Mystical Not-Knowing as a School of Thought
This article thematizes the tension between mysticism and theology that increasingly emerged in the Modern Age on the basis of a critical reading of Michel de Certeau. In particular, using Certeau’s critically edited letter from Jean-Joseph Surin, in which the latter reports on his encounter with an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2023
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Studies in spirituality
Year: 2022, Volume: 32, Pages: 153-171 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality FA Theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history |
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| Summary: | This article thematizes the tension between mysticism and theology that increasingly emerged in the Modern Age on the basis of a critical reading of Michel de Certeau. In particular, using Certeau’s critically edited letter from Jean-Joseph Surin, in which the latter reports on his encounter with an illiterate young man, the thesis is defended that Michel de Certeau’s work itself should be understood as a mystical theology. This is a thesis that is diametrically opposed to the dominant interpretation of Certeau’s work among major theologians and historians. It is the historical line from Nicholas of Cusa’s idiota (layman) on Surin’s shepherd boy to the poor in the liberation theology of the Late Modern Era that Certeau follows in his work and which provides a starting point for a contemporary mystical theology. The counterpointing of mysticism and theology is an inherent part of any discussion of religion in the Late Modern era. |
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| ISSN: | 0926-6453 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in spirituality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/SIS.32.0.3292457 |