The Autos Sacramentales of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Natural Philosophy and Sacramental Theology. Alice Brooke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 166 pp. $82.00. ISBN 978-0-19-881682-9.

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-199
Author(s):  
Theresa A. Yugar
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Autos Sacramentales ◽  
Sor Juana ◽  
Oxford University Press

The autos sacramentales of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Brooke
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Individual Study ◽  
Material World ◽  
Autos Sacramentales ◽  
Christian Morality ◽  
Sor Juana

This study analyses the autos sacramentales, or Eucharistic plays, by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–95). It focusses on their relationship to the changing currents of philosophical thought in the late-seventeenth century Hispanic world, from a mindset characterized by scepticism, Neostoicism, and suspicion of the material world as a source of truth, to an empirical approach to the natural world that understood the information received by the senses as a fallible, yet useful, provisional source of knowledge. By examining each play in turn, along with the introductory loa with which they were intended to be performed, the study explores how each drama seeks to integrate empirical ideas with a Catholic understanding of transubstantiation. At the same time, each individual study identifies new sources for these plays, and demonstrates how these illuminate, or nuance, present readings of the works. The study of El divino Narciso employs a previously little-known source to illuminate its Christological readings, as well as Sor Juana’s engagement with notions of wit and conceptism. The analysis of El cetro de José explores her presentation of different approaches to perception to emphasize the importance of both the material and the transcendent in understanding the sacraments. The final section, on San Hermenegildo, explores the influence of the Christianized stoicism of Justus Lipsius, and demonstrates how Sor Juana used this work to attempt her most ambitious reconciliation of an empirical approach to the material world with a Neostoic approach to Christian morality and orthodox Catholic sacramental theology.

Peter R. Anstey, John Locke and Natural Philosophy

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (76) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Carmen SILVA
Keyword(s):  
John Locke ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

Reseña de <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Peter R. Anstey, </span><span><em>John Locke and Natural Philosophy</em></span><span>, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Reino Unido, 2013, 252 pp. </span></p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Peter Anstey on Locke's Natural Philosophy

Locke Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 167-194
Author(s):  
Jonathan Craig Walmsley
Keyword(s):  
John Locke ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Review Article ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oxford University Press

Peter Anstey’s book John Locke on Natural Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) (henceforth JLNP), presented an interpretation of Locke’s work on science and medicine, and how this shaped his philosophical views. It was wide-ranging in scope and often impressively detailed. It raised a number of questions about Locke’s relationship to the work of J. B. van Helmont, his collaboration with Thomas Sydenham, and the overall chronology and trajectory of his natural philosophical interests. It also occasioned a number of questions about methodology in the history of philosophy and how we should construct an interpretation of a thinker like Locke from the published, manuscript and historical records available. Some of these questions were posed explicitly in a ‘Review Article’ in these pages.

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