Spanish Christian Cabala : the works of Luis de León, Santa Teresa de Jesús, and San Juan de la Cruz

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-220) and index.Swietlicki explores the works of three major writers of the Spanish Renaissance, and their relationship with the Jewish mystical tradition known as Cabala within the Christian tradition in sixteenth century Spain.Christian Cabala in the Renaissance: An overview -- The Diffusion of Christian Cabala in Renaissance culture -- Santa Teresa de Jesus: Christian Cabalism and mystical symbolism -- Fray Luis de Leon: Christian Cabala in De los nombres de Cristo -- Cabalistic symbolism in Luis de Leon's Original Verse -- The Christian Cabala of San Juan de la Cruz and of the mystical union -- Conclusion: The Christian Cabala of spiritual renewal and apologetics in literature.Digitized at the University of Missouri--Columbia MU Libraries Digitization Lab in 2013. Digitized at 600 dpi with Zeutschel, OS 15000 scanner. Access copy, available in MOspace, is 400 dpi, grayscale

The Rise of Eurocentrism: Anatomy of Interpretation

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/149463/1/1993_Lambropoulos_TheRiseofEurocentrism.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/149463/3/license_rdf.rdfDescription of 1993_Lambropoulos_TheRiseofEurocentrism.pdf : Boo

Orientalism, Alterity and Social Identity : A historical analysis of the socio-psychological and socio-cultural dimensions of Afrikaner Nationalism, Antisemitism, and Jewish Identity in South Africa in the 1930s to the 1960s.

Dissertation (MA (History))--University of Pretoria, 2021.This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of Orientalism, Alterity and Social Identity. It provides an intricate historical, socio-psychological and philosophical analysis of cross-temporal, global antisemitism as a component of Orientalism, and how this historical Orientalist discourse taking the form of the subjugation and oppression of Jews throughout history culminated in a very particular historic consciousness that, at least to an extent, determined a particular social dilleniatieon of Jewish identity in 20th century South Africa before and during Apartheid. The study first provides an explanation of the theoretical and methodological means by which it would analyse historical subject matter and reach conclusions; the study will focus on a poststructuralist theoretical analysis of antisemitism and Afrikaner identity, and display the seminal importance of alterity as a core socio-psychological phenomena to understand the way social identity is constructed. The study will also focus on Social Identity Theory (SIT) to display the way in which identity is constructed collectively according to the disciplinary analysis of social psychology. The study then provides a sweeping analysis of antisemitism from antiquity straight through to apartheid South Africa, encompassing antisemitism during the antiquarian, early-Christian, Medeival, Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment eras. The study displays how antisemitism thrived on a universal discourse of alterity in pagan, religious and scientific/pseudo-scientific narratives throughout a trimillennial period, the same discourse of alterity inherent in Orientalism as a study of the lopsided relationship of power between the Orient and the Occident. The study then gives an analysis of the rise of Afrikaner social identity in South Africa, and how its rise to power in the 20th century was imbedded in the same discourses of alterity fuelled by similar religious and pseudo-scientific narratives based on arbitrary social-denominators of race and ethnicity as was the Orientalist antisemitism studied in previous chapters. The study then analysis the rise of antisemitism in South Africa, and how it culminated in a brief period of volatile antisemitism in the 1930s and 1940s. The study then concludes by analysing the specific tangent in which Jewish identity was constructed in South Africa during Apartheid following the large-scale oppression of the country's native population by means of discourses remarkably similar to those that legitimated antisemitism for almost three millennia.Historical and Heritage StudiesMA (History)Unrestricte

Figure of Lilith and the feminine demonic in early modern literature

To mark its 250th anniversary in 2002, the British Museum decided to make one of the earliest existent depictions of Lilith, or Astarte, its chief acquisition. Called The Burney Relief —after Sidney Burney, who had purchased it in 1935— it was purchased in June 2003 from a Mr Sakamoto at the price of ₤1,500,000. To celebrate its entrance into the museum's collections, it was renamed the “Queen of the Night” by the British Museum (Collon 2005 511). It has been connected to feminine divine and demonic figures, such as Ishtar, Lilith, Astarte, and has been called “Queen of the Underworld” (Collon 2007 50). My thesis looks at these figures of the feminine demonic and the evolution of occult philosophy, and particularly demonology, within Early Modern England, and how demonological studies influenced and were influenced by current sociopolitical climates. Within much occult writing, nonChristian sources (including preChristian philosophy and Hebraic Cabala) were incorporated into the Christian world view, and affected Christian systems of angelic hierarchies and man's place within these hierarchies. English occult thought was influenced by continental writers and philosophers such as Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Leon Modena. One figure, in particular, featured strongly in many of the demonological writings which were making their way into English occultism: Lilith. When dealing with issues of political and sexual power, Lilith often appears as a focal point for philosophers as they attempt to discover links between gender, demons, and evil. This thesis examines the feminine demonic and the figure of Lilith in the art and literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, looking both at the occult practioners John Dee, Simon Forman, and Edward Kelley, and at the literary traditions that came out of that occult philosophy. It explores how Lilith manifests in literature which tries to address anxieties surrounding the feminine demonic and sexuality, and the implications of a demonic, political inversion. Lilith and the feminine demonic are seen to be relevant to the works of Ben Jonson, James VI and I, Thomas Dekker, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and John Selden, with a final chapter examining the evidence of Lilith in Milton's poetry, and in particular, Milton's Paradise Lost

Freud\u27s Dream of Interpretation

Frieden explores methods of dream interpretation in the Bible, the Talmud, and in the writings of Sugmund Freud, and brings to light Freud\u27s Troubled relationship to his Judaic forerunners. This book reveals unfamiliar associations in intellectual history and challenges received ideas in biblical, Talmudic, and Freudian scholarship.https://surface.syr.edu/books/1011/thumbnail.jp

Justice and boundaries in ancient stories : guidance for modern bioethics

We can find in ancient and Biblical literature certain values that are of the lineage shared by much of Western culture today. Because of their persistence, they comprise part of what Hilary Putnam calls the \u27moral image\u27 we· have of ourselves. Knowing that these values have endured enables us to claim more justification in employing them in discussions of moral dilemmas today. Mere persistence, however, does not ensure that a value should continue to be honored. Some long-honored values have persistently led to human suffering. Still, the continuity of values over time suggests that they may offer insight into norms of human nature that should be taken seriously. We get information from the culture\u27s stories about when violations of these values lead either to human suffering or human thriving. If we are sufficiently attentive to the various currents of the West\u27s canonic literature-new and old-it may be possible to · begin sorting out which values we should set aside and which we should keep as part of our \u27moral image.\u2

Political Responsibility for a Globalised World: After Levinas' Humanism

The aim of this book is to reflect on the complex practice of responsibility within the context of a globalised world and contemporary means of action. Levinas' exploration of the ethical serves as point of entry and is shown to be seeking inter-cultural political relevance through engagement with the issues of postcoloniality and humanism. Yet, Levinas fails to realise the ethical implications of the inevitable instrumental mediation between ethical meaning and political practice. With recourse to Weber, Apel and Ricoeur, the author proposes a theory of strategic co-responsibility for the uncertain global context of practice

The "Avant-Garde" Theology of George Tyrrell: Its Philosophical Roots Changed My Theological Thinking.

My contention for many years has been that theological problems are first, and principally philosophical problems and need to be addressed as such. It is unfortunate that, at this time, in the development of religious ideas in the Western context, the place of philosophy in relation to theology seems to have been usurped to a great extent by sociology and psychology. I hold that the needed scientific philosophy must be a reasoned philosophy, but one that is not necessarily rooted in Greek classical thought