Ranking Religions

1986 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 377-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Copernican Revolution ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Roman Catholic Priest ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Radical Transformation

Recently there has been considerable debate about the relationship between the religions of the world; in particular Christians have been anxious to formulate a theology of other religions which transcends the traditional Christian belief that God's revelation and salvation are offered exclusively in Jesus Christ. In this context a number of theologians have questioned the finality of Christ and Christianity. Professor John Hick for example - the leading proponent of this view - speaks of a Copernican revolution in theology which involves a radical transformation of the concept of the universe of faiths. It demands, he writes, ‘a paradigm shift from a Christianity–centred or Jesus–centred to a God–centred model of the universe of faiths. One then sees the great world religions as different human responses to the one divine Reality, embodying different perceptions which have been formed in different historical and cultural circumstances. Similarly, the Roman Catholic priest, Raimundo Panikaar, endorses a new map of world religions. Advocating a revised form of ecumenism which strives for unity without harming religious diversity, Panikaar argues that the fundamental religious fact of the world's religions is the mystery known in every authentic religious experience. For Panikaar, this mystery within all religions is both more than and yet has its being within the diverse experiences and beliefs of the religions: ‘It is not simply that there are different ways of leading to the peak, but that the summit itself would collapse if all the paths disappeared. The peak is in a certain sense the result of the slopes leading to it.… It is not that this reality has many names as if there were a reality outside the name. This reality is the many names and each name is a new aspect.’ Such a vision of the universe of faiths implies that no religion can claim final or absolute authority.

Between One and Many: Multiples, Multiplication and the Huayan Metaphysics

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsueh-Man Shen
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Buddhist Doctrine ◽  
Multiple Copies ◽  
One And Many ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe

Modern art history practice often treats Buddhist icons or ritual objects as unique objects, focusing on their originality and uniqueness. This text investigates how the paradoxical Buddhist doctrine of ‘the one and the many’ was translated into visual language through manipulation of the relationship between copies and the original. It analyses the different tactics and strategies formulated around given socio-historical frameworks to visualise the notion of infinity, and ultimately the structure of the universe, and suggests that multiple copies of a single design were more potent a vehicle than single objects in expressing ideas related to the Buddhist metaphysics.

scholarly journals Openbaring as principium theologiae

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Kruger
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Contextual Theology ◽  
World Religions ◽  
General Revelation ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Universe

Theological renewal regarding different theological disciplines as well as the complete theological encyclopedia has lately been debated worldwide. Likewise, the Reformed Churches in South Africa are in a process of reconsidering the traditional reformed theological encyclopedia. This task can, however, not be fulfilled unless the basic issues are not also reconsidered. This article focuses on revelation as the principium theologiae. The line of argumentation centres round the fundamental confession in article 2 of the Belgian Confession. The truth implicit in this article, and accepted by the Reformed Churches, stresses that God can be known through his creation, sustenance and government of the universe, but He can be known more convincingly by studying holy Scripture. To prove this point of departure, Romans 1-4 and Romans 10 are discussed. The distinction between special and general revelation, contextual theology and the relationship to world religions and H. Bavinck's concept of the principium theologiae are also considered.

scholarly journals Los Austrias y las ceremonias alrededor de la muerte del rey, ritual y simbología // The Habsburg’s kings in Spain and the ceremonies around the king’s death, rites and symbols

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
María Gómez Requejo
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Audience Participation ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Las ceremonias que se tenían lugar cuando se producía el fallecimiento de un monarca de la casa de Austria, tanto las pre como las post mortem, eran el  vehículo de un lenguaje simbólico cargado de representaciones y emblemas que le recordaban al súbdito tanto el poder del rey muerto como el que iba a tener su sucesor y asimismo ponían de manifiesto la unión de la dinastía con la Iglesia Católica. Enfermedad, muerte y exequias se convierten, con estos monarcas, en un espectáculo fastuoso que requiere escenografía, actores, vestuario, guion  y un público –los súbditos- del que se busca una participación ya sea consciente y activa o pasiva, como mero espectador, pero en todo caso necesario para que el espectáculo cumpla su objetivo: persuadir del poder real. Abstract The ceremonies around the death of a Habsburg king in Spain, where the vehicle to a symbolic language, full of representations and emblems, used to remind to his loyal subjects not only the power of the dead king and the one his heir and successor was going to hold, but also the relationship between the dynasty and the Roman Catholic Church. With the Habsburg’s, the illness, death and exequies of the monarch were converted into a sumptuous show that needed: a set, actors, lavish costumes, script and audience –the loyal subjects- to which audience participation, whether it be active or passive, was essential to fulfill its objective: to be persuaded of the king’s power.

Pleasure As a Subject of Logic. To the Interpretation of Philebus. Part I

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-153
Author(s):  
Dmitry V. Bugai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Problem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Logical Status ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The task of the paper is to determine what is the philosophical meaning of Plato’s Philebus. To define the meaning is to show which way of understanding Phile­bus is the most fruitful, most fully grasping and revealing what forms the sub­stantive core of Plato’s text. It’s no secret that the meaning of Philebus is not at all self-evident. From our point of view, the main subject of the dialogue lies not in the plane of ontology, but in ethics, and what is taken for ontological aspects in Philebus is much more related to the logical and methodological conditions for solving the main ethical problem. Therefore, in this article an attempt was made to show that the key themes of Philebus(the problem of the one-many, the relationship of the four kinds of beings, the theory of false pleasures) are inter­nally related. The question of the relationship between the one and the many is raised in connection with the clarification of the question of the logical status of pleasure. Division into four kinds (limit, unlimited, mixture, reason) is the ful­fillment of the methodological requirement for the necessity of division. The ana­lysis of pleasures following this methodological introduction examines pleasure in an entirely new light, in the light of truth/falsity.

scholarly journals Life under another Sun: From Science Fiction to Science

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-39
Author(s):  
Michaël Gillon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Extraterrestrial Life ◽  
Copernican Revolution ◽  
The Universe

Initiated in the sixteenth century, the Copernican revolution toppled our Earth from its theological pedestal, revealing it not to be the centre of everything but a planet among several others in orbit around one of the zillions of stars of our Universe. Already proposed by some philosophers at the dawn of this major paradigm shift, the existence of exoplanets, i.e. planets in orbit around stars other than our Sun, remained suspected but unconfirmed for centuries. It is only in the last decade of the twentieth century that the first of these extrasolar worlds were found. Their seminal discoveries initiated the development of more and more ambitious projects that led eventually to the detection of thousands of exoplanets, including a few dozen potentially habitable ones, i.e. terrestrial exoplanets that could harbour large amounts of liquid water – and maybe life – on their surfaces. Upcoming astronomical facilities will soon be able to probe the atmospheric compositions of some of these extrasolar worlds, maybe performing in the process the historical detection of chemical signs of life light-years away. But while the existence of extraterrestrial life remains pure speculation for now, it has been a major theme of science fiction for more than a century. By creating countless stories of encounters between humans and alien forms of life, science-fiction authors have pursued, in a sense, the Copernican revolution, confronting us with the idea that not only could life be widespread in the Universe, but also that our species may be far from the Cosmic pinnacle in matters of intelligence and technological development.

scholarly journals HEIDEGERIŠKOJI ΟὐΣίΑ INTERPRETACIJA KAIP ATSAKAS Į BERGSONIŠKĄJĄ KLASIKINIO MĄSTYMO KRITIKĄ

Problemos ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Nerijus Stasiulis
Keyword(s):  
Classical Philosophy ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Straipsnyje gretinamos heidegeriškoji ir bergsoniškoji esaties, arba laiko, sampratos. Tariama, jog šių giminingų nemechanistinių laiko sampratų skirtybė yra neatsiejama nuo skirtingo materijos ir dvasios bei daugio ir vienio santykio apmąstymo bei sykiu numano skirtingą santykį su graikiškąja esmės sąvoka. Siekiama parodyti, jog iš Heideggerio būties mąstymo perspektyvos bergsoniškoji vitalistinė esaties traktuotė pasirodo kaip būties užmaršties pavidalas. Atskleidžiant Heideggerio ir Bergsono laiko sampratų skirtumus, sudaromos prielaidos eksplikuoti heidegeriškąją Aristotelio οὐσία sampratos interpretaciją, kurią galima suvokti ir kaip atsaką Bergsono klasikinės filosofijos kritikai.Heideggerian Construal of οὐσία as a Response to Bergsonian Critique of Classical ThoughtNerijus Stasiulis SummaryThe paper compares the Heideggerian and Bergsonian conceptions of isness, or time. The distinction between these affined non-mechanistic conceptions of time is assumed to be intrinsically linked to the different reflections on the relationship between matter and spirit as well as between the many and the one, and also to presuppose a different relationship to the Greek concept of essence. It seeks to demonstrate that, from the perspective of Heidegger’s thinking of Being, the Bergsonian vitalistic approach to isness reveals itself as a form of the forgetfulness of Being. Displaying the differences between Heidegger’s and Bergson’s conceptions of time allows to establish presumptions for explicating the Heideggerian construal of Aristotle’s conception of οὐσία, which can as well be called a response to Bergson‘s critique of classical philosophy.

scholarly journals A miniaturização como procedimento de escrita / Miniaturization as a Writing Procedure

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Francisco Camêlo
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
De Se ◽  
Elective Affinities ◽  
Robert Walser ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Do So

Resumo: Propõe-se uma reflexão cruzada entre Walter Benjamin e Robert Walser, a partir de suas micrografias. Dentre os muitos objetos que colecionou durante a vida, Benjamin tinha especial apreço por livros infantis, miniaturas e brinquedos. Esse interesse pelo diminuto também se manifestava na extrema pequenez de sua letra e no desejo de chegar a cem linhas numa folha de carta de tamanho convencional, feito conseguido por Walser, que escrevia microtextos com uma grafia minúscula e sobre quem o próprio Benjamin redigiu um curtíssimo ensaio em 1929. Se, por um lado, a letra miniaturizada de Benjamin e de Walser aponta para um gesto de escrita que parece cifrar o conteúdo do texto, por outro lado, a micrografia de ambos diz do interesse mútuo de se esconder nas malhas textuais através de um apequenamento do eu pela escrita. Pode-se, ainda, aproximar a miniaturização da letra de uma estreita vinculação com o universo da infância, seja pelos personagens crianças e fracassados presentes na obra de Walser; seja pelo protagonismo que a infância como Denkbild (imagem de pensamento) assume nos escritos de Benjamin. A partir dessas afinidades eletivas, o artigo procura mostrar a miniaturização como um procedimento de escrita de Benjamin e de Walser através de paralelos entre suas micrografias e de comentários analítico-especulativos de ensaios de Benjamin e de contos de Walser.Palavras-chave: Walter Benjamin; Robert Walser; escrita; miniaturização, infância.Abstract: The article proposes a cross-reflection between Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser and finds its first intersection in the micrographs produced by them. Among the many objects collected during his lifetime, Benjamin seems to have had a special appreciation for children’s books, miniatures and toys. This interest in small items was also manifested in the extreme smallness of his handwriting and in the desire to write one hundred lines in a conventional-size paper – this last one achieved by Walser, who wrote microtexts in a miniscule handwriting and was also the subject of a short essay Benjamin wrote in 1929. If, on the one hand, the miniaturized handwritings of both Benjamin and Walser point to a manner of writing that seems to encrypt the content of texts, on the other hand, the micrographies constructed by both men state a mutual interest in hiding amongst the textual mesh through the suppression of the self in writing. One can, still, liken the miniaturized handwriting with the universe of childhood, be it by the character of the child or the character of the so-called underdog (both present in the works of Walser) or by the protagonism that a childhood-as-Denkbird (image of thought) assumes in Benjamin’s work. Based on these elective affinities, the article seeks to show the miniaturization as a writing procedure employed by both Benjamin and Walser, and it will do so by establishing parallels between the micrographs of the latter and the analytical-speculative commentaries present in Benjamin’s essays and in Walser’s tales.Keywords: Walter Benjamin; Robert Walser; writing; miniaturization; childhood.

Philosophy and data in astrobiology

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas John Mix
Keyword(s):  
Unified Model ◽  
World Religions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe

AbstractCreating a unified model of life in the universe – history, extent and future – requires both scientific and humanities research. One way that humanities can contribute is by investigating the relationship between philosophical commitments and data. Making those commitments transparent allows scientists to use the data more fully. Insights in four areas – history, ethics, religion and probability – demonstrate the value of careful, astrobiology-specific humanities research for improving how we talk and think about astrobiology as a whole. First, astrobiology has a long and influential history. Second, astrobiology does not decentre humanity, either physically or ethically. Third, astrobiology is broadly compatible with major world religions. Finally, claims about the probability of life arising or existing elsewhere rest heavily on philosophical priors. In all four cases, identifying philosophical commitments clarifies the ways in which data can tell us about life.

Containment and Contagion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Mayblin
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
Catholic Women ◽  
The Media ◽  
Male Sex ◽  
Ordination Of Women ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

This chapter concerns the contradiction in modern Catholicism that women can be God-like but not priest-like. Drawing on research into the Roman Catholic Women Priest movement, it explores how this contradiction persists through the manipulation of metaphors of contagion and containment in relation to notions of sin and virtue. Just as the sins of the one couple (Adam and Eve) contaminate the many and for generations thereafter, the moral failures of any one individual, by analogy, can be applied metaphorically to all of humankind. Yet grace, too, can be contagious, spreading among persons (underlying certain Catholic models of religious practice). Problems arise when some people’s sins turn out to be more contagious than others. Through a mixture of ethnographic and historical sources, the discussion traces how sin and grace are differently containable or contagious according to gender. The infinite manipulability of this sin/grace complex helps to illuminate how opposition to the ordination of women remains institutionally entrenched even as male sex-abuser priests have come to dominate the media. The chapter concludes that Catholicism’s multiform problems with gender are reproduced via this politics of contagion and containment, and that radical repercussions are at stake in sin’s containment.

scholarly journals “Non vide mei di me chi vide il vero”: l’arte “verace” nel girone dei superbi come mise en abyme dell’arte dantesca nella Commedia

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Maria Maślanka-Soro
Keyword(s):  
Divine Comedy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mise En Abyme ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Divine Comedy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe

“Non vide mei di me chi vide il vero”: L’art “verace” in the circle of proud as a mise en abyme of Dante’s art in the Comedy The purpose of this study is to discuss the problem of meta-poetic themes in the Divine Comedy, focusing in particular on the relationship between God’s art and Dante’s art in the context of the impression caused by the sight of the rock reliefs in the cornice of the proud in the Purgatorio, where the poet, presenting and imitating the art of God, in fact shows the mastery of his own art. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the examples of humility and pride carved on the walls and the rock path – the perfect work of God-the Artist, vibrant with life and called by Dante visibile parlare – are, on the one hand, a mise en abyme of its macroscopic version, which is the Universe created by him, and, on the other hand, a mise en abyme of the universe narrated with the simile perfection by Dante.

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