scholarly journals "WELCOME, MY SISTER DEATH!" A Reflection Inspired by St. Francis Experiences of Death

LOGOS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Largus Nadeak
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
World Views

The understanding of  death varies depending on peoples world views and religious beliefs. The undersanding and the experiences of St. Francis of death is interseting to reflect. He accepted death as a part of human existence, so at the approach of his death he said, “Welcome, my sister death!” Francis’ view about death was transformed by his experiences of faith and fraternal worldview. Byreflecting death inspired by St. Francis’ experiences of death we prepare ourselves to accept our death. Death is not our enemy, but a part of our human existence. In our death we will rest in peace.

Mizo Beliefs and the Christian Gospel: Their Interaction with Reference to the Concepts of Health and Healing

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Ngursangzeli Behera
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
World Views ◽  
Concepts Of Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Evil Spirits ◽  
Health And Healing ◽  
Gospel Message ◽  
Christian Beliefs

The Mizos of northeast India have their own unique culture and society with indigenous religious beliefs that were closely linked with their everyday needs and their world-views. For the Mizos the world was inhabited by spirits, some benevolent and some evil. The evil spirits were believed to cause all kinds of illnesses and misfortunes, and in order to recover from such illnesses the evil spirits had to be placated by sacrifices known as inthawina which can be understood as ‘ceremonial cures’. The Mizos lived in fear, always afraid of evil spirits, and their religious energies were centred on propitiating these evil spirits through frequent sacrifices. The Puithiams (priests) would officiate at such events. Christianity brought inevitable change in the Mizos' religious and world-views. Nevertheless, many of the existing pre-Christian beliefs of Mizo society were adopted or modified by missionaries to help the Mizos to understand more fully Christian concepts and beliefs, especially with reference to the concepts of health and healing. It can also be argued that pre-Christian social, religious and cultural beliefs carried in them ‘theologies of life’ which were adopted by missionaries or those spreading the gospel message, thus allowing these practices, as well as Christian doctrines themselves, to be seen in a new light.

(Re-)Creating Order: Narrativity and Implied World Views in Pictures

Tekstualia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (43) ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
Michael Ranta
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Art History ◽  
Schema Theory ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
World Views ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
High Level

The philosophical debate on the nature of narrative has been mainly concerned with literary narratives, whereas forms of non-literary and especially pictorial narrativity have been rather neglected. Within traditional art history, however, the narrative potential of the visual arts has usually been taken for granted, though rarely by attempting to elucidate any deeper cognitive, semiotic, and philosophical aspects involved. Now, generally speaking, narratives contribute to the human endeavour to reduce the unpredictability of worldly changes, and human existence in particular, attempting to establish order in our experiences of transitoriness and existential vulnerability. The paper discusses some possible criteria of narrativity with regard to their applicability to pictorial objects. It demonstrates thatpictorial works may express or imply high- -level narrative structures or, put in another way, wider world views or schemata, and that our comprehension of and need for these schemata can be explained by taking recent research within cognitive psychology, schema theory, and narratology into account.

Religion, Reason and Ninian Smart

1973 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-227
Author(s):  
Julie Gowen
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
A Priori ◽  
World Views

The major religions are committed to incompatible world-views. Are there criteria available on the basis of which we can rationally decide among these sets of religious beliefs? Ninian Smart in Reasons and Faiths assumes that there is no a priori reason to suppose that such criteria are not possible or unavailable, and sets out a procedure for the justification of religious beliefs which primarily, though not exclusively, depends upon an appeal to religious experience. In this paper I wish to appraise the results of applying his criteria to different sets of religious beliefs and, in addition, I wish to appraise these criteria.

scholarly journals NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS SECURITY OF BELORUSSIA

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Dimitrij K. Beznjuk ◽  
Zoran Milošević
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Human Values ◽  
World Views ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
New Religions ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Eu

Author of the article stated, on the basis of arguments, as well as on the basis of freedom of opinion and religious beliefs, that a state, in its orientation toward adoption of democratic and universal human values, is not obligated to sacrify its national and cultural particularities for the sake of impersonal cosmopolitan schemes. The author argues so on the ground that in eff ect it has been proven that a democratic state is capable of adopting freedom of opinion as an international standard while not putting on risk its own ethno-confessional and cultural particularity. This is a very important issue, considering the fact that imperilment of national security of the states in the East, especially of Belorussia, has been continuously going on from direction of the USA and the EU, through claims that freedom of opinion and religious beliefs has been violated in this state. Analysis of conditions in the USA and the EU, as well as in Belorussia, points out that Belorussia has been respecting international standards regarding freedom of opinion and religious beliefs just as much as these states which assumed the status of developed and democratic ones. In the end of the article, the author presented his classifi cation of new religions by their most obvious diff erences – in their dogmatic and ideological world views.

scholarly journals From the emergent property of consciousness to the emergence of the immaterial soul or mind’s substance

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Ebadi ◽  
Mohammadmahdi Amoosoltani
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Emergent Property ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Mulla Sadra ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
First Person Perspective ◽  
Religious Morality

According to property-emergentism, consciousness is an emergent property of certain aggregate neurological constructions, whereas substance-emergentism maintains that the emergence of consciousness depends on the emergence of mental substance or soul. In this article, we presented some arguments supporting substance-emergentism by analysing various properties of consciousness, including the first-person perspective, referral state, qualia, being active, causative, non-atomic, interpretative, inferential and inventive (emanative and innovative). We also explored the impossibility of representing big images on the small monitor and the incapacity of physical entities being conscious because of their intrinsic multiplicity, absence and deficiency. These arguments, which apply the philosophy of Mulla Sadra, could be considered by philosophers of mind and religion, as well as theologians who follow some religious beliefs such as the afterlife on existence and survival of the soul. Also, we attempted to respond to property-emergentists’ objections to substance-emergentism.Contribution: This research contributes to prove and accept the emergence of the immaterial soul after the stages of natural evolution of the body. It uses the basics of emergentism, including natural evolution, to link science and religion in believing the existence of the immaterial soul. Demonstrating the immaterial reality of human existence provides the ground for theological issues such as afterlife and religious morality.

Balancing life and death: Hope and despair

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM BREITBART
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Life And Death

We are born. We live. We die. In between birth and death is a life that is filled with joy and sadness, laughter and tears, tragedy and triumph, suffering and healing. This life can be long or short in duration. The events in our lives can be given meaning or appear to be absent of meaning. The events in our lives can be given value and judged as “good” or “bad,” “just” or “unjust,” or they can be interpreted as random valueless events. One's perspective on these aspects and events of human existence are often shaped by our religious beliefs (or lack of them), our experiences, and our instincts. Ultimately, however, the task of every human being is to find the means by which one can live a mortal life that is inevitably characterized by finiteness and the existential truths that have been described above. Simply put, the challenge of life is to learn how to balance hope and despair, to learn how to live with the inevitability of death and suffering.

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