Medieval Mystical Theology最新文献

{"title":"An introduction from the editor of Medieval Mystical Theology","authors":"Duane D. Williams","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1545678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1545678","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"87 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1545678","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41765888","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 Biblical Mysticism of John of the Cross*","authors":"B. McGinn","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1545655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1545655","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the Prologue to his Ascent of Mount Carmel John of the Cross mentions the three sources of his mystical teaching–experience, theological science, and scripture – noting that scripture is his fundamental guide. Perhaps because he did not write formal biblical commentaries, it has not been sufficiently recognized that John’s mysticism is fundamentally mystical. This article presents several examples of how the Spanish mystic used the spiritual interpretation of the Bible to guide his mystical teaching, concentrating on the interpretation of Psalm 136 (Super flumina Babylonis) in one of his prison-poems, and the re-writing of the Song of Songs in his ‘Canciones entre el Alma y el Esposo.’","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"103 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1545655","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46692691","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":"Dante and Eckhart on Creation and Participation*","authors":"Christian Moevs","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1545666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1545666","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The concept of creation (along with the related idea of participation) is the foundation of Christian understanding. Coming at the culmination of a millennial spiritual/philosophical tradition, Dante and Eckhart have a closely analogous understanding of creation (and thus of the human relation to the divine), an understanding which can seem quite radical to us, because its philosophical underpinning has been lost. For both Dante and Eckhart, the world has no being apart from God (from what we would call ‘consciousness’ or conscious being), it is intrinsically sacramental or Christic, and the human – every human being – has the potential to come to know itself as Christ, as (not other than) God. The path to this awakening of the divine to itself in/as the human is the same for Dante and Eckhart: Eckhart calls it ‘detachment’, Dante ‘poverty’ (renunciation).","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"129 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1545666","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42325761","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":"Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe: Popular Culture and Religious Reform","authors":"Michael S. Hahn","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1472418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472418","url":null,"abstract":"and has come through a scepticism towards ‘grand narratives’, but nevertheless engages traditions rooted in other places and in other times, taking seriously their claims on human reality. Clooney’s book makes a case for a strong, committed theology within a pluralist world. There can, I think, be no resolution to the problem of universal theological claims in the contemporary, pluralist context, but Clooney offers a constructive way forward in his religious reading across traditions. This is, I suppose, an indirect philosophy of religions but it seems to me that the kind of truth the book is about (and the texts it is dealing with) can only be approached elliptically. Clooney lets the poetry speak for itself in a process of crossreading and close reading, in which the truth of the traditions speaks to those who can hear. In a parallel move Flood avoids religious truth by generating ‘secular’ theory about the shared nature of human subjectivity that in the end is neither Christian, nor Hindu, nor Buddhist. There is an issue regarding religious truth that neither Clooney nor Flood directly addresses; indeed there is a sense in which questions of truth actually serve to obscure religious meaning and the meaning of texts for contemporary readers that both authors seek to avoid. The meanings of Clooney’s texts speak to human inwardness, to the reality of longing for an absent lover who lies hidden in the heart, and to the finitude of human life. This assumes a certain degree of sensitivity not only to poetry but to a mystical sentiment that allows the reader to let the readings so carefully presented speak to her; somebody who is not interested, for whom the one who hides in darkness does not speak, will simply not read the book. But there is great optimism that reading can change us, can improve us, and can point to a fullness of meaning to enrich our lives. It is here that there is a possible overlap with a hidden telos in The Truth Within, that displaying inwardness as it has occurred in history is to reveal something important about contemporary life and human subjectivity even under the conditions of late modernity. As Clooney’s book shows, to agree upon a shared subjectivity does not dissolve human problems but rather emphasizes the incompletion of both the stories told and the lives lived. Yet this is a place of hope, especially important in a world of polarization and fundamentalisms, in not deciding things too quickly, as Clooney eloquently puts it, ‘as if faith needs an end to questing because it cannot suffer poetry and the drama of uncertain love’ (141).","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"83 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472418","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48939830","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":"Lucifer, Save My Soul! Medieval Female Interpretations of Divine Judgement, Compassion and the Doctrine of Purgatory","authors":"Sander Vloebergs","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1472419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472419","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Can souls be saved out of purgatory? This question became a very important one during the thirteenth century when the female experience heavily influenced the spiritual landscape. At the root of this question, lies a dynamic tension between divine compassion and justice. Debates about this tension are of great interest to contemporary theology because it strikes at the core of Christianity – it is a story about sin and grace. Using the female practice of saving souls from purgatory, I explore two different positions in the debate. To begin, I focus on the position of the Holy Women, more specifically, on how they were believed to save souls. Secondly, I contrast their position with the mystical theology of Hadewijch, who takes a new turn in the female history of spiritually. I demonstrate that the praxis of saving souls explores relevant theological themes, such as judgement and compassion, pain and unconditional Love.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"60 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472419","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43629086","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":"Dōgen and Meister Eckhart on Detachment/Non-attachment*","authors":"Minlib Dallh","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1472415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472415","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Dōgen and Eckhart are two of the most influential spiritual masters of the thirteenth century. Though from completely different religious traditions, they share stark similarity concerning detachment/non-attachment. Both masters were criticized, condemned and neglected for centuries. They are, however, regarded with great respect by Zen Buddhists, Catholic monks, and even by seminal philosophers such as Kitarō Nashida and Martin Heidegger. What makes these two masters so attractive to disparate groups and to unlikely places such as the Abbey of Gethsemane in Kentucky and Kyoto University in Japan?","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"22 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472415","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48499123","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":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1472420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472420","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44918453","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 Experiences and Mystical Theology in Augustine of Hippo? A Reconsideration of the Sources (conf. 9, an. quant. 33, doctr. chr. 2)","authors":"A. Dupont","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1472416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472416","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The current article addresses the question concerning Augustine’s mysticism from two perspectives: practice and theory. In the Confessiones, Augustine recounts how he reached an experience of God – the ‘Ostia-ecstasy’, shortly after his baptism. After an extensive state of the art on the debate of Augustine’s mysticism, the first part of this article studies Confessiones IX, 23–6, in which Augustine describes his experience at Ostia. Next, this passage is compared with an experience of similar nature Augustine had in Milan, before his conversion (Confessiones VII, 16; 23; 26). The second part deals with Augustine’s theories on the ascent of the soul, as he formulates them in De animae quantitate XXXIII, 70–6 and De doctrina christiana II, 9–11.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"36 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472416","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42482708","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 truth within: a history of inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism","authors":"Francis X. Clooney","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1472414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"79 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44321283","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":"‘Rain of God’s Letters’ – Glagolitic Alphabet as a Mystical Tool?","authors":"M. C. Benitan","doi":"10.1080/20465726.2018.1472413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472413","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Glagolitic alphabet was intended as a political and religious tool for the Slavs in the ninth century. This paper argues that despite its quick suppression, Glagolitic – arguably composed by Constantine The Philosopher (a brother of Methodius) from Thessaloniki – could have been a mystical tool. The relevant historical context and hagiographical material are explored to establish the alphabet’s origins. Uspenskij’s distinction regarding the palaeographic and ideographic origins of scripts is then followed. A short survey of the most relevant graphic features of some letters, their arrangement in the alphabet, their names, and their possible origins is accompanied by a more in-depth discussion of some key graphemes and their mystical potential. Tschernochvostoff’s theory of Glagolitic being woven upon three basic Christian symbols is elaborated on and expanded. Finally, the stunning (acrophonic) naming of the letters is shown as coding comprehensible Christian, and arguably mystical, messages in Proto-Slavic.","PeriodicalId":40432,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Mystical Theology","volume":"27 1","pages":"21 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20465726.2018.1472413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48207529","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}