Angels of light? : sanctity and the discernment of spirits in the early modern period / edited by Clare Copeland, Jan Machielsen.
2013
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Title
Angels of light? : sanctity and the discernment of spirits in the early modern period / edited by Clare Copeland, Jan Machielsen.
Created/published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Description
xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Studies in medieval and reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 164
Summary
""And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." (2 Corinthians 11:14) Paul's warning of false apostles and false righteousness struck a special chord in the period of the European Reformations. At no other time was the need for the discernment of spirits felt as strongly as in this newly confessional age. More than ever, the ability to discern was a mark of holiness and failure the product of demonic temptation. The contributions to this volume chart individual responses to a problem at the heart of religious identity. They show that the problem of discernment was not solely a Catholic concern and was an issue for authors and artists as much as for prophets and visionaries."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Angels, demons, and everything in between : spiritual beings in early modern Europe / Euan Cameron
Dangerous visions : the experience of Teresa of Avila and the teaching of John of the Cross / Colin Thompson
Participating in the divine : visions and ecstasies in a Florentine convent / Clare Copeland
Heretical saints and textual discernment : the polemical origins of the Acta sanctorum (1643-1940) / Jan Machielsen
Augustine Baker : discerning the "call" and fashioning dead disciples / Victoria Van Hyning
A seventeenth-century prophet confronts his failures : Paul Felgenhauer's Speculum poenitentiae, Buss-Spiegel (1625) / Leigh T.I. Penman
Visions, dreams, and the discernment of prophetic passions : sense and reason in the writings of the Cambridge Platonists and John Beale, 1640-60 / R.J. Scott
Gijsbert Voet and discretio spirituum after Descartes / Anthony Ossa-Richardson
"Incorporeal substances" : discerning angels in later seventeenth-century England / Laura Sangha
Afterword : angels of light and images of sanctity / Stuart Clark.
Dangerous visions : the experience of Teresa of Avila and the teaching of John of the Cross / Colin Thompson
Participating in the divine : visions and ecstasies in a Florentine convent / Clare Copeland
Heretical saints and textual discernment : the polemical origins of the Acta sanctorum (1643-1940) / Jan Machielsen
Augustine Baker : discerning the "call" and fashioning dead disciples / Victoria Van Hyning
A seventeenth-century prophet confronts his failures : Paul Felgenhauer's Speculum poenitentiae, Buss-Spiegel (1625) / Leigh T.I. Penman
Visions, dreams, and the discernment of prophetic passions : sense and reason in the writings of the Cambridge Platonists and John Beale, 1640-60 / R.J. Scott
Gijsbert Voet and discretio spirituum after Descartes / Anthony Ossa-Richardson
"Incorporeal substances" : discerning angels in later seventeenth-century England / Laura Sangha
Afterword : angels of light and images of sanctity / Stuart Clark.
Series
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 164.
Place of creation/publication
Netherlands.
Item Details
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BL477 .A5366 2013