Angels and Angelology in the Middle AgesOxford University Press, 23 Ιουλ 1998 - 280 σελίδες Recently angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. From the great shrines dedicated to Michael the Archangel at Mont-St-Michel and Monte Garano to the elaborate metaphysical speculations of the great thirteenth-century scholastics, angels dominated the physical, temporal, and intellectual landscape of the medieval West. This book offers a full-scale study of angels and angelology in the Middle Ages. Seeking to discover how and why angels became so important in medieval society, David Keck considers a wide range of fascinating questions such as: Why do angels appear on baptismal fonts? How and why did angels become normative for certain members of the church? How did they become a required course of study? Did popular beliefs about angels diverge from the angelologies of the theologians? Why did some heretics claim to derive their authority from heavenly spirits? Keck spreads his net wide in the attempt to catch traces of angels and angelic beliefs in as many portions of the medieval world as possible. Metaphysics and mystery plays, prayers and pilgrimages, Cathars and cathedrals-all these and many more disparate sources taken together reveal a society deeply engaged with angels on all its levels and in some unlikely ways. |
Περιεχόμενα
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Photos | 71 |
ANGELS THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE UNIVERSITY THE NATURE OF THE ANGELS | 71 |
ANGELS AND RELIGIOUS ORDERS | 115 |
ANGELS AND THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH | 155 |
The Harvest of Medieval Angelology | 209 |
Notes | 213 |
Bibliography | 245 |
Index | 255 |
Index of Names and Subjects | 257 |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Alexander Nequam Alexander of Hales anagogical angelic nature angelology Apocalypse Aquinas Aquinas's archangel argued Augustine Bernard biblical Bonaventure Caesarius Celestial Hierarchy chap chapter cherubim Christ church Commentary contemplation context creation creatures Cronica demons depictions devotional Dialogus dieval discussion divine doctrine example exegesis exegetes explore feast Francis Francis's Franciscans Friars gels Genesis Gerard God's Gregory guardian angel Hexaemeron hierarchy of angels Holy Hugh of Saint human hylomorphism important Jacobus Joachim Legenda Maior liturgical Lombard Mary matter medieval medieval angelology medieval Christians metaphysical Middle Ages monastic monks Monte Gargano mystical nine orders Opera orders of angels Paris patristic Peter Lombard philosophical pope prayers present Pseudo-Dionysius quaestio question reading religious roles Saint Michael Saint Victor Salimbene Salimbene de Adam scholastics Scripture Sentences Seraphic Doctor seraphim Sermons significance Similarly soul specific speculation story Summa theologians theological thirteenth century tion traditional trans twelfth century understanding University vision
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 37 - Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.
Σελίδα 45 - The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
Σελίδα 44 - But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
Σελίδα 28 - He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Σελίδα 144 - I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God.. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.
Σελίδα 24 - For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell' and committed them to pits of nether gloom to be kept until the judgment...
Σελίδα 24 - My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years." 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them.
Σελίδα 51 - The parabolical sense is contained in the literal sense, for words can signify something properly and something figuratively; in the last case the literal sense is not the figure of speech itself, but the object it figures.
Σελίδα 196 - as a search for and experience of immediacy with God" (Origins xv). McGinn defines "the mystical element in Christianity [as] that part of its belief and practices that concerns the preparation for, the consciousness of, and the reaction to what can be described as the immediate or direct presence of God
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