theology of religions Reference library
Gavin D'Costa
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...acknowledge the preparatory activity of the Holy Spirit in persons and religions. (e.g. the Catholic document Dominus Iesus , 2000). In recent W. scholarship, with its emphasis on historical-cultural relativism, the symbolic nature of theological concepts, and philosophical perspectivism, a new position has emerged: theological pluralism. Some Catholic and Protestant theologians (e.g. Pannikar , J. Hick, A. Race, P. Knitter) argue that each religion provides its own effective context for salvation/liberation/enlightenment (formulated as a generic concept),...
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900) Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
...are animals, an eagle and a serpent, and by the fact that it is the eagle and serpent who first state Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return in Thus Spake Zarathustra . On a theoretical level, it is demonstrated by Nietzsche's epistemological position, known as perspectivism , in which he rejects epistemological anthropocentrism and explicitly acknowledges the views and values of nonhuman creatures. Stating in a note collected in The Will to Power that the attempt to privilege human interpretations and values is “one of the hereditary madnesses...
Tukanoan Indians (Northwest Amazonia) Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
...A View from the Rain Forest. ” Man 11 (NS 1976), 307–18. Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo . Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo . “ Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism. ” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4 (NS 1998), 469–88. See also: Amazonia ; Animism (various) ; Ethnobotany ; Ethnoecology ; Rainforests (Central and South America) ; Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo – and Ethnoecology in Colombia ; Rubber Tappers ; ...
Ibn al-Ḥaytham Reference library
Nader El-Bizri
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
...through natural philosophy, common sense, or a simple procedure of abstraction. Ibn al-Ḥaytham anticipated in this the seventeenth-century conceptions of extensio by Descartes, and Leibniz’s analysis situs , in addition to Girard Desargues’s reflections on spatiality in perspectivism and projective geometry. Ibn al-Ḥaytham’s definition of al-makān (place) attracted a bold critique (albeit unsuccessful) in defense of Aristotle’s physical definition of topos , by the thirteenth-century natural philosopher ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī (d. c. 1231 ce ), in...
