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Luchitskaya, Svetlana. "«DO YOU CALL HIM A PROPHET? DO YOU CONSIDER HIM A MESSENGER OF GOD?». PETER THE VENERABLE ON THE CRITERIA FOR DISTINGUISHING A TRUE PROPHET FROM AN IMPOSTOR." Odysseus. Man in History 32-33, no. 1-2 (2024): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.32608/1607-6184-2024-32-33-1-2-3.

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The article analyzes The article examines a phenomenon typical of medieval spiritual and social life–the phenomenon of false prophets or self-proclaimed prophets. The focal point is the treatise of the Cluniac abbot Peter Venerable, where he clearly outlines the criteria for distinguishing a true prophet from a false one and endeavors to demonstrate that the founder of Islam, Muhammad, was a false prophet. The author of the article illustrates that the concepts of a prophet in Islam and Christianity are significantly different and emphasizes that it is precisely a misunderstanding of these dif

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Van der Wal, Anne Marieke. "Reinterpreting Millenarian Sentiments at the Dutch Cape Colony." BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 138, no. 4 (2023): 4–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.9746.

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During the long nineteenth century, European colonists, in among others Asia and Africa, were often confronted with self-proclaimed prophets who predicted an apocalyptic uprising which would bring about a new era of peace and independence from European control. The Dutch colonial world has known several of such ‘prophets of rebellion’, as millenarian beliefs flourished particularly in times of distress. This article focuses on the Khoikhoi uprising of 1788 and their revealed prophet the ‘liewe heer’ Jan Paerl, in the Dutch Cape Colony, and seeks to break with patterns in the current study of a

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Polke, Christian. "Is Pacifism a Democratic Virtue? Pragmatist Reflections on an Often Neglected Dimension of Contemporary Peace Ethics." Studies in Christian Ethics 31, no. 2 (2017): 214–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0953946817749899.

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The article questions concepts of ‘democratic peace’ that presuppose an intrinsic relation between pacifism and democracy. This view lacks from both, empirical evidence and historical insight. Instead, pacifism as political and personal virtue can be better linked to the Deweyan idea of democracy as the basic way of life, that is, mutual cooperation and self-realisation. But not only pacifism but also warfare and aggressive conduct often are rooted and result in an ethos of solidarity and cooperation. Therefore, the task for any realistic concept of democratic pacifism is at least two-fold: fi

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Kitur, Joseph. "The discrepancies surrounding Dr Owuor's claims: A review of the biblical understanding." Journal of Pastoral and Practical Theology (JPPT) 2, no. 1 (2023): 130–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/jppt.v2i1.426.

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This study sought to find out the discrepancies surrounding Dr Owuor’s claims. Dr David Owuor is a self-proclaimed prophet who has replaced his human history with a heavenly autobiography through an alleged supernatural origin. In 2003, Dr Owuor reported a vision from the Lord with Prophets Moses, Elijah, and Daniel and a conversation with John the Baptist, who revealed the events leading up to the second coming of Christ. He also claims that God gave him golden wedding rings and a handwritten note from heaven, explaining the character of those preparing to enter the Kingdom. He believes God t

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Lala, Ismail. "The Epistemic Status of Mystical Experience in Ibn ʻArabī’s Legal Reasoning". Religions 13, № 11 (2022): 1051. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13111051.

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Arguably the most influential Sufi thinker in Islam, Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn ʻArabī (d. 638/1240), views revelatory knowledge and mystical experience, what he terms ‘spiritual unveiling’ (kashf), as a form of continuing divine revelation that is bequeathed to the spiritual elite or saints (awliyā’). As the self-proclaimed ‘Seal of Saints’ (Khātam al-awliyā’), who is the mystical heir to the wisdom of Muḥammad, the ‘Seal of Prophets’ (Khātam al-anbiyā’), Ibn ʻArabī has a unique method of deriving legal rulings. Not only does he emphasise the inner aspect (bāṭin) of all rituals and forms of worship, lik

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Arnold, N. Scott. "Equality and Exploitation in the Market Socialist Community." Social Philosophy and Policy 9, no. 1 (1992): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052500003587.

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Historically, critics of capitalism have had a great deal to say about the defects and social ills that afflict capitalist society and correspondingly little to say about how alternative institutional arrangements might solve these problems. One can only speculate about why this has been so. One reason might be a simple matter of priorities. Bertolt Brecht once said that when a man's house is on fire, one does not inquire too closely into alternative arrangements for shelter. The analogy between capitalism and a burning house may seem overwrought today, but in the dark days of the Depression o

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Armstrong, Joshua. "Two Solitudes." Romanic Review 115, no. 2 (2024): 404–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00358118-11225373.

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Abstract Contemporary French novelists Michel Houellebecq and Yannick Haenel may seem to have little in common, but in fact both are given to making pronouncements about the state of Western civilization, and each has been described as prophetic in this regard. Houellebecq’s Sérotonine (2019) and Haenel’s Tiens ferme ta couronne (2017) are both stories whose protagonists isolate in their apartments, and—from that remove—proceed to, ostensibly, see the world for what it really is. Looming in both novels is a twenty-four-hour-news-cycle culture that serves as the ultimate prophet of doom. Haenel

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Pardue, Brett. "Preaching on the Edge: Presence, Concealment, and the Tension of Truth." Homiletic 50, no. 1 (2025): 74–90. https://doi.org/10.15695/hmltc.v50i1.5682.

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Preaching is often imagined as fearless proclamation—unmasking truth in the full light of day. Yet for many preachers, especially those navigating identity-based vulnerability, full self-revelation is neither safe nor possible. This article challenges the familiar dichotomy between pastor and prophet, arguing instead for a homiletic that honors both presence and concealment as interwoven expressions of faithful proclamation. Drawing from incarnational theology, kenotic Christology, performance theory, and queer and coming-out discourse, this study reframes strategic withholding not as a failur

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Sevitch, Benjamin. "When Black Gods Preached on Earth: The Heavenly Appeals of Prophet Cherry, Daddy Grace, and Father Divine." Journal of Communication and Religion 19, no. 1 (1996): 26–36. https://doi.org/10.5840/jcr19961918.

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This study examines the messages of three charismatic leaders who established followings among the substantial black populations of northern cities. Their ministries suggest little in common: one a racist theological innovator, another a self -aggrandizing charlatan, and the third a social reformer who championed integration. They are bound together by their ethical appeal derived from their self-proclaimed ties to the divinity.

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Eliav-Feldon, Miriam. "Invented Identities: Credulity in the Age of Prophecy and Exploration." Journal of Early Modern History 3, no. 3 (1999): 203–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006599x00242.

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AbstractThe sixteenth century was a golden age for impostors and pretenders of many kinds. In addition to the pre-modem lack of means for establishing a person's identity, other contributing factors for the success of impostors were the inability to distinguish between fact and fiction in the flood of reports about newly-discovered lands, the desperate desire of European monarchs to believe in the existence of potential allies against Islam and the eschatological mood bred by the Age of Fear. This article attempts to gauge early modem gullibility by examining the attitudes towards David Reuven

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Visscher, Klaran. "De openbaringen van Jozef Rulof in eschatologisch perspectief." NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 65, no. 4 (2011): 307–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/ntt2011.65.307.viss.

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This article addresses the case of Jozef Rulof, one of the representatives of new religious movements in the early 20th century in the Netherlands. Self-proclaimed prophet and medium in the service of the ‘Cosmic Masters from the Other Side’, he urged his contemporaries to welcome a new cosmic age that would give the initial impetus to the Kingdom of God on Earth - to be realised by humankind itself. In his thinking, strongly based upon the concepts of reincarnation and karma, the end of times refers to the ‘fading’ of the planet as a logical step in the evolutionary development of both humani

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NORDLUND, ALEXANDER M. "A MISFIT IN ALL TIMES: H. G. WELLS AND “THE LAST WAR”." Modern Intellectual History 15, no. 3 (2016): 747–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244316000238.

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The First World War is often alluded to as “the war to end all wars,” a phrase credited to H. G. Wells at the outbreak of the conflict. Rather than a self-proclaimed product of war enthusiasm in 1914, his declaration represented a consistent vision of warfare that Wells circulated in much of his work: that a major war would cause the collapse of the nation state and facilitate the rise of a utopian, technocratic world state. Although partly a cultural product of his own times, Wells mythologized himself as a misfit in all times: a sociopolitical critic antithetical to the madness of his own so

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Prilutskiy, V. V. "JAMES STRANG (1813–1856) AND THE «MORMON KINGDOM» ON THE GREAT LAKES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE XIX-TH CENTURY." Vestnik Bryanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 08, no. 03 (2024): 84–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.22281/2413-9912-2024-08-03-84-90.

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The article examines the activities of James Jesse Strang (1813-1856), the self-proclaimed prophet of the «Latter-day Saints», the leader of one of the major movements in early Mormonism, and his followers – the Strangites. A unique religious and socio-political phenomenon: the proclamation of the monarchy in the United States remains practically unexplored in Russian historiography. This article helps fill the gap. The analysis of information about the religious movement of the Strangites, its origin, features, main ideas, major milestones of history contained in Mormon documents, materials o

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Čiočytė, Dalia. "The Concept of the Demonic in Herkus Kunčius’s Novella A Most Loyal Metaphysical Friend and Marius Ivaškevičius’s Drama The Mistr." Colloquia 39 (December 20, 2017): 35–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.51554/col.2017.28719.

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There are two works of contemporary Lithuanian literature that effectively explore the theme of the demonic: Herkus Kunčius’s novella A Most Loyal Metaphysical Friend (Ištikimiausias metafizinis draugas, 2010) and the play The Mistr (Mistras, 2010), by Marius Ivaškevičius. The author of this article examines how these two works modify the traditional literary concept of the demonic – both works present the demonic not in classical, transcendental terms but as an immanent force. Considering the works from the perspective of literary theology, the author asks whether, and which kind of, theologi

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Truța, Ferencz Iozsef. "„MAESTRUL” BICSÉRDY BÉLA. PROFET ȘI REFORMATOR AL VIEȚII INTERBELICE (BIOGRAFIA)." ANUARUL INSTITUTULUI DE CERCETĂRI SOCIO-UMANE „GHEORGHE ŞINCAI” 27 (2024): 71–82. https://doi.org/10.59277/icsugh.sincai.27.06.

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ew people know that dietary trends and concerns such as physical exercise, intermittent fasting, longevity, etc., are not modern phenomena. In fact, if we browse the newspapers from the interwar period, we discover that one of the sources of veganism, intermittent fasting, and strength training is right in Transylvania, in Făgăraș, where the first vegan sect in Europe was born in the 1920s. We call it a sect because the movement born around a tax collector named Bicsérdy Béla had all the necessary “ingredients”: its own God, prophet/leader, dogmas, and, according to some sources, over 120,000

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Jill, Tsitsi Mujaji. "Self-Proclaimed Prophets and Human Security in Africa." April 21, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4707578.

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Over the recent years, the challenge of self-proclaimed prophets has impacted the Christian faith in Africa. Many unsuspecting and innocent people have fallen prey to the displays exhibited by self-proclaimed prophets in the name of God. This challenge has given way too many Africans' exploitation since religion constitutes an inextricable part of African people's lives. Cases of self-proclaimed prophets staging miracles and prophecies have been on the rise, and innocent people have fallen prey to the lies due to their faith in God. In this paper, it will be argued that con artists dis

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Thinane, Jonas Sello. "Misuse of Religious titles by self-proclaimed spiritual leaders: Prophets, Apostles, and Popes in South Africa." Pharos Journal of Theology, October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46222/pharosjot.102.035.

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In the world of religions, different religious officials are given different titles. Christianity as a religion in the world and in South Africa particularly, has been severely attacked by self proclaimed spiritual leaders who perform false miracles and abuse titles that have been respected by traditional mainstream churches for decades. These self-appointed spiritual leaders make utilization of these titles either through self-propagating or by accepting them when utilized upon them by their followers. This paper argues that self-appointed spiritual leaders' mere use of these revered religiou

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Downing, Jonathan. "Southcottians and Shiloh: Genesis 49:10 and the Morphology of a Messianic Hope." Journal of the Bible and its Reception 3, no. 1 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbr-2016-1005.

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AbstractThis article examines how a prophetic religious tradition can exploit the gaps of indeterminacy within a biblical text, in order to develop new readings in response to changing circumstances. Using Brennan Breed’s ideas about biblical texts as “objectiles,” which are prone to change throughout their life, this article traces the interpretation of Genesis 49:10 in the history of a modern prophetic movement. The article proceeds to examine how members of the so-called Southcottian visitation – a British prophetic movement started in the early nineteenth century by the self-proclaimed pro

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Dube, Siphiwe Ignatius. "“Hate Me Now”: An Instance of NAS as Hip-Hop’s Self-proclaimed Prophet and Messiah." Religious Studies and Theology 29, no. 2 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/rsth.v29i2.171.

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Suryana, A'an. "Striking Balance: Freedom of Expression in Post-Soeharto Indonesia." Plaridel 12, no. 1 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.52518/2015.12.1-10sryna.

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Debates about freedom of expression raise questions about what constitutes its limits. At the level of practice, some individuals or groups of people may impose limits through violence, either direct violence or “proxy violence,” especially when it comes to matters regarding the exercise of faith, such as a blasphemy case, which is irrational in nature and not governed by secular laws. The case of Charlie Hebdo, and in the context of Indonesia, the case of Alexander Aan—a self-proclaimed atheist who served a jail sentence after being charged with tarnishing the image of Prophet Muhammad—how ho

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Bin Hassan, Mohammad Taha, Fadlan Bin Mohd Othman, and Mohd Arif Nazri. "Analisis Komprehensif Terhadap Isu-Isu Dakwaan Sebagai Sahabat Nabi Saw Bermula Dari Kurun Ke 5 Hingga Ke 7 Hijrah." Journal Of Hadith Studies, May 31, 2023, 19–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.33102/johs.v8i1.223.

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During the early 5th until the 7th Hijrah, the Crusades on Muslim land began in 492 H until the eruption of the Siege of Acre in 690 H resulted in a decline of intellectual achievements and stagnation in knowledge among the Muslims. Besides that, there were also conflicts and ongoing political turmoils, which led to the Muslim’s further deterioration with the sack of Baghdad in the hands of Tatar in 656 H till 702 H. Amid chaos around that century, there emerged several individuals who regarded themselves as the companions of the Prophet. These individuals purportedly claimed that they lived a

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Lowe, Lenny J. "Life Outside: Pentecostalism, Poverty, and Excess in Haiti." Journal of the American Academy of Religion, April 12, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfac075.

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Abstract Based on ethnographic research with a community of independent Pentecostals known in Haiti as “The Heavenly Army,” this article examines the practices and perspectives of these self-proclaimed spiritual warriors against the backdrop of their extreme material poverty. As articulated by Claudette the prophetess, her constant concern about afflicting spirits is specific to her life conditions, a way of living that she describes as “outside.” I first describe the “outsidedness” of Claudette’s and her community’s lives as an experience of marginality, vulnerability, and isolation from powe

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Al-Rawi, Ahmed, Carmen Celestini, Nicole Stewart, and Nathan Worku. "How Google Autocomplete Algorithms about Conspiracy Theorists Mislead the Public." M/C Journal 25, no. 1 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2852.

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Introduction: Google Autocomplete Algorithms Despite recent attention to the impact of social media platforms on political discourse and public opinion, most people locate their news on search engines (Robertson et al.). When a user conducts a search, millions of outputs, in the form of videos, images, articles, and Websites are sorted to present the most relevant search predictions. Google, the most dominant search engine in the world, expanded its search index in 2009 to include the autocomplete function, which provides suggestions for query inputs (Dörr and Stephan). Google’s autocomplete f

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