The widespread abandonment of the search for foundations by John Rawls, Richard Rorty, Michael Oakeshott, and the deconstructionists has been interpreted as signifying the absence of any sustaining inner resources. The result has been the confusion of contemporary liberal democratic self-understanding, which cannot make sense of its own extraordinary historical success nor apparently prevent the evident unraveling of its own moral code.

Despite the criticism of his peers and the inattention of his successors, Alexandru Xenopol provided Romanian nationalistic historiography with a greater measure of respectability, especially with the general public. By the time of WWI a strong sense of national identity had become entrenched as an intellectually respectable mentality among Romania’s literate classes. This book examines Xenopol’s participation in the creation of this mentality in Romania during decades that were crucial to the development of institutionalized intellectual life and and educted behaviour in that country.

An easily understood though exhaustive study of the spiritual life that is full of learning and that quotes copiously from the Bible; Saints; Fathers and Doctors of the Church and classic spiritual writers. Embued with holiness; the author makes his work come alive with its simplicity and understanding. A veritable encyclopedia of what the Saints and other mystical souls have told us. Remarkably easy to read and to understand.

Plotinus (c.205-70) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, his work posthumously published by Porphyry and divided into six books, nine tractates each, called the Enneads. In this book Majumdar makes a valuable addition to the literature on his work, especially Ennead III.7(45)11-13 - in particular explaining Plotinus' cosmology using the genus-species model of soul, coordinating the literature on the appearance of time and the cosmos with that on the larger issue of Plotinian "emanation" and examining the role of tolma and the restless nature of soul in this conjoint appearance. This book investigates Plotinian "emanation," its laws of poiesis (contemplative making ) and the roles of nature, matter, logos, (rational formative principle) and contemplation and highlights the subtler details of Plotinus' cosmology by disentangling conceptual issues about the nature of soul and self ("we") and their impact on the process of generation of time and the cosmos.

The fourth volume of the Anthology of Philosophy in Persia deals with one of the richest and yet least known periods of philosophical life in Persia, the centuries between the seventh/thirteenth century, that saw the eclipse of the school of Khorosan, and the tenth/sixteenth century that coincided with the rise of the Safavids. The main schools dealt with in this volume are the Peripatetic (mashsha'i) School, the School of Illumination (ishraq) of Suhrawardi, and various forms of philosophical Sufism, especially the school of Ibn 'Arabi, that had its origins in the works of Ghazzali and 'Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani. This period was also notable for the philosopher-scientists such as Nasir al-Din Tusi and Qutb al-Din Shirazi.

“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Table of Contents Orthodox Theologians 3 / Orthodox Theologians about Life after Death 4 / Saint Philaret (Gumilevsky) (1805–1866) 4 / Word on the Afterlife I 5 / Word on the Afterlife II 10 / Professor Viktor Dmitrievich Kudryavtsev-Platonov (1828–1891) 15 / Soul Immortality 19 / I. Ontological Proof of the Immortality of the Soul 22 / II. Psychological Proof of the Immortality of the Soul 50 / III. Teleological Proof of the Immortality of the Soul 84 / IV. Theological Proof of the Immortality of the Soul 129 / Professor, Archpriest Nikolai Petrov (1874–1956) 148 / Life after Death 148 / Literature on the Immortality of the Soul and the Afterlife 247 / Prof. Protopresb. Evgeny Akvilonov (1861–1911) 250 / Immortality 254 / I. Predictions of Science 254 / II. Philosopher's Predictions 266 / III. Voice of Faith 291 / IV. Conditions after Death 308 / Professor, Archpriest Feodor Andreev (1887–1929) 322 / Body Future 323 / Metropolitan Antony (Khrapovitsky) (1863–1936) 335 / Afterlife and Eternity of Torment 336 / Professor Vasily Fedorovich Pevnitsky (1832–1911) 343 / About the Afterlife 343 / About the Resurrection of the Dead. What will Happen to our Body when we Die? 393 / Pseudo-Patriarch Sergius (Stragorodsky) (1867–1944) 416 / Eternal Life as the Highest Good 416 / Virtue and Eternal Life 425 / Eternal Life and True Virtue is Communion with God 432 / The Moral State of Man before the Fall 438 / The Moral Purpose of Created Man; the Need for Salvation 444 / The most precise Explanation of Love for God as the Content of Eternal Life: Love is a Feeling 450 / Love is Endlessly Perfected 453 / Love and the Trinity of the Godhead 454 / Love for Neighbor versus Love for God 456 Great is the mystery of piety: He who was manifest in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit Seen by angels Preached among the nations Was accepted by faith in the world, He was lifted up in glory. Or: True word: For if we are dead with Him, Then we will live with Him; If we endure Then we will reign with Him; If we renounce Then He will also deny us.

The principal doctrines defining Mormonism today often bear little resemblance to those it started out with in the early 1830s. This book shows that these doctrines did not originate in a vacuum but were rather prompted and informed by the religious culture from which Mormonism arose. Early Mormons, like their early Christian and even earlier Israelite predecessors, brought with them their own varied culturally conditioned theological presuppositions (a process of convergence) and only later acquired a more distinctive theological outlook (a process of differentiation). In this first-of-its-kind comprehensive treatment of the development of Mormon theology, Charles Harrell traces the history of Latter-day Saint doctrines from the times of the Old Testament to the present. He describes how Mormonism has carried on the tradition of the biblical authors, early Christians, and later Protestants in reinterpreting scripture to accommodate new theological ideas while attempting to uphold the integrity and authority of the scriptures. In the process, he probes three questions: How did Mormon doctrines develop? What are the scriptural underpinnings of these doctrines? And what do critical scholars make of these same scriptures? In this enlightening study, Harrell systematically peels back the doctrinal accretions of time to provide a fresh new look at Mormon theology. “This Is My Doctrine” will provide those already versed in Mormonism’s theological tradition with a new and richer perspective of Mormon theology. Those unacquainted with Mormonism will gain an appreciation for how Mormon theology fits into the larger Jewish and Christian theological traditions.