Craig Tichelkamp

Mystified Letter (eBook, ePUB)

How Medieval Theology Can Reenchant the Practice of Reading

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reading has become a problem--not just of attention, comprehension, or growing rates of illiteracy, but of politics, society, and religion. The questions of how and what to read are not just matters of taste. Answers are often indicative of one's entire view of culture, church, and the cosmos, as well as the impasses of religion, reason, and moral vision. As a result, reading has become¿divisive and uninspiring.¿Reading has become a drag. The Mystified Letter offers¿a hopeful alternative to this malaise--ätheology of reading¿centered on mystical encounter. It retrieves medieval Christian reading culture to build a constructive case for ämystical theology of literature.¿

The¿mystification¿of literature in twelfth- and thirteenth-century monasteries and schools involved rhetorical, aesthetic, liturgical, and theological strategies that invested reading with a sense of ineffability and unintelligibility, wonder and awe, a disposition that applied not only to sacred but even secular literature. The Mystified Letter explores how litera (a Latin term meaning both "the letter" and "literature"¿itself) came to be a site of the sacred. By showing how medieval theologians, especially the Victorine monks of Paris, came to see the letter as a vehicle for encounter with the unknowable, unspeakable, and illegible¿God, The Mystified Letter shows how the practice of mystical reading can treat some of the spiritual ailments affecting both the¿church and¿the academy, and explores how we can foster reading cultures around the mystified letter today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fortress Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781506486741
• Artikelnr.: 67426016

Autorenporträt

Craig Tichelkamp is a Catholic theologian whose teaching and research put the medieval theology of reading in critical conversation with contemporary culture. He teaches at Harvard Divinity School and Stonehill College. His work has appeared in Medieval Mystical Theology and the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, and he is completing a translation of the Latin commentaries of Thomas Gallus.