On The Medieval Structure Of Spirituality

Author : Roger Haight,Alfred Pach,Amanda Avila Kaminski
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781531502201

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On the Medieval Structure of Spirituality by Roger Haight,Alfred Pach,Amanda Avila Kaminski Pdf

If Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225, as is commonly thought, then he died before reaching the age of fifty after producing the single most influential systematic theology of the Western Christian tradition. He did this with a formula: He internalized the thought of Aristotle as it was being introduced into western Europe and translated into Latin, and he in turn “translated” Christianity into this Aristotelian language. One can use the principles of hermeneutics outlined in Retrieving the Spiritual Teaching of Jesus of this series to analyze what was going on as Aquinas went through some of the basic doctrines of the Church in his Summa Theologiae. He laid out their contents by answering an exhaustive series of questions and responding to each of them in intricate detail. The model for each question and answer was drawn directly from the pattern of learning at the University of Paris. Although systematic and abstract, it also enabled an extensive conversation with the tradition of classical theologians and his own contemporaries. This may seem quite distant from spiritual life on the ground, but the method produced a clear understanding of the structure of spiritual life in terms of its goal and the means of attaining it. Aquinas’s analysis of grace—how it enabled genuine Christian spirituality, empowered the virtues, and led to eternal life—constitutes a classic substructure of Western Christian spirituality that became all the more distinctive when Reformation spiritualities offered alternatives to it.

Author : Roger Haight,Alfred Pach,Amanda Avila Kaminski
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781531502218

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On the Medieval Structure of Spirituality by Roger Haight,Alfred Pach,Amanda Avila Kaminski Pdf

If Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 as it is commonly thought, then he died before reaching the age of fifty after producing the single-most influential systematic theology of the Western Christian tradition. He did this with a formula: he internalized the thought of Aristotle as it was being introduced into Western Europe and translated into Latin, and he in turn “translated” Christianity into this Aristotelian language. One can use the principles of hermeneutics outlined in Retrieving the Spiritual Teaching of Jesus of this series to analyze what was going on as Aquinas went through some of the basic doctrines of the church in his Summa Theologiae. He laid out their contents by answering an exhaustive series of questions and responding to each of them in intricate detail. The model for each question and answer was drawn directly from the pattern of learning at the University of Paris. Although systematic and abstract, it also enabled an extensive conversation with the tradition of classical theologians and his own contemporaries. This may seem quite distant from spiritual life on the ground, but the method produced a clear understanding of the structure of spiritual life in terms of its goal and the means of attaining it. Aquinas’s analysis of grace, how it enabled genuine Christian spirituality, empowered the virtues, and led to eternal life, constitutes a classic substructure of Western Christian spirituality that became all the more distinctive when Reformation spiritualities offered alternatives to it.

Author : Maria Jaoudi
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809146592

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Medieval and Renaissance Spirituality by Maria Jaoudi Pdf

Displays the theology and spirituality of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in the three major western religious traditions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Author : Giles Constable
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019230627

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Culture and Spirituality in Medieval Europe by Giles Constable Pdf

A collection of articles concentrating on culture and spirituality in the 11th and 12th centuries. The cultural articles are concerned with perceptions of time and the past and entry to religious life. The articles on spirituality deal with themes of suffering and attitudes towards the self.

Author : Jill Raitt,Bernard McGinn,John Meyendorff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Spiritual life
ISBN : 0710213131

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Christian Spirituality by Jill Raitt,Bernard McGinn,John Meyendorff Pdf

Author : Andreas Andreapoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134936694

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Art as Theology by Andreas Andreapoulos Pdf

Religion and spirituality are key aspects of the contemporary art scene. Following Ronald Barthes' 'death of the author' - which argued for the dissociation of work from creator - works of art have withdrawn as independent objects, giving way to a growing religious awareness or practice. 'Art and Theology' examines the connection between art and religion in ancient Jewish drama, Greek tragedy, the Renaissance, the Byzantine icon and the medieval cathedral. The book explores how art lost its sacred character in the late Middle Ages and how the current withdrawal or 'death' of art and the fusion of the limits of art and life are consistent with the medieval view of the religious icon.

Author : Jane Cartwright
Publisher : University of Wales
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708319994

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Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales by Jane Cartwright Pdf

Cartwright sheds light on the religious women of medieval Wales. Drawing on a wide range of sources from saints' lives and native poetry to holy wells and visual evidence, she explores feminine sanctity, its meanings, manifestations and related iconography in a specifically Welsh context.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110361643

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Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The University of Arizona in May 2013, explore a wide range of approaches and materials pertinent to these issues, taking us from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, capping the volume with some reflections on the relevance of religion today. Lapidary sciences matter here as much as medical-psychological research, combined with literary and art-historical approaches. The premodern understanding of mental health is not taken as a miraculous panacea for modern problems, but the contributors suggest that medieval and early modern writers, scientists, and artists commanded a considerable amount of arcane, sometimes curious and speculative, knowledge that promises to be of value and relevance even for us today, once again. Modern palliative medicine finds, for instance, intriguing parallels in medieval word magic, and the mystical perspectives encapsulated highly productive alternative perceptions of the macrocosm and microcosm that promise to be insightful and important also for the post-modern world.

Author : Robert Norman Swanson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521379504

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Religion and Devotion in Europe, C.1215- C.1515 by Robert Norman Swanson Pdf

Underlying the discussion are basic questions about the format of medieval religious experience, ranging from the nature of authority to the relationship between priests and laity, and how far it is actually possible to talk of a monolithic catholicism.

Author : Gilles Michel-Joseph Mongeau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 1771103663

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Embracing Wisdom by Gilles Michel-Joseph Mongeau Pdf

"That the exercise of our intellectual powers in the service of the Gospel can prove life-transforming is a principle that both informs the writings of Thomas Aquinas and, at the same time, marks the horizon of his thought. Yet the contemporary interpretation of Aquinas' thought, with a few notable exceptions, continues to suffer from the modern divorce between systematic theology and spirituality. Even among those studies that link Aquinas' systematic and spiritual purposes, few have asked how Aquinas sets about composing his text in such a way that it orders spiritual operations of memory, affect, imagination, understanding, judgment, and decision to each other and to the purpose of Christian spiritual development. Embracing Wisdom proposes a theological interpretation of the Summa theologiae as a spiritual pedagogy ordered to the growth in wisdom, and thus in holiness, of preachers and confessors in the late thirteenth century. It proceeds along two unequal trajectories. The first proceeds by examining the social and cultural transformations of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and the spiritual crisis they occasioned for the Church, a crisis which called for the creation of a new kind of pastoral agent to take responsibility for the preaching of the Gospel. The analysis that follows develops a picture of the socio-cultural role of the theologian and preacher and brings to light the rhetorical means Aquinas deploys to promote the formation of wise preachers who can mediate the Gospel by means of new cultural forms. Successive chapters then present the pedagogical structure and spiritual dynamic of the Summa theologiae in light of these rhetorical principles, showing how it climaxes in the Christology of the tertia pars. This Christology is shown to promote communion with and conforming of the whole person to Wisdom Incarnate, transforming the student into an agent of Divine Wisdom in the world."--

Author : Robin Macdonald,Emilie Murphy,Elizabeth L. Swann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317057185

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Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by Robin Macdonald,Emilie Murphy,Elizabeth L. Swann Pdf

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope, it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual senses, the volume’s organisation emphasises the multisensoriality and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences, refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive, res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses, but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.

Author : Wolfgang Riehle
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801470929

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The Secret Within by Wolfgang Riehle Pdf

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 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.

Author : Valerie L. Garver,Owen M. Phelan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317061243

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Rome and Religion in the Medieval World by Valerie L. Garver,Owen M. Phelan Pdf

Rome and Religion in the Medieval World provides a panoramic and interdisciplinary exploration of Rome and religious culture. The studies build upon or engage Thomas F.X. Noble’s interest in Rome, especially his landmark contributions to the origins of the Papal States and early medieval image controversies. Scholars from a variety of disciplines offer new viewpoints on key issues and questions relating to medieval religious, cultural and intellectual history. Each study explores different dimensions of Rome and religion, including medieval art, theology, material culture, politics, education, law, and religious practice. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, including manuscripts, relics, historical and normative texts, theological tracts, and poetry, the authors illuminate the complexities of medieval Christianity, especially as practiced in the city of Rome itself, and elsewhere in Europe when influenced by the idea of Rome. Some trace early medieval legacies to the early modern period when Protestant and Catholic theologians used early medieval religious texts to define and debate forms of Roman Christianity. The essays highlight and deepen scholarly appreciation of Rome in the rich and varied religious culture of the medieval world.

Author : Robert Boenig
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0809139502

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Anglo-Saxon Spirituality by Robert Boenig Pdf

A collection of writings dating from the mid-400s to the Norman Conquest introduce readers to the pagan/Christian spirituality of Medieval Europe. Original.

Author : L. Besserman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403977274

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Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures by L. Besserman Pdf

This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.