Search Results for spiritual discernment

... of the damned that God has revealed to her. 2 Yet, The Book also presents this episode as a lesson in which God teaches Kempe that she has the power to tell the difference between holy and diabolically inspired visions. Margery Kempe Legenda aurea the devil temptation spiritual discernment...

... is obedient to church elders, rational and discerning, and in accord with existing doctrine, much like the spiritual advisor conducting discretio spirituum . The counselor constructs the exemplary visionary in his own image—as an object of juridical suspicion—and in antithesis to an imagined, diabolical...

...,” “special,” “singular,” “perfyt”) that might have guided him in the pastoral monitoring of individual spiritual progress, and he marks or underlines occasional passages relating to conventional issues of pastoral guidance such as penitence, discretion, and the discernment of spirits. As A. S. G...

... to observe and ponder in a sustained, disciplined fashion; and then it has to turn to the exercitant’s self to discern the affective responses that the exercitant has to these initial meditations. While scholars are at times uncertain about what exactly was the novelty in Ignatius’s Spiritual...

... sorte di pazzie faccia, perché se è furiosa non si la vogliamo in modo alcuno.” 64 Strocchia, “Melancholic Nun.” 65 On the systematization of spirit discernment, see Nancy Caciola and Moshe Sluhovsky, “Spiritual Physiologies: The Discernment of Spirits in Medieval and Early...

... Hobbes and back again to Langland, the essay finds Langland imagining a troubling history in which the meaning of moral concepts is transformed and the powers of moral discernment baffled. Langland’s pictures of response to this scenario are enigmatic and elusive but potentially figure forth...

... that appeared in this period of ecclesiastical, political, and spiritual experimentation. Each is the product of one of the many, often ephemeral, communities that crystallized around a charismatic and visionary leader. Spirituall Experiences, Of sundry Beleevers appeared in 1653. Although it was prefaced...

..., Richard Rolle, as well as to materials from vernacular traditions — the keeping of spiritual diaries promoted by the Devotio Moderna and the English text of The Cloud of Unknowing . © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 a Monasticism...

... experienced God, each other, and the world. Examining metaphor and imagery that adopts features of the natural world, this essay thinks through the implications for twelfth-century people's spiritual lives of the idea that God, through the Incarnation, entered not nature, but creation. In particular...

..., discernment, and intellection that occurs within the individual body-­soul, and the process of propelling the results of thought and discernment into the world via speech and action. Both of these processes are enabled by the circulation of pneuma or spiritus moving within the body and between bodies...

... various notions about the workings of shame. While the Aristotelian tradition prevails in late antique and medieval philosophical psychology, it is also possible to discern a parallel tradition of shame that adapts and exploits Latin Stoic and eclectic material. This article surveys this largely...

.... Varied as these essays are, common preoccupations emerge: with the dependent or independent character of virtuous agency, with the problems posed by self-love in both individual and collective manifestations, and with identifying the social conditions for the discernment and cultivation of the virtues...

... a distinctive form of relational virtue. The soteriological uncertainty that motivated the Puritans’ restless economic activity (as Weber so influentially discerned) and relentless introspection (evident in works like John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners ) thus also inspired a richly relational...

...; and in the thirteenth century, more subtle senses of the emotional barriers to making a full confession, avoiding spiritual despair, and providing the confessor with more advice on discerning the state of the confessant in these regards. For the first of those points, let us return to the advice manual in Avranches...

... places “stress upon the physical, observable presentation of spiritual truths.” 1 The Middle English Play of the Sacrament seems to foreground how theatrical embodiment can aid devotional understanding. In it, a group of Jewish men marshaled by their leader, Jonathas, convince the wealthy merchant...

...- caster’s Livre de Seyntz Medicines, the sick body does not “represent” the soul; rather, bodily and spiritual change is sought. Meditation can achieve physi- cal, material change through what she terms “meditative surgeries.” Richard Sugg’s analysis of sermons and devotional literature investigates...

...” and “early modern” concep- tions of the sexual and the spiritual. I The structural organization of John Donne’s first printed book of poetry makes no obvious sense.1 Published posthumously in 1633, the collection eschews even the basic generic distinctions so familiar to Donne’s modern audience...

... and real in the Eucharist that for him carry the seeds of its own destruction. Hamlet, for example, reads the Catholic version of the Eucharist as too gross to carry the freight of its own spiritual meanings. Greenblatt discovers and explores eucharistic anxiety at key moments in Hamlet, cleverly...

...Mary Baine Campbell This essay focuses attention on the cognitive and spiritual work of the dream and the devotional labor of the Jesuit missionary in seventeenth-century Quebec, and views these often passionately opposed spiritual efforts—performed by the various and often passionately opposed...

..., Gascoigne seeks to invoke the tradition of discerning shadowy spiritual truths through the active craft of contemplation. But the mirror metaphor in and of itself no longer conveys that “full process of meditative study.” To recapture that sense of the labor of contemplation and reflection, Gascoigne...