The Names of ChristPaulist Press, 1984 - 385 pages "Whatever it was you expected when you heard about the new Classics of Western Spirituality(TM) series from Paulist Press, forget it. The real thing is better." The Crux of Prayer Luis de León: The Names of Christ translated and introduced by Manuel Duran and William Kluback preface by J. Ferrater Mora As Christ is a source or rather is an ocean which holds in itself all that is sweet and meaningful that belongs to man, in the same way the study of his person, the revelation of the treasure, is the most meaningful and dearest of all knowledge. Luis de León (1527-1591) The Names of Christ is a masterpiece of the Golden Age of Spain. Written in the style of a pastoral novel, the work is a meditation on the philosophical and theological significance of the names of Christ. Based on a careful examination of ten names given Christ in the Scriptures, the book reflects elements of Augustinian, Jewish, and Islamic spirituality that were part of sixteenth-century Spain. Luis de León was born in 1527 in Belmonte, a small village in the Castile region of Spain. An Augustinian friar, a brilliant professor, an artful poet, he was a true Renaissance man whose vision of the fullness of Christ sustained him in the face of persecution at the hands of the Inquisition and infused his writing with a sensitivity that has made The Names of Christ a treasure of Spanish literature and a classic of Catholic mysticism. + |
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Page xv
... divine and the human , the sacred and the profane ? The pathetic God of Iban al - Arabi " is a suffering and passion- ate God , a notion which has at all times been a dreaded stumbling block to the rational theology and philosophy of ...
... divine and the human , the sacred and the profane ? The pathetic God of Iban al - Arabi " is a suffering and passion- ate God , a notion which has at all times been a dreaded stumbling block to the rational theology and philosophy of ...
Page xvi
... divine - human mediation whose presence proclaims divinity and humanity linked in a dialogue of confrontation and realization . Here in the Book of Theophanies Ibn al - Arabi speaks the poem of love : Love me , love me alone . Love ...
... divine - human mediation whose presence proclaims divinity and humanity linked in a dialogue of confrontation and realization . Here in the Book of Theophanies Ibn al - Arabi speaks the poem of love : Love me , love me alone . Love ...
Page xvii
... divine plane , he believes he becomes truly man interpreting and conforming to the myths that lie at the ground of the divine . " Thus at the heart of the Kabbalah we have a myth of the one God as a conjunction of all the primordial ...
... divine plane , he believes he becomes truly man interpreting and conforming to the myths that lie at the ground of the divine . " Thus at the heart of the Kabbalah we have a myth of the one God as a conjunction of all the primordial ...
Page xviii
... divine and created being . " " 10 Here we are confronted with cosmic disorder , or what we can describe as the terror of existence . Order has become disorder , things have lost their place and time , the harmony and sympathy of the ...
... divine and created being . " " 10 Here we are confronted with cosmic disorder , or what we can describe as the terror of existence . Order has become disorder , things have lost their place and time , the harmony and sympathy of the ...
Page xix
... divine will but rather whatever has become depraved contrary to the divine will . " 13 The dimension of sin was radical . Dualism was fundamental ; it had both a cosmic and an existential realm . The struggle be- tween good and evil was ...
... divine will but rather whatever has become depraved contrary to the divine will . " 13 The dimension of sin was radical . Dualism was fundamental ; it had both a cosmic and an existential realm . The struggle be- tween good and evil was ...
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