
Sensing the Sacred
Recovering a Mystagogical Vision of Knowledge and Salvation
Hanna J. Lucas(Author)
Cascade Books (Publisher)
Published on 8. August 2023
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-1-6667-5806-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a theological vision of learning informed by the mystagogical homilies of Ambrose of Milan, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, and Theodore of Mopsuestia. In dialogue with these four mystagogues, Hanna Lucas walks through the rites and liturgy surrounding baptism and the eucharist in order to establish a theological epistemology that sees knowledge as part of the "capacitation" of our nature for heavenly mysteries and union with God. The sacraments of initiation teach us that even the mundane aspects of knowledge, including the rudiments of matter and sensation, fit into a larger divine gift of capacitation. This book offers a holistic and integrated theory of knowledge that envisions one all-encompassing divine pedagogy that orients toward union with God. This union is experienced fully in the eschaton, but it breaks into time through the sacraments of the church, and it echoes down through the ordinary modes of knowing we encounter in daily life. Mundane knowledge beckons the knower to become capable of a sublime intelligence: to become capable of union with the divine. This integrative, unitive, and eschatologically oriented vision of knowledge stands in stark contrast to modern and postmodern epistemologies. Sensing the Sacred positions mystagogy as a timely remedy for the "incapacitations" that modernity offers us.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
615 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6667-5806-1 (9781666758061)
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08/2023
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Persons
Hanna J. Lucas is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow and an adjunct lecturer in theology at Durham University. She is also tutor in theology and ethics at College of the Resurrection in Mirfield, UK, and a research fellow of the Institute for the Renewal of Christian Catechesis.