Medieval Mystical Theology最新文献

{"title":"On Deification and Sacred Eloquence: Richard Rolle and Julian of Norwich","authors":"Daniel Fishley","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2022.2084842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2022.2084842","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"31 1","pages":"58 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47934093","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":"How to Read Meister Eckhart’s Poverty Sermon","authors":"Ian Alexander Moore","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2022.2084837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2022.2084837","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper outlines a few strategies for reading Meister Eckhart’s famous sermon on the first beatitude (Pr. 52). It looks at the political and ecclesiastical background of Eckhart’s teaching on poverty, some ways to manage the role of paradox in his preaching, and how to navigate tensions between the spirit and the letter of his text.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"31 1","pages":"22 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41340824","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":"Mechthild von Magdeburg, Lux divinitatis – Das Liecht der Gotheit","authors":"Luke Penkett","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2021.1997194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2021.1997194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"131 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45525459","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":"Richard Rolle: On Lamentations and Unprinted Latin Writings","authors":"Luke Penkett","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2021.1997195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2021.1997195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"132 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48519638","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":"If We Cannot Know it All, Why Know at All? Exploring, through Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Cusa, the Reason Why God Cannot be Named","authors":"M. Highton","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2021.1997185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2021.1997185","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing upon Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae and Nicholas of Cusa’s On Learned Ignorance, I discuss the significance of naming God and whether the attempt to understand Him by doing so is a redundant pursuit. I explore the implications of God’s simplicity and our reasoning. I focus on the significance of Cusa’s learned ignorance, Aquinas’s analogical perfections, and how we may understand God’s Unity prior to differentiable otherness by understanding in terms of potential. I then demonstrate how we can become unified with all possibilities, impossibilities, knowns, unknowns, and left open to fully realise the simplicities inherent within and prior to the effect of our cause. This allows us to obtain a perfect [self] awareness, analogical or connected to that perfect knowledge only God has of Himself, and which He has expressed through the language of actualisation. I close by arguing that we may analogically express God, but cannot name Him.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"85 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44698837","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":"Niht Enwil Und Niht Enweiz Und Niht Enhât: Eckhart’s Triple Negation and Its History","authors":"B. Mcginn","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2021.1997187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2021.1997187","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT German Sermon 52 (Pr. 52) is one of Meister Eckhart's most famous. Preached on the first beatitude, ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven' (Mt. 5:3), the homily analysis the de-creation of the self by three negations, ‘not willing, not knowing, not having.’ Pr. 52 has often been commented on; what has not been studied is the use the triple formula by a number of later mystics down to 1700. This, part two of two-part essay, will study the reception of the triple formula.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"99 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60008805","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":"10.1080/20465726.2021.1997183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2021.1997183","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to volume 30, issue 2 of Medieval Mystical Theology. Our essays in this issue concern very different topics within the field of mystical theology, and yet each deliberately draws from classic works in a manner that highlights the ways they each continue to influence. In this respect, the essays are not merely orientated historically, but have a hermeneutic focus designed to reveal sustained truths that are relevant now. The first essay by Valentin Gerlier is titled, ‘Nature Conversing: John Scotus Eriugena’s Contemplative Ontological Poetics’. Inspired by Willemien Otten, the essay considers the importance of nature understood as conversation in John Scotus Eriugena’s master-work, Periphyseon, and how this might provide a significantly different approach in response to our current ecological crisis. Gerlier discusses how this all-encompassing take on nature is contemplative and creative and leads to a cosmic practice where the natural and human world encounter one another, in a wider context that leads to the well-being and flourishing of all things in God. The second essay by Maria L. Highton is titled, ‘If we cannot know it all, why know at all? Exploring, through Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Cusa, the reason why God cannot be named’. Here Highton draws from Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae and Cusa’s On Learned Ignorance, with a view to exploring how it is we might approach a knowledge of God akin to the knowledge He has of Himself without naming Him. Consequently, we learn how simplicity and analogy can bring us to such divine perfection. Our third essay by Bernard McGinn is titled, ‘Niht Enwil Und Niht Enweiz Und Niht Enhât: Eckhart’s Triple Negation and its History’. This is the second part of a two-part essay that began in our previous issue. This is a special essay to celebrate what was in 2020 the tenth anniversary of the journal in its new form as, Medieval Mystical Theology. Based on Meister Eckhart’s famous German Sermon 52, it looks at his formula consisting of the three negations: not willing, not knowing, and not having. Where the first part of this essay offered a comparison of Marguerite Porete and Eckhart on this formula, this second part follows the formula through German, Dutch, French, Italian, and Spanish mystical traditions. Our final essay is by Tatyana Solomonik-Pankrashova and is titled, ‘The “Ventriloquism” of Logoi in the Old English Prose Psalms and “Boethius”’. This essay focuses on the Old English Boethius, a translation/adaption of the Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. Solomonik-Pankrashova analyses the significance of the many voices in interpretation which, in terms of creativity, makes the work more than mere imitation. Accordingly, she elicits rich philosophical and theological meanings in the Old English Boethius.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"67 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42093377","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 ‘Ventriloquism’ of Logoi in the Old English Prose Psalms and ‘Boethius’","authors":"Tatyana Solomonik-Pankrashova","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2021.1997188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2021.1997188","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Old English literature, the actual presence of classical lore is relatively limited. The major conduit of Greek and Roman thought was transmitted to Anglo-Saxon England via Boethius' De Consolatione philosophiae. I will read the Old English Boethius (an Old English translation/adaptation of the sixth-century Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius) as a piece of early English theology and address the polyphony of the divine voice in the light of patristic ideas about theosis. The presence of integumentum is enveloping the text in mystery and providing a clue to the interpretation. It is Heavenly Wisdom that teaches her best pupil Boethius dispassion towards both worldly sorrows and worldly felicities. In the allegorical dialogue between Wisdom and Boethius/Mod, the background ‘chorus of voices' suggests the possibility of a ‘demonstrably Alfredian' heteroglossia, whilst the Alfred-persona himself becomes the vehicle of the Logos, inviting the reader to mediate ‘the drops of the night’.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"113 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42340229","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":"Nature Conversing: John Scotus Eriugena’s Contemplative Ontological Poetics","authors":"Valentin Gerlier","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2021.1997184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2021.1997184","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Inspired by Willemien Otten’s recent reading of the concept of nature in John Scotus Eriugena as ‘conversation’, this essay explores some implications of this mystical/theological notion in response to the current ecological situation. For Eriugena, natura is the theophanic unfolding of the divine logos, an unfolding in which both philosophical contemplation and human creativity play vital parts. To be part of nature is an endeavour both contemplative and creative or ‘poetical’, a cosmic practice in which natural and human world encounter one another in co-creative crossovers, and whose ends are oriented to the well-being and flourishing of all things in God. Eriugena’s premodern natura sidesteps attempts to ‘deconstruct’ or ‘get rid of’ of nature, as many contemporary ecological commentators claim is necessary, encouraging us instead to think it anew, in the light of a creative and contemplative theophanic unfolding.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"69 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48632157","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":"Bernard of Clairvaux: an inner life","authors":"H. Knight","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2021.1997193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2021.1997193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"129 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41981031","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}