The writings of ancient and medieval Christian mystics were rediscovered in the twentieth century, and today they are read more widely than ever before. But do modern assumptions about religious experience influence how we hear those premodern voices? Do we do them justice by thinking of mysticism as interior and ineffable?
The writings of ancient and medieval Christian mystics were rediscovered in the twentieth century, and today they are read more widely than ever before. But do modern assumptions about religious experience influence how we hear those premodern voices? Do we do them justice by thinking of mysticism as interior and ineffable?
David Albertson is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he studies medieval Christianity and philosophy of religion and serves as Executive Director of the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought. He is the author of Cusanus Today: Thinking with Nicholas of Cusa Between Philosophy and Theology (CUA, 2024), Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartres (Oxford, 2014), and Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology (Fordham, 2009). His research is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. An Archaeology of the Formless Chapter 1: The Silence of the World Chapter 2: Guarding the One Chapter 3: The Aneidetic Condition Part II. A Genealogy of Form Chapter 4: The Limits of Negation Chapter 5: The Extension of Desire Chapter 6: Kenosis into Magnitude Chapter 7: The Icon as Figure Chapter 8: Trinity and Form Chapter 9: The Figure as Icon Epilogue
Introduction Part I. An Archaeology of the Formless Chapter 1: The Silence of the World Chapter 2: Guarding the One Chapter 3: The Aneidetic Condition Part II. A Genealogy of Form Chapter 4: The Limits of Negation Chapter 5: The Extension of Desire Chapter 6: Kenosis into Magnitude Chapter 7: The Icon as Figure Chapter 8: Trinity and Form Chapter 9: The Figure as Icon Epilogue
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