scholarly journals Jung, Aquinas, and the Aurora Consurgens:  Establishing a Relationship with God

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Barrie Davis
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Similar Process ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Medieval Text ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Trinity

<p>The reunion of a man with God is the subject of a medieval text which aggregates excerpts from the Bible and Arabic alchemical texts that had recently become available in Europe. The Aurora Consurgens personifies God as Wisdom, a spiritual being who not only formed the world in the beginning but is also a guide to men to return to God subsequent to their separation at the Fall. The union of feminine Wisdom and a man is aligned with pairs of opposites such as spirit and soul, and is also conflated with the union of a man and a woman. While the text is perhaps falsely ascribed to St. Thomas, it is consistent with his ideas so that it may be explicated using his writings on the Trinity, psychology, angels, and Greek philosophy. From there, correspondence is established with C. G. Jung‘s concept of archetypes, and the text is subsequently interpreted from the perspective of analytical psychology. It is identified how interaction of archetypes associated with the union of a man and a woman provide an explanation for the process of redemption given in the Aurora. A similar process of redemption is identified in other writings from the beginning of the Christian era up to the modern teachings of the Catholic Church.</p>

scholarly journals Jung, Aquinas, and the Aurora Consurgens:  Establishing a Relationship with God

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Barrie Davis
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Similar Process ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Medieval Text ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Trinity

<p>The reunion of a man with God is the subject of a medieval text which aggregates excerpts from the Bible and Arabic alchemical texts that had recently become available in Europe. The Aurora Consurgens personifies God as Wisdom, a spiritual being who not only formed the world in the beginning but is also a guide to men to return to God subsequent to their separation at the Fall. The union of feminine Wisdom and a man is aligned with pairs of opposites such as spirit and soul, and is also conflated with the union of a man and a woman. While the text is perhaps falsely ascribed to St. Thomas, it is consistent with his ideas so that it may be explicated using his writings on the Trinity, psychology, angels, and Greek philosophy. From there, correspondence is established with C. G. Jung‘s concept of archetypes, and the text is subsequently interpreted from the perspective of analytical psychology. It is identified how interaction of archetypes associated with the union of a man and a woman provide an explanation for the process of redemption given in the Aurora. A similar process of redemption is identified in other writings from the beginning of the Christian era up to the modern teachings of the Catholic Church.</p>

scholarly journals L’homme Dans La Bıble Et Le Coran

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-482
Author(s):  
Sabri Hizmetli
Keyword(s):  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

In this article, we have tried to study the different philosophised and the different religious conceptions concerning the homme and his nature, his origin and his creation in the Bible and in the Coran. The homme is the source of very thing and everything. He is large of the everyone in the world of livings things. The homme directs and serves them for his good and to enforce his slavery and his duties toward the creator. Therefore, he is being great and excellent among all being created. The homme is not created aimlessly; on the contrary it was created to serve God and to know each other his entourage and to get to know those around him and the worlds of living beings. Religions, philosophical currents, thought systems and thinkers gave great importance to the question of existence. In the earliest times, the ancient Greek thinkers Plotin, Aristotle and so on, Muslim philosophers such as Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes discussed the subject of being in all aspects. The philosophers generally accepted distinction between being and body. Likewise, they divide the asset into possible, compulsory and impossible parts. The most important factor of not being very important theme is to prove the existence of God. In fact, when working on Farabi being, he says that his aim is God is obligatory being. In order to realize this aim, he tries to bring Greek philosophy and Islam thought closer and reconcile.

Duchowe rozmowy z Ojcem. Wartości kulturowe i literackie w poezji Wojciecha Kudyby

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 175-194
Author(s):  
Rafał Brasse
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way ◽  
Spiritual Relationship

The subject of my research interests in this article is a poem by Wojciech Kudyba titled “Dzie-sięć słów Ojca” (Ten words of the Father), whose philosophical and religious dimension directs our attention to the personalism which was close to John Paul II’s convictions. Kudyba is a poet of reflection, philosophical and religious pondering on the meaning of existence. This is evidenced by clear allusions and references to the Bible, as well as the relational character of the work, focused on building a spiritual relationship. In the analyzed poem, there is a strong desire to establish a spiritual relationship, a deep, intimate relationship with God. The world of spiritual experiences presented in this way finds its peculiar expression in the language of poetic images. The desire to meet the Father somehow anchors faith in a dream. While interpreting Kudyba’s poem, I will not be dealing with the problem of sacrum in literature. I will rather refer to the way in which the well-known archetypes and symbols function in poetry. I will be interested in the acts of creative consciousness, heading for sublimation, or creation of substitute reality. Since sublimation is the dominant and constitutive feature of poetry in the dimension of a peculiar experience of emotionally designed reality, I will try to enrich the leading structural analysis in this work with a few threads (or perhaps insights) derived from Gaston Bachelard’s epistemology.

scholarly journals Knowing the Father

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David. T. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Charismatic Movement ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Greek Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Trinity

The emergence of the Charismatic movement has generated a new awareness and interest in the Person and work of the Holy Spirit, but has also brought a realisation that there is a still-neglected Person of the Trinity, the Father. Part of the reason for this lies in the historical development in the doctrine of the Trinity, which led to a belief that external actions of God are not differentiated between the Persons, and also in the fact that the Father only generally acts in the world by Son and Spirit, so has no clear role. It seems natural to attribute creation to the Father, but even here, the Bible sees the Son as the actual creator. Nevertheless, the Father can be seen as the source of the concepts and means behind the material; interestingly there are hints of this in classical Greek thought and other faiths. This is ongoing, perhaps particularly in the evolutionary process of the world. Thus, paralleling the incarnation, the Father is present in the material universe, as its ethos. He can also be seen to be affected by creation, sharing in its nature in his kenōsis, and in its suffering. Creation then inspires a sense of wonder not only from its existence, extent and nature, but from its interactions and underlying concepts; this is worship of the Father. Sin is then when this is overlooked, or when actions disrupt it; these are an offence to the Father.

Fr. Tadeusz Sroka. Dziennik izraelski czyli religijny wymiar ludzkiego losu (An Israeli diary, or the religious dimension of man's fate). Warsaw: Spokania. 1985.

2004 ◽  
pp. 411-415
Author(s):  
Stanisław Krajewski
Keyword(s):  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The World

This chapter looks at Fr. Tadeusz Sroka's An Israeli Diary, or the Religious Dimension of Man's Fate (1985). An Israeli Diary takes the form of excerpts from a diary written in the years 1970–71. Each entry opens with press news about political events in the Middle East, followed by pondering over the Bible or the fate of the Jewish people. There are hardly any data concerning contemporary Israel, except a few facts showing Arab intransigence and the hopeless situation of Israel ‘in human terms’. The author says very little about Jewish history and nothing about Judaism; the Talmud is not mentioned, even in places where it could have been useful, for example in reflecting on capital punishment. The author's perspective is metaphysical; he assumes that the election of Israel is eternal. This, incidentally, is the official standpoint of the Catholic Church today, confirmed more than once by John Paul II. As a result, Israel is seen as the centre of the world. Next, the fate of the Jews reveals the ultimate perspectives of the human condition: on one pole the Holocaust, on the other the re-creation of the state by visionaries, in defiance of reason. Israel is a sign for the world, and today's secular Israel is an appropriate sign for the contemporary materialistic world.

4. The religions of Abraham

2014 ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
John Bowker
Keyword(s):  
Relationship With God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Trinity

‘The religions of Abraham: Christian understandings of God’ looks at Christianity beginning with its development from its Jewish Bible roots. Christianity began as one interpretation among many at that time of what it should mean to live in the Covenant relationship with God. Jesus' followers believed that Jesus, with whom they had lived and knew so well, was God in their midst. The Jewish understanding of God as One, the Creator of all things and of all people, did not change, but what did was their understanding of who God is and of how God is related to the world. The questions of Christology, Atonement, and the Trinity are then discussed.

Biblical Lessons on Third-Party Reproduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Richard Whitekettle ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
The Public ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Sperm Donors ◽  
The World ◽  
Third Party Reproduction ◽  
The Subject

Third-party reproduction uses ovum donors, sperm donors, embryo donors, and gestational surrogates in various combinations to create a child for heterosexual couples, same-sex couples, and individuals to raise. Its use is increasing in the United States and around the world, and it is increasingly the subject of legislation. But third-party reproduction tells the individuals who provide the ovum, sperm, and gestation required to create a child that they are reproductive mechanisms, not reproductive persons. By contrast, multiple stories in the Bible involving third-party reproduction recognize the motherhood and fatherhood, and thus the reproductive personhood, of those whose sexual union brings forth a new child. This is an important point for people of faith and the public to be mindful of.

scholarly journals The Revelatory Text and the prologue of the Gospel of Luke

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huub Welzen
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Gospel Of Luke ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Lectio Divina ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Spiritual Reading

The first print of the book of Sandra Schneiders, The Revelatory Text, appeared more than 25 years ago. With the help of the hermeneutic theories of Gadamer and Ricoeur, she proposes a kind of exegesis that integrates scholarly methods and spiritual reading. In this article we investigate how the model of Sandra Schneiders is congruent with the old intuition of the lectio divina. We compare the model of Schneiders with the systematisation of the lectio divina by Guigo II, the Carthusian. As a result, we see in the text of Guigo the pre-understanding of the Carthusian spiritual life at work. And as a result we also recognise Schneiders’ transformative understanding of the subject matter of the text in the phase of the oratio and the comtemplatio. In the model of Guigo, there is also room for critical analysis in the phase of the meditation. We investigate also if the Bible itself gives indications for the kind of exegesis Schneiders proposes. What Schneiders says about pre-understanding is present in the prologue of the Gospel of Luke. Luke considers the story he tells as a history guided by God. What Luke tells about the genesis of his text belongs to the world behind the text. The world of the text is present as a well-ordered world. Luke speaks also about the transformation of the reader. In this, we recognise what Schneiders says about the world before the text and the transformative understanding of the subject matter of the text. We conclude that the model of Schneiders is innovative in relation of common academic exegesis. It is rooted in the tradition of Christian spiritual reading, and it is present in those biblical texts which indicate how to read.

scholarly journals Aspects of political theology in the spiritual autobiography of Dag Hammarskjöld

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Morariu Iuliu-Marius
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
English Version ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Spiritual Autobiography ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Short Presentation ◽  
Dag Hammarskjold

An important personality of the Swedish cultural space and of the world diplomatic space, Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961), left to posterity, besides his literary works, his economic and diplomatic contributions, the most important spiritual autobiography from the Swedish protestant space of the 20th century. Discovered shortly after his death and published by his disciples in 1963 in an English version in London (at Faber and Faber Publishing House), Markings presents the struggle of the author with himself, illustrated in a great diversity of styles, from haiku poems to short meditations, pastels (lyrics or prose), biblical exegeses and so on. Apart from the description of his spiritual life, his relationship with God, or his conception of spiritual issues, the work also contains some interesting references to aspects of political theology. These aspects represent the subject of our research. After a short presentation of his life and activity and of the influence of his family on his education, we will try to present the way in which aspects of political theology are emphasised in the aforementioned work and which are some important elements of the author’s conception of this subject. In this respect, we will resort not only to his spiritual autobiography, but also to the most important writings about him, published by specialists in diplomacy, literature and politics. Unfortunately, it is difficult to find theologians who wrote about his spiritual autobiography (except some who talk about him in theological dictionaries). Therefore, one of the main strengths of this research will be the fact that it presents a theological approach to Dag Hammarskjöld.

Horace Bushnell: Orthodox or Sabellian?

1964 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Fred Kirschenmann
Keyword(s):  
The Bible ◽  
Yale College ◽  
Horace Bushnell ◽  
The World ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
In Christ ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

In 1848 Horace Bushnell delivered a lecture at Yale College entitled “The Divinity of Christ,” in which he set forth, for the first time, his views on the doctrine of the Trinity. A year later, this lecture and two others (“The Atonement” and “Dogma and Spirit”) appeared in a book entitled God in Christ. The book was prefaced with a preliminary dissertation on language. Almost immediately the critics assailed Bushnell for his Sabellian views on the Trinity. The Christian Observatory charged him with rejecting the “… commonly received doctrine of a proper Trinity in the Godhead, substituting for it a Pantheistic form of Sabellianism.” The Bible Repertory and Princeton Review, concurring in this judgment, indicated that “This, true enough, is the Sabellianism of Schleiermacher—a threefold revelation of God in the world, in Christ, and in the church.”

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