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Titel:The Discernment of Spirits
Assessing Visions and Visionaries in the Late Middle Ages
Person: Anderson, Wendy Love
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Hauptverfasser: Anderson, Wendy Love (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck 2011
Ausgabe:1. Aufl.
Schriftenreihe:Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism, and the Reformation 63
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Medienzugang:https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-158601-9
Zusammenfassung:Die Unterscheidung der Geister. Die Einschätzung der Visionen und der Visionäre im Spätmittelalter.
Wendy Love Anderson rekonstruiert die Systematisierungen, die Christen im Spätmittelalter vorgenommen haben, um zwischen wahren und falschen (bzw. nicht von Gott stammenden) Visionen und Prophezeiungen zu unterscheiden. Sie berücksichtigt dabei auch die historischen, politischen und spirituellen Hintergründe spätmittelalterlicher Mystik und ihre Bedeutung für die christliche Glaubenslehre.
Wendy Love Anderson describes late medieval Christian efforts to invent a system for distinguishing between true and false visions and prophecies, along with the political, spiritual, and sometimes personal implications for the visionaries and reformers who helped to create that system.
Late medieval Christians lived in a world of visions, but they knew that not all visions came from God: angels, demons, illness, nature, or passion could also inspire an apparent divine visitation. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the involvement of visionaries in everything from reform movements to military campaigns to papal schisms raised the political and spiritual stakes of determining whether or not a vision was truly from God. In response, a diverse group of medieval thinkers - including men and women, clergy and laity, visionaries and theologians - gradually began to transform the loose patristic readings of Pauline discretio spirituum into a system with the potential to distinguish between true and false visions and between genuine and delusional visionaries. Wendy Love Anderson chronicles the historical, political, and spiritual struggles behind the flowering of late medieval mysticism and what came to be seen as the Christian doctrine of discernment of spirits.
Beschreibung:PublicationDate: 20200831
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (X, 266 Seiten)
ISBN:9783161586019