although america claims to be the savior of the world and itsinvasions of other nations have been justified as attempts to maintain peaceand security, america’s international interventions have not always beenwithout expansionist aims. america considers itself a messianic force on theearth. this moral aloofness has served as a justification for imperialistprojects. in the light of post-colonial...

Transforming as it does from an exemplar of meticulous philosophical analysis into an allusive political/messianic tract, Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” is representative of all that is most difficult about his work. Against those critics who find the eschatological dimensions of Benjamin’s texts unpalatable and/or philosophically bankrupt, however, the wager of this paper is that it ...

The Jewish people cannot and do not accept that Jesus Christ is their messiah. He may have been a good man, a prophet, a miracle worker, a healer, an observant Jew, or all of these, but they continue to insist that he was not their messiah. Many reasons are usually given for this rejection, but there is one reason that has persisted from the times of Jesus himself and therefore presents itself ...

BACKGROUND Creativity, religiosity and madness have long been thought to be aetiologically interrelated. METHOD Henry Maudsley's little known pathography of the 17th century Swedish philosopher and polymath, Emanuel Swedenborg, was examined. RESULTS Swedenborg developed a messianic psychosis in middle life, considered by Maudsley to be a monomania, possibly due to epilepsy. Many of Swedenbo...