Bernard Of Clairvaux And The Shape Of Monastic Thought
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Author | : M. B. Pranger |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004100558 |
This book examines the way Bernard of Clairvaux, in his writings, shapes the monastic existence as a subtle blend of biblical and liturgical texts and scenes on the one hand and uncontrollable events and emotions on the other.
Author | : Brian Patrick McGuire |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2011-03-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004201394 |
Bernard of Clairvaux emerges from these studies as a vibrant, challenging and illuminating representative of the monastic culture of the twelfth century. In taking on Peter Abelard and the new scholasticism he helped define the very world he opposed and thus contributed to the renaissance of the twelfth century.
Author | : William M. Johnston |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781579580902 |
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Carolyn Muessig |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004108837 |
This book demonstrates that monastic preaching was a diverse activity which included preaching by monks, nuns and heretics. The study offers a preliminary step in understanding how preaching shaped monastic identity in the Middle Ages.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2005-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 904740727X |
This volume analyses the renewal of Western moral thought in the twelfth century. This renewal was marked by a burgeoning of increasingly systematized texts, a lively reception of ancient moral philosophy and a greater emphasis on the psychology of the moral agent. Five contributions are devoted to monastic morality (Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hugh of Folieto, Hugh of Saint Victor, Peter Abelard); another five to (proto-)scholastic thought (John of Salisbury, Peter Abelard, Stephen Langton, the idea of natural virtue, the justification of lying); three discuss moral issues in a wider social context (liberality vs. avarice, royal justice in England, the cardinal virtues and the French monarchy). The two remaining contributions explore ethical traditions in Islamic and Jewish philosophy. With contributions by István P. Bejczy, Céline Billot-Vilandreau, Marcia L. Colish, Jeroen Laemers, John Kitchen, Cary J. Nederman, Richard G. Newhauser, Willemien Otten, Burcht Pranger, Riccardo Quinto, Ineke van ’t Spijker, Arjo Vanderjagt, Björn Weiler and George Wilkes.
Author | : M.B. Pranger |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2010-10-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 900418936X |
This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine’s confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time’s focus with eternity’s longueur and the rhetoric of digression?
Author | : Jeremy Cohen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1999-11-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520922913 |
In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how—and why—medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture. Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, which constructed the Jews so as to mandate their survival in a properly ordered Christian world, is the starting point for this illuminating study. Cohen demonstrates how adaptations of this doctrine reflected change in the self-consciousness of early medieval civilization. After exploring the effect of twelfth-century Europe's encounter with Islam on the value of Augustine's Jewish witnesses, he concludes with a new assessment of the reception of Augustine's ideas among thirteenth-century popes and friars. Consistently linking the medieval idea of the Jew with broader issues of textual criticism, anthropology, and the philosophy of history, this book demonstrates the complex significance of Christianity's "hermeneutical Jew" not only in the history of antisemitism but also in the broad scope of Western intellectual history.
Author | : Christopher van Ginhoven Rey |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004260056 |
In Instruments of the Divinity, Christopher van Ginhoven Rey shows that an important reflection on God’s providential praxis animates the foundational documents of the Society of Jesus. Focusing on Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s conception of Jesuits as the instruments of a laboring God, the book explores the philosophical and theological roots of the metaphor of the instrument and its place in the social imaginary of the Jesuit order. Close readings of the Spiritual Exercises, the Jesuit Constitutions, and a selection of letters by Ignatius call attention to the existence of a rhetoric of instrumentality that provides the basis for the Society’s project of instruction, its loving affirmation of the world, and its attempts to differentiate itself from its monastic predecessors.
Author | : R. Ward Holder |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047417518 |
This book considers John Calvin’s interpretation of the Pauline epistles, discussing his interpretive method and the link between biblical interpretation and correct doctrine. It introduces a division between doctrinal hermeneutics and textual exegetical rules clarifying Calvin’s relationship to the antecedent and subsequent traditions. The book portrays Calvin as a theologian for whom the doctrinal and exegetical tasks cohered, especially in the context of the Church in the Reformations. The first section presents the division between hermeneutical principles and exegetical rules, demonstrating each in Calvin’s commentaries. The second section considers the coherence of Calvin’s theological, exegetical and historical efforts. The text is grounded by the inclusion of many instances of Calvin’s interpretation, and his reflections on the nature of biblical interpretation.
Author | : M. B. Pranger |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804745246 |
In The Artificiality of Christianity, the author's primary goal is to distill from monastic literature a poetical tool that can be used to decipher the literary structure of religious texts; a secondary goal is to show the centrality of monasticism to the specific experiences of Christian reading.