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... and prepare the conscience for Meekness and Poverty who break the ground and dig the foundation for the Abbey. Other virtues such as Love of God, Faith, and Patience play a role in the stabilizing of the Abbey, and the author further imagines the allegorical cloister governed by personifications of Christian...

... of affective piety does not position “heart knowledge” ( sapientia ) and “head knowledge” ( scientia ) as mutually exclusive. Instead, A Christian Mannes Bileeve fuses reason (“skil”) with affect (“kyndenesse”), generating a reasonable love borne from gratitude for God that arises from knowing the Apostles...

...Grace Hamman In A Revelation of Love , Julian of Norwich employs the similitude of Christ as a mother and the Christian as his child to describe and explore the relationship between God and humanity. Theologians, literary critics, and historians alike have studied the theological...

.... Even if the pagan discourse of virtue had been adopted by Christianity in its earliest centuries, both medieval and early modern European thinkers continued to wrestle with the interface between divine formation and social formation and their implications for the character of human moral agency. ©...

... University Press 2022 Calvinism theology of redemption human virtue Christian love early modern English politics But your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore. They're already overcrowded from your dirty little war, And Jesus don't like killing no matter what the reason...

... The grotesque corporeal metaphor employed here is borrowed from a foundational text of the Elizabethan Church, the “Homily on Christian Love and Charity.” Locating the infection that threatens the corporate body of church and commonwealth within all “evill persons,” the homily insists that vicious malefactors...

... “to strive even to enforce their affections; and crave grace at Gods hand, where by they may be enabled to bring themselves to that disposition, that God now requireth.”18 If Christians should take to heart the Pauline injunction to love —  “Owe no one anything, except that you love one another...

... as a priest in Piers Plowman, offers the Eucharist.19 But he offers it with a condition: Christians must fulfill Christ’s demands for restitution, for restoring justice with one’s neighbors as an act of love (XXI.383  –  90). After all, justice and peace have kissed in the redemption of humankind (XX...

... historicity and the utopian dimensions of Christian love and community in The Principle of Hope (Das Prinzip Hoffnung, 1954 – 59), affirming the ancient affiliations between mysticism and praxis in a- lan guage quite remote from academic philosophy or theology.18 This is not to say that Gregory shares...

... numerous poems and letters mourning the loss of friends, Alcuin envisioned an idea of spiritual friend- ship authorized and protected by God, but sometimes existing beyond the universality of Christian love.74 As explained above, however, there is a con- sistent, almost anachronistic vestige...

... lawes of oure Alcoran.”69 The name “Eirene” is retained in early modern stories about Christian damsels romanced by Muslim men, where, unlike in Digenes Akrites, the men do not convert but murder the Irene-figure.70 A Thousand and One Nights tells the story of Ali Nur al-Din, who loves Miriam...

... ; however, they are simultaneously asked to cognize an imperceptible and unimaginable material change. Nicholas Love tacitly endorsed these investigations, while simultaneously steering the average Christian away from the doctrinal landmine. A few decades later, the Play of the Sacrament threw all caution...

... JMEMS31.1-04 Kinoshita 2/26/01 6:59 PM Page 86 [“Receive the law that God holds out to us, the Christian faith: I’ll love you from that moment; believe in Him, serve the Almighty King!” Said Baligant: “You preach a bad sermon...

... is why the figure of death is the ultimate, absolute Other. And as iek suggests elsewhere, another word for this process in Christian culture is love: Christianity responds willingly to the desire of the Other and sees sacrifice as an act of love.41 To return to Bernart de Ventadorn, his...

..., its simultaneous invocation of and disgust with uncleanness, and its display of an affectivism incompletely subordinate to the discipline of Christian love—of the personality of the woman who tells it. This is also true of the tale’s maternalism. The Prioress tells a story about the special...

..., a stigma. But what might this imply? Christianity and the history of the tattoo The history of tattooing is by now not altogether uncharted territory. The ancient Greeks and Romans used tattooing to mark the bodies of criminals and slaves, that is, to inscribe the violence of punishment or possession...

... their flight as an exodus, an escape into freedom rather than a forced exile. And, just as the Israelites left Egypt provisioned with the goods of their neighbors (Ex. 2:21), the young women stock up on valuable resources purloined from court. The image of Egyptian gold was favored by Christian humanists...

... to be taken by love or by force, Alatiel opts, at least momentarily, for the latter. Perhaps the difference can be explained by the differential in the potential lovers’ relative status: the discarded daughter of a Christian count courted by the sultan of Almería, on the one hand, and the sultan...

... Christ (I-­II.112.1 ad 3); but explicit references to Christ in this part of the Summa tend to be infrequent. Aquinas has made a pedagogical decision to unfold the teaching of Christian faith in a discursive, methodical way. Jesus is, faith affirms, the God-­man. Thus, first Aquinas discusses God...

... with Rome and the harnessing of Christianity as state-sponsored ideological superstructure. Having little patience for too much papal independence, Otto I did not hesitate to curtail recalcitrant papal powers to serve his own political ends. It is in this nexus of imperial politics and religion that I...