{"title":"Ruusbroec’s mystical vision in ‘Die Gheestelike Brulocht’ seen in the light of ‘Minne’","authors":"R. Faesen","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1622232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1622232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"71 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1622232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43244712","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":"Theosis/deification: Christian doctrines of divinization East and West","authors":"Michael S. Hahn","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1622230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1622230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"72 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1622230","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42245478","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":"Eckhartian Mysticism as Scholastic Humanism","authors":"Robert J. Dobie","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1620490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1620490","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay seeks to propose a new way of looking at the so-called mysticism of Meister Eckhart as a ‘scholastic humanism’ Eckhart's thought is “humanist” in the sense that it argues that all truth is such only insofar as it is appropriated by and transforms intellectually and existentially the individually existing human being; but Eckhart's humanism is scholastic insofar as it sees the truths of scholastic philosophy and theology as being firmly rooted in this lived and inner appropriation of truth. To this end, this essay explores the ways in which Eckhart “translates” the often static and abstract categories of Aristotelian-Scholastic theology into what he argues is their lived, inner origin in the soul's journey to union with God. And what makes this appropriation of truth by the individual human being possible is that the inner “ground” of the human existence is also the inner “ground” of God, the principle of all existence, an identity revealed and actualized in the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Thus, Eckhart's “scholastic humanism” is also a thoroughly Christian humanism.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"14 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1620490","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48410504","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, Aquinas, and the Problem of Intrinsic Goods","authors":"R. Chua","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1620488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1620488","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT I discuss Eckhart’s and Aquinas’ conception of human-divine union with reference to what I call the problem of intrinsic goods, a problem concerning how to reconcile the pursuit of actions which are prima facie sought for their own sake (e.g. pursuing justice for the marginalized, listening to a work of music) with the pursuit of God as the ultimate end of every action. I introduce the problem with the help of Germain Grisez’s critique of Aquinas’ account of union with God, and I suggest that Eckhart’s alternative conception of union may be understood as an attempt to resolve (or dissolve) the problem.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"13 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1620488","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41790990","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":"Blind as a Bat: [Un]seeing the Visio Dei in the Granum Sinapis Diagrams","authors":"Philip Liston-Kraft","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1622231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1622231","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Granum Sinapis – the ‘Mustard Seed’ – an early fourteenth century German poem, is a concise expression of the mystical and paradoxical precepts of Meister Eckhart. To find the way into the nothingness of God’s mystery, one must pursue the path into the desert– a path without a route leading into a space with no boundaries. The composition was given its title by a Latin scholar whose scholastic commentary was transmitted along with the poem. Appended to the commentary are two crude diagrams, one, an empty circle, the other a set of concentric circles, that in their simplicity both mirror the poem as well as provide a final, eloquent gloss on the interaction between the apophatic theologies of Dionysius the Areopagite and Meister Eckhart. Like the vision of the bat looking into the sun, so does human understanding fail when contemplating God. Yet it is precisely through the medium of blindness that man comes closest to union with the divine.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"48 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1622231","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49420218","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":"By its Fruits: The Spiritual Senses in Bonaventure’s ‘Tree of Life’","authors":"Kevin Hughes","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2019.1620495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1620495","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Following recent interdisciplinary interest in the ‘spiritual senses’ and ‘spiritual sensation,’ this essay examines the Tree of Life, Bonaventure’s meditations on the life of Christ, through the interpretive lens of the ‘spiritual senses.’ The article proposes that the spiritual senses are not thematic but architectonic and hermeneutical in this treatise. Rather than addressing the senses explicitly, Bonaventure uses them instead as principles of composition and interpretation, eliciting spiritual perception from readers as they contemplate Christ’s life and death. Such a reading brings the elusive character of spiritual perception into relation with sensible and imaginative perception, reconceiving the relationship between body and soul, affect and intellect.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"28 1","pages":"36 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2019.1620495","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47514287","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 book of the heart: meditations for the restless soul","authors":"Duane D. Williams","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1548689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1548689","url":null,"abstract":"Plotinus with Teresa of Ávila. Each chapter is accompanied by extensive endnotes and invaluable bibliographies of sources, translations, and studies, whereby the reader who comes new to the subject is enabled to soon find the most up to date publications to take their interest further. There are also Indices of Names and Subjects which, in a work of this nature, is certainly a labour of love. Routledge, under the wise and far-sighted editorship of Patricia Z. Beckman, Oliver Davies, and George Pattison, are to be congratulated on this fine series of publications to which Mystical Doctrines of Deification is an exceptional addition, of value both to the experienced academic and the general reader.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"144 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1548689","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44124841","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":"Mystical Doctrines of Deification: case studies in the Christian tradition","authors":"Luke Penkett","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1548687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1548687","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"143 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1548687","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47212503","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":"Incomprehensible Praise: Wonder, Adoration and the Ground of Language in Nicholas of Cusa","authors":"Valentin Gerlier","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1545689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1545689","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article seeks to address an overemphasis on limiting and humbling of language that is seen to correspond with ‘apophatic’ theology. Drawing on the mystical theology of Nicholas of Cusa, I seek to show that, for Nicholas, apophatic spirituality can only be understood in a context in which the sway of language is grounded in wonder and actualized in praise. By means of an attentive reading of De Venatione Sapientiae 18–20, I show that Cusa explores the indissoluble relationship between adoratory speech and wisdom, grounded in a participatory metaphysics that is itself founded in love for an ineffable God. For Cusa, the language of praise is in fact the ground of all language, and precedes all other forms of speech in its character as affirming, adoring gift. It is only when language is given in the way of an ecstatic I-Thou utterance, notes Cusa, that the character of language as such shines as a mode of participatory knowledge. Thus, for Nicholas, there is a doxological dimension to all speech. Cusa’s mystical notion of adoratory language offers a way to overcome the anxieties of attitudes to mysticism haunted by postmodern inflections and overly concerned by the arbitrariness and limitations of language.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"102 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1545689","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46604160","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":"Medieval Mystical Allegory","authors":"J. Milne","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1545673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1545673","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An exploration of Patristic and Medieval allegorical hermeneutics, drawing a distinction between a revelatory approach to the created order, where created things are understood as disclosing God, and the veiling approach to the created order, where created things are seen as concealing God. Although these two approaches appear to contradict one another, it is argued that both are mystically legitimate, and that work needs to be done to recover the allegorical reading of Scripture.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"118 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1545673","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43025672","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}