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Experiencing God in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Experiencing God in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Experiencing God in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
demonstrates that experiences of divine revelation, both biblical
and contemporary, were central to late medieval and early modern
English religion. The book sheds light on previously under-explored
notions about divine revelation and the role these notions played
in shaping large portions of English thought and belief. Bringing
together a wide variety of source materials, from contemplative
works and accounts of revelatory experiences to biblical
commentaries, devotionals, and religious imagery, David J. Davis
argues that in the period there was a collective representation of
divine revelation as a source of human knowledge, which transcended
other religious and intellectual divisions. Not only did most
people think that divine revelation, through a ravishing encounter
with God, was possible, but also divine revelation was understood
to be the pinnacle of religious experience and a source of pure
understanding. The book highlights a common discourse running
through the sources that underpinned this collective representation
of how human beings experienced the divine, and it demonstrates a
continual effort across large swathes of English religion to
prepare an individual's soul for an encounter with the divine,
through different spiritual disciplines and devotional practices.
Over a period of several centuries this discourse and the larger
culture of revelation provided an essential structure and
legitimacy both to contemporary claims of divine revelation and the
biblical precedents that contemporary experiences were modelled
after. This discourse detailed the physical, metaphysical, and
epistemological features of how a human being was understood to
experience divine revelation, providing a means to delimit and
define what happened when an individual was rapture by God.
Finally, the book situates the experience of revelation within the
wider context of knowledge and identifies the ways that claims to
divine revelation were legitimated as well as stigmatized based on
this common understanding of the experience of rapture.
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