Relevations Of Women Mystics
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Revelations Of Women Mystics
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Author : José De Vinck
language : en
Publisher: Saint Pauls/Alba House
Release Date : 1985
Revelations Of Women Mystics written by José De Vinck and has been published by Saint Pauls/Alba House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Religion categories.
The lives and writings of eight gifted women of God.
Between Exaltation And Infamy
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Author : Stephen Haliczer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-08-29
Between Exaltation And Infamy written by Stephen Haliczer 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 2002-08-29 with History categories.
One day in 1599, in the Spanish village of Saria, seven-year-old Maria Angela Astorch fell ill and died after gorging herself on unripened almonds. Maria's sister Isabel, a nun, came to view the body with her mother superior, an ecstatic mystic and visionary named Maria Angela Serafina. Overcome by the sight of the dead girl's innocent face, Serafina began to pray fervently for the return of the child's soul to her body. Entering a trance, she had a vision in which the Virgin Mary gave her a sign. At once little Maria Angela started to show signs of life. A moment later she scrambled to the ground and was soon restored to perfect health. During the Counter-Reformation, the Church was confronted by an extraordinary upsurge of feminine religious enthusiasm like that of Serafina. Inspired by new translations of the lives of the saints, devout women all over Catholic Europe sought to imitate these "athletes of Christ" through extremes of self-abnegation, physical mortification, and devotion. As in the Middle Ages, such women's piety often took the form of ecstatic visions, revelations, voices and stigmata. Stephen Haliczer offers a comprehensive portrait of women's mysticism in Golden Age Spain, where this enthusiasm was nearly a mass movement. The Church's response, he shows, was welcoming but wary, and the Inquisition took on the task of winnowing out frauds and imposters. Haliczer draws on fifteen cases brought by the Inquisition against women accused of "feigned sanctity," and on more than two dozen biographies and autobiographies. The key to acceptance, he finds, lay in the orthodoxy of the woman's visions and revelations. He concludes that mysticism offered women a way to transcend, though not to disrupt, the control of the male-dominated Church.
Visions Longings
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Author : Monica Furlong
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1996
Visions Longings written by Monica Furlong and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Mysticism categories.
An anthology of women's writings drawn from the 12th century to the 14th century, this collection includes letters, hymns, practical advice, rules for nuns, accounts of visions and revelations, prayers, dialogues and autobiographical writings. Each woman mystic is introduced separately, and the diverse material shows both the intelligence, originality and profound devotion of the women authors, and how their position as women affected their work.
In The Jaws Of The Bear
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Author : Ritamary Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Peregrina Pub.
Release Date : 1991
In The Jaws Of The Bear written by Ritamary Bradley and has been published by Peregrina Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Mysticism categories.
Visionary Women
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Author : Rosemary Radford Ruether
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date : 2023-05-30
Visionary Women written by Rosemary Radford Ruether and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-30 with Religion categories.
In Visionary Women, influential feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether glimpses into the souls of three medieval mystics. Hildegard of Bingen, a self-taught theologian who developed a mystical secret language used in her community of mystics, became a traveling preacher and author. At the age of forty, Mechthild of Magdeburg was commanded by God to write down her visions, which resulted in seven books. Julian of Norwich prayed as a young child that she would see Christ's passion, that she would get deathly ill, and that she would long for God--all in her desire to focus her life solely on God--and He answered all three. Ruether describes the women as prophets with a God-given message for the church and society of their time. Her sympathetic overview evokes the new religious horizons they envisioned for Christianity. She discusses the three women's beliefs about God, theology, and their identity. Though they faced adversity, they challenged these notions as bold women in the faith, secure in their strong relationship with God. Visionary Women is an adaption from Ruether's award-winning book, Women and Redemption: A Theological History. Readers will join in the long tradition of keeping the mystics' messages alive and relevant.
Maps Of Flesh And Light
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Author : Ulrike Wiethaus
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1993-10-01
Maps Of Flesh And Light written by Ulrike Wiethaus and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-10-01 with Religion categories.
This work offers interdisciplinary perspectives by women scholars on the diverse cultural contributions of medieval women mystics.
Refreshing Water From Ancient Wells
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Author : Mary Penrose
language : en
Publisher: Paulist Press
Release Date : 2004
Refreshing Water From Ancient Wells written by Mary Penrose and has been published by Paulist Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Mysticism categories.
This collection of spiritual readings celebrates the genius of the women of the Church from the early Christian centuries to the present. The editor, sister Mary E. Penrose has selected excerpted passages from Church Mothers whose wisdom has been heralded or heretofore neglected. The selection includes readings of Hadewijch, Hildegard of Bingen, Catharine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Dhuoda, Aemiliana, Proba, Syncletica, Leoba, Ruhm. Designed to deliver short ́drinks ́ for use in daily reflection or prayer services and liturgies, each passage is offered one to a page, and is supplemented alongside with a selection from Scripture, as well as suggestions for its use. Biographical sketches of some of the writers are included.
The Thirst Of God
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Author : Wendy Farley
language : en
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Release Date : 2015-09-04
The Thirst Of God written by Wendy Farley and has been published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-04 with Religion categories.
"There is a rich tradition of wonderful women and other contemplatives who are great resources for thinking differently about Christianity. They emphasized divine love, human compassion, and the radical possibilities of contemplative practices. They were not afraid to criticize the church and indeed thought of their challenge as crucial to their faith. We do not have to lose faith with the beautiful wisdom of this story of intimate and compassionate love, dwelling among us and within us, if we do not want to." —from the acknowledgments and note to readers To those seeking a more open, progressive approach to Christian faith, the Christian past can sometimes seem like a desert, an empty space devoid of encouragement or example. Yet in the latter years of the Middle Ages a quiet flowering of a more accessible, positive approach to Christian belief took place among a group of female mystics, those who emphasized an immediate, nonhierarchical experience of the divine. In this enlightening volume, Wendy Farley eloquently brings the work of three female mystics—Marguerite Porete, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Julian of Norwich—into creative conversation with contemporary Christian life and thought. From alternatives to the standard, violent understandings of the atonement, to new forms of contemplation and prayer, these figures offer us relevant insights through a theology centered on God's love and compassion. Farley demonstrates how these women can help to refresh and expand our awareness of the depth of divine love that encompasses all creation and dwells in the cavern of every human heart.
Women Mystics Confront The Modern World
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Author : Marie-Florine Bruneau
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1998-01-29
Women Mystics Confront The Modern World written by Marie-Florine Bruneau and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-29 with Religion categories.
Women Mystics Confront the Modern World situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which affected religious sentiments and the perception of the self at the dawn of the modern world. Anchored in a comprehensive knowledge of the religious history of seventeenth-century France, this book offers a vivid account of the fascinating lives and work of two exceptional women. Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717) continue a literary and spiritual tradition that had begun in the thirteenth century. Yet, because they were at a crucial point in the history of Western mysticism, when this movement was at once at its apogee and in the first stages of decline, their writings show indications of a changing mentality. These transformations shed light on the social significance of female mysticism in the Western tradition. The opportunities the two women seized or shunned highlight their maneuvering for validation and autonomy. But their choices also highlight many contradictions, compromises, and limits imposed upon their self-expression. At the confluence of French and American scholarship on mysticism, this work joins these two schools of thought by introducing gender as a viable category of inquiry into the one and by tempering the overly-optimistic interpretation of female mysticism of the other.
Incandescence
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Author : Carmen Acevedo Butcher
language : en
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Release Date : 2005
Incandescence written by Carmen Acevedo Butcher and has been published by Paraclete Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Religion categories.
As anyone will discover who casually dips into this beautiful collection, the women mystics of Christian tradition offer a lucid alternative to today's more rationalistic approaches to God. They offer a way to peace, laughter, love, and connection with each other, and they show us a picture of a tender, nurturing, forgiving God who is as intimate as our own breath. There are indeed "women's ways of knowing" and they are revealed in these insightful daily readings. Incandescence offers fresh translations from the writings of famous and not-so-famous mystics---Julian of Norwich, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Gertrude of Helfta, Margery Kempe, and others. Each reading includes a meditation, prayer, poem, or song, providing an oasis in a hectic day. The topics in this luminous volume include: *God's divine, mothering love *The guidance of God's light *The sensuality of faith *A helpful and friendly Trinity