...This chapter examines the compositional side of the music of dazzlement of Olivier Messiaen's religious music. It analyzes five passages from La Transfiguration and suggests though that there are great mutual differences between them there are also a number of tendencies...

... of breakthrough: the idol whose luster is closely related to the thematics of overwhelming in La Transfiguration, and the icon which Marion relates to a different sort of excess than that which can be found in the idol. This chapter analyzes where the phenomenology of idol and icon provide a key...

...This chapter explores Charles Sanders Peirce's reflections on individuality, community, religion, and the social self. The social self is a transfigured agent, and central to this transfiguration is reflexivity. However, there are no inherent bounds to the depths of this emergent reflexivity, just...

... exchanges of pleasure. God begins to transfigure into the silhouette of the excessive lover, erotically loving the cosmos as Jean-Luc Marion explicitly expresses, yet in being similar to the creaturely lovemaking rhythms, via narrowing distance between all lovers. arousal...

... analyzes Gabriel’s annunciation to the Virgin Mary as a specimen of Ciceronian rhetoric. He stresses the play of showing and hiddenness in Christ’s transfiguration. He justifies the severity of Christ’s passion as teaching for hardened human hearts. Gospel narrative Summa of Theology Aquinas Augustine...

...This chapter attempts to show that Neoplatonic configurations of soul arise transgressively in genetic transfiguration. It highlights some manifestations of the depersonalized subject and examines the accounts of soul in the Neoplatonist philosophies of Plotinus and Iamblichus to show that the gene...

...This chapter talks about the hermeneutic principle that explains the theomorphic representation of the human as divine and the anthropomorphic representation of the divine as human, the transfiguration of flesh into word through the more readily known Christological incarnation of the “word...

...In his exegesis of the Transfiguration account in the Commentary on Matthew, Origen of Alexandria presents Jesus’s transfigured robes as a medium of revelation: to the disciples who witnessed the event and to the Christian interpreter. By contemplating Jesus’s garments, the latter...

... Be is not theology, but a hermeneutics of religion. The transfiguring God is the God who transfigures people as people transfigure God. God transfigures them through creation, through interventions in history, and for Kearney, divinity is transfiguring the everyday. For him, eschatology is a great kind...