IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 125: Crises of Faith, I: Scholarship in Turmoil
Monday 1 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | The Blurred Boundaries of Religious Dissent Research Initiative / The Mysticism & Lived Experience Network |
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| Organiser: | Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, School of History, Queen Mary University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Frances Andrews, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 125-a | Descendit ad infernos: The Divisive Legacy of the Gospel of Nicodemus (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Ecclesiastical History and Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 125-b | Pastorate in Crisis: Pastors, Heresy, and Heretics in Geoffrey of Auxerre's Sermons on the Apocalypse (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism and Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 125-c | Practices of Faith in Crisis: How to Deal with acedia and Other Forms of Religious Negligence in the High Middle Ages? (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Teaching the Middle Ages and Theology |
| Abstract | Heresies, reform movements, and the manifestation of mystical experiences can be a response to a crisis or, in turn, precipitate a crisis by challenging established institutions and beliefs. These crises encompass a diversity of experiences, and range from crises of faith experienced by individuals questioning their faith, receiving revelations from an uncertain origin, or being challenged by religious authorities regarding orthodoxy, to devastating communal crises with 'heretical' groups challenging the Church or calling for reform, and ecclesiastical authorities trying to respond, sometimes violently. The first session of this strand will focus on instances of ideological, emotional and religious crises as they were perceived and addressed by the educated ecclesiastical elite of the 12th-century. |