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John of the Cross - Desire, Transformation, and Selfhood (Hardcover)
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John of the Cross - Desire, Transformation, and Selfhood (Hardcover)
Series: Christian Theology in Context
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Through the 'dark night of the soul' to the depiction of the
erotically-charged union of the soul and God, the poetry and prose
works of the Spanish friar John of the Cross (1542-1591) offer a
striking account of the transformation of the individual in the
course of the Christian life. John of the Cross: Desire,
Transformation, and Selfhood argues that these writings are
animated by John's own creative and subtly conceptualized notion of
erotic desire. John's understanding of desire has the potential to
enrich recent theological discussion of the subject, but it has
been curiously neglected in past scholarship. To correct this
lacuna, this study undertakes a detailed historical analysis in
three parts. Firstly, it attends to the patristic, medieval, and
sixteenth-century Spanish influences on John's writings, showing
how John reworks a long tradition of biblical, Christian, and
Platonic reflection on the concept. Secondly, it traces the
importance of desire through John's writings, demonstrating how he
develops the theme through his poetry, his anthropology of the
soul, and his account of the spiritual ascent. Thirdly, it explores
the reception of his writings in the twentieth century,
demonstrating how particular modern philosophical and theological
commitments have prevented scholars from recognising the rich and
distinctive shape of John's theological vision. John's account of
the transformation of the self, with its hopeful vision of the
graced transformation of the soul's desires, has significance
beyond the constrained modern categories of systematic theology,
Christian spirituality, pastoral theology, and mysticism-it is a
vision that is worthy of recovery today.
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