Showing papers on "Vision published in 1983"

Vision: The Eye of the Body and the Eye of the Mind in Saint Augustine's "De trinitate" and "Confessions"

Abstract: The importance of Saint Augustine's use of physical vision as a model for his description of the most satisfying fulfillment of human life, the vision of God, has been noted by many commentators. 1 It is only, however, when we follow Augustine's analysis of physical and spiritual vision-the activity of the "eye of the body" and the "eye of the mind"-that we can understand the extent to which Augustine extrapolates a nuanced account of spiritual vision from his model of physical vision. It is, I will claim, Augustine's understanding of the physics of vision which enables him to describe a process by which one comes to a vision of"That Which Is."2 Although we must be careful to note dissimilarities as well as similarities between the two types of vision, the pivotal role of physical vision can be demonstrated at precisely the point of Augustine's most intense interest, the understanding of "God and the soul,"3 the project of his extended effort of understanding in De trinitate, the powerful treatise of his maturity. His method, clearly outlined at the beginning of the work and reiterated several times in the body of the work, acknowledges the necessity, for all theological work, of finding the fruitful metaphor:

Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences in a Melanesian Society

Abstract: "The texts of three near-death experiences, one vision, and one dream by Melanesian villagers are presented and analyzed with regard to their cultural context. Comparison of these experiences with those reported from North America and India suggests that while they have common features (such as the appearance of apparitions, and visions of paradise), their interpretation is structured by cultural expectations."

The Community College Mission: Present Challenges and Future Visions.

Abstract: Between 1979 and 1981, a good deal of community college literature centered around "looking back" at the 1970s and "looking ahead" to the 1980s. A need for reflection, reassessment, and reform pervades this writing in a stronger sense than the usual turnof-the-decade analysis. I have studied this literature in depth to determine if there are factors other than the marking of the passage of time that produced this reflection. I have also analyzed five major works that focus on future missions and functions of the community colleges. In this article I first present trends that may be driving this evaluative literature, and then I attempt to synthesize the five major writings under the rubric of two divergent future visions. Finally, my own observations and conclusions about the future missions of the community college are provided.

A Survey of Ecstatic Phenomena and ‘Holy Spirit Movements' in Melanesia

Abstract: Throughout Melanesia ecstatic religious phenomena by way of dreams, visions, possession, trance, prophecy and healing represent integral aspects of Melanesian religious experience (e.g. Burridge 1960:179-180, Langness 1972, Stephen 1977, 1979a, 1979b, Trompf 1977, Tuza 1979b). This paper proposes to indicate how such manifestations are becoming more significant within the context of Christian missions and churches in the region. Popularly understood to be 'Holy Spirit movements',1 recent outbursts of ecstatic behaviour associated with collective beliefs

Evolution and Patriarchal Myths of Scarcity and Competition

Abstract: Nature, as depicted in biological science, is a man’s world. For researchers inevitably project the visions their imaginations, and the attitudes their life experiences make available,1 and most biologists have been men. A feminist task is to reconsider patriarchal images: to understand them as reflections of a male mentality; to consider whether they even answer any questions feminists wish to ask; and to remake the image of nature in metaphors conformable to women’s reality.

Foundation Myths of the Two Denominations of Vīraśaivism: Viraktas and Gurusthalins

Abstract: Vīraśaivism is usually presented as a unified, sectarian, reformation movement founded in the twelfth century by Basava But within Virasaivism there are actually two, separate denominations—viraktas and gurusthalins For the former, the beliefs and practices reflected in the Basava legend serve as norms for their sectarian-type religious organization In contrast, gurusthalins derive norms for their basically ecclesiastical organization from the timeless myths of five great gurus Hence the two accounts of origins serve as legitimizing and normative etiologies for competitive denominations divided by fundamentally different visions of how Virasaivism should be organized and what ideals it should propagate

The Seven visions of Bull Lodge

Abstract: "Provides real insight into the religion of the nineteenth-century Gros Ventre (Atsina) Indians. Known to themselves as the White Clay People, this little-known tribe now shares the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana with the Assiniboines. However, throughout much of their recorded history they were allied with the Blackfeet. The book is a record of the spiritual life of Bull Lodge (born ca. 1802, died 1886), religions leader, healer, and for a time, keeper of the Feathered Pipe, one of the two tribal objects of the Gros Ventres...[It] makes absorbing reading. Beginning at the age of twelve. Bull Lodge sought spiritual power through the tribal Feathered Pipe. From the ages of seventeen to twenty-three he was favored with a series of seven visions on seven buttes that together outline a Gros Ventre cultural geography..."The strength of the narrative is the rich detail of ritual description: fasting, sacrifices, vision experiences, the practices of healing. By describing ritual in the context of a man's life, the book gives a uniquely historical understanding of the dynamics of traditional religious life. It provides deeper understanding of the Gros Ventres' way of life and gives a valuable comparative perspective on plains Indian religion". (Raymond J. DeMallie, Western Historical Quarterly). George Horse Capture is field manager of Fort Belknap Ventures. Inc., a tribal enterprise to develop and market traditional Indian art. At present he is helping to establish a tribal museum.

Apocalyptic Visions and the Exaltation of Christ in the Letter to the Colossians

Abstract: Recent studies of the false teaching at Colossae have not neglected to emphasize the significant Jewish component within the positioni opposed by Paul.’ The presence of words like new moon and sabbath in Col. 2.16 appears to point to a Jewish influence on the ideas of Paul’s opponents. Though Paul never mentions the false teaching in detail, most commentators expect to be able to find various hints from the letter itself concerning the point of view opposed by the apostle. Indeed, this seems to be particularly true of 2.2-19, where a number of allusions help us to piece together the character of the teaching opposed by Paul.3 The consensus of scholarly opinion argues that the Colossian Christians had been led to believe that

Bozzano and the First Classification of Deathbed Visions: A Historical Note and Translation

Abstract: "Ernest Bozzano was an Italian parapsychologist who published, in 1923, one of the most important historical studies on deathbed visions. The book, while influencing such scholars as Charles Richet and Sir William Barrett, remained largely forgotten and untranslated. This paper provides a translation of selections from Bozzano's monograph illustrating his unique classification of death visions."

Confessions of a second-look liberal

Abstract: WHITE: If you ask me, I think Jimmy Carter gave the American people no sense whatsoever of where he was going. He promised them the gospel and human rights and equal rights for everybody. He was going to take care of the sick, the old, the women, the rmnonties, the students, and the teachers. He was full of good will, but he had no sense of where the country was going or of all these vast events going on from the outside. You had the sense of humiliation over the hostages m Iran. You had the sense of an uncontrollable inflation. All Jimmy Carter was promising were visions--but the visions were more of the same. They were the same visions that had been promised to the American people since at least the time of John F. Kennedy, perhaps since the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Finally, the American people had it. They could not see where these visions, where the Democratic party, if such exists, was going. In that sense, it was a repudiation of a sitting president--and that hasn't taken place since Herbert Hoover.

Love visions : The book of the Duchess, The house of fame, The parliament of birds, The legend of good women

Abstract: Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In "The Book of the Duchess", the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and "The House of Fame" describes a dream journey in which the poet meets with classical divinities. Witty, lively and playful, "The Parliament of Birds" details an encounter with the birds of the world in the Garden of Nature as they seek to meet their mates, while "The Legend of Good Women" sees Chaucer being censured by the God of Love, and seeking to make amends, for writing poems that depict unfaithful women. Together, the four create a marvellously witty, lively and humane self-portrait of the poet.

Microtechnology and the future of nursing

Abstract: The purpose of this panel discussion is to propose some visions of the future for nursing information systems. These visions are compounded of knowledge, experience, speculations, and dreams. We hope they will stimulate thought and discussion, challenge and debate, so that all of us who are engaged in shaping the future of nursing information systems can benefit from one another's imagination, knowledge, and critique.