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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"beatitude"”.
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Dante's Ministry of Felicity: The Interplay of Beatitude, Metaphysics, and Intercessory Prayer in the Theological Imagination of the 'Commedia'
… prayer conduce to the realization of beatitude? How does Dante help us think, in other words, about the ways in which prayer for another person’s good actually serves to help make them blessed or happy?” The question stems from conversations that have been taking place especially …
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A Study of the Vow of Chastity
… beaches out more imploringly than ever to the beatitude of purity. Religious, busied with the work of souls, are obligated by profession to contribute to the advancement of this beatitude by their personal sanctification as well as by the careful instruction of youth under their charge. Young …
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The Influence of Thomas Aquinas’ Concept of Createdness on Josef Pieper’s Moral Philosophy
… the practice of the virtues in order to receive beatitude. Pieper’s well-known works on the seven virtues, on leisure, and on festivity rely on the same concepts from Aquinas which Pieper examines in depth in his works of speculative philosophy. By providing context for each of the selected …
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Dante, Augustine, and the Body of Christ in the Commedia
… in the Paradiso, what it means to inhabit beatitude is so fully to practice justice and mercy as to be able to speak I and we simultaneously, then the redemption of self and other in Christ is inextricably linked, and oriented towards the ever-greater opening out of this redemptive life not …
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Models of Utopia: Representations of Nineteenth-Century Paris
… However, Paris offers the hope of a ville beatitude wherein the well-being of all the families would be of highest priority to create happiness, security, and order. Though each writer had a different idealization of Paris, the analysis of utopian mentalities foregrounds their outlook on …
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Spiritual quest as aesthetic vision: aspects of T.S. Eliot's poetics as related to his literary works
… Wednesday" , to the sense of illumination and beatitude in Four Quartets. This progression, which reflects the pattern of the three stages in the Christian drama of salvation, is also evident in Eliot's plays. I have tried to show that his poetry, his poetics, and his life all fall into a …
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Beyond Public and Private: A Theological Transfiguration
… to God and creation, interiority, salvation and beatitude, and the Virgin Mary. I display the logic in Augustine's thought by which, in God, domestic and public come together, how God's relation to creation changes how to think about interiority, what that means for how Augustine understands …
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Visions of Origins and Ends: Personhood in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, John Heath-Stubbs, and Geoffrey Hill
… accepting the love of Christ and communion in beatitude, or rejecting the love of Christ and undergoing excommunication in perdition. Geoffrey Hill responds to Eliot’s eschatological poetry with his own vision of love and universal union in The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy. John …
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Word and Presence: The Role of Scripture in the Formation and Reformation of Mystical Theology, 1200–1580
… contemplation, which offered a foretaste of the beatitude that the saints in heaven were believed to enjoy eternally. As such, mystical contemplation occupied a privileged place in late medieval religious culture. The scriptures played an important role in late medieval Christians’ pursuit of …
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The Trinitarian Doctrine of Grace in Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will
… being’s life in this world and his/her eternal beatitude depends on whether his/her person is or is not in union with the Holy Trinity. In his Trinitarian theology of grace, Pneumatology, arguably neglected in Medieval times, is powerfully revived. Luther’s conception of divine grace, with some …