Metaphor, Making and Mysticism - Radical Re-Imaginings in Language and Art

This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making and mysticism, and sheds new light on the power of the metaphorical and creative dimensions of the mystical for the 21st century, and highlights the potential of mysticism to push us beyond comfortable spaces and associations, and considers the language and images used to do so.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Eriugena's Dream and Dreaming with Eriugena Part One: Metaphor and Mysticism 2. Metaphors and/or Negations in Mystical Literature: Considerations from the Work of John of Ruusbroec 3. Negotiating Speech and Silence in Rumi's Poetry 4. Metaphor Users in Late Middle English Women's Mystical Texts 5. What Are We to Make of Mysticism? Part Two: Eriugena as Master of Metaphor, Mysticism and Making 6. Eriugena: A Celtic Mystic? 7. Cur 'Nihil' Vocatur: Eriugena on Divine Non-Being 8. Eriugena and Emerson on Thinking Nature Part Three: Making and Mysticism 9. The Poetic Performance of the Mystical 10. 'Complete Surrender': A Hermeneutic of Listening and Paying Attention 11. A Hard and Brutal Mysticism 12. Pseudonymity and Authorship in the Albertine and Pseudo-Albertine Corpus Epilogue 13. Exhibiting the Mystical

About the author

Sheila Gallagher is an Associate Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Boston College, USA.
Louise Nelstrop is Professor of Church History at the Protestant Theological University in Utrecht, the Netherlands, as well as Director of Studies at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK.
Lydia Shahan is a doctoral student in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, USA, where she is also affiliated with the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Sheila Nelstrop Gallagher
• Assisted by: Gallagher Sheila (Editor), Nelstrop Louise (Editor), Lydia Shahan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032169477
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3216947-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; RELIGION / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Religion: general, Christianity, Sociolinguistics, Literary studies: general, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience