Shinto as an Intrinsic Japanese Religion

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-173
Author(s):  
Hidemichi Tanaka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Religion ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Heaven And Earth

Motoori (1730–1801) often criticized China, saying “Adashi Michi (alien way)” or “Kara Gokoro (Chinese mind).”“In China, they often say heaven’s way, heaven’s order or heaven’s reason and regard them as the most reverential and awesome things … firstly heaven is … not a thing with the mind, there cannot be such a thing as heaven’s order …” He concludes that there is no “way of nature” in China. He also mentions in his essay Tamakatsuma [Beautiful Bamboo Basket]: “We think that heaven and earth grow all things, but this is not true. It is the deed of Kami that all things grow. Heaven and earth is only the place where Kami grows all things. It is not heaven and earth that grow them.” Kami in this case seems to be different from heaven and earth, but this Kami is one with “nature” and he does not mean that Kami is above “nature.” I think that Motori resumes the essence of Shinto, comparing the thoughts of China.

Eros: in early Attic Legend and Art

1925 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 88-105
Author(s):  
C. T. Seltman
Keyword(s):  
Human Love ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Heaven And Earth

The Greek Love-god of the fifth and fourth centuries before our era may perhaps be looked upon as an amalgamation of three distinct divine entities. Eros was Love, the creative desire of nature, and as such the soul within god and man; Eros was the love-child, son of Aphrodite-Cypris; Eros was the idealisation of human beauty beloved.In the ancient cult centres of Thespiae and Parium the god was apparently not so much the personification of human love as a great physical and elemental force of nature. As such he ranks among the three primaeval Forces in the Theogony of Hesiod, who opens with these words his tale of creation (116 ff.): ‘Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympos and dim Tartaros in the wide-pathed earth, and Eros, fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and counsels within them of all gods and all men.’ This is apparently the Eros who figured in the earliest Orphic Theogony, concerning which A. B. Cook has collected a wealth of material. He reconstructs partially the contents, which possibly told that in the beginning was Nyx. Black-winged Nyx laid an egg from which ‘sprang golden-winged Eros. Apparently heaven and earth were regarded as the upper and lower halves of the vast egg.’

Christianity Before the Apostles' Creed

1962 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold Ehrhardt
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Holy Ghost ◽  
The Third ◽  
Lasting Impression ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Ambrose Of Milan ◽  
God The Father ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Heaven And Earth

Not so long ago a little treatise on the Apostles' Creed was edited by the late Dom R. H. Connolly, and established as the property of Ambrose of Milan. In this treatise the statement may be found that “when therefore the holy Apostles all came together they compiled a short formula of the faith so that we might shortly be instructed about the whole course of the faith.” We are not concerned here with the question on what occasion the holy Apostles did come together. Apocryphal traditions know of several such meetings of the Apostles, usually with the Virgin Mary, and it was presumably one of these which was in the mind of the great bishop of Milan. The significant fact is rather that he denied here that Christianity ever went through a pre-credal period. His great authority could not fail to make a lasting impression, especially upon the Western Church. It is evidently on the basis of this his assertion that we find, in the orations of Pseudo-Augustine, a Creed that is divided as follows: “Peter said: ‘I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.’ Andrew said: ‘And in Jesus Christ his only son our Lord.’ James said: ‘Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of Mary the virgin.’ John said: ‘Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried.’ Thomas said: ‘He descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead,’ ” and so on till at last Matthias finishes with the words, “and the life everlasting. Amen.”

Life and Immortality in the Mind of Han China

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-shih Yü
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Integrative Unity ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Heaven And Earth

By tracing the development of the worldly transformation of the idea and cult of immortality, this article demonstrates that ancient Han Chinese gradually came to perceive the worlds between the living and the dead not as two mutually exclusive realms, though not exactly as identical either. Such a perception also reflects their world view of the human, Heaven and Earth as an integrative unity.

scholarly journals Dante's Theology

1890 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Philip Schaff
Keyword(s):  
Book Of Job ◽  
Gothic Cathedral ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Heaven And Earth ◽  
Divina Commedia

The Divina Commedia, that “sacred poem”—“To which both heaven and earth have set their hand,”has an equal attraction for the poet, the historian, the philosopher, and the theologian. It is a mirror of mediaeval Christianity and civilization, and resembles a Gothic cathedral which lays all sciences and arts under contribution and fills the mind with wonder and awe. It has justly been called “the mediaeval miracle of song.” No poem can be compared with it for general and abiding interest except the Book of Job, and Goethe's Faust.

How Homo economicus lost her mind and how we can revive her

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter DeScioli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Target Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.

Metaphors in the Mind

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannette Littlemore
Keyword(s):  
The Mind
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