Author: Sam Hole
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192608126
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Through the 'dark night of the soul' to the depiction of the erotically-charged union of the soul and God, the poetry and prose works of the Spanish friar John of the Cross (1542-1591) offer a striking account of the transformation of the individual in the course of the Christian life. John of the Cross: Desire, Transformation, and Selfhood argues that these writings are animated by John's own creative and subtly conceptualized notion of erotic desire. John's understanding of desire has the potential to enrich recent theological discussion of the subject, but it has been curiously neglected in past scholarship. To correct this lacuna, this study undertakes a detailed historical analysis in three parts. Firstly, it attends to the patristic, medieval, and sixteenth-century Spanish influences on John's writings, showing how John reworks a long tradition of biblical, Christian, and Platonic reflection on the concept. Secondly, it traces the importance of desire through John's writings, demonstrating how he develops the theme through his poetry, his anthropology of the soul, and his account of the spiritual ascent. Thirdly, it explores the reception of his writings in the twentieth century, demonstrating how particular modern philosophical and theological commitments have prevented scholars from recognising the rich and distinctive shape of John's theological vision. John's account of the transformation of the self, with its hopeful vision of the graced transformation of the soul's desires, has significance beyond the constrained modern categories of systematic theology, Christian spirituality, pastoral theology, and mysticism—it is a vision that is worthy of recovery today.
John of the Cross
Theological Studies
Author: William James McGarry
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Theology of Suffering and Cross in the Life and Works of Blessed Edith Stein
Author: Antony Kavunguvalappil
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Edith Stein is a very significant woman of our century. She was German Jewess who at first plunged herself into vile abyss of Atheism. Converted to Roman Catholicism she ascended to the highest peak of Mount Carmel and thus achieved the mystical union of her soul with God. For the Church she is a martyr and revered saint. In the philosophical circle she is a significant exponent of Phenomenology. A heroic woman, Edith Stein is a feminist of true womanhood. The philosophical insights of Edmund Husserl and the Mystical Theology of St. John of the Cross helped her in the development of the Science of the Cross. The relevance of Edith Stein is seen not merely in the scientific exposition of the Theology of the Cross but specially in the living witness of that doctrine in her own life.
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Edith Stein is a very significant woman of our century. She was German Jewess who at first plunged herself into vile abyss of Atheism. Converted to Roman Catholicism she ascended to the highest peak of Mount Carmel and thus achieved the mystical union of her soul with God. For the Church she is a martyr and revered saint. In the philosophical circle she is a significant exponent of Phenomenology. A heroic woman, Edith Stein is a feminist of true womanhood. The philosophical insights of Edmund Husserl and the Mystical Theology of St. John of the Cross helped her in the development of the Science of the Cross. The relevance of Edith Stein is seen not merely in the scientific exposition of the Theology of the Cross but specially in the living witness of that doctrine in her own life.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Legal science, philosophy
Author: Jacques Havet
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111616584
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Legal science, philosophy".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111616584
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Legal science, philosophy".
Annales
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Category : Languages
Languages : fr
Pages : 512
Book Description
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Category : Languages
Languages : fr
Pages : 512
Book Description
Union Catalog of the Graduate Theological Union
Author: Graduate Theological Union. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
International Bibliography of Historical Sciences
Author:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Verzeichnis der exzerpierton zeitschriften: 1926, p. [XXXI]-LXVII.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Verzeichnis der exzerpierton zeitschriften: 1926, p. [XXXI]-LXVII.
Main Trends in Philosophy
Author: Paul Ricœur
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
To assess the main trends of philosophy in the world today, the author avoids using a simple geographical framework and favours instead a schema that identifies philosophical fields or loci with questions being presently researched and discussed.
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
To assess the main trends of philosophy in the world today, the author avoids using a simple geographical framework and favours instead a schema that identifies philosophical fields or loci with questions being presently researched and discussed.
Main Trends of Research in the Social and Human Sciences
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description