- Abrahamic Religions, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Messianism, Utopianism, Utopian, Dystopian, and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Futures Studies, and 22 moreReligious Studies, Comparative Religion, Sacred Scripture, Religion and Literature, Biblical Studies, Media Studies, Urban Theology, Hermeneutics and Narrative, History of Salvation, Cinematic representation, Apocalypticism, Apocalypticism In Literature, Apocalyptic Eschatology, Apocalypse Theory, Early Christian Apocryphal Literature, Eschatology, Jewish apocalyptic literature, Utopia and Science Fiction, Science Fiction Studies, Joachim of Fiore, Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism, and Early Islamedit
- PhD in Comparative Religions and Mysticismedit
نخستین نسل‌های مسیحی و مسلمان از ابعاد نجات‌اندیشانه‌ای که در نتیجه تحول سنت پدید آمده بود درک یکسانی نداشتند و بسته به گرایش‌های فکری و موقعیت اجتماعی خود، دیدگاه‌های متفاوتی در رابطه با ایده نجات اتخاذ کردند. رویارویی این دیدگاه‌ها،... more
نخستین نسل‌های مسیحی و مسلمان از ابعاد نجات‌اندیشانه‌ای که در نتیجه تحول سنت پدید آمده بود درک یکسانی نداشتند و بسته به گرایش‌های فکری و موقعیت اجتماعی خود، دیدگاه‌های متفاوتی در رابطه با ایده نجات اتخاذ کردند. رویارویی این دیدگاه‌ها، علاوه بر اینکه در گزارش‌های تاریخی متعلق به قرون بعدی بازتاب یافته، در بررسی نقادانه متن و تاریخ تدوین عهد جدید و قرآن نیز قابل ردیابی بهنظرمیرسد؛ اگرچه سهم تأثیر متن و تاریخ در دو سوی این بررسی یکسان نیست. با وجود فربگی تدریجی ادبیات نجات‌اندیشانه در هر مرحله از تحولات سنت، بهنظرمیرسد تعامل گرایش‌های تفسیری در باب مسئله نجات اغلب در چارچوب مدل تکرارشونده‌ای صورت پذیرفته که می‌توان آن را دربرگیرنده دیالکتیک نهادگرایی، موعودگرایی و وجودگرایی درنظرگرفت. در شرایطی که دو گونه نخست جنبه‌های اسطوره‌ای و مناسکی نجات را برجسته می‌سازند، قسم اخیر به اسطوره‌زدایی از نجات و تجربه باطنی آن تأکید می‌ورزد. شناسایی این تثلیث نجات‌شناختی، در آرایش جریان‌های صدوقی، فریسی و اسنی در یهودیت باستان که با پژوهش‌های نوین درباره شرایط تاریخی آن دوره، به‌ویژه هلنیزم، رازباوری و نیز کشفیات حوزه قمران مورد توجه قرار گرفته، چندان دشوار نیست. این مدل به‌نحو مشابهی برای توضیح شکاف میان مسیحیان اولیه در باب تفسیر ایده ملکوت خداوند، آن‌چنان که در تمایز منظومه فکری پولس، انجیل‌نویسان و آبای کلیسا نمایان است، موجه بهنظرمیرسد. همچنین، می‌توان از همین ابزار روش‌شناختی برای تبیین تنازع هرمنوتیکی مسلمانان قرن اول هجری در تفسیر میراث خلافت و شکل‌گیری جنبش‌های دینی صدر اسلام بهره گرفت. بررسی تکرارپذیری این مدل، می‌تواند اهمیت هرمنوتیک نجات در شکل‌گیری هویت، آموزه‌ها و مناسک مسیحی و اسلامی و تأثیرگزاری آن بر صورت‌بندی‌های متأخر الاهیاتی و فرقه‌ای در بستر آنان را نشان دهد و چه‌بسا الگویی برای فهم فرایند پیدایش نظم دینی جدید در یکتاپرستی ابراهیمی پیشنهاد دهد.
Research Interests: Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, Early Islam, Biblical Literature and Hermeneutics (esp. New Testament), Apocalyptic Literature, and 7 moreBiblical Hermeneutics, Biblical Literature and Hermeneutics (esp. Old Testament), Canonization Processes, Salvation History, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, Quranic hermeneutics, and Religious Orthodoxy
The concept of salvation has been a significant topic in the Abrahamic tradition. It arose from the blending of historical experiences and prophetic creativity in the pre-Christian era. The Hebrew tradition's representatives dealt with... more
The concept of salvation has been a significant topic in the Abrahamic tradition. It arose from the blending of historical experiences and prophetic creativity in the pre-Christian era. The Hebrew tradition's representatives dealt with the issue of what phase of sacred history they were in and the practical requirements that followed. In the apocalyptic conditions, where views on this issue converged, significant historical developments unfolded as a result of the conflict between the old and new within the tradition. The emergence of Christianity at the beginning of late antiquity and Islam towards the end of this period was influenced by the preservation of monotheistic faith in the face of critical circumstances and new conditions. These movements were founded partly on interpretations and expectations of salvation, while also giving rise to more advanced representations and formulations of understanding and engagement. In this way, the accumulated ideas related to salvation in the previous scriptures were interpreted diversely by later monotheists, while simultaneously relating them to each other. With the emergence of each new religion, more complex interpretations of salvation emerged based on varying historical and cultural contexts. The first generations of Christians and Muslims did not share a uniform understanding of the dimensions of salvation that emerged from the transformation of the tradition. Depending on their intellectual tendencies and social status, they held distinct perspectives on the concept of salvation. The confrontation of these views can be traced not only in historical reports from subsequent centuries but also in critical examinations of the text and the dating of the New Testament and the Qur’an.
Throughout the evolution of the tradition, there has been an increasing amount of literature regarding salvation. However, the interpretation of salvation tends to fall into a recurring pattern consisting of three types: Institutionalism, Messianism, and Existentialism. Institutionalism and Messianism focus on the mythological and ritual aspects of salvation, while Existentialism emphasizes the personal and inner experience of salvation. This pattern can be seen in the arrangement of the Sadducee, Pharisaic, and Essene currents within ancient Judaism, as well as in the differences between the Pauline epistles, the evangelists, and the church fathers regarding the interpretation of the kingdom of God within early Christianity. This pattern can also be applied to explain the hermeneutical conflict among Muslims in the first century of Islam. By examining the reproducibility of this pattern, we can gain a better understanding of how the hermeneutics of salvation have shaped Christian and Islamic identity, doctrines, and rituals. This perspective may also suggest a model for understanding the emergence of new religions within Abrahamic monotheism.
Throughout the evolution of the tradition, there has been an increasing amount of literature regarding salvation. However, the interpretation of salvation tends to fall into a recurring pattern consisting of three types: Institutionalism, Messianism, and Existentialism. Institutionalism and Messianism focus on the mythological and ritual aspects of salvation, while Existentialism emphasizes the personal and inner experience of salvation. This pattern can be seen in the arrangement of the Sadducee, Pharisaic, and Essene currents within ancient Judaism, as well as in the differences between the Pauline epistles, the evangelists, and the church fathers regarding the interpretation of the kingdom of God within early Christianity. This pattern can also be applied to explain the hermeneutical conflict among Muslims in the first century of Islam. By examining the reproducibility of this pattern, we can gain a better understanding of how the hermeneutics of salvation have shaped Christian and Islamic identity, doctrines, and rituals. This perspective may also suggest a model for understanding the emergence of new religions within Abrahamic monotheism.
Research Interests: Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, Early Islam, Biblical Literature and Hermeneutics (esp. New Testament), Apocalyptic Literature, and 7 moreBiblical Hermeneutics, Biblical Literature and Hermeneutics (esp. Old Testament), Canonization Processes, Salvation History, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, Quranic hermeneutics, and Religious Orthodoxy
Beginning of the new millennium at the dawn of the 21st century, a new attention to apocalyptic and millennialist themes has raised in the media and contemporary art and culture. Accordingly, the representation of ancient narrative of... more
Beginning of the new millennium at the dawn of the 21st century, a new attention to apocalyptic and millennialist themes has raised in the media and contemporary art and culture. Accordingly, the representation of ancient narrative of apocalypse in sacred texts in movies was not unexpected and Apocalyptic Cinema has grown thanks to repeatedly depicting of this on the cinematic screens. Meantime, a plenty of media researchers, social academics and religious scholars tried to study these representations of biblical narratives of salvation and the end of the world. Apocalyptic Cinema has been investigated in cinematic, social and phenomenological approaches. In this research, that is categorized in Critical Paradigm and is defined under the Post-structuralist tradition, I applied the Barthes’ model of structural analysis of narrative to identify and analyze the codes of the 10 selected movies of apocalyptic cinema in the first decade of the third millennium. Detecting and analyzing the motifs and the narratives genres of each movie, I provided a response to the main problem: How the biblical patterns of the salvation have represented in contemporary apocalyptic movies? According to the findings, the motifs that related to Jewish pattern of the salvation are adjusted to the apocalyptic genre; In contrast, the dependent motifs of Christian salvation pattern in the bible are allocated to the post-apocalyptic genre.
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A religious tradition cannot be separated from the identification of faith through the intersubjective seeking of truth and salvation. By establishing a criterion for judging the attribution of people to that religion, this provision not... more
A religious tradition cannot be separated from the identification of faith through the intersubjective seeking of truth and salvation. By establishing a criterion for judging the attribution of people to that religion, this provision not only protects the theological message of religion and legitimizes it, but also distinguishes religious community members from others in the social sphere. Regarding the Abrahamic scriptures, how believers envision God has had an impact on both those who are concerned with salvation and the quality of their relationships with other people. As a result of this dialectic, Abrahamic monotheism has evolved different ideas about identity and salvation over time. To understand the conceptual worldview that governs the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur'an, this article examines the semantic field of identity and salvation using Izutsu's semantic method. We have also discussed how salvational approaches in the hermeneutics of Abrahamic scriptures, such as the reinterpretation of Abraham's spiritual heritage, have advanced.