RT Article
T1 The Art of Divine Meditation in George Herbert’s The Temple
JF Christianity & literature
VO 66
IS 1
SP 73
OP 89
A1 Faber, Ben
LA English
PB Johns Hopkins University Press
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1559162384
AB George Herbert’s The Temple exemplifies the principles of Protestant meditation described by Joseph Hall in The Art of Divine Meditation (1606). Shaped by Catholic and Protestant traditions, Hall’s approach to meditation combines deliberate and extemporary reflection on natural and artificial objects. Like Hall, Herbert in The Temple practices the Augustinian habit of reading mundane signs as emblems with spiritual signification. More particularly Hallian are the stages—from the preparation of the subject for meditation through the dynamic concentration on the object of meditation to the transformation of the subject—that the reader of Herbert’s poems follows. Taken individually, in sets, and in the whole three-part collection, the sacred poems and private ejaculations of The Temple are spiritual exercises that bear the hallmarks of Anglican meditation.
K1 Augustinian
K1 Augustinians
K1 George Herbert
K1 HALL, Joseph, 1574-1656
K1 Herbert, George, 1593-1633
K1 Joseph Hall
K1 Meditation
K1 TEMPLE, The (Poem)
K1 The Temple
DO 10.1177/0148333116679117