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Angels of light? : sanctity and the discernment of spirits in the early modern period

Title: Angels of light? : sanctity and the discernment of spirits in the early modern period / edited by Clare Copeland, Jan Machielsen.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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xiv, 306 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 164.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-3581

ISBN

9789004233690
9004233695
9789004233706
9004233709

OCLC

817598776

Title

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

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

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

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 164.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Copeland, Clare.

Machielsen, Johannes M., 1984-

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3581

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