“Mystical Revelation”: On and around L’Abandon à la Providence Divine
One little known mode of revelation these days is “mystical revelation,” to which there were many appeals in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, principally among Quietists and Semi-Quietists. This paper focuses on one such appeal, that made in L’Abandon à la Providence divine by the writer co...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2024
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Journal for continental philosophy of religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-116 |
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Mysticism
B Revelation B Quietism B Jean-Pierre de Caussade |
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| Summary: | One little known mode of revelation these days is “mystical revelation,” to which there were many appeals in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, principally among Quietists and Semi-Quietists. This paper focuses on one such appeal, that made in L’Abandon à la Providence divine by the writer conventionally known as Jean-Pierre de Caussade. The essay seeks to use phenomenology in order to describe mystical revelation and to see to what extent its notion of “pure love” can be defended. A partial defense can be launched by way of Peter Lombard’s Distinction 1.17 in his Sententiae, namely that the Holy Spirit animates the loving soul. A weak form of Quietism can be defended; however, one can see a stronger form of it that has emerged in contemporary phenomenology itself. |
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| ISSN: | 2588-9613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for continental philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/25889613-bja10068 |