scholarly journals Mistyka relacyjna i metafizyczna w Księdze św. Anieli z Foligno

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
Mateusz Stróżyński
Keyword(s):  
Christian Mysticism ◽  
Saint Bonaventure ◽  
Experience Of God ◽  
Medieval Mystics ◽  
Angela Of Foligno

The article discusses the coexistence of two forms of Christian mysticism – metaphysical and relational – in The Book of Angela of Foligno. The metaphysical type, associated with the Neoplatonic philosophy, is probably inspired by The Soul’s Journey Into God by Saint Bonaventure who describes the experience of God as viewing existence or being (esse). The relational type is focused on the human and personal aspect of Jesus and the experience of love in the I-You relationship. While in many medieval mystics there is only one type of mysticism (e.g. metaphysical in Eckhart, relational in Bernard of Clairvaux), in Angela there is an interesting coexistence of both these types of experience of God.

NEW SEEDS, NEW HARVESTS THIRTY YEARS OF TILLING THE MYSTIC FIELD

Traditio ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
BARBARA NEWMAN
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Christian Mysticism ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Medieval Mystics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
And Gender

This article offers a retrospective on the last thirty years of scholarship on medieval mystics. After surveying some recent resources, such as Bernard McGinn's multivolume history, the Companions to Christian Mysticism, and the journal Spiritus, it discusses the varied approaches of late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century work, notably the material turn and the linguistic turn. The former, embracing studies of the body and gender, emotions and eroticism, art and material objects, reacts against earlier conceptions of mysticism as concerned exclusively with the timeless, invisible, and transcendent dimension of human existence. Feminist scholarship, queer theory, history of the emotions, and the study of visual culture have all figured prominently, while the relationship between mysticism and political activism is identified as an area ripe for further study. Complementing the material turn, the linguistic turn has brought new interest in apophatic theology in the wake of Derridean deconstruction, but also entails fresh work on vernacular mystics and the role of vernacularity in disseminating spiritual wisdom. The essay closes with an account of imaginative theology and a call for more reading across linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, as well as the artificial boundary between sacred and secular writing.

Interdisciplinarity in Teaching Medieval Mysticism: the Case of Angela of Foligno

Horizons ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-77
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Mooney
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Medieval Mystics ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Angela Of Foligno ◽  
Historical Theology

ABSTRACTThis essay addresses two related challenges facing educators who teach about medieval saints, mystics, and their texts. The first is how to relate to the theologies and spiritualities of people who inhabited cultures radically distinct from the modern and postmodern periods. The second regards the contemporary tendency to evaluate medieval believers in terms of modernist intellectual frameworks, most notably clinical psychological categories. A case study approaching the medieval mystic Angela of Foligno from three disciplinary points of view—clinical psychology, historical theology, and cultural history—illustrates how educators might respond to students' penchant to privilege clinical psychology when considering medieval mystics and saints, and shows not only the complementarity of interdisciplinarity, but also its limitations.

The Logic of Mysticism

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Stephen Grimm
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Experience Of God ◽  
Union With God ◽  
Direct Encounter

I argue that mystical experience essentially involves two aspects: (a) an element of direct encounter with God, and (b) an element of union with God. The framework I use to make sense of (a) is taken largely from William Alston’s magisterial book Perceiving God. While I believe Alston’s view is correct in many essentials, the main problem with the account is that it divorces the idea of encountering or perceiving God from the idea of being united with God. What I argue, on the contrary, is that because our experience of God is an experience of a relationship-seeking, personal being, it brings with it an important element of union that Alston overlooks.

Angela of Foligno

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (0) ◽  
pp. 125-142
Author(s):  
Ingrid PETERSON
Keyword(s):  
Angela Of Foligno
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