Into the Dark Night and Back: The Mystical Writings of Jean-Joseph Surin

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38764-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 548 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1157 g

Reihe: Jesuit Studies

The French mystic Jean-Joseph Surin (1600–65) was the chief exorcist during the infamous demonic possession in Loudun in 1634–37. During the exorcism, a demon entered Surin’s own soul, and the exorcist became demoniac. He spent the following eighteen years of his life mute and paralyzed. All the while his troubled mind conversed with God, and he composed hymns and poems that tried to comprehend his agony. Surin left detailed descriptions of the dramatic events that shaped his life and fascinated his fellow Jesuits. But Surin was also an author of spiritual texts, a spiritual director of souls, a poet, and a prolific correspondent. This volume is the first to offer English readers a comprehensive selection of Surin’s mystical writings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sluhovsky, Moshe

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ranum, Patricia M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Moshe Sluhovsky

Some Words from the Translator: Texts, Translation, Glossary

Patricia M. Ranum

Glossary

The Triumph of Divine Love over the Powers of Hell

The Experimental Science of the Things of the Other Life

From the Translator, The Spiritual Poems: An Epic

Patricia M. Ranum

Mystical Prologue Addressed to Jesus Christ

Cantiques

Deed of Gift Executed in the Donor’s Lifetime, Made in Favor of Jesus Christ by One of His Servants

Introduction to the Letters

Moshe Sluhovsky

Letters

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Moshe Sluhovsky is the Paulette and Claude Kelman Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include “Believe not Every Spirit": Demonic Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism and Becoming a New Self: Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism.

Known internationally for her translations of Fernand Braudel and Philippe Ariès, Patricia M. Ranum subsequently translated, edited and presented several seventeenth-century sources, among them the travel account of a Jansenist priest called Charles Le Maistre; the Spiritual Doctrine of Louis Lallemant, a Jesuit; and the memoirs of Jean Le Boindre, a judge in the Paris parlement.