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Loading... The Adornment Of The Spiritual Marriage: The Sparkling Stone & The Book of Supreme Truth (Ibis Western Mystery Tradition)by Jan van Ruusbroec
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is the second time I've read this set of works. I had read the Classics Of Western Spirituality translation some time ago. Ruusbroec is a prominent author within the tradition of Christian Mysticism. These works are some of his most well known and well respected. They are a lot less ambiguous than his "Kingdom Of The Lovers Of God" I must say; that is probably a good thing, but I have to say that the mysterious language of the one fascinated me quite a bit. The Adornment Of the Spiritual Marriage is one of the more obviously trinitarian works of Christian mysticism. The tripartite framework is very obvious and is quite suitable to the methodology; and that may be what makes it one of the more clear and practical works of mystical theology. ( ) I first read this when I was sick and couldn't sleep.I figuered a book as dense as this would get me slumbering!I couldn't understand much of it but in it I heard the call to a new land of God's presence,I put the book down with a hunger that has never gone away,like a man who has has heard of a distant land and has to find it. no reviews | add a review
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This volume contains three of Jan van Ruysbroeck's best works: The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, The Sparkling Stone, and The Book of Truth. These works are remarkable for their combination of lofty spiritual philosophy and robust common sense. As we read them, we feel that we are in touch with a man who, in his ecstatic ascents to God, never loses hold of the actualities of human life. In the Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, he traces the gradual development of the soul through the active life of Christian virtue, the interior life of contemplation, and the superessential life of union with God. The Sparkling Stone further elaborates on some of the more difficult passages in The Adornment, and The Book of Truth was written as a refutation of the accusation that van Ruysbroeck's work supported a pantheistic and heretical view of the union of the soul with God. Primarily influenced by St. Paul and St. Augustine, van Ruysbroeck was driven to speak out on the mystical life in reaction to the rising of heretical sects in the lowlands of Belgium that were preaching a quietism of - the most soul-destroying kind - early in the 14th century. The singular feature of Ruysbroeck's teaching is achieving a balanced career of action and contemplation as the ideal of the Christian soul. No library descriptions found. |
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