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Review Of: Luigi Borriello E Giovanna Della Croce. Conoscere Dio É La Vocazione Dell'uomo: Linee Di Antropologia Mistica In San Giovanni Della Croce., Elizabeth Wilhelmsen
Review Of: Luigi Borriello E Giovanna Della Croce. Conoscere Dio É La Vocazione Dell'uomo: Linee Di Antropologia Mistica In San Giovanni Della Croce., Elizabeth Wilhelmsen
Spanish Language and Literature
Es éste un estudio que compendia el pensamiento global de San Juan de la Cruz, haciendo hincapié en el componente de antropología en su función de base tanto filosófica come existencial del itinerario vital del místico. En los primeros dos capítulos, los coautores Borriello y Giovanna della Croce discuten las diversas corrientes de renovación espiritual que se dieron en el ambiente en que se formó San Juan del la Cruz, es decir, la España de la primera mitad del siglo XVI. Hacen mención del erasmismo, de la devotio moderna, de los "alumbrados", de la reforma del franciscanismo español, de la …
Plotinus And St. John Of The Cross: Concurrences And Divergencies, Elizabeth Wilhelmsen
Plotinus And St. John Of The Cross: Concurrences And Divergencies, Elizabeth Wilhelmsen
Spanish Language and Literature
We propose to examine here two renowned champions of mysticism, Plotinus and St. John of the Cross. The former, the third-century Greek philosopher from Alexandria in northern Egypt, is the father of Neoplatonism. The latter, the sixteenth-century Castilian Carmelite, is known as reformer of his order, as theologian, as mystic, and as sublime poet of divine love. Both figures can be described, above all and specifically, as mystics: that is, as practitioners of mysticism and, at the same time, as theoreticians of mysticism. There is shared by both one dominating concern and objective: personal, experiential union with the transcendent Other, …