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Julian of Norwich,ohn Scotus Eriugena, though they did not exert much influence in the West until the twelfth, after which time they exerted a great deal. In the interim, Origen’s disciple Gregory of Nyssa was an important conduit from the East of ideas pertaining to mystical experience as immersion in a divine darkness, such as Dionysius describes.

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William Law,s of an irreducibly private and interior spiritual experience. In the preface to his . (1545) he explains how, despite the ‘apparently good character of his life as a monk’, he had in fact hated God. Contrary to appearances, he had been oppressed by an anguish of guilt until a particular experience of divine grace relieved him.

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Introduction,afforded by the rise of modern, secular literary studies. An interpretation of what it means to be a person is basic to how I engage this main topic, and although I do not pursue the implications of my argument for the increasing global awareness of religious pluralism or for the theoretical vindica

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Origen of Alexandria,me points of contrast and continuity between Origen and Augustine, the most influential figure among the Church Fathers of the Latin West. My main point is that despite Augustine’s overriding influence, Origen’s mystical spirituality permeated the Middle Ages, establishing a tradition which (as we s

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Erasmus,e scientific revolution. The rediscovery, especially in fifteenth-century Italy, of the ancient literatures of Greece and Rome mingled initially in complex ways with reform movements within the Church. Eventually, when Luther broke with the papacy, there developed throughout Europe a spectrum of ind

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William Law,d weapons of philology and satire, writing in Latin for those who could appreciate the delicate aggressions of his fine style. In this, his appeal was hardly populist.. By contrast, Luther was a leveller in a way Erasmus could never be, and embraced non-clerical life with a gusto that would have mad

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