.... Pound’s advocacy of a ‘European religion’ in the late 1930s implies an ‘active eschatology’ where the righteous can actually trigger the end of an age of Evil and corruption, and instigate a new age of transcendent goodness. Pound’s increasingly hardened rejection of Eliot’s Christianity as ‘verminous...

... Jacob divine Gnosticism Godhead life monarchy Neo Platonic nomos violence Judgement mythic Kierkegaard Søren difference religion world Christianity beginning gift decision eschatological interruption koinon redemption speculative universal Bloch Ernst abandonment spirit...

...This chapter reads the Stuttgart lectures of 1810 to show how Schelling is concerned with elaborating an eschatological conception of being. The lectures show Schelling understanding eschatology in terms of infinite disclosures of the divine that constantly open us to a future to come that refuses...

..., and the ‘existential situation’ form a hermeneutical framework that has commonalities with Agamben’s work but also maintains a fundamental orientation towards eschatological salvation. The chapter presents a critique Agamben’s ‘messianism’ from a hermeneutical-eschatological perspective, while also demonstrating where...

...This chapter discusses state punishment and eschatology during the mid-Islamic period. The emphasis in this chapter is not on the theological or legal discussions of the sequence of this-worldly and other-worldly violence, rather the focus is on their structural similarities. The basic hypothesis...

...The introduction contextualizes the main question and ambitions of the work. It contains a review of relevant literature on Sufi tafsīr and on Sufi eschatology, and a discussion of the key concepts and terms of the study. dhawq taste friend of God walī awliyāʾ night prayer taste...

...This chapter deals with the theme of “the ultimate boundary crossing” from this world to the otherworld in Sufism. It shows that the most dominant eschatological themes are nearness to God in the hereafter, meeting with Him and the vision of Him. It sketches an as complete as possible picture...

... anthropology, cosmology, eschatology, and theology (i.e. his understanding of God). categories dreams heavenly ascent mysteries ritual eschatology God s prophecy revelation scripture apocalypse apocalyptic Bockmuehl M N A crucifixion freelance religious experts Lührmann D Oepke A Struck P T...

...This chapter discusses the figure of the Mahdi, who in Islamic eschatology is the prophesied redeemer of Islam, ridding the entire world of all evil as a kind of Messiah for Muslims. The chapter critically engages with this idea and ties it to Bedouin traditions and the role of hope versus reality...

... Qurʾān Wessinger Catherine al Baghdādī Abū Bakr Fishman Brian Atwan Abdel Bari Juergensmeyer Mark Summary ISIS Apocalypticism Eschatology A billion Muslims are at least attracted to an Islamic millennial scenario in which they take over the world. The vast majority is not yet apocalyptic...

..., then, is the fundamental attunement that, by releasing life from the foundation of the worldly nomos, attunes it to the eschatological advent of the holy: the result is a political theology that destitutes sovereignties in the worldly order. Our exposure to the gift of our very existence, the gift...

...In Shakespeare’s England, the doctrine of last things – eschatology –influenced individuals’ interpretations of their temporal existence. An eschatological hermeneutic engendered belief interpolated with doubt: belief in Scripture’s promise that, beyond this life, fallen people can fully know (God...

... it, and continues Ibn Sīnā’s train of thought in several regards. body al jism death al kharāb eschatology al maʿād eternality al abadiyya faculty al quwwa felicity al saʿāda imagination al khayāl matter al mādda necessity al wujūb perfection al kamāl Pleasure soul al nafs substance al jawhar taste al...

... Beatrice Much Ado About Nothing co presence Lennox mirror Goold Rupert Macbeth 2010 film Macbeth trust apocalyptic time eschatology In a recent essay, Julia Lupton argues that theatre offers a ‘laboratory and clinic for exploring trust’ (p. 156). Trust falls, blind man’s buff and other theatrical...

...-day religious violence and the practice of scapegoating, and discusses religious conflict in the text as an example of René Girard’s mimetic rivalry leading to communal self-purification through sacrifice. It also explores the dialogue with Islamic eschatology and dream narrative in Qasim’s...

...In this chapter Sheheryah B. Sheikh examines the narrative organization of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2014)’s love story through the lenses of apocalyptic literary theory and eschatology. Drawing from the writing of Frank Kermode, the chapter argues that the film’s...