Body-symbols and social reality: Resurrection, incarnation and asceticism in early ChristianityMary Douglas has invited historians of religion to test her hypothesis about the social meaning of body symbols. Her view that body symbolism always points in the direction of social concerns and that ...
Vaishnava Hinduism ascribes ten incarnations (avatars) to the god Vishnu, while Christianity proclaims the sole incarnation of God the Son as Jesus Christ. Could they be equivalent? In other words, could Jesus Christ be considered a mere Western avatar, who has come into our world according to...
This is especially seen in the humanitarian spirit which makes Christianity to be essentially good-will to men, and labours for their improvement. The Lord, it is said, will redeem the world by His teaching of social ethics. His works on earth are often referred to as an example. But ...
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Atma, Purusha and Prakriti: These terms come from Hinduism and there are subtle variations of meaning in different writings and from different ages and sects of Hinduism. I expect many, maybe most, Hindu scholars may disagree with my use of these terms, but…. This is what they mean to me...
Christianity Jesus two natures of Christ Virgin Birth Angelus See all related content Incarnation, central Christian doctrine that God became flesh, that God assumed a human nature and became a man in the form of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the second person of the Trinity. Christ was ...
Only in Christianity does God dismember himself, or become historical—sacrifice himself, die—in order to know and become himself. But this "death of God" is for Hegel the very meaning of modern subjectivity. For this reason, or if Hegel is right, the Hegelian subject constitutes the sole ...
There the idea is put forward in the starkest of terms: “the world is penetrated by a life that is mine: I am the life of the world.” (Henry 1975, p. 32). It is a matter, then, of determining the meaning of such a formulation while, at the same time, holding in view ...
The difference is good in Christianity—whether it is a question of that between uncreated and created or of that between man and woman, the difference at the heart of humanity. (Falque 2012, p. 99) Where Aristophanes envisioned division as a problem to be overcome in the search for an ...