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Author : Angela (of Foligno)
Release : 1909
Genre : God
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Book Synopsis The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno by : Angela (of Foligno)
Download or read book The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno written by Angela (of Foligno). This book was released on 1909. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela (of Foligno)
Release : 1903
Genre : Christian life
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Book Synopsis The Book of the Visions and Instructions of Blessed Angela of Foligno by : Angela (of Foligno)
Download or read book The Book of the Visions and Instructions of Blessed Angela of Foligno written by Angela (of Foligno). This book was released on 1903. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela (of Foligno)
Release : 1993
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Complete Works by : Angela (of Foligno)
Download or read book Complete Works written by Angela (of Foligno). This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela of Foligno (c. 1248-1309) is one of the most outstanding representatives of the Franciscan and Christian mystical tradition. Her Book, published here in English for the first time, describes her passionate love affair with the "suffering God-man," and her teachings in the form of letters and exhortations to her spiritual progeny.
Author : Angela (of Foligno)
Release : 1999
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Angela of Foligno's Memorial by : Angela (of Foligno)
Download or read book Angela of Foligno's Memorial written by Angela (of Foligno). This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful voice of major Italian medieval woman mystic, translated with commentary. Angela of Foligno is considered by many as the greatest mystical voice among Italian medieval women. She devoted herself to a relentless pursuit of God when as a middle-aged woman she lost her mother, husband and children; illiterate herself, she dictated her experiences to her confessor, who transcribed her words into Latin as the Memorial. In a direct and vigorous style, it tells of her suffering, visions, joy, identification with Christ, and finally her mystical union with God. However, her book has always been viewed with suspicion, indeed even bordering on heresy; her spirituality goes beyond conventional language as well as beyond accepted doctrines and modes of prayer. This annotated selection from the Memorial is preceded by a biographical introduction which places Angela's text in its historical, cultural, and spiritual context; the accompanying interpretive essay which follows compares Angela's experience with that of twentieth-century Christian feminist theologians. The volume is completed with an annotated bibliography. CRISTINA MAZZONI is Professor and Chair, Department of Romance Languagesand Linguistics at the University of Vermont.
Author : John Wayland Coakley
Release : 2006
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Women, Men, and Spiritual Power by : John Wayland Coakley
Download or read book Women, Men, and Spiritual Power written by John Wayland Coakley. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships between these women and the clerics who wrote about them. Coakley's work also undermines simplistic characterizations of male control over women, offering an important contribution to medieval religious history. Coakley shows that these male-female relationships were marked by a fundamental tension between power and fascination: the priests and monks were supposed to hold authority over the women entrusted to their care, but they often switched roles, as the men became captivated with the women's spiritual gifts. In narratives of such women, the male authors reflect directly on the relationship between the women's powers and their own. Coakley argues that they viewed these relationships as gendered partnerships that brought together female mystical power and male ecclesiastical authority without placing one above the other. Women, Men, and Spiritual Power chronicles a wide-ranging experiment in the balance of formal and informal powers, in which it was assumed to be thoroughly imaginable for both sorts of authority, in their distinctly gendered terms, to coexist and build on each other. The men's writings reflect an extended moment in western Christianity when clerics had enough confidence in their authority to actually question its limits. After about 1400, however, clerics underwent a crisis of confidence, and such a questioning of institutional power was no longer considered safe. Instead of seeing women as partners, their revelatory powers began to be viewed as evidence of witchcraft.
