IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1717: Mystical Theology: Pleasure in Spiritual Consummation
Thursday 4 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Mystical Theology Network |
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Organiser: | Louise Nelstrop, Sarum College, Salisbury / University of Oxford |
Moderator/Chair: | Patrick Ryan Cooper, Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen, KU Leuven |
Paper 1717-a | The Pleasure of the Text: What Two Manuscripts Can Tell Us about Becoming God (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Religious Life, Theology |
Paper 1717-b | 'Die meyster stryden […]': How the Mystic Christina of Hane Contributes to a Scholastic Discussion on the Priority over Knowledge, Love, or Fruitio (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - German, Theology |
Paper 1717-c | What Ever Happened to the Fourth Degree of Love?: Richard Rolle’s Later Writings as Logophatic Discourse (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
Abstract | The aim of this session is to examine the role that pleasure, joy, love, and desire play in spiritual consummation within Western Christian mystical literature in the later Middle Ages. The papers explore the related notions of ecstasy, becoming God, and speaking as God's mouthpiece across this period through the writings of Richard Rolle, Christina von Hare, Meister Eckhart, and the anonymous Sister Catherine Treatise. |