John of the Cross: Desire, Transformation, and Selfhood. By Sam Hole
Since the revival of interest in John of the Cross in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when he came to be regarded as the primary exponent of mystical theology in the Western Christian tradition along with Teresa of Avila, there has been little attention given to the role of desire...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 1032-1034 |
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| Summary: | Since the revival of interest in John of the Cross in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when he came to be regarded as the primary exponent of mystical theology in the Western Christian tradition along with Teresa of Avila, there has been little attention given to the role of desire in his thought—an imbalance which this book seeks to correct. John has been treated as the master of the ‘dark night of the soul’, with its associated sufferings, and of the negative way of ‘dark knowledge’ of God. Neo-scholastic writers sought to ally John’s epistemology with that of Thomas Aquinas (e.g. Jacques Maritain’s Degrees of Knowledge, 1932), while others have approached John through the wider discussion of ‘mystical experience’ and its value for knowledge of God. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab135 |