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Category Archives: Immanence
THE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, POST-POSITIVISM, MYSTICISM, CONTEMPLATION, AND KARL RAHNER’S ABSOLUTE MYSTERY
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. Karl Rahner There is a science for the subjective study of the Spiritual life, analogous to science that explains the mechanism, and laws of … Continue reading →
Posted in Being, Biblical Scholars, Biblical Studies, Cosmogony, Counsciousness, Critical Thinking, God, Heart, History, Human Nature, Immanence, Inner Journey, Karl Rahner, Materialism, Metaphysics, Mysticism, Ontology, Philosophy, Positivism, Post-Positivism, Postmodernism, Religion, Revelation, Spirituality, Subjective, Theology, Transcendence, Transformation, Uncategorized, Via Negativa, Via Positiva
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Tagged Absolute Mystery, God, Holy Mystery, Karl Rahner, Norman Habel, Positivism, Religious Experience, Revelation, Rudolf Otto, Science of the Soul, The Numinous, William James
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VIA POSITIVA, VIA NEGATIVA
We can only speak of the Transcendent by way of the negative (which means “not to say”) –denying in it everything that pertains to our phenomenal experience– or also by way of the positive, that is affirming about it what we experience … Continue reading →
Posted in Advaita Vedanta, Alchemy, Atman, Baqaa, Being, Brahman, Church Fathers, Counsciousness, Fana, God, Heart, Hinduism, Ibn Arabi, Immanence, Inner Journey, Jesus, Kenosis, Maya, Metaphysics, Mysticism, Oneness of Being, Ontology, Philosophy, Religion, Self, Spirituality, Tao, Tawhid, Theosis, Transformation, Transmutation, Uncategorized, Via Negativa, Via Positiva, Wisdom
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Tagged Advaita Vedanta, Contemplation, Dionysius Areopagita, Gregory Palamas, Hesychast, Ibn Arabi, kenosis, Monasticism, Mysticism, Philokalia, Ramana Maharshi, Theosis, Thomas Aquinas, Via Negativa, Via Positiva
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ON GOD, TRANSCENDENCE VS IMMANENCE
“He through Whom we see, taste, smell, feel, hear, enjoy, know everything, He is that Self.” Katha Upanishad TRANSCENDENCE Transcendence it is the notion that God is an idea too large to grasp, like the Absolute, or the Infinite, and … Continue reading →
Posted in Advaita Vedanta, Ancient Religions, Asharites, Atheism, Ebionites, God, Hinduism, History, Human Nature, Ibn Arabi, Immanence, Jesus, Metaphysics, Mujassimah, Mushabbihah, Mutazilites, Mysticism, Oneness of Being, Ontology, Philosophy, Sanatana Dharma, Spirituality, Tawhid, Theology, Transcendence, Uncategorized, Wahdat al Wujud
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Tagged Agnosticism, Asharites, Atheism, Being, Brahman, Christ, Christians, Ebionites, God, Hinduism, Ibn Arabi, Immanence, Ishvara, Jesus, Mutazilites, Sanata Dharma, Theology, Transcendence
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