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050	0	0	_aBX4700.J7 _bH648 2020
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100	1		_aHole, Sam, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aJohn of the Cross : _bDesire, Transformation, and Selfhood / _cSam Hole.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2020.
264		4	_c2020.
300			_aviii, 221 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
440			_aChristian Theology in Context
500			_a"This book originated as a PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge." -- Acknowledgements, page [v].
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [205]-215) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : desire in recent theology -- The neglect of desire : modern reception of John of the Cross -- Desire and the spiritual ascent -- Language, form, and imagery in John's poetry -- The 'dark night of the soul' and the purification of desire -- Union in the Canticle and Flame -- Conclusion : desire retrieved.
520	8		_a"Through the 'dark night of the soul' to the depiction of the erotically-charged union of the soul and God, the poetry and prose works of the Spanish friar John of the Cross (1542-1591) offer a striking account of the transformation of the individual in the course of the Christian life. John of the Cross: Desire, Transformation, and Selfhood argues that these writings are animated by John's own creative and subtly conceptualized notion of erotic desire. John's understanding of desire has the potential to enrich recent theological discussion of the subject, but it has been curiously neglected in past scholarship. To correct this lacuna, this study undertakes a detailed historical analysis in three parts. Firstly, it attends to the patristic, medieval, and sixteenth-century Spanish influences on John's writings, showing how John reworks a long tradition of biblical, Christian, and Platonic reflection on the concept. Secondly, it traces the importance of desire through John's writings, demonstrating how he develops the theme through his poetry, his anthropology of the soul, and his account of the spiritual ascent. Thirdly, it explores the reception of his writings in the twentieth century, demonstrating how particular modern philosophical and theological commitments have prevented scholars from recognising the rich and distinctive shape of John's theological vision. John's account of the transformation of the self, with its hopeful vision of the graced transformation of the soul's desires, has significance beyond the constrained modern categories of systematic theology, Christian spirituality, pastoral theology, and mysticism-it is a vision that is worthy of recovery today." -- _cPublisher, back cover of dust jacket.
600	0	0	_aJohn of the Cross, _cSaint, _d1542-1591.
600	0	7	_aJohn of the Cross, _cSaint, _d1542-1591. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00037204
650		0	_aDesire _xReligious aspects _xCatholic Church.
650		0	_aMysticism _xCatholic Church.
776	0	8	_iebook version : _z9780191895593
830		0	_aChristian theology in context.
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