Experiencing God in Late Medieval and Early Modern England demonstrates that experiences of divine revelation, both biblical and contemporary, were central to late medieval and early modern English religion, shedding light on previously under-explored notions about divine revelation and the role the...

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1. Verfasser:	Davis, David J. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Oxford University Press 2022
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1200-1700 Mystische Erfahrung Gotteserfahrung Offenbarung England Revelation / Christianity / History of doctrines / Middle Ages, 600-1500 Revelation / Christianity / History of doctrines / 17th century Private revelations / History / To 1500 Private revelations / History / 17th century Experience (Religion) / History / To 1500 Experience (Religion) / History / 17th century Rapture (Christian eschatology) England / Church history
Zusammenfassung:	Experiencing God in Late Medieval and Early Modern England demonstrates that experiences of divine revelation, both biblical and contemporary, were central to late medieval and early modern English religion, shedding light on previously under-explored notions about divine revelation and the role they played in shaping English thought and belief "Experience God in Late Medieval and Early Modern England demonstrates that experiences of divine revelation, both biblical and contemporary, were central to late medieval and early modern English religion. The book sheds light on previously under-explored notions about divine revelation and the role these notions played in shaping large portions of English thought and belief. Bringing together a wide variety of source materials, from contemplative works and accounts of revelatory experiences to biblical commentaries, devotionals, and religious imagery, the book argues that in the period there was a collective representation of divine revelation as a source of human knowledge, which transcended other religious and intellectual divisions. Not only did most people think that divine revelation, through a ravishing encounter with God, was possible, but also divine revelation was understood to be the pinnacle of religious experience and a source of pure understanding. The book highlights a common discourse running through the sources that underpinned this collective representation of how human beings experienced the divine, and it demonstrates a continual effort across large swathes of English religion to prepare an individual's soul for an encounter with the divine, through different spiritual disciplines and devotional practices. Over a period of several centuries this discourse and the larger culture of revelation provided an essential structure and legitimacy both to contemporary claims of divine revelation and the biblical precedents that contemporary experiences were modelled after. This discourse detailed the physical, metaphysical, and epistemological features of how a human being was understood to experience divine revelation, providing a means to delimit and define what happened when an individual was raptured by God.
Beschreibung:	xii, 223 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm
ISBN:	9780198834137