Author: Mark R. Wynn
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191648825
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In The Republic, Plato suggests that the enlightened person will find himself disoriented on his return to the realm of the shadows. So at the very beginning of the Western philosophical tradition, there is a clear affirmation of the idea that following enlightenment, the sensory world can be differently experienced. In this book, Mark Wynn takes up this idea, but argues that 'enlightenment' or spiritual maturity may result in, and may partly consist in, not so much a state of confusion or bewilderment in our experience of sensory things, but in a renewal of the realm of the senses. On this view, the 'shadows', as they feature in the seer's experience, can bear the imprint of religious thoughts and attitudes, and it is therefore possible to be occupied with religious thoughts even as we engage with the realm of sensory things. And if that is so, then one standard objection to Christian, and in general broadly Platonic, conceptions of the spiritual life will have been removed: attending to the realm of religious truth need not after all imply any neglect of the world of sensory forms; and it may even be that it is in our encounter with the realm of sensory forms that certain religious insights are presented to us most vividly.
Renewing the Senses
Author: Mark R. Wynn
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191648825
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In The Republic, Plato suggests that the enlightened person will find himself disoriented on his return to the realm of the shadows. So at the very beginning of the Western philosophical tradition, there is a clear affirmation of the idea that following enlightenment, the sensory world can be differently experienced. In this book, Mark Wynn takes up this idea, but argues that 'enlightenment' or spiritual maturity may result in, and may partly consist in, not so much a state of confusion or bewilderment in our experience of sensory things, but in a renewal of the realm of the senses. On this view, the 'shadows', as they feature in the seer's experience, can bear the imprint of religious thoughts and attitudes, and it is therefore possible to be occupied with religious thoughts even as we engage with the realm of sensory things. And if that is so, then one standard objection to Christian, and in general broadly Platonic, conceptions of the spiritual life will have been removed: attending to the realm of religious truth need not after all imply any neglect of the world of sensory forms; and it may even be that it is in our encounter with the realm of sensory forms that certain religious insights are presented to us most vividly.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191648825
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In The Republic, Plato suggests that the enlightened person will find himself disoriented on his return to the realm of the shadows. So at the very beginning of the Western philosophical tradition, there is a clear affirmation of the idea that following enlightenment, the sensory world can be differently experienced. In this book, Mark Wynn takes up this idea, but argues that 'enlightenment' or spiritual maturity may result in, and may partly consist in, not so much a state of confusion or bewilderment in our experience of sensory things, but in a renewal of the realm of the senses. On this view, the 'shadows', as they feature in the seer's experience, can bear the imprint of religious thoughts and attitudes, and it is therefore possible to be occupied with religious thoughts even as we engage with the realm of sensory things. And if that is so, then one standard objection to Christian, and in general broadly Platonic, conceptions of the spiritual life will have been removed: attending to the realm of religious truth need not after all imply any neglect of the world of sensory forms; and it may even be that it is in our encounter with the realm of sensory forms that certain religious insights are presented to us most vividly.
A Natural History of the Senses
Author: Diane Ackerman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307763315
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. “Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in.” —The New York Times
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307763315
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth. “Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in.” —The New York Times
Common Sense Religion
Author: Gerald Mann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964727205
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964727205
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Nuclear Renewal
Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear industry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Rhodes posits that nuclear power affords the safest, cheapest, and cleanest energy available.
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear industry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Rhodes posits that nuclear power affords the safest, cheapest, and cleanest energy available.
Unity
Webster's Common Sense Dictionary
Author: C. M. Stevans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Årsskrift
Förhandlingar
Author: Språkvetenskapliga sällskapet i Uppsala
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
The American Journal of Psychology
Author: Karl M. Dallenbach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present
Author: Richard Chenevix Trench
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description