For theologians, to conceive of God in terms of light has some undeniable advantages, allowing a middle-of-the road position between the two extremes of thinking about God in terms of a purely ...disembodied, unfathomable, unsensible being, and of crediting Him with a body, possibly even a human(oid) body. This paper first reviews the reasons why God, in early medieval Islam, was never fully theorized in terms of light. It then proceeds to discuss light-related narratives in two major, late-medieval compilations of hadiths about the afterlife, by al-Suyuti (Ash’ari, Egypt, d. 1505) and al-Majlisi (Persia, d. 1699), suggesting that eschatology was the area in which God’s light continued to shine in Islam, and the backdoor through which a theology of light, in the thought of al-Suhrawardi (Syria, d. 1191) and his followers, made a triumphant re-entry into Islamic thought.
Una hipótesis inquietante Fonti, Diego
Pensamiento (Madrid),
10/2021, Letnik:
77, Številka:
294
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A menudo se reduce la pregunta por el vínculo de teología y política a situaciones coyunturales y emergentes, ocluyendo así aspectos estructurales de esta relación. La tradición filosófica de la ...teología política fue capaz de formular una teoría de esta relación, que aún hoy muestra su influencia. El objetivo de este trabajo es indagar filosóficamente en qué medida la obra de Levinas, explícitamente refractario a teología y política, puede ubicarse en esa tradición al mantener estructuralmente algunos de sus aspectos esenciales. La excepción, la decisión y la escatología pueden identificarse en Levinas, quien opera sobre ellos una resignificación radical. Esta resignificación es valiosa en tanto que permite mantener las demandas de la teología política en un período donde no es pensable la unicidad religiosa ni axiológica, y donde la democracia se muestra menesterosa de una fundamentación que la oriente hacia las demandas de justicia e igualdad radical.
Purgatory and Hell in Medieval Female Mystics’ Visions Mąkosa, Paweł
The person and the challenges : the journal of theology, education, canon law, and social studies inspired by Pope John Paul II,
04/2024, Letnik:
14, Številka:
1
Journal Article
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Death and the afterlife have always evoked both fear and hope among people. Consequently, they have endeavoured to gain a deeper understanding of what lies beyond life’s earthly realm. Christian ...teachings and the official doctrine of the Church offer a broad overview of this reality, leaving room for an expectation of a more detailed explanation of the fate that awaits individuals after death. Female mystics, particularly those who lived during the late Middle Ages, played significant roles in elucidating these destinies. Their visions and subsequent writings contain a wealth of details concerning the nature of eternal life, providing meticulous descriptions of the places and events that unfold after death. This article delves into their visions of purgatory and hell, examining their relationship with the official Catholic doctrine.
Death and the afterlife have always evoked both fear and hope among people. Consequently, they have endeavoured to gain a deeper understanding of what lies beyond life’s earthly realm. Christian teachings and the official doctrine of the Church offer a broad overview of this reality, leaving room for an expectation of a more detailed explanation of the fate that awaits individuals after death. Female mystics, particularly those who lived during the late Middle Ages, played significant roles in elucidating these destinies. Their visions and subsequent writings contain a wealth of details concerning the nature of eternal life, providing meticulous descriptions of the places and events that unfold after death. This article delves into their visions of purgatory and hell, examining their relationship with the official Catholic doctrine.
Part and parcel of the eschatology of the three Abrahamic faiths is the belief that sin and evil will be eliminated upon the consummation of God’s kingdom on earth. Not only do these beliefs affirm ...that God will ultimately “deal” with the problem of sin and evil, but that sin and evil will be no more. I refer to this eschatological belief as “the elimination of evil” (EOE). The EOE has important implications for how one understands the ontology of time. In this paper, I contribute to this discussion by arguing that ontologies of time that affirm the concrete existence of past moments are incompatible with the EOE. I also argue that solutions based on theories of hypertime, such as those posited by Tyron Goldschmidt and Samuel Lebens, also fail to solve the problems posed to those ontologies of time affirming the concrete existence of the past. I conclude that the ontology of time that best facilitates the EOE is presentism.
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