Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred around the crucified Christ. Twenty years later, while living as an anchoress in a church, she is believed to have set out these visions in a text called the Showing o…
This dissertation explores the role of extraordinary religious experience in Pauline Christianity through a study of Paul's claim to have been snatched into the third heaven and Paradise only to suffer later from a "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:1-10). Many previous inte…
This dissertation seeks to establish the Christian, rather than the Jewish, character of the Apocalyptic visions by utilizing a historical-exegetical analysis of [special characters omitted], the Lamb figure, in the core Lamb passages. Chapter one discusses the socio-historical …
This dissertation studies the more than 1300 Greek and Latin inscriptions referring to divine communications received by individual worshipers in their dreams or waking visions, or else through unspecified divinatory media. Precisely 1300 of these—623 Greek, 677 Latin—are inscri…
In April 1853 the efforts of a group of Swiss capitalists from Geneva finally came to fruition when they obtained a land grant from the French government in the region of Sétif in Algeria. It marked the beginning of a Swiss involvement in the country that lasted for over one hun…
Although it is widely assumed that Wolfram's version of the Grail legend belongs in the genre of romance, this study examines Parzival as a synthesis of Hermetic and Muslim alchemy with Christian Eucharistic and Pentecostal imagery in a verse narrative that meets all of our post…
This study compares two poetic visions from two different literatures, cultures, and traditions, Salih Al-'Alawi's (1902-1976) and Robert Frost's (1874-1963). Al-'Alawi is an Arab modern poet whose vision is romantic mystical. Frost is a modern American poet whose work is inform…
Understanding mental health from a religious, literary, and philosophical point?of?view represents a critical component in current research on alternative approaches to well?being, spiritually and physically. This volume contains a selection of papers drawn from a conference at …
Understanding mental health from a religious, literary, and philosophical point?of?view represents a critical component in current research on alternative approaches to well?being, spiritually and physically. This volume contains a selection of papers drawn from a conference at …
