Download or read book Jan Van Ruusbroec Mystical Theologian of the Trinity written by Rik Van Nieuwenhove and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381), a Flemish mystical theologian, was one of the most original Trinitarian thinkers in the medieval West. Yet, his works--written in Middle-Dutch--have remained relatively unknown. In this book, Rik Van Nieuwenhove presents the first major study in English of Ruusbroec's thought. Van Nieuwenhove explores in detail Ruusbroec's theology of the Trinity, his anthropology, Christology, and his understanding of union with God. Van Nieuwenhove's study reveals that Ruusbroec, while incorporating aspects of the rich theological and spiritual tradition that preceded him, wrote at the beginning of a modern age in which mystical theology changed radically in nature. Ruusbroec claimed that the divine Persons are subject to an eternal dynamic of procession or out-going from the Father, on the one hand, and returning to the shared divine essence, on the other. The human person is called to participate in this continuous ebbing and flowing by leading a life that combines contemplation and charitable activity. Ruusbroec argued that mysticism should be interpreted in terms of a transformation of the human person rather than in terms of an immediate experience of God. Jan van Ruusbroec, Mystical Theologian of the Trinity is an innovative, original study of one of late medieval theology's undiscovered treasures. Written in clear, accessible language, this new interpretation of Ruusbroec's theology will appeal to all those interested in mysticism, medieval theology, and the doctrine of the Trinity.
Download or read book Ruusbroec and His Mysticism written by Paul Verdeyen and published by Michael Glazier Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Michael Glazier book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165).
Download or read book Ruusbroec written by Geert Warnar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381), the most influential medieval Dutch author, is generally acknowledged to be one of the key figures in the tradition of Christian mysticism. This book concentrates on the medieval dimensions of Ruusbroec’s authorship. Warnar offers a comprehensive analysis of Ruusbroec’s oeuvre within the social, religious and literary frameworks of the fourteenth century Low Countries. Ruusbroec emerges as an author who was fully engaged in contemporary discussions on the contemplative life and mystical theology, as a charismatic guide who attracted a growing number of disciples first from the Low Countries but soon from all over Western Europe, and as the architect of a vernacular oeuvre of international interest from the Middle Ages to modern times.
Download or read book Jan Van Ruusbroec written by Paul Mommaers and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven essays about one of the great masters of the Christian mystical tradition (d. 1381).
Download or read book Mysticism Buddhist and Christian written by Paul Mommaers and published by Herder & Herder. This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the first book-length treatment in English of one of the greatest mystical writers in Christian history, Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381). A careful reading of the texts by the Flemish historian Paul Mommaers focuses on two delicate relationships: that between mysticism and religiosity and that between a mysticism of union in love and the more metaphysical mysticism of unity. Winding in and out of this presentation is a commentary by theologian of religions Jan Van Bragt, which attempts to place the problematic in a wider, interreligious context by contrasting the spiritual path of Buddhism with that of the Christian mystical way. The combined result is not only an original reading of the great Flemish love-mystic, but a groundbreaking attempt to view religious history through the dual lenses of one's own faith and that of the faith of others. Ruusbroec's approach is seen to challenge traditional ideas about differences between the Buddhist and Christian ways and to open new possibilities for further encounters at the level of mystical thought and practice.
Download or read book The Spiritual Espousals written by Jan Van Ruysbroek and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Companion to John of Ruusbroec written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John of Ruusbroec (1293-1381) is one of the most important mystical authors in the Christian tradition. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of Ruusbroec studies, including a survey of the mystical tradition in the Low Countries before Ruusbroec, a discussion of his life and works, the manuscript tradition, the most significant mystical-theological and literary themes, Latin translations of his work, and the widespread resonance of his thought across Europe until 1800. Finally, it offers a summary of secondary research since the nineteenth century. To complement the range of scholarly articles, this Companion also includes the first English translation of a series of Middle Dutch texts that offer deeper insight into Ruusbroec, his thought, and his mystical and literary context. Contributors include: Jos Andriessen, John Arblaster, Guido De Baere, Rob Faesen, Bernard McGinn, Hilde Noë, Kees Schepers, Loet Swart, Rik Van Nieuwenhove, and Lieve Uyttenhove.
Download or read book Ruysbroeck and the Mystics written by Maurice Maeterlinck and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Late Medieval Mysticism of the Low Countries written by Rik Van Nieuwenhove and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When one looks at an icon, one bas the sense that God is looking back. Our whole person is involved. What the prayers and music of the Feast convey through the ears, the icon conveys visually." This book showcases a collection of extraordinarily beautiful icons that introduces readers and art appreciators to the spiritual riches of the Byzantine liturgical tradition. The author, Father Michael Evdokimov, presents an icon for each of the twelve great feasts of the Orthodox Christian liturgical year. Preceding each icon is a brief commentary of what the reader can hope to find in the icon, including nuances that a casual observer might miss. Facing each icon are prayers appropriate for meditating on the icon. Quotations from spiritual writers of all ages of Christianity are interspersed in the book. In a simple, straightforward manner, Evdokimov shows how the prayers and the icons used to worship God can nourish the spiritual life. Although he sets before his readers beliefs and practices common to Orthodox people everywhere in the world, anyone who appreciates beautiful art will find much to savor here.
Download or read book John Ruusbroec written by Jan van Ruusbroec and published by . This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of writings by the 14th-century Flemish mystic noted for his Trinitarian theology, and for whom the contemplative life involved activity or going out, just as God is always dynamic, thus reflecting the mystic life as not so much a progression of stages, but a simultaneous activity, return, and rest.
Download or read book The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage The Sparkling Stone The Book of Supreme Truth written by Jan van Ruusbroec and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ruysbroeck written by Evelyn Underhill and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Jan Van Ruusbroec written by Paul Mommaers and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval Flemish mystic Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381) is often highly praised. Cuthbert Butler, for one, concluded that there "certainly" has been "no greater mystical writer." It comes as a surprise, then, that no comprehensive study of Ruusbroec's mystical doctrine as such is available. Filling up this lacuna seems all the more appropriate as the critical text edition of Ruusbroec's works is now complete: Jan van Ruusbroec Opera omnia (1981-2006), including the most influential Latin translation as well as a new translation into English besides the Middle Dutch text. The guiding principle for the work offered here is that the mystic himself should be allowed to speak in the very first place, and not the commentator. As the core of Ruusbroec's writings consists in the description of a person's awareness - the awareness of an Other -, it is only in a close reading of his work in its entirety, interspersed with textual analyses, that his view of becoming and being mystically one with God may appear. However, as it is a mystical figure and his writings that are central to this study, the first two chapters are dedicated to finding out, always on the base of the mystics' own reports, what essentially characterizes mystics, what they experience and how they experience it, why they write and in what manner. Ruusbroec's own description of mystical experience is covered in five chapters. Chapter III - "Profiling the Human" - deals with the way in which this mystic imagines the universally applicable structure of the human psyche. The subject of chapter IV - "Meeting the Divine Other" - is Ruusbroec's outlining of the contemplative path. It is striking here to see how the phenomenon of "meeting" persists all through the mystic's growth, from premystical beginnings up to the deepest mystical union. It appears, moreover, that this path is not to be followed necessarily nor does it reflect a linear making-progress but rather a spiralling being-carried along. In chapter V - "Mystically One with God" - the heart of Ruusbroec's mystical experience comes to the fore, and this is of course where his unique talent for evoking the unseen shines most. The main point here is that for the mystic the most advanced experience of being one with God consists in feeling "unity" as well as "union", "resting" as well as "working". In other words, being perfectly one with God should not be seen as a fusion in which the human being is absorbed by the divine. It is by living the interplay of such different aspects as "unity" and "union" that the mystic is fully one with the Other. The complex character of the highest mystical state entails Ruusbroec's remarkable portrayal of the fully-fledged mystic as a "common man", that is: as "wholly in God and wholly in himself." The last two chapters of the book focus on Ruusbroec's discussion of natural mysticism. On encountering a number of his contemporaries who by their own account were able to "contemplate without (God's) grace", he felt he had to take issue with them. In chapter VI it appears that he appreciates not only their method, "turning inwards", but also its outcome, "feeling the simplicity of their essence (the deep self), hanging in the essence of God." Chapter VII outlines Ruusbroec's critique, however, which is mainly aimed at two points. The contemplative who turns inwards in the natural way finally "dwells within himself with rest" and he or she wil necessarily undergo the dehumanizing effects of "not feeling otherness".
Download or read book Ruusbroec written by Geert Warnar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-22 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the writings of the mystic Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381) within their medieval contexts of literary, religious and intellectual life, thus offering the first comprehensive biography of the most influential medieval Dutch author.
Download or read book Jan Van Ruusbroec the Sources Content and Sequels of His Mysticism written by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Institut voor Middeleeuwse Studies and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God Within written by Oliver Davies and published by New City Press. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a classic book which brought a neglected spiritual tradition to life and conveyed the essence of the work of writers who have a particular resonance for contemporary Christians and “seekers”: Jan van Ruusbroec, Johannes Tauler, Henry Suso and Walter Hilton as well as more familiar figures such as Meister Eckhart and Julian Norwich.
Download or read book Ruysbroeck and the Mystics written by Maurice Maeterlinck and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
