Bernard McGinn
Autor de The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
Sobre El Autor
Bernard McGinn is one of the greatest living authorities in Catholic historical theology. The Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor of Historical Theology and History of Christianity (Emeritus) at the University of Chicago, Dr. McGinn is the author of several books, including the multivolume Presence mostrar más of God series, the magisterial study of Christian mysticism. mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Bernard McGinn
The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing (A Herder & Herder book) (2001) — Autor — 80 copias
Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete (1994) 65 copias
Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism: Volume 2: Apocalypticism in Western History and Culture (1998) 23 copias
The Persistence of Mysticism in Catholic Europe: France, Italy, and Germany 1500-1675 (The Presence of God) (2020) 16 copias
The Crisis of Mysticism: Quietism in Seventeenth-Century Spain, Italy, and France (The Presence of God) (2021) 12 copias
Eriugena: East and West : Papers of the Eighth International Colloquium of the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian… (1994) 7 copias
Die mystik im Abendland. die mystik in den Niederlanden, Italien und England (1350-1550) / Band 5, Vielfalt (2016) 3 copias
The renewal of mystical theology : essays in memory of John N. Jones (1964-2012) (2017) — Editor — 2 copias
The Presence of God : 2 copias
The Persistence of Mysticism in Catholic Europe: France, Italy, and Germany 1500-1675, Part 3 (6) (The Presence of God) (2023) 1 copia
Praying with the masters today 1 copia
Introducing Teresa of Avila : Mount Carmel retreat centre, Sydney, 21st April 2015 - 23rd April 2015 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Meister Eckhart Vol 2: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense (1981) — Traductor, algunas ediciones — 374 copias
Scripture and Pluralism: Reading the Bible in the Religiously Plural Worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Studies… (2005) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
How the West Was Won: Essays on Literary Imagination, the Canon, and the Christian Middle Ages for Burcht Pranger… (2010) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
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- St. Joseph's Seminary (BA | 1959)
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (STL | 1963)
Brandeis University (PhD | 1970) - Ocupaciones
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- McGinn, Patricia Ferris (wife)
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Mediaeval Academy of America
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American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
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TREATISES AND LETTERS OF LACTANTIUS,
ADDSO OF MONTIER-EN-DER,
JOACHIM OF FIORE, THE SPIRITUAL FRANCISCANS,
SAVONAROLA
In its breadth of vision and seriousness of purpose, the series leuves little room for complaint
or cavil.... An editorial program of real vision; series like this are tubat makes religious
publishing the exciting intellectual and spiritual venture it is called to be
Theology Today
APOCALYPTIC SPIRITUALITY-TREATISES AND LETTERS OF
LACTANTIUS, ADSO OF MONTIER-EN-DER, JOACHIM OF FIORE
THE SPIRITUAL FRANCISCANS, SAVONAROLA
translation and introduction by Bernard McGinn
preface by Marjorie Reeves.
Tust as Jesus Christ came with true signs, but cloaked and hidden because of the likeness
of sinful buman nature so that he was hardly recognized us the Christ by even a feu so too
the seventh king will come with false signs and will be bidden and cloaked because of his
appearance of spiritual justice, so that only a few will be able to recognize that be is the
Antichrist."
Joachim of Fiore, 1135-1202
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus" (Apoc. 22:20). The significance of these closing
words of the New Testament for later Christian spirituality is the subject of
this volume.
This book makes available major texts in the Christian apocalyptic literature
from the 4th to the 16th centuries. The apocalyptic tradition is that of traditional
prophecy based on revelation and concerned with the end of the world
Even an age such as ours characterized by its scientific and rationalistic
outlook has strong elements of literal apocalypticism found in fundamentalist
and charismatic groups. The popular success of Hal Lindsey's The Late
Great Planet Earth is evidence of this. Also the present hunger for apocalypse
has adopted a variety of secular disguises typified by Robert Heilbroner's
An Inquiry into the Human Prospect. Contemporary theologians like
Kasemann, Pannenberg, Rahner, Moltmann and others have devoted much
of their work to the meaning of apocalyptic thought. This is a collection
which can show the traditional roots of this contemporary phenomenon.
Dr: Bernard McGinn says in his introduction, "These treatises and letters
have been chosen because of the way in which they manifest how beliefs
about the imminent end affected the lives of their adherents.. Perhaps
the task for us today is that by seeing how the lives of Lactantius, the monk
Adso, Joachim of Fiore, The Spiritual Franciscans and Savonarola were
affected by their apocalyptic vision we can recognize how our lives are
being affected by the contemporary prophetic sense of the end of histor.y… (más)