusade, conversion, coexistence, and commercial interchange. As a theological problem it raised questions about Christianity’s providential role in history: Was Islam a symptom of the world’s last days or a stage in Christian development? Was it heresy, a schism, a new religion, a work of man or devil...

... if the voice had come from the slop sink, or the shop’s cat. But it had not. So he ran to the front of the store, screaming, “It’s the devil! The devil is here and he’s speaking in tongues!” blubbering and genuflecting in front of his boss, Mr. Zalman Rosen, a Hassid with eleven children. “You...

... of the pen— a keyboard tap in the devil’s den the devil’s crap. Copyright © 2017 Tikkun magazine 2017 Eight-Word Lines Speeding through the funhouse tunnel, catching glimpses of myself in the funhouse mirrors, unlike the mirrors of the proletarian park in Coney Island where my father...

...Vertumnus ( 4sightfoto.com ) Art installations like this “Dust City Diner” — a 1950s-style eatery flawlessly recreated amid the dust devils of the Black Rock Desert — add to the festival’s surreal atmosphere. Installations range from a giant vagina through which one can be “reborn...

..., in the burning branch, a devil-shape. The worker puts his life into the object; his life belongs to the object; then the owner takes up the object . Worker and owner, fighting for the beloved— a tale of Romance. When a man’s work is torment , the owner feels pleasure… . The pages...

...Image © 2008 by Bryan Collier. Lincoln and Douglas © 2008 by Nikki Giovanni. Used by permission of Henry Holt & Co, LLC. All rights reserved. Some abolitionists believed the Constitution was “a pact with the Devil because it seemed to sanction enslavement,” Livingston writes...

... an was The Devil and the and Devil The Good Lord and The Condemned ofAltona, as well as in several volumes of essays and a three- volume biographical study of Flaubert, Sartre replaced his earlier emphasis on the “man alone” struggling for freedom and authenticity with the social individual bound to all...

... a devil, but as another flawed human being like the rest of us: “patriarchal, prudish, bourgeois, industrious, independent (or trying to be), cultured, respectable, German with a distinct patina of Jewish background.” Sperber portrays Marx as largely conventional, with a private life that hardly reflected...

... Christian view was that, in His Son, God absorbed all the forces of violence into Himself. This notion depends on the Doctrine of the Incarnation, in which Jesus is not only a Prophet or a Sage, but also God Himself. The ancients saw this as the “defeat of the devil” by subterfuge — death swallowed up a man...

... as they were to the emerging humanism of their own time. Bosch’s portrayal of the Garden of Earthly Delights may have been intended as a preface to the horrendous suffering that the devils of Hell were preparing for the sinners, but it nevertheless portrayed the possibilities of a community obsessed...

..., there can be the sense of the devil within, of the play of evil and the hunter/murderer, which we also contain and constrain. In mind traveling, there is no risk in exploring this aspect of us, knowing and accepting what we are capable of and explicitly reject. The Connection Vista: The experience...

..., to a certain extent, a symbolic transformation of the Devil himself into the language of medical discourse, echoing the ancient struggle of God, or a “Higher Power” with the Devil, or “the disease of addiction.” This crypto-Christian theology is still very much alive in the treatment of addiction...

...James Gilligan; James Vrettos This destruction of faith and its replacement by doubt led ineluctably to what Nietzsche famously called the “Death of God” (which entailed the death of the Devil as well). What is often overlooked in this scenario is an inextricably linked event that has been just...

.... Luther’s ethical theology is embedded in the late medieval apocalyptic worldview that pitched God in a cosmic battle of life and death against Satan. Because the end of the world was drawing near, the Devil had intensified efforts to gain control of the world through those who sought to deceive and delude...

... (to God)?” By urging us to reflect on God as the source of our sustenance, this passage reminds us to see the world around us as a sacred domain rather than to use it wastefully for our own purposes—indeed, “squanderers” are described as brothers of the devil in the Qur’an (17:27). This idea...