By Patricia Dailey
Patricia Dailey is an affiliate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia college.
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2'2082—dc23 2012050242 Jacket design: Jordan Wannemacher Jacket image: Noli me tangre. Fra Angelico Ca. 1440–1445. Fresco © Scala/Art Resources A Columbia University Press E-book. edu. References to Web sites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. TO MY MOTHER & MY DAUGHTER, MY TWO SOPHIA ELEANORS CONTENTS Acknowledgments Abbreviations INTRODUCTION 1.
TO MY MOTHER & MY DAUGHTER, MY TWO SOPHIA ELEANORS CONTENTS Acknowledgments Abbreviations INTRODUCTION 1. CHILDREN OF PROMISE, CHILDREN OF THE FLESH: AUGUSTINE’S TWO BODIES 2. THE MYSTIC’S TWO BODIES: THE TEMPORAL AND MATERIAL POETICS OF VISIONARY TEXTS 3. WERKE AND THE POSTSCRIPTUM OF THE SOUL 4. LIVING SONG: DWELLING IN HADEWIJCH’S LIEDEREN CONCLUSION Notes Bibliography Index ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BOOKS THAT have spanned a long time in their making are oft en indebted to people, events, seminars, publications, institutions, and encounters that are noted and archived, as well as to those inadvertent and almost happenstance occasions that could—and do—easily slip from the field of vision.
Like Origen, William will use the language of affection, referring to different affections in the plural, but in a more nuanced and stratified manner. ” Affectus is like a divine stimulus that provides the proper ordering for the human soul and its relation to life, enabling fuller spiritual understanding. The highest affectus, charity, aligns human beings with the inner, even when the outer person stumbles and is at its weakest. Quoting Romans 7:24, 25, and 17, William comments on the “war” within a person in his members, noting, “anyone who is, as blessed John says, born of God, that is, according to the reckoning of the inner man, does not sin, insofar as he hates rather than approves the sin which the body performs exteriorly, because he is preserved inwardly by the seed of the spiritual birth by which he is born of God.