Social Responsibility and the Late Medieval Mystics

1952 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray C. Petry
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Western World ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Active Service ◽  
Medieval Mystics

Charges of social irresponsibility have frequently been hurled against the medieval mystics, in their own day as in our yet more activist age. Mysticism and monasticism, to whose discipline the mystics owed much, have often been condemned for selfish withdrawal from public obligation. A major cause of this unjustifiable indictment is doubtless traceable to a predominant area of ignorance within the Western World. This is the growing unawareness of the balance maintained in the Christian tradition between contemplative worship of the Divine and active service of the human.

scholarly journals In the Honour of Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.: On the Sources of the Narrative Self

Conatus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Gabriel Motzkin
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Narrative Self ◽  
Teresa Of Avila ◽  
Medieval Mystics ◽  
Scholastic Philosophy ◽  
Troubadour Poetry

Modern philosophy is based on the presupposition of the certainty of the ego’s experience. Both Descartes and Kant assume this certitude as the basis for certain knowledge. Here the argument is developed that this ego has its sources not only in Scholastic philosophy, but also in the narrative of the emotional self as developed by both the troubadours and the medieval mystics. This narrative self has three moments: salvation, self-irony, and nostalgia. While salvation is rooted in the Christian tradition, self-irony and nostalgia are first addressed in twelfth-century troubadour poetry in Occitania. Their integration into a narrative self was developed in late medieval mysticism, and reached its fullest articulation in St. Teresa of Avila, whom Descartes read.

Late medieval mystics

2011 ◽  
pp. 190-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard McGinn
Keyword(s):  
Late Medieval ◽  
Medieval Mystics

scholarly journals Social values and civic behaviour among youth in Ireland: The influence of social contexts

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-64
Author(s):  
Charlotte Silke ◽  
Bernadine Brady ◽  
Pat Dolan ◽  
Ciara Boylan
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Western World ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Youth Civic Engagement ◽  
Civic Attitudes ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
The Social

As youth civic engagement is widely considered important for social cohesion and democracy, concerns have been expressed regarding a perceived decline in civic and political engagement among young people throughout the western world. While research has shown that the social environment is influential in terms of the development of civic values, knowledge and behaviours among youth, limited research has been conducted on these issues in an Irish context. Drawing on survey research conducted with 167 young people aged 12–15 years in Irish secondary schools, this paper examines young people's civic attitudes and behaviours and how they are linked to their social contexts. Findings indicate that youth report high levels of social responsibility values but low engagement in both online and offline civic engagement. Furthermore, while parent, peer, school and/or community contexts were found to have a significant influence on youths' social responsibility values and offline civic behaviours, youth's online civic behaviours were not connected to these social environments. This study provides insights into the socialisation of civic values and behaviours among young people in Ireland and highlights the importance of investigating the link between the social context and different forms of youth civic involvement.

Thinking with the Senses in the Second Reformation

2018 ◽  
pp. 169-198
Author(s):  
Jacob M. Baum
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Sensory History ◽  
The Senses

This chapter attempts to inscribe the reformed Christian tradition into the narrative of sensory history by attending to German Calvinist intellectuals’ roles in religious controversies of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It keeps particular focus on discussions about the sensuous elements of the Eucharist and shows that many reformed thinkers actively and positively embraced sensuous worship in heretofore unrecognized ways, in particular emphasizing the importance of touch and vision as important modes of participating in the ritual. Comparative analysis with Lutheran contemporaries reveals strong similarities across confessional boundaries. A deeper exploration of the cultural and intellectual contexts in which these thinkers came of age sheds light on the reasons for these similarities and shows how both Protestant confessions shared much more in common with their late medieval intellectual forebears than we often realize.

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