The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of MonasticismStanford University Press, 2003 - 332 Seiten The writings of Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) reveal how the monastic mind, oscillating between hope and despair, was absorbed in technical exercises rather than in religious emotions. Early on monasticism had developed procedures for ruminating on the Bible and the works of the Church Fathers. Applying the art of logic to this theme, Anselm offers a denser version of monastic meditation that constitutes a poetics of monastic literature. Before engaging Anselm s works, this book addresses texts by Gregory the Great, Bernard of Clairvaux, Rupert of Deutz, and Richard of St. Victor based on the same principles. In them, the potentially violent nature of an existence in which time has almost come to a halt manifests itself in a vision of the act of reading as a struggle with the text and as violent, amorous passion. The book then traces the decline of the monastic poetical principle in the writings of John of the Cross, Pierre de Bérulle, Calvin, and Ignatius of Loyola. A concluding chapter on Ignatius and James Joyce shows how the poetics of monasticism both survives and is exiled in modernist literature. |
Inhalt
Introduction I | 1 |
The Artifice of Eternity | 17 |
Monastic Representations | 69 |
The Poetics of Cur deus homo | 177 |
Notes | 297 |
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The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism M. B. Pranger Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2003 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Anselm Anselm of Canterbury argument artificial Augustine Augustine's Augustinian Bernard of Clairvaux Bérulle Bérulle's biblical Calvin chapter Christ Christian church cogency course Cur deus homo death density despair devotion divine drama Eriugena eternity exemplum Exercises experience fact faith Finnegans Wake Gaulle God's hand human mind Ibid Ignatius Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius's imagery images intellect Jerusalem Jesus John's language literary look lyricism Malraux matter means medieval meditation memory ment monastery monastic monasticism monk Monologion mystical narrative nature negation negative theology notion once passion perfection Peter the Venerable Phaedra Pierre de Bérulle poetics poetry precisely presence problem prose Proslogion reader reading reality religious SBO vol scene Scripture sense sermon shape sola ratione sola scriptura Song of Songs soul spiritual story textual things thought tion tragedy treatise truth ture turn ultimate underlying unum argumentum words
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