... sources. It shows that Christ's divinity is not only a matter of faith but also a fundamentally important precondition for both ordinary and exceptional experience of his presence. The chapter concludes by discussing the basic argument and its theological implications. Anselm of Canterbury Bernard...

... emphasis on Christ's divinity. The chapter begins with how the thirteenth-century texts that told how the God-man interacted regularly with people make clear the difficulties of describing that interaction. It then investigates how literature from the nunnery of Helfta at the end of the thirteenth century...

...This chapter examines Tolstoy's treatment of divine love both for its importance in illuminating the strong divide between earthly and heavenly kinds of love in his works but also for the significance Leo Tolstoy ascribes to love of enemies as its basis. Tolstoy's exploration of divine love as love...

...This chapter examines Tolstoy's ultimate apophatic exercise: his negating of Jesus's divine qualities altogether. This undertaking is the subject of a series of works in which Tolstoy's assertion of Christ's non-divinity and his emphasis on reason (razum) are worked out as a new...

... established views on the role of women in ritual magic during this period, the book provides a new narrative of the ways in which magic was embedded within the foundational assumptions of western European society, informing how people understood the cosmos, divinity, and their own Christian faith. As the book...