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This book considers the place of deification in the writings of
Julian of Norwich and Richard Rolle, two of the fourteenth-century
English Mystics. It argues that, as a consequence of a belief in
deification, both produce writing that is helpfully viewed as
sacred eloquence. The book begins by discussing the nature of
deification, employing Norman Russell's typology. It explores the
realistic and ethical approaches found in the writings of several
Early Greek Fathers, including Irenaeus of Lyons, Cyril of
Alexandria, Origen, and Evagrius Ponticus, as well as engaging with
the debate around whether deification is a theological idea found
in the West across its history. The book then turns its attention
to Julian and Rolle, arguing that both promote forms of
deification: Rolle offering a primarily ethical approach, while
Julian's approach is more realistic. Finally, the book addresses
the issue of sacred eloquence, arguing that both Rolle and Julian,
in some sense, view their words as divinely inspired in ways that
demand an exegetical response that is para-biblical. Offering an
important perspective on a previously understudied area of
mysticism and deification, this book will be of interest to
scholars of mysticism, theology, and Middle English religious
literature.
This book examines the relationship between transcendence and
immanence within Christian mystical and apophatic writings.
Original essays from a range of leading, established, and emerging
scholars in the field focus on the roles of language, signs, and
images, and consider how mystical theology might contribute to
contemporary reflection on the Word incarnate. This collection of
essays re-examines works from such canonical figures as Eckhart,
Augustine, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas of Cusa, Teresa of
Avila, John of the Cross, Julian of Norwich, along with the
philosophical thought of Iris Murdoch, Jacques Lacan, and Martin
Heidegger, and the contemporary phenomena of the Emerging Church.
Presenting new readings of key ideas in mystical theology, and
renewed engagement with the visionary and the everyday, the
therapeutic and the transformative, these essays question how we
might think about what may lie between transcendence and immanence.
'Mystical theology' has developed through a range of meanings, from
the hidden dimensions of divine significance in the community's
interpretation of its scriptures to the much later 'science' of the
soul's ascent into communion with God. The thinkers and questions
addressed in this book draws us into the heart of a complicated,
beautiful, and often tantalisingly unfinished conversation,
continuing over centuries and often brushing allusively into
parallel concerns in other religions. Raising fundamental matters
of epistemology, representation, metaphysics, and divine reality,
contributors approach the mystical from postmodern, feminist,
sociological and historical perspectives through thinkers such as
Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of
Loyola, William James, Evelyn Underhill, Ernst Troeltsch, Rudolf
Otto, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis Chretien.
Medieval and early modern radical prophetic approaches are also
explored. This book includes new essays by Sarah Apetrei, Tina
Beattie, Raphel Cadenhead, Oliver Davies, Philip Endean, Brian
FitzGerald, Ann Loades, George Pattison, Simon D. Podmore, Joel
D.S. Rasmussen, and Johannes Zachhuber.
From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards,
images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition.
Not only did these artistic representations provide images through
which to find God, they also held mystical potential, and likewise
mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also
filled with images of God that likewise refracts and reflects His
glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought
and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western
Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art
and theology. The book features contributions from an international
panel of leading academics, and is divided into four sections. The
first section offers theoretical and philosophical considerations
of mystical aesthetics and the interplay between mysticism and art.
The final three sections investigate this interplay between the
arts and mysticism from three key vantage points. The purpose of
the volume is to explore this rarely considered yet crucial
interface between art and mysticism. It is therefore an important
and illuminating collection of scholarship that will appeal to
scholars of theology and Christian mysticism as much as those who
study literature, the arts and art history.
This book introduces students to Christian mysticism and modern
critical responses to it. Christianity has a rich tradition of
mystical theology that first emerged in the writings of the early
church fathers, and flourished during the Middle Ages. Today
Christian mysticism is increasingly recognised as an important
Christian heritage relevant to today's spiritual seekers. The book
sets out to provide students and other interested readers with
access to the main theoretical approaches to Christian mysticism -
including those propounded by William James, Steven Katz, Bernard
McGinn, Michael Sells, Denys Turner and Caroline Walker-Bynum. It
also explores postmodern re-readings of Christian mysticism by
authors such as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-FranAois
Lyotard. The book first introduces students to the main themes that
underpin Christian mysticism. It then reflects on how modern
critics have understood each of them, demonstrating that stark
delineation between the different theoretical approaches eventually
collapses under the weight of the complex interaction between
experience and knowledge that lies at the heart of Christian
mysticism. In doing so, the book presents a deliberate challenge to
a strictly perennialist reading of Christian mysticism. Anyone even
remotely familiar with Christian mysticism will know that renewed
interest in Christian mystical writers has created a huge array of
scholarship with which students of mysticism need to familiarise
themselves. This book outlines the various modern theoretical
approaches in a manner easily accessible to a reader with little or
no previous knowledge of this area, and offers a
philosophical/theological introduction to Christian mystical
writers beyond the patristic period important for the Latin Western
Tradition.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries secular French
scholars started re-engaging with religious ideas, particularly
mystical ones. Mysticism in the French Tradition introduces key
philosophical undercurrents and trajectories in French thought that
underpin and arise from this engagement, as well as considering
earlier French contributions to the development of mysticism.
Filling a gap in the literature, the book offers critical
reflections on French scholarship in terms of its engagement with
its mystical and apophatic dimensions. A multiplicity of factors
converge to shape these encounters with mystical theology:
feminist, devotional and philosophical treatments as well as
literary, historical, and artistic approaches. The essays draw
these into conversation. Bringing together an international and
interdisciplinary range of contributions from both new and
established scholars, this book provides access to the melting pot
out of which the mystical tradition in France erupted in the
twenty-first century, and from which it continues to challenge
theology today.
'Mystical theology' has developed through a range of meanings, from
the hidden dimensions of divine significance in the community's
interpretation of its scriptures to the much later 'science' of the
soul's ascent into communion with God. The thinkers and questions
addressed in this book draws us into the heart of a complicated,
beautiful, and often tantalisingly unfinished conversation,
continuing over centuries and often brushing allusively into
parallel concerns in other religions. Raising fundamental matters
of epistemology, representation, metaphysics, and divine reality,
contributors approach the mystical from postmodern, feminist,
sociological and historical perspectives through thinkers such as
Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of
Loyola, William James, Evelyn Underhill, Ernst Troeltsch, Rudolf
Otto, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis Chretien.
Medieval and early modern radical prophetic approaches are also
explored. This book includes new essays by Sarah Apetrei, Tina
Beattie, Raphel Cadenhead, Oliver Davies, Philip Endean, Brian
FitzGerald, Ann Loades, George Pattison, Simon D. Podmore, Joel
D.S. Rasmussen, and Johannes Zachhuber.
This book examines the relationship between transcendence and
immanence within Christian mystical and apophatic writings.
Original essays from a range of leading, established, and emerging
scholars in the field focus on the roles of language, signs, and
images, and consider how mystical theology might contribute to
contemporary reflection on the Word incarnate. This collection of
essays re-examines works from such canonical figures as Eckhart,
Augustine, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas of Cusa, Teresa of
Avila, John of the Cross, Julian of Norwich, along with the
philosophical thought of Iris Murdoch, Jacques Lacan, and Martin
Heidegger, and the contemporary phenomena of the Emerging Church.
Presenting new readings of key ideas in mystical theology, and
renewed engagement with the visionary and the everyday, the
therapeutic and the transformative, these essays question how we
might think about what may lie between transcendence and immanence.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries secular French
scholars started re-engaging with religious ideas, particularly
mystical ones. Mysticism in the French Tradition introduces key
philosophical undercurrents and trajectories in French thought that
underpin and arise from this engagement, as well as considering
earlier French contributions to the development of mysticism.
Filling a gap in the literature, the book offers critical
reflections on French scholarship in terms of its engagement with
its mystical and apophatic dimensions. A multiplicity of factors
converge to shape these encounters with mystical theology:
feminist, devotional and philosophical treatments as well as
literary, historical, and artistic approaches. The essays draw
these into conversation. Bringing together an international and
interdisciplinary range of contributions from both new and
established scholars, this book provides access to the melting pot
out of which the mystical tradition in France erupted in the
twenty-first century, and from which it continues to challenge
theology today.
From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards,
images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition.
Not only did these artistic representations provide images through
which to find God, they also held mystical potential, and likewise
mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also
filled with images of God that likewise refracts and reflects His
glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought
and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western
Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art
and theology. The book features contributions from an international
panel of leading academics, and is divided into four sections. The
first section offers theoretical and philosophical considerations
of mystical aesthetics and the interplay between mysticism and art.
The final three sections investigate this interplay between the
arts and mysticism from three key vantage points. The purpose of
the volume is to explore this rarely considered yet crucial
interface between art and mysticism. It is therefore an important
and illuminating collection of scholarship that will appeal to
scholars of theology and Christian mysticism as much as those who
study literature, the arts and art history.
This book introduces students to Christian mysticism and modern
critical responses to it. Christianity has a rich tradition of
mystical theology that first emerged in the writings of the early
church fathers, and flourished during the Middle Ages. Today
Christian mysticism is increasingly recognised as an important
Christian heritage relevant to today's spiritual seekers. The book
sets out to provide students and other interested readers with
access to the main theoretical approaches to Christian mysticism -
including those propounded by William James, Steven Katz, Bernard
McGinn, Michael Sells, Denys Turner and Caroline Walker-Bynum. It
also explores postmodern re-readings of Christian mysticism by
authors such as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-FranAois
Lyotard. The book first introduces students to the main themes that
underpin Christian mysticism. It then reflects on how modern
critics have understood each of them, demonstrating that stark
delineation between the different theoretical approaches eventually
collapses under the weight of the complex interaction between
experience and knowledge that lies at the heart of Christian
mysticism. In doing so, the book presents a deliberate challenge to
a strictly perennialist reading of Christian mysticism. Anyone even
remotely familiar with Christian mysticism will know that renewed
interest in Christian mystical writers has created a huge array of
scholarship with which students of mysticism need to familiarise
themselves. This book outlines the various modern theoretical
approaches in a manner easily accessible to a reader with little or
no previous knowledge of this area, and offers a
philosophical/theological introduction to Christian mystical
writers beyond the patristic period important for the Latin Western
Tradition.
This book considers the place of deification in the writings of
Julian of Norwich and Richard Rolle, two of the fourteenth-century
English Mystics. It argues that, as a consequence of a belief in
deification, both produce writing that is helpfully viewed as
sacred eloquence. The book begins by discussing the nature of
deification, employing Norman Russell's typology. It explores the
realistic and ethical approaches found in the writings of several
Early Greek Fathers, including Irenaeus of Lyons, Cyril of
Alexandria, Origen, and Evagrius Ponticus, as well as engaging with
the debate around whether deification is a theological idea found
in the West across its history. The book then turns its attention
to Julian and Rolle, arguing that both promote forms of
deification: Rolle offering a primarily ethical approach, while
Julian's approach is more realistic. Finally, the book addresses
the issue of sacred eloquence, arguing that both Rolle and Julian,
in some sense, view their words as divinely inspired in ways that
demand an exegetical response that is para-biblical. Offering an
important perspective on a previously understudied area of
mysticism and deification, this book will be of interest to
scholars of mysticism, theology, and Middle English religious
literature.
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