{"product_id":"angels-of-light-sanctity-and-the-discernment-of-spirits-in-the-early-modern-period-9789004233690","title":"Angels of Light? Sanctity and the Discernment of Spirits in the Early Modern Period ","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.\" (2 Corinthians 11:14) Paul's warning of false apostles and false righteousness struck a special chord in the period of the European Reformations. At no other time was the need for the discernment of spirits felt as strongly as in this newly confessional age. More than ever, the ability to discern was a mark of holiness and failure the product of demonic temptation. The contributions to this volume chart individual responses to a problem at the heart of religious identity. They show that the problem of discernment was not solely a Catholic concern and was an issue for authors and artists as much as for prophets and visionaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“fascinating analyses […] these essays will be of interest to anyone interested in the history of early modern religion; among other things, they make useful, nuanced contributions to the debate on whether the Reformation fostered the disenchantment of the world.”  Jeffrey R. Watt, University of Mississippi. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 65, No. 1 (January 2014), pp. 184-185.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Editors’ Acknowledgments  Notes on Contributors   Introduction   Clare Copeland \u0026amp; Jan Machielsen  I Angels, Demons, and Everything in Between: Spiritual Beings in Early Modern Europe  Euan Cameron  II Dangerous Visions: The Experience of Teresa of Avila and the Teaching of John of the Cross.  Colin Thompson  III Participating in the Divine: Visions and Ecstasies in a Florentine Convent   Clare Copeland  IV Heretical Saints and Textual Discernment: The Polemical Origins of the Acta Sanctorum (1643–1940) Jan Machielsen  V Discerning the “Call” and Fashioning Dead Disciples: The Many Lives of Augustine Baker  Victoria Van Hyning  VI A Seventeenth-Century Prophet confronts His Failures: Paul Felgenhauer’s Speculum Poenitentiae, Buß-Spiegel (1625)   Leigh T. I. Penman  viii CONTENTS  VII Visions, Dreams, and the Discernment of Prophetic Passions: Sense and Reason in the Writings of the Cambridge Platonists and John Beale, 1640–60  R. J. Scott  VIII Gijsbert Voet and Discretio Spirituum after Descartes  Anthony Ossa-Richardson  IX “Incorporeal Substances”: Discerning Angels in Later Seventeenth-Century England   Laura Sangha  Afterword: Angels of Light and Images of Sanctity Stuart Clark","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210632257879,"sku":"9789004233690","price":135.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/angels-of-light-sanctity-and-the-discernment-of-spirits-in-the-early-modern-period-9789004233690","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}