scholarly journals RELEGIUSITAS DALAM USFŪR MIN AL-SYARQ KARYA TAUFĪQ AL-HAKĪM

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Yulia Nasrul Latifi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Presence Of God

The aim of this writing is to discover the varieties of forms of religious experience from Usfu> r min al-Syarq, a novel written by Taufiq al-Haki> m. By focusing on the ‘religiosity’ in the literary study, which is based on the protagonist's attitude as well as their thinking and the plot of story, this study has come up with several conclusions on the forms of religious experience, which  are: 1) total experience from the presence of God, 2) strength and firmness on getting the calamity or disaster, 3) total experience of the mighty God and the unity of human being, 4) total experience from the beauty of death, and 5) peacefulness based on the true faith. 

Moral Theory and Divine Justice

2017 ◽  
pp. 87-127
Author(s):  
Hussein Ali Abdulsater
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Sovereignty ◽  
Divine Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Autonomy ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Point Of Departure

This chapter investigates the position of human beings in this theological system. Its point of departure is a definition of the human being, from which it develops an understanding of human agency in relation to God and the world. Divine assistance (luṭf) is highlighted as the bridge between human autonomy and divine sovereignty. Following is an elaborate description of religious experience: its origins, justification, relevant parties, responsibilities and characteristics. The concept of moral obligation (taklīf) is shown to be the cornerstone of Murtaḍā’s theory on religion. The chapter is divided into three sub-headings: The Human Being; Justification of Moral Obligation; Characteristics of Moral Obligation.

The Experience of Beauty: Hugh and Richard of St. Victor on Natural Theology

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 234-253
Author(s):  
Ritva Palmén
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Immediate Experience ◽  
The Trinity

In this paper, I will argue that the Twelfth Century spiritually -oriented texts present an important, but often neglected instance of natural theology. My analysis will show that in the texts of Hugh of St. Victor (d. 1141) and his student Richard of St. Victor (d. 1173) we find a Christian Neo-Platonist variant of natural theology. The elements of natural theology form a central part of their larger spiritual programmes, which in turn are meant to guide the human being in her ascent into divine realities and thereby offer immediate experience of the presence of God. I will give special attention to Hugh’s treatise De Tribus Diebus, as it explores both the manifestations of the Trinity in the created world as well as the beauty of all created objects. Hugh’s account will be supplemented by an exposition of Richard’s idea of experience as a vital means for all knowing.

scholarly journals KEBEBASAN BERAGAMA DALAM ISLAM

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
Tri Yuliana Wijayanti
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Religious Plurality

Every human being is free to choose a religion according to his religious experience and in accordance with his personal beliefs. Freedom of religion also includes the situation conducive for people to choose religion (according to his) and to his religion without restriction and coercion from any party. The challenges of today's religious life in contrast to the issue of religious freedom and the fact of religious plurality. Religious pluralism urged all religions to think practically how to get along with other religious and theological interpret the meaning of the presence of religion and belief.

Two Biblical Models of Conversion: An Example of Puritan Hermeneutics

1989 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-196
Author(s):  
Charles L. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Psychological Experience ◽  
New Birth ◽  
God's Word ◽  
Born Again

Puritan religious experience centered around conversion, the soul's new birth in faith. Entry into the realm of the Spirit, the path to salvation, involved a protracted emotional confrontation with grace borne in God's Word. The injunction to begin life anew in grace is as old as John 3:3, which declares that one “cannot see the kingdom of God” without being “born again” but does not associate the event with any particular psychological experience; what one undergoes in becoming a child of the Spirit the gospel does not relate. Into this gap of possibility Puritan preachers insinuated their vision of holy passions; well known as physicians of the soul, they pieced together a compelling model of how the Spirit moves a human being as it translates individuals from the estate of damnation to that of grace.

scholarly journals The Void of God, or The Paradox of the Pious Atheism: From Scholem to Derrida

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Agata Bielik-Robson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Angelus Silesius ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Point Of Departure

My essay will take as its point of departure the paragraph from Gershom Scholem’s “Reflections on Jewish Theology,” in which he depicts the modern religious experience as the one of the "void of God" or as "pious atheism". I will first argue that the "void of God" cannot be reduced to atheistic non-belief in the presence of God. Then, I will demonstrate the further development of the Scholemian notion of the ‘pious atheism’ in Derrida, especially in his Lurianic treatment of Angelus Silesius, whose modern mysticism emerges in Derrida’s reading as the ‘almost-atheism’ (presque-atheisme). The interesting feature of this development is that, while for Scholem, the ‘void of God’ is a predominantly negative experience, for Derrida, it becomes an affirmative model of modern – not just Jewish, but more generally, Abrahamic – religiosity which, on the one hand, touches upon atheistic non-belief in the divine presence here and now, yet, on the other, still insists on commemorating the ‘withdrawn God’ through his ‘traces.’ What, therefore, for Scholem, constitutes the ultimate cry of despair, best embodied in Kafka’s work – for Derrida, reveals the more positive face of the modern predicament in which God has absented himself in order to make room for the creaturely reality. And while Scholem envisages redemption as the full restoration of the divine presence – Derrida redefines redemption as the ‘pious’ work of deconstruction to be undertaken in the ‘almost-atheistic’ condition of irreversible separation between God and the world.

scholarly journals The concept of “heart” in Old Irish church literature: The case of the Apgitir chrábaid

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
Mikhail S. Kiselev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Old Irish ◽  
Christian Anthropology ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
Fear Of God

This paper attempts to analyze the instances and contexts of the use of the concept “heart”, which is the key concept for Christian anthropology, based on the material of Old Irish church literature, namely, on the treatise Apgitir chrábaid. The following cases of using the word “heart” in the studied text are revealed: “love for God in the heart”, “fear of God in the heart”, “purity of the heart”, “simplicity of the heart”, “confession of something in the heart”, “heart as a container of faith” , “heart as the dwelling place of God”, “heart as the place where the Truth is”. These cases are grouped by the author into types. It was done so in order to review them within the conceptual grid, built by various researchers, who utilized the idea of different semantic base for each case of the “heart” usage in Christian literature of Early Middle Ages. “Heart” usage groups were formed as 1) a physical organ 2) the emotion center 3) the intelligence center 4) the center of willpower and desires 5) the center of spiritual life and religious experience 6) the symbolic core of a human being, the synonym of a human being in general, spirit or soul in particular. An assumption is made about the presence of an intertextual connection between some fragments of the Apgitir chrábaid where the concept of “heart” is present and a number of biblical texts (Gospel of John, Epistle to the Ephesians, The Second Epistle of Peter).

scholarly journals Buscar, escuchar y abrirse al Amor

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Kotlewski
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
The Road ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
God's Love

The article shows how in the light of God’s Mercy a human being rediscovers and realises the basic truth that in his/her heart is a great longing and hunger for God’s love. God invites to listen to what He says to humans through the words of the Holy Bible. He invites people to listen and realise the loving presence of God inside. The author of the article shows that trust is the fruit of a relationship in which a person knows that he/she is loved. Trust presupposes a longing for God and a sincere search for Him in everything. The road to trust is expressed in three attitudes: in seeking God inside; in sensitive listening to His voice in one’s heart; and in trustingly opening oneself to His love and immersion in His mercy. Thanks to loneliness, silence and prayer, a human being discovers the Source of life which lies deep inside his/her heart. In the human being, in his/her interior is the source from which he/she draws life and nourishes hope. Immersion in this source of mercy means that one experiences inner change.

scholarly journals Humorous sublimation of a dying Cuban writer in Reinaldo Arenas’ The Color of Summer

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 623-643
Author(s):  
Christophe Panichelli ◽  
Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Dark Period ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Reinaldo Arenas ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
History Books ◽  
Cuban History

Abstract How does a human being deal with suffering? How can we emotionally cope with the vicissitudes of life, especially in times where they suddenly multiply themselves? In this study, we present an innovative interdisciplinary study on the use of coping mechanisms by career writers dealing with difficult life events. We focus in particular on the use of humor and sublimation, two creative mental mechanisms that contribute to the lowering of anxiety while at the same time dealing constructively with the external stressors. Never before have these mechanisms been studied in a complementary way in the context of a literary study. This paper offers an in-depth analysis of Reinaldo Arenas’ The Color of Summer. In this novel, this Cuban author introduces an autobiographical perspective of the Cuban sixties and seventies, intending to present a facet of history that would never appear in Cuban history books. The combination of both coping mechanisms, which we call humorous sublimation, offers a novel that not only helped the author cope with his tormented life, but also allowed the reader to gain an understanding of a dark period of Cuban history by means of a very funny and surreal reading.

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