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Catherine of Siena on persons created in God’s image: Basis for a spiritual path
| العنوان: | Catherine of Siena on persons created in God’s image: Basis for a spiritual path |
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| المؤلفون: | Diana L. Villegas |
| المصدر: | HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, Vol 80, Iss 1, Pp e1-e8 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | AOSIS, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:The Bible LCC:Practical Theology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | catherine of siena, image of god, spiritual growth, spiritual transformation, memory, understanding and will, three powers of the soul, theological anthropology, augustine’s anthropology, medieval spirituality, medieval women mystics., The Bible, BS1-2970, Practical Theology, BV1-5099 |
| الوصف: | The belief that persons are images of God offers powerful constructs for imagining and thinking about a spiritual journey. What about; who we are makes a relationship possible with God? What are the goals of a spiritual journey given who we are to God? Catherine of Siena’s wisdom regarding persons as images of God offers answers to these questions. This study presents a textual analysis of Catherine’s metaphor-filled rhetoric on this topic and shows how Catherine, an uneducated woman mystic appropriated the foundational systematic teaching of Augustine of Hippo on persons as images of God having memory, understanding and will. Catherine asserts that persons as images of God having these three powers of the soul are created out of God’s love with a capacity to love and to be in a relationship of love, first of all, with God. The spiritual journey essentially consists in transcending – through God’s redemptive love – all that obscures this created capacity. Contribution: This study contributes by highlighting the importance of theological anthropology – both as a theological tenet and as a belief – to the way persons imagine and live a spiritual journey. Furthermore, it shows how Augustine of Hippo’s formulations, foundational for Christianity, influenced a medieval mystic and can be relevant for spiritual practice today. Accordingly, this study concludes with suggestions about how this patristic and medieval understanding of persons can be appropriated for today’s spiritual life. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | Afrikaans English |
| تدمد: | 0259-9422 2072-8050 |
| Relation: | https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/9568; https://doaj.org/toc/0259-9422; https://doaj.org/toc/2072-8050 |
| DOI: | 10.4102/hts.v80i1.9568 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/1c540bd7e9cc4d39a2a29accdf73addd |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.1c540bd7e9cc4d39a2a29accdf73addd |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 02599422 20728050 |
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| DOI: | 10.4102/hts.v80i1.9568 |