Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz's Symbol of Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz's Symbol of Night write by N. Grace Aaron. This book was released on 2005. Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz's Symbol of Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz's Symbol of Night is a comprehensive appraisal of the traditional critical perspectives of mysticism: philosophical, theological, literary, and psychological. Examining the a priori limitations of these approaches, the book presents an original definition of the symbol as an integral whole of experience and expression, and concludes that night is the form - the organizing principle - of spiritual life.
John of the Cross
John of the Cross - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John of the Cross write by Sam Hole. This book was released on 2020-11-19. John of the Cross available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The poetry and prose writings of the sixteenth-century Spanish friar John of the Cross are of interest to scholars of systematic theology, Christian spirituality, and Spanish poetry. This work provides the first extended English-language analysis of these writings since the 1950s.
The Direction of Desire
The Direction of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Direction of Desire write by Mark Gerard Murphy. This book was released on 2023-10-27. The Direction of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines Lacanian psychoanalysis and Christian mystical theology demonstrating the former’s potential for reinvigorating spiritual direction. The author outlines how current methods of spiritual direction become saturated with self-help psycho-pop methodologies, and that desire has therefore been foreclosed in these practices. He suggests that the root of this is a focus on ‘positive affective experientialism’, which means spiritual direction must focus on emotional wholeness, healing and positivity. Finally, he argues that a new dialogue between John of the Cross (a mystic whose writings on spiritual direction formulate part of the core of the Catholic spiritual tradition) and Jacques Lacan can open the way for a spiritual direction beyond the confines of experientialism. The book concludes that we can only escape the experiential commodification of spiritual direction by critiquing the drive to experience in and of itself. This novel work will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, religion, philosophy and critical theory.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Dissertation Abstracts International - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dissertation Abstracts International write by . This book was released on 2000. Dissertation Abstracts International available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
St. John of the Cross
St. John of the Cross - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook St. John of the Cross write by Colin P. Thompson. This book was released on 2003. St. John of the Cross available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looking for connections between his verse and prose, Colin Thompson argues for a theological understanding of the intensely beautiful and moving poems. He seeks to explain the principles that guide St. John in his exploration of the self and its encounter with the divine, and provides an analysis of the poet' most famous symbol - the dark night of the soul."--BOOK JACKET.
