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From Eckhart to Ruusbroec : a critical inheritance of mystical themes in the fourteenth century
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The mystical relationship between Meister Eckhart and Jan van Ruusbroec. In this thorough textual, historical, and doctrinal study the author seeks to clarify the relationship between two prominent...
The mystical relationship between Meister Eckhart and Jan van Ruusbroec. In this thorough textual, historical, and doctrinal study the author seeks to clarify the relationship between two prominent mystics of the fourteenth century: Meister Eckhart, the German Dominican, and Jan van Ruusbroec, the Brabantine Augustinian. Special attention is paid to Ruusbroec's criticism of mystical tenets circulating in Brabant at that time which were both textually and doctrinally related to Eckhart's condemned propositions in the papal bull In agro dominico. This fact implies that Ruusbroec was confronted wi.
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- Creator
- Satoshi Kikuchi
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- English
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- Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9789461661647, 9058679853, 9461661649, 9789058679857
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- ocn905527944
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-297) and indexes.
- Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; -- Part One -; Eckhart and Ruusbroec; within the Historical Context; Chapter One Toward the Condemnation of Eckhart's Doctrines; 1. An Overview of the Spiritual Milieu in the Later Middle Ages; Enthusiasm for the direct relationship between God and human; The increase of heretical mysticism; 2. The Condemnation of Eckhart's Doctrines; A brief summary of the inquisitorial process; The content of Eckhart's condemned doctrines; Chapter Two The Impact of the Condemnation of Eckhart's Doctrines in the Fourteenth Century Brabant
- 1. The Transmission of the News about the Condemnation of Eckhart's Doctrines2. The Transmission of Eckhart's Writings; 3. Jan van Leeuwen's Doctrinal Criticism of Eckhart; (1) "Simple nakedness" beyond the practice of virtues; (2) The renunciation of the divine Persons; (3) Deification into the divine essence and the divine sonship; Chapter Three Ruusbroec's Criticism of Mystical Heresies; 1. Ruusbroec the Critic; 2. Key Themes in Ruusbroec's Criticism of Mystical Heresies and Links to Eckhart's Condemned Doctrines; (1) Heretical doctrines about the praxis of ecclesiastical life
- (2) Heretical doctrines about God and creation(3) Heretical doctrines about Christology and the mystical union with God; Summary of Part One and Connection to Part Two; -- Part Two -; Mystical Themes in Eckhart's Theology; Chapter Four Eckhart's Understanding of the Praxis of Ecclesiastical Life; 1. Sin and Penitence; 2. Interior Disposition toward God; To receive God Himself; Emptiness (ledicheit) and spiritual poverty; 3. Exterior Works; Chapter Five Eckhart's Understanding of God and Creation; 1. Unity and Trinity; The circumincession of the divine Persons
- The unity of the nature/essence and the unity of the FatherA teleological view of the Trinity; 2. Relation between God and Creatures; Creatures as negation and distinction; Creatures as nothing; Chapter Six Eckhart's Understanding of the Mystical Union; 1. The Transformation of Essence; 2. Union with God through Sonship; Conformity to Christ's sonship; The "birth of God" doctrine; God's self-knowing in the soul; 3. Christ's Humanity; Human person and human nature; The significance of Christ's Incarnation; Summary of Part Two and Connection to Part Three; -- Part Three
- THE Critical Inheritance of Mystical Themes in Ruusbroec's TheologyChapter Seven Ruusbroec's Understanding of the Praxis of Ecclesiastical Life; 1. Sin and Penitence; 2. The Holy Spirit's In-working and the Spiritual Poverty; 3. Inactivity (ledicheit) in the Essence of God; (1) Participation in the triune God; (2) Likeness to Christ; (3) Inactivity in the created essence and in God's essence; Chapter Eight Ruusbroec's Understanding of God and Creation; 1. Unity and Trinity; (1) Relation among the divine Persons; (2) Relation between unity and trinity; 2. Relation Between God and Creatures
Subjects
- Eckhart, Meister, -1327 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Ruusbroec, Jan van, 1293-1381 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Mystics -- Germany.
- Mystics -- Belgium.
- Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Mysticism -- Belgium -- Brabant -- History.
- Mysticism -- Belgium -- History.
- Mysticism -- Germany -- History.
- Mysticism -- Catholic Church -- History.