IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 329: Love Know No Bounds: Mysticism and Borders, III - Philosophical and Theological Receptions
Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Institute for the Study of Spirituality, KU Leuven |
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| Organiser: | John Arblaster, Institute for the Study of Spirituality, KU Leuven / Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen |
| Moderator/Chair: | William P. Hyland, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 329-a | Retrieving Ruusbroec in Modernity: The Flemish Jesuits between Mysticism and Nationalism (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Dutch, Political Thought, Theology |
| Paper 329-b | 'Love is only where different things, being free and capable of an independent existence, feel attracted to each other': Meister Eckhart and Schelling on the Bounds of Love (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Philosophy, Theology |
| Paper 329-c | Weird Bullsh*t Spirituality: Meister Eckhart Meets the Anthropologists David Graeber and Joseph Henrich (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - German, Philosophy |
| Abstract | These sessions collectively explore ways in which mystical understandings of love naturally resist attempts to confine them, crossing theological, philosophical, literary, linguistic, temporal, and geographical borders, as well as flowing out into the borders of manuscripts. Session I explores how mystical texts and writers engage with boundaries of gender, the body, linguistics, and spiritual anthropology in the Low Countries and Rhineland tradition, particularly in the thought of Marguerite Porete and Jan van Ruusbroec. Session II explores the transmissions and constructions of authors, texts, and mystical motifs across confessional and geographical borders. It will focus particularly on the writings of Angelo of Foligno, Johannes Tauler, Henry Suso, and Nicholas Love. Session III explores the 19th to 21st-century reception of medieval mystical authors, texts and ideas. It will focus particularly on the reception of Meister Eckhart and Jan van Ruusbroec in the thought of Friedrich Schelling, Martin Heidegger, David Graeber, Joseph Henrich, and pivotal Jesuit scholars. |