Incomprehensible Certainty

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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268202478
Total Pages : 1268 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Incomprehensible Certainty by : Thomas Pfau

Download or read book Incomprehensible Certainty written by Thomas Pfau and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pfau’s study of images and visual experience is a tour de force linking Platonic metaphysics to modern phenomenology and probing literary, philosophical, and theological accounts of visual experience from Plato to Rilke. Incomprehensible Certainty presents a sustained reflection on the nature of images and the phenomenology of visual experience. Taking the “image” (eikōn) as the essential medium of art and literature and as foundational for the intuitive ways in which we make contact with our “lifeworld,” Thomas Pfau draws in equal measure on Platonic metaphysics and modern phenomenology to advance a series of interlocking claims. First, Pfau shows that, beginning with Plato’s later dialogues, being and appearance came to be understood as ontologically distinct from (but no longer opposed to) one another. Second, in contrast to the idol that is typically gazed at and visually consumed as an object of desire, this study positions the image as a medium whose intrinsic abundance and excess reveal to us its metaphysical function—namely, as the visible analogue of an invisible, numinous reality. Finally, the interpretations unfolded in this book (from Plato, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, John Damascene via Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Julian of Norwich, and Nicholas of Cusa to modern writers and artists such as Goethe, Ruskin, Turner, Hopkins, Cézanne, and Rilke) affirm the essential complementarity of image and word, visual intuition and hermeneutic practice, in theology, philosophy, and literature. Like Pfau’s previous book, Minding the Modern, Incomprehensible Certainty is a major work. With over fifty illustrations, the book will interest students and scholars of philosophy, theology, literature, and art history.

INCOMPREHENSIBLE CERTAINTY

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ISBN 13 : 9780268202507
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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One Silken Thread

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Publisher : Quid Pro Books
ISBN 13 : 1610271688
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis One Silken Thread by : Lee D. Scheingold

Download or read book One Silken Thread written by Lee D. Scheingold and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2013-02-24 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Scheingold's rich, painful intellectual and personal journey—following the death of her husband, famed political scientist Stuart Scheingold—is described from the points of view which have informed her life: psychoanalysis, clinical social work, Buddhism, and family medicine. Yet it is poetry that is the connecting thread, beginning with the Russian poems which she studied long ago in college. She describes her return journey to Russian literature in the wake of profound grief. This is an emotional and yet academic account from an author who has approached her life with almost continual self-reflection. As a result of this examined life, the factors and life experiences which enabled her to tolerate, and even welcome, the feelings of grief are explored. Two psychoanalyses and a ten-year practice of Buddhism are examined in detail with the issue of meaning foregrounded. Emotions have central stage here, but ideas are close behind. For Lee Scheingold, poetry links the two. The deeply evocative style of the book resembles poetry itself.

Religion, Society and God

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Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 033404927X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Religion, Society and God by : Richard Noake

Download or read book Religion, Society and God written by Richard Noake and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a definite and growing interest and awareness amongst the general public of the competing arguments around faith, God and society. The book is divided into two sections. Section One tackles issues of ultimate concern and the place of God in the modern world, whilst Section Two considers the role of faith in public life. The contributors bring a range of different voices – both religious and secular – to the conversation.

Mark

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 168149325X
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Mark by : Adrienne Von Speyr

Download or read book Mark written by Adrienne Von Speyr and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These meditations on the Gospel of Mark, with the exception of the second part on the Passion, were given by Adrienne von Speyr between 1945 and 1958 to members of the Community of St. John, which she founded with the renowned theologian, Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar. Adrienne is speaking to young adults who have decided to live the state of the evangelical counsels in a secular profession, as part of a recently established secular institute. Nevertheless this contemplative commentary can be very useful for all who seek to meditate on Holy Scripture. As always, Adrienne here draws from the abundance of her own contemplation which keeps continually in view the harmonious unity of Christian dogmatic truth; she gives to others what has been offered to her in contemplation, without exegetical notes or any attempt at scholarship. Since she is speaking to novices, the train of thought is simple and practical, yet rich in depth. The points for meditation are not primarily for spiritual reading, but an introduction to personal prayer. They are meant only to point out a path, because it is the Holy Spirit who directs contemplative prayer in all liberty. As one reads through this book, he will find in it a kind of synthesis of Adrienne von Speyr's spirituality. This work will also be very useful to preachers, catechists, pastors, communities and institutes who have understood with Pope Benedict XVI that "It is time to reaffirm the importance of prayer in the face of the activism and the growing secularism of many Christians engaged in charitable work."

The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429013825
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Book Synopsis The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins by : Aakanksha Virkar Yates

Download or read book The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins written by Aakanksha Virkar Yates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of Hopkins's 'masterwork', The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins readdresses Hopkins's frequently overlooked mysticism as an interior narrative within his corpus. Drawing on a range of religious, literary and visual traditions from Augustine's Confessions to the seventeenth-century spiritual emblem, this book demonstrates the ways in which the Wreck deliberately constructs and conceals a mystical and contemplative narrative. Typology and allegory are some of the important hermeneutic tools used in this re-reading of Hopkins, relating the poet to the discursive tradition surrounding the Old Testament Song of Songs, the philosophical theology of the Greek Fathers, and, perhaps most intriguingly, the meditative and visual tradition of the baroque heart-emblem. On the centenary of the publication of Hopkins’s poems, this book places the writer firmly within a mystical tradition, necessitating a fundamental reconsideration of the legacy of this major Victorian poet.

T.P.'s Magazine

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Total Pages : 830 pages
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The Monthly Law Reporter

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monthly Law Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poem as Sacrament

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Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042908079
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Poem as Sacrament by : Philip A. Ballinger

Download or read book The Poem as Sacrament written by Philip A. Ballinger and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a study of the writings and intellectual development of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dr. Philip Ballinger demonstrates why poetry is, as Hans Urs von Balthasar stated, "the absolutely appropriate theological language". While circling Hopkins' visions of the nature of sensual experience, intuitive cognition, and the function of language, Ballinger focuses upon the sacramental intention of the Victorian Jesuit's poetry. Underlying Hopkins' poetry is a vision of reality as divinely revelatory or 'self-expressive'. For Hopkins, this revelatory character of creation is determined by the incarnation, and beauty, in fact, is a word for 'Christic self-expressiveness'.

St. Nadie in Winter

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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462918174
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Book Synopsis St. Nadie in Winter by : Terrance Keenan

Download or read book St. Nadie in Winter written by Terrance Keenan and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Nadie in Winter is a spiritual autobiography that includes Zen poetry, memoir, and raw insight. There are no easy answers to be found, no easy prescriptions in this stunning twenty-first century Buddhist book. Keenan's world-his boyhood Catholicism, his alcoholism, his struggle to maintain honest relationships with his wife and children, his work as a poet and librarian, his Zen practice—offers a road map for any reader grappling with the dark night of the soul.