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6 papers in the library · 1 citation · publishing 1966-2025
New Blackfriars March 28, 2025 George Karuvelil
This article considers the question whether we can have direct, non-inferential knowledge of God, as experientialists such as Alston and Plantinga claim. Moreover, this needs to be done in a way that takes religious diversity into account. I contend that two developments in recent philosophy enable us to argue for direct knowledge of God in an inter-religious manner. The first is naturalized...
New Blackfriars August 18, 2011 James P. Danaher 1 citation
Abstract The medieval, contemplative tradition for the most part ended with the great 16 th century Spanish mystics. The modern period of the 17 th and 18 th centuries was an age of reason that sought to eliminate mystery. Modern theology kept in step with the rational nature of the period and the contemplative tradition was lost to the modern age. Thomas Merton reintroduced a contemplative...
New Blackfriars September 1, 2009 Jane Duran
AbstractParts of Julian's Showings are examined for their didactic quality, and her work is briefly compared to that of Mechthild and Hildegard. The commentary of Tobin, Chervin and others is alluded to, and it is concluded that Julian is an exemplary teacher.
New Blackfriars December 1, 1992 Fiona Bowie
You should love what is notAnd flee what is.You should stand aloneAnd approach no one.You should strive alwaysTo be free from all things.You should free the boundAnd bind the free.You should comfort the sickAnd yet possess nothing.You should drink the water of sufferingAnd feed the fire of love with the fuel of virtue.Then you shall live in the true wilderness.Mechthild of Magdeburg: The...
New Blackfriars November 1, 1978 Simon Tugwell
In some, perhaps most, cultures metaphysics and mysticism belong together. Even in our own society organizations which bear the name ‘metaphysical’ are likely, an examination, to be found to be concerned primarily with more or less mystical and esoteric doctrines and practices. But it is still typical of the Anglo-Saxon academic world that philosophers have, on the whole, not been frightfully...
New Blackfriars August 1, 1966 Roger Poole
The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), Professor at the Collège de France as from 1952, radically influenced the course of phenomenology, turning it from Germany towards France. With Merleau-Ponty philosophy is sincere and searchingly intelligent, it begins to try as never before, it really exerts its strength towards a genuine human breakthrough at all levels of our experience....