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Book SynopsisThe Mystical Presence of Christ investigates the connections between exceptional experiences of Christ''s presence and ordinary devotion to Christ in the late medieval West. Unsettling the notion that experiences of seeing Christ''s figure or hearing Christ speak are simply exceptional events that happen at singular moments, Richard Kieckhefer reveals the entanglements between these experiences and those that occur through the imagery, language, and rituals of ordinary, everyday devotional culture.
Kieckhefer begins his book by reconsidering the who and the how of Christ''s mystical presence. He argues that Christ''s humanity and divinity were equally important preconditions for encounters, both exceptional and ordinary, which Kieckhefer proposes as existing on a spectrum of experience that moves from presupposition to intuition and finally to perception. Kieckhefer then examines various contexts of Christ manifestationsduring prayer, meditation, and litur
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Wide-ranging in scope and groundbreaking in methodology, The Mystical Presence of Christ is a magisterial work that rethinks the interplay between the exceptional and the ordinary in the workings of late medieval religion.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Presence of Christ as Exceptional and Ordinary
Part One: The Subject and Manner of Manifestation
1. Divine Person, Divine and Human Natures
2. Narrating the Presence of the God-Man
3. Presupposition, Intuition, and Perception
Part Two: Contexts and Aspects of Manifestation
4. Prayer, Meditation, and Presence
5. Liturgy and Presence
6. Person, personality, and gender
7. The Inculturation of Christ
8. The Presence of Christ in Social Dynamics
9. Christ as Disciplinarian, Bridegroom, and Teacher in the Life of Dorothea of Montau
10. The Problematics of Presence
Conclusion: Connected Themes in Late Medieval Religion
