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Emptiness as a human condition is a sense of generalized boredom, social alienation, nihilism and apathy.Feelings of emptiness often accompany dysthymia, [1] depression, loneliness, anhedonia, despair, or other mental/emotional disorders, including schizoid personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizotypal personality disorder and ...
The Parable of the Empty Jar (also known as the Parable of the Woman with a Jar), is found in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas. It does not appear in any of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament. The parable is attributed to Jesus and reads: The kingdom of the father is like a certain woman who was carrying a jar full of meal.
Matthew removes the emotional motivation, throughout his gospel Jesus' emotions are only rarely mentioned, reducing the references to the humanity of Jesus. Davies and Allison reject the idea that growing reverence caused the author of Matthew to limit Jesus' emotions, and the later Gospel of John makes frequent reference to Jesus' feelings. [2]
In Christian theology, kenosis (Ancient Greek: κένωσις, romanized: kénōsis, lit. 'the act of emptying') is the "self-emptying" of Jesus.The word ἐκένωσεν (ekénōsen) is used in the Epistle to the Philippians: "[] made himself nothing" (), [1] or "[he] emptied himself" [2] (Philippians 2:7), using the verb form κενόω (kenóō), meaning "to empty".
They compared the thoughts and behaviors of the most important figures in the Bible, such as Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Paul, [76] with patients affected by mental disorders related to the psychotic spectrum using different clusters of disorders and diagnostic criteria , [77] and concluded that these Biblical figures "may have had psychotic ...
Shunyata: (Śūnyatā, शून्यता (Sanskrit, Pali: suññatā), or "Emptiness") In Buddhist metaphysical critique and Buddhist epistemology and phenomenology, shunyata signifies that everything one encounters in life is empty of soul, permanence, and self-nature. Everything is inter-related, never self-sufficient or independent ...
The Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385174470. Nibley, Hugh (1992). Temple and Cosmos: Beyond This Ignorant Present. The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley. Vol. 12 : Ancient History. Deseret Book Co. ISBN 0875795234
In Catholic doctrine, it would be erroneous and blasphemous to attribute changes or emotional states to God, except by analogy. Thus scriptural expressions which indicate "anger" or "sadness" on God's part are considered anthropomorphisms, mere analogies to explain mankind's relationship to God, who is impassible in his own nature.