Mullā Ṣadrā’s Arrivers in the Heart (al-Wāridāt al-Qalbiyya)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 53-107
Author(s):  
William C. Chittick
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Psychology ◽  
Divine Essence ◽  
Mulla Sadra ◽  
Human Love

Abstract It is increasingly difficult after Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) to differentiate the aims of the Sufis from those of the philosophers. Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1050/1640) offers a fine example of a thinker who synthesized the Sufi and philosophical methodologies in his voluminous writings. In Arrivers in the Heart he combines the precision of philosophical reasoning with the recognition (maʿrifa) of God and self that was central to the concerns of the Sufi teachers. In forty “effusions” (fayḍ) of mostly rhymed prose, he provides epitomes of many of the themes that he addresses in his long books. These include the concept and reality of existence, the Divine Essence and Attributes, God’s omniscience, theodicy, eschatology, the worlds of the cosmos, spiritual psychology, divine and human love, disciplining the soul, and the nature of human perfection.

scholarly journals العلم الإلهي باالجزئيات مقاربة ابن سينا و صدر المتألهين نموذجا

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
السيد خالد سيساوي خميني
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Ibn Sina ◽  
Universal Form ◽  
Divine Essence ◽  
Knowledge Of God ◽  
Mulla Sadra ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Divine Knowledge

<div class="WordSection1"><p><strong>Abstract</strong> : The philosophical problems have closed ties with the principle of tawhid. One of them is the  problem  of 'divine knowledge' about the particular matters. This article shows those problems from the approach of Ibn Sīna and Mulla Ṣadra. Ibn Sīna holds that the Divine Essence knows the particular things in a universal form rather than in a particular. That is to say in the form of causality of forms that manifested in the system of existence (<em>wujūd</em>). Mulla Ṣadra on the other hand agrees that the Divine Essence is the forms of everything, without exception. He interprets the knowledge of God to the particular things that exist in the matter without any changing in the Divine knowledge itself, along with the events that turn.</p><p><strong>Keywords <em>: </em></strong><em>Divine knowledge of particular things, universal form, matter</em></p></div>

The Goodness of Home

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Marandiuc
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Middle Term ◽  
Human Love ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Theological Argument

The question of what home means and how it relates to subjectivity has fresh urgency in light of pervasive contemporary migration, which ruptures the human self, and painful relational poverty, which characterizes much of modern life. Yet the Augustinian heritage that situates true home and right attachment outside this world has clouded theological conceptualizations of earthly belonging. This book engages this neglected topic and argues for the goodness of home, which it construes relationally rather than spatially. In dialogue with research in the neuroscience of attachment theory and contemporary constructions of the self, the book advances a theological argument for the function of love attachments as sources of subjectivity and enablers of human freedom. The book shows that paradoxically the depth of human belonging—thus, dependence—is directly proportional to the strength of human agency—hence, independence. Building on Søren Kierkegaard’s imagery alongside other sources, the book depicts human love as interwoven with the infinite streams of divine love, forming a sacramental site for God’s presence, and playing a constitutive role in the making of the self. The book portrays the self both as gifted from God in inchoate form and as engaged in continuous, albeit nonlinear becoming via experiences of human love. The Holy Spirit indwells the attachment space between human beings as a middle term preventing its implosion or dissolution and conferring a stability that befits the concept of home. The interstitial space between loving human persons subsists both anthropologically and pneumatologically and generates the self’s home.

Bringing Spirit Back In, the Vedic Way

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramashray Roy
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
The West ◽  
Indian Psychology ◽  
Spiritual Psychology ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Human Psyche

The author engages with recent attempts to develop an Indian psychology and develops a strong case for a spiritual psychology. The article discusses the evolution of the science in the West to point out that spirituality fell by the wayside because modern science accepted a model of man which denies its connection with the divine. Modern Indian psychology has also adopted this approach. Vedic texts are privileged by the author to argue for the fusion of psychological science and spirituality which are seen as complementary and also to understand human psyche and consciousness better.

Una Mirada Hacia Adentro

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Magdalena Figueroa
Keyword(s):  
Human Love ◽  
Extensive Collection

Reading each letter, each comma and each verse of this collection of poems is an explosion of feelings. It is a journey through the deepest reflection of human love and pain. From the first poem to the last letter, the reader embarks on a journey to infinity; that which is the internal universe. Ultimately, there is no more exquisite way than to spill your soul, mind and heart on one page. And it is what the poet does in this extensive collection of poems.

scholarly journals Spatial-temporal principles of the symbols of Ukrainian sacred art

1999 ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
O. Ishchenko
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Art ◽  
Divine Essence ◽  
Space And Time

Understanding Ukrainian sacred art is impossible without understanding how ancient Ukrainians felt space and time, transformed and materialized this understanding in signs, the most ancient among which is the circle, square and cross. These symbols are universal spatial and temporal signs that play the role of archetypes and have deep pre-Christian roots and origins. Their original, cosmological essence of the understanding of nature, the desire to convey the divine essence through comprehension of space and time converges the sacred art of the Christian, Hindu and Islamic worlds.

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