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 Prophecy and Revelation

Niels Christian Hvidt

in Christian Prophecy: The Post-Biblical Tradition

Christian prophecy can only be judged on the backdrop of the theology of revelation. It is possible to consider revelation as a concept of experience with different modes of divine communication: ... More

Christian prophecy can only be judged on the backdrop of the theology of revelation. It is possible to consider revelation as a concept of experience with different modes of divine communication: visions, apparitions, locutions, etc., and where we must compare inspiration and experience. It is also possible to see revelation as a concept of reflection, identifying different models of revelation that lead to different models of prophecy: dogmatic, epiphanic, historical, dialectic, ontological, and personalistic models. From a rather dogmatic model with little room for prophecy, revelation has emerged into a more personalistic concept, where revelation is seen as God's gift of self, calling his people to respond to his truth, often through prophecy.Less

Inaudible

Aviad Kleinberg

in The Sensual God: How the Senses Make the Almighty Senseless

Where the voice of God at Mount Sinai renders Maimonides speechless.

‘If the text had not been written, it could not be said’: Text translated by Rachel Neis; footnotes translated by Paul Bessemer

Moshe Halbertal

in Scriptural Exegesis: The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane

This chapter explores the inner workings and implications of an unusual rabbinic locution. What at first appears like a simple hedge, when read more deeply, offers profound theological insights in ... More

This chapter explores the inner workings and implications of an unusual rabbinic locution. What at first appears like a simple hedge, when read more deeply, offers profound theological insights in which God is understood counter-intuitively as a slave, a wife, and a victim. While the chapter uncovers the yearning that Israel felt for God and the temple, it reveals the rich and complex emotions that link God to Israel.Less

Depending on the Future: The Speaker Changes her Perspective

Alessandra Giorgi

in About the Speaker: Towards a Syntax of Indexicality

In this chapter I consider a challenging set of data: the dependencies from a future verbal form. So far, I have proposed that in Italian and English, both DAR languages, an embedded context requires ... More

In this chapter I consider a challenging set of data: the dependencies from a future verbal form. So far, I have proposed that in Italian and English, both DAR languages, an embedded context requires that the subject's coordinate be syntactically represented. The contexts depending from a future seem to constitute a systematic exception, in that the interpretation obtained presents some anomalies that do not conform to DAR contexts. The aim of this chapter is to show that as soon as we enlarge the empirical basis, considering for instance the compatibility of the embedded verbal with temporal locutions of various kinds, the picture changes and turns out not to be exceptional any longer.Less

When Somebody Else is Speaking: Free Indirect Discourse

Alessandra Giorgi

in About the Speaker: Towards a Syntax of Indexicality

In this chapter I consider the properties of the so-called Free Indirect Discourse, which is a peculiar literary style created with the precise purpose of giving rise to a particular narrative ... More

In this chapter I consider the properties of the so-called Free Indirect Discourse, which is a peculiar literary style created with the precise purpose of giving rise to a particular narrative effect. I show that FID sentences can be interpreted by means of the same grammatical apparatus needed in “normal” sentences, once we understand and describe the grammar underlyingthe device. I show that the semantics of FID contexts can directly directly off their syntax, as in the other cases discussed in this book. I argue that this style constitutes the mirror image of the dependencies from the future discussed in the previous chapter. Finally, I propose that the syntax must include an additional root layer, which I dub the informational layer.Less

Phrases

Ann Moss

in Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn

This chapter discusses one of the works of Lorenzo Valla, who was considered a genius for his critical thinking and who is consistently connected to the subject of humanist lexicography. His work is ... More

This chapter discusses one of the works of Lorenzo Valla, who was considered a genius for his critical thinking and who is consistently connected to the subject of humanist lexicography. His work is the main focus of this chapter, and the chapter looks particularly at the Elegantiae linguae latinae, a six book series that details the use of Latin words that are exemplified in phrases and locutions collected from classical authors. This collection became a huge influence on humanist lexicographical practice.Less

TEXTS, WORKS, VERSIONS (WITH REFERENCE TO THE INTENTIONS OF MONSIEUR PIERRE MENARD)

Paisley Livingston

in Art and Intention: A Philosophical Study

Various philosophers have found valuable insight in Jorge Luis Borges’ 1939 story, ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’. More specifically, a conclusion commonly drawn from the story is that a ... More

Various philosophers have found valuable insight in Jorge Luis Borges’ 1939 story, ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’. More specifically, a conclusion commonly drawn from the story is that a literary work is not reducible to a text. Livingston supports this thesis, but contends that the argument in its favour requires an independent defence of claims about the nature and identity of texts. To that end, he presents a new, ‘locutionary’ account that conjoins syntactical and pragmatic conditions. And with reference to an overlooked feature of Borges’ story, Livingston explores different senses of ‘version’ in artistic contexts, drawing on intentionalist resources.Less

Creation and the Word

Sandra Visser and Thomas Williams

in Anselm

This chapter examines Anselm's development of a claim that God created all things other than himself from nothing. Anselm speaks of this act of creation as involving an “utterance” (locutio) or Word ... More

This chapter examines Anselm's development of a claim that God created all things other than himself from nothing. Anselm speaks of this act of creation as involving an “utterance” (locutio) or Word by which God made all things. Though Anselm first introduces the Word in the Monologion to account for God's understanding of creatures, he develops his doctrine of the Word in such a way that it becomes the first element of his theory of the Trinity.Less

That Two‐Handed Engine and the Millennium at the Door

John Leonard

in Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642

The two‐handed engine of Lycidas is not a winnowing fan (as recently argued by David Sansone) but more likely a threshing‐flail since flails (unlike fans or oars or sieves) smite the grain (not just ... More

The two‐handed engine of Lycidas is not a winnowing fan (as recently argued by David Sansone) but more likely a threshing‐flail since flails (unlike fans or oars or sieves) smite the grain (not just toss it) and so accord better with the words ‘smite once and smite no more’. Critics should be mindful that Milton's phrase ‘at the door’ is not, and never has been, a mystery. A common biblical locution that invariably refers to the imminent Last Judgement and not to a physical door, the term would have caused no bewilderment whatsoever to a seventeenth‐century reader and was pellucid to Milton's early editors.Less

Roasted in Wrath and Fire: The Ecology of the Passions in Hamlet and Othello

Gail Kern Paster

in Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage

This chapter examines a few locutions of affect in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Othello in order to determine how such locutions, if properly contextualized in terms of early modern ... More

This chapter examines a few locutions of affect in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Othello in order to determine how such locutions, if properly contextualized in terms of early modern phenomenology, may point to key epistemic changes in subject-object relations. In order to appreciate early modern emotions historically, the chapter considers the characters' relations to their immediate material environments as constitutive of early psychophysiological truth about self and emotion. It describes this relation—between psychophysiology and the physical constitution of the ensouled premodern world—as the ecology of the passions. The two locutions on which the chapter explores in Hamlet and Othello (Aeneas's description of Pyrrhus as “roasted in wrath and fire” and Desdemona's expression of concern that something “hath puddled” Othello's “clear spirit”) form a convenient pair in precisely inverting what they propose as affectivity's relation with the physical environment: the phrase from Hamlet representing wrath as a quality of matter dispersed into the natural order, and the phrase from Othello introducing natural substances into the deep physical recesses of the embodied self.Less

Mysticism in the Twentieth Century

Daniel Maria Klimek

in Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience

The chapter considers influential definitions of terms like “mysticism,” “mystical,” or “mystical experiences” as formulated by two of the most prominent scholars of mysticism of the twentieth ... More

The chapter considers influential definitions of terms like “mysticism,” “mystical,” or “mystical experiences” as formulated by two of the most prominent scholars of mysticism of the twentieth century. The influence of William James to the study of mysticism and his famous four marks of a mystical state is observed. The influence of Evelyn Underhill to the study of mysticism and her defining characteristics of what is true mysticism is observed. The various forms of visionary experiences and locutionary experiences (mystically hearing voices) are studied and the nuances between mystical and visionary experiences are considered. Critiques of the work of James and Underhill are offered and brief case studies of three modern mystics—Maria Valtorta, Therese Neumann, and Gemma Galgani—are considered in support of the critiques.Less