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Holy Matter

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Author : Sara Ritchey
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-29

Holy Matter written by Sara Ritchey and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-29 with History categories.

A magnificent proliferation of new Christ-centered devotional practices—including affective meditation, imitative suffering, crusade, Eucharistic cults and miracles, passion drama, and liturgical performance—reveals profound changes in the Western Christian temperament of the twelfth century and beyond. This change has often been attributed by scholars to an increasing emphasis on God’s embodiment in the incarnation and crucifixion of Christ. In Holy Matter, Sara Ritchey offers a fresh narrative explaining theological and devotional change by journeying beyond the human body to ask how religious men and women understood the effects of God’s incarnation on the natural, material world. She finds a remarkable willingness on the part of medieval Christians to embrace the material world—its trees, flowers, vines, its worms and wolves—as a locus for divine encounter. Early signs that perceptions of the material world were shifting can be seen in reformed communities of religious women in the twelfth-century Rhineland. Here Ritchey finds that, in response to the constraints of gendered regulations and spiritual ideals, women created new identities as virgins who, like the mother of Christ, impelled the world’s re-creation—their notion of the world’s re-creation held that God created the world a second time when Christ was born. In this second act of creation God was seen to be present in the physical world, thus making matter holy. Ritchey then traces the diffusion of this new religious doctrine beyond the Rhineland, showing the profound impact it had on both women and men in professed religious life, especially Franciscans in Italy and Carthusians in England. Drawing on a wide range of sources including art, liturgy, prayer, poetry, meditative guides, and treatises of spiritual instruction, Holy Matter reveals an important transformation in late medieval devotional practice—a shift from metaphor to material, from gazing on images of a God made visible in the splendor of natural beauty to looking at the natural world itself, and finding there God’s presence and promise of salvation.

Holy Matter

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Author : Sara Ritchey
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-24

A magnificent proliferation of new Christ-centered devotional practices—including affective meditation, imitative suffering, crusade, Eucharistic cults and miracles, passion drama, and liturgical performance—reveals profound changes in the Western Christian temperament of the twelfth century and beyond. This change has often been attributed by scholars to an increasing emphasis on God’s embodiment in the incarnation and crucifixion of Christ. In Holy Matter, Sara Ritchey offers a fresh narrative explaining theological and devotional change by journeying beyond the human body to ask how religious men and women understood the effects of God’s incarnation on the natural, material world. She finds a remarkable willingness on the part of medieval Christians to embrace the material world—its trees, flowers, vines, its worms and wolves—as a locus for divine encounter. Early signs that perceptions of the material world were shifting can be seen in reformed communities of religious women in the twelfth-century Rhineland. Here Ritchey finds that, in response to the constraints of gendered regulations and spiritual ideals, women created new identities as virgins who, like the mother of Christ, impelled the world’s re-creation—their notion of the world’s re-creation held that God created the world a second time when Christ was born. In this second act of creation God was seen to be present in the physical world, thus making matter holy. Ritchey then traces the diffusion of this new religious doctrine beyond the Rhineland, showing the profound impact it had on both women and men in professed religious life, especially Franciscans in Italy and Carthusians in England. Drawing on a wide range of sources including art, liturgy, prayer, poetry, meditative guides, and treatises of spiritual instruction, Holy Matter reveals an important transformation in late medieval devotional practice, a shift from metaphor to material, from gazing on images of a God made visible in the splendor of natural beauty to looking at the natural world itself, and finding there God’s presence and promise of salvation.

Holy Matter

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Author : Sara Margaret Ritchey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014

Holy Matter written by Sara Margaret Ritchey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Natural theology categories.

Fallen Paradise Holy Matter

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Author : Dimitris Kakalidis
language : en
Publisher: Megas Seirios Publications
Release Date : 2019-07-28

Fallen Paradise Holy Matter written by Dimitris Kakalidis and has been published by Megas Seirios Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-28 with Poetry categories.

The poet praises Matter throughout all creation and his voice echoes in every particle of the Universe. He sanctifies Matter in its wanderings giving it its rightful place. And Matter ascends to the source of its being, it is redeemed, becomes light, becomes the Holy Matter and spreads to the world immaculate and pure.

On Holy Images

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Author : Saint John of Damascus
language : en
Publisher: Aeterna Press
Release Date : 1898

On Holy Images written by Saint John of Damascus and has been published by Aeterna Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Religion categories.

A Treatise on Images will not be out of place in a public, which is confusing the making of images with the making of idols. A great Christian of the eighth century found himself called upon to face an imperial Iconoclast. He would willingly have remained silent, but he would not bury his talent of eloquence. He brought it forth and witnessed to the teaching of the Church in language which present ‘exciting scenes’ in Anglican churches brings home in the most forcible way. Our English image breakers are in the camp of Leo the Isaurian, who in the eighth century waged war against holy images, on the plausible pretext that they withdrew honour from God. The seventh General Council condemned his assault, and it determined the different kinds of worship, using the Greek terms of latreia and douleia. Aeterna Press

St John Damascene On Holy Images Pros Tous Diavallontas Tas Hagias Eikonas Followed By Three Sermons On The Assumption Koim Sis

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Author : Saint John (of Damascus)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

St John Damascene On Holy Images Pros Tous Diavallontas Tas Hagias Eikonas Followed By Three Sermons On The Assumption Koim Sis written by Saint John (of Damascus) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Iconoclasm categories.

Rome S Holy Mountain

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Author : Jason Moralee
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-01

Rome S Holy Mountain written by Jason Moralee and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with History categories.

Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome. Yet in the long history of the Roman state it was the empire's holy mountain. The hill was the setting of many of Rome's most beloved stories, involving Aeneas, Romulus, Tarpeia, and Manlius. It also held significant monuments, including the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, a location that marked the spot where Jupiter made the hill his earthly home in the age before humanity. This is the first book that follows the history of the Capitoline Hill into late antiquity and the early middle ages, asking what happened to a holy mountain as the empire that deemed it thus became a Christian republic. This is not a history of the hill's tonnage of marble and gold bedecked monuments, but rather an investigation into how the hill was used, imagined, and known from the third to the seventh centuries CE. During this time, the imperial triumph and other processions to the top of the hill were no longer enacted. But the hill persisted as a densely populated urban zone and continued to supply a bridge to fragmented memories of an increasingly remote past through its toponyms. This book is also about a series of Christian engagements with the Capitoline Hill's different registers of memory, the transmission and dissection of anecdotes, and the invention of alternate understandings of the hill's role in Roman history. What lingered long after the state's disintegration in the fifth century were the hill's associations with the raw power of Rome's empire.