Author: David G. KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incarnation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Incarnational Element in Hilton's Spirituality
Author: David G. KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incarnation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Incarnational Element in the Spirituality of Walter Hilton
Author: David G. KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incarnation
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Incarnational Elements in Hilton's Spirituality
Author: David G. KennedyPublisher: Humanities Press
ISBN: 9780391027329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
How the Doctrine of the Incarnation Shaped Western Culture
Author: Patricia RanftPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739174320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
In recent years numerous scholars in disciplines not traditionally associated with theology have promoted an interesting thesis. They maintain that one particular Christian doctrine, the Incarnation, had an inordinate influence on the shape of Western culture. The doctrine, they say, was so radical that it mandated an epistemological break with pagan society's perception of the universe and forced Christians to form a new culture. As medieval society worked out the consequences of the doctrine, it gave birth to those attitudes, institutions, and actions that define modern Western culture. The claims are well argued, but it is a historically untested thesis. How the Doctrine of Incarnation Shaped Western Culture is a response to the situation. It investigates whether the presence of the doctrine had the definitive effect on Western culture that so many scholars claim it did. It searches early Christian and medieval sources for evidence and concludes that the doctrine had a dominant effect on the developing culture. No other idea was as omnipresent or pervasive in Western society during its formative stage as the Incarnation doctrine. The doctrine was influential in the establishment of every major facet of Western culture. Its paradox, irrationality, and juxtaposition of opposites created a tension that cried out for resolution, and society responded accordingly. The ideas within the doctrine acted as catalysts for cultural change. As a result, the West developed its most characteristic traits and forged a path that was uniquely its own.
Poetics of the Incarnation
Author: Cristina Maria CervonePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207475
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"—an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the conceptual puzzle of the Incarnation also draws attention to language and form: what is the Word; how is it related to language; how can the Word become flesh? Such theological questions haunt the material imagery engaged by medieval writers, the structural forms that give their writing shape, and even their ideas about language itself. In Poetics of the Incarnation, Cristina Maria Cervone examines the work of fourteenth-century writers who, rather than approaching the mystery of the Incarnation through affective identification with the Passion, elected to ponder the intellectual implications of the Incarnation in poetical and rhetorical forms. Cervone argues that a poetics of the Incarnation becomes the grounds for working through the philosophical and theological implications of language, at a point in time when Middle English was emerging as a legitimate, if contested, medium for theological expression. In brief lyrics and complex narratives, late medieval English writers including William Langland, Julian of Norwich, Walter Hilton, and the anonymous author of the Charters of Christ took the relationship between God and humanity as a jumping-off point for their meditations on the nature of language and thought, the elision between the concrete and the abstract, the complex relationship between acting and being, the work done by poetry itself in and through time, and the meaning latent within poetical forms. Where Passion-devoted writing would focus on the vulnerability and suffering of the fleshly body, these texts took imaginative leaps, such as when they depict the body of Christ as a lily or the written word. Their Incarnational poetics repeatedly call attention to the fact that, in theology as in poetics, form matters.
English Spirituality
Author: Gordon MursellPublisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664225049
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
This wide-ranging historical survey provides an indispensable resource for those interested in exploring, teaching, or studying English spirituality. In two stand-alone volumes, it traces history from Roman times until the year 2000. The main Christian traditions and a vast range of writers and spiritual themes, from Anglo-Saxon poems to late-modern feminist spirituality, are included. These volumes present the astonishing richness and variety of responses made by English Christians to the call of the divine during the past two thousand years.
The Secret Within
Author: Wolfgang RiehlePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801470935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Spiritual seekers throughout history have sought illumination through solitary contemplation. In the Christian tradition, medieval England stands out for its remarkable array of hermits, recluses, and spiritual outsiders, from Cuthbert Godric of Fichale and Christina of Markyate to Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. In The Secret Within, Wolfgang Riehle offers the first comprehensive history of English medieval mysticism in decades, one that will appeal to anyone fascinated by mysticism as a phenomenon of religious life. In considering the origins and evolution of the English mystical tradition, Riehle begins in the twelfth century with the revival of eremitical mysticism and the early growth of the Cistercian Order in the British Isles. He then focuses in depth on the great mystics of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: Richard Rolle (the first great English mystic), the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Walter Hilton, Margery Kempe, and Julian of Norwich. Riehle carefully grounds his narrative in the broader spiritual landscape of the Middle Ages, pointing out both prior influences dating back to Late Antiquity and corresponding developments in mysticism and theology on the Continent. He discusses the problem of possible differences between male and female spirituality and the movement of popularizing mysticism in the late Middle Ages. Filled with fresh insights, The Secret Within will be welcomed especially by teachers and students of medieval literature as well as by those engaged in historical, theological, philosophical, cultural, even anthropological and comparative studies of mysticism.
The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England
Author: Marion GlasscoePublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859913461
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Twelve papers focus on mysticism as an experience and on the work of individual mystics.
Catholic England
Author: Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526112884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Aims to assess the spiritual state of England under Catholicism, before the onslaught of the Reformation. It covers the Latin and the Wycliffite bibles, the way Catholicism was disseminated, the mass, parish celebrations, pilgrimage, indulgences, security for the dead and more.
English Mystics of the Middle Ages
Author: Barry A. WindeattPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521327407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
First collection of late medieval English mystical writing, which has been newly edited with notes and glossary.