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The Mystical Presence of Christ - The Exceptional and the Ordinary in Late Medieval Religion (Hardcover)
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The Mystical Presence of Christ - The Exceptional and the Ordinary in Late Medieval Religion (Hardcover)
Series: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
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The Mystical Presence of Christ investigates the connections
between exceptional experiences of Christ's presence and ordinary
devotion to Christ in the late medieval West. Unsettling the notion
that experiences of seeing Christ's figure or hearing Christ speak
are simply exceptional events that happen at singular moments,
Richard Kieckhefer reveals the entanglements between these
experiences and those that occur through the imagery, language, and
rituals of ordinary, everyday devotional culture. Kieckhefer begins
his book by reconsidering the "who" and the "how" of Christ's
mystical presence. He argues that Christ's humanity and divinity
were equally important preconditions for encounters, both
exceptional and ordinary, which Kieckhefer proposes as existing on
a spectrum of experience that moves from presupposition to
intuition and finally to perception. Kieckhefer then examines
various contexts of Christ manifestations-during prayer,
meditation, and liturgy, for example-with attention to gender
dynamics and the relationship between saintly individuals and their
hagiographers. Through penetrating discussions of a diverse set of
texts and figures across the long fourteenth century (Angela of
Foligno, the nuns of Helfta, Margery Kempe, Dorothea of Montau,
Meister Eckhart, Henry Suso, and Walter Hilton, among others),
Kieckhefer shows that seemingly exceptional manifestations of
Christ were also embedded in ordinary religious experience.
Wide-ranging in scope and groundbreaking in methodology, The
Mystical Presence of Christ is a magisterial work that rethinks the
interplay between the exceptional and the ordinary in the workings
of late medieval religion.
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