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Christian Apophaticism in Jean-Luc Marion’s Early Works

Verbum Vitae, 2023
In this article, I investigate Jean-Luc Marion’s early interpretation of Christian apophaticism with special reference to his reading of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. I observe that the most remarkable, but rarely noted, aspect of this interpretation
Johannes Zachhuber
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Aquinas on Wisdom

New Blackfriars, Volume 104, Issue 1114, Page 726-750, November 2023., 2023
Abstract The topic of wisdom attracted much less attention in modern thought than in ancient and medieval times. However, there has been a renewal of interest in it in recent psychology and philosophy, and a variety of questions has emerged from this current work.
Paul O'Grady
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Looking Beyond Jerusalem: A Fifteenth‐Century Exercise in Image Comparison

Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 640-666, September 2023., 2023
Critical image comparison is a widespread art‐historical practice. This essay explores why a Brabantine artist encouraged viewers to exercise it in the late fifteenth century. At the time, northern European artists tested out how images could be means of transcending the visible world while simultaneously showcasing their very constructedness. The self‐
Hanna Vorholt
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HUGO BALL'S RELIGIOUS CONVERSION

German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 376-391, July 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT This essay investigates the German ex‐Dadaist Hugo Ball (1886–1927) and his 1920s work on religious conversion from Paul, Augustine and Francis to writers and poets in modernity. This intense engagement was rooted in Ball's own radical conversion, or ‘re‐conversion’, to an austere form of the Catholicism of his childhood in 1920, just a few ...
Deborah Lewer
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‘Joining into God's breath’: travail of the negative as a connection between mysticism and political activism

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 474-488, July 2023., 2023
This essay argues that a negative hermeneutics, i.e., a hermeneutics that takes its starting point from the experience of gaps, failures, and limits, is a suitable lens for the study of mysticism. It uses the concept of travail of the negative, which focuses on the dynamics of a continuous ‘unsaying’ and ‘subverting’ of traditional expressions of faith
Edda Wolff
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On Sanctitatis nova signa: A provisional case against Celano's authorship

New Blackfriars, Volume 103, Issue 1108, Page 745-760, November 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper advances a provisional case denying the attribution of the medieval liturgical sequence Sanctitatis nova signa, written in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, to Thomas of Celano (died c. 1260), who is best known for writing the earliest biography of the saint.
Jose Isidro Belleza
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Ascetic Practices in Interfaith Dialogue

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 73, Issue 5, Page 804-820, December 2021., 2021
Abstract This article explores the fundamental theological and philosophical propositions on which ascetic teachings and mystical experiences within Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Jainism are based. In particular, it examines spirituality, purification, and psychophysical techniques, including bodily postures, breath control, and inner exploration ...
Nataliia Pavlyk
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Truth as Conformation in Herbert of Cherbury

New Blackfriars, Volume 102, Issue 1102, Page 857-872, November 2021., 2021
Abstract Thomas Aquinas, like many other, but by no means all medieval theologians and philosophers, espoused a theory of truth by identity. Truth exists primarily in the mind, but insofar as it realises the truth of things, truth exists in things also.
Catherine Pickstock
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Good men gone bad? Resistance to monastic reform in the tenth and eleventh centuries

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 366-393, August 2021., 2021
Conservative opponents of monastic reform in the tenth and eleventh centuries have traditionally been portrayed as principally reluctant to change and unwilling to abandon privileges and preferential treatment. This article performs a close, comparative reading of the poem Carmen ad Rotbertum regem by Adalbero of Laon (c.950–1031) and the monastic ...
Magnus Borg
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On the Origins of the Very First Principle as Infinite: The Hierarchy of the Infinite in Damascius and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Peitho, 2019
This paper discusses the theoretical relationship between the views of Damascius and those of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. While Damascius’ De principiis is a bold treatise devoted to investigating the hypermetaphysics of apophatism, it anticipates ...
Tiziano F. Ottobrini
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