Evil and the Death of the Soul

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-154
Keyword(s):  
Death Of The Soul

The Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer.

Noûs ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Bradley H. Dowden ◽  
William Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Death Of The Soul

Mass death of the soul

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 333-333
Author(s):  
Michael Watts
Keyword(s):  
Death Of The Soul

The Doctrine of Eustratius of Constantinople on the Posthumous State of the Soul: the Controversy with Hypnopsychites and Thnetopsychites

2020 ◽  
pp. 114-134
Author(s):  
Святослав Олегович Чернов
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Death Of The Soul

Данная статья посвящена малоизученному в отечественной патрологической науке греческому церковному писателю второй половины VI века пресвитеру евстратию Константинопольскому и его учению о душе в посмертном состоянии. в статье приводятся основные святоотеческие представления о душе, возникшие в первые века христианства и повлиявшие на богословские взгляды евстратия. на основе анализа его богословско-полемического трактата «о состоянии душ после смерти» (De statu animarum post mortem) в данной статье изложены представления евстратия о душе в посмертном состоянии - о её жизни и сохранении способности совершать действия, об её равноангельном состоянии и способности душ святых совершать явления в этом мире. также на основе существующих современных научных публикаций предпринимается попытка идентификации оппонентов евстратия, состоявших из двух групп, - фнитопсихитов, утверждавших о смерти души, и гипнопсихитов, учивших о её сне в посмертном состоянии. This article is devoted to the poorly studied (in Russian patrological circles) Greek church writer of the second half of the VI century, presbyter Eustratius of Constantinople and his doctrine of the soul in the postmortem state. The article presents the main patristic ideas about the soul that arose in the first centuries of Christianity and influenced the theological views of Eustratius. Based on the analysis of his theological-polemic treatise «De statu animarum post mortem» («Οn the state of souls after death»), this article presents the main views of Eustratius on the soul in the postmortem state - on its life and preservation of the ability to perform actions, on its equal state to angels and on the ability of the souls of saints to make apparitions in this world. On the basis of existing scientific publications there is also an attempt to identify opponents of the Eustratius, which consisted of two groups - thnetopsychites, claiming the death of the soul, and hypnopsychites who taught about her dream in the posthumous state.

clash between the beauty-loving Renaissance and the he [Spenser] was quickly swept overboard because of moral Reformation. In the light of the medieval reli-his inability to write like Donne, Eliot, and Allen gious tradition examined by Tuve, Guyon destroys Tate’ (1968:2). His extended interpretation of Book the Bower because he ‘looks at the kind of complete II, The Allegorical Temper (1957), followed by essays seduction which means the final death of the soul’ on the other books, traces the changing psycholo-(31). gical or psychic development of the poem’s major If the New Critics of the 1930s to the early 1950s characters by ‘reading the poem as a poem’ (9) rather had been interested in Spenser (few were), they than as a historical document. My own book, The would not have considered his intention in writing Structure of Allegory in ‘The Faerie Queene’ (1961a), The Faerie Queene because that topic had been dis-which I regard now as the work of a historical critic missed as a fallacy. For Wimsatt and Beardsley partly rehabilitated by myth and archetypal criticism, 1954:5 (first proclaimed in 1946), ‘The poem is not examines the poem’s structure through its patterns the critic’s own and not the author’s (it is detached of imagery, an interest shared with Alastair Fowler, from the author at birth and goes about the world Spenser and the Numbers of Time (1964), and by beyond his power to intend about it or control it)’. Kathleen Williams, Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’: The So much for any poet’s intention, conscious or World of Glass (1966). unconscious, realized or not. Not that it would have In any history of modern Spenser criticism – for a mattered much, for the arbiter of taste at that time, general account, see Hadfield 1996b – Berger may T.S. Eliot, had asked rhetorically: ‘who, except schol-serve as a key transitional figure. In a retrospective ars, and except the eccentric few who are born with glance at his essays on Spenser written from 1958 to a sympathy for such work, or others who have delib-1987, he acknowledges that ‘I still consider myself erately studied themselves into the right apprecia-a New Critic, even an old-fashioned one’ who tion, can now read through the whole of The Faerie has been ‘reconstructed’ by New Historicism Queene with delight?’ (1932:443). In Two Letters, (1989:208). In Berger 1988:453–56, he offers a per-Spenser acknowledges that the gods had given him sonal account of his change, admitting that as a New the gift to delight but never to be useful (Dii mihi, Critic he had been interested ‘in exploring complex dulce diu dederant: verùm vtile numquam), though representations of ethico-psychological patterns’ he wishes they had; and, in the Letter to Raleigh, he apart from ‘the institutional structures and discourses recognizes that the general end of his poem could be that give them historical specificity’. Even so, he had achieved only through fiction, which ‘the most part allowed that earlier historical study, which had been of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter, concerned with ‘historical specificity’, was ‘solid and then for profite of the ensample’ (10). As a conse-important’. For the New Historicist Louis Adrian quence, he addresses his readers not by teaching them Montrose, however, earlier historical scholarship didactically but rather through delight. It follows that ‘merely impoverished the text’ (Berger 1988:8), and if his poem does not delight, it remains a closed book. he is almost as harsh towards Berger himself, com-Several critics who first flourished in the 1950s and plaining that his writings ‘have tended to avoid direct 1960s responded initially to Spenser’s words and confrontations of sociopolitical issues’, though he imagery rather than to his ideas, thought, or histor-blames ‘the absence of a historically specific socio-ical context. One is Donald Cheney, who, in Spenser’s political dimension’ on the time they were written – Image of Nature (1966), read The Faerie Queene a time when ‘the sociopolitical study of Spenser was ‘under the intensive scrutiny which has been applied epitomized by the pursuit of topical identifications or in recent decades to metaphysical lyrics’, seeking the cataloguing of commonplaces’ (7). In contrast, out ‘ironic, discordant impulses’, ‘rapidly shifting the New Historicism, of which he is the most elo-allusions’, and the poet’s ‘constant insistence upon quent theorist, sees a work embedded – i.e. intrins-the ambiguity of his images’ (7, 17, 20). Another is ically, inextricably fixed – not in history generally, Paul Alpers, whose The Poetry of ‘The Faerie Queene’ and certainly not in ‘cosmic politics’ that Thomas (1967) demonstrated that individual stanzas of the Greene 1963:406 claims to be the concern of all epics, poem may be subjected to very intense scrutiny. A but in a historically specific sociopolitical context. third, the most influential of all, is Harry Berger, Jr, (For further comments on their clash, see Hamilton

2014 ◽  
pp. 25-25
Keyword(s):  
Faerie Queene ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Gift ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Specificity ◽  
Death Of The Soul ◽  
New Critics ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Faerie Queene

scholarly journals WINTER AS A SYMBOL OF THE DEATH OF THE SOUL IN THE CYCLE "WINTER SONNETS" BY V. IVANOV

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (80) ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
A.Yu. Antonyuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Death Of The Soul

This article discusses the cycle of V.I. Ivanov's "Winter Sonnets", which the author wrote in a difficult time for him. From the first to the last (12th) sonnet, the lyric tries to preserve his soul. We examined the specifics of the poet's lyrics, the image of winter as a symbol of death and came to the conclusion that these sonnets represent a lyric cycle, since it has “author's contexts” (“graveyard of snowdrifts”, winter is a symbol of death, an orphan, a widow), a certain author's intention of combining poems, which is to show how the lyric hero overcomes difficulties, tries to save his soul when there is a blizzard, winter and snowdrifts around. All poems follow a certain order, showing the path of the lyric hero. The fifth sonnet stands out from this row, as it makes a reference to the past of the lyric hero. According to the typology of cyclical texts by M. Darwin, this cycle is connected, since it has a common title and has a certain sequence, which was set by the author himself.

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