medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear List Members:
I have decided to send you my first chapter on the theme of Resurrection in medieval art, liturgy, drama, spiritual literature, Mary Magdalen, the Virgin Mary, etc. I would love to hear any comments that you have on any of the sections. As I mentioned below, I am working on a book on the Easter sermons of ten Italian Franciscans in the fifteenth century.
I am also working on a book on fifteenth-century Christian-Muslim relations and I am now writing a chapter on the mi'raj of Muhammad (the Ascension of Muhammad). If anyone has information on this theme in any works of the medieval period, I would appreciate hearing from him/her. Thank God I am on sabbatical this year!
Steve
Steven J. McMichael, OFM Conv.
Theology Department
University of Saint Thomas
Saint Paul, MN
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Thanks, Jon. Actually I have always enjoyed the way the conversation takes twists and turns as members join in.
I do not know if this is appropriate for the list but I have written a draft of my first chapter of a book on Franciscan preaching on the resurrection of Jesus in the fifteenth century. It deals with resurrection in such topics as medieval art, liturgy, drama, spiritual literature, Mary Magdalen, the Virgin Mary, etc. Is it okay to send it to the list members as an attachment? I would like to get some reaction to what I have written since it pertains to the recent discussion on resurrection. I hope to publish this in the near future, so I want to be sure that this information is safe and even though I take a vow of poverty as a Franciscan, I do not want someone to steal any of my work (I am trying to say this as gingerly as possible without offending anyone).
I do not remember anyone doing this on the list, so I am not sure if this is alright to do.
Steve
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I think it was me that introduced the new dimension. I held off for some time, suspecting it was not quite relevant to the poster's original interests, but when the thread revived decided it might be relevant to *someone's* interests; possibly even those of the poster!
Perhaps in retrospective it would have been cleverer of me to adapt the subject line somewhat...
Jon
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:55:41 -0800
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Your query is discussed fully in Bruce Chilton's Rabbi Paul:
http://tinyurl.com/yha7ofg
I'm not plugging Amazon, just trying to give as much info as possible.
I started Chilton's book on a cruise ship but had to return it well before the end. I found some of his statements, particularly his discussion of the whole drama of Paul's conversion (Chilton calls it something else), startling. He has definite ideas of what Paul saw and they are based on Paul's writings, not fanciful speculation. If any other list members know the book and have comments, I'd like to read them. I know Paul is hardly medieval, but this is related to medieval imaging of the Risen Christ :-))
MG
Marjorie Greene
http://medrelart.shutterfly.com/
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Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 4:12 AM
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Thank you for the response and calling us all back to the original inquiry that I raised a few weeks ago. I have tried to keep the two dimensions separate (the resurrection of Jesus and the resurrection of human beings) though they interconnect at various points as the latter relies on the earlier dimension.
One of the major questions I have had in the back of my mind as I work on this theme of the resurrection of Jesus is: what happened to what Paul stated so clearly in I Corinthians 15 in medieval theology and spirituality? i.e., Paul states that without the resurrection of Jesus the Christian faith is meaningless. But it seems that, with so much attention focused on the passion and death of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus was not lost, but certainly it appears to have lost its primary and central focus in medieval Christian theology (and art?). Certain Pauline scholars have argued that Paul was totally focused on the resurrection of Jesus because it was the Risen Christ who appeared to him on the way to Damascus. In fact, a recent book on Paul and his Letter to the Romans argues that it is not faith per se that is central to the letter (as Luther believed) but it is the object of faith that is central to Paul: the resurrection of Jesus. If this is the case, how did it happen that medieval theologians, artists, mystics, etc. lost sight of this central teaching of Paul?
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As I recall, this thread began with a discussion of medieval representations of the risen Christ.
I'd remind the list (as if you needed reminding :-)) that Mary Magdelene did not recognize Jesus when she encountered him post-Resurrection. Which leads me into my second point. I was recently reading a book about St Paul, a book whose title I can't recall, in which the author discusses the body of post-Resurrection Jesus and how he appeared-if he did appear- to Paul. Very interesting and pertinent to the original query.
I'll try to find the title and post it later.
MG
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