Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority
Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority

Author: Catherine Lambert

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-12

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1040251633

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Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority focuses on the responses of a group of twenty-first-century women to the lives and writings of thirteenth-century beguine mystics, and reveals how the struggle to discover their own inner spiritual authority connects two groups of women across centuries. For contemporary women who are disenchanted with the institutional church and who seek spiritual direction, models deeply rooted within the tradition may not be the most helpful. The author explores the value of exemplars from the fringes, ushering Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete into the spotlight. The contemporary women studied developed a relationship with the beguines that transformed and influenced their own journeys. Their encounters underline the importance of re-membering the beguine mystics, the value of contemplative engagement with historical mystics, and the need for explicit validation of the richness of the edges of tradition within spiritual direction. Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority will be of particular interest to scholars of mysticism and spirituality as well as practical, pastoral, and feminist theology.

Dissident Women, Beguines and the Quest for Spiritual Authority
Dissident Women, Beguines and the Quest for Spiritual Authority

Author: Catherine Lambert, (Mi

Publisher:

Published: 2024-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781003495826

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"Dissident Women, Beguines and the Quest for Spiritual Authority focuses on the responses of a group of twenty-first century women to the lives and writings of thirteenth-century beguine mystics, and reveals how the struggle to discover their own inner spiritual authority connects two groups of women across centuries. For contemporary women who are disenchanted with the institutional church and who seek spiritual direction, models deeply rooted within the tradition may not be the most helpful. The author explores the value of exemplars from the fringes, ushering Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg and Marguerite Porete into the spotlight. The contemporary women studied developed a relationship with the beguines that transformed and influenced their own journeys. Their encounters underline the importance of re-membering the beguine mystics, the value of contemplative engagement with historical mystics, and the need for explicit validation of the richness of the edges of tradition within spiritual direction. Dissident Women, Beguines and the Quest for Spiritual Authority will be of particular interest to scholars of mysticism and spirituality as well as practical, pastoral, and feminist theology"--

The Movement of the Free Spirit
The Movement of the Free Spirit

Author: Raoul Vaneigem

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13:

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This book by the legendary Situationist activist and author of The Revolution of Everyday Life examines the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical authority in Europe from the 1200s into the 1500s. Although Vaneigem discusses a number of different movements such as the Cathars and Joachimite millenarians, his main emphasis is on the various manifestations of the Movement of the Free Spirit in northern Europe. He sees not only resistance to the power of state and church but also the immensely creative invention of new forms of love, sexuality, community, and exchange. Vaneigem is particularly interested in the radical opposition presented by these movements to the imperatives of an emerging market-based economy, and he evokes crucial historical parallels with the antisystemic rebellions of the 1960s. The book includes translations of original texts and source materials.

God's Words, Women's Voices
God's Words, Women's Voices

Author: Rosalynn Voaden

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780952973423

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An examination of awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum, the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin, in the works of medieval women visionaries from Bridget of Sweden to Joan of Arc.

Fear, Reverence, Terror
Fear, Reverence, Terror

Author: Carlo Ginzburg

Publisher: Italian List

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780857424358

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Preface and third chapter translated from the Italian by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi.

The Pursuit of the Millennium
The Pursuit of the Millennium

Author: Norman Cohn

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1970-05-15

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 0198020023

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The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At the dawn of the 21st millennium the world is still experiencing these anxieties, as seen by the onslaught of fantasies of renewal, doomsday predictions, and New Age prophecies. This fascinating book explores the millenarianism that flourished in western Europe between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. Covering the full range of revolutionary and anarchic sects and movements in medieval Europe, Cohn demonstrates how prophecies of a final struggle between the hosts of Christ and Antichrist melded with the rootless poor's desire to improve their own material conditions, resulting in a flourishing of millenarian fantasies. The only overall study of medieval millenarian movements, The Pursuit of the Millennium offers an excellent interpretation of how, again and again, in situations of anxiety and unrest, traditional beliefs come to serve as vehicles for social aspirations and animosities.

Empirical Theology in Texts and Tables
Empirical Theology in Texts and Tables

Author: Leslie J. Francis

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-01-31

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9047442393

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Empirical theology offers fresh and stimulating insights into the concerns of both the Church and the Academy. It does this by accessing relevant empirical evidence using the tools of the social sciences, and placing this evidence in the context of theological critique and contemporary debate. In this pioneering collection of focused essays, leading experts of empirical theology illustrate key perspectives within this rapidly expanding discipline. The first section of the book explores theoretical issues underpinning the main methods of obtaining empirical data, and the use of these data within theology. The other two sections display the role both of qualitative studies, and of the analysis of quantitative data, in exploring a range of theological beliefs and religious, social and educational concerns.

That Holy Anarchist
That Holy Anarchist

Author: Mark Van Steenwyk

Publisher: Mark Van Steenwyk

Published: 2012-06-25

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0615659810

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In That Holy Anarchist, Mark Van Steenwyk explores the relationship between Christianity and anarchism. The name of Jesus is invoked by those in power as well as those resisting that power. What were the politics of Jesus and how can they continue to inform us as we struggle for justice?

Evangelicals Engaging in Practical Theology
Evangelicals Engaging in Practical Theology

Author: Helen Morris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-03-30

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1000546691

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This book aims to introduce a distinctively evangelical voice to the discipline of practical theology. Evangelicals have sometimes seen practical theology as primarily a ‘liberal’ project. This collection, however, actively engages with practical theology from an evangelical perspective, both through discussion of the substantive issues and by providing examples of practical theology done by evangelicals in the classroom, the church, and beyond. This volume brings together established and emerging voices to debate the growing role which practical theology is playing in evangelical and Pentecostal circles. Chapters begin by addressing methodological concerns, before moving into areas of practice. Additionally, there are four short papers from students who make use of practical theology to reflect upon their own practice. Issues of authority and normativity are tackled head on in a way that will inform the debate both within and beyond evangelicalism. This book will, therefore, be of keen interest to scholars of practical, evangelical, and Pentecostal theology.