The Christian Mysticism of St. John of the Cross and the Metaphysics of Being

Author(s):  
YVES FLOUCAT
Author(s):  
Lucero González Suárez

El presente artículo es un análisis fenomenológico de la Subida del Monte Carmelo, cuyo propósito es mostrar que la Noche Oscura es una misteriofanía negativa que acoge tres sentidos. En primer lugar, San Juan de la Cruz llama Noche Oscura a la negación de los apetitos relativos a las potencias. En segundo lugar, la fe es Noche Oscura para el hombre, porque la donación de lo divino causa ceguera en el entendimiento. Finalmente, Dios es Noche Oscura para el hombre debido a que su manifestación es invisible. La intención de estas páginas es hacer algunas aportaciones a la fenomenología de la experiencia mística cristiana, cuyos conceptos fundamentales tienen un doble origen: la fenomenología contemporánea y la fenomenología de la religión y de la mística, desarrollada principalmente por la escuela española.This article is an original phenomenological analysis of the Ascent of Mount Carmel, whose purpose is to show that Dark Night is a negative mysteriophany, which implies three senses. First of all, Saint John of the Cross calls Dark Night the denial of the appetites of the faculties. Second, faith is Dark Night to humankind because the donation of the divine causes blindness in the understanding. Finally, God is Dark Night for men, because his manifestation is invisible. The intention of those pages is to make some contributions to phenomenology of Christian mysticism, whose fundamental concepts have a dual origin: contemporary phenomenology and the phenomenology of religion and mysticism, developed mainly by the Spanish school.  


Revue Romane ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-150
Author(s):  
Juan Varo Zafra

The article analyses and discusses the concepts of symbol and allegory in relation to Jean Baruzi’s classic study of the poetry of St. John of the Cross, Saint John of the Cross and the Problem of Mystical Experience. These concepts have been accepted to greater or lesser degree by the majority of St. John of the Cross criticism. My reading attempts to trace the historical circumstances that conditioned Baruzi’s approach and argues for the need to reassess the reach and the pertinence of applying these aesthetic categories in the interpretation of 16th century mystical poetry, taking the conditions and unique specifics determined by the epoch and the parameters of the tradition of Christian mysticism as interpretive horizon.


1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sanderlin

It is often said that Christian mystics and contemplatives deemphasize reason, especially during advanced stages of spiritual growth such as union with God. St John of the Cross insists that to be united with God in this life through faith, we must empty our intellect of all comprehensions of God in a dark night of unknowing. According to Zwi Werblowsky, John's teaching on faith means the annihilation of the intellect. Werblowsky distinguishes between cognitive and anti–cognitive mysticism, and calls John's mysticism anti–cognitive. According to Werblowsky, cognitive mysticism values distinct, detailed knowledge from divine sources about divine or human realities, while anti–cognitive mysticism rejects such supernatural knowledge as an obstacle to union with God.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 001-034
Author(s):  
關永中 關永中

<p>西方神祕主義論及人神之愛,都多少牽涉到《舊約.雅歌》的主題與象徵。在神祕冥合的高峰上,我們尚且聆聽到大德蘭《默思〈雅歌〉》和十字若望《靈歌》的間奏與和鳴。我們為此把《雅歌》、《默思》、《靈歌》三者綜合起來沉思,盼能浸潤在屬天綸音的律動下,獲致身、心、靈的諧協、啟發與進境。</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p>Christian mysticism has its affinity concerning the Spiritual Love between God and Man as visualized in the Song of Songs. Great mystical writers as St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, having meditated on the symbols and themes of the Song. of Solomon, have left to us beautiful passages which we may benefit abundantly when reflected upon their thoughts. Hopefully we attempt to make a survey on the Connections and discrepancies among the three masterpieces-the Song of Songs, Teresa’s Meditations on the Song of Songs, and John of the Cross’ Spiritual Canticle.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>


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