‘Where Two are to Become One’: Mysticism and Monism

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 147-166
Author(s):  
Grace Jantzen
Keyword(s):  
Christian Mysticism ◽  
Meister Eckhart ◽  
The Trinity

(1) If you would know God, you must not merely be like the Son, you must be the Son yourself.With these words Meister Eckhart encapsulates the aim of Christian mysticism as he understood it: to know God, and to know God in such a way that the knower is not merely like Christ but actually becomes Christ, taken into the Trinity itself. Eckhart speaks frequently of this in his sermons.

scholarly journals Some Recent Books on Theology

1908 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-517
Author(s):  
W. W. Fenn
Keyword(s):  
Religion And Medicine ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Christian Science ◽  
Christian Mysticism ◽  
The World ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Trinity

Illingworth, J. R., The Doctrine of the Trinity.Hall, F. J., Introduction to Dogmatic Theology.Ritchie, W. B., Revelation and Religious Certitude.Bowne, B. P., Personalism.Rogers, A. K., The Religious Conception of the World.Lloyd, A. H., The Will to Doubt.Drummond, James, Studies in Christian Doctrine.Peile, J. H. F., The Reproach of the Gospel.Nash, H. S., The Atoning Life.The Christ that is to Be.Worcester, McComb, Coriat, Religion and Medicine.Powell, L. P., Christian Science, its Faith and its Founder.Campbell, J. M., Paul the Mystic.Scott, W. M., Aspects of Christian Mysticism.Inge, W. R., Personal Idealism and Mysticism.

Anthropology

2020 ◽  
pp. 548-568
Author(s):  
Philip Sheldrake
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Christian Mysticism ◽  
Cloud Of Unknowing ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
Meister Eckhart ◽  
Political Forces

Theological anthropology explores Christian understandings of human identity. In mystical theology, this broadly takes three forms. First, ‘positive’ or kataphatic anthropology focuses on what we may affirm about the various dimensions of human identity. In this chapter, this is illustrated with reference to Julian of Norwich. Second, ‘negative’ or apophatic anthropology emphasizes that the human ‘self’, like the God with whom it is united, is ultimately beyond our capacity to define. Alongside further references to Julian, mention is made of Meister Eckhart and The Cloud of Unknowing. Finally, liberationist anthropology is a dimension of liberation theology which emerged during the last part of the twentieth century. Several exponents such as Segundo Galilea and Gustavo Gutiérrez draw upon Christian mysticism. Liberationist anthropology involves an essentially collective understanding of human identity as well as a socially critical approach to how human existence is shaped by dominant cultural or political forces.

Racine Lighting Beckett

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-242
Author(s):  
Cal Revely-Calder
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Beckett ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
The Trinity

Critics have recently begun to pay attention to the influence Jean Racine's plays had on the work of Samuel Beckett, noting his 1930–31 lectures at Trinity College Dublin, and echoes of Racine in early texts such as Murphy (1938). This essay suggests that as well as the Trinity lectures, Beckett's later re-reading of Racine (in 1956) can be seen as fundamentally influential on his drama. There are moments of direct allusion to Racine's work, as in Oh les beaux jours (1963), where the echoes are easily discernible; but I suggest that soon, in particular with Come and Go (1965), the characteristics of a distinctly Racinian stagecraft become more subtly apparent, in what Danièle de Ruyter has called ‘choix plus spécifiquement théâtraux’: pared-down lighting, carefully-crafted entries and exits, and visual tableaux made increasingly difficult to read. Through an account of Racine's dramaturgy, and the ways in which he structures bodily motion and theatrical talk, I suggest that Beckett's post-1956 drama can be better understood, as stage-spectacles, in the light of Racine's plays; both writers give us, in Myriam Jeantroux's phrase, the complicated spectacle of ‘un lieu à la fois désert et clôturé’. As spectators to Beckett's drama, by keeping Racine in mind we can come to understand better the limitations of that spectatorship, and how the later plays trouble our ability to see – and interpret – the figures that move before us.

The philosophical basis of Llull’s proof of the Trinity

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-137
Author(s):  
Jordi Gayà Estelrich
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Basis ◽  
The Trinity

Meister Eckhart

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burkhard Mojsisch
Keyword(s):  
Meister Eckhart
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