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Fallen Kingdoms And Ancient Monoliths: The Influence Of Atlantis And Egypt In Tolkien’S Númenor, Charlotte J. Brockway Sep 2024

Fallen Kingdoms And Ancient Monoliths: The Influence Of Atlantis And Egypt In Tolkien’S Númenor, Charlotte J. Brockway

Journal of Tolkien Research

In light of the recent publication of The Fall of Númenor, my essay aims to focus on Tolkien’s, somewhat underappreciated, influences on Gondor; particularly Ancient Egypt. This essay looks at Plato's Timaeus and Critias, Ignatius Donnelly's theories, and examines the Atlantean and Egyptian motifs in Tolkien’s version of Westernesse, in particular, the remnants of Atlantean civilization survived by Egyptian colonists which mirror the Realms of Exile (Gondor and Arnor).


Tracing The Past, Drawing The Present, Sixue Yang May 2020

Tracing The Past, Drawing The Present, Sixue Yang

Graduate School of Art Theses

The group of work, Rising Water, Floating Islands is inspired by traditional Chinese scroll landscape paintings. Such landscape paintings combine meticulous technique, compositional complexity, and tension between representation and abstraction to reveal an alternative universe that waits discovery amid our mundane existence. In “Rising Water, Floating Islands,” I explore the political and social ramifications of the ongoing cultural conflict between traditional and emergent contemporary values. By combining traditional Chinese elements and techniques with my own markings and gestural adaptation in my painting, I give the audience the opportunity to contemplate the implications of our present digital condition through traditional esthetic …


The Poetic Function Of Imagination: The Parallel Process Of Poiêsis, Angela Carlson Apr 2019

The Poetic Function Of Imagination: The Parallel Process Of Poiêsis, Angela Carlson

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

In the advent of Postmodernism, modern approaches to understanding the nature of things is being put into question. As the gap between objective and subjective realms of experiences is narrowing, there is an increased need for a more artful approach to science. This paper serves as my attempt to promote the field of Expressive Arts Therapy (ExATh) as a mode of poetic science for understanding the experience of ‘Being’ in the world. Through a critical review of the semantic development of the ancient Greek concepts poiêsis, noêsis, and aisthêsis, the imagination is identified as a function of alêthaic revealing, …


Differentiating Averroes’ Accounts Of The Metaphysics Of Human Epistemology In His Middle And Long Commentaries On Aristotle’S De Anima, Caleb H A Brown Jun 2017

Differentiating Averroes’ Accounts Of The Metaphysics Of Human Epistemology In His Middle And Long Commentaries On Aristotle’S De Anima, Caleb H A Brown

Montview Journal of Research & Scholarship

Averroes (an Islamic Andalusian philosopher in the 12th century) discusses the metaphysics of human epistemology extensively, and his socio-religious context sheds light on this discussion. Several of his works, most prominently his three commentaries on Aristotle’s De Anima, attempt to explain how finite, particular minds interact with universal, eternal intelligibles. Current scholarship focuses on the two longer commentaries, the Middle Commentary and the Long Commentary, but there is no consensus regarding which of these presents Averroes’ final articulation of the metaphysics of human epistemology. Those who maintain that Averroes wrote the Middle Commentary last tend to minimize …


The Repercussions Of Having A Body, James Harkness Oct 2016

The Repercussions Of Having A Body, James Harkness

CIE Essay Writing Contest

No abstract provided.


A Catholic Core Curriculum, Richard Liddy Jan 2012

A Catholic Core Curriculum, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Method In Catholic Studies, Richard Liddy Jan 2011

Method In Catholic Studies, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Changing Our Minds: Bernard Lonergan And Climate Change, Richard Liddy Jan 2011

Changing Our Minds: Bernard Lonergan And Climate Change, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's., Randall Rosenberg Jan 2011

Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's., Randall Rosenberg

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Catholicity And Faculty Seminars, Richard Liddy Jan 2011

Catholicity And Faculty Seminars, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Ignatius, Lonergan, And The Catholic University, Richard Liddy Jan 2011

Ignatius, Lonergan, And The Catholic University, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight. By Richard M. Liddy., Michael Mcguckian Jan 2011

Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight. By Richard M. Liddy., Michael Mcguckian

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Mark D. Morelli, At The Threshold Of The Halfway House: A Study Of Bernard Lonergan's Encounter With John Alexander Stewart, Richard Liddy Mar 2009

Review Of Mark D. Morelli, At The Threshold Of The Halfway House: A Study Of Bernard Lonergan's Encounter With John Alexander Stewart, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Method And Intellectual Conversion, Richard Liddy Jan 2009

Method And Intellectual Conversion, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Review- Starting Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight By Richard M. Liddy, Andrew Beards Jan 2009

Review- Starting Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight By Richard M. Liddy, Andrew Beards

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


The Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Richard Liddy Jan 2009

The Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Method In History, Richard Liddy Jan 2009

Method In History, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Preface, Richard Liddy Jan 2009

Preface, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight, Charles Hefling Jan 2008

Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight, Charles Hefling

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


El Primer Contexto De Los Escritos Economicos De Bernard Lonergan, Richard Liddy Jan 2008

El Primer Contexto De Los Escritos Economicos De Bernard Lonergan, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight, J. Michael Stebbins Jan 2008

Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight, J. Michael Stebbins

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Transforming Light: Intellectual Conversion In The Early Lonergan, Richard Liddy Jan 2008

Transforming Light: Intellectual Conversion In The Early Lonergan, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Startling Strangeness: A Memoir, Richard Liddy Jan 2008

Startling Strangeness: A Memoir, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Catholic Studies And The Mission Of The Catholic University, Richard Liddy Jan 2007

Catholic Studies And The Mission Of The Catholic University, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Lonergan's Quest: A Student Of Desire In The Authoring Of "Insight" By William A. Mathews, Richard Liddy Dec 2006

Review Of Lonergan's Quest: A Student Of Desire In The Authoring Of "Insight" By William A. Mathews, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Hints And Guesses: Discerning Value, Richard Liddy Jan 2005

Hints And Guesses: Discerning Value, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Cardinal Martini On Bernard Lonergan: Bernard Lonergan At The Service Of The Church, Richard Liddy Jan 2005

Cardinal Martini On Bernard Lonergan: Bernard Lonergan At The Service Of The Church, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


The Mystery Of Lonergan, Richard Liddy Oct 2004

The Mystery Of Lonergan, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Poetry And The Question Of God, Richard Liddy Jan 2004

Poetry And The Question Of God, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.


Augustine's Intellectual Conversion, Richard Liddy Jan 2004

Augustine's Intellectual Conversion, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

No abstract provided.