Immoderate Investigations: Heresy, Knowledge, and the Culture of Suspicion in Richard Rolle's Latin texts
This essay examines the response by the fourteenth-century English hermit Richard Rolle to the 'investigative' thought that characterized late-medieval penitential and academic cultures. I argue that a more thorough and nuanced understanding of Rolle's critique of intellectual inquiry...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Medieval mystical theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 20-36 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KDB Roman Catholic Church NBC Doctrine of God |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Theology B Mysticism B Heresy B Inquisition B Biblical Commentary |
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| Summary: | This essay examines the response by the fourteenth-century English hermit Richard Rolle to the 'investigative' thought that characterized late-medieval penitential and academic cultures. I argue that a more thorough and nuanced understanding of Rolle's critique of intellectual inquiry serves to elucidate what was for him a kind of model for penitential and mystical spirituality - a model that amounted to a cogent critique of late-medieval academic inquiry and its potential to lead Christians into theological error. For Rolle, the human determination to inquire into the divine nature stood in strong opposition to a mystical-penitential commitment to God's ultimate unknowability. Instead of producing knowledge about God, the investigative intellect that marked academic practice amounted to the aggrandizement of human over divine judgment and, as a result, contributed to a culture of suspicion. |
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| ISSN: | 2046-5734 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Medieval mystical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/20465726.2017.1321195 |