Literature and the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England
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Alan Rudrum
Anthroposophia Theomagica
Aqua Vitae
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Belknap Harvard University Press
Birth Days
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Chymische Hochzeit
cura animarum
Dead Man
Dee's Actions
Dee’s Actions
early
early modern mysticism
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Eugenius Philalethes
hent
jane
Jane Lead
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Loose Fantasies
Lumen De Lumine
marion
modern
National Biography
National Library
Natura Pura
Olor Iscanus
phenomenological theology
Philadelphian Society
post-reformation spiritual experience
religious heterodoxy studies
Rosicrucian Manifestos
Rosicrucian Mysticism
scientific rationality
Silex
Silex Scintillans
spiritual direction history
Spiritual Flesh
thomas
True Loves Knot
vaughan
vries
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138271289
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Each of the figures examined in this study”John Dee, John Donne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, and Jane Lead”is concerned with the ways in which God can be approached or experienced. Michael Martin analyzes the ways in which the encounter with God is figured among these early modern writers who inhabit the shared cultural space of poets and preachers, mystics and scientists. The three main themes that inform this study are Cura animarum, the care of souls, and the diminished role of spiritual direction in post-Reformation religious life; the rise of scientific rationality; and the struggle against the disappearance of the Holy. Arising from the methods and commitments of phenomenology, the primary mode of inquiry of this study resides in contemplation, not in a religious sense, but in the realm of perception, attendance, and acceptance. Martin portrays figures such as Dee, Digby, and Thomas Vaughan not as the eccentrics they are often depicted to have been, but rather as participating in a religious mainstream that had been radically altered by the disappearance of any kind of mandatory or regular spiritual direction, a problem which was further complicated and exacerbated by the rise of science. Thus this study contributes to a reconfiguration of our notion of what ’religious orthodoxy’ really meant during the period, and calls into question our own assumptions about what is (or was) ’orthodox’ and ’heterodox.’
Michael Martin is Assistant Professor of English at Marygrove College, USA.
