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The Four Stages Exalted to a Peak of Spiritual Attainment in Pāli Abhidhamma and Pāli Commentarial Literature
This chapter considers the further development of the four stages in the Abhidhamma and the Pāli commentaries. It argues that the presentation and...
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Thinking Through the Emotions with Korean Confucianism: Philosophical Translation and the Four-Seven Debate
The complex fields of emotional experience and embodied moral subjectivity are engaged in the context of the Four-Seven Debate in Korean...
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Moral Psychology of Emotion in Korean Neo-Confucianism and Its Philosophical Debates on the Affective Nature of the Mind
This chapter discusses the Four-Seven Debate and the Horak Debate, the two major philosophical debates of Korean Neo-Confucianism and analyzes how...
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Christmas: New Beginnings and the Birth of the Divine Child-Hero
This chapter first addresses the extent to which the biblical stories of the birth of Jesus are myths in the sense of being unhistorical. After...
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The Gradual Development of Pentecostal Higher Education
Given the circumstances described in the previous chapter, pentecostal efforts in higher education had humble beginnings and only developed over...
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Introduction: Emotions (Jeong/Qing 情) in Korean Philosophy and Religion
This introductory chapter presents the editors’ comprehensive introduction to four interrelated topics: “Emotions in General, East and West” (Sect....
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The Totalitarian Imagination Revisited: State Religious Education at the ‘Worldviews’ Watershed
The Totalitarian Imagination Revisited examines the origins and ends of religion in education at the ‘worldviews’ watershed. It does so against a...
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Avian Artistry: Decoding the Intertextuality Between Mahābhārata and Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa
Why do four birds narrate the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa ? Narrative enframement plays a crucial role in contextualizing Sanskrit literature. The narrative...
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Archetypal Dimensions of Comic Books
Psychologically, the long-standing popularity of comic books rests in their connectedness to the deep archetypal dimensions of the psyche. C.G. Jung...
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Beginnings: The Early Church
This chapter explores the early church in the Arabian Gulf. The arrival of Christians in the region seems to have been linked with persecution, trade...
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The Interaction of Church and State During the Crusading Movement: Cooperation, Control, Indifference
Pope Urban II’s (r. 1088–1099) speech to the assembled crowd at Clermont, France, in 1095 ushered in the Crusading movement, a series of armed...
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Introduction: Where and How to Start
In this introductory chapter, I provide the reader with the context within which this pastoral enquiry was undertaken. I also introduce the...
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Yi Yulgok on the Role of Emotions in Self-cultivation and Ethics: A Korean Confucian and Comparative Interpretation
Yi I (Yulgok) was a leading Neo-Confucian thinker and one of the greatest statesmen in Joseon Korea. This chapter presents the holistic role of...
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Ontological/Epistemological Questions
This chapter focuses on the ontological and epistemological factors that play a role in sha** worldviews. It explores the ontological beliefs of...
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Missionary Work in China: Benign Ministry or State Subversion?
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has had, and continues to have, a complicated relationship with Christian missionaries. On the one hand,...
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Korean Social Emotions: Han (한 恨), Heung (흥 興), and Jeong (정 情)
This chapter deals with Korean social emotions in terms of the coupling structure of han (恨) and heung (興), and of jeong (情) and non-attachment (無心)....
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Research Is Not Greater Than the Methodology: Ways of Seeing and Analyzing Ubuntu
This chapter is about our faith—the Methodology—we believe that, almost like a religion, research is not more important than its adopted worldview or...
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Conclusion: The Diversity, Dynamics, and Distinctiveness of Korean Jeong
Chapter 1 is the editors’ comprehensive introduction to this volume and serves as a textual,...
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ידע and γινώσκω as Prototypical Case Studies for the Formation of Theological Knowledge in the Bible
This chapter presents a cognitive analysis of theological knowledge formation in the Bible. It analyzes the meaning of ידע and γινώσκω, the two...