Julian of Norwich, Theologian. By Denys Turner
Denys Turner has a particular approach to mystical writing which reasserts theological intention and method in texts which, at least since William James’s Varieties of Mystical Experience, have been approached as descriptive of some sort of non-conceptual ‘experience’. Turner in fact does not like o...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 344-346 |
| Review of: | Julian of Norwich, theologian (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011) (Reynolds, Stefan D.)
Julian of Norwich, theologian (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011) (Reynolds, Stefan D.) |
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| Summary: | Denys Turner has a particular approach to mystical writing which reasserts theological intention and method in texts which, at least since William James’s Varieties of Mystical Experience, have been approached as descriptive of some sort of non-conceptual ‘experience’. Turner in fact does not like or use the category ‘mystical’ because of these modern associations. In his previous books, The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and Eros and Allegory: Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1995), he has argued that ‘mystical’ writings, up until the end of the Middle Ages, were based on scriptural commentary and dialectical ways of thinking rather than simply records of personal experiences. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls045 |