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Book Johannes Tauler

Download or read book Johannes Tauler written by Johannes Tauler and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential German mystical writers of the 14th century, Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361) spent his life as a mendicant preacher in the Order of Preachers. These selected sermons show Tauler's emphasis on the via negativa together with his insistence on the importance of cataphatic mysticism and the merits of an active life.

Book The Following of Christ

Download or read book The Following of Christ written by Johannes Tauler and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ruling the Spirit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claire Taylor Jones
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2017-08-28
  • ISBN : 0812294467
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Ruling the Spirit written by Claire Taylor Jones and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of the German Dominican order have long presented a grand narrative of its origin, fall, and renewal: a Golden Age at the order's founding in the thirteenth century, a decline of Dominican learning and spirituality in the fourteenth, and a vibrant renewal of monastic devotion by Dominican "Observants" in the fifteenth. Dominican nuns are presumed to have moved through a parallel arc, losing their high level of literacy in Latin over the course of the fourteenth century. However, unlike the male Dominican friars, the nuns are thought never to have regained their Latinity, instead channeling their spiritual renewal into mystical experiences and vernacular devotional literature. In Ruling the Spirit, Claire Taylor Jones revises this conventional narrative by arguing for a continuous history of the nuns' liturgical piety. Dominican women did not lose their piety and literacy in the fifteenth century, as is commonly believed, but instead were urged to reframe their devotion around the observance of the Divine Office. Jones grounds her research in the fifteenth-century liturgical library of St. Katherine's in Nuremberg, which was reformed to Observance in 1428 and grew to be one of the most significant convents in Germany, not least for its library. Many of the manuscripts owned by the convent are didactic texts, written by friars for Dominican sisters from the fourteenth through the fifteenth century. With remarkable continuity across genres and centuries, this literature urges the Dominican nuns to resume enclosure in their convents and the strict observance of the Divine Office, and posits ecstatic experience as an incentive for such devotion. Jones thus rereads the "sisterbooks," vernacular narratives of Dominican women, long interpreted as evidence of mystical hysteria, as encouragement for nuns to maintain obedience to liturgical practice. She concludes that Observant friars viewed the Divine Office as the means by which Observant women would define their communities, reform the terms of Observant devotion, and carry the order into the future.

Book Homo Spiritualis

Download or read book Homo Spiritualis written by Steven E. Ozment and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Martin Luther

Download or read book Martin Luther written by Volker Leppin and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief, insightful biography of Martin Luther strips away the myths surrounding the Reformer to offer a more nuanced account of his life and ministry. Coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, this accessible yet robustly historical and theological work highlights the medieval background of Luther's life in contrast to contemporary legends. Internationally respected church historian Volker Leppin explores the Catholic roots of Lutheran thought and locates Luther's life in the unfolding history of 16th-century Europe. Foreword by Timothy J. Wengert.

Book Light  Life  and Love

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  • Author : William Ralph Inge
  • Publisher : Alpha Edition
  • Release : 2023-02-28
  • ISBN : 9789356892156
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Light Life and Love written by William Ralph Inge and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

Book The Inner Way

Download or read book The Inner Way written by Johannes Tauler and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forms of Transcendence

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  • Author : Sonia Sikka
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 1997-05-01
  • ISBN : 1438419988
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Forms of Transcendence written by Sonia Sikka and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets up a dialogue between Heidegger and four medieval authors: St. Bonaventure, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Jan van Ruusbroec. Through a close reading of medieval and Heideggerian texts, the book brings to light elements that present possibilities for a revised appropriation of some traditional metaphysical and theological ideas, arguing that, in spite of Heidegger's critique of "ontotheology," many aspects of his thought make a positive, and not exclusively critical, contribution. Unlike some past studies of the relation between Heidegger and medieval mysticism, this book seeks to establish a real identity between the content, the subject-matter (Sache), of the medieval and Heideggerian texts that it examines. In so doing, it challenges Heidegger's own assertion that what he calls "being" cannot be called God. Against this assertion, Sikka argues that what is to be called God remains an open question, and points out metaphysical and theological elements in Heidegger's reflections on being that help to answer this question. Offering new insights into the relation between metaphysics, theology, and mysticism, the book contributes not only to Heidegger studies but to philosophical theology as well.

Book The Discernment of Spirits

Download or read book The Discernment of Spirits written by Wendy Love Anderson and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Anderson] succeeds in neatly fitting together selected pieces of the history of discernment of spirits to provide a valuable, readable description of the contours of its evolution in the late Middle Ages. -- Debra L. Stoudt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, The Medieval Review Late medieval Christians lived in a world of visions, but they knew that not all visions came from God: angels, demons, illness, nature, or passion could also inspire an apparent divine visitation. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the involvement of visionaries in everything from reform movements to military campaigns to papal schisms raised the political and spiritual stakes of determining whether or not a vision was truly from God. In response, a diverse group of medieval thinkers - including men and women, clergy and laity, visionaries and theologians - gradually began to transform the loose patristic readings of Pauline discretio spirituum into a system with the potential to distinguish between true and false visions and between genuine and delusional visionaries. Wendy Love Anderson chronicles the historical, political, and spiritual struggles behind the flowering of late medieval mysticism and what came to be seen as the Christian doctrine of discernment of spirits.

Book The Following of Christ

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  • Author : Johannes Tauler
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-06-25
  • ISBN : 9781514702529
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Following of Christ written by Johannes Tauler and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes Tauler OP (c. 1300-1361) was a German mystic, a Catholic preacher and a theologian. A disciple of Meister Eckhart, he belonged to the Dominican order. Tauler was known as one of the most important Rhineland Mystics. He promoted a certain neo-platonist dimension in the Dominican spirituality of his time. Tauler was famous for his sermons, which were considered among the noblest in the German language-not as emotional as Henry Suso's, nor as speculative as Eckhart's, but rather intensely practical, and touching on all sides the deeper problems of the moral and spiritual life. Tauler was one of several notable Christian universalists in the Middle Ages, along with Amalric of Bena, John of Ruysbroeck, and Julian of Norwich. He taught that "All beings exist through the same birth as the Son, and therefore shall they all come again to their original, that is, God the Father."

Book A Companion to William of Saint Thierry

Download or read book A Companion to William of Saint Thierry written by F. Tyler Sergent and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New studies on this twelfth-century Benedictine abbot who became a Cistercian monk and his keen intellectual life, insightful and creative thought, and his enduring influence.

Book A Cautious Enthusiasm

Download or read book A Cautious Enthusiasm written by Samuel Clayton Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of eighteenth-century evangelicalism and Anglican establishment in the lowcountry South

Book Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe

Download or read book Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe written by Ronald K. Rittgers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe, edited by Ronald K. Rittgers and Vincent Evener, is a research handbook on the Protestant reception of mysticism, from the beginnings of the Reformation through the mid-seventeenth century.

Book The Rhineland Mystics

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  • Author : Oliver Davies
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2016-06-02
  • ISBN : 1725254395
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book The Rhineland Mystics written by Oliver Davies and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the great Rhineland mystics of the fourteenth century speaks to the modern reader with astonishing directness and clarity. In their emphasis on the personal, inward experience of God and their questioning of the formal, ritualistic side of religion, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Jan van Ruusbroec appear almost as contemporaries. This impression is heightened by vivid new translations by Oliver Davies, who also sets the Rhineland mystics in their historical and cultural context and examines why we seem to have a special sensitivity to their voice in spite of a gap of over six hundred years.