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soul
soul the vital, immaterial, life principle, generally conceived as existing within humans and sometimes within all living things, inanimate objects, and the universe as a whole. Religion and philosophy have long been concerned with the nature of the soul in their attempts to understand existence... Read more |
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Charon
Charon in Greek mythology, an old man who ferried the souls of the dead across the Rivers Styx and Acheron to Hades; he received a fee of one obol for each soul.... Read more |
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transmigration of souls
transmigration of souls or metempsychosis [Gr.,=change of soul], a belief common to many cultures, in which the soul passes from one body to another, either human, animal, or inanimate. The Australian aborigines believe that an infant is a reincarnation of deceased ancestors and that the soul... Read more |
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predestination
predestination in theology, doctrine that asserts that God predestines from eternity the salvation of certain souls. So-called double predestination, as in Calvinism , is the added assertion that God also foreordains certain souls to damnation. Predestination is posited on the basis of God's... Read more |
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reincarnation
reincarnation [Lat.,=taking on flesh again], occupation by the soul of a new body after the death of the former body. Beliefs vary as to whether the soul assumes the new body immediately or only after an interval of disembodiment. Although some religions teach that it may inhabit a higher or... Read more |
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The Souls of Black Folk
SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, THE. Published originally in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is W. E. B. Du Bois's classic collection of thirteen essays and one short story. Assembled from pieces the young Du Bois wrote between 1897 and 1903 (age twenty-nine to thirty-five), the book... Read more |
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All Souls Day
All Souls' Day Nov. 2 (exceptionally, Nov. 3), feast of the Roman Catholic Church on which the church on earth prays for the souls of the faithful departed still suffering in purgatory . The proper office is of the dead, and the Mass is a requiem . General intercessions for the dead (e.g., for... Read more |
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mahatma
mahatma [Sanskrit,=great-souled], honorific title used in India among Hindus for a person of superior holiness. Mohandas Gandhi is the best-known figure to whom the title was applied.... Read more |
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limbo
limbo in Roman Catholic theology, an afterlife realm between heaven and hell where there is no punishment but where souls are denied the presence of God. Never part of Catholic dogma, the concept of limbo was developed during the Middle Ages, and came to be seen as two places. One was the home of... Read more |
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immortality
immortality attribute of deathlessness ascribed to the soul in many religions and philosophies. Forthright belief in immortality of the body is rare. Immortality of the soul is a cardinal tenet of Islam and is held generally in Judaism, although it is not an essentially Jewish idea. The ancient... Read more |
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Porette, Margaret
...Margaret (d. 1310), also ‘Porete’, author of The Mirror of Simple Souls. Probably a native of Hainault, she was burnt at...circulate a book already condemned as heretical. The Mirror had long been known and circulated as harmlessly pious... |
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The Mirror of Simple Souls
The Mirror of Simple Souls. By Margaret Porette...least for an elite of "sad souls," this presence-in...Babinski (The Mirror of Simple Souls, Mahwah, NJ: Paulist...the preexistence of the soul ... |
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Nobility And Annihilation in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple...
...Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls. She argues lucidly...nongendered classification of souls into noble and non...core identity of the soul in Porete's treatise...doctrine of election in the Mirror, but she does not ... |
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Allegories of love in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls.(Brief...
...love in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of simple souls. Kocher, Suzanne. Brepols...17 BV5091 The mystical work, Mirror of simple souls, is notable for being written...which conveys how one's soul can be joined ... |
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Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of...
...Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls. Translated and introduced...case of Porete) the soul's reversion to the...The Mirror of Simple Souls, the first such translation...of the nature of the ... |
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Suzanne Kocher, Allegories of Love in Marguerite Porete's 'Mirror of Simple...
...Marguerite Porete's 'Mirror of Simple Souls', Medieval Women...love between God and the soul, for example, include...difference separating the soul from God, or to portray...includes the model of the soul as 'upwardly ... |
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Margaret Porette; The Mirror of Simple Souls. (Shorter Notices).
Margaret Porette; The Mirror of Simple Souls, trans. Edmund Colledge, J. C. Marler, and Judith Grant, Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture 6 (Notre Dame, Ind.: University... |
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THE MASTER AND THE MIRROR: THE INFLUENCE OF MARGUERITE PORETE ON MEISTER...
...of Paris condemned the book The Mirror of Simple Souls as heretical, no doubt the inquisitor...liked, for the "pestiferous" Mirror of Simple Souls was never exterminated...found in Marguerite Porete's Mirror ... |
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The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and...
The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg...some well-known feminist authors. The Soul as Virgin Wife develops Dr. Hollywood...teaching and "parallels" found in The Mirror of Simple Souls are greater than Hollywood seems willing... |
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Simple lives: a new beginning for the Beguines?(religious movement of women)
...holding Bible-study classes, and preaching. In the early 1300s, the Beguine Marguerite Porete wrote The Mirror of Simple Souls, a book that was deemed heretical. When she refused to recant, she was burned at the stake in 1310, and this... |
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Wise Women. (book reviews)
...and other, body and soul, male and female, the...the selection from The Mirror Of Simple Souls, that love and faith...dependable guides for the soul than is reason -- even...that first The Mirror Of Souls ... |
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