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Theology Today In one series, the original writings of the
universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant,
Eastern Orthodox, Jewish and Islamic traditions have been
critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally
recognized scholars and spiritual leaders. Carthusian Spirituality:
The Writings of Hugh of Balma and Guigo de Ponte translated and
introduced by Dennis D. Martin preface by John Van Engen "The third
step is the human spirit's yearning, unitive clinging in which she
gently burns for God, knowing experientially that one who clings to
God in this way is one spirit with him...With love growing from her
own fervor she opens herself to receive and in receiving is set on
fire. Then with great longing she gazes wide-mouthed at celestial
things and in some wondrous way tastes what she seeks to have. This
tasting, moreover, is the clinging, the union, through which the
pious spirit enjoys god, in whom she blissfully reposes." Guigo de
Ponte, On Contemplation, Book Two, Chapter Ten In the fourteenth,
fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, the Carthusians filled the role
played in the tenth and eleventh centuries by the Cluniac network,
in the twelfth century by the Cistercians, and in the thirteenth
century by the Franciscans and Dominicans: Western Christendom's
most outstanding professional intercessors before God's throne.
Founded in the late eleventh century, a few years before the
Cistercians, the Carthusians grew very slowly during their first
two centuries but were highly respected from the beginning. They
inspired, among others, Bernard of Clairvaux, William of St.
Thierry, Aelred of Rievaulx, and Peter the Venerable. The two
authors whose writings make up this volume are situated at the end
of the thirteenth century, just before the order's flourishing
growth of the fourteenth century. The mysterious author known as
"Hugh of Balma" may have influenced the fourteenth-century Cloud of
Unknowing and certainly had a great impact on Catholic spirituality
in the sixteenth and following centuries, especially, but not
exclusively, in Spain. Guigo de Ponte's writings, by indirect
route, influenced Ignatius of Loyola.
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