Medieval Mystical Theology最新文献

{"title":"The Poetic Wisdom of Rumi; Rumi’s Inspiration; Rumi; il Cuore Del Sufismo, Aforismi, Racconti e Meditazioni Sufi","authors":"Luke Penkett","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2023.2268466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2023.2268466","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"117 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138958479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spiritual Formation as the Hero’s Journey in John of Ruusbroec\u0000 Spiritual Formation as the Hero’s Journey in John of Ruusbroec\u0000 , by Robert Pelfrey, London and New York, Routledge, 2022, xiiii+208 pp., £130 (hbk), £31.19 (ebk), ISBN 978-1-032-13756-8","authors":"Luke Penkett","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2023.2268467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2023.2268467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138973135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meister Eckhart and the Nearness of God (Sermon 30 <i>Praedica Verbum</i> )","authors":"Michael Demkovich","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2023.2268455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2023.2268455","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAs a preacher, Meister Eckhart knew the power of an idea and as a theologian, he grasped the mystery of the Incarnation. In exploring the nearness of God we see the preacher and theologian wrestle with the Incarnate Word, both in Christ and in us, as well. As a young theologian in Paris reading Aquinas on esse, he glimpsed the significance of divine knowing and divine existence. As a preacher, he proclaimed in various images and metaphors that sublime mystery in the human soul. It is a reality beyond our ‘thingly’ thinking and demands a new understanding of God beyond existence. Eckhart challenges our limited conceptual categories to move us from the created order to the uncreated, even beyond the existence of God. Sermon 30 offers us an opening to understand this incarnate mystery more fully as well as Eckhart’s use of language.KEYWORDS: Preachingexistenceunderstandingepistemologyincarnationdivinization Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The MHD text reads: ‘sprich daz wort, sprich es her ûz, sprich es her vür, brinc es her vür und gebir daz wort!’ Walshe’s text renders it: ‘Speak the Word, publish it, proclaim it, bring it forth, and propagate it’ (Walshe, Meister Eckhart Sermons & Treatises, vol. 1, Sermon Eighteen, 147). Bernard McGinn translates the text: ‘Speak the word, speak it externally, speak it forth, bring it forth, give birth to the Word’ (McGinn, Meister Eckhart: Teacher and Preacher, 292)2 Walshe, Meister Eckhart Sermons & Treatises, vol. 1, Sermon 18, 147.3 While one might think Eckhart is suggesting a pantheistic understanding of God, he in fact is siding with Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae I, q. 8, a 1): ‘God is in all things; not, indeed, as part of their presence, nor as an accident; but as an agent is present to that upon which it works’ (Benziger Brothers, 1947). God’s presence in all things is his acting upon created things, not as a material cause but as the proper efficient cause, in the highest part of the intelligible order. We will see that Eckhart is moving from an ontological ground of existence to an epistemological one.4 Walshe, Meister Eckhart Sermons & Treatises, Sermon 18, 147.5 Ibid., 147–8.6 Ibid., 148.7 Ibid.8 Eckhart’s ability to craft his language and engage a vast scope of ideas is one of his remarkable qualities. For a fuller appreciation of Eckhart’s linguistic strategies, I recommend Frank Tobin’s excellent work Meister Eckhart: Thought and Language (1986).9 Maurer, Meister Eckhart, Parisian Questions, 43.10 Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/ContraGentiles1.htm#45 (9/1/2022).11 Maurer, Meister Eckhart, Parisian Questions, 43.12 Ibid., 44.13 Ibid.14 Ibid.15 Ibid.16 Ibid., 44–5.17 Ibid., 45.18 Ibid.19 Ibid., 46.20 Ibid., 47.21 Ibid., 48.22 Eckhart’s ability to learn from Aquinas and to develop his own thought is part of Eckhart’s genius and intellectual creativity. I have found that his sense of Aquinas is ","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"64 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136347308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Something Within Me Which Shines’: Knowing and Unknowing God and the Self","authors":"Rebecca Stephens","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2023.2268460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2023.2268460","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPhilosophers of the theory-of-mind have always grappled with how to describe and image human mental processes, given the impossibility of accessing a perspective outside consciousness from which to analyse it. This article considers the history of models of the mind before exploring in detail Meister Eckhart’s conception of psychology, epistemology and ontology. Eckhart’s German Sermons and Talks of Instruction are drawn on to tease out his understanding of the mind/brain and the sensible, rational and intellectual faculties. The article looks especially to Eckhart’s writings on union with the divine and the apophatic struggle to conceive or intelligibly communicate, from the human perspective, the transcendent, timeless and unrestricted knowledge which is the Godhead.KEYWORDS: Mysticismontologyself-knowledgepsychologybrainsoul Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Eckhart, Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart, Sermon 1, 31; Churchland, “How Do Neurons Know?”, 42.2 Smith, ‘Picturing the Mind’, 159, 163; Kemp and Fletcher, ‘Medieval Theory of the Inner Senses’, 569, 562.3 Kemp and Fletcher, ‘Medieval Theory of the Inner Senses’, 565 and 569. We still speak of the brain as being composed of ventricles: ‘The ventricles of the brain are a communicating network of cavities filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and located within the brain parenchyma. The ventricular system is composed of 2 lateral ventricles, the third ventricle, the cerebral aqueduct, and the fourth ventricle.’ (https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1923254-overview?reg=1).4 Gomez-Marin, ‘Commentary: Metaphors We Live By’, 1; Brette, ‘Brains as Computers’. See, for example, in Margery Allingham’s 1963 novel The China Governess: ‘The front of his mind was satisfied that he had merely had an interview with a difficult old man, but behind it, in the vast, blind computing machine where the mind and the emotions meet and churn, something very odd indeed seemed to have taken place.’ Allingham, The China Governess, 103.5 Piccinini, ‘Computationalism in the Philosophy of Mind’, 520; Richards and Lillicrap, ‘Brain-Computer Metaphor Debate’, 4.6 Maslennikov, Schchapin and Nekorkin, ‘Transient Sequences in a Hypernetwork Generated’, 1: ‘based on graph theory, statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics … [which enables] formulating basic principles of the organization of the central nervous system’.7 Mazabow, Burke and Stuart, ‘Neuro-Epistemology’, 63–4. Birmingham University’s John Barnden has created a website, mapping metaphors of the mind, https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/ATT-Meta/Databank.8 Gomez-Marin, ‘Commentary: Metaphors We Live By’, 1.9 Ibid., 2; referring to Henri Bergson and Aldous Huxley respectively.10 Churchland, ‘How Do Neurons Know?’, 50: ‘for the neurophilosopher … questions abound … with deep roots reaching back to the ancient Greeks, with ramifying branches extending throughout the history and philosophy of We","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"2003 307","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136381501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translating Christ in the middle ages: gender, authorship, and the visionary text <b>Translating Christ in the middle ages: gender, authorship, and the visionary text</b> , by Barbara Zimbalist, Notre Dame, IN, Notre Dame Press, 2022, viii + 322 pp., $125.00 (hbk), $ 50 (pbk), $39.99 (epub), $39.99 (webpdf), ISBN 978-0-268-20220-0","authors":"Luke Penkett","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2023.2268468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2023.2268468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"17 01","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134908153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Divine audacity: unity and identity in Hugh of Balma, Eckhart, Ruusbroec, and Marguerite Porete <b>Divine audacity: unity and identity in Hugh of Balma, Eckhart, Ruusbroec, and Marguerite Porete</b> , by Peter S. Dillard, Cambridge, James Clarke and Co., 2022, iii + 238 pp., £70 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-227-17758-7","authors":"Luke Penkett","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2023.2268464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2023.2268464","url":null,"abstract":"\"Divine audacity: unity and identity in Hugh of Balma, Eckhart, Ruusbroec, and Marguerite Porete.\" Medieval Mystical Theology, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136112278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Eye with Which I See God is the Same Eye with Which God Sees Me: Meister Eckhart on Divine Awareness","authors":"Duane Williams","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2023.2268469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2023.2268469","url":null,"abstract":"This essay seeks to elicit the complexity, profundity, and subtlety at work in the title, so as to gain a more genuine understanding of what constitutes mystical knowledge and divine awareness for Eckhart. In part one I explore what Eckhart means by this line, and in the process disclose what he does not mean. In part two I explore the mystical implications of the line’s meaning. Throughout I draw from Eckhart’s own sermons and treatises, as well as scripture and works that have influenced his thinking. I also incorporate examples from other mystical traditions as analogies that help us to grasp what Eckhart is saying. My aim is to show the varying ways in which the mystical can be understood in Eckhart, and the extent to which these ways are significant to him. To conclude, I elucidate what Eckhart’s famous line in essence says and what it achieves.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136113163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c.1100-c.1530","authors":"Luke Penkett","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2023.2198390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2023.2198390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"61 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42200092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Detachment, Vulnerability, Temptation, and Learning from Failure: Major Themes in Meister Eckhart’s the Talks of Instruction","authors":"William G. Kuncken","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2023.2198402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2023.2198402","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay surveys some major themes encapsulated within Meister Eckhart’s early instructional talks. Specifically, the essay will assess the roles Eckhart saw detachment, vulnerability, temptation, and learning from failure play in the novice’s ongoing development. Such insight not only helped the formation of his late medieval audience but also offers a foundation for fruitful discernment to modern readers as they explore the ways in which Eckhart sought to live in God.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"18 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41537211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Unknown Deed of the Last Day and Julian of Norwich’s Eschatological Hermeneutic in the Showings","authors":"Erin Risch Zoutendam","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2023.2198377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2023.2198377","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Julian of Norwich’s deference to the teachings of ‘holy church’ – despite the divergence of these teachings from her own revelations – is a well-known stumbling block for scholars. Some accept her stated obedience as sincere, while others dismiss it as insincere, a rhetorical ploy for disseminating her theological beliefs without alarming the religious authorities of her day. This article proposes a new way of understanding Julian’s deference. I argue that Julian presumed an unknown eschatological event – ‘a deed the whych the blessydfulle trynyte shalle do in the last day … vnknowen of alle creaturys’ – that would precipitate a reinterpretation of the teachings of holy church, just as the coming of Christ was understood by medieval Christians to have precipitated a reinterpretation of the Old Testament. This eschatological reinterpretation would reconcile seemingly intractable tensions between Julian’s revelations and the teachings of ‘holy church.’","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"32 1","pages":"46 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41897543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}