{"title":"Meister Eckhart: Preaching with Analogy","authors":"Anastasia Wendlinder","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2017.1403615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403615","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Often seen as a controversial figure, this paper shows Meister Eckhart to be not only a brilliant and engaging preacher, but one who exemplifies the Dominican concern for salvation of souls through the preaching of sound Christian doctrine. Developing on lessons learned from the work of Thomas Aquinas, Eckhart's analogical use of language moves his audiences away from dualistic conceptions to a non-contrastive grasp of the Creator–creature relationship so that the listener may come to a deeper understanding of the most important Christian truths about the Holy Trinity.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"126 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403615","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46301861","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":"Practical mysticism in Islam and Christianity: a comparative study of Jalal al-Din Rumi and Meister Eckhart","authors":"M. Vinzent","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2017.1403672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403672","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"161 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403672","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44708811","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 Mirrored: Sermon 23 in the Critical Edition and in Two Late Medieval Manuscripts Once Belonging to the Dominican Convent of St. Catherine in Nuremberg","authors":"L. Wegener","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2017.1403599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403599","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present paper refers to the metaphor of the mirror to explore how Meister Eckhart’s image is created in the critical edition of his vernacular sermons. The result is contrasted with the late medieval manuscript tradition which ‘mirrors’ Eckhart in its own manifold ways. As a concrete example the paper compares Eckhart’s Sermon 23 in the modern edition and in manuscripts N1 (Cent. IV, 40) and N5 (Cent. VI, 56) by asking four questions: 1. Is Eckhart recognizable as the author of the sermon? 2. How is the sermon presented? 3. Why can the sermon claim authority? 4. How is the sermon contextualized?","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"111 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41322342","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":"God beyond words: Christian theology and the spiritual experiences of people with profound intellectual disabilities","authors":"Daniel G. W. Smith","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2017.1403669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403669","url":null,"abstract":"debates and pastoral concerns might have been even more powerful without the interference of Luther’s interests. Wegener’s analysis of the layout and paratextual elements of the three Wittenberg editions is an excellent example of material text history. It is only a pity that this final section is not prefaced by a similarly close analysis of the eight surviving manuscripts, which are mentioned in the introduction but not examined. Nevertheless, one of Wegener’s greatest strengths is that she objectively describes the shifts in vernacular mysticism after Eckhart without denigrating the later works as derivative, unsophisticated or corrupted. She renders a clear account of Augustine’s place in fourteenth-century German mysticism and she provides a careful, original and provocative analysis of a long-standing classic of this genre.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"159 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403669","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49033105","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":"An Introduction from the Editor of Medieval Mystical Theology","authors":"Duane D. Williams","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2017.1403554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403554","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"93 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403554","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46518938","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’s Art of Preaching Scholastic Subtleties: The Sermon ‘Ave gratia plena’ (DW No. 22, Walshe No. 53)","authors":"K. Witte","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2017.1403638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403638","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Whether it is the essence or the fatherhood of God that begets the eternal Son is a question of some complexity. Eckhart discusses the problem in his Latin treatises, and argues in favour of the Father's essence as the principle of begetting the Son. He does not consider this subtleness as one of the ‘matters discussed in the schools, but’ – as he says – ‘they can well be spoken of from the pulpit as doctrine’. This doctrine, applied to the birth of God's Son in the human soul, becomes the focus of the sermon ‘Ave gratia plena’. Significantly for his preaching style, he does not treat this highly intellectual subject with abstract argumentation. Instead he chooses an elaborate composition and presents his thoughts in an extraordinarily metaphoric and poetic manner.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"142 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2017.1403638","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49205803","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 Devil in the Details: How Teresa of Avila’s Description of the Work of the Devil Assured and Liberated Women","authors":"Stina Busman Jost","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2017.1321194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2017.1321194","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The writings of Teresa of Avila have received much attention in recent scholarship. Surprisingly, though, her descriptions of the devil have not benefitted from the same extensive examination. This essay is an attempt to fill this lacuna in the scholarship. Teresa, like most of her Christian contemporaries, believed a personal devil regularly attempted to thwart and deceive faithful Christians. In this essay, after a discussion of the historical context in which Teresa wrote, I provide a survey of the role of the devil in The Interior Castle. In each of the seven sets of chambers of the castle through which the soul progresses, the devil actively combats the journeyer. By extracting these descriptions of the devil’s work from The Interior Castle, one is able to ascertain a thorough understanding of how Teresa viewed the devil himself. This understanding in turn sheds light on how Teresa’s writing positively functioned in her own ecclesial context. Teresa’s accounts of the devil provided assurance and freedom to the nuns for whom she wrote as they contemplated their own spiritual journeys. These reflections on the devil not only buffered her readership but also Teresa herself against the constant suspicion of the Inquisition regarding the spiritual experiences of women.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"19 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2017.1321194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42327884","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":"An Introduction from the Editor of Medieval Mystical Theology","authors":"Duane D. Williams","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2017.1321203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2017.1321203","url":null,"abstract":"While the articles in this issue ofMedieval Mystical Theology share the common theme of all drawing from Christian mysticism, they also demonstrate what a diverse range of topics there are in this area to explore. While examining the mystics, Teresa of Avila, Bernard of Clairvaux, Meister Eckhart, Jan van Leeuwen, Richard Rolle, Jan van Ruusbroec, and Godfried Wevel, topics include, penitential spirituality, wisdom, art, heresy, the devil, feminism, and even belching. Whether you are reading these articles from general interest or pursuing academic research, I am confident you will find them as rich and rewarding as I have. Each article is as ground-breaking as it is learned. Before I introduce the articles, I would first like to say a HUGE ‘thank you’ to the associate editors of Medieval Mystical Theology, namely, Joseph Milne and Rebecca Stephens. They have each offered so much help with this issue, and I am extremely grateful. I would also like to thank the trustees of The Eckhart Society for their support, and also say thank you to the journal’s book reviews editor, Georgina Burrows, for her good work. The first article by Joshua Easterling is titled, ‘Immoderate Investigations: Heresy, Knowledge, and the Culture of Suspicion in Richard Rolle’s Latin Texts.’ Easterly tells us that for Rolle intellectual investigation as a mode of acquiring knowledge of God involved a suspicion of the mystic and their experiences on the one hand, while academic inquiry imperilled the Christian’s salvation on the other. By opposing it to intellectual investigation, Rolle confirms mysticism’s loyalty to orthodox truth. Easterling writes:","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2017.1321203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48977639","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":"A Heretic in Groenendaal? The Impact of In Agro Dominico in the Low Countries in the Light of Vanden Twaelf Dogheden","authors":"Ine Kiekens","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2017.1321196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2017.1321196","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1329, Pope John XXII promulgated the bull In agro dominico in which he condemned 28 propositions of Meister Eckhart and their further distribution. The Brussels monastery of Groenendaal, where Jan van Ruusbroec and especially Jan van Leeuwen violently rejected Eckhart’s teachings, was long-time considered as the proof that the bull was also read in the Low Countries. However, a recent hypothesis of Satoshi Kikuchi has shown that the exact content of the bull was probably not known in Groenendaal. I aim to contribute to that hypothesis by analysing Vanden twaelf dogheden, a text mainly based on a Middle Dutch adaptation of the Erfurter Reden and most likely written by Godfried Wevel, canon of Groenendaal. I moreover intend to reveal why Ruusbroec and Van Leeuwen rejected any association with Eckhart, even while the reading and possession of Eckhart’s oeuvre in monasteries similar to Groenendaal was not considered problematic.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"37 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2017.1321196","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44508857","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}