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One of themost unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolificSyrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-?Ala? al-Ma?arri (d. 449 H/1057 AD), to aletter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qarih. With biting irony, The Epistle of Forgiveness mocks Ibnal-Qarih’s hypocrisy and sycophancy by imagining he has died and arrived withsome difficulty in Heaven, where he meets famous poets and philologists fromthe past. He also glimpses Hell, and converses with the Devil and variousheretics. Al-Ma?arri—a maverick, a vegan, and often branded a heretichimself—seems to mock popular ideas about the Hereafter. This second volume is a point-by-point reply to Ibnal-Qarih’s letter using al-Ma?arri’s characteristic mixture of erudition,irony, and admonition, enlivened with anecdotes and poems. Among other things,he writes about hypocrites; heretical poets, princes, rebels, and mystics;apostates; piety; superstition; the plight of men of letters; collaborativeauthorship; wine-drinking; old age; repentance; pre-Islamic pilgrimage customs;and money. This remarkable book is the first complete translation in anylanguage, all the more impressive because of al-Ma?arri’s highly ornate anddifficult style, his use of rhymed prose, and numerous obscure words andexpressions.
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Frequently, alleged irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion are instead misdescribed battles concerning negotiable philosophical assumptions - conflicts between metaphysics and metaphysics. Hud Hudson provides a two-stage illustration of this claim with respect to the putative inconsistency between the doctrines of The Fall and Original Sin and the deliverances of contemporary science. The tension in question emerges through a study of the many forms the religious doctrines have assumed over the centuries and through a review of some well-established scientific lessons on the origin and history of the universe and of human persons. The first stage: After surveying various paths of retreat which involve reinterpreting and impoverishing Original Sin and minimizing and dehistoricizing The Fall, one version of moderate realism about the doctrines is articulated, critically evaluated, and found both consistent with contemporary science and suitable to play a crucial role in the theist's confrontation with the Problem of Evil. The second stage: Recent work in the philosophy of time and in the philosophy of religion provides intriguing support for a Hypertime Hypothesis (a species of multiverse hypothesis), distinctive for positing a series of successive hypertimes, each of which hosts a spacetime block. After arguing that the Hypertime Hypothesis is a genuine epistemic possibility and critically discussing its impact on a number of debates in metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Hudson reveals a strategy for unabashed, extreme literalism concerning The Fall and Original Sin which nevertheless has the extraordinary and delightful feature of being thoroughly consistent with the reigning scientific orthodoxy.
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S'appuyant sur la Bible, l'auteur, docteur en philosophie et prêtre, propose une analyse de la notion du mal : l'origine, les implications psychologiques et sociales, les réponses de l'Eglise et des philosophes.
Good and evil --- Sin. --- Bien et mal --- Péché --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme
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The biblical-theological approach Boda takes in this work is canonical-thematic, tracing the presentation of the theology of sin and its remedy in the canonical form and shape of the Old Testament. The hermeneutical foundations for this enterprise have been laid by others in past decades, especially by Brevard Childs in his groundbreaking work. But A Severe Mercy also reflects recent approaches to integrating biblical understanding with other methodologies in addition to Childs’s. Thus, it enters the imaginative space of the ancient canon of the Old Testament in order to highlight the “word views” and “literary shapes” of the “texts taken individually and as a whole collection.” For the literary shape of the individual texts, it places the “word views” of the dominant expressions and images, as well as various passages, in the larger context of the biblical books in which they are found. For the literary shape of the texts as a collection, it identifies key subthemes and traces their development through the Old Testament canon. The breadth of Boda’s study is both challenging and courageous, resulting in the first comprehensive examination of the topic in the 21st century.
Sin --- Atonement --- Biblical teaching. --- Bible. -- O.T. -- Theology. --- Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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brainwashing --- Apocalypse --- Christian commune --- the Bible --- school --- sin --- God --- escaping cults --- Jesus --- religion --- testimony
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This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication.Docherty outlines a philosophy of confession that has pertinence for a contemporary political culture based on the notion of ‘transparency'. In a postmodern ‘transparent society', the self coincides with its self-representations. Such a position is central to the idea of authenticity and truth-telling in confessional writing: it is the basis of saying, truthfully, ‘here I take my stand'.The question is: what other consequences might there be of an assumption of the primacy of transparency? Two areas are examined in detail: the religious and the judicial. Docherty shows that despite the tendency to regard transparency as a general social and ethical good, our contemporary culture of transparency has engendered a society in which autonomy (or the very authority of the subject that proclaims ‘I confess') is grounded in guilt, reparation and victimhood.
Philosophy of mind. --- Confession. --- Auricular confession --- Church discipline --- Forgiveness of sin --- Absolution --- Penance --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Philosophy --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology
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Die erste Frau in der Bibel (»EVA« Gen 1-3) ist in der christlichen Geschichte und Tradition weitgehend zu einer negativen Figur geformt worden, zum Symbol für die Unzuverlässigkeit von Frauen, zur Verführerin und Ursache allen Übels.Diese Tradition ist auch heute noch nicht verschwunden. Die abendländische Philosophie, die stark dualistisch geprägt war - etwa mit den Gegensätzen Himmel/Erde, Geist/Körper, stark/schwach, Mann/Frau - hat dem weiblichen Teil immer die schlechtere Seite zugewiesen, die bessere dem Mann. Feministische Theologie und Genderforschung haben mittlerweile aber zu einem ganzheitlichen Verständnis von Körper, Leiblichkeit, Sexualität und Geschlechterrollen beigetragen. So ist es an der Zeit, Eva vor diesem Hintergrund neu zu betrachten. An den Bibeltexten selbst hat sich nichts geändert, aber das Bewusstsein einer einseitig auf den Mann fixierten Auslegung und ihrer Folgen ist gewachsen. Nicht nur bei Frauen, auch bei Männern. Ein neuer Blick auf die Texte selbst zeigt, dass die biblischen Verfasser nicht so frauenfeindlich waren, wie es oft dargestellt wird. Nur eine tendenziöse Auslegung, die die Vormachtstellung des Mannes stärken sollte, hat sie dazu gemacht.
Eve --- Bible OT. Pentateuch. Genesis --- 221-055.2 --- 222.2 --- 221-055.2 Vrouwen in het Oude Testament --- Vrouwen in het Oude Testament --- Genesis --- Fall of man. --- Man, Fall of --- Sin --- Sin, Original --- חוה --- Ḥaṿah --- Ḥawwāh --- Khavah --- حواء --- Ḥawwāʼ --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Altes Testament --- Bibel --- Bibeln --- Buch der Bücher --- Geschichte der Religion --- Heilige Schrift --- Religionsgeschichte
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Hobbes's concept of the natural condition of mankind became an inescapable point of reference for subsequent political thought, shaping the theories of emulators and critics alike, and has had a profound impact on our understanding of human nature, anarchy, and international relations. Yet, despite Hobbes's insistence on precision, the state of nature is an elusive concept. Has it ever existed and, if so, for whom? Hobbes offered several answers to these questions, which taken together reveal a consistent strategy aimed at providing his readers with a possible, probable, and memorable account of the consequences of disobedience. This book examines the development of this powerful image throughout Hobbes's works, and traces its origins in his sources of inspiration. The resulting trajectory of the state of nature illuminates the ways in which Hobbes employed a rhetoric of science and a science of rhetoric in his relentless pursuit of peace.
Natural law. --- Fall of man. --- Nature and civilization. --- Civilization and nature --- Civilization --- Man, Fall of --- Sin --- Sin, Original --- Law of nature (Law) --- Natural rights --- Nature, Law of (Law) --- Rights, Natural --- Law --- Hobbes, Thomas, --- Hobbes, Thomas --- Gobbs, Tomas, --- Hobbs, Thomas, --- Gobbes, Tomas, --- T. H. --- H., T. --- Hobs, Thomas, --- Hobbes, --- Hobbes, Thom. --- Hobbius, Thomas, --- Hobbuzu, Tomasu, --- Huobusi, --- Hobbs, Tho. --- הובס, תומס, --- 霍布斯, --- ホッブズ, トマス,
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