IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 639: How to Talk to God, How to Talk about God: Late Medieval Sermons on the Boundary of Spiritual Experience, Orality, and Literacy
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Isabell Väth, Graduiertenkolleg 1662 'Religiöses Wissen im vormodernen Europa (800–1800)', Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Reinert, Institut für Spätmittelalter und Reformation, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
Paper 639-a | How to Talk about God?: Meister Eckhart's Speaking of God in His Vernacular Sermons (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
Paper 639-b | Preaching as Aesthetic Practice: Aesthetic and Rhetorical Strategies in Vernacular Sermons of the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching |
Paper 639-c | How to Talk to God: Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg's Sermons on the Lord's Prayer on the Boundary of Catechetical Dialogue, Pious Tutorial, and Homiletic Manual (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Literacy and Orality, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
Paper 639-d | Speaking while Writing about God: Printed Sermons on the Boundary of Orality and Literacy (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Literacy and Orality, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching |
Abstract | Speaking about God invariably leads up to the boundaries of the utterable. In that respect, sermons are an especially interesting medium since they are meant to be conveying God via speech. Thus, on the one hand, they are claimed to enable immediate spiritual experience of the transcendent deity, on the other hand, they are concerned with linguistic precision due to their authoritative nature. In any case, speaking about God as such is bound to forms of communication, be they oral or literary. The papers from different perspectives deal with the possibilities and limitations of speaking about, for and with God, and the intellectual reflection thereupon. |