Nelstrop / Appleton Art and Mysticism

Interfaces in the Medieval and Modern Periods
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-76515-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism

From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, but mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also filled with images of God as artisan crafting a cosmos that likewise refracts and reflects His glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art and theology.

The book features contributions from an international panel of leading academics, and is divided into four sections. The first three sections investigate the interplay between the arts and mysticism from three key vantage points. The final section then offers theoretical and philosophical considerations of mystical aesthetics.

The purpose of the volume is to explore this rarely considered yet crucial interface between art and mysticism. It is therefore, an important and illuminating collection of scholarship that will appeal to scholars of Theology and Christian mysticism as much as those who study the Arts and Art History.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelstrop, Louise

Appleton, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I: Inscribing and visualising the Unseen

1. ‘Privy Tuchyngs of Swete Gostly Syghts’: Art and Illumination in Julian of Norwich

2. ‘It’s not Dark Yet, but it’s Getting There’!

3. "Rain of God’s Letters" - Glagolitic Alphabet as a Mystical Tool?

II Cataphasis and Apophasis in Text and Image

4. Visions of the otherworld: the examples of Fursey and Dryhthelm in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica and in the Homilies of Ælfric.

5. Imitatio and visio in Jan Van Eyck, Thomas a Kempis and Nicholas of Cusa

6. "One Beginning. ever unbegun and unended"

7. The Desert of Religion: a Voice and Images in the Wilderness

II: Sensing and Seeing The Mystical

8. Art and Mysticism as Horticulture: Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries in an Interdisciplinary Perspective

9. Medieval Pop: Warhol’s Byzantine Iconography

10. Art and Inarticulacy

11. Ravishing Far/Near: Representing the Mystical Moment.

IV Art, Aesthetics and Mysticism

12. The Gaze of Divine Sorrow: Visio and Unio Mystica in Christian Art

13. Art, Contemplation and intellectus: Aquinas and Gadamer in Dialogue

14. ‘Beneath the Surface’: Whose Phenomenology? Which Art?

Über Autor(innen)

Louise Nelstrop is Director of Spirituality Programmes at Sarum College, UK, and a College Lecturer at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research focuses on Christian mysticism and practical theology. She has published a number of books and research articles on the English Mystics. Additionally, she is co-convenor (along with Simon D. Podmore) of the Mystical Theology Network.

Helen Appleton is Tutor and Lecturer at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests include pre- and post-conquest English literature and its links with faith. She has published in these areas in various journals and edited collections.