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The perennial philosophy is the idea of a core of shared truth and insight at the heart of a wide variety of diverse worldviews: the idea that mystics and visionaries spanning the world’s religions and philosophical systems have apprehended a common reality. Each of these mystics has expressed this reality in the language appropriate to their ...
The history of the doctrine of universal salvation (or apokastastasis) is a remarkable one. Until the nineteenth century almost all Christian theologians taught the reality of eternal torment in hell. Here and there, outside the theological mainstream, were some who believed that the wicked would be finally annihilated (in its commonest form this is the doctrine of ‘conditional immortality ...
First, God wrote in Adam’s heart a “law of universal obedience.”. This cordially established moral disposition was to be manifested in the obedience to a “particular precept” of abstaining from eating of one tree in the exuberant garden in which the creature was placed. By establishing a standard in terms of a positive ordinance ...
Ātman ( / ˈɑːtmən /; Sanskrit: आत्मन्) is a Sanskrit word for the true or eternal Self or the self-existent essence or impersonal witness-consciousness within each individual. Atman is conceptually different from Jīvātman, which persists across multiple bodies and lifetimes.
The jiva-atman is also eternal but is imprisoned in an earthly body at birth. At death the jiva-atman passes into a new existence determined by karma , or the cumulative consequences of actions. The cycle of death and rebirth ( samsara ) is eternal according to some Hindus, but others say it persists only until the soul has attained karmic ...
v. t. e. In Christian theology, universal reconciliation (also called universal salvation, Christian universalism, or in context simply universalism) is the doctrine that all sinful and alienated human souls —because of divine love and mercy —will ultimately be reconciled to God. [1] The doctrine has been rejected by most mainstream ...
First published Sun Sep 10, 2000; substantive revision Sun Feb 27, 2022. “The problem of universals” in general is a historically variable bundle of several closely related, yet in different conceptual frameworks rather differently articulated metaphysical, logical, and epistemological questions, ultimately all connected to the issue of how ...
In philosophy terms the difference between universal and eternal is that universal is a characteristic or property that particular things have in common while eternal is existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly. As a noun universal is a characteristic or property that particular things have in common.