Mary in Contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Devotion

2004 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 368-376
Author(s):  
Marta Camilla Wright
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Ethiopian Orthodox ◽  
Body And Soul

IN a double monastery located near the important pilgrimage place of Lalibela, two nuns I had been interviewing suddenly asked me, ‘Why don’t you ask us about Mary?’ They wanted to tell me about how she cared for them, loved them, and answered their prayers. ‘Whatever we ask her she will give us’, they stated. Mary was important for the Ethiopian Orthodox believers I worked with; it became obvious that Mary has an exclusive place in Ethiopian devotion in general. Most of the time, Ethiopian Christians relate to Christ as a distant saviour and turn to Mary in dealing with their daily lives. Mary is pure in both body and soul, a human being without sin, so that Christ becomes the union of divinity and humanity.

scholarly journals Breathing: A Sign of Life and a Unique Area for Reflection and Action

2008 ◽  
Vol 88 (7) ◽  
pp. 832-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Ekerholt ◽  
Astrid Bergland
Keyword(s):  
Physical Therapy ◽  
Physical Therapist ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Breathing Patterns ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The World ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
Conscious Attention

Background and Purpose The aim of this study was to clarify patients’ experiences of breathing during therapeutic processes in Norwegian psychomotor physical therapy (NPMP). Subjects and Methods A qualitative approach was used based on interviews with 9 women and 1 man aged between 41 and 65 years. The data were analyzed with the aid of grounded theory. Results Three categories were identified from the participants’ experiences: (1) “Breathing: An Incomprehensible and Disparate Phenomenon,” (2) “Breathing: Access to Meaning and Understanding,” and (3) “Breathing: Enhancing Feelings of Mastery.” Initially, breathing difficulties and bodily pains were described as physical reactions that seemed utterly incomprehensible to the participants. Communication, both verbal and nonverbal, between the patient and the physical therapist was described as vitally important, as was conscious attention to occurrences during the treatment sessions. The participants learned to recognize changes in their breathing patterns, and they became familiar with new bodily sensations. Consequently, they acquired new understanding of these sensations. The feeling and understanding of being an entity (ie, “body and soul”) emerged during therapy. The participants increased their understanding of the interaction between breathing and internal and external influences on their well-being. Their feelings of mastery over their daily lives were enhanced. The therapeutic dialogues gave them the chance to explore, reflect, and become empowered. Discussion and Conclusion In experiencing their own breathing, the participants were able to access and identify the muscular and emotional patterns that, linked to particular thoughts and beliefs, had become their characteristic styles of relating to themselves and the world.

Body and Soul

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
Frances Young
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Body And Soul

This chapter demonstrates how arguments about creation and resurrection in the second century ensured that by the fourth century even those Christian thinkers with the most leanings toward Neoplatonism would espouse the view that the union of soul with body was constitutive of human being as a creature among creatures, and so a necessary aspect of the reconstitution of the human person at the resurrection. Soul-body dualism is often treated as the default anthropological position in antiquity, but the fourth-century anthropological treatise of Nemesius of Emesa shows that, despite huge debts to the legacies of philosophy, creation and resurrection, though barely mentioned, in fact shape his conclusion that the body-soul union is fundamental to what a human being is; the same is true, for example, of the Cappadocian Gregories and Augustine.

Amulets and the Ritual Efficacy of Christian Symbols

2019 ◽  
pp. 349-366
Author(s):  
Rangar H. Cline
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Insight Into

Although “magical” amulets are often overlooked in studies of early Christian material culture, they provide unique insight into the lives of early Christians. The high number of amulets that survive from antiquity, their presence in domestic and mortuary archaeological contexts, and frequent discussions of amulets in Late Antique literary sources indicate that they constituted an integral part of the fabric of religious life for early Christians. The appearance of Christian symbols on amulets, beginning in the second century and occurring with increasing frequency in the fourth century and afterward, reveals the increasing perception of Christian symbols as ritually potent among Christians and others in the Roman Empire. The forms, texts, and images on amulets reveal the fears and hopes that occupied the daily lives of early Christians, when amulets designed for ritual efficacy if not orthodoxy were believed to provide a defense against forces that would harm body and soul.

Constructing Imperial and National Identities: Monstrous and Human Bodies in Book of Watchers, Daniel, and 2 Maccabees

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-170
Author(s):  
Anathea Portier-Young
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Identity ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Political Body ◽  
Monster Theory ◽  
Body And Soul

Monster theory illuminates the construction of imperial and national identities in the portrayals of monstrous and human bodies in three early Jewish texts; Book of Watchers, Daniel, and 2 Maccabees. Book of Watchers expresses anxiety about Judean/Jewish identity in the shadow of empire through its portrayal of a vulnerable humanity terrorized by voracious giants and their demonic spirits. Daniel dehumanizes empire and its agents, imaging empire as a colossal statue, an animalistic were-king, and a series of monstrous beasts, while one like a human being poses an alternative to imperial rule. Second Maccabees, by contrast, demythologizes, decapitates, dismembers, and disintegrates the imperial body in order to portray the integral Judean political body (and soul) as mature, pure, capable, and ordered.

scholarly journals APRENDER A APRENDER… (LEARN TO LEARN)

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Flor Abarca-Alpízar
Keyword(s):  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Shared Learning ◽  
Great Responsibility ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Good Living ◽  
The University

En nuestras búsquedas para la promoción de los aprendizajes universitarios con sentido y significado para las y los estudiantes universitario, tenemos la inmensa responsabilidad de conservar aquello que nos humaniza, siendo flexibles ante nuestras dependencias, obediencias, desconfianzas e inseguridades por lo nuevo; sintiéndonos parte de lo observado, asumiendo con amor y gozo nuestras responsabilidades: los interaprendizajes entre seres humanos.Los aprendizajes con sentido son parte de la integralidad de la vida, de nuestro autoconocimiento e inteligencia espiritual, necesitamos reconocerlos como parte del  flujo universal de la vida y aplicarlos en nuestro quehacer cotidiano como académicos y académicas universitarios.  Los aprendizajes y la vida son la misma cosa, porque necesitamos de los aprendizajes para vivir, para cuidarnos como seres vivos en conexión con Gaia, nuestra Madre Tierra.Palabras clave: Aprendizajes con sentido, Mediación Pedagógica, Integralidad, Buen vivir, Transdisciplinariedad.Abstract In our search for the promotion of the university learning with meaning and significance to the university and students, have the great responsibility to preserve what makes us human, being flexible about our facilities, obedience, mistrust and insecurity for the new, feeling part of noted, with love and joy assuming our responsibilities: the shared learning among humans. Meaningful learning are part of the wholeness of life, our self-knowledge and spiritual understanding, we need to recognize them as part of the universal flow of life and apply them in our daily lives as scholars and university academics. Learning and life are the same thing, because we need to live learning to take care of as living in connection with Gaia, our Mother Earth.Keywords: Learning with respect Pedagogical Mediation, Integrity Good living, Transdisciplinariedad

Śmierć i ostateczne przeznaczenie człowieka w ujęciu Maksyma Wyznawcy

Vox Patrum ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 293-305
Author(s):  
Karolina Kochańczyk-Bonińska
Keyword(s):  
Original Sin ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Union With God

The article presents how Maximus as Christian and philosopher understands death and eternal life. First of all, Confessor connects death with original sin and separation from God. In another meaning death is for him separation of body and soul, so that our life becomes continues preparation for death. Another important problem presented is if and how different elements of human being (intellect, soul and body) would cooperate in eternal life. Author presents Maximus’ attitude towards the conception of apocatastasis and shows that there is no place for such conception in Maxim’s writings. The last important problem presented in the article is deification understood as union with God (not only human beings but whole creation united with Creator) and Sabbath, which is the end of all movement and rest in God.

Self-Knowledge, Self-Perception, and Perception of One’s Body in Stoicism

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-209
Author(s):  
Jean-Baptiste Gourinat
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Self Knowledge

While self-knowledge is usually considered to be knowledge of our soul by our soul, this is not the case in Stoicism. There is hardly a debate on self-knowledge in Stoicism, because there is no perception of myself as something different from my own body. The Stoics tend to identify the self with the ruling part of the soul, but they have no certain knowledge about it. Self-perception is the perception of the whole body and soul as a unity and of the parts of the body and the soul, and this allows a human being to rule his/her own body, but it is neither perception nor knowledge of the ‘self’. Since a human being is a complete mixture of a body and soul, it knows itself as an animated body, and this kind of knowledge is quite different from the form of self-knowledge involved in most of ancient philosophies.

scholarly journals SINESTESIA, ARTE, CULTURA E TECNOLOGIA: IMPACTOS NA SOCIEDADE

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Sheila Regiane Franceschini
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
The Subject ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
Creative Capacity

The present work seeks to demonstrate that the phenomenon "synesthesia", as a multisensory phenomenon, with a wide variety of occurrences, is present in people's daily lives and is increasingly related to our way of living, enjoying goods and services, producing, creating, with support in supporting technological innovations o four time. These findings help us to conceive synesthesia as a phenomenon that affects society because it is inherent to human life, due to the creative capacity to solve elementary issues. The work is also a bibliographic survey that also seeks to understand how this phenomenon is related to culture, a dynamic concept that places the human being as an agent that transforms reality, among other aspects. To this end, we use the ideas ofsome important researchers on the subject as theoretical support to, by establishing reflections on them, to favor the understanding of the hybrid society in which we live, valuing Art as anessential activity.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN ANAK DALAM TRILOGI KEILMUAN PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-164
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nur Asmawi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Mental Attitude ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
History Of ◽  
Islamic Civilization

Religion (Islam) and education are two things which are interrelated. Through religion, humans are formed into whole people in accordance with the values of Islamic teachings. The development process is through education because through education, children will become more mature and more capable both in terms of intelligence and mental attitude. Religion is intended to form a complete human being by directing children to become people of faith and piety. The implementation of scientific trilogy of Islamic Religious Education is described in five aspects of Islamic Religious education, namely: aspects of the Koran-Hadith, aspects of aqidah/faith, aspects of morals, aspects of fiqhi/worship, and aspects of history/history of Islamic civilization. Aqeedah material emphasizes the formation of the belief that God is the origin and purpose of human life. Moral material is directed to prepare students to have Islamic morals and ethics as a whole person of Muslims and put into practice in their daily lives.

A review of Virtual Assistants' characteristics: recommendations for designing an optimal human-machine cooperation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-48
Author(s):  
Marlène E. C. Gilles ◽  
Elisabetta Bevacqua
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Virtual Assistance

Abstract Designed to improve human-machine interactions, virtual agents, and particularly virtual assistants (VAs), are spreading in our daily lives. Presenting a very wide variety of characteristics, studies generally report their own agent with its own characteristics and objective. So we can wonder if some of these characteristics are a consensus for VAs in general. Within this work, we aim to identify the agents' characteristics that should be considered when designing a virtual assistant promoting the best communication and cooperation between man and machine. We review the aspects of representation of the agent (embodied or not) and its ability to interact with the human being whether by speech or gestures, but also by displaying personality traits. This overview makes some focuses on virtual assistance of any kind embarked on vehicles.

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