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Is our brain hardwired to produce God, or is our brain hardwired to perceive God? A systematic review on the role of the brain in mediating religious…
2009
To figure out whether the main empirical question "Is our brain hardwired to believe in and produce God, or is our brain hardwired to perceive and experience God?" is answered, this paper presents systematic critical review of the positions, arguments and controversies of each side of the neuroscientific–theological debate and puts forward an integral view where the human is seen as a psycho-somatic entity consisting of the multiple levels and dimensions of human existence (physical, biological, psychological, and spiritual reality), allowing consciousness/ mind/spirit and brain/body/matter to be seen as different sides of the same phenomenon, neither reducible to each other. The emergence …
Religious spaces as continually evolving modernities: Forms of encounter with modernity in Christian Orthodoxy and Islam
2022
The present study deals with the encounter with modernity in two neighbouring religious spaces: Christian Orthodoxy and Islam. Relying on Eisenstadt’s theory about multiple modernities and on its further developments by Thomas Mergel and Kristina Stoeckl, Islamic and Christian-Orthodox dynamics in relation to the challenges of modernity are examined under two aspects: first, the decoupling between religion and culture as elaborated by Olivier Roy, and second, the development of modernist and fundamentalist currents as phenomena of modernity. The study contributes to the sketching of the profile of Islamic and the Christian-Orthodox modernities, pointing both to some of the commonalities and…
The problems of the dialogue of quantum mechanics and theology
2005
The paper is a review of bordering problems between quantum mechanics, describing the microworld, and Christian theology. The basic concepts of quantum mechanics and their essential distinctions from our notions about the macroworld are given in a popular way. The outlined methodological principles of quantum mechanics are used as an analogy for the illustration of Christian faith miracle, taking as an example the celebration of Holy Communion. The problem of relationships between the methodology of quantum mechanics and the observer’s consciousness is analyzed. The critical appraisal of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is given. The possibilty of a deeper understanding o…
La Bailía General de València en tiempo de Germania
2021
espanolEl presente trabajo pretende abordar la Bailia General de Valencia durante la revuelta de la Germania. Esta institucion encargada de gobernar el Real Patrimonio hubo de enfrentarse a dificiles situaciones y crear nuevas soluciones a los problemas planteados por los agermanados. Su estudio nos permitira aproximarnos a un acontecimiento que marco la Historia Moderna del reino de Valencia y que todavia hoy suscita interes. EnglishThe present work tries to approach the General Bailiwick of Valencia during the revolt of the Germania. This institution in charge of governing the Royal Heritage had to face difficult situations and create new solutions to the problems posed by the revolted. I…
Dominus qui incepit ipse perficiat: exhortaciones de fray Josep Mercader a las monjas dominicas del monasterio de Montesión en Barcelona (1740-1745)
2016
Resumen: De entre la galeria de personajes interesantes que nos ofrece el convento dominicano de Santa Catalina virgen y martir de Barcelona en el siglo XVIII destaca fray Josep Mercader (profesion 1720-1779). Un apartado importante aunque «intimo» de su obra lo constituyen las once breves exhortaciones que entre los anos 1740-1745 dirigio a las monjas dominicas del monasterio barcelones de Montesion con ocasion de las ceremonias de recepcion y profesion. En estos 20 folios podemos encontrar el discurso que un dominico cualificado dirigio a las monjas de clausura de su orden en dos momentos tan significativos de su trayectoria religiosa. Palabras clave: Josep Mercader, Dominicos (frailes y …
Dimensions of Mystical Anthropology of the XX Century: Hesychasm and Tibetan Buddhism Compared
2009
Pētījums ir veltīts komparatīvajai reliģiski-filozofisko ideju problemātikai un mēģinājumam saskatīt saikni starp idejām un to arhetipiski empīrisko zemtekstu. Lai salīdzinātu Tibetas budisma un hesihasma antropoloģiskās idejas un to soterioloģiski empīriskās konsekvences, ir izmantota M. Eliades fenomenoloģiskā metode. Izņemot arhetipiskā kopsaucēja meklējumus, darbā ir analizētas divu tradīciju atšķirības ar A. Pjerisa izstrādātās reliģiju klasifikācijas palīdzību. Saskaņā ar to budismu varētu kvalificēt kā gnostisko, bet kristietību – kā agapeisko reliģiski-filozofisko ideju kopu. Darbs sastāv no četrām daļām. Pirmajā ir iztirzāts reliģijas būtības jautājums, meklēta atbilstoša pieeja un…
Art. 9. Beni culturali di interesse religioso
2019
Il saggio esamina la disciplina dei beni culturali di interesse religioso, che, per effetto del rinvio operato dalle disposizioni del codice dei beni culturali, prevede il coinvolgimento della Chiesa cattolica e delle altre confessioni religiose nel rispetto di un principio di consensualità.
Metaphysics of cosmological models
2023
This article aims to address the metaphysical dimension of cosmological models, be they mythological, philosophical, religious or modern scientific models, using multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary methodology. Such an approach is a novelty, both in the theological field and in the philosophical field and secular sciences, which studies the origin of humans and the universe. Contribution: The originality of this article consists in introducing the concept of transcendental cosmology, which, along with spiritual cosmology, can be a serious theological and philosophical reply to the Bing Bang theory.
La fondazione del monastero di Santa Chiara di Piazza Armerina (1320-1340): un vuoto documentario
2017
ITALIANO: Il numero degli insediamenti francescani femminili in Sicilia nel XIII e XIV secolo è ridotto e la ricostruzione della storia dei pochi monasteri esistenti è resa più complessa dalla mancanza di documenti che accomuna buona parte di essi. È il caso del monastero di Santa Chiara di Piazza Armerina la cui storia trecentesca, a partire dalla fondazione, sembra essere avvolta nell’oblio. Il saggio si propone, sulla scorta dei pochi documenti rinvenuti, di chiarire alcuni elementi legati alla sua fondazione ad opera di Guglielmo Caldarera barone di Bifara e di Favarotta. / ENGLISH: The number of female franciscan settlements in Sicily in the 13th and 14th centuries is limited and the r…
Spunti di racconto in alcuni «Carmina Cantabrigiensia»
2015
The «Cambridge Songs» («Carmina Cantabrigiensia») are a collection of short Latin poems which we find in the lone manuscript Gg. 35 (Ca), housed in the Cambridge University Library. The manuscript itself was produced at the monastery of St. Augustine in Canterbury, in the middle of the XIth century, just before the Norman invasion of England. The best part of the poems of the «Cambridge Songs» probably derives from Germany and belongs to a period between IXth and XIth centuries. The 84 poems of the collection display a diversity of form, content and function. We can extricate praise poetry for kings and bishops, erotic verses, nature poems, and other sort of writing less easily classified. …