A Strange Tongue: Tradition, Language, and the Appropriation of Mystical Experience in Late Fourteenth-century England and Sixteenth-century SpainPeeters Publishers, 2002 - 227 páginas This book is the product of both historical and personal interest in the grounds of religious conviction. It deals with the practice and development of the tradition of 'discernment of spirits' in the late fourteenth-century England and sixteenth-century Spain as reflected in the classical texts of the mystics of the periods; Julian of Norwich, the Cloud Author and Walter Hilton in England and Ignatius of Loyola and John of the Cross in Spain. The tradition of 'discernment' came into being at the very beginning of the Church's history and has been appropriated, adapted and developed throughout its history. The book explores how the tradition is expanded and maintains continuity with its origins and suggests that it reaches some apogee in sixteenth-century Spain for Christian lives of apostolic mission and contemplation. It illustrates how the cultural circumstances of the times moulded the manner in which the experiences of the mystics were perceived. 'Discernment of Spirits' is about how Christians reach some conviction that the stirrings within consciousness which seem to originate so strangely, and yet beckon so persistently, are 'real' in the sense of authentically divine. They are stirrings which call for a response in the lives of mystics. Rowan Williams at the beginning of his influential book, The Wound of Knowledge, refers to 'the intractable strangeness of the ground of belief that must constantly be allowed to challenge the fixed assumptions of religiosity; it is a given whose question to each age is fundamentally one and the same'. This book illustrates how the question is addressed in the texts of the mystics. In our own time the strange stirrings which intimate the question tend to be drowned by a multiplicity of competing voices. The suggestion is made that when we listen to the voices of the past we may be encouraged to wonder about the question posed by the stirrings within our own consciousness, hitherto unheard or dismissed as simply 'strange'. |
Contenido
Chapter 1 | 36 |
Chapter 3 | 84 |
Chapter 4 | 105 |
PARTI | 124 |
Appendix | 127 |
Figure 3 | 133 |
Chapter 2 | 148 |
Chapter 6 | 164 |
3 | 167 |
27 | 175 |
40 | 181 |
EPILOGUE | 192 |
202 | |
Términos y frases comunes
active anagogical Application of Senses Ascent Augustine of Hippo Canterbury Canterbury Tales Caraman Carmelite Cassian century Cervantes chapter Chaucer Christ Christian Church Cloud Author Cloud of Unknowing Commentary consciousness contemplative tradition context Cross discernment of spirits divine love Don Quixote election emphasis English mystics example experienced faith and feeling fourteenth-century grace Hugo Rahner human Ibid Ignatian Ignatius Loyola Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius the Theologian imagination insights interpretation Jerusalem Jesus Julian of Norwich K.B. McFarlane L.T. chap La Storta lives London Lord M.M.T. in Eng Manresa meaning mediaeval meditations mystery nature perhaps pilgrimage prayer Prologue Pseudo-Dionysius reason recognise refers reflected reformation in faith reformation in feeling religious Scale 2 chap Scale of Perfection Scripture seems Showings soul Spiritual Director Spiritual Exercises spiritual senses St John stirring suggests teaching Teresa thee Theology thou tion tradition of discernment trans understanding vision Walter Hilton