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{"title":"An introduction from the editor of Medieval Mystical Theology","authors":"Duane D. Williams","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2020.1774165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2020.1774165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"29 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2020.1774165","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44491436","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":"Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement","authors":"D. Duclow","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2020.1774175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2020.1774175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"29 1","pages":"54 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2020.1774175","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43595242","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 31st Annual Eckhart Conference","authors":"Daniel G. Smith","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1698813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698813","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"78 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698813","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42435686","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":"What Does It Mean to Be a Creature? Reflections from the Early Christian Theologians","authors":"F. Young","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1698819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698819","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper is not an exercise in patristic disability theology; rather it seeks to explore the theological anthropology of the Fathers, particularly Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, in such a way as to shed light on how they understood human physicality and limitation, morbidity and mortality. The key is the doctrine of creation and the consequent recognition of humankind as a creature (1) constituted of soul and body, thus to be re-created at the resurrection rather than continuing to exist as an inherently immortal soul, and (2) made in the image of God, the image, or portrait, being manifest in a medium other than what is imaged. Personal testimony indicates the relevance of these points for the sacredness of bodies, even of those impaired or disabled.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"130 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698819","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44744069","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":"Seeking the ‘Centre of the Tornado’: Ursula Fleming, Meister Eckhart and Pain","authors":"R. Stephens","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1698818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698818","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Eckhart Society was founded by Ursula Fleming, who worked in the field of pain control. She had found that a doctrine of acceptance and self-grounding, through focus on breath and letting-go, enabled even those suffering insupportable pain to reduce their suffering. Her simple and practical approach was profoundly influenced by her study of Meister Eckhart, whose rehabilitation she advocated. This paper explores the connections between them, and how an Eckhartian understanding can assist us in living through pain and fear.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"116 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698818","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45060734","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":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1698812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698812","url":null,"abstract":"On behalf of The Eckhart Society, I would like to welcome you to Medieval Mystical Theology 28.2. All the papers in this issue are taken from the 31st Annual Eckhart Society Conference, the theme of which was: Wellness and Vulnerability. The conference was conceived and organized by Daniel G. W. Smith, and in the section that follows he will tell you more about the conference itself. Before doing so, I am delighted to introduce you to each of the papers with a view to rousing your interest. Naturally, the papers vary in length and density, which is reflected in the relative length of each of my introductions. The first paper, by Oliver James Keenan O.P., is titled, ‘The Politics of Sacred Vulnerability: Reading Martha Fineman with Meister Eckhart’. The paper begins with an analysis of the scope of vulnerability and asserts that it will give a positive theological account of vulnerability as a mode of human flourishing. This said, Keenan is aware of the potentially provocative nature of such an endeavour and thus makes a useful distinction between vulnerability and precarity. From here, Keenan provides a breakdown of ‘universal human vulnerability’ as set out in the work of Martha Fineman. A focus on the myth of invulnerability seeks to offer new insights and approaches into how vulnerability is realized as precarity, and how responses to this promote human flourishing through resilience. It also strongly criticizes various spiritual notions of invulnerability, including ‘thin readings’ of Meister Eckhart. However, there is a divine element of Eckhart’s spirituality which indicates that our vulnerability is not ‘ontologically basic’, and this can serve as a ‘supportive critique and development of Fineman’s attack of the myth of invulnerability’. Before proceeding to explore how Eckhart’s thinking might supplement Fineman’s proposals, Keenan provides an analysis of inherent vulnerabilities. The next section considers the topic of Eckhart’s dual-aspect anthropology, and here Keenan employs Eckhart’s thought to question an ‘unduly comfortable dualism’ and ‘contrastive antagonism’ in Fineman’s work. In response, a ‘spiritual conjunction’ is elucidated in Eckhart’s anthropology between vulnerability and invulnerability, that sees the suspended subject, ‘straddling and mediating between two metaphysical and noetic registers’. But this topic is open to misinterpretation, and so Keenan provides a subtle articulation of its significance. From here, then, Keenan is able to radically rethink the meaning of vulnerability on Eckhartian terms, and this leads to a new section, titled, An Eckhartian Re-Location of Vulnerability. In the final part, Keenan draws cautious parallels that this thinking has with the Trinity and Christology, before demonstrating how Eckhart’s most extensive discussion of vulnerability occurs in his Book of Divine Consolation. The paper closes with a reflective and honest Inconclusion. The second paper, by Daniel G. W. Smith, is titled, ","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"75 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698812","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46576838","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":"Vulnerability, Dependence, and the Knowledge of God: Reflections on Meister Eckhart and Intellectual Disability","authors":"Daniel G. W. Smith","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1698817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698817","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years the field of disability theology has seen a turn towards more productive dialogue with voices from the wider theological tradition, a dialogue which, until recently, has been obstructed by the negative perception of traditional theology amongst many disability theologians. Following this new approach, this paper draws on Meister Eckhart’s theology to address two central questions in the current discussion of theology and intellectual disability. First, how can we think and speak about God in a way that resonates with an anthropology, where dependency, limitedness, and vulnerability are embraced as essential to our humanness? And second, how can we understand what it means to know and relate to God in this life, in a way that acknowledges and affirms the spiritual lives of persons with intellectual disabilities?","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"115 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698817","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48939122","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 Politics of Sacred Vulnerability: Reading Martha Fineman with Meister Eckhart","authors":"O. Keenan OP","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1698815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698815","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Martha Fineman’s analysis of universal vulnerability evokes deep theological and spiritual resonances. By reading Fineman’s work through the lens of an Eckhartian theological anthropology, this article develops an account of vulnerability as a mode of human flourishing. By disrupting the intuitive definition of vulnerability by contrast with invulnerability, this Eckhartian reading moves beyond Fineman by re-articulating the category of vulnerability in positive ontological terms and metaphysically re-locating it in relation to God’s act of self-communication. Whereas Fineman proposes a form of ‘responsive solidarity’, the Eckhartian approach situates responsiveness within an antecedent receptivity to vulnerability as that which locates the subject within dynamics of gift-exchange that are animated by gratitude. Eckhart presents us with a set of spiritual strategies and practices through which vulnerability can be lived in mutuality as resilience rather than precarity, a mode of inhabiting the world that allows vulnerability to be turned against experiences of dispossession.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"80 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46566973","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: the fifteenth-century translations, medieval church studies 40","authors":"Luke Penkett","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1698821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1698821","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"143 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48046496","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":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1620484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1620484","url":null,"abstract":"On behalf of The Eckhart Society I would like to welcome you to Medieval Mystical Theology 28.1. Before I introduce each of the four articles in this issue, I would like to say a big thank you to Georgina Burrows for editing the book reviews, to the peer reviewers who read the articles before the editing process began, to the Trustees of The Eckhart Society for their continued support, and finally to you the reader who make it possible and worthwhile. The opening article, by Reginald Mary Chua, is titled, ‘Eckhart, Aquinas, and the Problem of Intrinsic Goods’. Chua’s article centres on the question of how we ought to live in union with God, which he clarifies by way of two further questions. Typically, we might turn to Scripture as theological data for an answer, and yet both Aquinas and Eckhart are also informed by philosophy. It is for this reason that their respective answers to the question diverge. For Aquinas, union is between God’s will and human will, while for Eckhart it consists of an indistinct identity between God and human. Chua then looks at these two models in turn and will argue that their divergence is owing to how each answers the question: What should the ultimate purpose of our action consist in? As he continues, Chua explains what he means by the problem of intrinsic goods, a problem that arises from Aquinas’ understanding of union with God. Following this, Chua looks to the way in which Eckhart’s conception of union can be seen as a response to this problem. The focus here is on Eckhart’s understanding of God as a unique indistinctiveness and centres on the significance of the intellect for him. Furthermore, Chua argues how, ‘Eckhart’s account of living in union with God can provide resources for a striking resolution’ to the problem of intrinsic goods. Chua closes with more insights before suggesting wider questions that invite further readings. A lengthy, but extremely rich, article by Robert J. Dobie, is titled, ‘Eckhartian Mysticism as Scholastic Humanism’. From the off Dobie says: ‘What I want to do is simply to propose another and I think fresh way of looking at Eckhart’s thought’. This new reading is ‘Scholastic Humanism’, and Dobie explains what he means by each of the two elements that make up the term. Dobie is not simply saying that Eckhart was not a mystic, but rather, ‘the claim of this essay is what constitutes the “mystical” character of Eckhart’s thought is that it brings together humanism and scholasticism’. Dobie’s analysis is divided into four parts. The first part explores, ‘The Metaphysics of Detachment’. Here we learn why, for Eckhart, detachment is the most essential virtue and even greater than love. The second part is titled, ‘Ground and Birth’, and here we learn that God as existence itself (esse), ‘is thought of by Eckhart as pure freedom that can only be known by an inner detachment and completed or perfected only in an inner birth’. Dobie then proceeds to elucidate the nature and significance of ","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1620484","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48516379","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}