RT Article
T1 »Haec mysteria pulchrum est considerare.«: Protestantische Inanspruchnahmen mystischer Sprache
JF Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche
VO 119
IS 3
SP 264
OP 291
A1 Bahl, Patrick 1987-
LA German
PB Mohr Siebeck
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1816774995
AB This article describes in what ways and within what genre horizons Protestant authors use mystical language. Mystical language seeks to activate the attentiveness and sensitivity of its recipients in order to open up an experience of God for them. Niels Hemmingsen, in his pastoral theology, combines the mystical pastoral ideal of antiquity with Melanchthon's anthropology and uses mystical language to problematize the disruptive demands on pastoral sensory faculties by the external world and to call the pastor back to his vocational experience. Johann Arndt, in his sermon on Mt 2, employs the allegorical technique of interpretation as permitted by Lutheran homiletics as a formative device to show directly to his hearers the sublimity and deliciousness of the Christian faith. Gottfried Arnold intertwines historiography and mystagogy: by compiling mystical foreign quotations with each other, he wants to guide the historically as well as mystically interested readers to unification with the divine, a concern that he sees rooted and realized in Luther's original theology. In this way, the texts shed light on a basic, indeed Protestant, quality principle of mystical language: its functionality.
K1 Mystik
K1 Predigtgeschichte
K1 Sprache
K1 Pastoraltheologie
K1 Kirchengeschichte
K1 Niels Hemmingsen5
K1 JohannArndt
K1 GottfriedArnold
DO 10.1628/zthk-2022-0017