From Eckhart to Ruusbroec

Satoshi Kikuchi • ebook • pdf

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  In this thorough textual, historical, and doctrinal study the author seeks to clarify the relationship between two prominent mystics of the fourteenth century: Meister Eckhart, the German Dominican, and Jan van Ruusbroec, the Brabantine Augustinian. Special attention is paid to Ruusbroec’s criticism of mystical tenets circulating in Brabant at that time which were both textually and doctrinally related to Eckhart’s condemned propositions in the papal bull ‘In agro dominico’. This fact implies that Ruusbroec was confronted with the impact of the condemnation of Eckhart’s doctrines on the people in Brabant. Situating Ruusbroec’s life and works within the aftermath of Eckhart’s arrival, the author elucidates Ruusbroec’s position regarding the relevant mystical themes in the later Middle Ages, and follows a process of critical inheritance of mystical tradition from Eckhart to Ruusbroec.
  
  In this thorough textual, historical, and doctrinal study the author seeks to clarify the relationship between two prominent mystics of the fourteenth century: Meister Eckhart, the German Dominican, and Jan van Ruusbroec, the Brabantine Augustinian. Special attention is paid to Ruusbroec's criticism of mystical tenets circulating in Brabant at that time which were both textually and doctrinally related to Eckhart's condemned propositions in the papal bull In agro dominico. This fact implies that Ruusbroec was confronted with the impact of the condemnation of Eckhart's doctrines on the people in Brabant. Situating Ruusbroec's life and works within the aftermath of Eckhart's arrival, the author elucidates Ruusbroec's position regarding the relevant mystical themes in the later Middle Ages, and follows a process of critical inheritance of mystical tradition from Eckhart to Ruusbroec.
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  Binding : PDF
  Auteur : Satoshi Kikuchi
  Bestandstype : PDF
  Distributievorm : Ebook (digitaal)
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  Uitgeverij : Leuven University Press
  ISBN : 9789461661647
  Datum publicatie : 09-2014
  
• Inhoudsopgave
  CONTENTS Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE ECKHART AND RUUSBROEC WITHIN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT Chapter One: Toward the Condemnation of Eckhart’s Doctrines 1. An Overview of the Spiritual Milieu in the Later Middle Ages Enthusiasm for the direct relationship between God and human The increase of heretical mysticism 2. The Condemnation of Eckhart’s Doctrines A brief summary of the inquisitorial process The content of Eckhart’s condemned doctrines Chapter Two: The Impact of the Condemnation of Eckhart’s Doctrines in the Fourteenth Century Brabant 1. The Transmission of the News about the Condemnation of Eckhart’s Doctrines 2. The Transmission of Eckhart’s Writings 3. Jan van Leeuwen’s Doctrinal Criticism of Eckhart (1) “Simple nakedness” beyond the practice of virtues (2) The renunciation of the divine Persons (3) Deification into the divine essence and the divine sonship Chapter Three: Ruusbroec’s Criticism of Mystical Heresies 1. Ruusbroec the Critic 71 2. Key Themes in Ruusbroec’s Criticism of Mystical Heresies and Links to Eckhart’s Condemned Doctrines (1) Heretical doctrines about the praxis of ecclesiastical life (2) Heretical doctrines about God and creation (3) Heretical doctrines about Christology and the mystical union with God 90 Summary of Part One and Connection to Part Two PART TWO MYSTICAL THEMES IN ECKHART’S THEOLOGY Chapter Four: Eckhart’s Understanding of the Praxis of Ecclesiastical Life 105 1. Sin and Penitence 2. Interior Disposition toward God To receive God Himself Emptiness (ledicheit) and spiritual poverty 3. Exterior Works Chapter Five: Eckhart’s Understanding of God and Creation 1. Unity and Trinity The circumincession of the divine Persons The unity of the nature/essence and the unity of the Father A teleological view of the Trinity 2. Relation between God and Creatures Creatures as negation and distinction Creatures as nothing Chapter Six: Eckhart’s Understanding of the Mystical Union 1. The Transformation of Essence 2. Union with God through Sonship Conformity to Christ’s sonship The “birth of God” doctrine God’s self-knowing in the soul 3. Christ’s Humanity Human person and human nature The significance of Christ’s Incarnation Summary of Part Two and Connection to Part Three PART THREE THE CRITICAL INHERITANCE OF MYSTICAL THEMES IN RUUSBROEC’S THEOLOGY Chapter Seven: Ruusbroec’s Understanding of the Praxis of Ecclesiastical Life 1. Sin and Penitence 2. The Holy Spirit’s In-working and the Spiritual Poverty 3. Inactivity (ledicheit) in the Essence of God (1) Participation in the triune God (2) Likeness to Christ (3) Inactivity in the created essence and in God’s essence Chapter Eight: Ruusbroec’s Understanding of God and Creation 1. Unity and Trinity (1) Relation among the divine Persons (2) Relation between unity and trinity 2. Relation Between God and Creatures Chapter Nine: Ruusbroec’s Understanding of the Mystical Union 1. The Essential Unity of the Spirit with God 2. Union with God in Love 3. Christology Pertaining to the Understanding of the Mystical Union The “birth of God” doctrine The unique sonship of Christ The supremacy of Christ’s humanity Summary of Part Three Conclusion List of Textual linkages to Eckhart in Ruusbroec’s Writings Die geestelike brulocht (The Spiritual Espousals) Vanden XII beghinen (The Twelve Beguines) Een spieghel der eeuwigher salicheit (A Mirror of Eternal Blessedness) Bibliography Index of names Index of subjects
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