IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1642: Crossing Borders in the Medieval Mystical Tradition, II: Friendship, Affectus, Union
Thursday 9 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Mystical Theology Network / Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen |
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Organiser: | John Arblaster, Institute for the Study of Spirituality, KU Leuven / Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen |
Moderator/Chair: | John Arblaster, Institute for the Study of Spirituality, KU Leuven / Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen |
Paper 1642-a | Aelred of Rievaulx at the Border of History, Spirituality, and Psychology (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life, Theology |
Paper 1642-b | The Abyssal Cut of Desire: Transgressing and Dissolving Divine-Human (In)Distinctions in the Mystical Theology of Hadewijch (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
Paper 1642-c | Is There a Border between God and the Human Person according to the Middle Dutch Mystics? (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
Abstract | The sessions sponsored by the Mystical Theology Network will explore fundamental philosophical and theological issues related to medieval conceptions of the presence and absence of borders between the human and the divine, the finite and the infinite, and questions about the reception of mystical texts in different times, places, and languages. To what extent are 'friendship' and 'affectus' not only general social and psychological concepts, but also central to the historical and spiritual understanding of medieval mystics? How do mystics transgress the boundaries separating divinity and humanity and thus perhaps dissolve such distinctions? And to what extent are the receptions and perceptions of mystical texts dependent on differing contexts? |