medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John McChesney-Young <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Christopher Crockett wondered:
> >i wonder what "in secret prayer he had the gift of tears" means?
> For a brief answer, see:
> http://www.digiserve.com/mystic/Christian/glossary.html
"Supranatural tears are what mystics are referring to when they speak of the
gift of tears. In the passage which follows, St. Isaac of Nineveh likens these
tears to the tears wept at birth. The mystic who experiences such tears is
being reborn into the age to come, and as such is experiencing a foretaste of
heaven..."
i figured it was something like that, and assume that "secret prayer" would be
what we know as "meditation"(?).
was St. Isaac of Nineveh and/or John Climacus then known at St. Gall, in
either Tutilo's or Ekkehard's time?
it looks like we are dealing here (in Ekkehard's little biographical sketch of
Tutilo) with a rather rare text, speaking, not just of meditational practices
of monks (itself not common), but of suchlike among monastic *artists*.
does anyone know of others ?
au courrant Dogmatic Theology amongst Art Hysterians --even some to be found
on this list-- has it that monastic art (even when done by monks), was not the
product of a "visionary" (or, if you prefer, "imaginative") capability,
refined through the practice of a rigorous meditational discipline ; but
rather just some more or less ordinary "skill", of the sort we see all around
us in [some of] the "artists" of our own day.
i happen to be of the Perverse Opinion that this is Demonstrable Nonsense.
thanks, John.
c
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Some Reviews :
http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1304
"The most evil film ever made was probably _Jud Suess_, commissioned by Nazi
propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in 1940 to fan hatred of the Jews on the
eve of the Final Solution.... To anyone who has ever seen _Jud Suess_ (as I
did in college), the most startling thing about Mel Gibson's The Passion of
the Christ -- even more than its relentless, shockingly eroticized cruelty --
is its fidelity to the anti-Semitic conventions of Hitlerian cinema.
"Indeed, the high priest Caiaphas and his colleagues are such exact, blatant
replicas of Suess that I suspect they must be direct borrowings. Moreover,
Passion is one of the most manipulative films ever made and, after two hours
watching mobs howling in delight at Christ's suffering, it is no wonder that
many devout American viewers, like their German predecessors, have left
theaters muttering, 'I hate the Jews.'
"The Romans, on the other hand, are shown as noble imperialists...."
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