Angels of light? : sanctity and the discernment of spirits in the early modern period / edited by Clare Copeland, Jan Machielsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Copeland, Clare.

Machielsen, Jan.

Series:

Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 164.

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 164

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angels--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.

Angels.

Demonology--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.

Demonology.

Devil--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.

Devil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

\'And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.\' (2 Corinthians 11:14) Paul's warning of false apostles and false righteousness struck a special chord in the period of the European Reformations. At no other time was the need for the discernment of spirits felt as strongly as in this newly confessional age. More than ever, the ability to discern was a mark of holiness and failure the product of demonic temptation. The contributions to this volume chart individual responses to a problem at the heart of religious identity. They show that the problem of discernment was not solely a Catholic concern and was an issue for authors and artists as much as for prophets and visionaries.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Clare Copeland and Jan Machielsen

Introduction / Clare Copeland and Jan Machielsen

Angels, Demons, and Everything in Between: Spiritual Beings in Early Modern Europe / Euan Cameron

Dangerous Visions: The Experience of Teresa of Avila and the Teaching of John of the Cross / Colin Thompson

Participating in the Divine: Visions and Ecstasies in a Florentine Convent / Clare Copeland

Heretical Saints and Textual Discernment: The Polemical Origins of the Acta Sanctorum (1643–1940) / Jan Machielsen

Augustine Baker: Discerning the “Call” and Fashioning Dead Disciples / Victoria Van Hyning

A Seventeenth-Century Prophet Confronts His Failures: Paul Felgenhauer’s Speculum Poenitentiae, Buß-Spiegel (1625) / Leigh T. I. Penman

Visions, Dreams, and the Discernment of Prophetic Passions: Sense and Reason in the Writings of the Cambridge Platonists and John Beale, 1640–60 / R. J. Scott

Gijsbert Voet and Discretio Spirituum after Descartes / Anthony Ossa-Richardson

“Incorporeal Substances”: Discerning Angels in Later Seventeenth-Century England / Laura Sangha

Afterword: Angels of Light and Images of Sanctity / Stuart Clark

Further Reading / Clare Copeland and Jan Machielsen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-306).

ISBN:

1-283-85495-3

90-04-23370-9

OCLC:

820730444

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004233706 DOI