Reflections on Divinity

Name: Reflections on Divinity | A Tantalising Pursuit of the Divine Enigma
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A Tantalising Pursuit of the Divine Enigma

Harold Dierickx(Autor*in)

Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd

Erschienen am 18. August 2023

276 Seiten

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Intro
Title Page
About the Author
Dedication
Synopsis
1. Introduction
1.1 Some Milestones in My Spiritual Journey
The Passion Story
First Communion
The Age of Doubt
The Discovery of Mysticism and Mystical Theology
1.2 Current State of Play
1.3 Purpose of this book
1.4 How Far has Contemporary Science Gotten in Explaining the Origin of the World?
1.5 How Far has Theology Gotten?
1.6 An Initial Clarification
2. Consideration of Science
2.1 Cosmology
2.1.1 Stephen Hawking
2.1.2 Brian Greene
2.1.3 Roger Penrose
2.1.4 Lawrence Krauss
2.2. Quantum Physics
2.2.1 Fritjof Capra
2.2.2 Carlo Rovelli
2.2.3 Anselm and Michael Grün on Physics and Religion
Michael Grün
Anselm Grün
2.3 Brain Science
Why a Discussion of Brain?
2.3.1 Kevin Nelson: Emphatic Scepticism
2.3.2 Pim van Lommel: The Predominance of Spirituality
Conclusion on Nelson and van Lommel
2.3.3 An Assessment by Theologians
Conclusion on Brain and Spirituality
2.4 Conclusion on Science
3. Consideration of Philosophy
3.1 The Greek Legacy
3.1.1 Introductory remarks
3.1.2 The Presocratic Philosophers
3.1.2.1 Anaximander (c. 6th CBC)
3.1.2.2 Xenophanes (c. 570-475 BC)
3.1.2.3 Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570-495 BC)
3.1.2.4 Heraclitus of Ephesus (6th-5th CBC)
3.1.2.5 Parmenides of Elea (early 5th Century BC)
3.1.2.6 Empedocles (c. 495-435 B.C.)
3.1.2.7 Anaxagoras (c. 500-428 BC) and Diogenes of Apollonia (c. 5th century BC)
3.1.2.8 Leucippus of Miletus (middle-aged c. 440-435 BC) and Democritus of Abdera (c. 460-370 BC)
3.2 Socrates (469-399 BC)
3.3 Plato (427-347 BC)
Note on Plato's Mysticism
3.4 Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Aristotle's concept of divinity
God, the Unmoved Mover, and human beings
Monotheism and polytheism in Aristotle
3.5 Some More Recent Philosophers
3.5.1 Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
Some further interesting details of Spinoza's concept of divinity: The unity of everything
From transcendence to immanence
The eternity of the mind
The intellectual love of God
Is Spinoza an atheist?
Concluding remarks
3.5.2 John Hospers
The Existence of God
Concepts of God
What difference does the belief [in God-my insertion] make to experience? (pp. 486-90)
Comment on Chapters 21 and 22
3.5.3 Joseph Milne
3.5.4 Richard Dawkins
3.5.5 Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
3.5.6 A. J. Ayer (1910-89)
3.5.7 Leo Apostel (1925-1995)
4. Mysticism
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Ideas on Mysticism by Two Experts on the Psychology of Mysticism
4.2.1 Father Joseph Maréchal, S.J.
4.2.2 William James
4.3 The Upanishads
4.3.1 Introductory Remarks
4.3.2 The Essential Teaching of the Upanishads
4.4 The Bhagavad-Gita
4.5 Buddhist Mysticism
4.6 Plato
4.7 Plotinus (204-270)
4.7.1 Some Biographical Notes
4.7.2 Plotinus' Theology
4.7.3 Concluding Remarks
4.8 Pseudo-Dionysius or the Pseudo-Areopagite (C. 500 C.E.)
4.8.1 Who is the Pseudo-Dionysius?
4.8.2 Dionysius's Concept of Divinity
4.8.3 Conclusion
4.9 Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
4.9.1 Introduction
4.9.2 Eckhart's Concept of Divinity
4.9.2.1 The Nature of God
4.9.2.2 The Relationship Between God and Man
4.9.2.3 Some Moral Implications
4.9.3 Concluding Remarks
4.10 Marguerite Porete (1250-1310)
4.10.1 Introductory Remarks
4.10.2 Marguerite's Concept of the Soul
4.10.3 Marguerite's Concept of Divinity
4.10.4 The Sad End of the Mirror and its Author
4.10.5 Conclusion
4.11 Hadewijch of Antwerp (Active First Half Of 13th Century)
4.11.1 Biography
4.11.2 Theology
4.11.3 Concluding Remarks
4.12 Jan Van Ruusbroec (1293-1381)
4.13 Jewish Mysticism
4.14 Islamic Mysticism (Sufism)
4.15 Chinese Mysticism
4.16 Conclusion on Mysticism
5. A Hypothesis of Divinity
6. Epilogue
Abbreviations
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