Sin, interiority, and selfhood in the twelfth-century West

"A common refrain in twelfth-century thought is that God alone knows the secrets of the heart. Originating in Scripture, the principle was elaborated exegetically to imply two distinct domains: one of external actions open to human perception and judgment and the other including thoughts, inten...

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Главный автор: Kramer, Susan R. 1958- (Автор)
Соавтор: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Выдающее тело)
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Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Toronto, Ontario Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies [2015]
В: Studies and texts (200)
Год: 2015
Обзоры:[Rezension von: Kramer, Susan R., 1958-, Sin, interiority, and selfhood in the twelfth-century West] (2016) (Blum, Daniela, 1986 -)
Серии журналов/журналы:Studies and texts 200
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B Европа (мотив) / Грех (мотив) / Исповедь (мотив) / Покаяние (мотив) / Внктренняя сущность (мотив) / Самопонимание / Богословие (мотив) / История (мотив) 1100-1200
B Европа (мотив) / Христианство (мотив) / Грех (мотив) / Исповедь (мотив) / Покаяние (мотив) / Я (мотив) / История (мотив) 1100-1200
Другие ключевые слова:B Secrecy Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Conscience, Examination of History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Self Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Соул History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Sin Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Self Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Penance History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Confession History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Secrecy Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Conscience, Examination of History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Penance History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Sin Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Соул History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Confession History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
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Итог:"A common refrain in twelfth-century thought is that God alone knows the secrets of the heart. Originating in Scripture, the principle was elaborated exegetically to imply two distinct domains: one of external actions open to human perception and judgment and the other including thoughts, intentions, and sentiments--the products of internal acts--visible only to God. But changes in medieval penance, especially in the Fourth Lateran Council's demand in 1215 that all Christians fully confess their sins to a priest, reveals a shift in attitude towards the secrecy of the heart. A close reading of twelfth and thirteenth-century texts from the cathedral and monastic schools shows that oral confession was to include not only visible, external acts, but also the merely internal actions formerly limited to God's knowledge. What lay behind this shift? Should we attribute it to changes in priestly status? To the development of new techniques for breaching the heart's secrecy? Was new value placed on the secrets subject to confession? These questions are provocative because much recent scholarship implicates medieval penance in evolving western notions of selfhood and the part played by interiority in defining the self. Lateran IV's mandate to confess is characterized as a critical juncture in the history of subjectivity and the rise of a modern sense of self with its noted attributes of inwardness and autonomy. The aim of Sin, Interiority, and Selfhood in the Twelfth-Century West is to uncover the conception of self that underlay the demand that all Christians confess their innermost thoughts. Drawing on sources from the world of the medieval schools, it juxtaposes discussions that treat topics ranging from the difficulties of discerning the source of tears to the mechanics of original sin. All these discussions are linked by their underlying interest in the internal aspects of committing or remitting sin. Contextualizing these aspects of interiority allows us to see what role was assigned to internal actions in medieval definitions of the self; it also provides insight into the intellectual currents that contributed to that understanding."--
The secrets of the heart -- The secrecy of conscience -- Tears and the articulation of interiority -- Original sin and the autonomous soul -- Sin, contamination, and consent -- Confession and the self
Примечание:Includes bibliographical references (pages [138]-167) and index
ISBN:0888442009